Sports
Maccabi Habik'a, formerly Maccabi Giv'at Shmuel, are a basketball team that played in Ligat HaAl, the top division of Israeli basketball, until relegation in 2007. They reached the State Cup final in 2003, but lost to Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Commencing April 30, 2010 a local running race has been inaugurated which is intended to take place annually. During the first race, 350 runners from all over the country participated in a 10 km heat and over 750 youngsters in a 2 km non-competitive heat. The 10 km competitive heat was led by the country's top long distance runners.
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“Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)