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Friday, October 23, 2009

Dodgers’ owner Frank McCourt fires wife Jamie

LATimes.com

Dodgers owner Frank McCourt has fired his estranged wife, Jamie, from her position as the team's chief executive, triggering what her attorney said would be an imminent legal response.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Clippers Conquer Maccabi 108-96 at Staples

by Lee Barnathan, Contributing Writer

Chris Kaman scored 18 points to lead the Clippers in double figures as Los Angeles used its height advantage to defeat Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv 108-96 in an exhibition game Tuesday night at Staples Center.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Former Maccabi basketball executive Moni Fanan comitted suicide

HAARETZ.com

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Israeli Casspi Set for NBA Debut

by Chris Tomasson

Although he hails from Yavne, in the center of Israel, Omri Casspi is going to have a lot of American basketball fans offering to treat him like family this season.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Tamir Goodman, ‘the Jewish Jordan,’ is retiring

By Phil Jacobs, the Baltimore Jewish Times

Tamir Goodman, the former high school phenom once known as the “Jewish Jordan,” will announce his retirement from pro basketball.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Devoutly Jewish fighters hoping titles will silence critics

By Gil Shefler, JTA

Harking back to an era when Jews ruled the ring, two devoutly observant boxers are fighting to make this the best year for Jewish boxing in seven decades.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Jewish Baseball Star Kevin Youkilis Ejected for Fighting

A lot had gone on between the Red Sox and Tigers over the past two nights by the time Kevin Youkilis was belted in the back by an 89-mph pitch by Tigers right-hander Rick Porcello in the bottom of the second inning on Tuesday.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Soboroff Raises Bar for 18th Maccabiah

By Gina Lobaco

Los Angeles business leader Steve Soboroff was in a great mood as he headed off to the opening ceremonies of the Chai Maccabiah at Ramat Gan Stadium with the ebullient members of the Committee of 18. Standing at the front of an Egged tour bus, he thanked the passengers for their financial contributions and urged them to redouble their efforts for the 2013 Maccabiah. “If we can raise another dollar for every dollar we raised this time, if we can send one more athlete for every athlete we sent this time, and if we can double the number of committee members, we will be able to make the Maccabiah a world-class event on par with the Olympics.”

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Maccabiah Results: Team USA Wins 82 Medals in the First Full Week of Competition

By JewishJournal.com

Tel Aviv, Israel, July, 21 – Team USA has won 25 Gold, 26 Silver and 31 Bronze Medals in the first full week of competition at the 18th Maccabiah Games. Competition began on Sunday, July 12 and in addition to the medal count, both Jason Lezak and Andrea Murez broke Maccabiah Records in their first day of competition on July 19.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Maccabiah athletes find Jewish pride, not just sport, at Games

By Dina Kraft, JTA

Singing "Shalom Aleichem," the group of Maccabiah athletes usher in Shabbat together at a brightly lit hotel dining hall, their Hungarian, Spanish, Finnish and British accents momentarily melting into a unified chorus of Hebrew.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Maccabiah judoka’s wife dies hiking in Israel

Jewish Telegrahic Agency

The wife of a Russian participant in the Maccabiah Games fell to her death while hiking near the Dead Sea.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Memorial held for Maccabiah bridge deaths

Jewish Telegrahic Agency

More than 400 people attended a memorial service for the four Australians killed in the 1997 Maccabiah bridge disaster.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Maccabiah opening ceremony set

Jewish Telegrahic Agency

Participants in the opening ceremony of the 18th Maccabiah Games will not wear solidarity ribbons for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Olympic Gold Medalist Moves on to Maccabiah

by Marc Brodsky, Jewish Telegraphic Agency

For Jason Lezak, choosing to swim in the Maccabiah Games in Israel over the FINA World Championships in Rome this month came down to more than what happens in the water.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Jamie McCourt —From Minsk to Maccabiah

By Tom Tugend

Attention, baseball fans! When the baseball competition of the 18th Maccabiah opens on July 14 at 3 p.m. in Tel Aviv’s Sportech Tzafon, Jamie McCourt will have the honor of pitching the first ball.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Murez Siblings Poised to Share Maccabiah Spotlight

By Laura Stampler

In 2003, Zachary Murez swam in the Pan-Am Maccabi Games in Santiago, Chile. As he won 10 medals, four of them gold, his sister Andrea, then too young to compete in the games, looked on with growing anticipation, waiting for the day when it would be her turn to participate.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

SoCal Talent Dominates Baseball Picks

By Lee Barnathan

When coaches set out on a nationwide search last year to assemble the U.S. junior baseball team for the 18th Maccabiah Games, their goal was to choose the best 17 players. They couldn’t have predicted that more than half the team would be from the Los Angeles area, including five from Calabasas High School.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Jordan Farmar and the Jewish (Hoops) Future

By Brad A. Greenberg

It’s the second night of Passover, and Jordan Farmar is warming up under the bright lights of Staples Center. His teammates have already slipped into the locker room to decompress before taking the court against the Denver Nuggets. Farmar is still taking shot after shot.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

JEWBALL

By Tom Teicholz

Who knew that basketball has a storied Jewish past, or that a non-sports guy like me would ever read, no less enjoy, a book about baseball umpires, Bruce Weber’s “As They See ‘Em” (Scribner, 2009)? Maybe it’s because Passover is a time of miracles — or is that Chanukah? Or Purim? Or the entire sweep of Jewish history? No matter. We’re here to talk sports, a subject I now know a little more about.

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Artifact-rich Sports Museum opens downtown

By Robert David Jaffee

Cypres' vast sports collection, which fills 30 well-lighted galleries, is extraordinary and reflects its owner's deep love of sports history.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Local donors kick in $125K to send Jewish Indian cricketeers to Maccabiah

In response to the terrorist attack on Mumbai and its Chabad Center, three Los Angeles businesmen have put up $125,000 to enable a Jewish cricket team from India to participate in the 18th Maccabiah Games in Israel.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

‘The First Basket’ depicts journey from Ellis Island to shooting hoops

By Peter Ephross

Some still affectionately refer to the game that they and top coaches such as Red Sarachek and Red Auerbach developed -- emphasizing teamwork, crisp passing and defense -- as "Jew ball."

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Jewish pitcher smashes a grand slam

Jason Marquis became the first Jewish pitcher to hit a grand slam since 1950.

Monday, September 15, 2008

Rude Israeli Olympic medalist ticks off Chinese, Peres apologizes

By Alison Klayman

Israel’s biggest source of pride at the Beijing 2008 Olympics became its biggest blight this past week, after bronze medal-winning windsurfer Shahar Zubari called Chinese people “sh*ts” in an interview published September 5th in Israel’s Yediot Aharanot.