Dec 24th, 2007 · Forget that famous but dinky little skating rink in New York's Rockefeller Center. And forget the warm climate in Mexico City. Mexico's capital is the scene of a giant outdoor skating rink. It opened this month. And it accommodates an average of 1,000 skaters per hour.
Dec 6th, 2007 · Ice skaters have been gliding -- and falling -- at the Steinberg Skating Rink in St. Louis for 50 years. While attendance is not quite what it used to be, generations of St. Louis residents have taken a turn on one of the country's largest outdoor rinks.
Mar 30th, 2007 · In the new film Blades of Glory, comic actor Will Ferrell plays a boorish figure skater forced to team up with another man in a pairs skating competition. The role is Ferrell's latest in a series of characters that have parodied macho men.
Mar 25th, 2007 · This week's on-air puzzle involves two clues that will yield a solution using a seven-letter word and the middle five letters of that very same word. For example, if the first clue is "heavy" and the second ins "a figure that a skater might make," the answeres would be "weighty" and "eight."
Mar 23rd, 2007 · Comedian and actor Will Ferrell stars in the new film Blades of Glory. He plays a former Olympic ice skater who, banned from competition with a fellow competitor (played by John Heder of Napoleon Dynamite fame), discovers a loophole allowing the men to compete as a pair.
Jan 24th, 2007 · The U.S. Figure Stating Championships get under way in Spokane, Wash. Absent on the womens' side are two major figures from past competitions, Sasha Cohen and Michelle Kwan.
Jan 11th, 2007 · Commentator Amy Dickinson says she has always ice skated, but she never had much style. Where she grew up, everyone knew how to skate -- some quite well. This year, Dickinson found out that her problem was that she was trying to be a figure skater, when her inner style was a little rougher, almost a hockey style of skating.
Feb 26th, 2006 · The Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, end Sunday in a ceremony featuring an Italian carnival theme. The event brought to a close 16 days of winter sports competition -- and all the drama and controversy, from feuding speed skaters to hotdogging snowboarders.