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Lorenzo Boselli will never forget being first in line to kick in the penalty shootout for Syracuse University at the NCAA men’s soccer Division I national championship game in December. Boselli, a midfielder, had played the first 90 minutes but sat out the extra time. It was a cold winter day, his body was cooling down and the opposing team, Indian...

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Sofia DiProfio, a senior at Arthur L. Johnson High School in Clark,  joined over 140 female student-athletes on Feb. 12 in celebration of the 37th Anniversary of National Girls and Women in Sports Day (NAGWS).  NAGWS is recognized in all 50 states to honor the success of female athletes and recognize the struggle for equality for women in sports. E...

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The World Baseball Classic's relaxed rules for country affiliation have created a few interesting pairings, including Lars Nootbaar and Japan, Marcus Stroman and Puerto Rico, and even Tommy Edman and Korea. In a tournament loaded with prominent names, one former major-league star is using the rules to his advantage and looking to make his pitch for...

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It'd be hard to find many more iconic figures in all of Americana than Rocky. There have been, what feels like, 100,000 movies made about him. The Rocky Steps in Philadelphia are one of the top tourist attractions along the East Coast. Everyone can do a Sylvester Stallone impression of the famed boxer. Although most of what he does in the films is...

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After a phenomenal opening weekend, Grinnell College's Emma DiGiacomo-Zahller '24 has received recognition from the Midwest Conference. DiGiacomo-Zahller, a utility player from Arvada, Colo. (J.K. Mullen), was named the league's Position Player of the Week after batting .667 with a 1.000 on-base percentage in four games at the Rochester Dome Tourna...

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For Anthony Rocchio, human encounters and connections were more than an opportunity to forge new friendships. They were a cause for celebration. Rocchio’s natural gift for engaging others and wanting to learn about them brought him his greatest joy in life, says his family. “He celebrated other people and their lives,” said his oldest daughter, Ann...

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For the first time in his life, Vinnie Pasquantino slept through an alarm. This was in November, and Pasquantino and his fiancée, Ryann, were in Italy on a trip that Team Italy manager Mike Piazza organized before the World Baseball Classic. It was a trip he called “Mission Classic,” bringing some of the American players with Italian heritage ove...

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“It’s all about baseball in Nettuno,” former player Giampaolo Faccendini said in the "City of Baseball" documentary. “I don’t know why, it’s something in the air. In the water.” When you think of Italy, baseball probably isn't the first thing that comes to mind. There's pizza, there's pasta, there's wine, there's Rome, there's soccer, there's...

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The European Indoor Athletics Championships in Istanbul have recently concluded, where the Italian national team collected 6 medals with 2 golds and 4 silvers, was 4th in the medal table (third in the number of medals won) and placed 27 athletes in the finals (including the relay) out of the 49 who took to the track. Three Italian records and two b...

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Fantastic feat by Davide Ghiotto who became world champion in the 10,000-meter speed ice skating event. This is a historic achievement for the Italian long blades because no Italian skater had managed to win a gold medal at the World Championships single distance. Ghiotto, in recent days rainbow silver medalist in the 5,000 and last year in Beijing...

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