Don’t Call It A Comeback: Skating and Gymnastics Flashbacks Rule The Weekend
For all my writing about hockey, lacrosse, football and baseball, it is easy to forget that I started out as a youngster who wanted to write about the Olympics, in particular figure skating and...
View Article90s Girl Problems: Why Verne Lundquist’s Voice Always Takes Me Back To 1992
Veteran sports broadcaster Verne Lundquist is calling NCAA Tournament basketball games for CBS this weekend. I don’t know about you, but even fourteen years after CBS broadcast its last Winter...
View ArticleThe Massachusetts Connection To Olympic Ladies Figure Skating, Edmunds’...
Here are my random notes on the Olympic ladies figure skating event, which begins Wednesday. – You may have already heard it mentioned that American Gracie Gold was born in Newton, Massachusetts. In...
View ArticleWhen lack of familiarity isn’t an obstacle
I spent part of Sunday evening geeking out over a video of new Canadian pair Lubov Iliushechkina and Dylan Moscovitch. Moscovitch represented Canada in the 2014 Sochi Olympics with former partner...
View ArticleThe most underrated U.S. Olympic moment (and why we should take a moment to...
Every person who ever considers a career in sports media has those moments that steer them down that path. I talk often about the one that sent me full steam ahead in that direction – Super Bowl XXIX,...
View Article2016 Worlds Watch: Hockey player turned figure skater is the future for the U.S.
We are 205 days out from the 2016 World Figure Skating Championships coming to Boston. In the lead up, I’ll point out some figure skaters to keep an eye on leading up to the event. The Boston Bruins...
View ArticleTrain Thoughts: Three Skating Programs You Must Watch
It’s been a while since I wrote anything about figure skating. (Since April, to be exact.) That’s a shame, because this has been a really wonderful season of figure skating so far. So here are some...
View ArticleThe YouTube Vault: Peggy Fleming Meets the Los Angeles Kings
Sometimes the videos YouTube suggests for you hold great surprises. That’s exactly what happened late one evening while I was catching up on work, and had YouTube streaming on the television. I let a...
View Article2018 US Figure Skating Championships: Who to follow and who will win
Embed from Getty Images This week’s US Figure Skating Championships are taking place in what might be the only warm place in the lower 48 at the moment: San Jose, California. Oh, the irony: an event...
View ArticleWhy Terry Gannon is great for gymnastics and Verne Lundquist was great for...
A brief historical look of the best – and worst – of figure skating and gymnastics TV hosts Embed from Getty Images The Gymternet (gymnastics fans on the Internet) might not be able to agree about...
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