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Napoli are on the verge of becoming the new kings of Italy's top football league, the Serie A, as Luciano Spalletti's side storms its way to the title. The club from Naples has dominated the Italian top-flight division in 2022/23, leading the way since September, as they look to make history at their Stadio Diego Armando Maradona this season. A tit...

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Boston and the State of Massachusetts have always been fundamental in American history but also in the narrative of Italian emigration and presence in the United States. Our guest today is one of the most important figures in the Italian American community in the Bay State, where he has also been our new Ambassador for a few weeks. Tom Damigella we...

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Anthony Rizzo began the season with no sour grapes: Each of his New York Yankees teammates found a blue box at his locker on Thursday morning before the season opener, most with the player's name embossed in gold. Rizzo purchased 26 boxes, each with two bottles of wine from the Il Cellese winery in Castellina in Chianti, Italy, near Siena. Rizzo vi...

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On the snow-covered summit ridge overlooking the Italian village of Gaver, the bright red bullwheel looks like a relic from a bygone industrial age. This giant pulley was once the top of a busy ski lift, its path still visible beneath the line of rusting steel pylons running down the hillside. But the last time anyone queued to ski here was a decad...

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The Senior Games are happening across the Coast and this morning, seniors competed in a bocce ball tournament. The Senior Games offer senior citizens an opportunity to participate in athletic events to enhance their quality of life and result in a healthy lifestyle. The game also offers a social network for participants to develop friendships and s...

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If you need a little inspiration today, meet 90-year-old marathoner Antonio Rao, from Rome. At the 2023 Rome Marathon on March 19, Rao became the fastest 90+ man in history, finishing the marathon in six hours and 14 minutes to break the M90 world record by a staggering 30 minutes.  Living to age 90 is amazing on its own, but Rao is pushing the lim...

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Special Olympians were joined by coaches, City officials, contractors and business officials this afternoon (March 17) for the official groundbreaking ceremonies for the Special Olympics Bocce Complex. The facility will be located off Mount Rushmore Road near the parking lot of the old Memorial Park tennis courts. Various groups held official dirt-...

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Italy's Irma Testa won the gold medal at the Women's World Boxing Championships in New Delhi, India, in the featherweight (57 kg) category. Testa, who is 25 years old and was born in Torre Annunziata, Campania, Italy, won the gold after beating Kazakhstan's Karina Ibragimova in the final by a score of 5-0. In 2021, at the Tokyo Olympics, she had wo...

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While the strength of Italian and European basketball continues to make leaps and bounds compared to the global competition, when he was growing up in the Italian town of Graffignana in the 1980s and 90s, veteran Boston Celtics forward Danilo Gallinari was not exactly awash in a sea of high-level basketball. But he has fond memories of that part of...

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Sky Racing World today commenced the simulcast distribution of Italian racing across North America with live Harness racing action from Milan. This historic moment also benefits from the commingling of pari-mutuel wagering B-pools, facilitated by Sky Racing World, via Premier Gateway International (PGI). As previously announced, Sky Racing World an...

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