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No Rush
A new owner for the NFL Rams? No great Rush.
Bits and pieces
Catching up with bits and pieces of Jewish sports news.
Another dumb thing some sports exec said
This time, it’s Bernie Eccelstone, the 78-year-old chief executive of Formula One Management:
In a lot of ways, terrible to say this I suppose, but apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do things that I have no idea whether he wanted to do or not, he was in the way [...]
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.
Required reading: A Terrible Splendor
It sounds like a grade B melodrama, but The New York Times reviewed A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played, by Marshall Jon Fisher, in its Sunday book section this weekend.
This is the tale of Don Budge, Baron GottÂfried von Cramm, and Big Bill [...]
Tennis movie, anyone?
In celebration of Wimbledon, the Jewish Museum of Florida will host two screenings of A Perfect Match on June 28 at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. The documentary tells the story of Althea Gibson, an African-American from Harlem, and Angela Buxton, a Jewish girl from London, who overcame racial and religious intolerance to win the [...]
One sure way to ruin a good thing?
Let the politicians get involved. Former U.S. representative Martin Frost contributed these piece comparing the parallel between the current batch of Jewish ballplayers and members of Congress.
Over the past 15 years, Jewish members of the House and Senate, for the first time, have occupied a number of elected leadership positions in both the House and [...]
A new role for a former Secretary of State
At first blush, Dr. Henry Kissinger does not come across as a sports fan. Why would such an intellectual concern himself with such mundane matters? But quite the contrary, Dr. K is quite the athletic aficionado, as this column by George Vecsey of The New York Times reports.
He makes baseball comparisons as a knowledgeable American, [...]
Israel prevails, despite obstacles
In tennis, this time.
The Israeli squad reached the quarterfinals of the Davis Cup for the first time in more than 20 years as they upset host Sweden, 3-2. Harel Levy and Dudi Sela each beta their opponents in five sets.
Following the debacle in Dubai, officials in Malmo, Sweden warned that the match would have to [...]
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