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Jewper Bowl: Nate Abrams of the Green Bay Packers
Jewper Bowl: Nate Abrams of the Green Bay Packers
Ringside Report: Salita by KO in 3
Salita wins again!
Chass on another Miller rejection: To Hell with the Hall
Veteran Murray Chass speaks on behalf of all those fans out there who can’t believe the Hall of Fame once against failed to vote in Marvin Miller, the ballplayers’ labor leader who help bring about the era of free agency. As yet another Hall concoction of a committee was selling and voting Miller short – [...]
Souvenir NHL yarmulka? That’s a kipa.
This item comes courtesy Rabbi Jason Miller. It’s become expected that there will be some sort of a giveaway at sports events. Fans leave the stadium or arena with everything from posters of the star player to bobble-heads and t-shirts. Every once in a while, a team gets a little more creative. And that’s exactly [...]
Baseball 2010: Where did the time go?
Thanks to Dr. William Kolbrener, author of the forthcoming book, Open Minded Torah, for the clip. We ran this guest column by him a couple of years ago. He occasionally writes about sports on his blog as well (here’s another sports-related entry).
Mantle who?
With Jane Leavy’s new bio of Mickey Mantle nestled in the cleanup spot on The New York Times‘ non-fiction best-seller list, Dr. Stanley Teitelbaum sent in this personal anecdote on the connection between the Yankees’ superstar and a Brooklyn Dodgers’ “wannabee”: In 1951 during his rookie season Mantle was getting enormous publicity from the media [...]
People of the (rule) book
Editor’s note: The NBA season gets underway tonight with three games. In preparation for the event, Rabbi Joshua Hess, who blogs at FANaticrabbi.com, contributed the following column. A Religious Perspective on the New NBA Technical Foul Rule The NBA believes that, in recent years, its players have been harming their brand of basketball with excessive [...]
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The annual Sandy Koufax/Yom Kippur lovefest
Guest review: Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
Guest column: Sam Bernstein on “Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story”
Guest column: “Anything you can Jew, I can Jew better.”
“Anything you can Jew, I can Jew better.”
