Tijuana's Xolos won the Mexican equivalent of the Super Bowl tonight
Tijuana's major-league soccer team, the Xoloitzcuintles, won Mexico's equivalent of the Super Bowl tonight. Incredible.
U-T San Diego: Believe it: Tijuana Xolos are Mexican champs
U-T San Diego: Tijuana celebrates Xolos capture of soccer title
No one on this side of the border can pronounce the team's name (and we just call them the Xolos -- pronounced alternatively as sholos or cholos -- on both sides of the border) but I can. Just say these English words fast: Show-low-eats-QUEENT-lace. There, that wasn't so hard.
And it's true, the team is named after a hairless dog.
U-T San Diego: Believe it: Tijuana Xolos are Mexican champs
U-T San Diego: Tijuana celebrates Xolos capture of soccer title
No one on this side of the border can pronounce the team's name (and we just call them the Xolos -- pronounced alternatively as sholos or cholos -- on both sides of the border) but I can. Just say these English words fast: Show-low-eats-QUEENT-lace. There, that wasn't so hard.
And it's true, the team is named after a hairless dog.


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