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Baskonia forward Simone Fontecchio will be signing a two-year contract with the Utah Jazz to make his first-time jump to the NBA according to Eurodevotion. His three-year deal (until 2024) with the Basque club includes an NBA exit clause that expires in July. Fontecchio’s American representative confirmed the deal to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The...

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Jerry Pellegrini, one of the top professional boxers ever to come out of the New Orleans area, died Tuesday. He was 78. Pellegrini’s daughter Dawn confirmed his death in a Facebook post Thursday morning. Pellegrini began to fight professionally as a teenager, but that came a year after he started his other profession as a barber, which gave him the...

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Italian Olympic 100m champion Lamont Jacobs said on Saturday he had withdrawn from the semi-finals of the event at the World Championships in Eugene, OR, after continuing to struggle with a thigh injury. Jacobs, a massive underdog winner in Tokyo, has battled the injury for several weeks and looked uncomfortable in running 10.04 in his heat on Frid...

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Italian Americans have been a part of the rich fabric of Major League Baseball for over a century. Ed Abbaticchio, considered to be the first Italian American to play professionally, made his debut with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1897. His career is fascinating and worth an article of his own. Perhaps Francesco Stephano Pizzolo, who eventually ch...

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On Saturday morning in Central Park you will breathe a bit of Italy, with the third edition of the 'Italy Run', the 4-mile (6.5 km) marathon organized by the Consulate General of Italy with the contribution of the New York Road Runners (NYRR) and Ferrero North America. With 6 thousand participants who registered in just three weeks, the race is "so...

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In Italy there are beautiful places where you can spend holidays immersed in nature between incredible views. One of these is the Valle di Comano in Trentino at the foot of the Brenta Dolomites. Here you can find out where this valley is and find out what you can do during your stay. Also you will know what are the excursions not to be missed in th...

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The sea has always exerted its romantic and wild fascination. And, therefore, let's start right from Italy, where the scuba diving theory was first theorized, and explore together the best places to find spectacular wrecks. From the Elba Island to that of Lampedusa, from the coasts of Liguria to those of Puglia: Italy offers an immense treasure of ...

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The teams are registered and the forecast is excellent for the World Series of Bocce, which starts Thursday and runs through Sunday at the Toccolana Club, 1412 E. Dominick St. The 47th world series will take place after two years without the event due to COVID-19. The event typically has 100 or more Open Division teams and another 30-plus for the W...

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On the face of it, it seemed like another shock victory for Italy. But on reflection, the Azzurri’s triumph in the men’s 4x100m was a fitting end to the nation’s athletics campaign at the Tokyo Olympic Games. By that point, Italy had already secured four athletics gold medals, courtesy of Marcell Jacobs in the 100m, Gianmarco Tamberi in the high ju...

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The Padres welcomed the 16th and 17th members of the team’s Hall of Fame on Thursday evening as longtime broadcaster Ted Leitner and former CEO Larry Lucchino were inducted during a pregame ceremony at Petco Park. “This is the single greatest honor of my professional life,” Leitner told the fans before the Padres’ series opener against the Gi...

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