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‘We lived a miraculous thing’: Castel di Sangro, 30 years on from their epic rise

Small town club’s Serie B adventure captivated football and inspired a famous book. That spirit remains and is being passed to their successors The WhatsApp group flickers into life at about 6am every day. It is the manager who goes first because, when you are 79, old habits die hard. “Good morning,” Osvaldo Jaconi hails […]

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NBC’s muting of boos for JD Vance at the Olympics felt like reality distortion

The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden The modern Olympics sell themselves on a simple premise: the whole world, watching the same moment, at the same time. On Friday night in Milan, that illusion

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‘A giving, giving man’: former MLB outfielder Terrance Gore dies at age of 34

Gore played for three World Series champions Outfielder was known for speed and athleticism Terrance Gore, a speedy outfielder who played for three World Series champions while spending parts of eight seasons in the major leagues, has died. He was 34. Chad Funderburk, a family friend who also worked with Gore through his baseball academy,

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