Sports

Baltimore Wrestler Wins Gold at International Games in Israel

by Jeff Seidel | Jul 11, 2017 | Baltimore, College Sports, International, Israel, Local, Maryland, National, News, Sports

Owings Mills native Jack Mutchnik won a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling yesterday, July 10, at the 20th World Maccabiah Games in Israel. A red-shirt junior (third-year of varsity competition) at American University who wrestled at his alma mater, St. Paul’s...

Athletes Come for Love and Glory at the 2017 Maccabiah Games

by Hillel Kuttler, JTA | Jul 6, 2017 | International, Israel, News, Sports

RAMAT GAN, Israel (JTA) – Danny Janel first noticed Allison Silfen’s smile in July 2013. They were hanging out with other athletes in a hotel room a few evenings after arriving in Israel. He was smitten. She had already noticed him on the flight over. Half asleep,...

Basketball ‘Junkie’ Heading to Israel for International Competition

by Jeff Seidel | Jun 30, 2017 | International, Israel, Local, Maryland, News, Sports

Over the years, Eric R. Abel has endured quite a few tough injuries while playing basketball, a game he truly loves. The Owings Mills resident has torn the ACL in both of his knees and dealt with a torn Achilles tendon in his right foot. But Abel, who turns 49 on July...

Meet Diego Schwartzman, the Best Jewish Tennis Player on Earth

by Gabe Friedman, JTA | Jun 28, 2017 | News, Sports

(JTA) — When Wimbledon starts next week, no other Jewish tennis player will be seeded higher than Diego Schwartzman. The scrappy 24-year-old from Argentina, fresh off an impressive five-set duel with perennial star Novak Djokovic at the French Open earlier this month,...

Patriots Owner brings Football Hall of Famers to Israel

by Hillel Kuttler, JTA | Jun 16, 2017 | Israel, News, Sports

Ramat HaSharon, Israel An Israeli soldier clapped football great and Vietnam War veteran Roger Staubach on the shoulder at a soccer field here, telling the 1963 Heisman Trophy winner and U.S. Naval Academy grad that he and his brother serve in the paratroopers. The...

Head Games in the NFL

by Stan "The Fan" Charles | Jun 15, 2017 | Football, Sports

Injuries put players and ratings in danger For a variety of reasons, 2017 is an important year for the NFL. In this missive, we’ll confine the discussion to the NFL’s TV problem. What else exactly would you call a scenario in which the league’s TV partners — ESPN,...

Orioles Have High Hopes for Jewish Pitcher

by Jeff Seidel | Jun 5, 2017 | Baltimore, Baseball, Local, News, Sports

The Orioles have made a number of interesting moves involving their bullpen this season. It’s almost like a constantly spinning carousel, sending pitchers to Baltimore and Triple-A Norfolk and back. One of the players who seems to have been able to stay in Baltimore...

Beth Tfiloh Wins First Lacrosse Championship

by Jeff Seidel | May 30, 2017 | High School Sports, Local, News, Sports

The Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community High School boys varsity lacrosse team won their first-ever championship on May 25. The Beth Tfiloh Warriors scored a thrilling 9-8 victory over the Indian Creek School Eagles in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association C...

Missing Mele

by Stan "The Fan" Charles | May 11, 2017 | News, Sports

Remembering the late Sam Mele, one of the original Orioles and manager of the ’65 Twins. This one is no “Tuesdays with Morrie,” Mitch Albom’s treatise on a young man reconnecting on weekly visits with his dying professor to learn about life. The friendship...

Will Machado be the Greatest All-Time Third Baseman?

by Stan "The Fan" Charles | Apr 28, 2017 | Baseball, Orioles, Sports

If you go back to Sept. 6, 1995, the night Cal Ripken Jr. surpassed Lou Gehrig’s never-to-be-broken consecutive-games-played record of 2,130 to become baseball’s “Ironman,” something else remarkable happened. The night was full of baseball dignitaries in attendance,...