The Cuban men's basketball team will play tonight its qualification to the FIBA AmeriCup 2025 in a game against the Bahamas, marked by the urgency of having to win with only nine players out of the 15 called up.

The Havana Challengers Match and the Night of Champions in Russia are among the most upcoming events of Cuban boxing in 2025, according to their organizers, who offered details including the participants, with a highlight for Julio Cesar La Cruz in the first one.

With only nine of the 15 call up players so far, Cuba’s national basketball team will be opposite the Bahamas today at the Sir Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium in Nassau in a vital pool play game to secure a direct pass to the 2025 FIBA AmeriCup, to be held in Managua, Nicaragua, on August 23-31.

Cuba’s Luis Enrique Zayas won the silver medal with a 2.25m jump in the High Jump Meet of Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, a World Indoor Tour Silver Meeting.

Come March 7, Cuban boxer Ronniel Iglesias (71 kg) will be opposite the Russian Yury Osipov in a six-round bout as part of a Champions’ Night tournament in Moscow, Russia.

The Cuban rowers and canoeists striving to get a place in the 2025 Junior Pan American Games, to be held in Asuncion, Paraguay on August 9 to 23, are already training in the province of Villa Clara’s Hanabanilla Lake.

Runners can already register for the VI Varadero international marathon, to be held on March 30 at the Varadero Beach resort of the province of Matanzas and dedicated this year to Cuban athletics legend Ana Fidelia Quiros, two-time Olympic medalist and two-time world champion in the 800m race.

Andres Taño Gonzalez, national judo commissioner, informed today to the Cuban News Agency (ACN) that the five Cuban judokas who recently participated at the Grand Slam (GS) in Paris are at a training base in Budapest, Hungary.

Journalists and media workers are ready today to take part in their 22nd Jorge Luis Valdes Rionda "in memoriam" National Softball Tournament, to be held in the western province of Matanzas from the 17th to the 21st this month.

Dylan Berdayes was the only one with a win among the main tables of the 6th round of the National Absolute Chess Championship, which is held in the central province of Ciego de Avila, and joined a group of leaders that has grown to seven members.

Cuba's U-17 men's national soccer team started its road to the CONCACAF World Cup qualifiers with a 3-1 victory over St. Kitts and Nevis, in a match held in Alajuelense, Costa Rica.

Cuban U17 men's national soccer team will face the CONCACAF World Cup qualifiers scheduled from today until February 16 in Costa Rica, one of the seven venues that will host the qualifiers for the 2025 World Cup in Qatar.

Cuban athlete Luis Enrique Zayas failed to shine in his debut in the indoor athletics season, finishing in a discreet seventh place in the High Jump Meeting in Udine, held on Thursday in Italy.

Executives of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) held a special consultation session to review Cuban Sports Bill together with sports journalists, who suggested additions and changes to, as well as deletions from, the draft document designed to govern sports in the island and prepared after months-long hard work with the participation of State bodies and mass and social organizations.

Directives with the Cuban Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) submitted the draft bill called “Law of Cuban Sports” to the consideration of members of the local specialized media.

Nicaragua’s national team and Cuba’s Las Tunas Leñadores will clash today for the right to play the final game of the 1st Baseball Series of the Americas.