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Over the weekend, I’m sure you called all of your gente to invite them over or secure a spot to watch “The Fight.” All along, Floyd Mayweather told us it was going to be a great fight, the Fight of the Century. And as Michael Buffer delivered his signature, “Let’s get ready to rumble!” moments […]

Earlier today, Latino Rebels received an email from Alex Martínez, a founding member of the Chicago Bulldogs men’s hockey team. In the email, Martinez shared two links from the Bulldogs site. The first one (full story here) reported that on “February 10th, 2015, Bob Moretti who plays for the Ice Bison at the Fox Valley […]

Another week, another new #RebelReport. This week, R.J. talks “Deflategate.”

Last night Deadspin posted a Vine showing Showtime’s Jim Gray about to interview Albuquerque native Fidel Maldonado, a Mexican American boxer who lost his fight to Amir Imam. As the Vine shows, Gray asked Maldonado a question but then turned to his trainer first, who said, “He speaks English.” That was awkward. By the way, […]

UPDATE, December 10: Still no comment from the Dodgers, but NBC Los Angeles ran a segment last night about it. Original Story from December 9 After this debacle, organizations like the Los Angeles Dodgers will likely need to rethink who is running the team’s social media account. Last night, several of our followers tweeted us […]

Ok, we don’t want to just sit here and judge what has been going on through Sammy Sosa’s cabeza in the last five years, but before we completely contradict ourselves and indeed judge, we will say this: in 1998, the year we thought baseball was more of an innocent sport than the drug-fueled fraud it […]

Last week, a tense video went viral, showing older dudes in Dropbox shirts telling younger kids in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood to get off a soccer field because the older dudes had a permit. Today in City Hall, those kids and their supporters held a “Playground Is Not For Sale” rally that drew about 150 […]

UPDATE, October 13, 2014: Some apologies were made. It was still awkward. By now, you may or may not have seen the following viral video from San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood showing a confrontation between a bunch of younger (and mostly brown) soccer players being told by a bunch of older guys (and mostly white) soccer […]

What an amazing World Cup so far for the CONCACAF teams. We could not have asked for a better movie script. If this had been a pitch for a movie in Hollywood, the producer might have laughed to death. Of course, the movie would have very likely starred Mexican goalkeeper Memo Ochoa. Ladies and gentlemen, […]

Leave it to the Internet. Just hours after Mexican goalkeeper Guillermo “Memo” Ochoa thrilled the world with a legendary performance in a 0-0 draw against Brazil, there was already a corrido about him. (Oh yeah, besides the obligatory Memo memes.) Give it up to Los Tres Tristes Tigres and their latest viral video. For those […]

In 2006, my parents, my grandmother, and I left Rio Verde for Jataí, Goiás to watch the World Cup Germany final between Italy and France at my great-uncle’s place. I happened to be in Brazil in 1994 and 2002 when Brazil won it all, so I had an idea of the parties for days that […]

If there is a clear example of the media bias towards the “quaintness” of Northern border stories between the United States and Canada, today’s front page of The Boston Globe sports section is Exhibit A. Titled, “Border Clash,” writer/photographer Stan Grossfeld travels to the border town of Derby Line, VT. The article focuses on how […]

With less than 40 days before the 2014 World Cup begins, there will be a lot still to discuss prior to June 12 opening match between host Brazil and Croatia. For starters, the opening match stadium, Arena Corinthians, is yet to be completed, after an accident back in March led to the death of a worker. Aside from […]

This story comes from Fusion’s Fidel Martinez, who saw the following tweet from Anthony De Rosa: CNN inaccurately declares Brazilian soccer legend Pele dead pic.twitter.com/H2tjM36xnq — Anthony De Rosa (@AntDeRosa) March 28, 2014 Wha? It also showed up here: Y el programa de #CNN @NewDay "mata" a @Pele en Twitter por error pic.twitter.com/dubh7qLre0 — San […]

We got this one from Bleacher Report after Twitter follower Esteban tweeted the following story to us: Mexican Skier Hubertus Von Hohenlohe Will Wear a Mariachi Uniform in Sochi http://t.co/2yqIgvMlom @latinorebels #Latism @WeVisitMexico — Esteban Ortiz (@ortizee21ios08) January 27, 2014 No way, we thought. But once we went to NBC’s Olympic page, we saw this: […]

Last night, we caught the “60 Minutes” two-part segment about Alex Rodriguez’s major league problems with Major League Baseball. Here is the full segment: Granted, ARod is no saint and yes, several of the Rebeldes are Yankee fans, so we have our issues with Rodriguez. Nonetheless, is it just us or were you bothered by […]

So this week the dashboard video showing Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig getting arrested in Florida for reckless driving was released. Here it is. Along with what NBC Los Angeles reported: Footage shows the trooper pull Puig over and scold him for putting the lives of his passengers and other drivers at risk. “(Puig) […]

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This past Sunday we got a tweet tip about a photo taken on the set of Univision’s “República Deportiva” showing the popular sports program’s two Senadora models dressed in Pocahontas outfits next to the MLS Cup. After finding out that the photo was deleted from Twitter (and no one knows why), we were able to […]

Ricardo Trade , Executive Director of Brazil’s Organizational Committee for the 2014 World Cup, recently gave an interview in which he spoke about the impact of nationwide protests that have occurred in Brazil since June have had on the event’s planning. He had the following to say, via The Raw Story: “The protests are democratic in […]

Originally published at JulioRVarela.com Yesterday morning, after my early-morning soccer game, I sat down for breakfast, eager to read my Sunday Boston Globe, a ritual of mine since 1986. Like most Sundays before, I was not disappointed. However, one section, which featured essays from notable Bostonians about the Red Sox’s World Series victory, did leave […]