Figure skating is older than basketball and hockey, so you might want to adjust your definition of “traditional sports.”

I love Ashley, too, but Gracie totally could’ve won the gold! Gahhh! I just hope she gets back in the game this season.

Booooo to that man! Moulin Rouge was great! I was too sad for Gracie Gold to jump up and down. :-(

Also, even if the baby had recently learned how to un-do its diaper, why are you letting your kid run around in just a diaper?! This is a restaurant and your business, not your home! Put clothes on your kid!

hahaha My husband and I watched that John Mulaney special last weekend. As someone of a similar age who also grew up in an Irish-Catholic Midwestern household, the parts where he talked about his parents were TOO REAL. My dad would’ve 100% gone through a McDonald’s drive-thru just to order himself a coffee. I bet that…

1. That was my bad. I thought you were saying *I* was the casual once-every-4-years fan.

Exactly. I’ve worked in restaurants, and I can only imagine the chaos of having a baby wandering around. Even when it’s a slow day, there’s not a ton of time to do what you need to do and also adequately supervise a toddler.

Artistic gymnastics also has an “artistic impression” component of the scoring.

This comment shows that you don’t understand how figure skating judging works. There are very specific criteria for what elements will earn you a higher score vs. a lower one. On a jump, were your arms close to your body? Did you get good height? Good distance? Was your spin fast? Was it centered? Did you hold the…

Just because she passes for white doesn’t make her any less black, though.

I was literally talking to a friend yesterday about that episode. What happened to Blair Underwood’s character?! Did he find happiness with some other woman? Is he still working for the Knicks? I need a spinoff episode about his life after Miranda!

I don’t think we need to play Oppression Olympics here. Black people in America face certain kinds of discrimination and obstacles that Asian people don’t face, and Asian people in America face certain kinds of discrimination and obstacles that Black people don’t face. Both are still oppressed by the white majority,…

I’m all for being flexible with childcare arrangements, especially when you own your own business, but maaaaybe a functioning restaurant is not the best place for your 1-year-old to run around all day unsupervised.

She’s awesome. I was trying to find a GIF from 2016 Worlds when she got so excited after a great short program that she fell over while celebrating on the ice. It was so very Ashley.

And there are objective standards for what makes a -1 lutz different than a +1 lutz.

I flew to Boston in 2016 to attend the World Championships.
I regularly attend international competitions hosted near where I live.
I am a paying subscriber to Ice Network, where I watch the national and international competitions I can’t attend.
I know the names of the top skaters’ coaches, and what music they’re…

Figure skating makes for the best drinking game. It’s very simple: when someone falls, you drink.

Huh. The more you know.

Thank you for writing this, Dvora! As a figure skating fan and skater, it grinds my gears when people denigrate this sport. It is SO HARD to do what they do out there and make it look that easy. It’s interesting that only the sports people consider “women’s sports” (figure skating, gymnastics, cheerleading, etc.) get…

Based on my (casual) understanding of the judging process, I don’t consider figure skating a sport