RON MADER'S UNUSUAL MEXICO LINKS
(Mexico on the Web)Journalist and savvy webmaster Ron Mader sifts through the web to find the most interesting and unusual Mexico-related websites. Ron is the webhost of the popular Planeta.com: Eco Travels in Latin America website -- http://www.planeta.com -- and has written about the internet since the early 1990s.
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Mexican Beisbol
While beisbol may not be as popular as soccer (futbol), it certainly has grown.
Mexican beisbol fans can surf the Web for their favorite teams.Baseball is one of Mexico's best entertainment values. Palcos or box seats run around 80 pesos at the Foro Sol, and general admission access to the bleachers costs about 20 pesos. Last May, Mexico City's rival baseball teams, the Tigres Capitalinos and Diablos Rojos, moved from Parque Seguridad Social to the new Foro Sol in Ciudad Deportiva. What the new stadium lacks in history, it makes up for in style: paginas.sportsya.com/tigrescapitalinos/Equipo/Estadio/. The regular season runs from April to August, and as the summer heats up, you can find Mexican baseball statistics, standings, results, photos, maps, and news on the Web.
Liga Mexicana de Beisbol (LMB)
paginas.sportsya.com/lmb
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The official URL of the page is www.lmb.com.mx/ but it quickly detours to the Sports Ya! mega-website, a Spanglish-titled portal that covers sports throughout Latin America.
The website design does have its pluses - results (resultados) are posted quickly and the site offers information about each of Mexico's 16 teams, including individual team emails. The bad news: No one responds to emails sent to these addresses. If you're sending a question or a compliment, don't expect feedback. For those who need a quick baseball fix, check out the somewhat hidden pages that are not linked from the official LMB page: Standings (mexico2.sportsya.com/beisbol/lmb/index.php3?page=standings) and Results (mexico2.sportsya.com/beisbol/lmb/).
Email contact: lmb@lmb.com.mxTigres Capitalinos
www.tigrescapitalinos.com.mx/
This model website boasts all the information fans and potential spectators need. The latest scores roll across the top of the page and there's abundant information about the team's playing schedule, history, and even a section dedicated to the team's mascot "Chacho," a Hobbes-like tiger who motivates fans and rivals alike. Sometimes he'll remove his tiger head only to unveil a Carlos Salinas mask underneath. Chacho has been called Mexico's best mascot and indeed he's the consummate performer, sometimes outshining his team. Catch the Chacho frenzy online (paginas.sportsya.com/tigrescapitalinos/Chacho).
Email contact: tigres@tigrescapitalinos.com.mxDiablos Rojos
www.diablos.com.mx/
The "Red Devils" are Mexico City's oldest team and Mexico's 1999 league champion. They also have the best record this year. However, their site can only be viewed using the Shockwave application, making it inaccessible to surfers with older platforms and software. What a shame that not everyone can enjoy this site considering the team's on-field prowess.
Email contact: diablos@sportsya.com.mxOther team sites
Guerreros de Oaxaca
www.guerreros.com.mx/Rojos de Aguila (Veracruz)
www.rojosdelaguila.com.mx/index1.htmlSaraperos de Saltillo
www.saraperos.com.mx/frame.htmUnion Laguna Algodoneros
www.lag.itesm.mx/unionlaguna/index.htmlRelated baseball websites
Salon de la Fama
www.salondelafama.com.mx/
- Pays tribute to Hall of Fame players in Mexico.University of Texas' LANIC Sports page
lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/sports/
- Index of sports-related pages throughout Latin America.Liga Mexicana de Pacifico
www.ligadelpacifico.com.mx/
- News and results from Mexico's winter season.Latino Baseball
www.latinobaseball.com/
- Highlights the players who have made the big leagues.Mexico Web: Deportes
www.mexicoweb.com.mx/Entretenimiento/Deportes/
- Index of Mexican sports-related sites.
This article originally appeared in Business Mexico magazine.
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Ron Mader is an environmental writer who can be reached via
ron@greenbuilder.com.
He also hosts the Eco Travels in Latin America Web site (http://www.planeta.com) which was recently given the "Lente de Plata" award from The Tourism Secretariat (Sectur) for best Mexico-related website He is the author of the new guidebook, "Mexico: Adventures in Nature."
This article originally appeared in Business Mexico
magazine.
For
subscription information,
visit their website at
http://www.amcham.com.mx
or e-mail
busmex@amcham.com.mx
Ron Mader (ron@planeta.com) is a journalist
and author of Mexico:
Adventures in Nature.
He also hosts Planeta.com (http://www.planeta.com) which in
1999 was awarded the "Lente de Plata" award from The Tourism
Secretariat (Sectur) for best Mexico-related website.
