Spencer Weisz, the Ivy League’s Player of the Year, is a senior forward and a Maccabiah Games gold medalist By Marc Brodsky Spencer Weisz #10 of the Princeton Tigers attempts to go up and under against the Saint Joseph’s Hawks during the second half at the L. Stockwell Jadwin Gymnasium on December 14, 2016 in […]
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Sports & Competitions, USATokyo/Washington (dpa) – Israel continued their magical run at the 2017 World Baseball Classic with a 4-1 victory in Tokyo over traditional powers Cuba in their opening game of second round action on Sunday. Blake Galien drove in two runs as the World Baseball Classic (WBC) debutants have still not lost in the quadrennial baseball
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsThey have been dubbed the “Jamaican bobsled team” of this year’s World Baseball Classic. Team Israel is ranked 41st in the world. But this week, they beat the Netherlands, South Korea and Chinese Taipei, all of which are ranked significantly higher. Danielle Barta, who lives in Jerusalem and works as the regional director of the
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsOnly six players in NBA history have ever scored 30,000 career points. Three of them were Los Angeles Lakers when they did it, and one reached the milestone against the Lakers in their Tuesday night loss to the Dallas Mavericks. Dirk Nowitzki stepped back, away from Larry Nance Jr., and took that infuriatingly gorgeous fadeaway
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Sports & Competitions, USAHeavy underdog wins 15-7, racing off to 2-0 start and all but clinching spot in next round in first-ever World Baseball Classic appearance By Times of Israel staff Team Israel outfielder Zack Borenstein batting against Taiwan’s Kuo-Hua Lo in Seoul, Korea, on March 7, 2017. (screen capture: Fox Sports) Israel’s national baseball team clobbered Taiwan
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Middle East, Sports & Competitions, USATeam Israel to play against South Korea to kick off quadrennial tournament modeled after World Cup By Times of Israel staff ‘Mensch on a Bench’ with Team Israel player Cody Decker, March 5, 2017. (Screenshot/MLB.com) The Israeli baseball team brought along its mascot, Mensch on a Bench, to kick off the World Baseball Classic against
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International, Sports & CompetitionsMESA, Ariz. — John Lackey “didn’t come here for a haircut.” He came here for jewelry, he said. The Cubs right-hander, who spoke those words last season when asked why he joined the team, will receive his ring in early April for the last year’s World Series victory. But he’s still on haircut hiatus. Lackey
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Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, USACYPRESS, Texas — A few hours after winning a state championship on Saturday, Mack Beggs came walking out of a conference room, flanked by his coach, with the entire Euless Trinity girls team in tow. Beggs, a 17-year-old transgender wrestler from Euless Trinity, had been the topic of this weekend’s state championships. Debates rose up
WASHINGTON, February 24, 2017 – First cast as an almost sub-human villain before he later morphed into an oddly lovable character later in his career, bigger-than-life wrestling legend George “The Animal” Steele passed away in Florida on February 16, 2017 at the age of 79. Steele had been under hospice care since the spring of
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Obituaries & memorials, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & BroadcastIranian chess authorities have punished siblings after the brother played a match against an Israeli national and the sister did not wear a hijab in a tournament. Dorsa Derakhshani, an 18-year-old student based in Spain, did not wear the traditional headscarf in a tournament in Gibraltar earlier this month. In Iran, women are legally required
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsHOUSTON — Nearly nine years ago to the day, New York Giants receiver David Tyree ripped the New England Patriots’ hearts out with what became known as “The Helmet Catch.” On Sunday, in Super Bowl LI, the Patriots’ Julian Edelman delivered a sweet, soul-clearing, memory-sweeping salve to millions of Patriots’ fans with an absurd catch
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Sports & Competitions, USAWhen President Donald Trump isn’t on Twitter or signing executive orders, he apparently likes to watch the Super Bowl along with the rest of us. The difference is while you were either at a bar or sitting down on your living room couch drinking beer as the New England Patriots faced down the Atlanta Falcons,
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Sports & Competitions, USAThe Paris bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics suffered an untimely setback on Friday when a man armed with a machete was shot and wounded by a French soldier at the Louvre Museum. Paris is submitting its bid to the International Olympic Committee on Friday. The day is set to culminate in the evening
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International, Sports & CompetitionsOscar De La Hoya was arrested early Wednesday on suspicion of drunk driving after he was stopped for speeding in Pasadena, Calif., officials said. The 43-year-old former world boxing champion and Golden Boy Promotions chairman, who has battled post-retirement addiction issues, was taken into custody on suspicion of driving under the influence with a blood-alcohol
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