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  • January 17
  • Fireworks and ice

    If the Seattle Seahawks had made it to the playoffs, Bob and Marianna Metke would have had a tough decision to make: football or figure skating. But the Hawks didn’t come close, so the retired couple from LaConner, Wash., were seated among the thousands in attendance Saturday for Day 2 …

  • Nathan O’Bleness

    Age: 57 Lives in: Spokane

  • Man Show has all the characters

    It’s Alpha Male Sunday at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Don’t worry, ladies. Your money’s good at the box office, too.

  • Crash & learn

    Propelled by unsmiling determination and a choppy leg motion, the freckled kid in the dark blue coat carved a wobbly path through the weekend thicket of skaters at the Riverfront Park Ice Palace. When he fell, which happened more than once, he popped back up and continued wending his way …

  • Brubaker, McLaughlin left off team

    The top of the mountain proved to be the slipperiest of slopes for Keauna McLaughlin and Rockne Brubaker. The two-time defending pairs champions were not only unceremoniously dethroned at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships at the Spokane Arena, they were denied an Olympic berth when a committee affirmed Saturday’s final …

  • Vancouver calls Denney, Barrett

    Not only did it look easy, it was easy. Caydee Denney and Jeremy Barrett blew away the competition to win the 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships Senior Pairs Saturday afternoon at the Arena.

  • January 16
  • Brubaker, McLaughlin left off team

    The top of the mountain proved to be the slipperiest of slopes for Keauna McLaughlin and Rockne Brubaker.

  • Vancouver calls Denney, Barrett

    Not only did it look easy, it was easy. Caydee Denney and Jeremy Barrett blew away the competition to win the 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships Senior Pairs Saturday afternoon at the Arena.

  • Skaters’ mothers

    Lori Jacobsen, 49, of San Francisco, and Laura Dobbs, 40, of Mission Viejo, Calif., are moms to senior pairs skaters Joe Jacobsen, 22, and Amanda Dobbs, 16. The two moms have spent hundreds of hours in the stands, watching their kids skate together. Jacobsen: I was at the nationals here …

  • Nice statement

    Don’t forget Jeremy Abbott. With all the attention that goes to Evan Lysacek and Johnny Weir – and deservedly so – it may seem like Abbott is an afterthought.

  • Fashionably Functional

    Designer Vera Wang knows the ins and outs of competitive figure skating outfits because, at one time, she wore them. As a child, Wang had visions of Olympic gold when she did all those early morning workouts at the rink and traveled to countless competitions, including the national championships in …

  • Time arrives for best to shine

    Haley Anderson has had many sleepless nights since November. That’s when the 10-year-old figure skater began practicing the routine for the opening ceremonies for the 2010 AT&T U.S. Figure Skating Championships in her hometown.

  • Champs spiral downward

    It didn’t take long to upset the apple cart at the 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. With two-time defending champions Keauna McLaughlin and Rockne Brubaker tumbling to seventh, the standings from the Senior Pairs short program at the Arena Friday afternoon have a different look than was expected.

  • January 15
  • Abbott wins men’s short program event

    Jeremy Abbott has won the short program at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, edging world champion Evan Lysacek and Johnny Weir in one of the better men’s competitions in recent years.

  • John Blanchette: Skating résumés can trump results

    Picking an Olympic team is serious business, and apparently not to be trusted to the vagaries of do-or-die competition.

  • Pairs skating champs spiral downward

    It didn’t take long to upset the apple cart at the 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. With two-time defending champions Keauna McLaughlin and Rockne Brubaker tumbling to seventh, the standings from the Senior Pairs short program at the Arena Friday afternoon have a different look than was expected.

  • 5 favorites: Men

    Evan Lysacek 2009 U.S. Championship finish: 3

  • Increased hunger, two new programs keep Lysacek on task

    The morning Evan Lysacek woke up as world champion – in his adopted home of Los Angeles, as accomplished in his way as Kobe and the Lakers are theirs – what stood out among the calls and texts and flowers and congratulations and gushy interrogations was this: A three-page review …

  • Volunteer driving skaters, coaches, other VIPs

    Age: 71

  • Fan groups rendezvous at skating championships

    The AT&T U.S. Figure Skating Championships, starting in Spokane today, will attract up to 75,000 passionate and vocal fans. Many will be part of tight-knit groups that began planning for the event more than a year ago.