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  WTI Magazine #36    2014 June, 25Author : Simone Callisto Manca      Translation by:   We had the illusion, in truth more because of the strength of our history then for this limp moment of our football, but it ended the only way it could end: with an elimination in the first round, full of recriminations but, all in all, right.    

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by Kevin Rivoli   Bocce is a game of Italian origin similar to lawn bowling played on a long narrow, usually, dirt court. Players roll heavy balls in an effort to stop as near as possible to a smaller ball, called the pallino. The first player/team to score 16 point wins.   For the past 36 years, St. Anthony's Italian Festival in Sene...

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By David Barron Longtime Lamar football coach Tom Nolen was honored Saturday by the Texas Italian-American Sports Foundation at its annual scholarship luncheon.   Nolen, whose 2012 team advanced to the 2012 Class 5A Division I title game against Allen, has 255 victories at Lamar since 1985 and coached four TCIL championship teams at Strake...

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Edward James Abbaticchio was born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, on April 15, 1877. He began his athletic career in 1895 where he played football as both a fullback and kicker for the Latrobe Athletic Association. Ed became one of the first professional football players as the team was the first pro-football team in the nation. His coach, Fielding Yost,...

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The American Italian Cultural Center will be holding its 28th Annual Louisiana American Italian Sports Hall of Fame Induction Banquet on Jan. 19, 2013, in New Orleans. The banquet supports the AICC's mission to honor and celebrate contributions of Italian Americans in the sports, entertainment, medical and civic fields. At the Hilton New Orleans Ri...

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SAN FRANCISCO - It wasn't the first time an Italian had sailed from New York, around Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America, and into the San Francisco Bay. Most Italians in San Francisco have family stories of their great-grandfathers making the same arduous voyage a century and a half ago, and with much less fanfare. When Captain Giovanni...

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By Derek Harper When Atlantic City hosts its inaugural American Palio horse race in October, a delegation from the event's ancestral home in Italy is expected to be in town to ensure it gets off on the right hoof. Italian organizers are working to arrange a visit from two of the most successful jockeys in the Palio's history, said Alarico Rossi,...

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Alla ripresa dei lavori parlamentari l'on. Vezzali - al ritorno dalla maternità - e l'on. Nissoli Fitzgerald hanno avviato un percorso d'iniziative comuni - assieme al capogruppo di SC agli Esteri Mario Marazziti - per avviare occasioni di gemellaggio tra Italia e Stati Uniti con il coinvolgimento delle eccellenze sportive in favore delle comunità...

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A lawyer for the Italian team competing in this summer's America's Cup sailing regatta in San Francisco said on Monday that he is prepared to go to court over last-minute rule changes that came in the wake of a fatal training accident in May.The four teams competing for the cup have been meeting with mediators to reach agreement on 37 safety measur...

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by Mauro Battocchi   The International Champions Cup is coming to San Francisco on July 31st with an anticipated match between Turin's Juventus and Liverpool's Everton. It all goes down at AT&T park starting at 8:00PM. Get your tickets from here or here. Founded in 1897, Juventus FC is the oldest and most successful club in Italy claimi...

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