ACAPULCO, Mexico -- Rafael Nadal advanced to the Mexican Open final with a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Nicolas Almagro on Friday, setting up a championship match against Spanish compatriot and three-time defending champion David Ferrer.

Nadal beat Almagro in 1 hour, 49 minutes to improve to 9-0 in their head-to-head meetings.

Ferrer had to work hard to reach his fourth straight final, edging Italian Fabio Fognini 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-1 in 2 hours, 23 minutes. The turning point was the opening game of the third set when Ferrer fought off three break points to hold serve.

Ferrer has won 19 consecutive matches in this event and on Sunday will be trying for his third title of the year.

Nadal may be the former No.1, but coming back from a long-term knee injury, and playing an in-form rival with an intimidating record at this venue, he knew it would be tough to win on Sunday.

"I'm in no condition to be or even say that I'm the favorite because I'm facing one of the rivals in the best shape of the circuit. Not only he's a great player, he's playing great."

"To win tomorrow I will have to play a perfect match or otherwise it would be impossible to win it. I don't think I'm to his level yet, but I'm ready to give it a try."

Nadal is using the Latin American clay-court tournaments to build up his match fitness as he makes a comeback from knee surgery and set his sights toward the French Open.

"I can't say that the knee is not bothering me, because it is, but that's normal," Nadal said. "It's not stopping me from doing what I want and that's the best thing, that should make me happy".

Nadal has not lost a clay-court semifinal since 2003, and on Sunday will be trying for his 38th career clay title. He has a 16-4 record against Ferrer, including 13-1 on clay, with Ferrer's only win being in their first clash in 2004.

Spain's David Ferrer celebrates his victory over Italy's Fabio Fognini
at a Mexican Tennis Open game in Acapulco, Mexico, Friday, March 1, 2013.

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This Sunday March 3 Puerto Vallarta will host the show "Monster Trucks" event besides encouraging the sport, will benefit those who have less

This will take place on March 3 in Puerto Vallarta, one of extreme sport events with more fans in the world, "the Monster trucks ", which consists in modifying cars to do acrobatic leaps, said at a press conference promoter and event organizer, Oscar Padilla who will be supported by the City Council of this municipality.

And to give social support, on this occasion will be held for a noble cause, it not only promotes the sport but also will seek to raise support for 38 children of the association "Project  Pitillal busca un amigo", institution supporting therapy to disabled children from poor families, thereby achieving their integration into society. The agency also offers special care, nutritious meals, comprehensive physical rehabilitation, medical specialists, occupational and speech therapy, Mariana Chavarin therapist  said the institution  thanked the support received from the organizers.

Juan Rincon Municipal Sports Council, expressed appreciation on behalf of Mayor Ramon Guerrero, the invitation to get involved in this project because for him it is very important sport and of course the children of our city, "always support a noble cause is part of the job of the City Council and will gladly support  this and other causes "Rincon Flores said

The event will be held on the esplanade in Las Mojoneras Armando Villasenor, from 15:00 hours to 20:30 hours, at a cost of 100 pesos in presale and 150 the day of the event.

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This spring, Mexico will be hosting third round of the World Rally Championship as the first gravel event. The WRC consists of 13 3-day events held in various countries such as Australia, Spain, Finland and France.  Mexico will be holding the competition March 7th to March 10th and will have 23 stages that will span over a distance of 397 kilometers.

Their Guanajuato stage will be the longest of the rally at 54.9 kilometers.  The new tests are the SS2 Parque Bicentenario and the El Chocolate.  The test through Guanajuato’s Bicentennial Park was built through the cities of Guanajuato, Leon and Silao 2 years ago to celebrate 200 years of Mexican independence.  The El Chocolate test is the newest at 31 kilometers with some of the best views of the entire rally. On the last day of the rally a 5km footrace will be held called the “Carrera Atletica Rally Guanajuato Mexico” a few hours before the SS23 Super Special Stage 5.

The Rally Guanajuato Mexico will kick off with the new and tough Shakedown/Qualifying Stage in Llano Grande on March 7th.  Tickets to the rally are available via the website.  The rally, with beautiful scenery in the mountains surrounding the cities of Leon, Silao, Irapuatio and Guanajuato, is an extremely popular attraction usually placing within the Top 5 rallies of the world.

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Puerto Vallarta’s original happening beach, Playa los Muertos (Beach of the Dead), is action central for both locals and tourists alike. The flat stretch of sand starts south of the River Cuale and runs about 1.5 km (one mile) south while hugging the Romantic Zone. There is a non-stop parade of vendors hawking grilled fish on sticks, jewellery, sombreros and sarapes. You can take a banana-boat ride or go para-sailing.

Felix Hernandez and Seattle reached an agreement Tuesday on a contract that makes the Mariners hurler the highest-paid pitcher in baseball.

"I think it's a great thing for the Seattle Mariners," Seattle general manager Jack Zduriencik said. "It's a great thing for Felix Hernandez, and I am looking forward to this guy being here for a very long time, obviously."

The terms of the contract were not released by the team, but the deal is expected to be for $175 million over seven years. Hernandez and Zduriencik will hold a news conference in Seattle on Wednesday afternoon where Hernandez is expected to sign the contract.

Earlier Tuesday, Zduriencik said the sides were having significant talks to try to finalize a new contract for the three-time All-Star and 2010 AL Cy Young Award winner. Zduriencik said then that a deal of that magnitude in years and dollars "takes time to work things out."

But it didn't take too long. By the afternoon, Hernandez's deal was done and Seattle had its ace locked up through the 2019 season.

The new contract will encompass the final two years of his current deal that is scheduled to pay Hernandez $40.5 million in 2013 and 2014. He'll receive $134.5 million over the additional five years.

Hernandez's total dollars would top CC Sabathia's original $161 million, seven-year contract with the New York Yankees and his $25 million average would surpass Zack Greinke's $24.5 million under his new contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers and tie him for the second-highest in baseball with Josh Hamilton and Ryan Howard behind Alex Rodriguez ($27.5 million). Hernandez's new money would average $26.9 million over five years.

With Hernandez off the market, Detroit's Justin Verlander and the Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw become the most attractive pitchers eligible for free agency after the 2014 season. Tampa Bay's David Price is eligible after the 2015 season.

Hernandez, who will turn 27 on April 8, is 98-76 with a 3.22 ERA in eight seasons with the Mariners. He won a career-high 19 games in 2009 when he finished second in the Cy Young voting then won the award a year later when he went just 13-12 but had a 2.27 ERA and 232 strikeouts.

Hernandez appeared to be making another Cy Young push last year before going 0-4 in his last six starts, which left him at 13-9 with 223 strikeouts.

His career record would be even better if he didn't play with one of baseball's worst offenses. Seattle had the lowest batting average in the major leagues in each of the last three seasons. Hernandez has taken 10 losses during that span when he's given up two earned runs or less.

For his career, Hernandez has allowed two earned runs or less in 141 of 238 starts, but the team is only 99-42 in those games due to the offensive problems.

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Copa Vallarta’s Eleventh Annual Tournament will be held on May, both males and females will be competing in multiple categories.  
It is expected that more than 150 teams will participate; it will take place in different places of the city.

This tournament is one of the most important of amateur soccer of our country. because the great involvement , as well as the range of ages that   encompasses, this 2013 tournament will be played  from May 15 to May 19, again in different places of this city of Puerto Vallarta.

Male categories will range from ages 6 to 18; this is aside from the free style category. Female categories will include those born in 1997, additionally to the free style. Participation is expected to be anywhere from 150 to 180 national teams between all categories. Some of the hotels where this events take place will offer special rates to the participants, among them Hotel Canto Del Sol, considering its impact, this is a high national touristic event of this region.

The format of this tournament has different stages of classification: semifinals and finals, as in past years, the presence of scouts from professional leagues is expected, among them stand out, Jalisco, Atlas, Chivas, Tecos, and Pachuca Teams.

Cost of inscription for each team averages around 22,000.00 pesos, having the option of dividing it in 3 payments’ This is how Puerto Vallarta will celebrate the Eleventh anniversary of the soccer tournament.

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Beyoncé is set to headline the Super Bowl XLVII halftime show, but she will be joined by her former bandmates of Destiny's Child in the group's first live performance since 2005.

While the action on the field will be the main attraction of Super Bowl XLVII, it will hardly the only reason to tune in.

As the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers play for the Lombardi Trophy, plenty of eyes will be on the other elements of the Super Bowl,

The Punta Sayulita resort community and presenting sponsor, The Riviera Nayarit Tourism Board, are pleased to announce the dates for the 4th Annual Punta Sayulita Classic to be held on March 8 – 10, 2013, in the beautiful surfside village of Sayulita, Mexico, 40 minutes north of Puerto Vallarta.

SAYULITA, MEXICO Now in its 4th year, the Punta Sayulita Classic presented by The Riviera Nayarit Tourism Board is regarded as one of the premier international surfing

Olympic gold medal-winning striker Oribe Peralta struck twice to give Santos Laguna a 2-0 home win over Guadalajara in Torreon in the Mexican Clausura championship.

Peralta, who scored both goals when Mexico beat Brazil 2-1 in the Olympic soccer final at Wembley in August, put Santos ahead in the 36th minute and increased their lead from Spaniard Marc Crosass cross in the 73rd of Friday's match at the Estadio Corona.

The Chivas, now under former Santos coach Benjamin Galindo, could have pulled one back in the fourth minute of added time but 99-cap former Mexico goalkeeper Oswaldo Sanchez saved Luis Perez's weak penalty.

"We had several chances, maybe more than them but we didn't finish and we've got to admit Oswaldo (Sanchez) had a good night," Chivas forward Marco Fabian told Guadalajara's website (www.chivas.mx).

Guadalajara have picked up one point from two matches in the championship since owner Jorge Vergara ended the consultancy of Dutch great Johan Cruyff and fired coach John van't Schip after the Apertura in the first half of the season.

Vergara looks set to become embroiled in a court case with Cruyff after prematurely ending their agreement.

Guadalajara's arch-rivals America are on six points from two matches after Friday's 2'0 away win over Chiapas with goals from Argentine midfielder Rubens Sambueza and Ecuador's Cristian Benitez. (Additional reporting by Carlos Calvo; writing by Rex Gowar in London, editing by Pritha Sarkar)

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Super Welterweight World champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, began his preparation towards the sixth defense of his WBC title belt, scheduled on May 4 against an opponent to be announced.

The Mexican super star ran early today in Los Colomos forest, in Guadalajara, Mexico under the watchful eye of his manager Chepo Reynoso and his trainer Edison Reynoso.Canelo and his team were sorrouded by a group of fighters that work under the CANELO PROMOTIONS banner.

Jalisco football passes through hard times, after more than 100 years of history full of traditions and successes

GUADALAJARA, JALISCO (January/09/2013.) - A Jalisco is recognized nationally for three things: tequila, mariachi and football.

Since the arrival of football Jalisco has become a huge passion for all its inhabitants, who have enjoyed some of the best players and teams.

Now that rich history lives hard times, as one of the most significant places for the national football going through dark times. In Jalisco passion for football is so big that allowed house several First Division teams, who once earned the respect and admiration of the fans in Mexico.

But it's different now, only the Chivas has fullness in the maximum  circuit because Atlas has problems falling in the First; Leones Negros Ascent also battle; Tecos, who lost the category recently changed owners and the future of the franchise in the city is way off. Gold rise browse divisions, trying to regain the prominence it gained in the decades of the fifties and sixties.

A difficult stage in one of the country's footballing squares, whose memories of local football always generates a smile.

Onset

Influenced by the footballing spirit that gradually gripped Mexico in the late nineteenth century, the State of Jalisco adopted the sport, it began this stage with Pachuca organized in the year 1901, with open arms and the year of 1906 was defined as the onset of Jalisco football at the founding of the Union Football Club, which was subsequently changed its name to Guadalajara.

Such was the taste of the people of football, that 16 years later two more clubs were formed in this territory: the now defunct National Sports Club and the Atlas, in 1923 was born on Club Deportivo Oro

Between 1908 and 1909 he played the first championships to the admiration of the people who know the English game by initiating actions Guadalajara's youth, the Liceo for Boys, the Western Athletic Eclair and even other lower categories ranked second.

He later appeared in the famous fight Excelsior team, formed in the classrooms of the Jesuits who were in charge of education at the Institute of Saint Joseph. The Excelsior became one of the strongest teams in the city.

Guadalajara binding

It was a September 15, 1904, when the House L. Gas and Co.. (Warehouses Mexico City), came a young Belgian named Edgar Evereart who befriended Gas Calixto, of French descent. Both had already practiced soccer, teamed up with co-workers, among which were Gregory Orozco, Max Woog and Bowmark, inviting others to the commercial firm also Factories of France as Rafael Orozco, who was the first President of Guadalajara.

In the plains of Colonia Moderna, the group made their first practices as considered Evereart boys had assimilated his teachings, proposed the formation of a new club which they called "Union", meaning of friendship between Mexican, Belgian and French.

Two years after the founding, the same Evereart and his friends suggested changing the letterhead with the name of the city: Guadalajara. This is to honor the Pearl of the West, suggesting also the colors of the new uniform, striped shirt-white and red in memory of Bruges team champion at that time in Belgium.

His best time would definitely be the one staged in the fifties and sixties, when he won four consecutive league titles, and a total of eight at the time, before this feat earned the nickname of "Campeonísimo Guadalajara".

Passion rojinegra

The Atlas Club was born from the idea of a group of young Mexican tapatíos socialite who practiced football during his years of study in England. As the brothers Cortina, Fernandez del Valle, Collignon, among others. Thanks to them, knowing the rules, football took a more loyal and noble approach, making it the favorite fun tapatías families.

The Club was founded on August 7, 1916 in the cottage that had Oredain family in San Pedro Tlaquepaque. Thus the Atlas Club was founded exclusively as a football club.

Although he won his only title more than 60 years, his hobby (better known as The Faithful) is always increasing, thanks to its friendly style of play, which has earned him being known as "friends of the ball." In the late nineties, for the technical direction of Ricardo La Volpe (1997-2001) the team gets a runner in the Summer League 99, losing the final against Toluca.

Golden History

The Oblates neighborhood, with its progressive people in the field of jewelry,were also  eager to be on the footballing landscape, therefore, made in previous meetings jewelry gift shop Albino Ruvalcaba, Club Deportivo Oro emerged January 5, 1923.

Seven years later, on the streets and Giants 30, was founded on 20 July 1930, the Stadium "Felipe Martinez Sandoval" better known as Gold or Oblate Park, which had great facilities for the time and became the first major stadium Jalisco, Guadalajara directive golden invited to inaugurate a doubleheader exhibition games. Later the court was also home Oblates of Club Deportivo Guadalajara until 1960.

The largest team was born

Professional football at the University of Guadalajara saw first light in 1970 with the "deer" in the Third Division. In the 1972-1973 season the team is invited to the University of Guadalajara branch of the Second Division. From there they took the nom de guerre of "Lions" with the integration of the Administrative Commission of the football team.

However, attempts by the then Chancellor of this University, Rafael Garcia de Quevedo by having a team of First Division are consolidated in the 74-75 season to buy the franchise Football Club Torreon in those old three million pesos. The debut in the First Division was the June 14, 1974 at Estadio Azteca against Club America. During this match, the television reporter Angel Fernandez's baptized as the Black Lions of the University of Guadalajara by the presence of Brazilian footballers, some in color.

Club gold becomes Jalisco

Jalisco Roosters team is founded in 1970, after the Club Deportivo Oro economic problems presented at the end of the season in Mexico '70. Sugar entrepreneurs decide to buy the franchise and turn it into the Sports and Social Club Jalisco.

The club play since its inception in Mexican first division on it being 10 years, from the 1970-71 season until their relegation to the Second Division in season 1979-1980.

Appears in the scene Tecos

With the founding of the Autonomous University of Guadalajara in 1970, was born Tecos, but it was until 1971 when he became a professional soccer team, after they joined the Third Division. A year later, they earn the right to play for promotion to the Second Division, same as achieved by defeating La Piedad 4-0.

Three years later disputed the ascent to Irapuato, which won 1-0 and won their first pass, debuted on September 3, 1975.

After 37 years in the First Division, a championship and a runner, after four years of poor results, the team ruled and fell in the Clausura 2012.

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