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1 Jewish coach still in NCAA title contention as Todd Golden’s Florida faces Houston in men’s basketball final

By BEN SALES

(JTA) — Three Jewish coaches entered the NCAA men’s basketball Final Four on Saturday. Now, just one remains.

Florida, coached by Todd Golden, beat Auburn, coached by Bruce Pearl, 79-73 in a close game Saturday evening. It...

Danny Wolf and Bruce Pearl — two of March Madness’ most prominent Jews — are about to face off in a Shabbat Showdown

By BEN SALES

(JTA) — This year’s NCAA college basketball tournament has, so far, been a good one for its most prominent Jewish personalities. Going into Friday night, four coaches of top teams, and one star on the court, are...

Israeli-American Michigan basketball star Danny Wolf is seeking glory in March Madness — and likely the NBA

By JACOB GURVIS

(JTA) — As the first round of March Madness begins in earnest on Thursday, one of the most attention-catching players has been the University of Michigan’s 7-foot star Danny Wolf.

He’s an elite player who, barring a...

Yeshiva U falls to Tufts in first round of NCAA DIII men’s basketball tournament

By BEN SALES

(JTA) — Yeshiva University’s March Madness run has once again ended after just one game.

The Maccabees fell in the first round of the NCAA DIII men’s basketball tournament to the Tufts Jumbos 83-66 on Friday, a...

Sotheby’s to auction ‘the most complete Jewish baseball card collection in the world’

By JACOB GURVIS

(JTA) — For many Jewish fans who collect baseball cards, the joy of opening a new pack and finding a Jewish player is second to none. That was Seymour Stoll’s experience years ago when he drew a...

Agnes Keleti, Holocaust survivor who won 10 Olympic gymnastics medals, dies at 103

By PHILISSA CRAMER

(JTA) — As a teenager, Agnes Keleti’s athletic pursuits were interrupted by the Nazis, who murdered her father along with more than 500,000 other Hungarian Jews.

As a centenarian, she became a global sensation for not only...

Meet Yaniv Bazini, the Israeli forward who propelled U of Vermont to its first soccer championship

By JACOB GURVIS

(JTA) — Yaniv Bazini scored 14 goals for the University of Vermont’s Division I soccer team this season, making him one of the top scorers in the entire country. But on the eve of the championship game,...

Is Jake Paul Jewish? The boxer who beat Mike Tyson live on Netflix has Jewish ancestry.

By JACOB GURVIS

(JTA) — As a multi-hyphenate YouTube star, actor and professional boxer, Jake Paul is used to balancing several identities. The same is true about his family’s ethnic background.

The Paul family has Welsh, Irish, German, French —...

Sandy Koufax famously didn’t pitch on Yom Kippur in 1965. But did he go to synagogue?

By JACOB GURVIS

(JTA) — If Daniel Schloff’s family had been on time to Yom Kippur morning services in 1965, he may have never encountered Sandy Koufax.

Schloff, who was 17 years old at the time and a senior in...

How Harlem Globetrotters founder Abe Saperstein shaped basketball as we know it today

By JACOB GURVIS

(JTA) — When basketball superstar Stephen Curry sunk a series of three-point shots to help Team USA clinch the Olympic gold medal in Paris this summer, it’s unlikely the four-time NBA champion was thinking about Abe Saperstein.

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