Smallest American Olympian stands tall
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...pounds, Lipinski is technically superior to Kwan, faster, more aggressive and more exuberant in her skating. She consumes the ice in Nagano, Japan, with the sheer delight of performing. "It was amazing," Lipinski says of...
Page | ConversationButton scores American figure skating first
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...St. Moritz, Switzerland, Dick Button enters the freestyle skating event with a commanding lead earned in the...not disappoint the capacity crowd in the Olympic Ice Center. He does five leaps and spins that...
Page | ConversationTears of joy for gold medalist Dorothy Hamill
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...13, 1976 Before Dorothy Hamill takes to the ice for her freestyle routine at the Olympics in...relaxed Hamill gives a clean and safe performance, skating to music from Errol Flynn movies. She wins...
Page | ConversationU.S. Olympic hockey wins gold
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...to one more unforgettable moment. There's goalie Jim Craig, draped in an American flag, skating around the ice and searching the stands for his widowed father. In the locker room, the U.S...
Page | ConversationLipinski, 15, wins Olympic gold
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...pounds, Lipinski is technically superior to Kwan, faster, more aggressive and more exuberant in her skating. She consumes the ice in Nagano, Japan, with the sheer delight of performing. "It was amazing," Lipinski says of...
Page | ConversationRight On The Button
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...St. Moritz, Switzerland, Dick Button enters the freestyle skating event with a commanding lead earned in the...not disappoint the capacity crowd in the Olympic Ice Center. He does five leaps and spins that...
Page | ConversationHowe kept going and going and ...
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...Dad's mind-set on the ice was different than most anybody else I've...up and learned to play hockey. He started skating at four and at nine he was playing...
Page | ConversationOrr brought more offense to defense
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...defensemen to the offensive side of the game. A defenseman who scored goals, rushed the puck up ice, set up teammates with pinpoint passes. It was a revolutionary concept. "He changed the sport by redefining...
Page | ConversationOrr's great goal
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...his head down and smashed him to the ice. "I saw birds for a while," Orr said. Howe said, "All of the Boston players were skating over and the young kid got up and...
Page | ConversationHeiden was a reluctant hero
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...do and have a hard time compromising," says Eric Heiden, winner of all five men's speed-skating races at the 1980 Winter Olympics. Eric Heiden never asked for his moment of fame. It was...
Page | ConversationBlair is special ... but she doesn't know it
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...I remember skating around with one of the guys on the [Olympic] team and asking who's that and pointing...
Page | ConversationMario was super despite the obstacles
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com"Mario was one guy that could really motivate me to push my game to another level. I knew eventually he was going to chase me down and pull me back. T...
Page | ConversationGreat and Gretzky belong together
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...where it has been" -- he was a star at a young age. At five, he already was skating rings around boys twice as old. When he reached two figures in age, he was scoring in...
Page | ConversationHull helped WHA into hockey family
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...miles northeast of Toronto. He was a toddler when his sisters Maxine and Laura introduced him to skating at an outdoor rink near their home. After progressing through Canada's junior hockey system, he was...
Page | ConversationBobby Orr: 'The goal' and other tidbits
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.comWednesday is the 30th anniversary of Bobby Orr's famous Cup finals goal vs. the Blues. ESPN.com looks back at the goal and other parts of Orr's career.
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NFL Expert Picks tops ESPN.com searches in October. Did "ice skating" make the list?
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