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Hardly Birds of a Feather

August 26, 2019 By Beverley 1 Comment

Ever see the internet photos of the cats curled up with canaries, cozy and all? Fawns and owls cavorting happily with dogs? Chimpanzees stroking kittens? Heifers licking up turtles with long tongues, happy as clams? Count Nam Nguyen, the son of Vietnamese boat people and Keegan Messing, man of the north woods, in with those […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alaska, Donald Jackson, Keegan Messing, Nam Nguyen, North York Summer Skate, Robert Burk, Toronto

Donald Jackson and the Maltese Cross

December 16, 2016 By 5 Comments

Donald Jackson is many things: the 1962 world champion; the first man to land a triple Lutz in competition; and a 76-year-old show-off. Furthermore, he’s a painter on ice. That’s because he’s one of the few skaters in the world who knows how to do a Maltese Cross, a “special figure” that harkens back to […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Donald Jackson, Gary Beacom, Gilles Grafstrom, Toronto, World Figure Championships

Trixi Schuba: World champion without compare

December 16, 2016 By Leave a Comment

Trixi Scuba is skating’s calmest perfectionist, a scientist on blades, probably the best female tracer of compulsory figures that ever lived. Yet, she’s perhaps the least-known world and Olympic champion on the planet. Forty-five years after the Austrian won her first world title in 1971 in Lyon, France – largely because of her utter dominance […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Donald Jackson, Janet Lynn, Trixi Schuba, World Figure Sport Society

Donald Jackson: there's only one

May 10, 2016 By 8 Comments

It started out as a tantalizing little secret. “I have a BIG surprise for skating fans,” bubbled Kurt Browning on twitter several days before the Toronto stop of the 2016 Stars On Ice tour in Canada. He started dropping hints. “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore?” King of Blades? The special guest would show up only […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Donald Jackson, Kurt Browning

Sheldon Galbraith: a man ahead of his time

May 8, 2015 By Leave a Comment

A link to an obituary that I wrote for my old mother ship, The Globe and Mail, on mastercoach Sheldon Galbraith, who died on April 14. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/sheldon-galbraith-brought-out-the-best-in-his-skaters/article24322979/  

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Barbara Ann Scott, Donald Jackson, Sheldon Galbraith

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