The Valeri Kamensky Language School

"Al Bundy," Kamensky said with a thick Russian accent. "I learned a lot from him. That was a good show to learn English."--Denver Post, November 20, 1996This was one of the more curious statistics surrounding the initial years of the Colorado Avalanche: at least two players, Valeri Kamensky and Sandis Ozolinsh, got their primary initial English instruction from watching "Married With Children." Ozolinsh also got some from "Alf." Maybe Alexei Gusarov did too, but he was famous for not talking to the press too much.I'm lousy with languages, and as stated a bunch of times, I'd like to learn Czech. But I mean "learn" in the sense of "wake up one day and be magically fluent in." I'm starting to think that isn't working.It's looking like I'll have a lot of free time this autumn, though, with no local hockey team and possibly no NFL, so it might be an opportunity to put my nose to the grindstone (or as Goog...