Jalen Penrose of Corozal earned Player of the Week honors and was also recognized as the Best Opposite. By THE STAR STAFF The Puerto Rican Volleyball Federation announced the Men’s Division All-Star Team for Week 5 of the 2025 Men’s Superior Volleyball League, highlighting the most outstanding players in each position. The undisputed star was the opposite hitter for the Plataneros of Corozal, Jalen Penrose (#14), who earned Player of the Week honors and was also recognized as

Mayagüez (5-8) showed why they might not be in fourth place for long. By THE STAR STAFF The Mayagüez Indians, Caguas Criollos and Ponce Lions were all winners on Tuesday night in a trio of games in Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League (LBPRC by its initials in Spanish). Isan Díaz homered and Anthony García delivered timely hits as the Indians (Indios) defeated the Santurce Crabbers, 7-2. Despite the loss, the Crabbers (Cangrejeros) remained in first place in the stan

The Cidra Colts swept the Guayama Wizards 7-1 and 10-0 in the finals to win the Puerto Rico Baseball Federation’s Under-15 League championship. By THE STAR STAFF The Cidra Colts were crowned champions of the Puerto Rico Baseball Federation’s Under-15 League earlier this week, defeating the Guayama Wizards 7-1 and 10-0 in the finals held at Jesús María Freire Stadium in Cidra. “This group demonstrated discipline, focus, and an enormous desire to represent Cidra with pride,” sa

Several of the World Cup-qualifying Haitian men’s national soccer team’s younger players have never played for the team in Haiti, and some are Haitians who were born abroad. (Facebook via Jean Bradley Derenoncourt, Candidate for Mayor of Brockton) By JAMES WAGNER As Delmas Oslet watched the Haitian men’s national soccer team earn its first spot in the World Cup in five decades, he said he was filled with “happiness, happiness, happiness.” But there were also tinges of pain. O

By THE STAR STAFF A sacrifice fly by Randal Díaz in the tenth inning kept the San Juan Senators on the winning track with a 4–3 victory over the Carolina Giants in the continuation of the Brava Lubricants Cup of the 2025–2026 Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League (LBPRC in Spanish). With the score tied 3–3 at the end of the ninth inning, the tie-breaker rule went into effect, placing a runner on second base with no outs for both teams at the start of every extra innin

The back-to-back championship comes two years after Puerto Rico claimed its first title in Mexico, also with a 3–1 win in the final. By THE STAR STAFF MANAGUA, Nicaragua – “The objective has been more than achieved—beyond one hundred percent. This is the most meaningful victory I’ve had in my life,” were the first words of captain Héctor Lavergne after lifting the trophy that crowns Puerto Rico as back-to-back champions of the NORCECA Boys’ U17 Continental Championship. With

Los Angeles also broke tradition when it hosted the 1984 Olympic Games. That year, the Olympics tried a new financial model that allowed a limited number of companies to become official sponsors of the Games, a change from previous years when the Games had many small sponsors. (la28.org) By JESÚS JIMÉNEZ LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles has found a new source of revenue to help fund the 2028 Olympics: charging companies extra to keep their naming rights on sports venues during the S

A statue of Jackie Robinson, who played football at Pasadena Junior College, outside the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, Calif., Nov. 18, 2025. The storied stadium is at the center of a battle between Pasadena and UCLA that’s about money, nostalgia, geography and so much more. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times) By SHAWN HUBLER In Southern California, a place with more than its share of famous couples, few celebrity relationships have been as enduring as that of the Rose Bowl a