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They formed a Facebook page called “Cougs Against the ‘Cougador’”. They asked the Washington State Athletic Director to reconsider his decision to hand out Mexican lucha libre-themed masks at a football game, and got this answer: So with little options left, what did a WSU’s Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (M.E.Ch.A) do when fellow WSU […]

[View the story “USMNT/El Tri Rivalry Leaves Pitch, Enters Litigation” on Storify]

Yes, we know that rivalries are fun and it’s sports, so taking this post seriously might be a mistake, but nonetheless there is something to be said about how classless the social media profiles of the U.S. Men’s Soccer team was last night after the Americans defeated Panama, 3-2, ensuring Mexico a chance to still […]

Latino Rebels received the following release today from the National Congress of American Indians. Online version is here. Washington, DC – Just days after President Obama joined the growing chorus of those calling for the Washington NFL Team to consider changing its name, the team’s leadership justified the use of their “Indian” mascot as a […]

This is from the local pages the Sandusky Register in Ohio: Margaretta Schools officials punished a high school student Friday after he made a controversial remark as a play-by-play commentator at a seventh-grade football game. The boy, 15, has received several threats in person and online regarding the incident, prompting his parents to file a […]

Washington “Redskins” owner Dan Snyder released an open letter Wednesday vigorously defending his team’s name, which many have accused of being racist. This has sparked outrage online, with many expressing dissenting opinions. [View the story “What \”Redskins\” Owner Dan Snyder Isn’t Telling You” on Storify]

Before we start the day, we came across this video from Funny or Die. We are glad we did. LITTLE KNOCKERS from Jim O_Heir The only lame thing? The Latino kid needs some reps!

UPDATE: People keep asking us, “Why did you write this piece?” It was a community pitch and conversation our group had here: @latinorebels this is what bites me..there was a lot of racism against mayweather, but no one says nothing.even the memes… — tlacaelel kaibil (@tlacaelelkaibil) September 15, 2013 @latinorebels that is why i get […]

This has not been a great week for Chivas USA, the MLS team from Los Angeles. HBO “Real Sports” explored the accusations of racial discrimination lawsuit from two former coaches. The suit alleges that the coaches were dismissed because they were not Latino and they couldn’t speak Spanish. According to the LA Times, the two […]

This afternoon, after Latino Rebels requested for a statement from GOYA Foods regarding the placement of a large product logo on the base of a new Roberto Clemente statue in the Bronx, the company issued the following statement to NBC Latino: “The creation and donation of this statue was done with the best of intentions. […]

Earlier today, we heard back from a GOYA Foods public relations employee informing us how the company will correct a factual error on the base of the new Roberto Clemente statue at Roberto Clemente State Park in the Bronx, but has yet to decide what to do with the large GOYA logo that also appears […]

Guess Twitter got the best of former Altanta Brave and future Hall of Famer Chipper Jones. On June 8 Jones posted the following dumb “JK” (“just kidding”) tweet: Y’all think if they took all them gators they trap in Fla and La and put them in the Rio Grande, it wud stop the illegals from […]

This week the Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy wrote a piece questioning the fast start of Boston slugger David Ortiz. Apparently Shaughnessy thinks that Big Papi is using steroids. At one point Shaughnessy, who intersperses his column with replies from Ortiz, writes the following: But you fit all the models. You are from the Dominican Republic. […]

Guess Chris Broussard has a good PR person. Talk about backtracking. Maybe ESPN wants Broussard on its Homophobic Pendejo team after all. By now, you should all know what he said about NBA center Jason Collins’ coming out. Broussard has every right to his opinion, it was just weird to hear it on sports show. […]

Really, dude? As Deadspin so aptly put it about ESPN’s OTL coverage of NBA Jason Collins telling Sports Illustrated that he is gay, “OTL booked Chris Broussard to have a discussion with openly gay correspondent LZ Granderson, and it rapidly devolved into a talk about whether or not gay sex is sinful. Huh?” Now we know […]

That didn’t take long. About a week after a story about how New Mexico umpire Corey Jones asked high school baseball players to stop speaking Spanish on the field went viral online, Jones has quit. Here is what the Albuqueque Journal reported yesterday: LAS CRUCES — The umpire who allegedly threatened to eject Gadsden High […]

In case you missed it last night on SNL, the show took on the Mike Rice Rutgers controversy head on. Like really head on. Here it is. Our take? Give McCarthy needs to get a permanent gig on SNL. Her response to Bill Hader in the interview was classic.

This just in from ESPN Deportes about the World Baseball Classic: ESPN Deportes’ exclusive Spanish-language coverage of the 2013 World Baseball Classic concludes with record-breaking numbers during the Championship Game between Caribbean rivals Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico last Tuesday, March 19. The telecast delivered a 3.2 Hispanic household coverage rating with 173,000 Hispanic household […]

Last night Puerto Rico’s World Baseball Team shocked sports fans everywhere when it defeated two-time champion Japan, 3-1, in San Francisco to advance to tomorrow night’s WBC championship between the winner of tonight’s Dominican Republic-Netherlands game. Given that the Puerto Ricans are the tournament’s underdogs, first defeating the USA and now the Japanese, boricuas on […]

Of course you knew that many of Twitter would be telling ESPN that THIS IS AMERICA, and why is ESPN broadcasting ESPN Deportes on the main channel? Read on and shake your head.

Let’s get this straight: last night’s bench-clearing brawl between Mexico and Canada at the World Baseball Classic in Phoenix’s Chase Field was ugly. However, we don’t know what is sadder—the actual fight or the reactions and consequences after the fact. Here are a few things you should know: No one will get disciplined. Yes, you […]