Public Panel About USA-USSR Sports Rivalry, Cold War:

10/21/2015

Rehearsal for Opening Ceremony, Goodwill Games, Moscow, 1986. White Nights, Early July, Anthem, Stadium at Luzhniki.

Just a Reminder:

Friday, Oct. 23: I will be part of a panel “Selling Sport in the Cold War,” free to the public, 4:30 PM to 7 PM, at New York University’s Casa Italiana, 24 W. 12th St., New York, NY 10011. Panel members include: Amy Bass of The College of New Rochelle, Jeremy Schaap of ESPN and David McDonald of the University of Wisconsin. This is part of a two-day conference, The Global History of Sport in the Cold War, at NYU, Friday and Saturday. (Other events limited in space.) I was privileged to cover the Goodwill Games in Moscow in 1986 and Seattle in 1990 and often wrote about sport in the old Soviet bloc.) For information:

http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2015/09/24/the-global-history-of-sport-in-the-cold-war-to-feature-george-vecsey-jeremy-schaap-and-othersoct-23-24-.html

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