Some of you know how much I love figure skating. This year’s worlds showed the best and the worst (let’s not even talk about Alissa, whose performance went beyond worst to outright ugly). Hanyu, the 17 year old bronze medalist from Japan, really wowed me with his inspired long program, which I thought was the [...]

I’m sure some of you know of my obsession with figure skating. The World Championship was scheduled for late-March in Tokyo, but due to the earthquake, tsunami and TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi crisis, it was moved to Moscow. I think Putin’s comments helped: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has backed the Sports Ministry’s bid to host [...]