LOS ANGELES — One hundred and sixty three days ago, the Los Angeles Dodgers huddled inside the visitor’s clubhouse at Wrigley Field, commiserating over their playoff defeat to the Cubs and pledging to return to that stage in 2017. The front office shelled out nearly $200 million in order to keep the group together. Throughout […]
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – In anticipation of opening day of the 2017 Major League Baseball season, congregants of Tifereth Israel Synagogue themed their Kabbalat Shabbat services on Friday night, March 31, around the American pastime. Traditional Shabbat evening prayers were mixed with meditations on baseball; a baseball trivia quiz took the place
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By Jeffrey Sussman NEW YORK — Many people have asked me why I chose to write the book, Max Baer and Barney Ross: Jewish Heroes of Boxing, which was just published by Rowman and Littlefield. It’s a good question. Most people, Jews and non-Jews, have no idea that from 1910 to 1941, there were 628
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Jewish History, Sports & Competitions, USAWe know Donald Trump loves Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, who will visit the White House on April 19 to celebrate their Super Bowl title, but what does the president think of America’s Pastime? We know he played in high school, and he’s been spotted at Mets and Yankees games over the years.
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Sports & Competitions, USAPHOENIX — NFL owners Monday overwhelmingly gave Las Vegas its blessing to host one of the league’s most storied franchises as the Raiders are headed for the desert as expected. The owners’ historic 31-1 decision allows owner Mark Davis to uproot for the team for the third time in 35 years — much to the
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Sports & Competitions, USAChinese Premier Li Keqiang and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (L4) watch a football game in Sydney, March 25, 2017. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Premier Li Keqiang and his Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull watched a football game on Saturday in Sydney, the latest sports event the premier has participated in with other countries’ leaders. Both
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International, Sports & CompetitionsTheo Epstein was tabbed World’s Greatest Leader by Fortune magazine, which published its annual list on Thursday morning. The Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations found himself atop a list that included Alibaba founder Jack Ma (No. 2), Pope Francis (No. 3), Melinda Gates (No. 4) and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (No. 5). LeBron James
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Sports & Competitions, USALOS ANGELES — The tension-filled odyssey was nine innings from its end. No more worries about satisfying the sometimes conflicting allegiances of his country, his players, and the major league teams for which they play. After 11 years, 27 games and repeated snubs from some of the brightest stars in baseball, the United States finally
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International, Sports & Competitions, USADallas Green, the bearish, blustering, boom box-throated manager who in 1980 whipped a talented but complacent Phillies team to the franchise’s first world championship, died Wednesday at 82, a team official confirmed. Green spent most of his long baseball career with a Phillies organization that signed him as a Delaware high-schooler in 1955. Over the
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Sports & Competitions, USAJerry Krause, the general manager as the Bulls became a global brand with a dynamic dynasty that produced six NBA championships in eight seasons, died on Tuesday after battling persistent health issues, including osteomyelitis. He was 77. Krause, who always called himself a scout at heart, retired last spring from Major League Baseball’s Arizona Diamondbacks.
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Sports & Competitions, USAWAKARUSA, Ind. — More than 50 years after Gale Sayers, the “Kansas Comet,” inspired awe as a Jayhawk, he was honored in January in Topeka, Kan., by the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas as one of its Kansans of the Year. So this was overdue but due, nonetheless, which is why former Kansas Sen.
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Sports & Competitions, USALazar Berman Team Israel’s “Cinderella” run through the World Baseball Classic was fun, wasn’t it? Despite bowing out of the second round of the tournament on Wednesday after falling to Japan 8-3, the players certainly enjoyed themselves as much as their fans. They sported T-shirts that read “Jew Crew.” Utility man Cody Decker, one of
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Middle East, Sports & Competitions, USAFaced with a boycott by most of the country’s top women players, USA Hockey officials are refusing to back down, suggesting the powerhouse American team might field a substitute roster for the upcoming world championships. Tensions between the sides reached a crescendo Wednesday when such veterans as Hilary Knight, Amanda Kessel and Meghan Duggan announced
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Sports & Competitions, USAFor the first time in a 273-year history, the world’s oldest golfing club will finally allow women to become members. After the issue failed to pass by a narrow margin during a vote in May 2016, members of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers voiced their disappointment at barring women from becoming members at the
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