This was going to be a full, detailed recap of Skate Detroit. I had high hopes when I pulled from the little cash stash that I set aside to fund my skating fan habit, and I paid for the live stream of the competition. The cost for the weekend was greater than for a year… Continue reading Skate Detroit Recap: Vincent Zhou and Other People
Summer Updates! Shoma, Jason, Starr, Kaori, and More
This blog went on hiatus while I plowed through an enormous pile of work and moved to my dream home, but I have emerged from hibernation. While I was gone, Jason Brown dropped the most deliciously fanboyish program music announcement in figure skating history. That got me back onto the skating side of YouTube, and I… Continue reading Summer Updates! Shoma, Jason, Starr, Kaori, and More
The 16 Most Epic Skating Disasters of 2016-17
Skating fans like to pretend we’re in it for the successes: the biggest and cleanest jumps, the most engaging and original performances, the mascara-ruining happy tears in the kiss and cry. But there’s something cathartic about an enormous failure. Often, the most memorable programs at a competition are not the technically cleanest ones, but the… Continue reading The 16 Most Epic Skating Disasters of 2016-17
14 Great Ladies’ Performances of the 2016-17 Figure Skating Season
I pretend to be more invested in men and dance than ladies, but tell me I have to narrow things down to ten great performances, and I turn into a gesticulating mass of feelings. I enlisted my friends to help me whittle things down, but they left me to my own devices for too long afterward.… Continue reading 14 Great Ladies’ Performances of the 2016-17 Figure Skating Season
10 Great Ice Dance Performances of 2016-17
It’s crunch time in my line of work, so these year-end best-of lists are going to roll out slowly. I’m starting with ice dance for a simple reason: it’s the one I’m most terrified to post. Ice dance fans are territorial and passionate, and boy, will they fight with you. Sometimes they’ll fight with you… Continue reading 10 Great Ice Dance Performances of 2016-17
Slightly Unhinged Notes from the World Team Trophy Men’s Short Program
It has been a long couple of weeks, during which I have discovered that I am ostensibly enough of an adult that people want to do things like grant me a home loan and hire me for paid work, despite the fact that my hair is three different colors on my driver’s license, my passport, and… Continue reading Slightly Unhinged Notes from the World Team Trophy Men’s Short Program
4 Things I Learned from the 2017 World Figure Skating Championships
Now that I’ve had some time to sober up and do all the work I set aside so I could wake up at 2:00 AM and watch people fall on their twizzles, I have some thoughts on Worlds. Too much happened for a play-by-play, and two weeks after the fact, it makes more sense to look… Continue reading 4 Things I Learned from the 2017 World Figure Skating Championships
2017 World Championships Field Guide: Men Part 3
Welcome to the third and final section of my guide to the men’s event at 2017 Worlds. We’re down to 36 competitors, as Han Yan confirmed on Saturday that a shoulder injury will keep him from participating, and China has not assigned an alternate in his place. (If you’re wondering what he needs his shoulder for,… Continue reading 2017 World Championships Field Guide: Men Part 3
2017 World Championships Field Guide: Men Part 2
We’re a week away from Worlds, and skaters are starting to converge on Helsinki. There are 37 of them on the roster for the men’s event, and I’m determined to profile every one before their short program begins on Thursday, March 30. I’m a third of the way there, so if you started with this… Continue reading 2017 World Championships Field Guide: Men Part 2
Well, There Goes the Old Site
Happy Update 4/8/2017: SportsBlog has restored all the old posts! I’ll gradually be exporting them here, but you can click the link in the sidebar to read on SportsBlog until I do. I discovered today that SportsBlog has deleted almost all of my posts from the old blog. This happened in the last 48 hours,… Continue reading Well, There Goes the Old Site