Photo Credit: Facebook Bryan Vasquez Costa Rican Boxer. Vasquez signs agreement with Roy Jones Jr. boxing promotions Costa Rican boxer and former interim world champion Bryan “Tiquito” Vasquez signed a promotional agreement with Roy Jones Jr. Boxing Promotions. Vasquez, is 29 years old and a native of Escazu, Costa Rica. He is a former two-time WBA (World Boxing Association) interim Super F...

Costa Rica secured the 6 points in the first two games of the hex stage of CONCACAF Russia World Cup 2018. La Sele playing at home, defeated the U.S. MNT 4-0. The first 45 minutes of the game were full of action from the moment the whistle announced the beginning of the match, Costa Rica came out aggressive but disorganized, lacking the control that we saw in the match against Trinidad & Tobag...

Columbus, Ohio, Nov 12 — Mexico ended a humiliating string of 2-0 losses to the United States in this Midwestern city, getting a 2-1 victory over its arch-rival at the start of the fifth and final round of World Cup qualifying in the Concacaf region. Costa Rica beats Cuba Gold Cup Soccer. Friday night's match at Mapfre Stadium seemed destined to end in a 1-1 draw, but 37-year-old defender R...

The Central American Surfing Games came to an end today in Jaco, and Costa Rica’s team took the crown for the 11th time with 15,503 points followed by Guatemala with a total of 10,770 points. In the individual categories Costa Rica achieved four gold medals in: Open Male, Open Female, Junior Male and Male U16. Nicaragua took home two gold medals in categories Junior Female and Female U16 while S...

The Central American Surfing Games concluded its second day of competition and will come to an end this Sunday, November 13. Costa Rica’s National Surfing Team has had a great performance so far and is very close to archiving their eleventh consecutive title with 17 out of 20 members still in competition. Panama has 9 competitors still in participation, Nicaragua 5, Guatemala 3 and El Salvador 2....

Costa Rica’s male national soccer team, scored a 2-0 win over Trinidad and Tobago in their first qualifier game of the hexagonal stage of the CONCACAF Russia World Cup 2018. “La Sele” had a good performance at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, in a game that was controlled by the Costa Ricans; starting the hex off with a road win was essential as Costa Rica hopes ...

Ten kids will have the opportunity of a lifetime; playing with the best basketball player of all times, number 23, Michael Jordan. The “Copa Vuela Conmigo” (Fly with me Cup), will be disputed during this month of November (November 5th through December 04) and will gather over 200 boys and girls of 15 different teams of private and public schools as well as sports associations. This event will...

Jurgen Klinsmann head coach of the U.S.A. male National Soccer Team (U.S. MNT), announced the list of players summoned for the upcoming CONCACAF hexagonal games against Mexico and Costa Rica. Midfielder Jermaine Jones was called to join the team, and will be evaluated to ensure he is in good physical condition; other young figures such as Cameron Carter-Vickers, Lynden Gooch and Caleb Stanko a...

The sport of boxing and Nicaragua mourns the death today of boxing trainer Arnulfo Obando, the longtime coach of Roman “Chocolatito” González. Obando passed away this Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 9:15 A.M. in the Vivian Pellas Hospital in Nicaragua. Obando had to be rushed to the hospital on Monday, October 31st after suffering a stroke; reportedly he had complained of weakness in his arms, a...

The Central American Surfing Games kick off today with the opening ceremony that will take place at the Jaco Beach Best Western Hotel, this private event will be hosted by the Costa Rican Surfing Federation represented by its President, Randall Chaves. Competitions will begin Friday at 7 a.m. and will extend through the weekend with the participation of the delegations of: Nicaragua, Panama, E...

Who hasn’t heard of Roberto Durán “Hands of Stone”? the famous Panamanian boxer, a former four weight class World Champion regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. His story, will be in the big screen as of November 10. “Hands of Stone” (trailer at the end of the article), is directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz and produced by Costa Rican Jay Weisleder. The cast includes: Robert De Niro,...

Motocross: Sixteen-year old María Paula Saborío is the first Costa Rican female to win the Motocross Latin American Championship that took place in La Quebradora, Michoacán, Mexico this past weekend and that is organized by the Mexican Motocross Federation with the backing of the Latin America FIM (International Motocross Federation). Saborío totaled 47 points in the competition, finishing ...

The last stage of La Ruta de los Conquistadores came to an end today as competitors went from Siquirres to Moin in Limón, a route of 54 kilometers. The winner in the male category of this last day was Spanish Josep Betalu who finished with a time of 01:42:26, followed closely by Colombian Luis Mejia Sanchez who stopped the clock at 01:42:32; Mejía had won the first two stages and therefore he...

Two stages of one of the hardest athletic events in the planet, have been completed and the final one will take place tomorrow, November 5th. The first stage of La Ruta de los Conquistadores, that started November 3 from Jaco and arrived at Atenas, had Colombian Luis Mejia as the male winner with a time of 04:36:32, this athlete also took the first position in the second stage completed today a...

Oscar Ramirez, head coach of Costa Rica’s male National Soccer Team, announced the list of 23 players summoned to be part of “La Sele” in the CONCACAF hexagonal matches coming up November 11th and November 15th. The majority of the players called are experienced, 65% of them already know what it is like to play a “hex” stage. Goalkeeper Keylor Navas, is of course headlining the list, while defe...

Warsaw, Nov. 2 — Cristiano Ronaldo took advantage of his recent visit to Warsaw, Poland to visit a Polish boy who woke up from a coma when he heard a goal by the soccer player during a televised match. Ronaldo, from Portugal, is a forward for the Real Madrid team, and is often ranked as the world's best soccer player. He has long been a role model for Dawid Pawlaczyc. Cristiano Ronaldo and ...

Carolina Mauri, Costa Rica’s Minister of Sports, confirmed that the National Council of Sports and Recreation agreed to induct Xinia Alvarado Diaz, Rafael Ugalde and Jorge Arias Tuk to the Costa Rican Sports Hall of Fame. The press conference was held in the National Stadium and had the presence of Mauri, the President of the Sports Hall of Fame, Carlos Cortés; Virginia Murillo, member of the S...

Costa Rican surfer drowns while surfing in Puntarenas The Red Cross found Saturday the body of 15 year old Campbell Cardoza, a local surfer that went missing on Friday while surfing in Banana Beach, Santa Teresa de Cóbano, Puntarenas. Apparently Cardoza was surfing at around 4 p.m. on Friday when he was hit by a tourist’s long-board which caused him to drown, the body was found approximatel...

Last September 25 the sports world was shocked and saddened by a tragic boating accident in which Miami Marlin’s pitcher Jose Fernandez was killed. Now, a month later, there is more bad news, as it was released that the autopsy found cocaine and alcohol in pitcher’s system. The toxicology report was released and indicated that Fernandez, 24, had a blood-alcohol level of 0.147 (Florida’s legal ...

(EFE).- The Cleveland Indians hammered the Chicago Cubs 7-2 in Game 4 of the World Series to take a 3-1 lead in the Fall Classic. "Nothing changes. We're going to show up tomorrow. The only thing that changes is we'll pack our bags, because we're going to go home one way or the other. We'll show up and try to beat a really good pitcher tomorrow, and that's what we always do. Nothing needs to ch...

The Central America and Caribbean Wheelchair Basketball Championship 2016 (CentroBasket BSR 2016) will have its final two days of competition this weekend (October 29-30) when the semi-finals and finals take place at the Costa Rican National Gym in La Sabana. Nicaragua classified to semi-finals beating Guatemala 77-38 in the quarterfinals and will now face Puerto Rico on Saturday. Mexico defeated...

La Ruta de los Conquistadores is considered the most important mountain bike competition in Costa Rica and one of the hardest athletic events in the planet. This multi-stage race will take place this year from November 3rd to November 5th. Created in 1993 by Costa Rican Roman Urbina, this event is considered the first and original multi-stage mountain bike competition in the world, this gender ...

Costa Rican triathlon athlete Leonardo Chacón finished sixth in the XTERRA World Championship race that took place today in Maui, Hawaii. The XTERRA competition is an off-road triathlon, which combines a 1.5 km (1 mile) swim, 32 km (20mi) mountain bike trail and a 10.5 km (6.5 mi) trail run. The XTERRA World Championship race is the last in a series of more than 100 off-road triathlon races he...

The first 226 km (140 miles) Iron-Tri of Central America will take place this Sunday, October 23 at the beautiful and exuberant Puerto Viejo in Limon; the competition involves 3.8 km (2.36 mi) of swimming, 180 km (112 mi) of cycling and 42.2 km (26.2 mi) of running. The event is organized by the company Multireto who has always organized the event TicoMan (Costa Rican Ironman); this is the nin...

Costa Rica's Surfing Federation announced the list of wwenty athletes in 7 different categories that have been selected to be part of Costa Rica’s National Surfing Team and will represent the country in the upcoming Central America Surfing Games. Aspects taken into consideration when selecting the participant athletes included their individual performance during the National Circuit Kolbi 2016, ...

The CONCACAF Champions League also known as the Concachampions concluded another stage today. The CONCA Champions follows the same principals as the famous European Champion League currently in qualifying rounds. In the case of the CONCACAF, a total of 24 teams participate, 9 from the North American region, 12 from Central America and 3 from the Caribbean. Usually it’s the teams from the North ...

The International Cycling Union announced its America Tour calendar and included a new event to take place in Costa Rica: The Costa Rica Tour The event is scheduled for February 15 through the 19 next year and it was assigned with a category 2.2 the same as the classic “Vuelta a Costa Rica” that takes place every year in December, this year it falls between the 13 and 25 December. The organi...

“La Etapa Costa Rica del Tour de Francia” or Costa Rica’s stage by Le Tour de France, a franchise of “L’Etape du Tour”, is a recreation cycling event that takes place in several countries in the world with the purpose of promoting the sport but with the rules that apply in the famous Tour de France. This is the first type that an event of this type will take place in Costa Rica, the organizing ...

The eleventh edition of the Central American Surfing Games will be back to Costa Rica after five years. The last time Costa Rica hosted this event was back in 2011 at Hermosa Beach, prior to that it had been done in 2006 in Esterillos Centro. This time around the stage selected is Jaco Beach. Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Costa Rica will be participating in this edition that ...

Whether or not we are athletes we have all heard this "rule", “no sex before a competition”, this theory has been around for ages, for instance Greek philosopher Plato wrote in 444 BC that “Olympic competitors before races should avoid sexual intimacy” and this continues to apply today in pretty much every sport; for boxers and MMA fighters for example sex is not an option for at least a month or ...

The World Surf League Qualifying Series Essential Costa Rica Open Pro came to an end today after 5 days of competition and a lot of good waves, excitement and even crocodiles. Costa Rica’s Noe Mar McGonagle got to the semi-final but was unable to qualify to the final, after getting a score of 6.87 for his last wave when he needed a 7.01. Noe Mar competed against a very tough opponent, Ethan Ewi...

Costa Rica’s male national soccer team “La Sele” scored a 4-3 win in their friendly match against Russia’s national soccer team in Krasnodar, Russia. Costa Rica dominated the first half of the game although missed a lot of good opportunities to score, a Russian team without some of its main players including their goalkeeper, didn’t take advantage of the dead ball and set piece opportunities ...

With no crocodiles making an appearance in Esterillos today, the male and female quarterfinals of the WSL Essential Costa Rica Open Pro are defined, only one Costa Rican went through to this stage in the competition, Noe Mar McGonagle, Carlos Muñoz was eliminated in Round 5 and female competitors, Emily Gussoni, Coral Wiggins, Lisbeth Vindas and Leilani McGonagle all were eliminated in round 2. ...

The Essential Costa Rica Open Pro is in its third day of action and for the second time in these three days a delay occurred because of the presence of a crocodile in the water. Round 5 of the male competition was underway when Brazilian surfer Tales Rodrígues alerted of the presence of the reptile, which he later told Surfline website was about the size of his surf board. Immediately the ...

Eduardo Li, former president of the Costa Rican soccer federation (FEDEFUT) pleaded guilty today (Friday, October 7) of three of the 14 charges against him, raketeering conspiracy, wire fraud, and wire fraud conspiracy. Li is being accused of requesting kickbacks and bribes for the commercialization of marketing and broadcasting rights of the Costa Rican male National Soccer Team matches betwee...

The second day of competition of the Essential Costa Rica Open Pro 3000 at Esterillos Este beach in Parrita, Puntarenas, came to an end, and out of the starting 224 competitors there’s only 96 left (64 men, and 32 women). The level of competition is high, today after round 3 concluded, 4 male Costa Rican athletes continue in competition: Jason Torres, Noe Mar McGonagle, Jair Pérez and Cali Muñ...

Costa Rica’s male national soccer team “La Sele” will have an exhibition game against Russia’s national soccer team this Sunday, October 9th at 7 a.m. Costa Rica time, the game takes place at Krasnodar, Russia. All players of La Sele are in Russia since yesterday and have been training in preparation for this game that serves as a practice for the team as they will enter the fifth round or hexa...

The Qualifying Series Essential Costa Rica Pro Open 3000 one of the stops of the World Surf League (WSL QS3000), is taking place at Esterillos Este beach in Parrita, Puntarenas, as of today and will extend through Sunday, October 9. Every day the competition starts at 7 a.m. with men’s rounds that will extend through 1 p.m.; women’s competitions are scheduled in the afternoon starting at around...

Philando Castile, Alfred Olango have two things in common, they were both black and they were both killed by the police in what appears to be cases of police brutality; their shootings became quickly known worldwide thanks to videos that were shared on social media. Their cases join others such as Eric Garner’s case in New York over a year ago. As a response to this now many high-profile athlet...

Let’s start by saying (for those that don’t follow this sport) there’s two types of boxing competition, the “amateur” boxing now referred to as Olympic boxing, and professional boxing; we have athletes competing in both amateur and professional boxing in Costa Rica. For those of you wondering what the difference is between one and the other, Olympic boxers fight with protective headgear and they u...