Category: 8. Sports
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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…
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Mac TA holds Mac Haifa in Clasico draw – Israel Sports
The Israel Premier League championship playoffs took center stage this week with a Clasico at Bloomfield Stadium as the relegation playoffs took the week off. Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa drew 1-1 as the yellow-and-blue inched closer to the Israeli league championship with a split of the points. Eran Zahavi gave Robbie Keane’s…
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Barca snaps Mac TA’s Euroleague streak – Israel Sports
Maccabi Tel Aviv’s six-game Euroleague winning streak came to a halt over the weekend as the visiting yellow-and-blue fell to Barcelona 92-89 in dramatic fashion. In what was a back-and-forth game throughout, Nicolas Laprovittola drilled home a go-ahead triple with five seconds left, while Wade Baldwin came up short with his last-gasp attempt to…
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The Jewish Sport Report: Did Germany accidentally allow a Nazi symbol on its national soccer jersey?
This article was sent as a newsletter. Sign up for our weekly Jewish sports newsletter here. (JTA) — Happy Friday! This weekend, all eyes will be on the March Madness Final Four — the women’s tournament continues tonight and the men play tomorrow. If you haven’t been watching, now’s the time to tune in. But here…
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Germany will redesign the numbers on its national soccer jersey after realizing they look like a Nazi symbol
(JTA) — The new line of German soccer jerseys by Adidas will be redesigned after customers realized the stylization of the number 44 resembled the infamous Nazi SS lightning bolt symbol. The German Football Association, or DFB, shared in a statement Monday that the number designs had been submitted to the Union of European Football…
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State Cup surprises galore in quarterfinals – Israel Sports
Israel State Cup play took center stage this week in the local basketball world as the quarterfinal field was narrowed down to the Final Four, which will take place in May. Not only were there some stunning results and surprises on the court, but Hapoel Tel Aviv also parted ways with head coach Danny…