Doug Cohen and Marty Hogan competed in the National Masters Racquetball Association national championships last month in St. Louis. The NMRA is exclusively for racquetball players in the 45-and-over age groups. Cohen placed first in the men’s singles...

With baseball season well underway, now's a good time to consider the role of women, including Jewish women, in baseball. At both the professional and college levels, a growing number of women are now part of the sport—as players, coaches, sportswriters,...

(JTA) — Decades before Sandy Koufax sat out the first game of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur, and 18 years before Greenberg chased Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record in the late 1930s, a college athlete made some overlooked...

Just hours before entering the octagon in Charlotte, N.C., Jewish Israeli UFC Lightweight fighter Natan Levy learned that the preparation, training, and mental discipline he used to prepare for his match Saturday night against another fighter named Pete...

(JTA) — On one wall of the dining hall at the Indiana University Hillel sit 36 framed photographs of Jewish alumni who have made an impact in the sports industry, from athletes to executives. It’s the IU Jewish Sports Wall of Fame. One of those...

(New York Jewish Week) — What better way to recover from an injury than some Jewish penicillin? And that is just what former St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Harrison Bader got recently in New York. Now a New York Yankee, Jewish outfielder Bader, who...

(JTA via J. The Jewish News of Northern California) — When the Sacramento Kings face the Golden State Warriors in the first round of the NBA playoffs starting this weekend, they will be led by their Lithuanian-American — and soon-to-be-Jewish —...

(JTA) — Abby Meyers, a Maccabiah Games gold medalist and former University of Maryland basketball star, was selected 11th overall by the Dallas Wings in the first round of the WNBA Draft on Monday night. Meyers, who was involved with Jewish life...

The motto of the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School Boys Cross Country team (JDS) in Rockville, Maryland is “Nothing great comes easy," and that motto speaks volumes. You see the students at JDS are practicing Jews who must observe the Sabbath from...

A half-century ago, a young Jewish player on the New York Yankees made history for not doing something on the baseball diamond. After taking an at-bat in the top of the first inning against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, Ron Blomberg stayed on the...

(JTA) — The 2023 MLB season is almost upon us, and it has the potential to be a historic year for Jews in professional baseball. Last year, 17 Jewish players appeared in a game — a likely record. This season, the number could be even higher. The...

(JTA) — Many fans were despairing as Team Israel trailed Puerto Rico 6-0 in the World Baseball Classic last week, but the team’s Twitter account had a different message. “We will never give up,” the account tweeted. “After all, Moses was...