Sports

Kerry Finch shouts as she takes a gate on her way to a first place finish at the USSA Eastern Regional Championship Masters GS at West Mountain on February 19, 2022. ©Mark D Phillips
Sports

New England Masters Ski Racing releases 2022-23 schedule

Looking to release your inner Mikaela and Kilde and race the ski slopes? New England Masters has a full schedule of Super G, Gs and Slalom races and training throughout the region. Racers from 18 to 100 race by age groups with National Championships in March.

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Mikaela Shiffrin celebrates with the Killington Cup trophy after winning the Slalom discipline at the FIS Ski World Cup at Killington, Vermont, on November 26, 2017. ©Mark D Phillips
Photography

The Queen of Killington

Mikaela Shiffrin returns to Vermont for the Heroic Killington Cup, scheduled for Thanksgiving weekend 2022, and it will be the last chance to see the US Women’s Alpine ski team compete on the East Coast of the US. Next year, the competition moves to Canada’s Mont Tremblant.

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Arthur Ashe with New York City Mayor David Dinkins at the first Arthur Ashe AIDS Tennis Challenge benefit on August 30, 1992, in the stadium of the National Tennis Center. Dinkins proclaimed it "Arthur Ashe Day" in New York City. ©Mark D Phillips
News & Stories

A Positive Role Model takes Center Stage

Frances Tiafoe is becoming the new American tennis superstar. It looks like he will use his gifts far beyond the tennis courts. I would like my kid to have his picture on heir wall. This is how a role model works.

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Rachel Katzenberg cheers with a small US flag as she marches into Teddy Stadium for the 21st Maccabiah opening ceremony. ©Mark D Phillips
Beyond Brooklyn

The Sports World Comes to Jerusalem

The 21st Maccabiah opened with a parade of 10,000 athletes at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem with US President Joe Biden joining Israel’s President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Yair Lapid in attendance.

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USA Field Hockey team gathers at Newark Airport terminal to travel to Israel as a team. ©Mark D Phillips
Beyond Brooklyn

Maccabiah returns to Israel

On Sunday, at Newark airport, seventeen women gathered with their coaches to leave for Israel and represent the United States playing field hockey at the 21st Maccabiah Games.

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Max Scherzer makes a rehab start for the Binghamton Rumble Ponies against the Hartford Yardgoats Double-A game at Dunkin Donuts Stadium in Hartford, CT, on June 29, 2022. ©Mark D Phillips
News & Stories

Scherzer is a Rumble Pony

Max Scherzer makes a rehab start for the Binghamton Rumble Ponies against the Hartford Yardgoats Double-A game at Dunkin Donuts Stadium in Hartford, CT, on June 29, 2022. ©Mark D Phillips There are times when I want to shoot baseball because of the situation. When I heard that Max Scherzer

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Maccabiah Field Hockey on Saturday, May 28, 2022, at the Big Apple Tournament (May 28-29) at Aviator Sports Complex in Brooklyn, NY
Beyond Brooklyn

Maccabiah: “The Jewish Olympics” take front stage in July

It started with a dream. It’s hard to wrap one’s head around it today. But at the end of the 19th century, Jews in Europe were officially barred from taking part in athletic competitions. As anti-Semitism raged in cities, towns and countrysides across the continent, Jewish people were forbidden membership in sports associations.

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