A Goodman Not As Hard to Find

Former schoolboy hoops legend turned Where Are They Now? mainstay Tamir Goodman will return to the area to play for the Maryland Nighthawks, the Rockville-based minor league club has announced.

Goodman's basketball fortunes peaked in early 1999 when he was dominating weak and mostly faith-based competition while playing with a smile and a yarmulke for the Talmudical Academy, a school for Orthodox Jews in Baltimore. The University of Maryland offered a scholarship to Goodman during his junior year at TA, and the mythical Jewish Jordan was born.

Alas, neither his on-court reputation nor that scholarship offer held up through his senior season. After his ACC dreams faded, Goodman had a brief and disappointing college career at Towson University before disappearing to Israel.

When Goodman was last heard from, he was on the bench playing in a lesser division in Israel's professional league. He no longer dominated, but he was still wearing the yarmulke.