Jeremy Abbott

Just before he began preparing for a comeback into competitive figure skating, reigning Olympic men's champion Evan Lysacek switched agents from International Management Group to Creative Artists Agency. And CAA, long known as one of the most powerful...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — If the men's free skate at the U.S. Championships were a color chart, it would have run from beige to taupe until the black-clad Jeremy Abbott took the ice as the final competitor Sunday. With a kaleidoscopic rainbow of subtly...

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,...

Several ruminations, mostly numerical, about three subjects: 1.  When Bode Miller finished second Friday in the downhill at Chamonix, France, it was the 21st top-three finish for a U.S. alpine skier this season.  With any luck, that means Team USA...

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...

It’s about 15 months before the Feb. 7, 2014 opening of the next Winter Olympics. So here are 15 thoughts on winter sports as the full gamut of sports on the program for the Sochi Games get into pre-Olympic-year action this weekend. 1.  There is...

As another figure skating season begins in earnest Friday with the first of seven senior Grand Prix events, a sport that has been sliding slowly out of general U.S. consciousness will be losing traction among even its hardest-core fans. The pricing and...

At face value, the results were just plain poor. Three-time U.S. champion Jeremy Abbott ninth, training mate Adam Rippon tenth in Friday's short program at the World Figure Skating Championships at Nice, France. That adds up to 19.  The two U.S. men...

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...

On the final day of the figure skating season, the grind apparently caught up with everyone as the women finished the World Team Trophy in Tokyo. U.S. champion Ashley Wagner won the free skate and moved from fifth to third overall despite negative grades...

By any measure, Alissa Czisny has been the best U.S. women's figure skater over the past two seasons. Second and first at the last two U.S. Championships.  Highest U.S. women's finisher at the 2011 worlds.  Best U.S. finisher on the Grand Prix circuit...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- When the men's event at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships finished Sunday in the HP Pavilion, Evan Lysacek was in Dubai for some promotional work he declined to specify when we talked last week. Lysacek announced last fall he...