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Not in this case. My friend was arrested immediately, and the newspapers had a field day with it. The parents disallowed the child to be interviewed. As mentioned, I think Sorenson is guilty as hell. I only posted to assure @kosjenka that yes, sometimes people are unjustly accused. Happy to...

Not true. The parents didn't know what to think, as they were merely informed by the police. And I taught one of their daughters. The teacher involved just knew what they heard from the kid, and reported it to the police. It happened. I do think it's rare. But my friend was scared out of...

Okay, I'm chiming in. I mentioned this several years ago, but I had a very close friend (male) who had a large class of young cello students. He was a very friendly, "huggy" type of guy, he loved everyone, including his young students... he hugged us all, adults and children. And he did it...

Chock and Bates were stunningly wonderful. Sorry haters, this is a GREAT team. Their unison is unparalleled and they are all over the "team" of Cizeron.

It confuses me that everyone is concerned about athletes getting "rest" before their events. Olympic skaters are in peak physical condition when at the Games, train for hours EVERY DAY leading up to that (barring injury), running their programs and building their stamina. And, while at the...

Or at least stay in just for another year or two. Too many singles skaters end up in an "age bubble," where they hang on for a quadrennial, but their bodies/desire/passion quits two years before that.

It will be interesting to see who retires and who stays next season (and for the next quad). Sadovsky strikes me as someone who's retiring. Most skaters don't do a Jason Brown. Tomoki is retiring at 26. Sota Yamamoto is 26 and may not want to go until age 30. Even Torgashev and Naumov would be...

Jason has been to two Olympics, has a team medal, and has been to countless Worlds. That's a good career. It would be nice to see other Americans have the chance. They all work very hard.

Not so sure about that. He's not looking great.

Love this. And it's your 10,000th post, congratulations!

Men: Ilia Tomoki Max Jason (I know!) Women: Amber Alysa Isabeau Bradie Dance: Chock/Bates Zingas/Kolesnik Carreira/Ponomarenko Shibs Pairs: Efimova/Mitrofanov Kam/O'Shea Chan/Howe McBeath/Parkman

Shizuka won fair and square. I don't even see how that's debatable.

She really does look like her!

You might want to include the recent Russian champs, as they will be a factor at the Olympics as well.

I'd love to see Ilia, Tomoki and Max on the Olympic team. But, even if they are the top three at Nats, I realize that's wishful thinking.