Helmut Balderis vs. Denis Potvin
Helmut Balderis played against the best blueliners at the 1979 Challenge Cup in February 1979 in NYC, New York. It was the NHL All Stars weekend turned into the 1979 Challenge Cup tournament between...
Helmut Balderis played against the best blueliners at the 1979 Challenge Cup in February 1979 in NYC, New York. It was the NHL All Stars weekend turned into the 1979 Challenge Cup tournament between...
Miracles are ageless and exist forever! Down to the stats and reference books, today is the 36th Anniversary since Team U.S.A. defeated the Soviet team at the 1980 Winter Olympics. As it turned out...
Before 1972, Olympic weightlifting consisted of three types of lifts – snatch, clean-and-jerk and press. The press was discontinued in 1972 and it changed the outlook of a typical Olympic weightlifter. Dynamic athletes with...
It wasn’t as glamorous as in the Red Army hockey club. No media spotlights and travel overseas. Though we had two Olympic champions who couldn’t skip this part. I had my first TV show...
Bulgarian weightlifting is trouble today. It’s no longer a phenomenon to follow in the sport of Olympic weightlifting. Ivan Abadzhiev, the mastermind behind formerly famous Bulgarian weightlifting school, is an official outlaw in the...
“You passport, please!” To be honest, I’ve never been asked to show my passport before entering the stage in the theater. It’s not a regular theater and not a regular stage, of course. We...
It’s cold but lovely here… Our guest songsters send their best from our backyard! They sing: “Tee-Yee-Happ-Yee” It means: “Happy Valentine’s Day To You!”
Have you ever gotten a flying kiss from Kim Kardashian?.. It’s cold in Boston. I am standing outside our office building. It’s dark and cold. And there is this picture of a woman sending...
Three absolutely random bookmarks from my timeline. No milestone, just some digital imagery from old personal archives. Moscow, 1981. One of my first stand-up comedy’ contests. From what I remember, it was a competition...
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