Category : Jpost - Israeli Sport

Maccabi Tel Aviv downs Hapoel Haifa in Winner Cup

Maccabi Tel Aviv defeated Hapoel Haifa 83-74 on Monday night to advance to the Winner Cup semifinals, where Maccabi Rishon Lezion will be waiting.The yellow-and-blue led the game wire-to-wire in a convincing win that saw Ioannis Sfairopo...

Israeli clubs back in action after hiatus

The Israel Premier League got back to business this past weekend after more than a month on the sidelines due to the countrywide lockdown as Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Beersheba kicked off at Bloomfield Stadium in a highly anticipated m...

Maccabi Tel Aviv aims to get back on track

Maccabi Tel Aviv visits Khimki Moscow on Friday night in Euroleague action as the yellow-and-blue enters the contest with a 1-3 record having lost three continental clashes in a row.Ioannis Sfairopoulos’s squad has been having trouble cl...

Courage in Motion ride not slowed by coronavirus

Every year, for the past 13 years, Israeli veteran riders have cycled with Canadian partners who come to Israel especially for Courage in Motion bike ride.This year, due to COVID-19, Canadian riders could not come to Israel and so a cros...

Israel Start-Up Nation’s Martin wins Vuelta stage

Israel Start-Up Nation rider Dan Martin claimed victory on Stage 3 of the Vuelta a Espana as early race leader Primoz Roglic of Jumbo-Visma also put in a strong showing to remain in red on Thursday.The 166-kilometer Lodosa-to-Vinuesa rou...

Team Israel Start-Up Nation paves a path to peace

‘Team Israel Start-Up Nation. Have you ever heard of a better name for an Israeli sports team?” marvels Sylvan Adams.The co-owner of the Israeli cycling team that competed in the Tour de France last month and Israel’s “self-appointed amb...

Maccabi Tel Aviv kicks off group stage vs Qarabag

Maccabi Tel Aviv hosts Qarabag FK in UEFA Europa League Matchday One action on Thursday night at Bloomfield Stadium.This season will mark the first time since the 2017/18 campaign that the yellow-and-blue will be playing in the group sta...

Bayern Munich holds off Maccabi Tel Aviv

Maccabi Tel Aviv fell to Bayern Munich 85-82 in Euroleague action at Yad Eliyahu on Wednesday night to drop its record to 1-2 on the continental season.The German squad dominated the yellow-and-blue throughout the first half, forcing a t...

Blue-and-white roars back to beat Slovakia

Israel stunned Slovakia 3-2 in UEFA Nations League play late Wednesday as Eran Zahavi scored a second-half hat-trick to help the blue-and-white comeback from a 2-0 deficit to take the victory in Trnava.Head coach Willi Ruttensteiner’s sq...

Jerusalem tops Rishon in Balkan League

Twelve Israel Basketball League teams entered the Balkan League competition in order to keep in shape as the government halted the local league during the coronavirus lockdown to stem the spread of the pandemic.The idea behind joining th...

Over-reliance on Zahavi an issue for Israel

On Thursday night, we found out that Eran Zahavi is mortal just like every other player on the Israel National team.When EZ7 missed his critical spot kick in the penalty shootout, the blue-and-white was done. It didn’t matter that Zahavi...

Israel Start-Up Nation wins historic Giro stage

The Israel Start-Up Nation (ISN) cycling team made history on Saturday, recording its first-ever stage victory in a Grand Tour race, just five years after the team’s establishment.Alex Dowsett finished first on Stage 8 of the Giro d’Ital...

Hunter embraces senior role with Maccabi Tel Aviv

Maccabi Tel Aviv kicked off the 2020/21 Euroleague season last week with a victory over Alba Berlin and one of the yellow-and-blue’s most important players both on the court and in the locker-room is big man Othello Hunter, who began his...

Champions League losses in soccer, hoops

Maccabi Tel Aviv was eliminated from Champions League play after succumbing to FC Salzburg 3-1 in the second leg of their playoff tie (5-2 on aggregate in the two games) at Red Bull Arena in Austria on Wednesday night.The yellow-and-blue...

Hapoel Jerusalem in Greece for BCL Final 8

Hapoel Jerusalem will face San Pablo Burgos on Wednesday in the Basketball Champions League Final Eight tournament at the O.A.K.A. Arena in Athens as the Reds will look to win their first continental title since 2004.The Basketball Champ...