With Costa Rica goalkeeper Keylor Navas in stellar form there is no telling how far they can go in the World Cup, midfielder Celso Borges said after they reached the quarter-finals.

Borges, who blasted home the first spot kick in Sunday’s 5-3 shootout win over Greece, praised Navas for his spectacular one-handed save that kept out Theofanis Gekas’s fourth spot-kick, leaving Michael Umana to score and clinch the victory.

“I think he was born on Mars or Venus or something,” a delighted Borges said of 27-year-old Navas, who plays for Spanish La Liga side Levante and has 57 caps.

“He’s fantastic, he has given us so much. He’s a leader on and off the pitch,” he told reporters after the Ticos reached the last eight for the first time.

“With his saves we will always get second chances. He’s a great person and he deserves all this. I’ve known him for quite a long time, he’s awesome,” the 26-year-old added.

Borges said the players were aware of the reaction back in Costa Rica to their win on penalties after the game against Greece finished in a 1-1 draw after extra time, but he added that their achievement had not really sunk in yet.

“Until we get home, which I hope is not anytime soon, we’re not going to realise what we’ve done,” he said. “Right now we just see it as game, game, game, so we don’t have time to say, ‘Look what we’ve done’. We can’t fall into that comfort zone.”

While Costa Ricans celebrated, the players had already switched their attention to Saturay’s quarter-final against the Netherlands in Salvador, with Borges optimistic that they can pull off another shock result.

“Why not? It could happen,” he said. “If we work like this it could happen, but if we think we’ve done enough and just go on, we’re going to lose – Holland doesn’t forgive you in any sense. But it’s a new challenge, and it could happen.”

The ladders came, we saw, Cena conquered. The WWE put on its annual Money in the Bank pay per view on Sunday night, and there was much flesh on steel, much hand to briefcase, and many palms to faces. Here are the funniest jokes from the pay per view.

Is there a wrestler from the Netherlands who can come in an beat Del Rio at the last minute? #MITB

— Gus Ramsey (@GusRamsey) June 30, 2014

Finally, that underdog rookie John Cena gets his moment in the WWE spotlight.

— Kayfabe News (@KayfabeNews) June 30, 2014

Anyone else think Magneto would totally dominate a #MITB match? pic.twitter.com/whB4S7SiND

— Wrestling Revealed (@WR_Revealed) June 30, 2014

Think @JohnCena is gonna lose? Never give up. Except for tonight. For tonight, give up. #MITB

— WWE Creative Humor (@WWECreative_ish) June 30, 2014

I knew there was a reason I took this photo a few months ago. #MITB pic.twitter.com/fwWIpyxkJh

— Mick Foley (@realmickfoley) June 30, 2014

For the 15th time @JohnCena is champion and for the 15th time basements around the world are filled with angry cries #MITB

— WWE Creative Humor (@WWECreative_ish) June 30, 2014

How money in the bank started and how it ended #WWE #MITB2014 https://t.co/mL2RC4o4tG

— Wrestling Lad (@WrestlingLad) June 30, 2014

A panel of mental health experts has concluded that Oscar Pistorius was not suffering from a mental illness when he killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in his home last year, the chief prosecutor at the athlete’s murder trial said Monday.

Pistorius’ trial resumed after a break of one month during which a psychologist and three psychiatrists also assessed whether the double-amputee runner was capable of understanding the wrongfulness of his act when he shot Steenkamp through a closed toilet door.

The panel’s reports were submitted to Judge Thokozile Masipa, and prosecutor Gerrie Nel referred to key parts of the conclusions, noting that the experts believed Pistorius was “capable of appreciating the wrongfulness of his act” when he killed Steenkamp, a 29-year-old model.

The evaluation came after a psychiatrist, Dr. Merryll Vorster, testified for the defense that Pistorius, who has said he feels vulnerable because of his disability and long-held worry about crime, had an anxiety disorder that could have contributed to the killing in the early hours of Feb. 14, 2013. He testified that he opened fire after mistakenly thinking there was a dangerous intruder in the toilet.

Prosecutor Gerrie Nel has alleged that Pistorius, 27, killed Steenkamp after a Valentine’s Day argument, and has portrayed the Olympic athlete as a hothead with a love of guns and an inflated sense of entitlement. But he requested an independent inquiry into Pistorius’ state of mind, based on concern the defense would argue Pistorius was not guilty because of mental illness.

Pistorius faces 25 years to life in prison if found guilty of premeditated murder, and could also face years in prison if convicted of murder without premeditation or negligent killing. He is free on bail.

Pistorius was evaluated as an outpatient at Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital in Pretoria, the South African capital. He has been staying at the upscale home of his uncle.

Later Monday, defense lawyer Barry Roux called surgeon Gerald Versfeld, who amputated Pistorius’ lower legs when he was 11 months old, to testify about the runner’s disability and the difficulty and pain he endured while walking or standing on his stumps without support. Pistorius was born without fibulas, the slender bones that run from below the knee to the ankle.

At Roux’s invitation, Judge Masipa and her two legal assessors left the dais to closely inspect the stumps of Pistorius as he sat on a bench.

The athlete was on his stumps when he killed Steenkamp, and his defense team has argued that he was more likely to try to confront a perceived danger rather than flee because of his limited ability to move without prostheses. Versfeld noted that Pistorius’ disability made him “vulnerable in a dangerous situation.”

During cross examination, Nel questioned Versfeld’s objectivity and raised the possibility that Pistorius could have run away from a perceived intruder on the night of the shooting. He also said Pistorius rushed back to his bedroom after the shooting and made other movements that indicated he was not as hampered as Versfeld was suggesting.

Brazil didn’t sigh, it sobbed. A fraction of a second after Gonzalo Jara’s attempt pounded against the post and dribbled across goal to end the penalty shoot-out, a nation wept. Not out of joy or with the relief of getting past a most stubborn Chile in the pre-quarterfinals or even due to the piercing pain that the Brasileiro had felt deep in his or her chest for the preceding 140 minutes. No.

They cried, overwhelmed.

The players, especially goalie Julio Cesar, broke down, overwhelmed with the thought of living in this country over the next couple of weeks as a World Cup in Brazil chugged along without Brazil. The overwhelmed fans shed copious tears as the Selecao’s campaign and the joy it had a caused over the last few weeks flashed before their eyes. Even the embarrassed neutral wasn’t spared.

Overwhelmed with the raw and electric outpour of sentiment all around, we displayed telltale signs and twitches of blinking back our emotions — a brow rub here, a cheek scratch there. My brow and cheek were worked overtime as Eliza, an octogenarian and my landlady Rebekkah’s mother, wrapped her frail arms and wrinkled face around my shoulder and howled. “Desculpe,” an awkward Rebekkah whispered apologetically.

TEARS FLOW

The four of us — Rebekkah’s infant daughter Clarisa was also present, swaddled in a Brazil flag no less — had decided to watch the match in a central square in quiet Olinda, a former Dutch colony to the north of bustling Recife. There were about a thousand there (small change in a herd-loving country), spread over several little cafes, most of whom seemed like they had seen their share of hard times in life. Yet, when Brazil won, or to put it more accurately, when Chile lost, there wasn’t a dry eye around.

Rogerio, the owner of the cafe we were seated in, raised his megaphone to make an announcement but he lowered it almost instantly, for Julio Cesar had appeared on the wide-screen telly for a post-match interview by the touchline. “What are you going through right now?” the interviewer asked the superhero of this super-hour. It would be his only question.

Cesar didn’t utter a word for close to five minutes. He tried a couple of times, but backed out choking. Around me, Eliza bawled for a second time. “Drinks are on the house,” said Rogerio finally, when the beautiful misery that was the wordless Cesar interview had ended. His eyes matched Cesar’s in colour (red) and emotion (vibrant). So I gave him time before posing him this question: “When Brazil win, shouldn’t he, as a cafe owner, be making money instead of losing plenty?”

UNITY IN THE SELECAO

Rogerio did a Cesar on me.

For about two minutes, he gazed at the faces seated around him, all while filling his lungs with short, sniffling breaths. Then, through plenty of oral struggle, he stammered out an answer. “Because in a highly divided nation, by region, wealth and colour, the Selecao is the only uniting factor,” he said. “And because I am a romantic. I sincerely believe that if we win this World Cup, our nation will see better times.”

Despite being overcome with emotions, Rogerio picked up his megaphone, stepped out on to the streets and sang the following words in loop.

Eu sou Brasileiro, Com muito orgulho, Com muito amor.

All of Olinda chanted along, clutching their hearts and wiping their tears, when he did that.

On a personal front, that’s what made me most ecstatic. I thought I wouldn’t hear those words again. The thought of it made me muito sad. Popularised by a beer commercial in the late 80s, Eu sou Brasileiro, or, I am Brazilian, is the unofficial anthem of this nation and something that can easily pass off as the official song of this World Cup (I haven’t heard the official official song being sung even once. Pitbull who?)

SIMPLE, POWERFUL

The words are simple and the meaning is as powerful as it is reassuring (I am Brazilian and I say it with great pride and love). The tune is catchy to the point of being addictive when played in a loop. Right through the course of this World Cup, I’ve heard it in every stadium (even when Brazil isn’t playing), beachfront, cafe and bar. It’s a joyous song, bellowed out from the bottom of the singer’s belly.

But today, it was a much softer rendition, sung between stabbing sobs and flowing eyes. That’s how I’ll always remember it.

Greece captain Giorgos Karagounis retired from international football Sunday after his country’s World Cup elimination in a penalty shootout loss to Costa Rica.

Karagounis leaves as Greece’s most capped player with 139 appearances over 15 years since making his debut in 1999. He also won the European Championship with Greece in 2004.

Karagounis’ Greece fell in a shootout in the round of 16 at the World Cup in Brazil despite having a man advantage for nearly an hour following Oscar Duarte’s 66th-minute red card for Costa Rica at Arena Pernambuco.

Down 1-0, Greece equalized in injury-time at the end of the 90 minutes but couldn’t force a winner in extra time, despite launching attack after attack.

“You don’t always get such breaks in life,” the 37-year-old Karagounis said.

The midfielder said his team would still exit the World Cup with ‘our heads high.’

Karagounis said Greece was on the right path after making the second round of the World Cup for the first time, and the ‘younger guys’ would now take it forward.

“These games and experiences are a great launching pad for the future,” he said. “They will help keep the team on this level, something not always easy. We are Greece after all, we don’t have many means.”

Karagounis will wait until Monday to say farewell to his teammates, he said, as the Greeks first digest their elimination.

“These are not the best occasions,” he said soon after the shootout loss.

Greece’s goal-scorer on Sunday, defender Sokratis Papastathopoulos, paid tribute to his departing leader.

“He’s written his own story … he’s the record holder (of caps), he’s given everything for the team and had to make concessions for it,” Papastathopoulos said. “He’s left us a legacy for the future. He shouldn’t worry.”

Although Karagounis’ international career ended with the bitter disappointment of defeat in a penalty shootout at the World Cup, he can reflect on being part of the team that won the European title a decade ago against all expectations. In Brazil, he also led Greece to the second round of the World Cup for the first time.

Greece coach Fernando Santos will also leave after his contract expires on Monday. Santos said in the buildup to the game against Costa Rica that if Greece had won, a temporary clause in his contract would have become active keeping him as coach until the end of the campaign.

As it turned out, that wasn’t needed and Santos ended his time as coach by watching the shootout on a television screen inside the stadium after being sent to the stands by the referee. He said Australian referee Ben Williams ordered him off after saying he had encroached on the field at the end of extra time when he shouldn’t have.

Kane Williamson registered his seventh test century to put New Zealand in control of the third and deciding Test against West Indies at the end of a rain-affected fourth day in Barbados on Sunday.

Williamson made an unbeaten 161, his highest test score, after more than three hours of play had been lost.

“Every time you get the chance to play a knock that puts the team in a good position is always one you remember,” he said after New Zealand finished on 331 for seven, a lead of 307 runs.

“It’s always nice to get a big score, it doesn’t always happen but that what’s I’d like to do more often.”

Off-spinner Mark Craig was also four not out at the close.

The highest successful fourth-innings total at Bridgetown is 311, a score the hosts achieved against Australia in 1999, although West Indies hit 387 in a losing cause against the same opponents in 2008.

The rain forced the players off after lunch and while they managed to return after tea for five overs the bad weather intervened again and umpires Richard Illingworth and Ian Gould abandoned play with 14 overs remaining.

Williamson has anchored New Zealand’s batting throughout the series, scoring a century in the first test and a half-century in the second.

USEFUL STANDS

He has amassed 413 runs at an average of 82.60 and his partnerships with all-rounder Jimmy Neesham and wicketkeeper BJ Watling on Sunday could prove instrumental if the visitors secure victory on the fifth and final day.

Neesham, who top-scored with 78 in New Zealand’s first innings 293, notched his second successive half-century with an attacking 51 from 67 balls that included four sixes and three fours as he shared a stand of 91 with Williamson.

The 23-year-old Williamson then combined with Watling (29) for a 79-run stand.

“I think the partnerships we had along the way were able to help me out and keep me going and …go a long way to putting us in a good position,” said Williamson who surpassed his previous Test best of 135 against Sri Lanka in November 2012.

“All the blokes came out and played positively and we were able to get a rhythm quite quickly.”

The three-match series is locked at 1-1 after New Zealand won the first test in Jamaica and the hosts took the second in Trinidad.

The focus of attention now falls on New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum who must decide whether to declare on Monday morning or to continue batting.

Play is due to start 30 minutes early with a minimum of 98 overs to be bowled.