Second episode of Inside Israeli Basketball airs

Second episode of Inside Israeli Basketball airs this month.

Tamir Goodman: Making the rounds

Tamir Goodman finds his new grove: motivational speaker.

Shalom, Tamir

“The Jewish Jordan” announces his retirement.

“The Jewish Jordan” calls it a career

Tamir Goodman, “The Jewish Jordan,” to retire.

Whither the Jewish Jordan?

Via JTA, a video feature from NBC’s Washington affiliate on Tamir Goodman.
Why is it that any high-profile MOT basketball player is referred to as “the Jewish Jordan?” No other sport does that. You don’t hear anyone calling Braun, Youkilis, and Kinsler the “Jewish Ted Williams” or Matthieu Schneider “the Jewish Gordie Howe,” do you? Just [...]

Playing catch-up

Three-day weekends are great, but they can put a crimp the the blogging-lifestyle. So let’s see what we missed recently:

The New York Times ran a “30-second” interview with Ben Wildman-Tobriner, member of the Olympic gold medal swim team in the 400m freestyle relay and recent visitor to Israel on a Taglit-Birthright trip.
Eastsideboxing.com offers this considered [...]

Tamir Goodman’s coming to town

Sung to the tune of that holiday classic that will not be named.
“The Jewish Jordan” was signed by the Maccabi Haifa Heat Basketball Club of the Israeli Premier League earlier this year. He returns to the States as part of the “Haifa Hoops for Kids” Goodwill Tour, a series of speaking engagements and basketball clinics [...]