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Roberto Mancini will stay on as Italy coach despite the team’s failure to qualify for the World Cup again. Italy, which won the European Championship only eight months ago, lost to North Macedonia 1-0 in the playoffs on Thursday and will now miss a second straight World Cup. The previous failure led to the dismissal of coach Gian Piero Ventura and...

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April 14, 2022 — 7 p.m. EST. Zoom Webinar (Register Here). Join us for a conversation with Lawrence Baldassaro, author of “Beyond Di Maggio” and “Tony Lazzeri,” and Richard Johnson, curator of The Sports Museum of New England since 1982 and author of 25 books, including histories of the Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics, Patriots, Boston Braves, Boston Gard...

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Bruno Sammartino is the longest-reigning World Champion in the history of WWE. Sammartino is considered one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. The legendary Italian sold out the Madison Square Garden a record 188 times. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013. Wrestling journalist Bill Apter spoke about the time when Samm...

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Baseball is biblical.  It acts out our desire to make our way back home, to get back to the Garden of Eden.  So pointed out literary scholar, then President of Yale University, then Baseball Commissioner, A. Bartlett Giamatti in Take Time for Paradise (1989): “It is the story . . . of going home after having left home, the story of how difficult it...

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Even during the ongoing crisis, the Ukrainian athletes are out there, trying to give their best in the world of sports. Many Ukrainian athletes are performing at the World Athletics Championships in Belgrade.However, there are several athletes who could not make it to the World Championships. However, the Italian athlete Gianmarco Tamberi had a uni...

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Charles Leclerc won the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday as Ferrari claimed a one-two after a dramatic ending to the first race of the new season. Leclerc had started in pole position after an impressive qualifying and, after a battle with reigning world champion Max Verstappen, looked to be cruising to victory. That was until a safety car was deployed...

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Italy's Olympic 100m champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs won a gold medal in the men's 60m race at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade on Saturday. Jacobs edged ahead of defending champion American Christian Coleman, by three thousandths of a second, to set a new European record with a time of 6.41 seconds. American Marvin Bracy took br...

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All over the world there are famous sports techniques invented by some athletes, such as the high jump with dorsal overrun invented by the Portland (OR) athlete Richard Douglas "Dick" Fosbury. Italians, always recognized as a people of geniuses, thanks to the countless inventions of every kind that they have realized during the centuries, have left...

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Cycling is one of the best ways to explore a country: it's fun and healthy, it allows you to enjoy towns and landscapes fully, it's economical and, above all, environmentally sustainable. Definitely, travelling by bike is a great alternative to the hectic commute that we often impose on ourselves during a trip of just a few days! Cycling has never...

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Italy's Federica Brignone on Thursday won the Super-G world cup after coming 19th in the last race of the season in the speciality at Courchevel in France. She was assured of overall victory before the start. Brigone also came third in the overall World Cup standings for all disciplines behind Mikaela Shiffrin of the USA and Petra Vlhova of Slovaki...

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