ESPN Deportes (Spanish pronunciation: [i.es.piˈen deˈportes], ESPN Sports) is a cable television and radio network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day to the Spanish-speaking community in the United States. The channel broadcasts transmissions made in Mexico City, Los Angeles and in Bristol, Connecticut.

In 2007, the network began a daily English segment on the late edition of its American parent's SportsCenter, hosted by Michele LaFountain and several other personalities.

ESPN Deportes started transmitting in High Definition on April 16, 2011.^{[citation needed]}

ESPN Deportes is available on some cable systems including Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable, and Brighthouse Networks, as well as on Dish Network and DirecTV. Cablevision offers the channel to its digital cable subscribers.

Other ESPN networks occasionally air commercials that ask viewers to call 1-800-DEPORTES or log on to the ESPN Deportes website (see below) to express their interest in adding the network to its lineup if it is not available to them.

La Mafia is a four-time Grammy Award-winning musical group. It has its roots in the Northside neighborhood of Houston, Texas and has charted a course as a Latin music band.

La Mafia was founded in 1980 in Houston, TX. Vocalist Oscar De La Rosa & producer/keyboardist/accordionist Armando Lichtenberger Jr. created an original style that survived various changes in the music industry. The band consists of Tim Ruiz on bass, David de la Garza on keyboards and background vocals, Joe Gonzales on drums and Viktor Pacheco on Guitar in 2007. The band has won 2 Grammys & 2 Latin Grammys was nominated in 2009 for a Latin Grammy for the album Eternamente Romanticos.

La Mafia, seeking to expand their musical horizons, began touring extensively in Mexico and Latin America beginning in the late 1980s. The practice of Mexican-American artists performing in Mexico on a large scale was unheard of before La Mafia. Back home, La Mafia has performed in front of three record-setting crowds at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo at the Houston Astrodome.

Cuauhtémoc Blanco Bravo (Spanish pronunciation: [kwauˈtemok ˈblaŋko]; born 17 January 1973) is a Mexican professional footballer who currently plays for Dorados de Sinaloa in the Mexican Liga de Ascenso.

Known for his aggressive yet charismatic personality on the field, playing most of his career as a deep-lying forward and his last years as an attacking midfielder. He is widely considered one of the greatest and most talented Mexican players in the last two decades.

Blanco is the only Mexican football player with an award in a major international FIFA competition, as he won the Silver Ball and the Silver Shoe awards in the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup. He has been awarded the MVP of the Mexican First League Division five times.

He is tied with Ronaldinho as the leading Confederations Cup goalscorer. Blanco is the second leading goal scorer for the Mexican national football team and his debut team Club América; he is also Mexico's second top scorer in both the FIFA World Cup and the Copa Libertadores tournament.

Carlos Enzo Reinoso Valdenegro (born March 7, 1946) is a Chilean football coach. He played in the 1970s and 1980s, most notably as a member of the Club América Mexican team. He is one of the best foreigner who played in Mexico, and the best that ever played at Club América.

Davide Moshé Faitelson Pulido^{[citation needed]} (born November 8, 1963 in Ashkelon, Israel)^{[citation needed]} is a Mexican sports journalist currently working for ESPN Deportes. He is married and has three daughters.

Faitelson and the controversial José Ramón Fernández jointly formed a sport show in Mexico, called DeporTV. In between his stay at TV Azteca, Faitelson covered the World Cup 1986 in Mexico, the World Cup 1994 in USA, the World Cup 1998 in France, the World Cup 2002 in South Korea and Japan, and the World Cup 2006 held in Germany. Faitelson also covered each of the Olympics from 1988 to 2008.

After the World Cup 2006, Faitelson was one of several journalists who moved to sports specific channels. Along with other DeporTV analysts, he joined ESPN Deportes. As of 2011 he covered Mexican football, baseball, the Olympics, and other sports. He was involved in shows such as Raza Deportiva, Fútbol Picante, Sportscenter, Cronómetro, and Nacion ESPN.

Faitelson is known for his dramatic, inspirational reports on the colorful side of the sport. "El Color" is his trademark and is the best-received of Faitelson's journalism work. He authored several articles. His work includes interviews with athletes such as Lance Armstrong, Carl Lewis, Julio Cesar Chavez, Pele, Diego Armando Maradona, and Nadia Comanecci.