The Forward’s Jewish news covrage, stories and posts about sports
Sports
The Latest
-
News ESPN’s Andy Katz Talks College Basketball and Jewish Sports Guys
Chances are, if you are a college basketball fan, you have seen Andy Katz on ESPN. With nearly 300,000 followers on Twitter, Katz, is ESPN’s senior college basketball reporter and is a regular analyst on “College GameNight” and “SportsCenter.” Before making the jump to ESPN in 2000, Katz worked for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the…
-
Books What Soccer Gave the Jews
Does Your Rabbi Know You’re Here?: The Story of English Football’s Forgotten Tribe By Anthony Clavane Quercus Publishing, 304 Pages Anthony Clavane’s accomplished and engaging work “Does Your Rabbi Know You’re Here?” now out in paperback, is not about what Jews have given to English soccer, so much as what soccer has given to English…
-
Life Jane Katz, 70, Sweeps at Maccabiah Games
When Jane Katz said she was swimming for the gold at the 19th Maccabiah Games, she wasn’t kidding. The 70-year-old Masters champion, who has participated in every Maccabiah Games since 1957, came home to New York laden with 13 medals. Katz won each of the 11 individual Masters level swimming events she entered, and also…
-
Fast Forward ESPN Ends Sports Broadcasting to Israel
American sports channel ESPN will cease broadcasting in Israel at the end of the month, the television network announced Monday. Israel’s cable and satellite providers, HOT and YES, confirmed the news. In a statement, ESPN said it had decided to stop broadcasting across the Middle East and Africa. “This was a strategic business decision made…
-
Life Swimming for Maccabiah Gold at 70
There are over 900 American athletes competing at the 19th Maccabiah Games currently taking place in Israel. Among them is swimmer Dr. Jane Katz, who broke a record before even getting in to the pool. Katz, 70, is competing in an amazing 14th consecutive Maccabiah Games. While many Jewish athletes have been coming to the…
-
The Schmooze Presenting the ‘Action Kippah’
LeBron James, your time is almost up. For years, Jewish athletes have been held back by several factors — Saturday games to name one. But the playing field to about to level off. Pretty soon, the list of “Famous Jewish Sports Legends” will be longer than a Tolstoy novel. Ber Cohen, a Pittsburgh area “kid…
-
The Schmooze Jewish Sports Is Not an Oxymoron
Crossposted From Under the Fig Tree I try to follow and keep abreast of a lot of things: the news, for starters, as well as fashion and film and arts and culture. But I give baseball and basketball, much less soccer, a pass. You will rarely, if ever, catch me reading the sports section of…
-
Culture Debunking Myth of the Unathletic Jew
I would not say I’ve become jaded, but I thought I had heard enough (and written enough) about Sandy Koufax not pitching on Yom Kippur. I knew the stories about Hank Greenberg and Al Rosen and those other outstanding Jewish ballplayers. And then one day, in the mail recently, I got a 24-page publication called…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News The ADL’s turn away from civil rights was years in the making — Oct. 7 accelerated it
- 2
Culture He works at a Holocaust museum by day. How’d he end up in ‘Marty Supreme’?
- 3
News The Holocaust Torah that survived a Mississippi synagogue fire was brought there by the state’s only survivor
- 4
Fast Forward ‘Dilbert’ cartoon creator once questioned the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust
In Case You Missed It
-
Culture His mother is Israeli, his father is Palestinian. His life? Complicated.
-
Opinion There’s a vicious antisemitic precedent for Trump’s demonization of Renée Nicole Good
-
Film & TV Judd Apatow on why Mel Brooks’ influence ‘will last as long as our jokes’
-
Opinion I was in a high school production of ‘Anne Frank’ — today in Minnesota, I feel her fear more than ever
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
