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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...
Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 21, 2021
To say the St. Louis Blues wanted revenge during Saturday night's season-opener in Colorado would be an understatement. A week shy of five months since the Avalanche swept the Blues in the 2020-21 playoffs, it was important for St. Louis to send a clear...
Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 20, 2021
It's been six days since the St. Louis Cardinals abruptly fired Mike Shildt, which came only eight days after the Cardinals were eliminated by the Dodgers in the National League wildcard game.
Easily one of the most bizarre firings in the recent memory...
There are two reasons this story needs to be told. The first is that today the legendary St. Louis Cardinals mascot Fredbird was named a finalist for induction into the Mascot Hall of Fame. Fans are encouraged to vote for Fredbird during the final voting...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 19, 2021
Congressman Adam Schiff, D- Calif., has served as a U.S. Representative for 20 years. He is the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and was previously a member of the House International Relations and House Judiciary committees....
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — On an unusually hot day in mid-October, Amar’e Stoudemire stopped by the Union Square Greenmarket to meet New York basketball lovers and burger fans alike.
The former NBA star and current Brooklyn Nets assistant...
Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 18, 2021
While the St. Louis Cardinals search for their next manager, one thing should be clear moving forward: The shortstop position must be addressed. In other words, the person playing shortstop for the next five-to-10 years isn't currently on this team.
No,...
You may or may not remember this tidbit that hit the news in 2018.
Boxer Jack Johnson, who was the first Black world heavyweight champion, received a posthumous presidential pardon after years of bipartisan efforts by lawmakers and family members to...
Super Lightweight, Cletus “The Hebrew Hammer” Seldin fights and trains out of Shirley, Long Island.
Seldin was born into a tough line of Jewish Americans; his Grandfather was the leader of the Brooklyn biker gang known as the Dragons and his father...
