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Trying to catch up after the long weekend. * A perfect example of “it ain’t over ’til it’s over.”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmWMnfUcpxg * Jason Marquis, the anti-Koufax? On the one hand, it’s not like the Nationals are in a post-season push, so he could conceivably skip the start and pitch the next game. Who would he be [...]
Jews and sports: What’s the big deal?
So asks Rob Eshman in this piece. Better to be a mensh, but a champion-caliber athlete and a mensh? Way cool.
Is Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) the next JML?
Bits and pieces
Bits and pieces: links to further reading about Jews and sports.
Yasher koach, y’all
Hats off to Perry Schwartzberg and Marc Auerbach, who will be inducted into the Ronnie Arrow Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, Class of 2009 on June 14, at the Jewish Community Center in Houston. Schwartzberg “has achieved championships in table tennis, beginning as a preteen at 12 when he held the Texas State Junior Singles [...]
Memo to self: Do not give this as a bar mitzva present
From Frumsatire.net: But beyond all of my memory [sic] stand one memory and it holds true for almost everyone I know. “Great Jews in Sports” was that one gift that I received multiple copies from people too cheap to give me cash yet too stupid to figure out that every other secular Jewish person would [...]
