Sports & Competitions

AVENTURA, Florida (Press Release) – South Florida will be home to a second professional basketball team – the Miami Midnites –  the official professional developmental team of the 2012-13 Israeli Super League champion Maccabi Haifa basketball club.  The Miami Midnites were founded by Triangle Entertainment, a sports and entertainment firm based in Aventura, Florida, which owns […]

By Rabbi Ben Kamin  ENCINITAS, California — The season opened in Australia, is dotted with remarkable Japanese talent, powered by heavy-shouldered Latin sluggers, and suffers from a dearth of African American players. But the outfield is still a verdant pasture of renewal. Bart Giamatti, the Yale president who became the short-lived commissioner of baseball in 1989

  By Robert Gluck/JNS.org When the National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs tip off on April 19, the star players who take the court should credit their status to recently retired league commissioner David Stern, according to Peter Horvitz, author of The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes. Horvitz said Stern’s leadership of the NBA for

From Tamir Goodman’s battle with injuries, new basketball training tool is born By Jacob Kamaras (JNS) — When he was sidelined by injuries during his time as a professional basketball player in Israel, Tamir Goodman’s mind was still in the game. “Specifically during that time when I wasn’t playing, I was spending my time in

  By Robert Gluck/JNS.org With another season of “America’s pastime” beginning March 22, famed Jewish executive Marvin Miller remains out of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Why is that the case? Bob Locker—a major league pitcher from 1965-75 and creator of a Marvin Miller tribute site, ThanksMarvin.com—blames ownership for the exclusion of Miller, the

By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM – The Israeli Equestrian Team made history this past Friday (Feb. 28) when it competed in the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup, the first time that an Israeli team has ever participated in an international equestrian competition.  Though the Canadian team walked away with the hefty $75,000 prize, the Israeli team felt like champions