The Sports Analyzer

November 10, 2009

Surfing in Beautiful Costa Rica

Filed under: watersports — Tags: — umwsc @ 9:28 pm

Is surfing your “sport of choice” and you are thinking about taking a nice surf trip to Costa Rica and wondering about the roads? Well, here’s the scoop!First off, your regular driver’s license is legal—for ninety days. If you fall so in love with the surf and the culture that you decide to forget everything and stay—your license will be no good after ninety days has passed the entry date stamped on your passport. If you are like many of the dudes who go to there for a costa rica surf vacation this is a real possibility. It is becoming a must stop on many surf tour iteneries and it is also becoming a truly leading yoga retreat as well. Anyone will tell you, who is familiar with this small nation, to never leave anything valuable in your car, in plain site or otherwise. This is far truer in San Jose than almost anywhere else. It is rumored that people like to watch tourists load up their trunks at the airport. If they seem to have a lot of cool stuff, thieves can follow them to the hotel and wait for them to go inside and check in. Well, you can guess what happens then. The violent crime rate in Costa Rica is relatively low, but the “sticky finger” crime rate is conversely high. if you are there for a surf vacation, this also means not leaving your surfboard unattended at the beach.
If you decide to drive a car in Costa Rica, you will probably end up driving in San Jose. Keep in mind that street signs are often—well—not there. Many of the roads are one-way, and although on some you can see the painted white arrow pointing which way the traffic flows, on many streets the arrow has long since faded away. If you want to learn to surf in costa rica there are also various surf schools and camp as well as resort areas for your vacation. The city is laid out on a straightforward east-west, north-south grid. The Calles (streets) run north-south, and the avenidas run east-west. Trouble is, without street signs, it’s still easy to get turned around or lost.

November 7, 2009

Los Angeles Dodgers Owner Splitting with Wife

Filed under: Baseball news — Tags: — umwsc @ 9:14 pm

Have you heard some of the bizarre and sordid details concerning the owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, Frank and Jamie McCourt and their rather nasty split? Yes indeed, after some 25 years of marriage they simply cannot mend fences, unfortunately for them.

I would imagine they do not like to air all their financial laundry, like for example that they are worth around 1.2 billion bucks as well as assets valued at around another $800 million! Oh well, no injury, no foul you might say. It seems that the wife wants nearly a half million in alimony, yet far less than that if she gets the position at work back that Frank had terminated her from: CEO of the Los Angeles Dodgers. I guess that is an example of merely adding insult to injury. It does not seem like a job with a great deal of work involved since the General manager does most of the vital work like for instance player trades and salary negotiating and so on I mean, I doubt she would have need a Los Angeles work injury lawyer any time soon, except maybe for a paper cut. She appears to need funds for for make-up and hair expenses incurred while attending Los Angeles Dodgers events. Also, she requires expenses to be covered to attend postseason games, even the ones that don’t include the Dodgers.
As ana side if you need a highly qualified Los Angeles work injury lawyer then allow me to suggest Robert Mansell as he is a very good work injury lawyer indeed. Frank said that their many homes (well, only eight) were put into Jaime’s name to protect them from “significant and ongoing losses.” Just after buying the Dodgers, an agreement was drawn up whereby Frank would have full ownership of the Dodgers and their other business interests, and Jamie would get the eight houses.

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