(JTA) — Zach Banner of the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers wants the Black community to know: Jews “deal with the same amount of hate, similar hardships and hard times.”

(JNS) Team Israel Start-Up Nation (ISN) has announced that Chris Froome, a four-time Tour de France winner and one of the biggest names in the sport, has signed a long-term contract to lead the Jewish state’s cycling team.

(JTA) — Like the rest of the world, San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler is on hold waiting for his life to resume. But he’s trying to make sure the sitting around prepares him for a Major League Baseball season he hopes will take place.

(JTA) — The 2021 Maccabi Games have been postponed for a year due to the worldwide coronavirus crisis.

(April 20, 2020 / JNS) Israeli Olympian Sagi Muki is sharing his home-training regimen online to help motivate those in isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic, and dedicating his time to projects to raise money for coronavirus relief.

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Deni Avdija is no doubt aware that ESPN ranks him as the fifth-best basketball prospect in the world, even though he’s only 19.

(JTA) — The Chelsea soccer club in Britain marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a commemorative mural of Jewish players and prisoners of war who were sent to a Nazi camp.

 (JNS) Israeli alpine skier Noa Szollos, 17, won Israel its first medals in the Winter Youth Olympic Games when she competed in the competition earlier this month in Lausanne, Switzerland.

(JNS) Roy Nissany will become the official test driver for the Williams Group, making him Israel’s very first Formula One driver, announced the motor racing team and constructor ROKiT Williams Racing on Wednesday

(JTA) — Argentine-Jewish tennis player Diego Schwartzman finished second in the Vienna Open Oct. 27.

There’s a professional baseball team based in Florence, Kentucky, called the Freedom, and they’ve had a whale of a season. 

(JTA) — Major League baseball star Yasiel Puig visited a Jewish camp for kids with cancer and called it “one of the best days” of his life.

(JNS) For two days in mid-August, 575 men left their jobs, families and hometowns to cycle some 180 miles across three states as part of the Bike4Chai annual fundraiser to benefit Chai Lifeline, an organization dedicated to helping children with cancer and other life-altering illnesses, and …

(JNS) In a show of support for future development of the sport in Israel, the women’s Chelsea Football Club team visited HaMoshava Stadium in Petach Tikvah on Aug. 20 for a sold-out pre-season match against the Israel women’s national team.

(JTA) — The Los Angeles Dodgers will add a statue of legendary Jewish pitcher Sandy Koufax to their stadium as part of a renovation project.

(JNS) The 15th European Maccabi Games, which some have likened to the Jewish Olympics, concluded on Aug. 7 in Budapest, Hungary, with team USA taking home a total of 155 medals, more than any other country.

(JTA) — A Jewish British tennis champ who won the women’s doubles at Wimbledon 63 years ago says an exclusive sport club refused to accept her because she is Jewish.

(JTA) — On May 14, the NBA held its draft lottery, determining in which order each of its teams would pick players in next month’s draft. It made headlines for a couple of reasons: First, the consensus No. 1 pick, Zion Williamson of Duke, is the most hyped basketball player in years — possib…

(JTA) — Two professional soccer teams — one in England and one in the United States — will send a joint delegation to the March of the Living.

In October of 1945, Sgt. Lester Rodney was stationed on a remote South Pacific island when he received a telegram from New York:

Sarah Singer-Nourie, a leadership coach, wife and mother, walked into a Division I men’s college basketball practice and immediately sensed strained energy.

The life of a professional athlete is anything but stable. One day you’re the captain of your hometown team, the next you and your family are in a different country acclimating to life in a city you have never heard of before.

When Kevin Youkilis threw out the first pitch at Fenway Park before Game One of the American League Championship Series on October 13, four teams remained alive in the Major League Baseball playoffs. Each featured a Jewish slugger. 

(JTA) — Greg Joseph of the NFL’s Cleveland Browns got a new mezuzah and kicked a game-winning field goal — on the same day.

Max Eisenberg is an entrepreneur living in downtown Cincinnati. The 27-year-old Michigan native is the CEO of ActionStreamer, a Cincinnati-based technology company that is ushering in a new era of sports fan engagement.

On April 26 the Arizona Cardinals selected Josh Rosen in the first round of the National Football League draft. The quarterback from UCLA became the first Jew taken in the first round since 1987 (Harris Barton, San Francisco). 

The American Football in Israel (AFI) men’s and women’s national teams returned home this week, proudly representing their country halfway around the globe at the 2018 International Federation of American Football (IFAF) Flag Football World Championships in Panama.

Ephraim Roth celebrated his 100th birthday on July 7. It was a rousing gala at Cedar Village. 

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(JTA) — In a baseball All-Star game that set a record for home runs, Alex Bregman had the most important one.

My father was furious.

(JTA) – June 8 was the most productive day for Jewish batters in Major League Baseball history.

Football players and UFC fighters think they’re tough. After what I witnessed the past nine months, I believe they are wimps compared to pregnant women.

RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — The Brazilian soccer idol Ronaldinho has launched a soccer school in Israel aimed at both native-born and immigrant children and youths.

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For Daniel Haber, a recent signee with Futbol Club Cincinnati, soccer has taken him all around the world. 

Dekel Keinan, a 33-year-old Israeli soccer player, will continue his professional career in Cincinnati this year. 

WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – A Polish Olympian is raising money for the construction of a monument dedicated to Jews from a village in southern Poland.

Two decades ago in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a wide-eyed 4-year-old turned an unassisted triple play in a T-ball game. He snagged a line drive, stepped on second base for the force out, chased down another baserunner and applied the tag. Parents were stunned. Half the kids on the field had no…

Sandy Koufax stepped onto the mound in Game Seven of the 1965 World Series without the feel of his devastating curveball. Eight days earlier he had made a decision that would validate and inspire fellow followers of his faith for years to come. 

Imagine being close to realizing your dream, but before it can come true, you are dealt a bad break and must go all the way back to square one. It’s a long road back. Things change. Nothing is guaranteed. Do you have the drive to bounce back? Can you stay positive when things don’t go your way? 

(JTA) – Forty-five years after the murderous PLO attack on Israeli Olympic team members at the 1972 games, a memorial dedicated to the victims has opened in Munich.