Officials from the Major League Baseball (MLB) advocated for closer ties with Cuba and to establish a relationship for the development of the sport.

The Venezuelan player Miguel Cabrera praised the quality of baseball in Cuba and appreciated the opportunity to visit the Caribbean nation as part of an MLB high-level delegation.

The Cuban tennis duo made up by William Dorantes and Marcos Lazo advanced to the quarterfinal round of the F3 Futures Tournament, which takes place until December 19 next in the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo.

The game between the leader Ciego de Avila and Industriales, its nearest escort, stands out today at the start of the second phase of the 55th Cuban baseball championship .

The Cuban women's team will try today to achieve its first victory in the World Handball Championships, with a stage in several cities in Denmark until next December 20.

The Sports City Coliseum, in this capital, will host next Saturday a Martial Arts Gala, with the exhibition of more than 20 modalities originating in Japan, China, Korea and Brazil, mainly.

The Cuban Baseball Federation announced that a delegation composed of representatives of the U.S. majors and the U.S. Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) will arrive in this capital on December 15.

The Cuban National Baseball Direction announced the roster of teams involved in the All-Star Game of this season, agreed for December 12 and 13 at Julio Antonio Mella stadium, in Las Tunas.

The gymnast Manrique Larduet and boxer Julio Cesar La Cruz were elected as Cuban best athletes in 2015, after the sum of the votes of specialists from the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER by its Spanish acronym) and the press.

The Cuban national soccer team, with a roster of 19 players, departed yesterday to Managua, Nicaragua, where it will begin a four-game trip through Central America.

Cuban judokas achieved two silver medals in the final day of the Tokyo Grand Slam, in Japan, through Idalis Ortiz and Asley González, in a contest won by the hosts, with 11 gold, five silver and seven bronze medals.

Pinar del Rio beat 3-1 Industriales in the last game of the remaining matches of the qualifying stage of the Cuban baseball championship in its 55th edition.

The Cuban women's team suffered its second defeat in the World Handball Championships, based in several cities in Denmark until next December 20.

The best of Cuban sports in 2015 will be released today, after the formalization of the sum of points received from specialists from INDER (Spanish acronym for National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation) and the press.

Lisandra Guerra will be the only Cuban representative attending, from December 5 to 7, to the second stop of the 2015-2016 Track Cycling World Cup, based in the New Zealand city of Cambridge.

Pinar del Rio beat 7-0 the leader and current monarch Ciego de Avila to achieve its fourth consecutive win in the continuation of the pending matches of the first round of the Cuban Baseball Championship.