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CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — AJ Edelman and Menachem Chen are in last place out of 26 sleds at the midway point of the Olympic two-man bobsled race at the Milan Cortina Games. And they're thrilled.

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The team is anchored by its pitching ace Dean Kremer of the Orioles, while Harrison Bader and Spencer Horwitz are among its ...

"Anyone can say anything about us, but you know what? They can only say it because we're here," said the team's founder, A.J. Edelman.

The team includes a diverse group of athletes, such as a pole-vaulter, sprinter, and former Olympian in skeleton ...

Several MLB players have been added to Team Israel's roster this year, in time for next month's World Baseball Classic. A ...

An apartment where the Israeli bobsled team was staying at for training ahead of the Winter Olympics was robbed, according to ...

Passports and “thousands of dollars” worth of other items were among what was taken, Israeli bobsled pilot AJ Edelman said.

With a roster made up almost entirely of American Jewish players, this will be Team Israel’s third World Baseball Classic ...

But for Edelman, the 12-year journey that culminated in Israel’s first-ever Olympic bobsled appearance — which he has nicknamed “Shul Runnings,” a spin on the 1993 movie about Jamaica’s bobsled team — ...

(JTA) — A pitcher for the Minnesota Twins whose father-in-law is an Israeli-American pharmaceutical executive and political activist is one of the new additions to Team Israel ahead of next month’s ...