San Francisco Giants rookie Aramis Garcia homered in his first Major League Baseball hit in his debut against the New York Mets on August 31. The former Florida International University catcher hit a solo home run off Mets reliever Robert Gsellman in the bottom of the eighth inning of the Giants' 7-0 win. Later in the six-run eighth inning for the Giants, Garcia had an RBI single. He was 2 for 4 with two RBI. Garcia played at FIU from...

  Three local high school football teams lost for the first time this season, one team’s loss placed them in second place in its district and one team can’t stop its opponents from running up the score. Goleman missed an extra point in the fourth quarter, which would’ve tied the game, as Ronald Reagan edged the Gators, 21-20, giving the Bisons their first win of the regular season and dropping the Gators from the ranks...

  The Miami Lakes Optimist Club’s basketball program completed its 40th season this summer with 22 teams and 200 players. The Club used the gym’s of two local high schools, Barbara Goleman and Hialeah Gardens High schools, during the summer months of June and July and have thanked the principals of both schools for their continued support.  At Barbara Goleman, principal Joaquin Hernandez who has been highly supportive...

For the first time in nearly two decades, the old rivalry between the Hialeah Miami Lakes (HML) and Barbara Goleman Senior High (BGSHS) football teams appeared as their football teams played for the Mayor’s Cup in a preseason game. The two teams had not played each other in several years, as they are in different athletic districts. The competition was fierce throughout the night, but in the end, the HML Trojans defeated the Goleman...

  Art Cabrera is living proof that you’re never too old to achieve your goal. The 56-year-old Miami Lakes resident, and a teacher at Barbara Coleman High School, recently won the Atlanta Open Masters Division Tournament in conjunction with Sweet Science Fitness Boxing Club in Georgia. He defeated NBC 6 news anchor and U.S. Air Force Gulf War fighter pilot Willard Shepard in the finals to win the championship. Shepard, a member of...