American-born director Gabe Polsky's absorbing if strangely structured doc Red Army, on the 1970s-80s Soviet national hockey team, opens Friday. The title refers to the squad of hockey players ...

We had him in Detroit before the Russians knew he was gone." On July 23, 1990, Sergei Fedorov, 5 months shy of his 21st ...

Millions of Americans who watched Team USA lose an overtime thriller to rival Canada in the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off hockey championship this week got a taste of what it was like in 1980 — but ...

MOSCOW -- Viktor Tikhonov, the Soviet hockey coach whose teams won three Olympic gold medals but fell to the United States in the "Miracle on Ice," died after a long illness. He was 84. Russia's ...

Congress will honor the "Miracle on Ice" Team USA hockey squad that upset the Soviet Union in the 1980 Olympics on their way to an improbable gold medal. The House of Representatives passed the ...

Sergei Makarov and his new Calgary Flames teammates were just beginning to get to know each other during their Friendship Tour of preseason games in Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union in September ...

Halfway through the Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia‘s Foreign Minister got so fed up with all the bad press that he decided to take up his pen and react. “In the Western media,” Sergei Lavrov wrote in ...

This was at the height of the Cold War, mind you, when the threat of a Russian invasion was nothing to take lightly. In reality, though, this battle was going to take place on the ice. The touring ...

December 10 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Soviet hockey player and coach Anatoly Tarasov. The CSKA Moscow team led by Tarasov became the Soviet Union’s champion 18 times (1948-1950, ...

With all that’s going on in the world, it may have slipped your notice that the Winter Olympics will be held in Italy starting in February. The Winter Olympics produced one of the childhood memories ...