Feb. 22.
There must be something about the date.
It was 38 years ago that the U.S. men's Olympic ice hockey team - a bunch of college kids and amateurs - stunned the world by upending the vaunted squad from the Soviet Union. They were considered the best hockey team in the universe. As their coach Herb Brooks famously said, if they had played 10 times, the Soviets would have won nine of them.
But not that night.
It was considered the "Miracle on Ice."
Exactly 38 years later, the U.S. Women last night upset the highly favored Canadian women to take the gold.
Maddie Rooney, the USA's 20-year-old goaltender, stuffed a Canadian woman to seal the win and set off a wild celebration in South Korea.
Canada was looking for its fifth straight Olympic gold medal. They had won 24 straight games in Olympic competition, dating back to the last time the USA women won, in the initial women's competition in Nagano in 1998.
USA!
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