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Cuban center-fielder Yoenis Cespedes is officially a player for the Oakland Athletics, for which he will wear the number 52, the team reported on Saturday night.

Exhibition matches between boxing teams from Russia and Cuba will be held in Moscow to restore the tradition of sporting exchanges between the two countries.

The legendary Cuban baseball player Marquetti Augustine opened the Miami Sharks Baseball Academy this past November in that US city and expects to consolidate it this year as a baseball academy for children.

Cuban judoka Idalis Ortiz won the gold medal on Sunday at the World Judo Cup in Warsaw, where athletes from the island won also silver and bronze medals.

Crocheted blouses can be found in most of the artisan areas and throughout Old Havana in private home/shops…. but also at the San Carlos de La Cabaña fortress, where there is usually an extra super selection!

The National Federation of Badminton is preparing for 13th edition of the Giraldilla International Tournament of that discipline, to be held from March 21 to 25 in Pinar del Rio Province.

Fencers Yamilka Rodriguez, Reinier Henriquez and Yaritza will compete in the Pre-Olympic Tournament of the Americas, slated for April 20 to 22 in Chile. The regional competition will only award two tickets to the London Olympics.

Here is an easier-to-read schedule for the rest of the Cuban Baseball League’s 2011-2012 season which is currently at the halfway point of the 96-games. With the all-star game coming up on Feb. 19, both the Western and Eastern divisions have hotly contested races for the top four positions that will make the first round of the postseason.

Cuban baseball player Yoenis Cespedes, currently the most contested Cuban prospect expected to sign in the Major Leagues, arrived yesterday in Miami from the Dominican Republic.

Cuba walked away with three bronze medals in the Paris Grand Slam judo tournament that was held at the Palais Omnysports of the French capital over the weekend.