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 ...
Their loss came just a day before two-time Olympic gold medalist Dick Button, a pioneer in the sport who would also go on to have a legendary broadcasting career, died at 95. "On this terrible ...
NEW YORK — Dick Button was more than the most accomplished men’s figure skater in history. He was one of his sport’s greatest innovators and promoters. Button, winner of two Olympic gold ...
NEW YORK — Dick Button was more than the most accomplished men’s figure skater in history. He was one of his sport’s great innovators and promoters, the man responsible not only for ...
He performed the first double axel and first triple jump in competition and was credited with inventing the flying camel spin Dick Button, who has died aged 95, won two Olympic golds for figure ...
On Mount Trebević above Sarajevo, a cement monolith snakes through wooded terrain – an elevated channel emblazoned with ...
The Ice Capades performed for seven nights at County Stadium in July 1953, the Milwaukee stadium's first year in operation.
Others who died in January include: figure skater Dick Button, French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, singer Wayne ...
Dick Button, American skating’s most decorated star and the aging dean of its community, was no longer giving irascible but frank assessments of skaters on national television. Still Wilson ...
One of figure skating's greatest legends has died. Dick Button, 95, the golden boy who began it all by revolutionizing the sport, passed away on January 31, 2025. Born Richard Totten Button ...