SARAH FULLER Sarah Fuller is an adventurous sort who probably doesn’t take ‘no’ for an answer. She is an accomplished athlete who has kicked down whatever barriers she has faced. Kicked is the operative word. The American soccer goalkeeper, all 6’2” of her, began her college career with the Vanderbilt…

TODAY’S NHL’S JEWISH HOCKEY-PLAYING CONTINGENT Zach Hyman, Jack Hughes, Quinn Hughes, Adam Fox, Jason Zucker, Josh Ho-Sang, Mark Friedman, Luke Kunin, Jakob Chychrun, Nate Thompson… Back in the day–way back–Jews played sports. A lot of Jews and a lot of sports. The end of the eighteenth century is viewed as…

KENDRICK PERKINS & EDDIE HOUSE Kendrick Perkins tells it like it is and makes no bones about doing just that. This is part of what makes him great. And great he is. When the Celtics eliminated the KD-Kyrie Nets last night (04/25) in a stunning 4-game sweep, Perk had a…

DAVE MCGILLIVRAY Dave McGillivray is a peanut-sized human, with a giant-sized heart. Brobdingnagian. Gigantic. “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” –Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain Couldn’t have said it better. Dave McGillivray and I were born…

TOM WILSON, CAM NEELY… Gordie Howe. Maurice Richard. Brendan Shanahan. Clark Gillies. Cam Neely. Mark Messier. Jarome Iginla. Keith Tkachuk. Terry O’Reilly. Wendel Clark. Ovie. Eric Lindros. Rick Tocchet. John LeClair. Todd Bertuzzi. Kevin Stevens. Johan Franzen. Milan Lucic. Tim Kerr. Scott Hartnell. Ground-breaking, impactful hockey power forwards… Nonpareils. “The…

RUSSELL, BRADY OR WHOM? Who’s the greatest winner in sports history? Team sports? Individual disciplines? Competition? … A lot to sort out. To sift through. Too much, perhaps. But not to the sports aficionado. Not even close. Strap in. Inarguably, William Felton Russell–Bill Russell–is at the top of the list. …

ASH BARTY Did they retire too early? Jim Brown, Sandy Koufax, Barry Sanders, Michael Jordan, Floyd Mayweather, Earl Campbell, Rocky Marciano, Bjorn Borg, Justine Henin, Kim Clijsters, Annika Sorenstam, Calvin Johnson, Ken Dryden, Bobby Orr, Bo Jackson, Ricky Williams, Magic Johnson, Gale Sayers, Robert Johnson, Brandon Roy, Bobby Jones, Mark…

NORM STEWART, NORM SLOAN, EDDIE SUTTON, JIM VALVANO AND RICK PITINO Do you really have to cheat to win? Can you be clean, follow the rules and still win? Maybe, but unclear. Ethics… Are ethics worth anything? Were they ever? Whom should we ask? Rick Pitino? Lefty Driesell? Eddie Sutton…

SHOHEI OHTANI, JACOB deGROM, AND THE BABE As has been duly noted on these pages many times, baseball’s history is a rich one, indeed. The Cincinnati Red Stockings played the first professional baseball game 152 years ago. Led by another pair of Wright brothers — Harry and George, not Orville…