Jewish pitcher Max Fried has reportedly signed an eight-year, $218 million contract with the New York Yankees, the largest contract ever for a Jewish player as well as for a left-handed pitcher.
Fried, who turns 31 in January, entered the MLB offseason...
After a historic football season at BYU, Jake Retzlaff received his latest honor, placing him in the company of Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali: having his face grace an iconic box of food.
Retzlaff, the star quarterback at Brigham Young University,...
Sam Salz’s first taste of NCAA Division I football came during a kickoff — known in football as a “special teams” play.
For most football players, kickoffs are in fact routine. But if anything about the play was special, it was Salz’s presence...
As the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers face off in this year’s World Series, some recall the first time the two teams met in the Fall Classic, in 1941—a contest remembered for one of baseball’s most famous plays. But that World Series was...
BY KEVIN DEUTSCH, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published October 23, 2024
KANSAS CITY — Move over, Taylor Swift. A band of die-hard, Jewish fans of the Kansas City Chiefs are bringing a little yiddishkeit — and lots of girl power — to Chiefs Kingdom.
Across St. Louis County on game days, these Jewish women of all ages...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 17, 2024
A golf trip to Bandon Dunes in Oregon or The Belfry in England means booking tee times many months in advance, making travel plans and a hefty budget. Or you could play those two golf courses virtually for the cost of a dozen Titleist Pro V1 balls. That’s...
As the NHL drops the puck on the 2024-2025 hockey season, Jewish fans will have plenty to root for.
The season officially began last week with a pair of games in Prague between Jack and Luke Hughes’s New Jersey Devils and Devon Levi and Jason Zucker’s...
When basketball superstar Stephen Curry sunk a series of three-point shots to help Team USA clinch the Olympic gold medal in Paris this summer, it’s unlikely the four-time NBA champion was thinking about Abe Saperstein.
But as a new biography of...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 30, 2024
The St. Louis Cardinals on Monday, Sept. 30 announced that Chaim Bloom will succeed John Mozeliak as president of baseball operations following the 2025 season. Bloom, who is Jewish, has worked for the Cardinals as an advisor since January 2024.
Bloom...
For as long as Rabbi Jeremy Fine has been alive, he’s been a fan of the Chicago White Sox. This Opening Day, he hoped that his team would provide a welcome diversion from what has been an excruciating year.
Alas, this was not the season.
“It...
Three years after pulling off an upset to win gold in his Paralympics debut, Jewish table tennis star Ian Seidenfeld, the nephew of St. Louisan and Jewish Family Services CEO Miriam Seidenfeld, earned a bronze medal in Paris on Thursday.
Seidenfeld,...
(JTA) — Israeli swimmer Ami Dadaon won a gold medal Friday in the men’s 100-meter freestyle S4, his third career Paralympic gold medal and Israel’s second in as many days in Paris.
Dadaon, 23, finished the race with a time of 1:20.25, finishing...
