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(Not so) Barbarous Mexico
Via AP: MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s lower house of Congress has approved a bill that allows for prison terms for fans who engage in violent acts at sporting events. Lawmakers approved the bill Thursday that...
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Descending into the borg
Resistance is futile: Filed under: Futbol, Sports Tagged: World Cup 2014
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Going out with a song: Los Tres Tristes Tigres
Filed under: Futbol, Humor, Music, Real Mexico, Sports Tagged: World Cup 2014
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We’ll get over it… eventually
The young lady (who calls herself “dizzymissdc”) says she’s not homophboic, nor anti-Dutch. SHe is, however, a Mexican. Which means she’s going to see the results of the Netherlands-Mexico game in a...
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She can lift my luggage
Photo: @JVeracruz2014 Getting ready to move my library, I’ve got three boxes on the floor here weighing a bit over 30 kilos each. Figuring out how I’m going to wrestle them down a flight of stairs,...
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All men are not created equal… some are right-fielders
It was the first time in my life that I felt free. We could go anywhere we wanted, eat anywhere we wanted, do anything we wanted and not have to worry about anything. We just had a wonderful time and...
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Alberto Isaac’s “Olimpiada en México”, the official 1968 Summer Games film. English voice-over narration.
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Return to tradition
I had been hoping the election would signal a return to some of the best in Mexican traditional values, but I didn’t quite expect this. In Azcapotzalo, a Moctezuma presided over the opening on a new...
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A footnote in women’s history
Do you recognize this woman? Enriqueta Basilio (born 1948) was a member of the Mexican Olympic team in 1968. Although she never set any track records, she did set one… , the first woman ever to...
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Play Ball! (Post COVID)
The municipal government of Texcoco has budgeted 70 million pesos (about 175.000 US$) for the first national baseball academy, though Probeis, a program that has the personal support of President (and...
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