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Film Review: “The Soccer Football Movie” — A Full-On Weirdo Camp Fest

November 21, 2022
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Sometimes, cartoons should just be aimed at kids. The Soccer Football Movie has no pretensions: this is a glorious goof fest that draws on the hallowed tradition of slapstick comedy.

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Television Review: “Glickman” — A Rousing Sports Biography

August 26, 2013
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Before he was a broadcaster, Mary Glickman was one heck of an athlete, a youthful hero in New York known as “the Jewish Red Grange.”

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Short Fuse: “Jewish Jocks” — Many Avenues Into Jewish History

December 13, 2012
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But sometimes, though it may defy certain sorts of expectations, Jews excel not because they have higher sports IQs but just because they are better.

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Author Interview: Jay Atkinson’s Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man — Remembrance of Punches Past

May 26, 2012
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If Wordsworth was right in saying that poetry is emotion recollected in tranquility, than a rugby memoir is a punch in the face reconsidered from a hospital bed.

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