(JTA) — The men’s World Cup soccer qualifier games are underway, and the U.S. team has a shot at making the tournament that will take place next fall in Qatar. For those fans who have suppressed the memories — the U.S. men’s team failed to qualify...
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Hey Yeshiva University fans, your high-flying basketball team needs you to step up!
Fans showed up Tuesday night at the Max Stern Athletic Center in Washington Heights expecting a 41st straight win from the Yeshiva...
(JTA) — Gabe Kapler, the Jewish manager of the San Francisco Giants, was named the National League Manager of the Year on Tuesday.
In his second year at the helm of the Giants, Kapler guided a team with low expectations entering 2021 to a franchise-record...
David Halberstam, The Forward
• Published November 13, 2021
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On July 2, 1921, one hundred years ago, 100,000 fans elbowed their way into Boyle’s...
(JTA) — To Israelis who were around in the 1970s and ’80s, Aulcie Perry was “Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar rolled into one,” the viewer is told in the documentary “Aulcie.”
Director Dani Menkin’s portrait of the unlikely...
(JTA) — Anthony Firkser didn’t start playing football until his sophomore year of high school. That may not sound strange for the average person — but for someone who is now a professional NFL player, it’s a much later start than most of...
Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 10, 2021
With the World Series finished and the player options having been exercised or declined by teams, the time has come for free agents to run amok in the Major League Baseball Hot Stove landscape. For the St. Louis Cardinals, their sights will be set on...
(JTA) — Max Fried is having quite a month.
The Jewish star pitcher won his second straight Gold Glove Award, given to the best defensive player at each position in each league, on Sunday night, five days after he pitched the Atlanta Braves to the franchise’s...
Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 8, 2021
Matt Carpenter was the epitome of an old school baseball player: he didn't wear batting gloves and couldn't adjust to the shift, but he played wherever the team needed him. No matter where managers Tony La Russa, Mike Matheny and Mike Shildt pointed...
(JTA) – Police in Britain arrested two men for allegedly chanting offensive soccer-themed limericks at an Orthodox Jewish passenger on a flight Nov. 4.
The incident was filmed aboard a Ryanair flight from the United Kingdom to Belgium last week. Many...
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Happy Friday, dear Jewish Sport Report readers! We’ll get to Max Fried’s Koufaxian performance in the World Series, but first…
This Sunday is the 50th...
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — On Sunday, for the 36th time, Peter Berkowsky will wake up at 3:00 a.m., drive in the dark from his home in Livingston, New Jersey to Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island and set up a pre-race minyan, or Jewish prayer quorum,...
