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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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“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)