batatais, brazil -- As dawn cracks over seemingly endless fields of sugar cane, a ragged army of men and women sharpen their machetes to harvest the raw material for Brazil’s “white gold.” With ...

BRYAN, Texas -- The Brazos Valley Bombers dropped a hard-fought opening game to the Acadiana Cane Cutters 2-1 in 10 innings in front of a loud and packed house at Edible Field. It was the Bombers who ...

After a slow start to the 2019 season, your Acadiana Cane Cutters have gotten on track, rattled off a couple wins, and are looking for another trip to the Texas Collegiate League Championship Series.

YOUNGSVILLE - The Acadiana Cane Cutters paid tribute to legendary UL baseball coach Tony Robichaux in an emotional evening Thursday at Fabacher Field. Before the game versus the Victoria Generals, the ...

The Acadiana Cane Cutters are off to a hot start in their summer season, despite Mother Nature doing her best to keep them, and all the other teams in the area, off balance. After starting the season ...

This week, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED turns 50. Joel Abrams of Boston recalls making dinner one night in 1991 and listening to a story about Haitian cane cutters in the Dominican Republic. Here is an ...

Going into Saturday's Texas Collegiate League championship game, Acadiana Cane Cutters coach Darien Dukes and pitching coach Randy Hux knew ace pitcher, John Gray, could only throw 2⅔ innings due to ...

YOUNGSVILLE — The sounds of balls and gloves clapping in right field is music to the ears. "It gave me such a sense of joy to see these kids come out," said manager Ricky Vanasselberg. The Cane ...

After analyzing the working conditions of sugar-cane cutter Juraci Barbosa, 39, who died on June 29, 2006, the Brazilian government’s Public Ministry of Labor concluded that before dropping dead, ...

Urmila Owhal became a bride at 13. The sooner she married, the quicker she could earn money in the sugar-cane fields, where contractors preferred hiring couples — one person to chop, the other to load ...