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Fast Forward Art Modell, Football Team Owner, Dies at 87
Art Modell, former owner of the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens and the Cleveland Browns, has died. The 87-year-old Modell, a pioneer of the National Football League’s partnership with television networks, died Thursday of natural causes at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Modell was well-known for his philanthropic activities and had been a supporter of The Associated: Jewish Community…
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The Schmooze Are Ya Ready for Some (Jewish) Football?
The National Football League kicks off the 2012 season tonight in East Rutherford, N.J., when the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants host the Dallas Cowboys. This year, a handful of Jewish players will be looking to make an impact for their teams on the road to Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans, on…
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Fast Forward Sale of Cleveland Browns Ends Jewish Ownership
The sale of the Cleveland Browns ends 51 years of Jewish ownership of the National Football League team. The Browns sale to Jimmy Haslam III was confirmed by the NFL Network yesterday, according to the Cleveland Jewish News. Randy Lerner had inherited the team after his father Al died in 2002. In 1996, Art Modell,…
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News Howard Cosell Recalled: Icon and Irrritant
Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports By Mark Ribowsky W.W. Norton & Company, 496 pages, $29.95 ‘I’ve gotta use words when I talk to you,” Apeneck Sweeney says to his girlfriend, Doris, in T.S. Eliot’s “Sweeney Agonistes.” Sweeney had it right. Words transform reality by making it both more…
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The Schmooze 7 Questions for ‘Bear Jew’ Gabe Carimi
If Goliath were around today, he might look something like 22-year-old Gabe Carimi. The 6-foot-7-inch, 320-pound all-American left tackle was chosen as this year’s No. 1 draft pick by the Chicago Bears. But for this football player, religion and academics seem to be just as important as athletics. He still remembers the parashah from his…
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