Sports

ESPN Deportes will feature a special one-hour edition of Perfiles featuring soccer legend Diego Maradona on Sunday, March 7 at 10 p.m. ET.

Fox Entertainment Group and Frank McCourt announced that Major League Baseball has approved the sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers to real estate developer Frank McCourt. The gross purchase price for the sale of the Dodgers franchise and real estate assets is $430 million.

While players like Argentine guard Manu Ginóbili of the San Antonio Spurs provide a Latin flavor on the court, the NBA will highlight its Hispanic outreach initiatives off the court during NBA All-Star 2004, with a week-long slate of events throughout greater Los Angeles that will recognize the league’s Hispanic players, fans and business partners.

Puerto Rico and Venezuela will open the 55th Caribbean World Series, that is being televised live and exclusively, on Fox Sports en Español starting on Sunday, February 1, 2004 at 3:00 p.m. (ET)/12:00 p.m. (PT). The 2003 Caribbean World Series champions Dominican Republic and Mexico are featured in the second game of the six-day series starting at 7:00 p.m. (ET)/4:00 p.m. (PT). Venezuela returns to compete this year following last year’s absence that was attributed to social and political tension in the country.

As the New Year starts, Telemundo has begun the countdown to the Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Olympic Games taking place this summer in Athens, Greece; an event that will make history on U.S. Spanish-language television.

Renowned NBA player Felipe López joins Telemundo’s Sports Anchor Jessi Losada as Expert Analyst for “La NBA en Telemundo.” The announcement was made today by Jorge Hidalgo, Executive Vice President of Telemundo Sports.