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Members of the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" U.S. Olympic ice hockey team are under fire for sporting "Keep America Great" hats at a recent rally for President Trump in Las Vegas. The team initially was invited to be in a separate photo line with the president at last week's rally, but they later appeared onstage, according to The Washington Post, with many wearing the hats. Trump had invited team captain Mike Eruzione, 65, along with other players to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the "Miracle on Ice" game in which they beat the four-time defending gold medalist Soviet Union team...

Flanked by members of the famed "Miracle on Ice" U.S. Olympic hockey team, President Trump celebrated the team's captivating 1980 performance at a campaign rally on Friday. Forty years removed from defeating the Russian hockey team in the semi-finals of the 1980 Olympic Games, Trump honored the U.S. team's historic victory by bringing captain Mike Eruzione and coach Herb Brooks's daughter onstage during a campaign stop in Las Vegas. The team stood behind Trump as the president ran through his stump speech and lashed out at the fake news media. The players wore red Make America Great Again hats and...

(Jim) Craig, goaltender for the 1980 United States hockey team, stopped 39 shots as the U.S. defeated the Soviet Union 4-3 in the "Miracle on Ice." He was back in Lake Placid Saturday, helping light the Olympic torch in commemorating the silver anniversary of the Games. It's been a quarter-century since Al Michaels uttered the now famous words, "Do you believe in miracles?" The same amount of time has passed since the Cold War took sport form, a team of U.S. collegiate hockey players toppled the mighty Soviets, Eric Heiden's tree-trunk legs powered him to five speedskating gold medals, and...