Cuba’s soccer team has called up a handful of players who developed outside the country’s sports system for its World Cup qualifying matches, a subtle but potentially significant shift in policy.

Coaches and trainers have been working all over the world since the Eastern Bloc breakup, but not everyone's happy about it.

Cuba has won its first Gold medal at the Paris Olympic Games. It sparked euphoria, but it is a bittersweet victory. Greco-Roman wrestler Mijaín López went up to the stage of the Champ de Mars ...

Here’s a perspective from Baltimore Orioles owner John Angelos, who attempted to use baseball to liberalize relations between the two countries.

HAVANA — Aerial photographs of soccer fields in Cuba were once enough to sound the alarm. “Cubans play baseball,” warned a CIA consultant in 1970 after studying U.S. satellite images ...

An attempt to get Major League Baseball players on the Cuban national team inadvertently created a powerful symbol for Cubans everywhere.

Sports were declared strictly “amateur” in the early 60’s. This reform would allow the athletes, trainers and other sports specialists to keep the money earned from contracts made abroad as long as ...

Boxing powerhouse Cuba has given the green light to women who wish to partake in tournaments for the first time since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, sports officials said on Monday.

Little League World Series includes team from Cuba - Bayamo - for the first time. One player is the cousin of major-leaguers Yuli and Lourdes Gurriel.

Cuba announced this week that its top fighters would join the professional boxing circuit following decades of shying away from the sport after former leader Fidel Castro banned sports for pay ...

— -- Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has died at age 90, his brother President Raul Castro announced late Friday on state television in Havana. The death of Fidel Castro, who ruled Cuba ...