2018 Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony & Banquet

2018 JSHoF Induction Gala Banquet
Enjoy an Eventful Evening of Sensational Sports Stars, Stories, Students, and Scholarships. 


Celebrity Reception: Have your photo taken with a sports legend.


Silent Auction: Bid on a variety of unique items and sports memorabilia.


Savor a five-star dinner, libations, and a whole lot more!


Your donation is tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law and benefits our student scholarship fund and student athletic activities for Bay Area youth, as well as for our Sports Concussion Prevention Initiative. Visit the Northern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame website for more information.


5:00 PM — Cocktails, Hors D'oeuvres, SIlent Auction
6:15 PM — Induction Dinner & Awards Ceremony

CHRIS BERMAN
For almost four decades, Chris Berman, nicknamed Boomer, has become one of America’s most respected, popular, and in many ways, most beloved sportscasters of his era. A legend in the industry, Berman has also been recognized by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, his peers and countless other organizations for his exceptional contributions to sports broadcasting. With his trademark combination of genuine enthusiasm, knowledge and wit, he has come to embody ESPN in its dedication to entertaining and informing sports fans across the country.  He is best known for his signature delivery of highlights in every sport, most notably on NFL Sundays. Six times the versatile Berman has been selected the National Sportscaster of the Year (1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1996, and 2001) by the members of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association (now the National Sports Media Association). Berman, who in 1989 became the first cable sportscaster to win National Sportscaster of the Year, ranks second among sportscasters in winning this award. Berman and his various shows have won 10 Emmy Awards and 12 Cable ACEs. Berman received the distinguished Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010 for his longtime exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football, an unexpected and humbling honor which Berman cherishes most among a career of achievement. His coverage of baseball for ESPN also spans almost four decades, with Berman’s most significant contribution coming on Sept. 6, 1995. He handled play-by-play for the Emmy Award-winning telecast of Cal Ripken’s 2,131st consecutive game, which surpassed the record held by the immortal Lou Gehrig. In 2001, Berman was named winner of the prestigious Reds Bagnell Award from the Maxwell Football Club of Philadelphia for “contributions to the game of football.” Previous recipients include Pete Rozelle, Don Shula, Joe Paterno, and Eddie Robinson, among others. In January 2009, Berman was honored with The Pat Summerall Award at the annual Legends for Charity dinner in recognition of his longtime excellence in football broadcasting. In December 2017, Berman was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame. In 2016, he was honored with the Newseum Institute’s Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in Media – the first sportscaster ever honored. He was also inducted into the National Sports Media Association (formerly NSSA) Hall of Fame. In 2015, Berman was just the fifth on-air personality to be inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame. Hosting Sunday NFL Countdown has also garnered five Cable ACEs (1989, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995). Berman – a veteran of 36 Super Bowls, beginning with the 49ers’ first NFL Championship in Super Bowl XVI – began working alongside Tom Jackson on Sunday NFL Countdown in 1987 when ESPN first acquired the rights to carry the NFL. The 2015 NFL season was their 29th year working together, which is unheard of in TV, just two years shy of the longest duo – 31 years – Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon. Berman and Jackson teamed together every Sunday night in the fall from 1987-2005 to host the critically-acclaimed NFL PrimeTime, which still holds the record as cable television’s highest-rated studio show.  When Monday Night Football moved to ESPN in 2006, so did Berman’s signature weekly halftime highlights trip through the NFL, “The Fastest Three Minutes in Television.” It was a staple on Sunday Night Football for all 19 years (1987-2005), and remained one on Monday Night Football and Monday Night Countdown through 2016. Chris has covered 31 All Star games and 30 World Series for ESPN, including the 1989 San Francisco Earthquake, and Baseball Tonight since its inception. From 1986-2014, Berman covered the U.S. Open, a role that he relished, including the “NFL PrimeTime of golf,” the nightly U.S. Open highlights show. In 2003, he added play-by-play duties for ESPN’s coverage of the first and second rounds of the U.S. Open to his host role. Berman has played himself in 15 motion pictures: The Longest Yard, Little Big League, Necessary Roughness, Draft Day, The Waterboy, Grown Ups 2, Tracktown, Eddie, The Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon, Big Daddy, Second String, Even Steven, Kingpin, The Program, Celtic Pride – and on several television shows including Sesame Street, Spin City, The Jersey and Arli$$.


DICK GOULD
Dick Gould serves as the John L. Hinds Director of Tennis at Stanford University. He served as the Stanford Men’s Tennis Coach, 1966-2004, during which time his team won 17 NCAA Team Championships (88 wins, 11 losses in NCAA team championship competition), 10 NCAA singles champions (5 others = runner-ups, 8 others have reached the semi finals); 7 NCAA doubles championship teams (8 other payers have reached the finals); 50 All Americans; coached 9 players who reached top 15 in ATP world singles rankings and 14 players who reached top 10 in ATP world doubles rankings (7 attained a #1 world doubles ranking – 11 have won Grand Slam Doubles Championships). Dick was the U.S. Olympic Committee Coach of the Year in 1998 and Pac-12 Conference Tennis Coach of the Century and he served at the Coach of All Star teams to China and Japan; he is past president of Professional Tennis, Inc. (1967 - forerunner to Nor Cal USPTA); and he advises JobTrain (OICW); Turing Sense, the Positive Coaching Alliance; Grips Program, East Palo Alto Tennis & Tutoring; US Sports Camps. Dick is a member of Athletic Halls of Fame: Ventura County (1990); Northern California Tennis (1992); Stanford University (1994); Intercollegiate (2006)   S.F. Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame (2006), San Jose Sports Hall of Fame (2008), and the Multi-Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame (2014.


MATT LEVINE
Matt Levine is a visionary sports industry leader who has earned national prominence through his strategic insights; team/league/event brand development; licensing and analytics/technology innovations and management team building capabilities. He is a current member of founding management team creating and launching in the summer of 2018 the first United States-based professional 3x3 basketball league in New York, DC/Baltimore and the SF Bay Area. He was the Managing Director for SOURCE USA serving the sports and entertainment industry (60+ pro sports franchises; league commissioners of NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL; arenas/stadia/horse and motor racetracks; mixed martial arts promoters and university athletic departments). Matt was the Executive Vice President of the San Jose Sharks where is focus was market positioning and branding (including record-breaking and industry-leading merchandise sales) of the San Jose Sharks hockey franchise and opening of San Jose Arena (now SAP Center) with responsibility for building management team and driving all revenue streams. He was the President/CEO and Founder of Pacific Select Corp and Sports Team Analysis & Tracking Systems (STATS, Inc.) which conceived and deployed the first quantitative sports event attender measurement tool, the Audience Audit ™, in the mid-1970s, with the Golden State Warriors, expanding its use to all major pro team and racing sports. Matt launched in 1976 and published through 1982 the first national publication for sports management, the quarterly newsletter “Sports Management Review™, precursor to Sports Ink, Sports Business Daily and Sports Business Journal. And, he pioneered integration of computer technology (EDGE 1.000 ™) in TV and radio, Major League Baseball broadcast commentary, player performance evaluation and game tactics planning, the foundation technology for “Moneyball.” Initial users in the early 1980s were the Oakland A’s, New York Yankees, Houston Astros and Chicago White Sox.

MARTY LURIE 
Marty Lurie graduated from The University of Miami law school in 1971, became a lawyer in Miami where he practiced law for one year. He moved to the Bay Area where he practiced law for almost 25 years, during which time he handled over 100 homicide cases as well as a number of capital cases. Marty’s seamless transition into sports broadcasting began with a show called “The Sports Doctor” on a small Oakland radio station. After becoming credentialed for the San Francisco Giants, the San Francisco 49ers, the Oakland Athletics, the Oakland Raiders, and the San Jose Sharks, his shows expanded to include interviews of professional players, which Lurie himself conducted after games. For the next 11 years, Lurie hosted the Athletics’ “pre-pre-game” shows. During that time, he developed a short daily segment called “Memories of the Game,” in which he would interview a prominent sports personality who had historical ties to that date. Today, more than 300 of these clips have been placed into the audio library at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. In 2010. Marty began hosting weekend pre- and post-game shows on the Giants’ flagship station, KNBR, where he has earned the nickname “Marathon Marty” because his shows, which started out airing for an hour before games and an hour after, now combine for around 8 hours of air time each day.     


MIKE SILVER          
Michael Silver joined NFL Media in August 2013 after spending six years covering the NFL for Yahoo! Sports. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Silver spent 13 years at Sports Illustrated, during which time he wrote more than 70 cover stories and authored 13 consecutive Super Bowl game stories for the magazine. In his role as NFL Media reporter/columnist, Silver appears on a variety of NFL Network programs and writes columns for NFL.com. Mike began his career as a sports writer and columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, where he covered the San Francisco 49ers and Golden State Warriors from 1990-94.  He also covered the 49ers for the Sacramento Union and served as a correspondent for Pro Football Weekly and The Sporting News. He has also written articles for Rolling Stone and GQ. Mike’s published works include: Rice with Jerry Rice (St. Martin's Press, 1996), Walk on the Wild Side with Dennis Rodman (Delacorte Press, 1997), All Things Possible with Kurt Warner (Harper San Francisco, 2000) and Golden Girl with Natalie Coughlin (Rodale Press, 2006).



STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP AWARD WINNERS — TO BE ANNOUNCED
Visit our website for inductee videos, upcoming events and lots more! • www.jshofnc.com

The class of 2018, along with some incredibly talented Bay Area high school student-athletes, will be honored. 
       The Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Northern California was established:


To communicate to the public the contributions Jewish sports figures have made to the quality of life throughout the world


To educate the public of the contributions Northern California Jewish Sports figures have made to our community


To recognize and celebrate the induction of professional Jewish athletes, high school athletes, and community members into the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Northern California and its associated award programs


To provide support, mentoring, and assistance for Jewish youth participating in sports


To forge positive relationships with diverse organizations and individuals promoting the value of sports in our daily lives


To deter anti-Semitism by responding to extremism without being extreme, encourage educational campaigns, and raise the consciousness of people worldwide.


Visit the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Northern California's “Wall of Fame” on the Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life in Palo Alto.
The Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Northern California is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, all-volunteer organization. There is no paid staff or administrative costs. We derive all of our revenue from sponsors, vendors, donations, event revenue, and charitable grants. We rely completely on members and volunteers for the time they devote to the events we present.
Our tax ID number is: 26-0493232
Row 1: Rick Berry, Carmen Policy, and Spencer ChristianRow 2: Vida Blue, Don Collins and award winning student, and Larry BaerRow 3: Al Rosen, Harris Barton, and Jack AndersonVisit our website for inductee videos, upcoming events and lots more! • www.jshofnc.org