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Merrick skater eighth in U.S. Skating Championships
WatchdogMerrick's own Joelle Forte, profiled here, came to the U.S. Figure Skating Championships this week with an interesting story. For one thing, she's 22, which in women's figure skating years makes her around, oh, 66. And the Fordham student last......Tags: New York University, Ice Skating, Sports, NBC (tv network), United States
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Aaron's career gets jump start
Max Aaron was the smallest guy on the Phoenix Firebirds, a select Bantam AAA travel hockey team in Arizona — so small, in fact, that teammates designed a goofy play for him. The idea was to have Aaron, about 5 feet and 100 pounds at the time,...
Tags: University of Michigan, Jeremy Abbott, Ice Hockey, Sports, TiVo Inc.
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Smell of reputation judging lingers over skate worlds
LONDON, Ontario. -- After covering figure skating for 33 years, you learn to accept the partly subjective nature of judging in the sport. That does not make the “reputation judging” that falsified the men’s and pairs results at the...
Tags: Music, Russia, Johnny Weir, Ice Skating, Evan Lysacek
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Silver anniversary of a golden moment
It was Feb. 20, 1988, a Saturday night in Calgary, where the first week of the Winter Olympics was ending. And the figure skating event called “The Battle of the Brians,” had reached its final round. The champion would be whichever Brian...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Arts and Culture, Ice Skating, Human Interest, NBC (tv network)
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2014 Winter Games
They installed the first outdoor Olympic rings Wednesday in Sochi, Russia, a 60-by-30-foot reminder that Thursday marks a year to go before the opening of the 2014 Winter Games. The temperature was 61. That incongruity brings up the first of a baker's...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Julia Mancuso, Bobsleigh, International Olympic Committee, Ice Hockey
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U.S. figure skating in sad and uncertain state
OMAHA, Neb. — Who's No. 2? That is the big question in the singles competition at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, which begin Thursday with the women's and pairs short programs. The bigger question is whether whoever winds up as the No. 2...
Tags: Kimmie Meissner, Jeremy Abbott, Johnny Weir, Ice Skating, Evan Lysacek
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Digest: Del. St. QB Elko is MEAC's Offensive Player of the Year
College football Del. St. QB Elko is MEAC's best offensive player Delaware State senior quarterback Nick Elko (Arundel) was named the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Year and made the All-MEAC first team. He completed 259...Tags: College Football, Ice Skating, Vietnam War (1955-1975), University of Maryland Eastern Shore, University of Maryland Baltimore County
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Pairs skater Brubaker will sit out season
It will be a lost figure skating season for two-time U.S. pairs champion Rockne Brubaker of Algonquin. "I'll be sitting out this season," Brubaker told me in a Saturday email. Brubaker's skating future became uncertain when his partner of the past two...
Tags: Ice Skating
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Wagner coming into her own on her own
Doubt and inconsistency had been Ashley Wagner's faithful travel companions until this year. They followed Wagner when she left her home in northern Virginia to live and train for three seasons in Delaware with a new coach, Priscilla Hill. They came...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Ice Skating, College Sports, Physical Therapy, Health Treatments
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Solid senior skate debut for Gold
Gracie Gold's debut in a senior figure skating competition was solid. Gold, 16, who trains in suburban Chicago, overcame a mistake on a triple lutz jump to finish fourth in the short program Thursday at the World Team Trophy competition in Tokyo. The...
Tags: Jeremy Abbott, Ice Skating, Japan, Human Interest, Singles Skating
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Bobek not skating on thin ice anymore
I was channel surfing in commercial breaks from an NFL playoff game last Sunday when a figure skating show, Improv-Ice, arrested my attention.
There was Nicole Bobek, back on national television as a performer (for the second time in 15 days), looking...Tags: Ice Skating, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Behavioral Conditions, NBC (tv network), Health
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Young Russian adds needed sparkle to young figure skating season
One-third of the way into the Grand Prix "regular season," here are 10 things I know about the state of competitive figure skating:
1. The general performance level is as sloppy as ever, yet another piece of evidence that the demands of the sport's not-...Tags: History (tv network), Dancing, 2016 Olympic Games, Jeremy Abbott, Music
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