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Lest we forget: Henry Wittenberg

Lest we forget: Henry Wittenberg

Jewps: March Madness edition

Jewps Madness

Baseball: The (Inter)National Pastime

Scenes from the Sangster International Airport in Jamaica. Of course, I never actually saw or heard about any baseball being played in country.
According to baseball-reference.com, only four Jamaican-born players – Chili Davis, Justin Masterson (1-7 with the Indians last year), Rolando Roomes, and Devon White — have made it to the Majors.

Welcome back, mahn.

Mad dogs and bloggers go out in the mid-day sun…

Back to business: The next Sandy koufax?

Jeremy Bleich: The next Sandy Koufax?

A tennis lesson for the world

Editor’s note: This opinion piece by Leonard A. Cole appears courtesy JTA.
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The news out of Dubai has been rife with speculation about who assassinated Hamas terrorist commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a local hotel.  Israeli agents and al-Mabhouh’s Palestinian rivals are high on the guess list.
But amid the who-did-it debate, a [...]

Mish-mosh

Just a song before I go…

Welcome back, Mr. T

By whom I mean Tony Kornheiser, who returns from his two-week suspension.
Funny, but his absence was never explained, at least not on the podcasts I listened to in the interim. Maybe there was a crawl on the TV show (but I doubt it).
According to this piece, his ESPN TV show, Pardon the Interruption, didn’t suffer [...]

Shameless self-promotion (again)

Moonlighting

More hair-raising news

Much ado about ‘do