Local soccer fans mourned the death this week of Jaime “Tubo” Gomez, one of Guadalajara’s greatest round-ball luminaries.

Soccer will consume the attention of millions of Mexicans for the rest of this month as the first division playoffs unfold to a nailbiting climax on June 1.

Teenage Guadalajara motor racing ace Sergio Perez may have stepped up a category, but it hasn’t diminished his will to win.