Close

Six coaches from Italian American football club teams have spent valuable time this summer serving as volunteer coaches with six NCAA Division III colleges in the United States as part of the Global Football International Coaching Exchange initiative.   Global Football matched the Italian Football League (IFL) coaches with NCAA Division III...

685

by Justin Housman On Sunday, Italy's Leonardo Fioravanti, 17 years old, captured the ISA World Games U-18 Championship at the Oceanside pier. This was an astonishing feat, and not because Fioravanti is from Italy—he's been one of the best young surfers on the planet for a few years now. Fioravanti's win was surprising because he's only eight month...

449

by Tony DiZinno   Richard Antinucci and O'Gara Motorsport have bounced back in a big way from disappointment on Friday morning, with the Italian American claiming the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo North America championship after a win in the second of two races at Sebring International Raceway. Antinucci shared the No. 50 Lamborgh...

749

by Kevin Henry   While he was out of the lineup during the holidays nursing an ankle injury, Danilo Gallinari and Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone had a chat about what the forward could do better to help his team improve. The conversation has not only elevated Gallinari's game, but also pushed the Nuggets to a 95-92 decision over th...

758

If there was ever a perfect warm-weather, holiday-weekend city sport, bocce may be it. It requires only a set of bocce balls, which are traditionally made of metal but come in a plastic version these days, and a flat, rectangular space to use as the court.   The rules are complicated enough to keep the game interesting, but the skill is simp...

802

by Phil Wenzel Eastern Upper Peninsula golf enthusiasts will meet this Saturday near Sault Ste. Marie to raise money that will help some students pay for college. Tanglewood Marsh Golf Course will host the 4th annual Christopher Columbus Italian-American Society Golf Tournament, an event that began when organization members wanted to raise mo...

1014

Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo North America competitors descended on Spring Mountain Motor Resort & Country Club this week to receive their long-awaited Lamborghini Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo cars.    The Italian-crafted machines were delivered last week to Spring Mountain, a 50-minute drive from Las Vegas, where teams and d...

918

By Lindsay Crouse   Peter Ciaccia, the new race director of the New York City Marathon, may not know his marathon time (3:15? 3:30?), but he knows how to give a party. Now he will have to determine the existential course of the world's biggest marathon: Should it be more race or more social event?   Ciaccia maintains that the race is...

457

by Andrea Ziglio   Da Reggio Emilia a New York, per la precisione alla St. John's University, questo il viaggio che ha deciso di intraprendere Federico Mussini quest'estate per cambiare completamente la sua carriera e provare a vivere il suo sogno americano.   A 19 anni e dopo una stagione comunque importante in maglia Grissin Bon, co...

608

By Bill Ballou   There was an especially good crop of New England born-and-bred players in Major League Baseball this year, and Chris Colabello was the best of them. Thursday, Colabello was named the 2015 winner of the Ben Mondor Award as New England Player of the Year by the Boston Chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of Americ...

711