Category: 8. Sports
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Tel Aviv grabs 1-0 lead on Panathinaikos – Israel Sports
Maccabi Tel Aviv clipped Panathinaikos 91-87 as Bonzie Colson and Lorenzo Brown led a heroic fourth-quarter comeback to hand the yellow-and-blue a 1-0 quarterfinal series lead at the OAKA Arena late Tuesday night. Game 2 will be back in Athens on Thursday as Maccabi will look to take a commanding 2-0 lead and send…
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Maccabi Tel Aviv confident heading into Euroleague playoffs – Israel Sports
Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Killer B’s are back and better than ever, as Lorenzo Brown and Wade Baldwin have hit their stride just in time for what should be a rock ’em, sock ’em quarterfinal series against Panathinaikos, with the winner heading to May’s Euroleague Final Four in Berlin. The yellow-and-blue notched a playoff spot…
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Ramle nabs 3rd straight Israel women’s basketball title – Israel Sports
Elitzur Ramle captured the Israel women’s basketball championship after defeating Harold Lev Jerusalem 84-60, winning its third title in a row with a clean 3-0 sweep in the finals. Host Ramle came into Game 3 after just clipping the Reds 95-94 in Game 2, and it was clear from the get-go that the yellow-and-black…
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The death of Brooklyn Dodger great Carl Erskine closes a chapter in Jewish history
(New York Jewish Week) — My son is in town from California for Passover, and on Tuesday night he treated the rest of the family to a Mets game. Before the first pitch, the Mets had a moment of silence for the pitcher Carl Erskine, who died that day at age 97. Erskine was a…
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Tel Aviv routs Baskonia, into quarterfinals – Israel Sports
Maccabi Tel Aviv overwhelmed Baskonia 113-85 on Tuesday night in Belgrade to advance to the Euroleague quarterfinals, where it will play Panathinaikos in a best-of-5 series beginning next Tuesday night in Athens. Lorenzo Brown came out firing on all cylinders at Stark Arena to help give the yellow-and-blue a quick 28-15 lead after the…
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Maccabi Haifa players celebrate their goal early – Israel Sports
Hapoel Beersheba shocked visiting Maccabi Tel Aviv 1-0 at Turner Stadium in Israel Premier League action late Monday night as Antonio Sefer scored an 80th-minute penalty to hand the Southern Reds the three points. After a goalless first half, the energy picked up as the game continued on. Still, a controversial offsides call led…
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Ken Holtzman, winningest Jewish pitcher in MLB history, dies at 78
(JTA) — Ken Holtzman, the winningest Jewish pitcher in baseball history, died Sunday night at 78 years old. The MLB veteran threw two no-hitters, won four World Series rings and beat Sandy Koufax head-to-head once across 15 seasons in the 1960s and 1970s. He had been hospitalized for three weeks with heart issues, his brother…
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Rotberg, Ramle on brink of women’s title – Israel Sports
Elitzur Ramle put a stranglehold on the Israel Women’s Basketball League Championship series with a razor-thin 95-94 dramatic Game 2 victory over Hapoel Lev Jerusalem in the capital city over the weekend. Following a 99-91 win in Game 1 in Ramle, Danny Gutt’s squad knew that a victory in the second game would put…
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The Jewish Sport Report: A Jewish comedian makes his pitch for baseball history
This article was sent as a newsletter. Sign up for our weekly Jewish sports newsletter here. (JTA) — Hello, Jewish sports fans! In this week’s Jewish Sport Report, we’ve got a touching baseball story, plus big Israeli sports news and injury and contract updates from college basketball and the NHL. Let’s get to it! Jewish comedian…
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This Jewish comedian hopes to set a new baseball record
(New York Jewish Week) – On Wednesday, Eitan Levine approached the pitcher’s mound in Connecticut as the Hartford Yard Goats prepared to play the Bowie Baysox. Four days later, on Sunday, he will ascend the mound nearly 1,000 miles to the south on the home field of the Jacksonville JumboShrimp. Three days after that he’ll…