It was the fight of the (previous) century. And the great white hope was victorious which seemed odd since the winner was a man of color. Heavyweight champ Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber, avenged his ...
On Sunday, Taj Mahal, the precocious Maryland-bred colt, and his jockey, Sheldon Russell, went to the track for the last ...
In his 17th book, the 92-year-old reporter chronicles the bond he and his father shared over baseball and hating the Nazis. (JTA) — Over the course of an illustrious 72-year career as a newspaper ...
MIAMI – Jerry Izenberg can still write, as anyone who reads his columns in the Star-Ledger in New Jersey knows. Just the other day he wrote a good one about an aging sports writer who has been to ...
Sports editor at the JAPAN Forward, a newly created platform sharing Japanese news and opinion to the rest of the world, Ed Odeven joins Colin Loughran and Maddie Bimonte on One on One. He takes us ...
One does not interview Jerry Izenberg as much as have an audience with him. That doesn’t work for most people. But with Izenberg, the legendary Star-Ledger sports columnist and storyteller supreme, ...
‘A simple shared love’: A Jewish sportswriter pays tribute to his immigrant father’s baseball dreams
For many Jewish immigrants to the United States at the turn of the 20th century, baseball helped make them feel like Americans. Longtime New Jersey Star-Ledger sports columnist Jerry Izenberg writes ...
In this week’s Jewish Sport Report, 92-year-old sportswriter Jerry Izenberg opens up about his new memoir and an Israeli rugby team responds to its exclusion in South Africa. With seven out of eight ...
Throughout an illustrious 72-year career as a newspaper reporter, Jerry Izenberg has just about seen it all. The longtime columnist for The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey, Izenberg covered the ...
Hall of Fame sports writer Jerry Izenberg helped Larry Doby get elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, with one notable assist. Doby asked Izenberg, his close friend, to stop pleading his case more ...
It has been 66 years since Jerry Izenberg first sat down ringside to cover a professional boxing bout. The fight was over swiftly, Ingemar Johansson dropping Floyd Patterson seven times in the third ...
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