(JTA) — Tyler Herron, a former major league baseball prospect who pitched for Team Israel during their Cindarella run in the 2017 World Baseball Classic, died this week at 35.
No cause or exact date of Herron’s death have been reported. Several...
Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 28, 2021
Do you worry about the past or keep your eyes focused on the future?
That's the question for the St. Louis Cardinals when their shortstop search hits the desk of Carlos Correa this winter. While the Houston Astros shortstop is blasting his way through...
The St. Louis Blues are off to their best start in franchise history, and one of the reasons is kind of a secret. Word has it, that several Blues players have been sneaking out of the locker room in between periods, stealthfully getting to Portal 12 where...
When 6-year-old Emily Kantrovitz picked up a tennis racket for the first time, it did not take long before her parents and coaches began to see something special in that swing. As a child, she started playing with lower compression tennis balls...
Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 26, 2021
All I could remember was being in instant shock at the news. Coming off Brentwood Field during a softball game on Oct. 26, 2014, someone uttered a terrible combination of words: "Oscar Taveras died."
The first thing that settles into the cerebellum...
(JTA) — The World Series is upon us, and there are likely more Jewish players in this year’s edition than there have been in decades.
The American League champion Houston Astros, who ousted Chaim Bloom’s Boston Red Sox last week, feature star...
Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 25, 2021
Eleven days after the St. Louis Cardinals fired Mike Shildt, they have officially found his replacement in Oliver Marmol. Already the youngest manager in the Major Leagues, Marmol is the third in-house managerial hire for the team in the past decade.
Ten...
(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — For JoAnn Mason Parker, playing pool comes just as naturally as handling a knife and fork.
“You’re not going to drop it, because you know what you’re doing,” the former child prodigy...
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(JTA) — Twelve-time NBA All-Star Dolph Schayes is the only Jewish player on the NBA’s 75th Anniversary Team, a list created by a panel including legendary players, coaches and executives.
Billed as a list of the league’s all-time great 75 players...
Jordan Palmer, Digital Director
• Published October 21, 2021
There’s nothing that can compare to the feeling of winning a state title as a high school athlete. Add to that, being the first one from your school to win in your sport, and you can only imagine what Ellior Rose is feeling right now.
Rose, a...
(JTA) — The 2021-2022 NHL season is underway, and there are some pretty exciting updates for hockey fans.
There’s the new team the Seattle Kraken (yes, named after the huge sea monster from Scandinavian folklore), and the fact that NHL stars will...
