Sad news for the sport of Baseball and in general for the sports industry after Miami Marlins Pitcher Jose Fernandez died today in a tragic boating accident. Fernandez, 24, was one of three victims that lost their lives when the 32-foot boat they were traveling in crashed against rocks that formed part of a jetty near Miami Beach, apparently speed was a factor and Fernandez died as a result of the...

Costa Rican Leilani McGonagle finished in third position in the final of female U-18 at the VISSLA ISA World Junior Championship with a score of 7.97; Brisa Hennessy from Hawaiian took the gold with total points of 11.33 , Vahine Fierro from Tahiti was second with 8.26 points; these two competitors (Hennessy and Fierro) where actually up against Costa Rican Emily Gussoni in the semi-finals earli...

Leilani McGonagle and Emily Gussoni classified to the semi-finals of the VISSLA Isa World Junior Championship in category U-18. Malakai Martinez made it to the quarterfinals but was not able to advance, coming in the fourth position of his heat. The Costa Rica surfing team participated in the final of the Aloha Cup and finished in third position which earns them the bronze medal; Hawaii took...

Soccer is the world’s most popular sport, perhaps that’s not the case in the U.S.A, but nonetheless it is and will continue to be “the king sport”; and when Barcelona and Real Madrid are playing, it seems as though all eyes are following their every movement, every media outlet reports on them, and even if you are not a fan, it’s almost impossible that someone hasn’t heard the names of Leo Messi ...

Live in-game betting has become very popular among sports bettors, this possibility allows gamblers to place bets while the game is taking place, the type of bets and the options for live betting differ depending on the sport’s particular characteristics. NFL, Soccer and NBA are among the sports that offer the biggest amounts of live in-game odds, but also for other sports such as tennis, boxing a...

In day 7 of 9 at the Vissla ISA World Junior Surfing Championship in Portugal, Costa Ricans Leilani McGonagle and Emily Gussoni earned their pass to Round 4 with first place wins in their respective heats in the U-18 female category. McGonagle went against representatives of teams Japan, Brazil and USA while Emily had to face USA, Germany and Japan. Malakai Martinez also got his pass from Round...

MMA as a sport continues to win fans, especially the newer generations, the majority of MMA fans are males between 18- 35 years of age, they know how to use a computer, and they are educated about their sport, which also leads to a lot of gambling. Saturday, September 24, MMA followers will tune in to watch Cris Cyborg, who is considered the best female MMA fighter today, face Lina Lansberg at UFC...

Today at Azores, Portugal where the Vissla ISA World Junior Surfing Championship underwent its 6th day of competition, Costa Rica’s Malakai Martinez and Oscar Urbina classified to the fourth round of category U-16; they are part of the 108 competitors that remain in competition out of the 371 that started last Saturday. Unfortunately, Costa Rica lost today a lot of the other members of the team...

Eduardo Li, former president of the Costa Rica Football Federation, along with other seven FIFA officials, will likely  face trial November 6th, 2017 . Fifty-seven year old Li was arrested in May 27, 2015 in Switzerland and is accused of accepting kickbacks and bribes for the commercialization of marketing and broadcasting rights of the elimination games of the Costa Rican male National Soccer Tea...

Costa Rica’s  outstanding performance at  the Vissla ISA World Junior Surfing Championship in Azores Islands, Portugal has already earned the country  the sixth position in the ranking, climbing two spots from last years’ historic eight place. Oscar Urbina (U-18), Aldito Chirinos (U-16) and Zulay Martinez (Girls U-16) got their pass to the third rounds of their respective categories; Zulay mana...

Costa Rican surfers have had a solid performance so far in their participation in the Vissla ISA World Junior Surfing Championship in Azores Islands, Portugal. Today, Joseph Mendez (U-18) took the first position of his heat in Round 1; Malakai Martinez who competed yesterday in U-18 and got first place, managed today another win this time in category U-16  also in the first round. Leilani McGon...

The Costa Rica National PRO Jiu-Jitsu Championship took place this weekend and had the participation of 127 competitors from different countries in North and Central America.  The results of the main brackets follow: Brown Belt (Adult Male) Open Heavy (under 110 Kg)Bracket: Oscar Pereira (Costa Rica Jiu Jitsu) Last years’ champion, repeats this year and is the winner of a complete travel p...

FIFA  Futsal World Championship Colombia 2016 Costa Rica’s FutSal National team classified to the next stage of the FIFA Futsal World Championship Colombia 2016. Costa Rica and Argentina tied 2-2 and this result allowed Costa Rica to classify in third position accumulating 4 points, while Argentina classified in first position with 7 points and Kazakhstan in second place with 6. Costa Rica play...

PhotoCredit: Facebook Federacion Surf CR Fotos de Alfredo Barquero Yesterday we reported the first victory of Costa Rica in the Vissla ISA World Junior Surfing Championship in Azores Islands, Portugal, as Aldito Chirinos (Sub-16) took the win in round 1, heat 3. Today female competitors in sub-18 category Leilani McGonagle and Emily Gussoni got first place in their heats in the first round, su...

On paper the match didn’t present much of a test for Mexican icon Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, the experienced and talented Canelo was challenging WBO world junior middleweight champion (154 lbs) Liam “Beefy” Smith, a good fighter,  a tough, hard-punching  fighter, but one that simply hadn’t been  in the ring with someone of the level of Canelo Alvarez. But against all odds, Canelo vs. Smith was not ...

Today, WBO/WBA/IBF Light Heavyweight champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev who was in Texas attending the Canelo-Smith event and promoting his upcoming fight against Andre Ward, got into some trouble when he told USA Olympic Gold Medalist Claressa Shields “Women shouldn’t be fighting, they should be at home”. Later in another interview, he said “If women want to fight that’s ok, but I don’t like to se...

Costa Rica's sports news: Costa Rica’s Junior National Surfing Team is participating in the Vissla ISA World Junior Surfing Championship in Azores Islands, Portugal, today Costa Rica celebrates its first victory as Aldito Chirinos (Sub-16) took the win in round 1, heat 3. Esteban Chavez (Sub-18) and Andy Chavez (Sub-16) also had wave action today and their points allowed them to go to repechage...

Costa Rica Sports News: FIFA  Futsal World Championship Colombia 2016 Costa Rica’s FutSal National Team took a hard loss against Kazakhstan  in their second game of  the group stage, the first goal by Kazakhstan came early in the game, Costa Rica’s Alejandro Paniagua managed to even the score but less than two minutes later Kazakhstan scored again; the third goal by the Kazakhs  came just 20...

Costa Rica's male National Soccer Team, climbed up from position 21 to 18 in the FIFA World Rankings.  La Sele's performance during the CONCACAF Russia 2018 World Cup Qualification Rounds where the team classified  undefeated in the first position of Group B influenced this improvement in the world rankings. Argentina managed to keep its lead of the monthly FIFA world rankings in September, wit...

The International Surfing Association and the Portuguese Surfing Federation are the organizers of the Vissla ISA World Junior Surfing Championship that will take place in Azores Islands, Portugal from September 17 through the 25 and where Costa Rica’s Sub-18 National Surfing Team will be participating. The Costa Rican athletes, 10 in total, arrived to Azores on Wednesday, September 14, as of to...

Paralympic swimmer Camila Haase participated in her first competition this morning at 6:37 A.M. in Rio 2016 Summer Paralympics Women’s 100m Breaststroke ; she improved her mark from 01:43:31 to 01:39:99 and classified to the final in 100 m breaststroke that will take place today at 3 P.M. Camila is 16 years old and is the first women to represent Costa Rica in the Paralympic Games. Update Camil...

Costa Rica’s male FutSal National Team defeated Salomon Islands 4-2 in their first game of the FIFA FutSal World Championship Colombia 2016.  The first goal came at minute 18 of the first half by La Sele’s captain Alejandro Paniagua.  The second half included goals by Carlos Chavez and a penalty in favor of Costa Rica was executed by Paniagua; with the score 3-0, a penalty came in favor of Salomon...

Stan Wawrinka overcame No. 1 ranked Novak Djokovic at Flushing Meadows on Sunday night to win his first U.S. Open title 6-7(1), 6-4, 7-5 and 6-3. In a match chock full of great rallies and excellent shot placement at Arthur Ashe Stadium, top-seeded defending champion Djokovic took the first set in a tiebreaker 6-7(1). Djokovic had gone out to a 2-0 lead, breaking the Swiss player's serve, bu...

In the UFC 203, Stipe Miocic retained his heavyweight title with a first round KO victory over Alistair Overeem in the main event  of UFC 203 that took place at Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, OH, Miocic’s hometown. Miocic survived a knockdown, escaped a guillotine choke and eventually managed to take the fight to the ground and continued to land shots until the referee stopped the fight at 4:27 o...

Gennady Golovkin successfully defended his WBC/IBF/IBO world middleweight titles, he defeated Kell Brook in a 5th round stoppage. Triple G had dominated the majority of the rounds; Brook had a good performance in round 2, and continued to pull through, but GGG was the better man; Brook was not happy that his corner threw in the towel; many fans and some journalists in the twitter community conside...

We know soccer is Costa Rica’s main sporting event, but there are many other disciplines in which Costa Rica has international participation. Here are a few important events coming up: The Costa Rican FutSal National Team will take part of the FIFA FutSal World Championship Colombia 2016. Costa Rica is part of Group E along with Salomon Islands, Kazakhstan and Argentina; the Ticos will have the...

UFC 203 takes place today at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio  and features in the main card a five round heavyweight match between USA’s Stipe Miocic (15-2-0)(W-L-D) and English veteran  Alistair Overeem (41-14-0, 1NC). Miocic, an Ohio native, is making the first defense of his UFC heavyweight title which he earned in a first round KO of Fabricio Werdum back in May of this year, Mioc...

There are certainly a lot of tennis fans in Costa Rica and this Sunday they will be treated to a great final game of the US Open 2016 when Novak Djokovic faces Stan Wawrinka who reaches his first US Open final after defeating Japanese No. 6 seed Kei Nishikori in four sets. Serbian world No. 1 Novak Djokovic advanced to the U.S. Open final with a 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 victory Friday over Frenchman ...

Costa Rican surfer Leilani McGonagle earned her pass to round 4 of 6 (quarterfinals) at the Azores Airlines Pro Women’s Qualifying Series #26 1,500 in Azores, Portugal, she will be competing again tomorrow and her heat will be in the “Man to Man” format facing tough competitor Justine Dupont from France. Other Costa Rican Competitors Carlos “Cali” Muñoz, Emily Gussoni and Leilani's brother N...

Part II in a series on 2018 Winter Olympic hopeful, Andre Moreno Hamm. By Wendy Anders It’s not the way most colllege students start their year in the U.S., but bi-national Andre Moreno Hamm, Costa Rica’s Winter Olympic hopeful slopestyle skier, isn’t your usual student. And right now, his studies at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah are on hold while he's in South America for a sk...

NFL regular season gets underway tonight.  Defending champions Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers will kick off the 2016 season at the Mile High Stadium in Denver starting at 8:30PM E.T.  These two teams as you probably recall, met in February for the Super Bowl 50, and the Broncos took the win with a score of 24-10 over the Panthers, this is the first time that a Super Bowl rematch opens the re...

For the first time in history,  six Costa Ricans will represent the country at the e-Sports World Championship 2016 organized by the International e-Sports Federation (IeSF) to be held in Ancol Beach City Auditorium, Jakarta, in Indonesia  from October 6th – 9th. A national competition was held to determine the winners that would travel to Jakarta to represent the country; in total 40 LOL teams...

New York, Sep 7 (EFE).- Serbian world No. 1 and top seed Novak Djokovic has advanced once again at this year's U.S. Open without playing a complete match, reaching the tournament's final four when Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga retired after losing the first two sets of their quarterfinal contest. Djokovic was leading 6-3, 6-2 Tuesday night when the ninth-seeded Tsonga grabbed his left knee once ...

A crowded National Stadium celebrated the solid win of Costa Rica’s male national soccer team over its Panamanian counterpart.  Costa Rica imposed over Panama with a score of 3-1 and classified undefeated in the first position of Group B with 16 points while Panama kept its second place with a total of 10 points. The lineup for Costa Rica didn’t include some of its main figures such as Bryan Ru...

The national soccer teams of both Costa Rica and Panama classified to the CONCACAF hexagonal last Friday with victories over Haiti and Jamaica respectively; these games are all part of Russia 2018 World Cup Qualification Matches. Costa Rica beat Haiti with a score of 1-0 while Panama defeated Jamaica 2-0.  Costa Rica vs. Panama will take place in the Costa Rica National Stadium, Tuesday September ...

The Men’s and Women’s Qualifying Series Essential Costa Rica Pro Open 3000 will take place October 5-9 in Esterillos Este beach, Parrita, Puntarenas.  This WSL (World Surfing League) event is being promoted in Costa Rica by former surf champion Diego Naranjo co-founder of the company Orange Wave. The date falls right before the start of the QS Brazilian end-of-the-year leg (October 18-25) and t...

Saturday, September 10 will be a big weekend for boxing, as two of today’s best pound for pound fighters in the world step into the ring in different fights; Gennady “GGG” Golovkin the current WBC/WBA/IBF/IBO world middleweight champion will be putting three of his titles on the line WBC/IBF/IBO, (WBA is not sanctioning the fight as his opponent has never fought as a middleweight before), when ...

New York, United States, Sep 3 (EFE).- Rafael Nadal, who has already moved to the fourth round of the U.S. Open, said Saturday he feels less pain in his wrist, due to which he was forced to pull out of the Roland Garros this year. Nadal, addressing the press after his straight sets victory (6-1, 6-4 and 6-2) over the Russian Andrey Kuznetsov, said he still feels a bit of pain but it does not li...

Costa Rica’s men’s National Soccer Team earned its place in the CONCACAF Hexagonal. La Sele defeated Haiti with one goal scored by midfielder Randall Azofeifa in the 72nd minute of the second half of their elimination game in round to the World Cup Russia 2018. Costa Rica only needed a tie to advance to the final round. They are now the undisputed winners of this phase with 13 total points. Th...

Everyday more and more Costa Rican women venture in different sport disciplines and prove that women can stand out in any field, they proudly represent the country in national and international competitions and are admired not just by their talent and ability but also because of their undeniable beauty. Granted, Costa Rican women in general are very beautiful, but I suppose there is a lot to be sa...