18 January 3 • 2019
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Here’s Who Made
News in 2018

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or the first sports column of
2019, let’
s look back at some top
sports stories of 2018.
* Former Detroit Tigers star and
2017 Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez receives the
Hank Greenberg Memorial Lifetime
Achievement Award on June 11 at the
Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation’
s
28th annual Hank Greenberg Memorial
Invitational golf outing.
* Sari Circurel is named executive
director of the Michigan Jewish Sports
Foundation following
the March retirement of
David Blatt, who stepped
down after 10 years.
* Karen Gordon
coaches the U.S. 16U
girls basketball team
to a silver medal at the
inaugural International
Maccabi Youth Games
in July in Israel. She has
been involved in the
Detroit Maccabi pro-
gram for 30-plus years.
* Farmington Hills
Harrison High School football ends,
the victim of a school closure ordered
three years ago by the Farmington
Public Schools school board. And so
ends Billy Slobin’
s 33-year labor of love
as the Hawks’
volunteer strength and
conditioning coach.
* The Inter-Congregational Men’
s
Club Summer Softball League’
s 23rd
season: Playoff champions are Temple
Israel No. 6 in the Greenberg Division,
Temple Beth El in the Koufax Division
and Young Israel of Southfield in the
Rosen Division.
* Morgan Leib becomes the first girl
to play for the Detroit ice hockey team
at the JCC Maccabi
Games & ArtsFest.
* Detroit dancers win
medals in 15 of 20 rou-
tines at the JCC Maccabi
Games & ArtsFest in
California.
* Detroit 14U basket-
ball players Noah Kam,
Carson Brodsky and Alex Mayoras help
a mixed delegation team win a gold

medal at the JCC Maccabi Games &
ArtsFest in California.
* Gary Klinger wins a B’
nai B’
rith
sports triple crown. His teams win
Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson bowling
league and Inter-Congregational Men’
s
Club Summer Softball League cham-
pionships and he combines with Dale
Taub to win the golf league team title.
* Bowler Dave Shanbaum of
Windsor rolls his 17th career 300 game
Jan. 15 at Country Lanes in Farmington
Hills during Brotherhood-Eddie
Jacobson B’
nai B’
rith league play.
* Rob Landaw is honored in March
by the USA Softball of Metro Detroit
organization for his 40 years of service
as a slow-pitch softball umpire. Landaw
has been the Inter-Congregational
Men’
s Club Summer Softball League
umpire-in-chief for several years.
* Weightlifter Jeff Ellis of West
Bloomfield competes in a national meet
for the first time and wins a gold medal
in the age 55-59 198-pound division
with a 275-pound bench
press. Ellis wins gold
April 20 at the Amateur
American Powerlifting
Federation national meet
in Grand Rapids. He had
qualified for the 2016
and 2017 AAPF national
meets, but he couldn’
t compete each
year because of an injury.
* Birmingham Marian High School
girls soccer coach Barry Brodsky guides
his team to its second consecutive state
championship and seventh state title in
his 17 years at the helm.
* Jenna Silverman (Bloomfield Hills),
Max Levitsky (Birmingham Seaholm)
and Nolan Werner (Birmingham
Seaholm) win high school tennis state
championships.
* Jim Berk of West Bloomfield
wins three gold medals and one silver
medal in swimming in August at the
Michigan Senior Olympics, giving him
15 golds, three silvers and one bronze
over six years. ■

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