Join us for our2013 Golf Tournament !Last year's tournament was a huge success! With the help of our Sponsors and Players, we raised over $10,000!!! The proceeds helped L'Italo-Americano recreate a new product open to a new readership. Thanks to you, we created a new, user-friendly website, so you can access the news whenever you want; we gathered...

On June 30, 2014, the IACC will host the Annual Golf Outing in support of Operation Smile at Hackensack Golf Club in Oradell, New Jersey. In 2013, the Cham-ber was able to make numerous donations to Opera-tion Smile, and we hope to continue this initiative through 2014. The IACC Golf Outing will give you the opportunity to demonstrate your support...

On June 21, 2015 Gleason's Gym celebrates the influence boxing has on Italians and Italian-Americans from the 1900s to today. It was in 1937 that Peter Robert Gagliardi decided to open up a boxing gym that would later create history. Because he lived in a predominantly Irish area of New York, Gagliardi changed his name to Bobby Gleason to gain...

Soccer via the World Cup is making the headlines this past month. Recently, in column for in the Clarion-Ledger, Ann Coulter helped it along when she linked the growing popularity of soccer to "moral decay" in the United States. I thought it was a funny column, a tongue-in-cheek stab at the definite media hype around this increasingly (albeit quadr...

Wembley Stadium faces a threat to its status as the NFL's go-to stadium for matches abroad after Roma president James Pallotta declared his desire for Roma's new stadium to host NFL and NBA matches. The Stadio della Roma, based on the Tor di Valle site, will help turn the Italian club into "a content company globally," which is Pallotta's long-ter...

Lauren Rappoli has always been an extremely gifted athlete. But what made her such an elite athlete is she took that God-given talents and worked absolutely relentlessly on becoming the best she could no matter the sport. Name it – softball, soccer or basketball, she can play.   She proved that during her tremendous four years of athletics a...

by Scott Keeler   Thanks to the Italian-American Club of Greater Greenville, a sport whose ancestry dates back to games of the Roman Empire is now offered to the local public.   A pair of bocce ball courts have been installed at Simpsonville City Park. While they've been in place for a few months, the unofficial opening of the courts...

New York and baseball's Yankees, it's a love affair that might've ended in some recrimination in the previous fall, but in spring, hope does spring eternal, and the Yankees become the main game in town. The Yankees, who start their 114th MLB season on April 1 on the road, launch their home opener on April 7. Fans have a passionate love-hate relati...

AC Cugini is committed to working with every family to make this opportunity available to all qualified players on our travel teams or recreational teams. We never turn away any child due to a family's inability to pay fees. Scholarships are available to players who are residents of Fairfax County and have illustrated financial need.   Assis...

by Hugh Merwin   Manuel Mainardi, a co-founder of the production company Creative Chaos, has been serious about bikes for 15 years and racing them for five. After he was temporarily sidelined by a motorcycle accident a few years back, he began to draw out plans for a shop where "people could come in to sit down and play cards, or stand up at...