"We love you, Sasha" ... the continual cries from the extensive Gen-J component of the crowd at the Providence Civic Center were a prelude to a Marshalls World Skating Challenge performance last night by the ice princess which Sasha Cohen, and more importantly the judges, felt was one of her best of the year. Meanwhile Michelle Kwan seemed to still be jinxed by her difficulties with the clock and finished apruptly with a generous third behind world champion Shizuka Arakawa. In the men's program ... basically the warmup act ... Evgeni Plushenko, my second favorite Russian after Irina Slutskaya, beat Brian Joubert and Johnny Weir. And Boston won in Schilling's Sox debut.
Read more about the competition ... and about Sasha ...