Sunday November 17, 2024 6:00 PM EST. Capital One Arena - Wizards. 601 F St NW, Washington, DC. Ciao and welcome back to Italian Heritage Night! Join other Wizards fans and the Italian community for a great night of basketball celebrating Italian culture. All tickets purchased from this specialized link will include the following benefits: Discount...

Art Rooney’s name should ring a bell. He was the man who brought sandlot football to Pittsburgh’s Northside and eventually transformed a semi-professional team into the Pittsburgh Steelers dynasty. Beginning with the Hope Harvey football team in the 1920s, Rooney was a player-coach, serving as quarterback while his brothers Dan and Jim played along...

The Friedkin Group, owners of AS Roma, have announced a new project in the USA, where they will help to redevelop the Toyota Stadium, regular home of MLS outfit FC Dallas. The Toyota Stadium is set to undergo a series of major redevelopments, which are expected to begin in 2025 and be completed by 2028. The costs are expected to total around €178m...

The BBasketteers team Amelia Tuzzolino, Marianna Angelina Delfaus, Giuseppe Sylvester, and Massimo Edwards, the four NYC based Italian-American players, just returned from Sicily with a wealth of emotions and memories. From October 3rd to 6th, they participated in the Trofeo Coni Estate/Coni Trophy Summer edition, the youth Olympic styled games org...

Rower John Salvi won nationals as a high school senior and came in 5th place at the U-19 World Championships last year. Impressive in their own right, Salvi’s accomplishments are even more significant in light of the fact that he battled brain cancer while in high school. He’s been in remission since October 2022. “The sport is massively physically...

Middleburg, Virginia, will once again welcome a piece of automotive history this October as the 1000 Miglia Warm Up USA rolls into town. From October 24 to 26, classic car enthusiasts can witness up to 40 stunning vehicles compete in a race that allows U.S. drivers to qualify for Italy’s prestigious Mille Miglia, dubbed “the world’s most beautiful...

The final day of Club Italia LA28’s stay in Tampa was truly special. In fact, the Azzurri, together with the University of Tampa baseball team, went to the Davis Islands neighborhood, severely hit by Hurricane Milton, to help families dispose of the rubble and household goods piled up outside their homes. A gesture promoted by Robert Pennino and th...

Charles Leclerc superbly won the United States Grand Prix in a surprisingly-dominant one-two for Ferrari as Lando Norris lost a crucial third place to Max Verstappen after being penalised for a late-race overtake on his F1 title rival. While Ferrari overcame the championship's top two in a supreme show of speed from the second row as Leclerc led ho...

Dear friends, We the Italians is spending October, the Italian Heritage Month, back and forth between New York, Rome and Washington DC. This is the busiest month of the year for us, and for several friends in the Italian American community. October began with a very special moment for me. As you may know, I have the honor of being the representativ...

The emotions that sport can offer are most often unattainable, because sport is synonymous with challenge, with oneself and especially with others. A basket, a goal, a point scored at the last second of a match, or an athlete's victory by a hundredth of a second in an athletic or swimming race, a sprint victory in cycling or an overtaking pass at t...