Surprise, surprise, Italy is the winner of Pool B. A night after pulling off one of the most shocking results in World Baseball Classic history, Italy clinched the pool with a 9-1 win over Mexico.

March 24 (Reuters) - New Zealand coach Dave Rennie has purged all but one of Scott Robertson's assistants while appointing former All Blacks skipper and Moana Pasifika boss Tana Umaga as defence coach ...

Italy finally won a match in the World Cup playoffs. Now the four-time champion needs to win one more to avoid failing to ...

Turkey, Sweden and Czech Republic qualified alongside Bosnia, but Italy will be absent for the third straight World Cup ...

The Italians beat minnows Northern Ireland to reach one of the four finals of UEFA's World Cup playoffs.

Heavy favorites Italy took a lead but then a red card and couldn't hold off hosts Bosnia and Herzegovina as Gennaro Gattuso's ...

Francisco Cervelli believes Italy won’t be sneaking up on opponents in three years at the next World Baseball Classic. “We ...

It's arrivederci, Italy, as Venezuela - boosted by a stellar bullpen performance - advanced to the World Baseball Classic Final against Team USA. Lifted by a three-run seventh inning, Team Venezuela ...

Having missed out in 2018 and 2022, a play-off win over Northern Ireland leaves Italy just one game for reaching World Cup ...

It took them six tries, a stomach-turning semifinal and a triumphant three-run rally, but Venezuela is finally going to the ...

As they say in culinary circles, we're just about down to the espresso. And that has a lot more meaning for Team Italy - with its dugout espresso machine - going against Team Venezuela in a very ...