Republica Deportiva

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República Deportiva (Sports Republic in Spanish) is a weekly two-hour Spanish language sports show shown on Sunday mornings in the United States on Univision. It is hosted by popular television personality Fernando Fiore, one of the leading figures in sports in the U.S. and the principal anchor for Univision's 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cup coverage. It also features Rosana Franco and Felix Fernandez, the latter an ex-football (soccer) goalie in the Primera División de México, Mexico's First Division, the professional Mexican league.

Another feature are several (2, 3, or sometimes 4) scantily clad young women called Senadoras (Senators; Fiore is the "President of the Republic") as artistic background, as they rarely speak. República Deportiva has highlighted many sports figures, among them the boxer Oscar de La Hoya and World Series manager Ozzie Guillén of the Medias Blancas of Chicago — the Chicago White Sox.

Because of its American audience it focuses much attention on Major League Baseball in the United States as well as NBA basketball. However, it gives constant attention to Primera División de México and some attention to the soccer leagues in other countries, such as the American MLS and the Argentine and Colombian leagues. It also shows highlights of Italian, Spanish, English and sometimes even French and German football. There is also some coverage of Formula One motor racing.