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Duffs day at Indy wasn't a total washout. Speedway officials presented him with a check for $5,000, increasing the amount Duff has raised for the Miami Project to nearly $600,000.

EEL-ATION
Duff may prefer rolling across the countryside, but other disabled athletes are taking to the sea. One group from Boston leaves its wheelchairs onshore and, with some assistance from able-bodied guides, scuba dives. The members of the group call themselves the Moray Wheels.

IT'S ALL KOSHER

New York City sports agent David Fishof believes many Jewish children are deprived of the opportunity to develop into great athletes. "They can't play youth football because the games are on Saturday, the Sabbath," he says. "The same is true for Little League baseball and other sports. Summer camps are out because they run through Saturday and don't provide kosher food."

Fishof, who is an Orthodox Jew, has addressed the problem by organizing what he's billing as "the first ever kosher hockey and basketball camp," scheduled for June 25-29 (Sunday to Thursday) in Lake Como, Pa. All the food will be kosher, and campers will be required to attend morning and evening religious services. Big-name instructors—none of them Jewish—will include Gerald Wilkins and coach Rick Pitino of the New York Knicks, Brian Leetch of the New York Rangers and Pat LaFontaine of the New York Islanders. The camp has already signed up more than 100 kids, and it is still accepting applications.

At the same time, many Jewish youngsters—even the most sports-minded ones—are turning away from baseball and other sports cards to collect a more meaningful alternative: rabbi cards. Arthur Shugarman, a Baltimore accountant, has issued the first set of 36 cards through a nonprofit company he founded called Torah Personalities; the second set is due out this month. Each card has a color photo of a prominent 20th-century rabbi on the front and biographical information about him (birthplace, education, yeshiva or synagogue affiliation) in both English and Hebrew on the back. Says Rabbi Boruch Brull of Baltimore, who is not one of the rabbis featured but whose three sons collect the cards avidly, "These people are true examples for us, while baseball players may or may not be."