TheCorinthian Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 "A Jewish school's request for basketball games to be scheduled at times other than the Jewish Sabbath got support Thursday from, of all people, an Islamic civil rights group!!" First Angelina now this?? I am getting scared!!! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,333770,00.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 They want to play the game on Easter Sunday instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCorinthian Posted February 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 I was told Easter got canceled. Seems they found the body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 If you have never heard Sam Kinison's version of Easter Sunday, you simply must! Oddly, when I think basketball, I don't think Jews... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 Hassidic Jews with side locks and derbies dribbling a basketball down a court? Sounds like something from Mel Brooks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 Before Thursday night games, the Denver academy faced the prospect of qualifying for a regional championship game but not being able to play. The boys' regional game was scheduled for Saturday, March 8, but the school's religious beliefs prohibit students from playing between sundown Friday and sundown Saturday. Bad luck ..so don't play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogueyam Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 Oddly, when I think basketball, I don't think Jews... Perhaps you should: History of Jews in Basketball Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 I was gonna post on the history of it as well. In Philly the best teams were Jewish year ago. Next to my old neighborhood was a former jewish neighborhood who old timers used to say would beat just about anyone back in the '40s and '50s. In NYC there are a few parks that have guys from jewish neighborhoods who were very good at street ball as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USVirgin Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 Kind of hard not to associate jews with basketball when Red Auerbach and David Stern are some of the first names that come to mind. Check out the names on this 'first NBA championship team': [color:blue]On November 1, 1946, in the opening game of the fledgling Basketball Association of America (BAA), Ossie Schectman scored the opening basket for the New York Knickerbockers against the Toronto Huskies. Schectman and his teammates Sonny Hertzberg, Stan Stutz, Hank Rosenstein, Ralph Kaplowitz, Jake Weber, and Leo "Ace" Gottlieb went on to win the opening game 68 â?? 66 and finish the season with a 33 â?? 27 record. In 1949, the BAA became the National Basketball Association (NBA), and Schectmanâ??s shot is considered the first basket in the NBA.[/color] Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 I proudly stand corrected! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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