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Jewish HoF hosts program on ‘the other football’
National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame hosts soccer program.
Bits and pieces
New items on Abel Kiviat, Nancy Lieberman, and Avram Grant.
London calling
Never to early to start thinking about the next Olympic Games.
Bits and pieces
Catching up with bits and pieces of Jewish sports news.
Jumping the Nazis
A new feature film tells the story of Margaret Lambert, a German-born Jewish high-jumper who was denied the chance to participate in the 1936 Olympics held in Munich.
Maccabiah highlights
From the JTA:
Jason Lezak, making his Maccabiah Games debut, and Australian golfer Roy Vandersluis, in his ninth Games, both won gold medals.
Lezak, a seven-time Olympic medalist who eschewed the World Championships to participate in the Maccabiah, won Sunday in the men’s 100-meter freestyle in a time of 47.78. Israel took the silver and bronze: Nimrod Shapira [...]
Remembering the Israeli 11 in ‘12
According to this entry on i spy strangers, a blog that follows the doings of Great Britain’s Parliament,
A member of the House of Lords has said he is delighted that the 40th anniversary of the murder of 11 Israeli athletes during the Munich Olympics will be remembered at the Games in London in 2012.
Going swimmingly
From Swimmingsworldmagazine.com, this item about Olympic medalist Jason Lezak and his efforts to aid the US team at the Maccabiah Games.
Lezak, winner of seven Olympic medals in swimming and Maccabi USA/Sports for Israel (MUSA), the sponsor of the USA Maccabiah Team, announce today that they have partnered to create the MACCABI USA–Jason Lezak initiative. This [...]
A gentle giant takes to the Special Olympics stage
You are not likely to forget Eric Golub, even if you didn’t know he holds numerous medals and records as a Special Olympics weightlifter.
Golub — who stands six-feet, seven-inches and weighs a solid 300-plus pounds — has been involved in the sport since high school. He has participated in nine Special Olympics and has done [...]
And a yasher koach to the ‘Semitic Seven’
The National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame held its 2009 induction ceremony yesterday. Among the honorees (though not necessarily in attendance) were ESPN’s Linda Cohn; NFL trainer Ed Block; former New England Patriot Andre Tippett; writer Dick Schaap (posthumously); Olympic weightlifter Gary Gubner’ Olympic swimmer Dara Torres; and Marvin Miller, the trailblazing former executive director [...]
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