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Marquis’ Bar Mitzvah promise

RECENTLY I had the golden opportunity to interview pitcher Jason Marquis in the Colorado Rockies dugout. I had received a call from Denver community leader Warren Toltz...

Maccabiah is more than sports

By Dina Kraft, JTA TEL AVIV —— Singing “Shalom Aleichem,” the group of Maccabiah athletes usher in Shabbat together at a brightly lit hotel dining hall, their...

Star will coach Team USA at Maccabiah

NEW YORK —— It’’s not unheard of to find Bruce Pearl, the men’s basketball coach at the University of Tennessee, somewhere in public screaming with his shirt...

Farewell, Mike Shanahan

Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008, marked the saddest day in the Denver Broncos history. The day before, it was learned that Mike Shanahan, Broncos head football coach for 14...

Profile: TV sports anchor Eric Goodman follows the action

Sports director and anchor Eric Goodman at Fox Channel 31 is representative of the high caliber of sports personalities doing this kind of work on the local scene. You...

How Friedman made football a quarterbacks? game

By David Davis, Nextbook LOS ANGELES —— A star quarterback on the New York Giants from 1929 to 1931, when the National Football League was in its infancy, Benjamin...

Chargers’ Ukraine-born Olshansky defies stereotypes

By Nisha Gopalan, Nextbook NEW YORK —— In “Knocked Up”, Seth Rogen extols Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” for so demonstratively debunking...

Israel brings its largest contingent

By Alison Klayman, JTA BEIJING —— The largest contingent in Israeli Olympic history was eyeing its biggest medal haul, with one Israeli competitor narrowly missing...

HEA-Brews win Denver Jewish softball crown

Hebrew Educational Alliance’s softball team is once again crowned champion of Denver’s synagogue softball league. Here, the winning team poses with their...

Three Jews in a pool

By Marc Brodsky, JTA NEW YORK —— For Jason Lezak, Ben Wildman-Tobriner and Garrett Weber-Gale, the marketing possibilities are endless — perhaps “The Three...