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Jewish hockey player Ozzy Wiesblatt’s unlikely journey to the NHL

Plus, Sports Illustrated names National Women’s Soccer League commissioner Jessica Berman its 2024 Innovator of the Year.

Jake Retzlaff, Alamo Bowl champ, runs on matzah in first Manischewitz ad

Plus, we mourn a Jewish sports icon.

Agnes Keleti performs a split in front of Hungarian young gymnasts Budapest on January 16, 2016. (Peter Kohalmi/AFP/Getty Images)

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

Keleti moved to Israel in 1957 and helped build the new country’s gymnastics program.

First Israeli MLB coach heads to Miami as Joc Pederson nabs $37M Texas Rangers contract

Jake Retzlaff, Quinn Hughes, Lindsay Gottlieb, Sam Salz, Jessica Fox and Max Fried

The top 10 Jewish sports moments of 2024, from Jessica Fox’s Olympic dominance to Sam Salz’s historic college football debut

The Jewish Sport Report: This Israeli star led Vermont to its first-ever NCAA soccer championship

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

The Jewish Sport Report: This Jewish baseball star’s salary is record-breaking

Nikki Bick, Rachel Dallet and Ryan Turell in front of an El Al plane

Despite war, these American Jewish athletes are choosing to pursue their careers in Israel

Jewish ace Max Fried signs record-breaking contract with the New York Yankees

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