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he United States entry
in the basketball corn-
petition of the 13th
Maccabiah in Israel next
week probably will have a
tough battle with the host
team.
Ben Braun, coach at
Eastern Michigan University,
has as returnees only three
members of the team that
edged Israel by two points in
the 1985 Maccabiah: point
guard Joshua Wexler of Cor-
nell University; Jerry Simon,
a shooting guard from Penn;
and 6-foot-4 Albert Moscatel
from the University of
Washington.
The U.S. Maccabi team will
feature two athletes who
represented America in last
summer's Olympic Games in
Korea: Ken Flax, America's
No. 1-rated hammer-thrower,
and rowing coxswain Sherri
Cassuto.
Many other top U.S. Jewish
athletes in judo, fencing and
wrestling will be competing
in more presitigious tour-
naments in hopes of qualify-
ing for the 1992 Olympics.
But few other Diaspora na-
tions can match the United
States' highly developed high
school, college and age-group
athletic programs, so it seems
fairly certain that the United
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States will win more medals
than any other nation.
Wexler and Simon were the
first high school players to
make a Maccabi team since
Danny Schayes.
Wexler, from Highland
Park, Ill., and the only
Midwesterner on the cage
squad, led Cornell in assists
for four straight years while
Simon was a top scorer for his
team. Moscatel, playing in
the powerful PAC-10 Con-
ference, was "Sixth Man of
The Year" in 1986.
Among the men's swimm-
ing favorites will be Daniel
Israel of Ann Arbor, who won
the silver and bronze medals
in Israel in 1985. Israel, who
graduated from Brown
University in May, is an All-
Ivy League and All-East
swimmer.
Tennis top seeds are Dan
Goldberg of the University of
Michigan, a two-time all-
American, and Andrea
Berger of the University of
Florida, who has reached the
quarterfinals of four women's
professional tournaments, in-
cluding the U.S. Open and the
second round at Wimbledon
in 1987.
Michiganian
David
Stollman, of Birmingham,
who finished third in the col-
legiate fencing champion-
ships at Penn, will be among
that sport's favorites.
T
he National Basket-
ball Association cham-
pionship won earlier
this month by the Detroit
Pistons had special
significance to the metro
area's Jewish community.
Much satisfaction, of course,
was evinced by the fact the
team's principal owners —
Bill Davidson, David
Hermelin and Oscar Feldman
— as well as other key in-
vestors are members of the
Jewish community.
And all fans were shocked
when the Piston manage-
ment left unprotected Rick
Mahorn, the key "Bad Boy"
on the team, who went to
Minnesota in the expansion
draft.
The fact the "Bad Boys"
nickname might no longer
apply had special significance
to Bill Berris, marketer of the
skull-and-crossbones "Bad
Boys" logo.
His Athletic Supporter Ltd.
of Farmington Hills, one of six
companies licensed by the
NBA to produce and market
Piston memorabilia, has sold
over 120,000 "Bad Boys" T-
shirts nationwide since
November, he said.
"The basketball motif has
proven to be very profitable,"
he said. "It's an identity that
the fans are behind and I
don't think the fans are going
to suddenly stop thinking of
the team as the Bad Boys. It's
an image the fans have
created. We got calls from
people saying, 'Save the Bad
Boys.' "
Rick Philip Brode, a Detroit
attorney and sports agent for
the Pistons' John Long,
waited with his client for the
June 27 NBA player draft to
see what would happen
because Long is to become an
unrestricted free agent on Ju-
ly 1.