Plane crashes in sports have devastated pro teams and college programs
The crash of an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter was the latest to strike the sports world in the ...
Dick Button dies at 95; men’s figure skating legend was well-known Olympic commentator
In addition to winning two Olympic gold medals and five consecutive world championships, he helped transform a niche sport ...
Olympic figure skater, commentator Dick Button dies at 95
American figure skater Dick Button, a five-time world champ and two-time Olympic gold medalist who later became the voice of the sport, has died at 95.
Dick Button, US figure skating pioneer, will always be 'godfather of this sport'
Dick Button, a two-time Olympic champion in figure skating, embodied the sport. He is the 'godfather of this sport,' Tara ...
The Figure Skaters Whose Promising Careers Were Cut Tragically Short on Wednesday
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Skating Club of Boston has a glorious — and tragic — history
The club has been the standard-bearer for American figure skating for more than a century. On Thursday, it became the ...
Dick Button dies at 95: Olympic gold medalist was figure skating's superstar and professor
Dick Button was the first American Olympic figure skating gold medalist in the sport back in 1948, then again in 1952.
Dick Button, Figure Skating Champion and Commentator, Dies at 95
He won an Emmy for his enthusiastic and sometimes acerbic analysis on sportscasts, but before that he made history as a two-time Olympic gold medalist.