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.

Colombia, represented by the team Barranquilla Caimanes, lost 2-7 to Nicaragua on Tuesday and opened the doors of the semifinal stage of the Baseball Series of the Americas to the Cubans.

The Cuban women’s U-17 team be opposite Turks and Caicos Islands in its second game of the first round of the CONCACAF Championship, a qualifier for the 2025 FIFA World Cup to be held in Morocco from October 17 to November 8.

Cuba closed its participation in the 2025 World Handball Championship with a 33-31 loss, after penalties, against Guinea and finished last in the competition, hosted for the first time by three countries: Denmark, Norway and Croatia.

The Leñadores de Las Tunas, representing Cuba, were knocked out 12-1 on Monday by the Colombian Caimanes de Barranquilla on the field of the Soberania National Stadium, in the fourth day of the Americas Baseball Series.

The Cuban Baseball Federation announced on Monday that the island’s team will not participate at the Antillean Union Baseball Cuba slated for February in Puerto Rico due current visa application requirements.

Cuba suffered its fourth defeat in the Men's World Handball Championship after losing 26-39 to Bahrain in the beginning of the President's Cup that the eight eliminated are fighting out to get a place between 25th and 32nd of the tournament.

After losing three games in the preliminary stage of the World Handball Championship held in Norway, Denmark and Croatia, the Cuban national team will be opposite Bahrain in the opener of the President's Cup, an event to establish the places 26th to 32nd of the international competition.

In an official ceremony just hours before leaving for Nicaragua to compete in the 1st Baseball Series of the Americas, the Las Tunas Leñadores players received the banner they will carry to the tournament.