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With less than a month to go for Team Italy before the start of 2023 World Baseball Classic Group A action in Taichung, Taiwan, Azzurri manager Mike Piazza leads a promising squad of players to success. 20 teams are participating in the 2023 World Baseball Classic, which begins on March 8, 2023 and finishes on March 21, 2023 in Miami.  Team Italy p...

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Italy is organising two special golfing events in Rome and Milan this weekend in preparation for hosting the Ryder Cup later this year for the first time. The first event in the "Road to Rome 2023" programme, designed to let people discover golf and to promote the sport, will be held in Rome's Villa Borghese, on Via delle Magnolie, and in Milan's P...

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A puff of snow flicked up into my face as yet another pint-sized skier nonchalantly glided past where I sat struggling to untangle myself from what was the latest in a succession of ungainly falls. Somewhere further down the slope – if indeed it could be called a slope – my two young children continued to revel in their latest snowball fight. My wi...

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My late father bought me a Joe Montana jersey when I was a boy. Home red with white stripes. I don't remember when he gave it to me, or why, but I'll never forget the way the mesh sleeves felt against my arms. The last time I visited my mom, I looked for it in her closets. She said it'd been put away somewhere. On trips home I half expect to still...

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Italy have two gold medals from two women's events at the 2023 Alpine World Ski Championships after Marta Bassino clinched the Super-G crown in Méribel, France, on Wednesday. Two days after Federica Brignone took the combined title, Bassino produced a brilliant run – notably in the lower sections of the Roc de Fer slope – to top the event. In cold...

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Italy's Federica Brignone won the combined event at the skiing world championships at Meribel Monday. It is Italy's first gold at the championships at the French resort, and Brigone's first world championship gold. The 32-year-old from Milan took the gold ahead of Swiss Wendy Haldener, silver, and Austria's Ricarda Haaser, bronze. US superstar Mika...

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Willie Pep, a defensive wizard who was arguably the best pound-for-pound pugilist in boxing history (ranked #5 on ESPN’s 50 Greatest Fighters), could bob, slip and weave past hundreds of punches per match, giving him the edge he needed to win 229 out of 241 fights from 1940-66. Pep, aka Guglielmo Papaleo — a two-time world featherweight champion, w...

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All roads leading to Rome, it was perhaps inevitable that the Ryder Cup, golf’s most prestigious event, would eventually swing by the Eternal City. But when the biennial event’s 44th edition, the first in Italy, gets going at Rome’s newly redeveloped Marco Simone Golf & Country Club this September, the US and European teams won’t just be competing...

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Cus D’Amato, arguably the greatest boxing trainer of all time, produced three world heavyweight champions: Floyd Patterson, Jose Torres, and Mike Tyson. No one else achieved such success. A pugilistic genius, Cus used the values from his Italian heritage to change the lives of many troubled kids. The Beginning Constantine “Cus” D’Amato was born in...

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Francesco Bonvini is taking the next step in his baseball career by playing at the College of Staten Island on a scholarship. A previous recipient of an Italian American Baseball Foundation scholarship, Bonvini, an Italian native from Parma, is living out his dream of playing baseball in America. He played last season at Kingsborough Community Coll...

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