attitude Stories - Raw Charge
No Love for 2010 Championships from Washington
The State of Washington has denied a request for $600,000 to help fund the 2010 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships, which will take place in that city Spokane. The event's promoters promised to pay $1.2 million to U.S. Figure Skating in order to host the event, according to kxly.com. They...
Czisny Might Upgrade Long Program Difficulty
Way down in this sort of unnecessary Fabulous Forum post about how Czisny is trying to be more confident this season (sorry, I'm burned out on these types of articles...I'm more in the "put up or shut up" phase of skating fandom), there is also a mention of how Czisny might add some difficulty to...
Johnny Weir Interview
Asahi.com has part one of a two part interview with America's Johnny Weir, who was in Japan last weekend for the NHK Trophy (where he finished second). Part two of the interview appears tomorrow. Here's an excerpt: Why are you so popular in Japan? It's not just Japan, but also in Russia, China,...
Hersh Wants Sasha Cohen Back!
Philip Hersh of the Chicago Tribune is begging Sasha Cohen to come back and save figure skating for the U.S. ladies field. In his reasoning: The six best scores of her career (including those at the 2006 worlds and Olympics) are better than those of any U.S. skater except the Meissner who once was...
The Tale of Two Attitudes
Two prospects. Two quotes. Two perspectives. Two attitudes. One of them is a boy who has been playing among men. The other is a scoring machine that seems to be a man among boys. But one stands out as ready to be a professional athlete and the other... well... Two quotes, try to guess which...
Saturday Rockpile: Attitude change in '09, Opening Day optimism, Examination of the Hammel trade, more
The Denver Post's Dave Krieger goes in depth on the Rockies' change of attitude to start this season. While it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the lowered expectations have helped ease the team, there's still something to be said about the way the guys have bounced back thus far....
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