SubscribeArchive for February, 2009
More international tennis bloopers
As Harvey Araton predicted, Israel and Sweden will play their David Cup matches in an empty arena. According to a Feb. 24 item from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Swedish organizers … cited security concerns for the empty-arena policy when the national tennis squads compete March 6-8 in the southern city of Malmo, cbssports.com reported. Anti-Israeli [...]
Another honor for Montclair soccer star
Yael Averbuch, a senior soccer player at the University of North Carolina, has been chosen as the 2009 Marty Glickman Outstanding Jewish Female Scholastic Athlete of the Year by the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Averbuch, who led the Tar Heels to the 2008 NCAA championship, will be playing professional soccer for the Sky [...]
A few minutes with Jeff Rosen
Some 10,000 basketball fans crowded into Tel Aviv’s Yad Eliyahu Arena on Feb. 18 to witness the battle between Maccabi Haifa Heat and Hapoel Holon, two Cinderella teams who came out of years of dormancy to compete for the Premier League title. The Heat, which is owned by former New Jersey resident Jeffrey Rosen, made [...]
A religious POV on the Dubai tennis tournament
Rabbi Yaakov Salomon offers a Halachic take on the tennis situation in this video from AISH.com.
Taking The Express
The Express, the biopic of Ernie Davis – the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy — is now available on DVD. The blurb from DVDTown.com notes that While attending Syracuse, Davis was a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity, a nationally recognized Jewish fraternity. He was the first African-American to become part of [...]
“But he was such a quiet man…”
Josh Borenstein over at Jewsinbaseball posted this interesting entry on Jews who have been ejected from Major League games.
Coming (relatively) soon to a bookstore (perhaps) near you
Howard Megdal, author of The Baseball Talmud, is taking his book and going on the road. Here’s a list of his whistle stops as of today: Sunday April 5, 2 p.m. Borders, Ramsey, NJ Tuesday April 7, 7 p.m. Suffern Free Library, Suffern, NY Thursday April 16, 7 p.m., Book Revue, Huntington, NY Sunday April [...]
Whither Adam Greenberg?
According to a report on ESPN.com on Monday: REDS KEEP OUTFIELDER’S DREAM ALIVE Four years ago Adam Greenberg, then a Cubs rookie, was hit in the head on the first pitch of his only at bat in the major leagues. Greenberg suffered a concussion and persistent vertigo after being hit by Marlins southpaw Valerio de [...]
Yasher koach, Andy Roddick
Andy Roddick has announced he will not play in the men’s side of the Dubai tennis tournament to protest the exclusion of Shahar Pee from the women’s competition. Tony Kornheiser praised the action on yesterday’s Pardon the Interruption. “This is a political stand which is something that very few athletes take, and I will happily [...]
And birthday greetings to Arnold Roth
One of the legendary illustrators turns 80 on Wednesday. Roth is instantly recognizable to anyone who’s ever passed a newsstand. His work has appeared in dozens of magazine over the years, from The New Yorker to Playboy to Scientific America, to name but a few. Most recently, his Oscar-themed picture graced the cover of The [...]
