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Fast Forward Yeshiva U Basketball Team Will Play In March Madness For The First Time Ever
(JTA) — The Yeshiva University men’s basketball team has earned its first berth in the NCAA Division III basketball tournament in program history. The Maccabees on Sunday defeated Purchase College, 87-81, to win the Skyline Conference championship and earned automatic qualification into the tournament. “There is nothing much to say. We are champs,” Yeshiva University…
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News Final Four Goes Jewish at Hillel March Madness
(JTA) — Dribbling blurs across four parallel basketball courts, the players who came for the National Hillel Basketball Tournament filled a football field-size gymnasium in a marathon of games. Forty-one teams and 300 players from colleges across the United States came to the University of Maryland campus last weekend for the tournament’s fourth incarnation in…
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The Schmooze Vice Trades in March Madness for Hitler
Who’s more worthy of Hitler-comparison, Joseph Stalin or Saddam Hussein? Voldemort or Satan? Bashar Al-Assad or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? These are the hard-hitting questions that Vice is setting out to answer. Forget March Madness. They’ve come up with Hitler Madness, the tournament to “officially determine the most Hitlerish person of all time.” Per the rulebook: Some…
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Israel News Jim Calhoun Talks March Madness Basketball in the Holy Land
After struggling for many years to build a successful basketball program, The University of Connecticut basketball program decided to hire Jim Calhoun as its new coach on May 14, 1986. At the time, the university was hoping they made the right choice but little did they know that two and half decades later, Calhoun would…
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