July 27 (UPI) --Those born on this date are under the sign of Leo. They include: -- Aircraft pioneer Geoffrey de Havilland in 1882 -- TV producer Norman Lear in 1922 File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI -- ...
June 20 (Reuters) - Three-times world figure skating champion Kaori Sakamoto is to retire after the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics next year, the Japanese 25-year-old told reporters in Kobe on Friday.
(NEXSTAR) – The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee has revealed its 2025 class of Hall of Fame inductees to be honored in a special July 12 ceremony in Colorado Springs. “This induction celebrates ...
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 powerful ...
Walt Disney, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bette Davis, Peggy Fleming, Bob Hope, Liberace, Jesse Owens, Norman Rockwell, Ronald Reagan, even Lassie — the long list of luminaries who have stayed at the Dearborn ...
The news that flashed from Belgium on Feb. 15, 1961, was tragic: “A Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 crashed near the Brussels Airport early today, killing 73 persons, including the 18 members of the United ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Maxim Naumov wept on his knees at the end of his performance honoring his parents, wiped away tears as he skated off the ice and held an electric candle in the air as applause rained ...
Twenty-eight members of the figure skating community died in the January 2025 collision, while 18 lost their lives in the 1961 crash in Europe D Dipasupil/FilmMagic Peggy Fleming, a 1968 Olympic ...
U.S. Olympic Figure Skating gold medalist Peggy Fleming attends the New York premiere Of "RISE" at Best Buy Theater on February 17, 2011 in New York City. Peggy Fleming, a former Olympian, tells ...
The Legacy on Ice benefit event, featuring U.S. figure skating stars, payed tribute to the 67 people who died when an Army helicopter collided with an American Airlines flight and crashed into the ...
A figure skater who lost her father and brother in the American Airlines flight that collided with a military helicopter in January received a standing ovation from the audience at "Legacy on Ice" in ...