This Sunday the local soccer match between Saprissa and Grecia teams had to be suspended at minute 81 and the police ordered the evacuation of the Saprissa Stadium in Tibás after having received an alarm of a bomb in the sport facility. The Costa Rican police checked the entire stadium and its surroundings and fortunately didn’t find any signs of explosives; however, the building will be checke...

Costa Rica’s “La Sele” and the USMNT offered an exciting elimination game this Friday at the Red Bull Arena in Newark, New Jersey, and it was Costa Rica that came out victorious with a 2-0 score over the United States. Costa Rica came out pressing from the first whistle, and the United States appealed to their speed. The first goal came from a perfect pass by Bryan Ruiz to striker Marco Ureñ...

The Red Bull Arena in Newark, New Jersey will be the scenario of the Concacaf World Qualifying Match in route to Russia 2018 between the Costa Rica Male National Soccer Team “La Sele” and the USMNT this Friday, September 1 at 5 p.m. Costa Rica time (7 p.m. EST) “La Sele” left this Wednesday to New Jersey. There won’t be any major changes in the main line up as reported by head coach Oscar Ramír...

Floyd Mayweather made Conor McGregor play his game,despite McGregor's superior size and power, Mayweather dragged him to deep waters, to those late rounds that only professional boxers understand how to survive and that's were McGregor drowned, he was tired, came in too heavy and took on one of the best boxers the sports has seen. McGregor started out aggressive, scored some good punches and so...

Costa Rican Francisco Fonseca had his first experience fighting in a huge stage, this was evident for the first two rounds of his fight against Davis, he looked nervous and anxious. What the public didn’t know was that Fonseca had a bad experience right before getting in the ring, something he ate made him sick, despite this, he gathered his courage and fuled by his dream he made his way to the...

The weigh-in ceremony for Mayweather vs McGregor was completed today with Mayweather coming in at 149.5 lbs while Conor McGregor marked 153 lbs. In an MGM Grand full of McGregor fans, the Irish MMA star came in looking as he usually does, cocky and confident, he pumped his chest after he made weight, screamed a few things on Mayweather's face and left the stage saying, Floyd was in the worse sh...

Just this past August 21st the Costa Rica Sports Institute (ICODER) announced it had made the highest investment in the different sports disciplines in comparison with past administrations with close to US$32 million since 2014. The same press release confirms efforts have been made to strengthen different programs and the disbursement system was also modified to ensure a better distribution o...

The fifth date of the Costa Rica Touring Car Championship is this Sunday, August 20 as usual at Parque Viva in Alajuela, starting at 9:45 a.m. This time the race involves four heats of 15 laps each. The fourth date was won by Danny Formal who is only five points away from the general leader José Andrés Montalto. André Solano is on the third place of the general table and Juan Carlos Alvarad...

Costa Rican boxers continue to make headlines, this time it is Costa Rican Female World Champion Yokasta Valle who will be back in the ring September 9 in Puerto Rico with the hopes of earning another world title in a different weight division. Valle is the Light-Mini Flyweight Female World Champion (102 lbs) of the International Boxing Federation (IBF); but this time she is going after a title...

Costa Rican goalkeeper Keylor Navas continues with his achievements, yesterday he played his game 100 with the Real Madrid and celebrated along with his team by winning the Spain Supercup; today Navas was nominated along with another 24 male candidates to The Best FIFA Football Awards. This is the second edition of this award ceremony which will take into consideration the candidates’ perfo...

Being the co-main event to the Mayweather-McGregor fight this August 26 is any boxer's dream, a huge stage, incredible exposure, the opportunity of a lifetime, some fighters can only dream of it, but that is not the case for Costa Rican Francisco Fonseca, he is just 13 days away from his dream come true, the chance he has been waiting for is here, perhaps not under the best circumstances, but this...

Costa Rica’s Female World Champion Hanna Gabriels, confirmed through her Facebook page that she will be back in the ring defending her titles October 15; her opponent? Dominican Oxandia Castillo who beat Gabriels back in 2013. The rematch between Gabriels and Castillo has been long coming, their first encounter was in February 2013 at the Saprissa Stadium in Costa Rica where Gabriels fell to th...

Undefeated Costa Rican boxer Francisco Fonseca will have the challenge and the opportunity of a lifetime this August 26 when he steps into the ring with no other than young IBF World Super Featherweight Champion Gervonta Davis. Gervonta Davis is Floyd Mayweather’s protégé, he has referred to him as “the future of boxing”, with 18 wins, 17 of them by KO (94%) Davis is a very dangerous opponent, ...

After a two month process of evaluating the performance of a group of Costa Rican surfers, trainer Jim Hogan chose the 12 young athletes that will be traveling to Japán to represent the country in the ISA World Junior Championship 2017. The competition will take place in Hyuga, Japan from September 23 through October 1. Costa Rica is currently ranked sixth in the world in this championship, so ...

Carlos Muñoz concluded his participation in third place of the US Open of Surfing and achieving a great position in the ranking. Muñoz classified to the semifinals yesterday where he lost against Brazilian Tomas Hermes, the lack of good waves during their participation played an important role in the result; Tomas Hermes finished with a total score of 11.84 while “Cali” totaled 10.70 with only ...

At least two men's college basketball teams will be in Costa Rica next week for a tournament. Lamar University's (LU) Cardinals from Beaumont, Texas, and the University of Texas at El Paso's (UTEP) Miners will face off against Costa Rica's national team as well as teams from McGill University and the University of British Columbia. This early preseason tournament has emotions among the Texan...

Costa Rican surfer Carlos Muñoz from Esterillos Oeste, Puntarenas will be present at the semifinals of the US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, California. This is not the first time Muñoz is able to get into a WSL QS semifinal, back in 2013 he was also able to position himself among surfing's best. Muñoz has had a great performance so far in Surf City; earlier today during the quarterfinal...

Too little too late, that sums Bryan Vasquez’ performance against Mexico’s Raymundo Beltrán, the fight took place Saturday, August 5th at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California and judges gave the victory by majority decision to the Mexican. The fight lacked excitement from beginning to end, Vásquez moved well , he always does a great job of this, and kept his distance knowing that hi...

Carlos Muñoz is motivated, giving his best surf and proving that he belongs among the best in the world. Today, the Costa Rican surfer classified to the quarterfinals of the US Open of Surfing. Muñoz went head to head with Brazilian Jason Andre, regarded as one of the best Brazilian surfers in recent years. ¨Cali¨ scored a total of 13.66 points while Andre finished with 7.90. This is a versi...

The weigh-in ceremony for the Lomachenko-Marriaga, Beltrán-Vásquez event took place today in Los Angeles, California. Costa Rican Bryan Vásquez and his opponent, Mexican, Raymundo Beltrán are scheduled for a lightweight fight, which means they each had to weigh-in at 135 pounds; Ray Beltrán marked 134.4 lbs. while the Costa Rican came in at 136.8 lbs. 1.8 pounds over the weight limit. Normal...

Carlos “Cali” Muñoz is probably on one of the best moments of his career, present in the US Open of Surfing, “Surf City” in Huntington Beach, California, Muñoz made it today past the fourth round of the competition in the first position of his heat. As we reported yesterday, Muñoz and also Costa Rican Noe Mar McGonagle had made it to the 4th round and were competing together in the same heat; e...

The Costa Rican Tennis Federation is inviting tennis players to the tournament “Match Point por la Vida” or Match Point for Life, an event that will raise funds for children who are battling cancer. The tournament is scheduled to take place on August 19, 20, (qualification matches) and 26, 27 (semifinals and finals) at the Los Reyes Country Club and the open categories are: doubles, male and fe...

Two of Costa Rica’s best surfers, Noe Mar McGonagle and Carlos “Cali” Muñoz had another great session at the US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, California where they both managed to qualify to the fourth round. Carlos Muñoz, described by the WSL site today as “the embodiment of the pura vida surfing life”, showed his surfing skills today and scored one of the best waves in the day, which e...

The US Kids World Championship is the biggest children tournament in the world, and this year it will have the participation of close to 1500 kids from 50 countries; out of these, three are Costa Rican. Nicoláas Maroto, Luis Cruz and Adriana Llobet are representing the country in the tournament which is being held in Pinehurst, North Carolina since Monday. The tournament is divided in seven di...

Just three days away from stepping in the ring again after one year of absence, Costa Rican Bryan Vásquez is already in Los Angeles, California and says he is ready to represent his country with a victory. Mexican Raymundo Beltrán is not about to make things easy for Vásquez, but the Costa Rican has made it clear that he is going to give his best effort to take the regional titles in dispute th...

Leilani McGonagle and Emily Gussoni concluded their participation in the US Open of Surfing where they took part of the Supergirl WQS 6,000 that took place at “Surf City”, Huntington Beach in California. McGonagle finished in ninth place making it to Round 6 of the event. Unfortunately Emily Gussoni didn’t make it past round 2 of the event. The Supergirl event had a total of 128 participan...

Six Costa Rican surfers will take part in the biggest surfing event in the world, the Vans US Open of Surfing, that will be held July 31 through August 6 at “Surf City”, Huntington Beach in California The event includes four World Surf League (WSL) events; the men who take part of the Qualifying Series (QS) are going after 10,000 valuable points toward the Championship Tour Qualification. Car...

Hyunday Team pilot, Danny Formal, won the fourth date of the Costa Rica Touring Car Championship that took place this past Sunday at Parque Viva. In an exciting event that had the most accidents so far in the CTCC, Formal was able to win the first place and cut the distance from the still leader of the general ranking José Andrés MOntalto from Toyota. Ford driver, Felipe Vargas, lost control o...

Jason Torres from Jacó and 12-year-old Valentina Resano from Nicaragua are the National Surfing Champions 2017. The Reef Final of the “Kölbi” National Surfing Tournament took place this weekend at Hermosa Beach, Puntarenas and left two new National Champions, Valentina Resano and Jason Torres in the open female and male categories respectively. Torres and Resano took the titles that until to...

Photo: USMNT now in the Gold Cup final Costa Rica’s male national soccer team and its equal from the USA, met in the semi-finals of the Gold Cup 2017 at the AT&T stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, where Costa Rica lost 2-0 to the US. The first 90’ minutes came and went without any goals, but there were several opportunities to score by both teams. Actually just fifteen minutes into the...

The fourth date of the Costa Rica Touring Car Championship CTCC takes place this Sunday, July 23 at Parque Viva. In the third date, the Shell Endurance Cup that took place May 14, it was the Toyota Team that took the first place with the impeccable driving of José Andrés Montalto, while Andrés Saravia from Chevrolet and Felipe Vargas from Ford took the second and third places respectively for...

On minute 5:55 of the video below, you can hear Floyd Mayweather mentioning some weeks back he had a sparring he was working with from Costa Rica and that had a "very awkward" style, in response to analyst's Brendan Schaub comment that he had never fought someone that moved like Conor McGregor and if he had anyone in his camp that could "mimic his movement". Since then, there had been rumors on wh...

It’s hard to be successful and recognized in the sport of boxing, especially when you come from a small country like Costa Rica were there is a limited boxing audience. For some reason or another Costa Rican Bryan Vásquez has not received from his countrymen as much support as perhaps his wife, current World Champion Hanna Gabriels has. Yes, Vásquez has not achieved a World Title, but he did th...

Costa Rica's and Panama's male national soccer teams faced off today in quarter finals of the Gold Cup 2017 at the Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, USA. The first half of the game came and went with not much action worth mentioning, both teams played a rough and inefficient 45 minutes. Costa Rica generated very few scoring options and any attempts were easily controlled by Panama, t...

Costa Rican athlete Juan Diego Castro finished fourth in the 2017 IAAF World U18 Championships in the 800 meters track running that is being held at the Moi International Sports Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. With an extraordinary effort, the young athlete established a new national record and made history for Costa Rica. Castro finished with a time of 1:49.76, the national best record before thi...

The soccer teams of Costa Rica and French Guiana met in the third match for each of the teams in the Gold Cup at the Toyota Stadium in Dallas and with a temperature that reached 37°C (98.6°F). Costa Rica’s male national soccer team opened the score early on in the game with a goal by forward Ariel Rodríguez at minute 3, a big mistake by French Guiana’s defense left the Costa Rican player in a gre...

Costa Rican athlete Juan Diego Castro managed to qualify for the finals of the 2017 IAAF World U18 Championships in the 800 meters track running that is being held at the Moi International Sports Centre in Nairobi, Kenya; the tenth and last edition of the biennial international athletics competition for Under-18 athletes. In a history for the country, the young athlete finished third in the sem...

Hermosa Beach in Puntarenas will be witness to the final date of the “Kölbi” Surfing Tournament that will take place July 21, 22 and 23. After 5 dates of competition, the National Surfing Tournament comes to an end and the weekend is expected to have not just great surfing but also great entertainment. On Friday, July 21st after the different competitions there’s a concert scheduled at the B...

Costa Rica’s male national soccer team came into this Gold Cup as one of the favorites, especially considering that head-coach Oscar Ramírez decided to summon most of his main players for the Gold Cup, contrary to the majority of the teams in the tournament that chose to give a deserved rest to the majority of their best men. However, after two games, Costa Rica has failed to deliver the expec...

Photo Credit: Fedefutbol Honduras played better, but Costa Rica scored the only goal in the game, and with this it took its first victory in the Gold Cup 2017. Suffering more than it should have, considering that man for man it has a better team, Costa Rica’s male national soccer team “La Sele” was able to get by with a goal by striker Marco Ureña at minute 39’ of the match held in New Jerse...