Book Review // When Basketball Was Jewish: Voices of Those Who Played the Game
In Farewell to Sport, published in 1938, the popular New York Daily News sports columnist Paul Gallico, when departing the world of sports to write fiction (The Poseidon Adventure later became one of his best-sellers), reflected on the wide variety of sports and sports figures he had covered.
Sports Moment // Wrestling with the Ghosts of Olympics Past
With the Winter Olympics set to open in Sochi, Russia, in February, Moment’s Josh Tapper talks to David Wallechinsky, author of The Complete Book of the Olympics and president of the International Society of Olympic Historians.
Going for Gold at the Jewish Olympics
Since 1932, the Maccabiah Games have drawn the finest Jewish athletes to participate in a wide array of events.
Play Hard, Pray Harder
By Gabriel Weinstein
Just two years after leaving the University of Florida facing charges of larceny and theft Auburn University quarterback Cameron Newton was full of...