Beijing 2008: Mexican-U.S. basketball teams to play cross-border unity game

MEXICO CITY, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Two basketball clubs from Mexico and the United States will play exhibition games, using the countries' border as the court's half-way line, promoting Mexico-United States unity, United States club the Rio Grande Valle Silverados said in a statement on Monday.

The games will be played in Reynosa, a city in the northern Mexico state of Tamaulipas, and McAllen, a city in the southern United States state of Texas, which borders Tamaulipas on Tuesday morning. At the same time, the two nation's presidents, the UnitedStates' George W. Bush and Mexico's Felipe Calderon, will met in Merida, a city in the southeastern Mexico state of Yucatan.

Fact checkers from the United States' Guinness Book of Records will record the match between Reynosa team Correcaminos (The Roadrunners) and McAllen's Silverados.

Authorities in McAllen and Reynosa have agreed to close the international bridge for use in the game for 15 minutes.