The Miami Lakes Optimist Club will be holding registration for the 2015 Fall baseball and softball season from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., on consecutive Saturdays, August 8, 15 and 22, at Miami Lakes Middle School, 6425 Miami Lakeway North. The Optimist Club welcomes returning and new players to play in an exciting season. New players must bring a copy of their birth certificates to the registration, which costs $145 per person. Only...

    Former Hialeah Miami Lakes High School standout linebacker Jamari Lattimore was picked up by the New York Jets during the off season to help the team’s run defense that allowed 2,341 rushing yards, 3,746 passing yards and 401 points last season, and missed the playoffs for the fourth consecutive year.All in all, the Jets’ defense allowed 5,235 total yards and 25 points per game to finish with the sixth best defense...

  Spanish Lake Elementary student James Diaz won the 2015 Contender Karate Cup in Galeria De Karate competition last month hosted by Hialeah Gardens High School. Diaz competed against a host of his karate-learning peers, out dueling them in the art of self defense and self discipline. His instructor, world renown karate master Miquel Ochoa, was on hand to watch his student kick away the competition. Ochoa works at the MG Martial Arts...

  Current members, new members and non-member guests using guest passes at Shula’s Athletic Club, 15150 Bull Run Rd., are eligible to enter to win a customized paddle board made by Miami Lakes local, Athletic Club member, and professional paddle board creator, Christopher “Rubio” Gonzalez. Gonzalez is a surfer with a passion for art and design and started Rubio Surf Designs in 2010. The Shula’s Athletic Club...

  The Palm Springs North 8-and-7-under Little Giants recently won the South Florida All-Star Alliance Summer tournament in West Kendall, and the team finished in second place in the league’s other tournament in Hialeah Gardens. Each summer, the Alliance picks teams from different recreational parks and allows them to compete against others to determine the best team during a series of Summer tournaments. Raul Billini, the Little...