The U.S. championship this week served as a test of all tests for Amber Glenn. Her career had never rolled like syrup over a pancake. Her tears and her anguish welled up at every turn, heart as brittle as yesterday’s crackers. She skated hopefully in the dim corners, weighed down by everything. Then she won […]
Bradie Tennell
Skate America: an Oasis of Skating
For a moment, just before Keegan Messing was about to begin his “November Rain” long program at Skate America on Saturday, he thought about others. “This is for you guys in Canada, to everybody who has to stay at home,” thought the Canadian skater, the only competitor from the land of the maple leaf to […]
Skate America Happens!
Keegan Messing turned his back to the camera and pointed with both hands to the CANADA emblazoned across the back of his team jacket: the only Canadian figure skater to compete at any of the Grand Prix events this season. He has become the beacon of the Canadian side, through unfortunate circumstance as the […]
Mirai Nagasu: It's time
Honestly, it feels like you are treading through a snowstorm, body leaning into the howling wind, when it comes to figuring out the outcome of the women’s event at the U.S. championships in San Jose, Calif., this week. You know there will be vehicles on the road, but you just can’t see them and you […]