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It's Poetry Day!
Because we're all about the high culture here, we're bringing you the poetry funk today. So we hope you're ready. More »
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Figure Skating To Scare Your Grandmother
Evgeni Plushenko won the gold medal in men's figure skating earlier this year, and as this video proves, when you win the gold medal, you can pretty much do whatever you want after that. More »
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All Opera Singers Should Wear Boxing Gloves
The only way Tufts University is going to make it on a sports blog? Staging an opera about Tonya Harding, of course!. More »
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The Johnny Weir Blackball
We've always had some fun with "flamboyant" and "unconventional" men's figure skater Johnny Weir around here; during the Olympics, we found him one of the few high-profile athletes with legitimate personality. (Or "flair," if you will.) More »
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Ali G Hooks You Up
If you're like us, you had only one thought as Sasha Cohen was accepting her figure skating silver medal on Thursday: How would Ali G describe it? Check out Ali G's possible take on Cohen's silver at The Sports Pulse — which includes the line: "Me is not into batty boy bruvers so Johnny Weir stop callin me." More »
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Intimate Fantasies About ... Aw, Jeez, HER?
Inspired by a look back at Tonya Harding's career a couple of days ago, a reader, who must be the sports fan equivalent of a cutter, did some research into Tonya and found something so disturbing that pointing it out to you makes us feel like we might be a bad person. More »
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NBC Resorts to Child Porn for Olympics Ratings Boost
Or, at least, it would seem that way. Why else would the Olympic website feature some, um, questionable photos of figure skater Sasha Cohen? Hey, I'm no prude, but for the love of Jon Benet Ramsey this just seems a little...creepy. Maybe this is strategic network synergy? You know, NBC gets people to look at these photos a little too long and then next thing you know Stone Phillips is waiting by your mailbox with a Dateline camera crew to call you a deviant. Sneaky bastards. More »
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Johnny Weir Is Huge In Kansas. And In The Glute Area.
Eventually, yes, the Johnny Weir posts will stop. But not today. I think I might be developing a crush on the guy, and I'm not even gay. More »
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I Think Johnny Weir Might Be Gay
Done in by a bus schedule. That is the unfortunate conclusion to the 2006 Torino Games for Johnny Weir, who, as one alert reader points out, looks kinda like Quin Snyder without the impeccable hair care. Here's Johnny, after his 5th place performance: More »
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The Dreams of a Gold Princess Are Over
From what we've heard( and according to the time), Johnny Weir ate it during this afternoon's free skate competition. The "very, very flexible" Weir sat in second position at the start of the day and now sits at...5th. Sigh. God, who didn't hope for a pink Wheaties box invading supermarkets in the near future? 2010 then! More »
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Johnny Weir Has Had It Up To Here With Your "Rules"
So we'll confess: We missed what appears to be a legendary performance by figure skater Johnny Weir last night. We don't mean on the ice, of course, though he is in second place after the short program. We mean during his interviews, in which Weir preened and vowed that he is not a diva, while wearing Southeast Jerome sunglasses and wearing a CCCP sweatshirt. He was In fact, he's rocking the establishment in a truly FAB-u-LOUS! way. More »
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The Denouement Of Kwan
I guess that kinda rhymes. I dunno. Anyway, as you probably know by now, Michelle Kwan has officially pulled out of the Olympics. And perhaps more surprisingly, people care. Hell, I care. It's figure skating, and I care. Either the Winter Olympics are truly magical, or I've got some feelings and curiosities deep down that I have yet to really explore. More »
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My Ambassador Of Kwan
I'm not a figure skating expert - when I think about 'Kwan' in sports, I think Rod Tidwell - but I can't help but feel that the situation that Michelle Kwan finds herself in is a little bit unfortunate. More »
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Inside The Mind Of Johnny Weir
Because we have this fear that the Olympics is going to last two weeks and we're not going to understand a single thing that's happening, we've decided to ride this Johnny Weir fellow for a while. (So to speak.) More »
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Let The Games, And The Fussing, Begin
Time to say hello to our new favorite word: "Princessy." Which sports personality actually used the word on Tuesday? Time for you to guess. Here's the quote. More »
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Curious Figure Skating Enthusiasts Rejoice!
Confused about Olympic figure skating? Can't tell a double salchow from a layback spin? Congratulations — you're a normal, adult male. Now let's go hunting.No, wait, that's all very wrong and we're sorry. Bring those ski and snowboard officials over here when they're done with Bode and we'll apologize to them as well, if you wish. What we meant to say was, if you'd like to learn more about figure skating, why not head over to this helpful interactive at MSNBC, where top animators have recreated the skating basics. You can peruse several different skating moves, and operate them with the click of a button. Inevitably, though, we encountered flaws:
1. In the animations, no one ever falls. That's our favorite part.
2. No music. We believe it was Winston Churchill who once said: what's an Olympics without the theme from Cats?
3. A conspicuous lack of sequins.
4. How about an animation of two skaters sitting on a bench, panting, as they are handed flowers? That would have been pleasant.
5. A nice touch would have been a tiny sign in the crowd that read "Fire Millen." More »
