The Force of Destiny
It was the Sunday after the Friday when Team USA beat the Soviets in the so-called Miracle on Ice in Lake Placid, New York. Who could forget Al Michaels’ now iconic call, ‘Do you believe in Miracles? Yes!’ The upstart USA hockey team’s upset at the 1980 Winter Olympics is the first thing Paulette Mirkin and Warren Kogan talked about when they met on that blustery February night at a singles mingle thing held in the community room of an apartment complex. Neither of them wanted to go. Not...