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Category Archives: Miracle On Ice

When Word of a Miracle Arrives on the Seas

22 February, 2011

[OFB note: Last February 22, on the 30th anniversary of the Miracle on Ice, we received an amazing note from a reader and patriot and serviceman, detailing an astounding narrative about how word of sports' greatest moment was received by some men and women in uniform, far, far away from the continental U.S., back in [...]

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A Blogger’s Faith in Government Restored: The Formation of the First-Ever Congressional Hockey Caucus

18 March, 2010

The greeting from the congressman in his office this week was sudden and startling: “Can you blog and walk at the same time?” Nebraska Representative Lee Terry, smiling, asked as he stepped out of a closed-door meeting to meet me. I was more than a little nervous meeting the congressman on Tuesday. Standing next to [...]

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Miracle On Canvas

7 March, 2010

Boston-area artist Brian Fox’s canvas creation captures the spirit of the Miracle on Ice from a different perspective

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Suddenly I Want To Grow a Mullet

3 March, 2010

You may have heard — in Pittsburgh last night, the hometown hero was anything but. Sidney Crosby, dagger driver into the hockey heart of America this past Sunday, was accorded a villian’s welcome at Mellon Arena before the Penguins’ 3-2 victory over Buffalo. Ryan Miller, meanwhile, the visiting goaltender, was showered with cheers. Suddenly I [...]

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Here’s Hoping Canadians Become Gold Medal Fans Again

28 February, 2010

Two, maybe three days a year max, I “hate” Canada — when U.S. national hockey teams face those of Canada. I put hate in quotes because I’m incapable of deep-seated antipathy toward my neighbors to the North. It’s a beautiful country filled with beautiful people, and it is the true home of hockey. Canada is [...]

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A Miracle Acknowledged by Today’s American Hockey Stars

22 February, 2010

Up in Hershey this past weekend our blogger colleague Eric McErlain of Off Wing Opinion  joined us in a patriotic questioning of the Hershey Bears’ John Carlson. Carlson of course etched his name in American hockey lore last month, sudden-death silencing Canadians in Saskatoon and delivering the American Under-20 team gold. With the arrival of [...]

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Stephen Colbert Saves the Olympics

12 February, 2010

Stephen Colbert’s Sport Report discusses Vancouver’s notable lack of snow, Newark as future host of the Winter Games, and his upcoming trip to Vancouver. Colbert then chats with his co-anchor next week in the NBC Peacockpit, Al Michaels, about the Miracle on Ice and the possibility of an Al Qaeda bobsled team.

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Forgotten No Longer: The 1960 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team

21 December, 2009

Imagine setting out to document in film a historic sports achievement which by virtue of its time period offers only minimal archival footage. A great, great story to be told without much in the way of camera-eye evidence. Such was the dilemma-challenge confronted by Andrew Sherburne and Tommy Haines, makers of the celebrated 2007 documentary [...]

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A Links Legend Briefly Evokes a Sacred Comparison

21 July, 2009

Some time Saturday evening I first heard the comparison between Tom Watson’s brush with unimaginable triumph at the British Open and the Miracle on Ice. The enormity of what Watson was embarking upon is perhaps best acknowledged in that no one who participated in that rarefied (and as it turns out, premature) comparison raised any [...]

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From the Heartland, a Personal Reflection on a Miracle

6 June, 2009

Video clips from the movie Miracle, these are some of the great moments of the Miracle that capture the Game.

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