#Cold War

Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the swingin' after-party for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. I hope you all had a good weekend. If you spent it at the Cubs convention, we're glad that you've decided to continue the good times with us. Come on in out of the cold. If it's raining or snowing where you are, come in and get…

I'll go ahead and get the Spencer Rattler update out of the way: no touchdown passes or interceptions, so his season totals remain at eight and nine, respectively. It's hard to believe that after 10 games, neither one has reached the magic number of 10 that would dictate his fate (local hero or bench warmer, respectively). His South Carolina…

The Toronto Blue Jays turn 45 in 2022. They open the season Friday night at Rogers Centre, just four days after legal went live and mobile. It's a good time to be an fan in Toronto. The Blue Jays have eight former players in Cooperstown. But not all had Hall of Fame careers while playing for Toronto. Which players would make up the Toronto Blue…

Hockey fans learned to "believe in miracles" 42 years ago when the U.S. men's hockey team upended the Big Red Machine and iced the USSR in the 1980 Olympics at Lake Placid, New York. The 4-3 USA victory has justifiably reached mythic status. The all-amateur American team had been assembled just a few months prior. The Soviets were a full-time unit,…

For Yvan Cournoyer, the Cold War truly ended with a splash. It was the early 1990s, two decades after the historic 1972 Summit Series, and Russian goalie Vladislav Tretiak was landing at Mirabel Airport north of Montreal, bound for Toronto with Cournoyer for an autograph signing. "I picked Vladislav up at the airport in the early afternoon, and we…