Sasha Cohen

Every week I hear from you about shows I'm not talking enough about. So I'm going to try to rectify that by talking about three of your favorites (and, of course, three of my favorites as well). "The Office": Good news for all you fans of Dunder-Mifflin....

HARTFORD, Conn. Last year, in her first season on the elite international circuit, Kimmie Meissner wanted her on-ice performances to show maturity. This year, having just turned 17, the reigning world champion is looking for "emotion and attitude," not...

Olympic silver medalist Sasha Cohen is planning a comeback for the Vancouver Games. Cohen, speaking from Winnipeg, Canada, where she is touring with Stars on Ice, confirmed Wednesday that she will resume training in hopes of making her third Olympic...

CALGARY, Alberta // When Kimmie Meissner returned home from the Olympics a month ago, her right eardrum had ruptured. It bled, and she could barely hear out of it. "[My coach] always said I had selective hearing," Meissner said. It's easy to joke now....

Fresh off a silver medal in the ice dance competition, the United States kept the momentum going after the first night of the women's short program in figure skating. Sasha Cohen, who finished fourth in Salt Lake City, skated a near flawless routine and...

Kimmie Meissner must be channeling Nancy Kerrigan. Meissner, who skates her short program tonight in her first Olympic competition, says her goal is to "have fun, skate clean and not freak out." Kerrigan, 1994 silver medalist and 1992 bronze medalist,...

A desert Plant for Pappy Hour A Zeppelin landed in the High Desert. The enclave of Pioneertown got a visit Saturday night from Robert Plant, who showed up at Pappy & Harriet's to hear rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson perform. The singer was so smitten with...

Back then, it was just two girls sitting on a bed, each with a dream beating deep inside. There was Kimmie Meissner, just 14 years old at the time, brown hair past her shoulders. Her dream was to figure skate in the Olympics. And there was Kati Fisher,...

Grounded since reaching new heights in February at the Olympic Games, the Flying Tomato is set to soar again. But this time, Shaun White will be performing a different sort of aerial acrobatics, swapping his one-of-a-kind maneuvers on a snowboard for...

SPOKANE, Wash. // By stumbling forward instead of falling backward on her opening jump, Kimmie Meissner of Bel Air won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships yesterday and completed her set of medals from the event. She put her hand down to steady herself...

TURIN, Italy -- She didn't want to be there. The dramatic thing about Sasha Cohen on Thursday night wasn't the way she skated her spins and spirals, it was her shudder. She didn't want to be there. Difficult to believe, devastating to watch, but as...

When she walks into the Olympic Stadium tomorrow night for the closing ceremony, Kimmie Meissner will have something more valuable than her sixth-place finish as a souvenir. The figure skater from Bel Air has added a line to her resume, one more...