A U.S. basketball coach who advertised over Israeli television that he was looking for a wife at last month’s Maccabiah Games said he is maintaining e-mail contact with about four or five of the women he met in Israel. Todd Schayes, 36, told The New York Times that he received more than 5,000 phone calls after his search for a woman received widespread media attention.
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