Sports

Many Israelis came to work bleary-eyed on Monday morning, having stayed up all night watching the New England Patriots defeat the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII. While...

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Dutch police arrested five soccer supporters allegedly for singing at a match an increasingly popular chant about burning Jews. The incident, which reflects both growing resolve to...

BY MARCY OSTER (JTA) — A bat used by Jewish Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg sold at auction for over $25,000. The closed auction on the website of Lelands-Sports Memorabilia and Card...

(JTA) — The Patriots have won six Super Bowls. Tom Brady was MVP of four of them. Deion Branch was the MVP of Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005. Now, Julian Edelman has...

(JTA) — Want a bat used by Jewish baseball legend Hank Greenberg? You’ll need more than $8,000. The Hall of Famer’s wood bat, which was signed by the 1937 Detroit...

New York Jewish boxer Cletus Seldin is continuing his relentless return to form, winning a second consecutive fight with a first-round knockout. Known as the “Hebrew Hammer” because of his uncompromising punching style,...

BY MARCY OSTER JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Interior Ministry granted former NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire residency rights, another step toward citizenship. “In the near future, the possibility of granting the player...

BY MARCY OSTER JERUSALEM (JTA) — The International Paralympic Committee stripped Malaysia of the right to host the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships over its refusal to allow Israeli athletes...

Israel condemned on Thursday Malaysia’s ban on Israeli participation in international sporting events it hosts and said the decision was inspired by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s “rabid antisemitism.” Malaysia, a majority-Muslim country...

  The Jewish Sports Heritage Association honored former NFL quarterback and Oceanside High School alum Jay Fiedler with a Lifetime Achievement Award at Temple Israel in Lawrence. For his work in...