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Fast Forward Catholic school soccer team that brawled with Miami Jewish school forfeits state semifinal
The fight was thought to have been fueled by antisemitic language
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Fast Forward Yeshiva U. basketball team forfeits crucial game, citing inadequate warmup time after Shabbat
The forfeit means that the Y.U. Maccabees enter the postseason ranked No. 3 in their division, not No. 1 as they were last year
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Fast Forward Ted Lerner, real estate developer who brought baseball back to Washington, dies at 97
Ted Lerner arrived at the 2015 MLB All Stars Game with the program he annotated when he watched the game in 1937
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Fast Forward A Miami brawl between Jewish and Catholic high school athletes may have been fueled by antisemitic language
Witnesses to a fight involving Scheck Hillel Community School said the Catholic students had yelled antisemitic phrases
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Sports ‘You made me the greatest’: Muhammad Ali’s beloved cornerman was Jewish
Drew Brown was known as the heavyweight champ’s personal poet, penning ‘float like a butterfly, sting like a bee’
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Sports The Super Bowl is upon us. What does the Torah say about sports betting?
Plenty of Jewish people seem likely to join the action on Sunday
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Sports Stars, prospects make Israel’s 2023 World Baseball Classic roster the greatest Jewish baseball team ever assembled. See the full list.
Out of 35 players on the squad, 15 have MLB experience — and a few more will soon
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Opinion Can a Jewish fan watch the Super Bowl with a clean conscience? The rabbis had thoughts.
Jewish text grappled with the violent nature of sport, writes a scholar and educator at The Jewish Education Project
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