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Salon.com
February 16, 2002
Kerry Lauerman |
Make Olympic skating judges accountable Awarding the Canadians the gold was a half-measure, but as long as figure skating is controlled by a bitchy sewing circle it won't be a real sport...   |
Sports Illustrated
February 15, 2002
E.M. Swift |
Yagudin steals the show Figure skating's focus returns to the ice |
Sports Illustrated
February 13, 2002 |
Figure skating's black eye Another controversial decision hurts the sport. Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier were awarded the silver. |
Salon.com
February 16, 2002
King Kaufman |
Fixing figure skating would kill it Without the diva judges, the bad costumes and the chance for scandal, it's just a chili cookoff on ice... |
Sports Illustrated
March 27, 2001
E.M. Swift |
They Spun Gold Glittering performances lit up the World Figure Skating Championships... |
Sports Illustrated
May 7, 2002
E. M. Swift |
Figuring It Out How will skating get its house in order after the Salt Lake scandal? |
Sports Illustrated
February 22, 2002
E.M. Swift |
The golden child With nothing to lose, figure skater Sarah Hughes was simply terrific... |
Salon.com
February 22, 2002
Gary Kamiya |
Golden girl 16-year-old Sarah Hughes, who looks like America's composite babysitter, shocks the figure-skating world -- and bails out the beleaguered Olympic judges... |
Sports Illustrated
January 23, 2001
E.M. Swift |
Fall Guys While Michelle Kwan soared at the figure skating nationals, the men hit the deck... |
Sports Illustrated
February 22, 2002 |
Sneaking away with gold How Hughes impossibly vaulted ahead of Kwan, Slutskaya... |
Salon.com
February 13, 2002
King Kaufman |
Skategate A figure skating scandal rocks the Games and tragically overshadows some fantastic women's curling... |
Sports Illustrated
February 14, 2002
Brian Cazeneuve |
Dominoes continue to fall Changes must take place to ensure figure skating's integrity |
Sports Illustrated
February 26, 2002
Brian Cazeneuve |
Winter Games top 10 For those who have had enough of the pairs figure skating controversy, here, in no particular order, is a very unofficial Jamie Sale-and-David Pelletier-free list of the top 10 moments/sports/athletes, good and bad, from the just-completed Winter Games... |
Sports Central
August 27, 2004
Eric Poole |
An Immodest Proposal It seems we can't get through an Olympics without having some sort of controversy over judging. That's because gymnastics are fundamentally flawed. |
Sports Illustrated
September 22, 2002
Brian Cazeneuve |
Onward and upward Figure skater Sasha Cohen hopes to find her way onto future medal stands. |
Salon.com
February 15, 2002
King Kaufman |
The puck starts here The Olympics: As Jamie and David take over the world, the hockey spotlight turns from the dominant U.S. women to the "Dream Team" men's tournament. |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
Top 10 Olympic Athletes To Look For In Torino These skiers, skaters and sledders have an excellent chance of making their home countries proud by writing a page in the history books at the Winter Olympics February 2006. |
Salon.com
February 12, 2002
King Kaufman |
Dee-fense! It's missing in the Winter Olympics. But the Games have their moments, including a star-crossed pair of endearingly frumpy Canadians... |
Sports Illustrated
February 16, 2002 |
Guns and Roses Biathlon's Poirees blend skiing, shooting, medals and matrimony... Apolo Ohno goes after his first gold medal... Belarussian Bellyache... |
Sports Illustrated
February 26, 2002
Rick Reilly |
The Gold Standard Sarah Hughes's Olympic gold medal in figure skating is the sweetest story in sports this century, and here's why... |
Sports Illustrated
January 16, 2002
Rick Reilly |
Dirty Dancing For some reason, the people who run figure skating have gotten all crabby about the crotch. In fact at the beginning of this season the International Skating Union (ISU) instructed its pairs skating and ice dancing judges to deduct points for "undignified" movements... |
Job Journal
December 12, 2010
Robert Wilson |
Uncomfort Zone: Dial Down the Pressure In some situations, you get better results by not trying so hard. |
AskMen.com
February 19, 2014
Michelle Magnan |
Meet The Olympian Who Gave A Teammate His Spot In The Race Canadian speed skater Gilmore Junio, gave up his spot in last week's 1,000-meter race to his teammate, Denny Morrison |
Salon.com
February 14, 2002
Allen Barra |
I'm so outraged I could twirl! Something really ugly went down on the Olympic rink, and it wasn't just a Canadian skating costume... |
Sports Illustrated
October 23, 2001
Brian Cazeneuve |
Winter Wonders With the 2002 Games approaching, here's what to expect -- from skaters to skeletons... |
Sports Illustrated
February 21, 2002
Frank Deford |
Judge not Lack of accountability for officials is the problem... |
Sports Illustrated
February 20, 2002
Rick Reilly |
Go Fourth ... and Disappear Win a medal in Salt Lake City, and you're treated like a returning astronaut. The rest of your life is just walking past smiling bouncers into the coolest parties and having the words "Olympic medalist" follow your name. Fourth place? Never heard of you... |
The Motley Fool
February 16, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Stocks on Skates How ice skating terminology can be applied to investing. |
Sports Central
August 7, 2012
Brad Oremland |
Olympics: Gymnastics is Not a Sport I still believe what I wrote almost a decade ago: "If you need judges from seven countries to vote on who won, your activity is not a sport." |
Sports Illustrated
January 29, 2002
Tim Layden & Kostya Kennedy |
Seasonal Debate Forget the Summer Games, the Winter Olympics are tops... Put the Winter Games in deep freeze, the Summer Olympics are hot... |
Salon.com
May 26, 2001
Steve Kettmann |
Baseball boyfriend? When Out magazine's editor claimed his lover plays in the majors, he set off a media frenzy. But it's only a matter of time before gays get their Jackie Robinson. |
Salon.com
February 20, 2002
King Kaufman |
Don't believe the hype It's always fun to watch a media darling lose, but Tuesday's bobsled upset offered up a tale for the ages... |
Sports Illustrated
February 19, 2002
Janet Maslin |
Medal Worthy NBC's two toughest jobs in broadcasting the Olympics have been guessing what will make the best broadcast and, more important, knowing when to leave well enough alone. So far the network is succeeding at both... |
Sports Central
February 25, 2006
Greg Wyshynski |
For USA Hockey, Miracles Can Wait The U.S. men's Olympic hockey team was overrated. Plus, a debate about sports vs. non-sports. |
Salon.com
February 18, 2002
King Kaufman |
NBC shows its true colors You mustn't miss a minute of the Olympics, the network says, unless we can save a few bucks by you missing a whole day. Plus: Ohno, hockey and more... |
Salon.com
August 28, 2000
Tristan Patterson |
Getting radical Skating might have been for punks, but they were as traditional as they come -- until some girls came along with the toughest 180 ever. |
Salon.com
September 14, 2000
Nancy Updike |
That's so gay! Ready or not, America is bringing back an old playground insult -- for the sheer fun of it. |
Outside
February 2002
Howard Berkes |
Let the Games Begin The just-in-time, let's-party, fear-no-evil Winter Olympics get ready to rip in the country that needs 'em now more than ever... |
Sports Illustrated
August 23, 2002
Tim Layden |
Sport like it oughta be X Games athletes put competition and fans first. |
Salon.com
May 23, 2002
King Kaufman |
The gay Babe Ruth The first active major leaguer to come out of the closet may ruin his career -- or he could become a cultural hero... |
Salon.com
February 11, 2002
Gary Kamiya |
Red, white and wrong NBC's jingoistic provincialism is missing what the Olympics are all about -- but the Games will prevail... |
Psychology Today
Sep/Oct 2006
Carlin Flora |
Call of the Ice Young figure skaters may be 90-pound competitive machines or miniature divas who revel in rinkside attention. What drives a girl to live for the sport, and how much does an Olympian outlook count? |
Entrepreneur
October 2009
Gary Cohn |
Tony Hawk Carves a New Niche The master of the half-pipe and creator of a skateboard empire is about to introduce his latest trick: a computerized skateboard without wheels. |
Sports Illustrated
March 13, 2000
Gary Van Sickle |
Gay's wait was deja vu Brian Gay and Johnny Miller -- waiting too long for a putt to fall. |
AskMen.com
January 6, 2003
Matthew Ross |
2002 Sports Highlights: What A Year! It certainly was an eventful year in sports. There were controversies, triumphs and tragedies. But rather than focus on the tragedies, let's focus on the more entertaining aspects. Here is a look at some sports highlights of 2002. |
Sports Illustrated
August 6, 2002
E.M. Swift |
Goldfellas An alleged fix at Salt Lake is the latest link between organized crime and Russian athletes. |
Sports Central
February 17, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
Winter Olympics TV Coverage Far From Golden Sports fans are not averse to watching Winter Olympics coverage, but trying to figure out NBC's television schedule has become a sport of Olympic proportions unto itself. |
Sports Illustrated
August 7, 2002
Frank Deford |
Our sports mafia The desire to win at any cost exists the world over. |
Salon.com
February 14, 2002
Gary Kamiya |
Flight of the wonder boy If ski jump hero Simon Ammann never grows up, we won't mind... |
Reason
September 2005
Julian Sanchez |
All Happy Families From a civil libertarian perspective, it's clear enough why the unequal treatment of gay parents is objectionable: The human desire for family isn't exclusive to heterosexuals, and attempts to prevent gays from raising families both stigmatize them and threaten to deprive them of an important component of a full life. |
