Pairs Skating

Talk about landing on your feet. Twice, and in the most unexpected ways. Matthew Scoralle's love for all-things ice began a few years back when the Fountain Valley resident wanted to play hockey. To get a feel for the game, and the ground beneath his...

Award-winning journalist Christine Brennan - USA Today sports columnist, author of the best-selling figure skating book Inside Edge and television sports analyst - is a leading voice on the Olympics, international sports, women's sports and other sports...

(Judge for yourself whether ice dancer Tanith Belbin gets style points for this.) A few figure skating observations as the Grand Prix series heads into its last event before the Dec. 4-5 final in Tokyo: *Over dinner Sunday night in......

To mark my quarter-century of roaming the world for the Chicago Tribune, I have -- with help from the newspaper's electronic archives -- embarked on a trip down memory lane for a three-part series in this Blog. The first covered......

Two-time U.S. pairs champions Keauna McLaughlin and Rockne Brubaker may need a big rally to make the Olympic team after a disastrous performance in Friday afternoon's short program as the U.S. Figure Skating Championships opened at Spokane Arena....

As South Korea's Kim Yuna prepares to defend her world figure skating title this week in Turin, Italy, it's worth looking, by the numbers, at both her gold medal Olympic performance and the very idea of a post-Olympic world meet.......

"So You Think You Can Dance" continues to do well with viewers this summer, landing in the top 10 shows with the coveted 18-49 audience on a regular basis. The Fox reality competition series follows the footsteps of amateur hoofers hoping to make it in...

Listen to the four pairs skaters who made the U.S. Olympic team Saturday talk about their intertwined relationships, and you think this must have been a scene cut from the hit movie "It’s Complicated." They all train at the same......

Here's the complete, sport-by-sport schedule for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. All times are Pacific standard time and are subject to change. For a television schedule, go here. ALPINE SKIING At Whistler Creekside Saturday, Feb. 13...

Some final thoughts on the women's result at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Evan Lysacek, both a friend and training partner of Mirai Nagasu, was sitting among the press for the end of the women's free skate Saturday. When Nagasu,......

Today's "Candide" prize for an unbridled walk on the bright side goes to International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge (pictured, with President Obama). He gets a copy of not only the 18th-century satire, titled "Candide, or Optimism,'' but also...

Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo at practice this week. Credit: Getty Images / David Hecker By Philip Hersh Catching up on figure skating news after spending the last week looking at the Winter Olympic big picture: OLYMPIC PAIRS COMPETITION begins......