New and Noteworthy

• Ravens’ dynamic duo of Henry and Jackson help lead a rushing renaissance in the NFL by Josh Dobow The Associated Press

• How Harlem Globetrotters founder Abe Saperstein shaped basketball as we know it today by Jacob Gurvis Jewish Telegraphic Agency 

• Pete Rose was a great, tragically flawed man by Kenneth Craycraft Our Sunday Visitor

• Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre says he has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease

  by Thomas Schlachter CNN

• Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani becomes first player to join 50-50 club

  by Homero De la Fuente CNN

• Dozens arrested amid clashes after Croatia-Poland Nations League matchby Euronews

• M.L.B.’S First Woman Coach A ‘Go-Getter’ In Grad School At Jesuit College by Mark Pattison Catholic News Service/America

• Israeli Guy Sasson wins Paralympic bronze in wheelchair tennis, Israel’s ninth Paris medal by Jacob Gurvis The Jewish Telegraphic Agency

• Queering Women’s Boxing  by Jennifer Roback Morse National Catholic Register 

• Boxer With Male Chromosomes Defeats Woman Boxer in 46-Second Olympic Fight by Tyler Arnold Catholic Ness Agency/National Catholic Register 

• Gold Medalist Cole Hocker’s Strong Work Ethic and Faith Define Olympic Journey by Jack Figge National Catholic Register

• M.L.B.’S First Woman Coach A ‘Go-Getter’ In Grad School At Jesuit College by Mark Pattison Catholic News Service/America

• Meet Israel’s Paralympians who’ll be led into Paris Games by a survivor of 7/10 by Jenni Frazer Jewish News

• The Jewish Sport Report: 3 Jews + 1 strikeout = baseball history by Jacob Gurvis Jewish Telegraphic Agency

• Malcolm Gladwell tells JTA about Hitler’s influence on the modern Olympics by Jacob Gurvis Jewish Telegraphic Agency 

• Three Catholic athletes who brought faith to the Olympics by Michael O’Brien America