Costa Rican surfer Noe Mar McGonagle impressed judges Wednesday with a pair of stellar rides, including a near-perfect backhand run at the Allianz Billabong Pro...
Robert Isenberg offers the reader a kaleidoscopic view of Costa Rica. He takes them on unusual museum visits, participates in drunken carnivals, tears down the dusty veneers of once-proud cities like Puerto Limón, speaks to young women who have been physically abused and, like most U.S. youths who visit Costa Rica, takes the required surfing lessons.
Little by little, Costa Rican football is getting its groove back. First it was the needed win over Uruguay earlier this month at home. And now its the arrival of new blue uniforms that the men's national team will wear on Oct. 8 against South Africa.
Eduardo Li was ordered extradited to the United States on Tuesday, according to Swiss authorities, though he's expected to appeal the ruling. The decision is just the latest blow to FIFA and its embattled chain of officials.
In a statement on his official Facebook page, former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner said he was nonplussed by the ban, which came four years after he was removed from office.
A 25-year-old Brazilian mayor who reveled in posting glamorous pictures of herself on social media and who is suspected of embezzling from the town coffers has surrendered after vanishing for more than a month.
The Swiss Justice Ministry on Tuesday approved the extradition to the United States of Costa Rican national Eduardo Li, one of the FIFA officials whose arrest in May ignited an unprecedented crisis in world football.
