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With 135 athletes competing at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, Italy bring their largest delegation to date, hoping to match, or even surpass, their historic success at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. As the first hosts of the first Paralympic Games in Rome in 1960, Italy has been represented at every Games since, with strong athletes in many spo...

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A relentless Lorenzo Sonego doo almost two years of fasting returns to win an ATP tournament final by smashing 19-year-old Alex Michelsen 6-0, 6-3 and winning the last act of the ATP 250 tournament in Winston Salem, North Carolina. For the Italian this is the fourth career title while for Italy it is the tenth ATP Tour title won by an Italian playe...

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The Wimbledon semifinalist from Carrara sat in the bar area with his family. The 69th ranked women’s player, a hard-charging right-hander from Rimini, ate in the main dining room with friends. Out in the back garden, the 31st best men’s player in the world, a rising star from Rome, chowed down with his team. It was Saturday night before the start o...

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The 40th Cleveland Challenge Cup of Bocce, took place last weekend at the Wickliffe Italian-American Club. The event brought 120 teams to Northeast Ohio to compete for more than $25,000 in prize money. The teams featured world class players from across the United States and Canada, including Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Florida and Ca...

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Multinational coffee brand Lavazza returns as the official coffee sponsor for the 2024 US Open, scheduled from 26 August to 8 September. Lavazza’s partnership with the US Open began in 2015. Additionally, Italy-based Lavazza is continuing their partnership with Jannik Sinner, the first Italian in history to become No.1 in the world of the official...

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Baltimore Ravens offensive line coach Joe D'Alessandris died Sunday morning at the age of 70, the team announced. D'Alessandris had been hospitalized for the past two weeks with what the Ravens had described as "an acute illness" that required ongoing treatment for an extended period. Ravens coach John Harbaugh said at the time that D'Alessandris h...

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Discover the untold stories and rich heritage of Italian American baseball as we welcome Joe Quagliano, Chris Vaccaro, and Carmine Gangone from the Italian American Baseball Foundation. You’ll learn how the foundation is creating a vibrant community through events like Italian American heritage nights at major and minor league stadiums across the n...

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The Columbia County Sons and Daughters of Italy #659 will kick off Italian American month on Monday, Sept. 23, when it will be hosting its 26th annual John V. Florio Columbia County Sons and Daughters of Italy #659 Golf Tournament. The event will be held at Columbia Golf and Country Club in Claverack, NY. It will be a 4-person scramble format. The...

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After a brief-but-stellar career in prizefighting, Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini has found satisfaction and success as a movie producer, winemaker, philanthropist and family man as well as Youngstown, Ohio’s, biggest booster. The world knows Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini as the formidable boxer with the charming personality who became a World Boxing Associatio...

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Cleveland’s legendary sports team owner Nick Mileti has passed away at the age of 93, according to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Italian American Mileti owned the Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Barons, and Crusaders hockey teams in the late 1960′s and 70′s. The Cavaliers released the following statement about Mileti’s passing: The Cleveland Cavaliers are...

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