From ESPN.com: The Toronto Raptors are hanging their heads tonight after becoming the first NBA team to lose to Israel’s Maccabi team in 27 years.
“This is history,” Maccabi center Yaniv Green said. “They are still talking about [Maccabi’s win over the Bullets in 1978] and I’m sure 20 years from now, they will still be talking about this one.”
Photo: Ron Turenne/NBAE via Getty Images
…with their fists and feet, that is. Meet the ultimate fighting Jews who drew blood at the World Muay Thai Federation’s Princes Cup in Bangkok last earlier this month.
‘Course, Israel has its own school of bloodthirsty martial art, Krav Maga, which would be some kind of crazy Mad Max scene if some kind of cross-tournament was organized. Too brutal for me, but I know you love it.
Photo c/o ThaiCollectible.com.
The Washington Nationals baseball organization has suspended team minister Jon Moeller for counseling outfielder Ryan Church that his Jewish ex-girlfriend and the rest of us Jews are going to hell.
JTA reports that Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld met Tuesday with Nationals President Tony Tavares and stated:
What happened in the locker room was hatred. Everyones allowed to believe what they want, but the moment that hatred comes into the locker room, its a source of divisiveness.
This story reeks of University of Georgia cheerleading coach Marilou Braswell, who denied a Jewish sqaud member varsity status because she refused to participate in Braswell’s creepy Christian prayer circles. UGA fired her immediately and Braswell made a huge ass of herself by filing a lawsuit, which exposed the large sums of money she still owed the school for camps she’d hosted. These days she’s probably coaching a neo-Nazi Pop Warner team somewhere in Podunk, GA.
It’s admirable that these organizations act swiftly to remove these people from their jobs and frankly, if hell is wherever they’re not, we’ll all be just fine.
Hat tip to Stairmaster Scott Steinberg at J.
Here’s an in-depth look at our new golden boy, Igor Olshansky, from Ha’aretz.
“Olshansky is a hulking 6-foot, 6-inch, 315-pound athlete who can run 40 yards in less than five seconds and is being compared to some of the best defensive lineman ever to play the game. A rookie with the San Diego Chargers, who won their opening week game 27-20, not only is Olshansky the first Jewish athlete from the former Soviet Union to play professionally in the NFL, he’s also the first NFL player from the Soviet Union – period.”
We’re looking forward to seeing what this kid can do!
In other sports news, some guy has written a book about the anti-Semitic origins about the Red Sox’s inability to win a World Series since Babe Ruth was traded to the Yankees in 1920, otherwise known as the Curse of the Bambino. Harry Frazee, the greedy Red Sox owner who sold the Babe to New York, has been mistakenly thought to be Jewish all this time, and somehow this relates to everyone hating him for killing the Sox spirit. Let us know if you can make heads or tails of it.
We are so into this new show, Housecalls, on Discovery’s FitTV, and not just because it stars Mark Lebos, the buffest, smartest Jmerican around. Mark and his co-host, Shaman, pay visits to real people in their real homes (no Spandex allowed!) and design practical exercise programs to be done in between loads of laundry, putting the kids to bed and *ahem* shoulder-slouching sessions in front of the computer screen. Most of FitTV features a bunch of shiny plastic people grinning their way through jazzercise on the beach; us couch potatoes appreciate the reality of broom handle lunges and water jug tricep extensions. Think of it as “Fit Eye for the Fat Guy.”
Check it out Mondays at 8pm if you’ve got Discovery’s FitTV on your dish or box; otherwise, call your cable company and request it.