At Wrigley Field, Orthodox vendors going the way of Cubs wins
For decades, hundreds of Orthodox Jewish youngsters plied concessions at Wrigley Field in something of a rite of passage. Is this longtime Chicago tradition about to end? More ▸
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Israel-born sculptor Omri Amrany carves out niche in American sports
Retiring Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera is the latest in the pantheon of all-time greats to be immortalized by Omri Amrany — who knows little about baseball or many other American sports. More ▸
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Ryan Braun suspended for remainder of season
Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun was suspended for the remainder of the season for violating Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Agreement. More ▸
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Israeli women’s lacrosse team vows to lay down sticks for Sabbath
Israel’s women’s lacrosse team, in contention for a world championship, is prepared to forfeit the gold medal game rather than play on the Jewish Sabbath. More ▸
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Gabe Carimi traded: ‘The Bear Jew’ is no longer a Chicago Bear
By Ami EdenIt was just about a year ago when Chicago sports fans could kvell about having a Jewish third baseman (Kevin Youkilis) and a Jewish offensive lineman (Gabe Carimi). But in the end Youkilis spent less than a season with the White Sox before heading this past winter to the Yankees. And now… the Chicago Bears… More ▸
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Is baseball’s opening pitch just a shtick?
By Adam SoclofThe New York Times notes the practice of adding opening pitches as a marketing ploy; but that’s not exactly why FDR pitched twice in 1940. More ▸
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Jewish kid pretends to be umpire at Orioles-Blue Jays game
By Ami EdenWatch what happens when Baltimore Orioles outfielder Nate McLouth dives into stands to make the catch at a game in Toronto. More ▸
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Nick Saban’s Alabama legacy: 3 BCS titles, a whole bunch of Jews
By Ami EdenTom Van Riper makes the case in Forbes that Nick Saban is worth the mega-millions he is paid to coach football at the University of Alabama. And that’s before you talk about the explosion of Jewish life on campus. More ▸
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Jason Segel played high school basketball with Jason Collins
By Jana BaninYesterday Jason Collins made news–and history–as the first active NBA player to come out. Nothing especially funny or Jewish about that, right? Wrong. Turns out when Collins was a Harvard-Westlake Wolverine he had a very funny, very Jewish teammate: Jason Segel. In the flurry of reporting that followed the breaking of the Collins story, Sports… More ▸
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Neil Diamond’s sweet gesture to the city of Boston
By Uri FintzyThe people of Boston want to forget everything about last week. The week began with the tragic terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon, taking the lives of three people, and ended with the capturing of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the bombing suspects on a suburb street during lockdown. But the people of Boston, especially those… More ▸
