There was a time, and it wasn’t a short period of time at all, when figure skating was one of the most popular televised sports in the nation, and Dick Button was the most famous and most ...

Peggy Fleming recalls 1961 plane crash that killed U.S. figure skating delegation. Sunday, she'll participate in show honoring victims of D.C. crash.

The Ice Capades performed for seven nights at County Stadium in July 1953, the Milwaukee stadium's first year in operation.

U.S. Figure Skating was hit with a horrific loss as the entire team — athletes, seconds, thirds and coaches, perished in a ...

2003 — Michael Jordan becomes the first 40-year-old in NBA history to score 40 or more points, getting 43 in the Washington Wizards’ 89-86 win over the New Jersey Nets. 2014 — Mikaela Shiffrin becomes ...

Bob Cousy of the Celtics scores 24 points before 2,368 fans in a 88-67 win. 1952 — Dick Button performs the first triple jump in a figure skating competition. 1953 — In college basketball’s longest ...

Button with his fellow figure skating gold medallist Barbara Ann Scott ... and his wife Evelyn. Young Dick was given his first pair of skates aged 11 and went on to attend a skating school in ...

Dick Button, American skating’s most decorated ... Tatiana Tarasova, the doyenne of Russian figure skating, began calling old peers who were coaching or had children skating in the United ...