It was an awesome day of time trials at the 2012 US Single Distance Short Track Championships in Salt Lake City, UT.  Jessica Smith and Chris Creveling won both the 1000m and the 444m time trials.  Today’s races not only provided points for the overall title they also provide seed times for heats in the remaining races. Full Results:… [read article]

(Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images)   The US Women’s Water Polo Team continues an impressive run at the 2012 FINA World League Super Final.  The US has gone undefeated in group play and begins the quarter finals tomorrow against Italy.  Australia is the only other team with an unbeaten record going into tomorrow’s prelims. Full results here.   Full Release… [read article]

(Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images) Ok, we’re going to need a curling expert around here. We’ve been trying to parse the most recent press release from USA Curling and although we’re not sure exactly what went wrong – we DO know that it is really not a good sign when your own NGB publishes the headline: Slow start dooms Team… [read article]

  You know Michael, I was going to post this anyway. The above video shows my brother, current Pro National Speedskating Circuit (NSC) Grand Champ, Michael Cheek as he does battle against reigning sprint Champion Will Bowen at this season’s third Pro NSC race in Seattle, WA.  It’s a great video and I’d seen it floating around the Facebooks earlier… [read article]

(Image via Lis Roop)   The 2012 Southern Spring Fling inline meet took place last week near Marietta, GA and DailyHouse has results and pics from the competition.  After multiple days of indoor racing, the action moved outside to the road.  If you missed the indoor results, we’ve got them here. Below are the full outdoor results, thanks to Jimmy Blair for… [read article]

(Photo by Jasper Juinen/Getty Images)   For the second time in as many days, the US’s Jonathan Kuck has found himself on the podium at the ISU World Single Distance Speedskating Championships.  The 21-year-old from Champaign, IL took the bronze medal in the men’s 10km event less than 24 hours after winning the bronze in the 5km. Dutch distance star Bob… [read article]

(Photo by Jasper Juinen/Getty Images)   After what might be the first up and down season of his life, Shani Davis did not find redemption today in the men’s 1500m. The first event of the 2012 ISU World Single Distance Speedskating Championships finished moments ago in the legendary Thailf Speedskating Rink in Heerenveen, Netherlands and despite a valiant effort, the… [read article]

(Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)   Howdy friends.  I’m about to hop on a plane so I don’t have time to do a thorough re-cap of today’s skating but  - wow.  It was an amazing day for the US Speedskating team at the 6th ISU Speedskating World Cup in Heerenveen, Netherlands.  Heather Richardson won her first ever world cup gold…. [read article]

Krueger, in 3rd, mixing it up at Junior Worlds.  (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)   American phenom John-Henry Krueger led the US Junior World team at the 2012 Short Track Speedskating Junior World Championships held this past weekend in Melbourne, Australia – winning two medals.  Krueger won bronze in the 1500m, then joined Claude Gilbert, James Rodowsky, and Adam Callister to take bronze in… [read article]

(Photo by Boris Streubel/Bongarts/Getty Images)   It was a battle, but the US’s Katie Uhlaender is now the 2012 world champion of skeleton. If that were the end of the story it would be amazing enough, but there’s so much more.  Uhlaender’s story has been one of tragedy and now triumph.  In 2008 Uhlaender, daughter of  MLB player and coach… [read article]