Bad Bunny to Wrap “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” World Tour in Puerto Rico

Posted on August 17, 2026 by Tom Castaneda

Bad Bunny is heading home to tirar más fotos…

Following one year of performances across the globe, the 32-year-old Puerto Rican Grammy-winning superstar will be bringing his Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour back to Puerto Rico for its final run.

The two-night event is scheduled for August 22 and 23 at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, according to a press release issued Monday, August 17.

Weeks before the announcement, anticipation began to build as rumors circulated that Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasiowould perform once more on the island before concluding the trek.

Although there was no word from the artist or his team, local outlets reported that the singer would perform at Bithorn Stadium at the end of August. Speculation intensified after Rimas Entertainment reserved dates at the stadium.

Before the concerts begin, fans will be able to enjoy an experience outside the stadium featuring a local market, activations and activities celebrating the tour’s culmination.

The trek kicked off in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on November 21 — the first of 55 performances — following a sold-out, 30-day residency at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico, known as “El Choli,” which generated millions of dollars for the island last summer.

From 2025 through July 2026, the artist toured across five continents, bringing his album Debí Tirar Más Fotos and the iconic La Casita — designed by the Puerto Rican artist to resemble the typical homes of the island — to audiences in 22 cities.

Along the way, he invited celebrity guests to join him for house parties inside the structure.

Debí Tirar Más Fotos was released in January 2025, debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 before climbing to No. 1 the following week. It became the fastest Latin album to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify, doing so in just 13 days, and earned Bad Bunny the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in February.

The following week, his performance at the Super Bowl halftime show helped the album return to the top of the Billboard 200 and propelled the song “DTMF” back to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour is already the highest-grossing tour by a male Latin artist in history, with $467.5 million in gross earnings.

In June, Bad Bunny became the first Latin artist to surpass $1 billion in career gross ticket sales.

Tickets for both performances go on sale Wednesday, August 19 at 10 a.m. through PR Ticket, with a limit of four tickets per transaction.

Cristopher Sanchez Becomes First 15-Game Winner in the MLB This Season

Posted on August 6, 2026 by Tom Castaneda

It’s an impressive quince for Cristopher Sanchez.

The 29-year-old Dominican professional baseball pitcher has become the first 15-game winner in Major League Baseball this season as his Philadelphia Phillies beat the Washington Nationals 7-3 on Thursday night for their fifth victory in six games.

Sanchez (15-4) allowed two runs on six hits in five innings for his fifth consecutive victory.

Nationals starter Miles Mikolas (3-9) gave up six runs on 12 hits in five innings. On Wednesday night as a pinch hitter in the 11th inning in the Nationals’ 10-4 victory, he put down an RBI squeeze bunt for a base hit in his first at-bat since 2021.

Consecutive RBI doubles by Phillies newcomer Luis Arraez and Alec Bohm forged a 2-0 lead in the first.

Justin Crawford plated J.T. Realmuto with a second-inning single, then Bryce Harper, Brandon Marsh and Bryson Stott doubled in a three-run third to make it 6-1.

The Phillies had 16 hits.

Nationals left fielder Andrew Pinckney had a solo home run in the fourth for his first career hit.

Cardi B to Release New Single “Ah Ha” on Friday, July 31

Posted on July 29, 2026 by Tom Castaneda

Cardi B is having an “Ah Ha” moment…

The 33-year-old half-Dominican American Grammy-winning superstar is set to release her first single since 2025’s Am I the Drama?

After previewing the single “Ah Ha” on Monday, July 27, the overwhelmingly positive reception from the Bardi Ganghas pushed Cardi and Atlantic Records to set a release date on the single, which is slated to hit streaming services on Friday, July 31.

“Meet me at the club,” Cardi captioned the Instagram post announcing the release date.

On “Ah Ha,” Cardi delivers a catchy chorus, which finds her repeating the song’s title, and then goes on to snipe at her opps and the men after her.

“A n—a can’t trap me, I won’t keep it/ B—es really hate me, so be it/ Bathroom floors and these hoes both heated/ It goes threee, two, to the one in this b—h/ I’ll give a hoe exactly what she want in this b—h,” she raps.

The 33-year-old rapper even disses Donald Trump on the track, which she’s had no problem doing when speaking out against the president publicly in the past.

“Black trucks at the club look like Trump in this b—h, f–k him/ A hoe never played with me once in this b—h,” she continues.

The hard-hitting single’s cover art shows Cardi posing in the same Dominican Republic-themed flag bikini she wore on the beach in the initial track teaser video.

Cardi hopped on IG Live on Tuesday (July 28) to clear up any confusion surrounding the “a n—a can’t trap me bar,” which fans believed was a shot at ex-boyfriend Stefon Diggs.

“I know exactly how I felt when I said that s–t. I could have a baby with a n—a, but that’s the issue,” she said. “You could have a baby with a n—a, and sometimes n—as think that because you have a baby with them or you gonna keep a baby or you have a baby that you won’t move the f–k on or you’ll stay there taking s–t. Nah, b—h, I’ll take my baby and get the f–k on. That’s for sure. Like nah, b—h, a baby ain’t trapping me b—h.”

Cardi kicked off the Little Miss Drama Tour in February, which served as her first headlining North American trek. She’s continued to remain outside since Am I the Drama?‘s arrival in September 2025, which topped the Billboard 200.

Bad Bunny Logs 20th Entry on YouTube’s Billion Views Club with Arcángel-Collab “Me Acostumbré”

Posted on July 29, 2026 by Tom Castaneda

Bad Bunny’s billionaire status continues…

The 32-year-old Puerto Rican Grammy-winning superstar has logged his 20th entry for YouTube’s Billion Views Clubwith the music video for “Me Acostumbré,” his trap banger with Arcángel.

Published on February 19, 2017, the music video recently surpassed the one billion mark, becoming Bad Bunny’s 20th music video as a lead, featured artist or collaborator, and Arcángel’s seventh title.

Produced by DJ Luian and Mambo Kingz, the collaboration is a hard-hitting trap song about someone who’s gotten used to winning all the time, and the fame and haters that comes with the success.

Directed by Rodrigo Films in the Dominican Republic, the clip shows the two Puerto Rican stars enjoying the street life at night.

The music video is the third visual that both Bad Bunny and Arcángel have together in the Billion Views Club, alongside “Tu No Vives Así” and “Diles.”

It also enters the club after Bad Bunny’s dembow hit “Tití Me Preguntó” surpassed one billion views mark this January.

“Me Acostumbré” became one of Bad Bunny’s early career titles on the Billboard charts when it peaked at No. 28 in Hot Latin Songs on the tally dated May 13, 2017.

The next Bad Bunny music videos to potentially surpass 1 billion views with more than 800 million views at press time are “Sensualidad” with Prince Royce and J Balvin; “La Canción” with J Balvin; “Vuelve”; “Krippy Kush” with Farruko and Rvssian; and “Moscow Mule” off of his blockbuster fourth studio album Un Verano Sin Ti, which was released in 2022.

Cristian Javier Pinales Claims Gold in Men’s Boxing at the 2024 Paris Games

Posted on August 4, 2024 by Tom Castaneda

Cristian Javier Pinales has claimed a bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Games for the Dominican Republic in his Olympic debut.

The 23-year-old Dominican boxer lost his semifinal against Kazakhstan’s Nurbek Oralbay in the Men’s 80KG category 3-2, but will still take home a bronze.

Bronze medals are given to the fighters who make it to the semifinals but don’t win the bout.

Pinales and his compatriot Yunior Alcantara Reyes have given the Dominican Republic their first two medals of the 2024 Summer Olympics.

HBO Max Releases First Trailer for “Gordita Chronicles,” Starring Olivia Goncalves

Posted on June 7, 2022 by Tom Castaneda

Olivia Goncalves is heading back to the 80s…

HBO Max has released the first trailer for its coming-of-age series Gordita Chronicles, starring the Latina Hollywood newcomer.

The series, which is about family, opportunity, love, resilience and boldly defying the status quo in pursuit of the “American Dream,” will premiere on Thursday, June 23 on HBO Max.

Here’s the logline for the series from Sony Pictures Television and executive producers Eva Longoria and Zoe Saldana: The year is 1985 and Cucu “Gordita” Castelli (Goncalves) has just said goodbye to all of her friends and family in Santo Domingo. She has moved to Miami with her marketing-executive father Víctor (Juan Javier Cardenas), bold and vivacious mother Adela (Diana Maria Riva) and status-obsessed older sister Emilia (Savannah Nicole Ruiz). While life in America is far from what they imagined — “The song said ‘America the Beautiful,” Cucu says, “I think they oversold it” — the Castellis are determined to take charge of their strange new world. The coming-of-age series is about family, opportunity, love, resilience, and boldly defying the status quo in pursuit of the “American Dream.”

After immigrating from their home in the Dominican Republic, 12-year-old Cucu Castelli (Goncalves) and her eccentric family must discover and define their version of the “American Dream” in 1980s Miami. Cucu meets head-on the challenges of being an immigrant in a strange new world with humor, bravado and some really bad choices.

Noah Rico, Cosette Hauer and Dascha Polanco also star in the series, whose first episode was directed by Longoria. Patrick Fabian and Loni Love are guest stars.

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Showrunner Brigitte Munoz-Liebowitz executive produces alongside writer Claudia Forestieri, Longoria, Saldana, Josh Berman, Jennifer Robinson, Chris King, Mariel Saldana and Cisely Saldana.

Juan Francisco Leads Dominican Republic to Country’s First-Ever Baseball Olympics Medal

Posted on August 7, 2021 by Tom Castaneda

Juan Francisco is the Domincan Republic’s new hero…

The 34-year-old Dominican former professional baseball first baseman homered to help give the Dominican Republic a four-run, first-inning lead, then hit a tie-breaking, two-run double off Seunghwan Oh in a five-run eighth inning to help lead his team to a 10-6 victory over South Korea to claim the bronze in men’s baseball at the 2020 Tokyo Games.

Melky Cabrera had four hits for the Dominicans (3-3), who won a baseball medal for the first time, and the country’s first-ever team medal.

South Korea (3-4), the 2012 London Games gold medalist, took a 6-5 lead in a four-run fifth inning against five pitchers. Kang Baek-Ho hit a go-ahead single.

Oh (2-1), a 39-year-old right-hander who pitched in Major League Baseball blew a save for the second time in the tournament.

Kansas City farmhands Jeison Guzman and Erick Mejia singled in the eighth, Seattle Mariners prospect Julio Rodriguez walked and Oh threw a wild pitch that tied the score.

Francisco, a six-year big league veteran whose last major league at-bat was in 2014, had struck out in his three previous plate appearances and nine times overall. The 34-year-old doubled to the left-center gap for an 8-6 lead, and Boston Red Sox prospect Johan Mieses followed with a long two-run homer to left.

Francisco hit .208 (5 for 24) with two homers and five RBIs during the tournament, the last for baseball in the Olympics until at least 2028.

Cristopher Mercedes (1-0), who pitches for the Central League‘s Yomiuri Giants, threw 3 1/3 shutout innings through the eighth as the fourth reliever out of the Dominican bullpen.

Jumbo Diaz, four years removed from his last big league appearance, relieved with two on in the ninth and got three straight outs for the save.

Rodriguez, a 20-year-old at Double-A Arkansas, put the Dominicans ahead 2-0 on an afternoon of intermittent rain when he sent a 0-1 pitch well over the left field wall. Francisco drove the next pitch in the last row of the right-field seats for his second Olympic homer and a 3-0 lead.

Mieses walked, and that was it for South Korea starter Kim Min-woo, who allowed four runs, three hits and a walk in one-third of an inning. Charlie Valerio added a sacrifice fly.

Dominican starter Raul Valdes, a 43-year-old left-hander who was the oldest player in the tournament, gave up five runs and nine hits in four-plus innings. Valdes’ last big league appearance was for Houston in 2014.

Rodriguez was hit on the right hand by a pitch from Park Se-Woong in the sixth but stayed in the game.

Jhan Marinez‘s first attempt to relieve was foiled when the bullpen cart started to the mound when he had just one leg on it, causing him to stumble. He got back on and walked his only batter.

Marileidy Paulino Wins Dominican Republic’s First-Ever Women’s Track & Field Olympic Medal at Tokyo Games

Posted on August 6, 2021 by Tom Castaneda

She’s broken multiple records for the Dominican Republic, and now Marileidy Paulino is making sports history for her country…

The 24-year-old Dominican sprinter raced to the silver medal in the women’s 400-meter final with a time of 49.20 at the 2020 Tokyo Games, winning the Dominican Republic’s first-ever individual Olympic medal in women’s track and field.

Under Bahamas sprinter Shaunae Miller-Uibo’s time of 48.36, she beat Team USA‘s Allyson Felix, whose bronze medal run made her the most decorated woman in Olympic track history.

Paulino’s run is a personal best that sets a new national record for the Caribbean nation.

The sprinter, who is also a corporal in the Dominican Air Force, will also be coming home with another silver from her mixed 4×400-meter relay, a team consisting of Anabel Medina, Lidio Andrés Feliz, and Alexander Ogando.

Paulino’s 52-year old mother, Anatalia Paulino, told the Dominican Republic’s main newspaper, Listín Diario that her daughter made a promise to her when she arrived in Japan that she would bring back an Olympic medal to build a house in the country’s southern city of Nizao, where she resides with her brothers. After five years of preparing for the Olympics, she was finally be able to complete that promise.

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