Costa Rica swallowed a tough pill Saturday night as the men’s national soccer team, affectionately called La Sele, lost 0-1 to Uruguay, making it nearly impossible for them to qualify for the World Cup.
The game was the first of two matches Costa Rica must play against “los charrúas” – the Uruguayan national team. Only one of [...]

The Costa Rican men’s soccer team face Uruguay on Saturday, exactly one month since the Ticos’ match with the United States that missed them a ride to South Africa.
It’s been a tough month for the Costa Rican men’s soccer team.
In their last World Cup qualifying match on Oct. 14, the Tico team, or La Sele, [...]

The Harlem Globetrotters brought their ball-spinning, high-flying, prank laden basketball spectacle to El Palacio de los Deportes in Heredia, north of San José, Sunday and the Trotamundos – as they are known in Spanish – did not disappoint.
In front of a near sellout audience, the Globetrotters dazzled the crowd with their array of hoops tricks and [...]

After 13 months of inactivity, 31-year-old former two-time IBF world champion, Luis Perez, will return to the ring against Sergio Gomez on Saturday night in both fighters’ native Managua, Nicaragua,.
Coming off of two straight losses and boasting a record of 25-3 with 16 knockouts, Perez will see action for the first time against Gomez (13-5, [...]

MANAGUA, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) — The Nicaraguan League of Professional Baseball (LNBP) Friday recognized baseball player Everth Cabrera for his performance during the last season of MLB, playing for Los Padres of San Diego.
The LNBP gave Cabrera a recognition plate at the facilities of the Produccion Bank, for being an outstanding baseball player of MLB.
LNBP [...]

The Costa Rican Women’s National Volleyball Team sailed passed Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago to qualify for the world championship in August.
But due to lack of funds, they’re not sure they can go.
The team of 12 women is waiting for the Costa Rican Institute for Sports and Recreation (ICODER) to determine if they’ll be able [...]

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) — Costa Rica kept their hopes alive of making the World Cup finals in South Africa after Alvaro Saborio scored twice in a 4-0 win over Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday.
The result moves Costa Rica into the third automatic qualification spot, two points ahead of fourth-placed Honduras, who lost 3-2 [...]

On the heels of a disappointing 3-2 loss to the Czech Republic, the Costa Rican under-20 team received good news: they were advancing to the second round of the U-20 World Cup in Egypt.
The Ticos, who finished third in Group E behind Brazil and the Czech Republic, sneaked into the final spot of the round [...]

GRANADA, Nicaragua – Penn State women’s soccer alumni Zoe Bouchelle and Kay Adami have begun an eight-month stint with Soccer Without Borders (SWB) this week.  The organization, which many in Penn State soccer are associated with, fosters youth development in soccer in third-world countries as a vehicle for positive change.
The two women’s soccer graduates, who earned the [...]

Rio Rancho High School senior Louis Trujillo, a three-time state high school champion and a three-time national champion, finished third last month in the Pan American Games in Managua, Nicaragua.
Trujillo was among 24 U.S. athletes on the Cadet level that traveled to Managua to compete August 14-16. The event featured athletes from North, South and [...]

The match was a pitchers duel throughout with winning pitcher Yulieski Gonzalez giving up a lone run in the sixth inning on a double by pinch hitter Adolfo Matamoros, and after a rain delay, an RBI single by Jimmy Gonzalez.
Cuba was held hitless for five innings on Monday by New York Yankees prospect Elvin Orozco [...]

During this past summer the women’s volleyball team took a trip to Nicaragua and affected the lives of those there as well as their own.
“We wanted to go to Nicaragua because we didn’t want to just take a trip just for the sake of taking a trip,” Chelsea Wilhoite, a member of the team, said. [...]

TOLA, Nicaragua – Nicaragua’s Pacific coastline has all the natural ingredients needed for a golf boom: there are large swaths of unused land that have been cleared by generations of cattle raising, abundant supplies of fresh water and rain, year-round sun and tropical weather, and stunning ocean views.
But man-made conditions – namely Nicaragua’s history of [...]