<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post618929955953372343..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/618929955953372343/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/1961-us-figure-skating-team-boarding.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>7</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4332990755826157321</id><published>2007-03-28T16:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-28T16:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Figure skating--the competitive sport--has become ...</title><summary type='text'>Figure skating--the competitive sport--has become dully formulaic, as sports often do.  The same moves, the same set-pieces, performed with almost no variation, over and over again.  It&#39;s a little like tumbling on the square mat.  When you&#39;ve seen a dozen routines, they all get to look alike.  Some do it much better than the others, but usually they&#39;re the tiniest ones, who have the least weight </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/618929955953372343/comments/default/4332990755826157321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/618929955953372343/comments/default/4332990755826157321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/1961-us-figure-skating-team-boarding.html?showComment=1175113320000#c4332990755826157321' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/1961-us-figure-skating-team-boarding.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-618929955953372343' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/618929955953372343' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 28, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4641882731509149143</id><published>2007-03-27T14:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-27T14:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>When I got to the &quot;relationship between competitiv...</title><summary type='text'>When I got to the &lt;I&gt;&quot;relationship between competitive skating and global capital&quot;&lt;/I&gt; it actually kept me reading.  Otherwise I could give a rip about figure skating.  I really wonder why people are fascinated with this sport.  It&#39;s much more fun to just go out on the ice and mess around yourself, like I was able to do a week ago Friday with my son and my wife&#39;s Girl Scout troop.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/618929955953372343/comments/default/4641882731509149143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/618929955953372343/comments/default/4641882731509149143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/1961-us-figure-skating-team-boarding.html?showComment=1175021880000#c4641882731509149143' title=''/><author><name>speterme</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15418310802340579561</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/1961-us-figure-skating-team-boarding.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-618929955953372343' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/618929955953372343' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-326822307"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 27, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7314624939610705166</id><published>2007-03-26T23:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-26T23:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>For what it&#39;s worth,I find this entry much more ea...</title><summary type='text'>For what it&#39;s worth,I find this entry &lt;I&gt;much&lt;/I&gt; more easy to traverse and enjoy than anything, short or long, Ron has posted about &lt;I&gt;Project Runway&lt;/I&gt;.     &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Reading this, I became curious about why the Women&#39;s skating competition is much more the world focus than the Men&#39;s.  As I suspected, figure skating has a history of not being considered a very Masculine sport--this is discussed</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/618929955953372343/comments/default/7314624939610705166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/618929955953372343/comments/default/7314624939610705166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/1961-us-figure-skating-team-boarding.html?showComment=1174966380000#c7314624939610705166' title=''/><author><name>Stephen Baraban</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09637400683517160112</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/1961-us-figure-skating-team-boarding.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-618929955953372343' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/618929955953372343' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-290229728"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6166717998658024920</id><published>2007-03-26T18:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-26T18:15:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I must admit I second derek&#39;s comment.I got to the...</title><summary type='text'>I must admit I second derek&#39;s comment.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I got to the sentence asserting a &quot;relationship between competitive skating and global capital&quot; and said nadia comaneci . . . .</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/618929955953372343/comments/default/6166717998658024920'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/618929955953372343/comments/default/6166717998658024920'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/1961-us-figure-skating-team-boarding.html?showComment=1174947300000#c6166717998658024920' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04378273134042527425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/1961-us-figure-skating-team-boarding.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-618929955953372343' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/618929955953372343' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-627896021459361891</id><published>2007-03-26T15:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-26T15:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Let&#39;s go Oakland A&#39;s.</title><summary type='text'>Let&#39;s go Oakland A&#39;s.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/618929955953372343/comments/default/627896021459361891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/618929955953372343/comments/default/627896021459361891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/1961-us-figure-skating-team-boarding.html?showComment=1174937160000#c627896021459361891' title=''/><author><name>Oblique Devon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01769224111784848140</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/1961-us-figure-skating-team-boarding.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-618929955953372343' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/618929955953372343' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-13169045"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-770982506144994721</id><published>2007-03-26T11:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-26T11:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m not sure we can impute cultural declines from ...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m not sure we can impute cultural declines from sport enterprise.  The Soviet Union--and its several puppet republics--throughout the post-War period, supported large, ambitious, state-subsidized Olympic teams, at a time we now understand that investment (in retrospect) to have been highly expensive to them, given the &quot;dicey&quot; state of their pseudo-collectivist economy.  They wished to become </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/618929955953372343/comments/default/770982506144994721'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/618929955953372343/comments/default/770982506144994721'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/1961-us-figure-skating-team-boarding.html?showComment=1174924680000#c770982506144994721' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/1961-us-figure-skating-team-boarding.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-618929955953372343' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/618929955953372343' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8098293093125908090</id><published>2007-03-26T06:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-26T06:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>i can&#39;t even pretend to have read all that</title><summary type='text'>i can&#39;t even pretend to have read all that</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/618929955953372343/comments/default/8098293093125908090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/618929955953372343/comments/default/8098293093125908090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/1961-us-figure-skating-team-boarding.html?showComment=1174903560000#c8098293093125908090' title=''/><author><name>derek</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15992475453328145902</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://athene.riv.csu.edu.au/~dmotio01/motion/angler.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/1961-us-figure-skating-team-boarding.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-618929955953372343' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/618929955953372343' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-892883201"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 26, 2007"/></entry></feed>