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• Jeff Dowtin Jr. Signs Three-Year Contract With Maccabi Tel Aviv
NBA veteran guard Jeff Dowtin Jr. has reportedly signed a three-year contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv, a professional basketball club based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Jeff Dowtin Jr. Has Played Four NBA Seasons NBA insider Marc Stein of The Stein Line reported earlier this week that the 28-year-old point guard received interest from several European […] The post Jeff Dowtin Jr. Signs Three-Year Cont...2025
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• Jeff Dowtin Jr. To Sign With Maccabi Tel Aviv
Jeff Dowtin Jr. will sign a two-year contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv, agent Bill Neff tells Marc Stein of The Stein Line (Twitter link). The 28-year-old point guard received interest from several European clubs, Stein adds (Twitter link). He and the team will have a mutual option on the second season of his new deal. […]...2025
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• Maccabi Tel Aviv Announces Signing Of Lonnie Walker IV
Lonnie Walker IV, who finished last season with the Sixers, has officially joined Maccabi Tel Aviv. The Israeli club issued a statement on Monday announcing the three-year deal. “We are extremely proud to welcome Lonnie Walker IV to our family,” general manager Claudio Coldebella said. “Bringing a talent of this caliber to Tel Aviv, a […]...2025
• Jeff Dowtin Jr Signs With Maccabi Tel Aviv

Former NBAer Jeff Dowtin Jr. is signing a two-year deal with Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel. Dowtin will join fellow former NBAer Lonnie Walker IV with the Israeli and EuroLeague power next season. Both Dowtin and Walker played for the Philadelphia 76ers last season. The 6-foot-3 point guard appeared in 41 NBA games for the Sixers last season. Dowtin averaged 7.0 points on 49/40/73 shooting splits in ...2025
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• International Notes: Dowtin, A. Traore, S. Johnson, Vucevic
After spending the 2024/25 season on a two-way contract with the 76ers, free agent guard Jeff Dowtin is drawing interest from a handful of teams in Europe, Dario Skerletic of Sportando writes, citing a report from Tomer Givati of Israel Hayom. According to Givati, Dowtin is engaged in talks with Maccabi Tel Aviv, Partizan Belgrade, […]...2025
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• Floyd Mayweather told ‘stay away from the UK’ after Israel support
Floyd Mayweather has once again made his stance clear by continuing to vocally support Israel during one of the most devastating wars in its history. The undefeated boxing legend arrived in Tel Aviv this week to open the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and meet with Israeli soldiers, months after surviving a violent backlash in London… ...2025
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• Olympics’ 50 best men’s basketball players for 2024 Paris games, ranked

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Let’s rank the best men’s basketball players competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The most talented men’s basketball tournament in the history of the Summer Olympics is going down at the 2024 Paris Games. The best athletes in the sport are on display representing their home countries, and all of them want the glory that comes with leading their team to a...2024
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• Patrick Beverley Signs With Hapoel Tel Aviv

Patrick Beverley has agreed to sign with Hapoel Tel Aviv in Israel. "They gave me everything I asked for... I couldn't refuse," wrote Beverley on X. Beverley finished the 23-24 season with the Milwaukee Bucks and has a four-game suspension from the NBA waiting for him if he returns to the league in the future....2024
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• Patrick Beverley Could Sign In Israel For Upcoming Season

Free agent guard Patrick Beverley could be continuing his career outside of the NBA next season. Hapoel Tel Aviv in Israel is considering signing Beverley, who hinted at a possible return to playing overseas himself. Beverley played last season for the Philadelphia 76ers and Milwaukee Bucks. The 12-year veteran finished the year as a starter for the injury-ravaged Bucks in their first-round playof...2024
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• 56 PKs! Israeli teams break shootout world record

Israel's SC Dimona and Shimshon Tel Aviv have set a world record for the longest ever penalty shootout with 56 kicks....2024
• News and Notes
David Alaverdian is targeting a late September or early October date for his next fight. The 8-0-1 flyweight is back in Las Vegas training. He last fought on April 10.Stefi Cohen (4-1-1) was recently asked who she would most like to fight. She answered that taking on Ring flyweight champion Marlen Esparza down the road would be fun.Cletus Seldin worked with former foe, Eddie Gomez. Gomez posted a ...2023
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• The Journey of Ovadia Hochman

A courageous man, Ovadia Hochman possessed an independent streak. As an amateur boxer in prepubescent Israel during the 1950s and early 1960s, he blended unmistakable talent with the occasional lapse in judgement. Hochman later reinvented himself, assuming a new name and new disposition in a new land.*****Reuven Hochman and his wife Chava lived in David-Horodok, a shtetl located in Poland during t...2023
• College Lacrosse Players in Limbo Make Most of Season in Israel
Editor’s Note: On May 10, rockets from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip struck civilian targets in nearby Ashkelon, Israel. Israel’s air force responded by striking Hamas targets in Gaza. Cross-border attacks continued for 11 days. Our reporter had just visited Ashkelon to interview American collegiate players who had come to play and teach lacrosse for the year. By the time the conflict broke out, the ...2021
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• The Miracle on the Mediterranean (and the Making of a Gold Medalist)
This article appears in the September/October edition of US Lacrosse Magazine. Don’t get the mag? Join US Lacrosse today to start your subscription. The kibbutz. Just saying the word brings a smile to Tom Schreiber’s face, his bristly blonde beard widening at the cheeks as he describes the 83-year-old communal settlement the U.S. men’s national team called home for two weeks in Israel. While most ...2018
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• South Korean Brothers Find Purpose in Lacrosse and Life
NETANYA, Israel — During the first half of South Korea’s opening game Thursday morning in the Federation of International Lacrosse World Championship, the Yoo brothers separately fell to the grass with ankle and arm injuries and remained there for extended periods. Each hobbled off the field, but eventually rejoined the action. The 33rd-ranked team’s one-sided loss to No. 9 Germany, 19–5, incurred...2018
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• Omri Casspi plans to continue career in NBA
Having been waived by the Warriors over the weekend to make room on the roster for Quinn Cook, Omri Casspi will officially clear waivers and become a free agent later this week. However, while he isn’t expected to catch on with another NBA team this season, Casspi remains focused on sticking in the NBA next year, per Ailene Voisin of The Sacramento Bee.According to Voisin, Casspi intends to spend ...2018
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• College Lacrosse Players in Limbo Make Most of Season in Israel
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• 2016 NBA Mock Draft: Prospects Facing Major Fall Down Draft Boards
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• LeBron James Comes Home to a City of Characters, Putting the Past Aside
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"Free agent forward Lonnie Walker IV is signing with Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv, NBA insider Marc Stein tweets."

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"Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters and apparent pro-Palestinian protesters clashed before and after a Europa League match against Ajax in Amsterdam on Thursday night."

2023
"com, Posted 10/10/23 From Press Release and Staff Report One of the casualties of the attack in Israel was Israeli men’s lacrosse player Mor Cohen, a Tel Aviv native who competed in the JCC Maccabi (Youth) Games held in Cherry Hill in 2014, according to the Israel Lacrosse Association (ILA)."

2021
"On Thursday, the Bucks announced that they had signed former BYU star and Maccabi Tel Aviv forward Elijah Bryant to a two-year contract."

2020
"Stoudemire has been playing for Maccabi Tel Aviv this 2019-20 season, averaging 1."

2018
"While most of the record 46 nations competing in the Federation of International Lacrosse World Championship in July resided in the host city of Netanya, Team USA stayed in Shefayim, a kibbutz located 20 minutes south on Highway 2, the often-congested coastal road connecting Tel Aviv and Haifa."

2017
"NBA, FIBA and Israel Basketball Association to host first Basketball Without Borders camp in Israel"

2016
"Katz used to be a shareholder of Maccabi Tel Aviv when Blatt coached here years ago, in addition to his role as a minority owner of the Heat."

2015
"The Jerusalem Post reports Cousins is hosting a youth basketball clinic with Maccabi Tel Aviv on Wednesday with the help of Shumpert, Tyreke Evans, Chandler Parsons and Alan Anderson."

2014
"The former Maccabi Tel Aviv coach is going through double growing pains in his first year as an NBA coach."

• Jeff Dowtin Jr. Signs Three-Year Contract With Maccabi Tel Aviv
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• Jeff Dowtin Jr. To Sign With Maccabi Tel Aviv
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• International Notes: Dowtin, A. Traore, S. Johnson, Vucevic
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• Lonnie Walker IV, Maccabi Agree To Contract

Lonnie Walker IV has agreed to sign with Maccabi Tel Aviv. Walker has an NBA buyout clause in his contract until August 1st and will be one of the highest-paid players in Europe. Walker was with the Boston Celtics for preseason in 2024-25 before signing with Zalgiris. Walker then joined the Philadelphia 76ers on a two-year, $3 million deal in February. Walker averaged 12.3 points, 3.1 rebounds an...2025
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• Lonnie Walker IV To Join Maccabi Tel Aviv
Free agent forward Lonnie Walker IV is signing with Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv, NBA insider Marc Stein tweets. The Sixers declined their $2.9MM option on the 26-year-old at the end of last month, making him an unrestricted free agent. Terms of the contract are yet to be disclosed but he’ll be one of the highest paid players […]...2025
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• Micic Signs Three-Year Contract With Hapoel
Vasilije Micic has signed with Hapoel Tel Aviv on a three-year contract worth $20.9MM, Basketnews.com relays. The contract will make Micic the highest-paid player in the EuroLeague. Additionally, he’ll also receive shares in the club. Earlier this month, the Bucks bought out Micic shortly after he was acquired in a trade with the Hornets. Micic […]...2025
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• International Notes: Brissett, Valanciunas, Bamba, Micic, Cordinier
Former NBA forward Oshae Brissett has signed with Maccabi Tel Aviv, the Israeli team announced on Tuesday in a press release. Brissett, who went undrafted out of Syracuse in 2019, has since appeared in 233 NBA regular season games for Toronto, Indiana, Boston, and Philadelphia. His best years came with the Pacers, with whom he […]...2025
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• Nets’ Israeli draft picks feeling love from Jewish community

Nets rookie Ben Saraf grew up 18 miles from Tel Aviv, the city with the world’s biggest Jewish population....2025
• International Notes: Micic, Westbrook, Jokubaitis, Valanciunas, Theis
Hapoel Tel Aviv general manager George Hinas tells Vuk-Milos Petrovic of Basketball Sphere that his team remains in contention to sign Vasilije Micic, but he dismissed speculation about Russell Westbrook. Micic is still under contract with the Suns, but they’re expected to decline their $8.1MM team option for next season, making him a free agent […]...2025
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• Hapoel Tel Aviv Is Reportedly Looking To Lure Former All-Star Russell Westbrook With ‘Never Seen Before’ Salary
Russell Westbrook's future will be questioned this offseason as a European basketball club prepares to offer him a massive deal to lure him out....2025
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• Jeff Dowtin Jr Signs With Maccabi Tel Aviv
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• Lonnie Walker IV, Maccabi Agree To Contract
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• International Notes: Gabriel, Korkmaz, Marjanovic, T. Williams
Former NBA big man Wenyen Gabriel is headed to Panathinaikos after the team agreed to pay a $350K buyout fee to Maccabi Tel Aviv, according to Donatas Urbonas of BasketNews. In his first EuroLeague season, Gabriel is averaging 5.8 points, 4.7 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 1.1 blocks per game with the Israeli team while shooting […]...2024
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• Bruno Caboclo Signs With Hapoel Tel Aviv

Veteran forward Bruno Caboclo has officially signed with Hapoel Tel Aviv in Israel. The club announced the signing on Friday. Caboclo had a recent workout with the Golden State Warriors and had been pursuing a return to the NBA. His new deal with Hapoel Tel Aviv may include an NBA out, but for now it appears Caboclo will stay overseas for at least one more season. Last season, in 58 games with Par...2024
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• Rokas Jokubaitis In “Advanced Talks” With Maccabi Tel Aviv
Rokas Jokubaitis, who played for the Knicks during Summer League, is in “advanced talks” with Maccabi Tel Aviv, according to Alessandro Maggi of Sportando. The Lithuanian point guard has spent the past three years with Barcelona, where he averaged 5.3 points and 2.8 assists per game last season. Barcelona recently declined to exercise an option on […]...2024
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• Olympics’ 50 best men’s basketball players for 2024 Paris games, ranked
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• Tel Aviv ATP tournament cancelled due to Israel-Hamas war
As a result of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, the ATP announced on Friday that the Tel Aviv Watergen Open has been cancelled. As a result of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, the ATP announced on Friday that the Tel Aviv Watergen Open has been cancelled. It had been scheduled during the fall indoor swing for the week of November 5-11. [...] The post Tel Aviv ATP tournament cancelled due to Israel-Hama...2023
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• And-Ones: Kaminsky, Okafor, Jones, Las Vegas
Frank Kaminsky is reportedly drawing interest from Maccabi Tel Aviv, Cesare Milanti of Eurohoops.net relays. Kaminsky has been in the NBA since 2015 with 413 regular-season games under his belt. Kaminsky, an unrestricted free agent this summer, appeared in a total of 36 games last season for the Hawks and Rockets. He’s averaged 8.8 points […]...2023
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• The Journey of Ovadia Hochman
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• Wizards select Deni Avdija at No. 9 in 2020 NBA Draft
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Washington Wizards (@washwizards) The Washington Wizards selected Deni Avdija (pronounced Denny AHV-dee-uh) from Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel) with the ninth overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft. Avdija, a 6-9, 225-pound forward, becomes the highest-drafted Israeli player in NBA history. He averaged 18.4 points, 8.3 rebounds, … Continue reading "Wizards...2020
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• Maccabi Tel Aviv Announces Signing Of Lonnie Walker IV
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• Introducing Devin Strübin

Devin "The Honey Badger" Strübin is a 7-1-1 super middleweight with six knockouts. The 30 year old southpaw from Urdorf, Zurich, Switzerland turned pro in 2022."My fighting style is to make pressure," Strübin told The Jewish Boxing Blog. "I look for the infight and make pressure, punch by punch, round by round, until my opponent is broken."He made the switch from kickboxing ten years ago and his s...2025
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• Olympics’ 50 best men’s basketball players for 2024 Paris games, ranked
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• Tomer Benny to Make Debut on June 22
Tomer Benny is scheduled to make his debut in June 22 at Palenque in Tijuana, Baja, California. The 19 year old native of Tel Aviv, Israel, Benny has recently been training in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.The southpaw, has sparred with former world champion Jamel Herring and fast-rising prospect Curmel Morton. Benny has also worked with undefeated pro Trevor Thonson. In Vegas, Tomer has received coachin...2024
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• The Journey of Ovadia Hochman
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• College Lacrosse Players in Limbo Make Most of Season in Israel
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• Six-time NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire signs with Israeli team
Veteran forward Amar’e Stoudemire is returning to Israel and has signed with Maccabi Tel Aviv for the rest of the season, according to Michael Bachner of The Times of Israel. We relayed last month that Stoudemire was working out in South Florida in hopes of getting another chance at the NBA. The 37-year-old played briefly in China at the start of the season but left after 11 games because he wasn’...2020
• Sessions, Jennings, Crawford become free agents
Former NBA guards Ramon Sessions, Brandon Jennings, and Jordan Crawford are all back on the free agent market, according to a series of reports from Emiliano Carchia of Sportando. Sessions had been playing for Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel, while Jennings had been a member of Zenit St. Petersburg in Russia, but both veterans parted ways with their respective teams this week, according to Charania. Ma...2018
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• ‘Not an Ending, But a Beginning’ for Israel Lacrosse
NETANYA, Israel — Forty-six national teams stood behind their flags for the opening ceremony of the Federation of International Lacrosse World Championship last Thursday evening at Netanya Stadium. The pageantry — rhythmic gymnastics-like dancers, songs, official welcomes, referees’ oaths and fireworks — capped a stunning doubleheader for David Lasday, the Israel Lacrosse’s chief operating officer...2018
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• Miami Heat Minority Owner Claims LeBron James Wanted Erik Spoelstra Fired
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• Nate Robinson Reportedly Receives Tryout with Seattle Seahawks
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• DeMarcus Cousins and NBA Colleagues Seem to Be Having a Grand Time in Israel
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• David Blatt Would Love It If LeBron James Let Him Do His Job
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• Another Slow Start May Be Turning into Another Turnaround Story for Cavs' Blatt
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• NBA Lottery Results 2016: Full Selection Order, Analysis and More
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• Maccabi Tel-Aviv’s Dragan Bender Declares for NBA Draft
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• Introducing Devin Strübin
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• Feldman, Zinman, Opponents Weigh In

Junior middleweight Joshua Feldman and featherweight Doron Zinman fight in separate bouts tomorrow at Box Camp Booysens in Johannesburg, South Africa tomorrow. The tournament is promoted by Boxing 5 Promotions.Feldman (4-0, 2 KOs) weighed in at 153.4 pounds. Though this is his fifth fight, it's his seventh weigh-in. His weight has been between 152.5 and 154 pounds each time, which shows remarkable...2024
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• Feldman, Zinman, Opponents Weigh In

Junior middleweight Joshua Feldman and featherweight Doron Zinman fight in separate bouts tomorrow at Box Camp Booysens in Johannesburg, South Africa tomorrow. The tournament is promoted by Boxing 5 Promotions.Feldman (4-0, 2 KOs) weighed in at 153.4 pounds. Though this is his fifth fight, it's his seventh weigh-in. His weight has been between 152.5 and 154 pounds each time, which shows remarkable...2024
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• Caboclo Receives Two-Year Offer From Israeli Club
Bruno Caboclo has received a two-year offer from Hapeol Tel Aviv, Eurohoops.net relays. According to Sport 5, the offer on the table but he needs to decide quickly. He’s been given a Tuesday deadline, since the team has already begun training camp and wants to finalize its roster. The former NBA first-rounder told the media […]...2024
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• Patrick Beverley Could Sign In Israel For Upcoming Season
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• And-Ones: Beverley, Second Apron, 2025 Mock, Egan, Plumlee
Could Patrick Beverley play overseas next season? The longtime NBA point guard has garnered the interest of Israel’s Hapoel Tel Aviv, Sportando relays. Beverley, 36, is an unrestricted free agent. He played for the Bucks last season and made the highlights for the wrong reasons in the playoffs. He fired a basketball multiple times at […]...2024
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• Tomer Benny's Pro Debut Pushed Back to the End of the Year
Tomer Benny, the southpaw junior welterweight, has decided to delay his pro debut. He had been scheduled to fight this weekend in Mexico.The Tel Aviv native now splits time between his hometown and Las Vegas in the United States where he has learned from Wayne McCullough and Floyd Mayweather Sr. He plans to fight in a local tournament in Vegas before competing in the under-22 European amateur cham...2024
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• Tomer Benny to Make Debut on June 22
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• Gloves and Doves to Feature Hagar Finer

Former world champion Hagar Finer is scheduled to box in an exhibition as part of a Gloves and Doves show on May 9 at the Camden Boxing Club in London, England. Finer held the WIBF super flyweight world title from 2007-2008 and then captured the WIBF bantamweight world title in 2009. After four successful defenses, she retired in 2012.Finer has made Evgheni Boico's list of the top five Jewish Isra...2024
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• Goldberg might go into business for himself to get retirement match
WCW legend and WWE Hall of Famer Goldberg is currently a free agent. There’s been speculation about the 56 year old football player-turned-wrestler taking his talents to AEW, with owner/president/booker Tony Khan even expressing some interest. But the one thing Bill G’s talked about is a retirement match — something he says WWE owes him, and that’s he mused about self-promoting. During an intervi...2023
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• South Korean Brothers Find Purpose in Lacrosse and Life
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• Jordan Farmar: Latest News, Rumors and Speculation on Free-Agent PG
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• Ranking the Top 2016 NBA Draft Prospects at Every Position
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• Breaking Down the Twitter Buzz Surrounding the Cleveland Cavaliers' Preseason
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• Andrei Kirilenko's Utah Home Burglarized: Latest Details and More
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