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Marvin Miller, late baseball players’ union chief who revolutionized the sport, elected to Hall of Fame

Miller led the way to free agency for players, which meant enormous growth in salaries but also in the game.

Orthodox mother of 5 may have to give up Olympic dream over Shabbat

Beatie Deutsch said news that the 2020 Olympic marathon had been rescheduled for a Saturday felt like “being punched in the stomach.”

Julian Edelman wears custom cleats to support baseball in Israel

A year ago in Pittsburgh, Edelman wore special cleats to honor the victims of the shooting attack on the Tree of Life synagogue building there.

Charges dropped against Belgian soccer fans who sang about burning Jews

Lionel Messi and Argentina’s national soccer team play to tie with Uruguay in Tel Aviv

Gabe Kapler hired to manage San Francisco Giants

BDS activists target Argentina-Uruguay soccer match scheduled for Tel Aviv

A Brazilian soccer team wore Stars of David on their jerseys as a tribute to Kristallnacht

Jewish Olympian Jason Brown now skates to music from ‘Schindler’s List’

Amar’e Stoudemire will play basketball in China

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