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1980 Olympics

Why I Wrote an Essay About Hockey on March 5, 1980

John Fea   |  February 22, 2020

I played a lot of pond hockey as a kid growing-up in North Jersey. I used to go to Masar Park after school on winter days with my brothers and play in a daily pick-up game with neighborhood kids. I...

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North Korean Ice Hockey Has Presbyterian Roots

John Fea   |  February 14, 2018

This is news to me.  Atlas Obscura has it covered.  Here is a taste: FOR ALL THE INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION that the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang are bringing to the Korean Peninsula’s fractious history, tense present, and uncertain future, there will...

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The Greatest Sports Call of All Time

John Fea   |  February 22, 2017

In my opinion it does not get any better than Al Michaels and Ken Dryden on February 22, 1980. (It happened on George Washington’s birthday).  There was a time during my teenage years when I had Michaels’s call of the...

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