Scott Hamilton shows us how to be happy in eight chapters

• Yu-Na Kim says that with a sponsorship deal with the Hyundai car company, "I will become the world's top skating athlete, weaving my way through the world like Hyundai Motor (and stopping for gas when the tank is near empty)." The words in parenthesis are mine. [TradingMarkets.com]

• Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder, reigning world champions in ice dancing, to miss European Championships. [icenetwork]

• Skating rink draws families to West Orange, New Jersey. [NYT]

• On this date...Well, yesterday, really, but on January 6, 1994, Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the knee, forever changing CBS' ratings that year.

• Sonia Rodriguez, principal dancer for The National Ballet of Canada, talks about her love of Toronto and hubby Kurt Browning. [NationalPost]

• Alexei Kiliakov, director of Wheaton Ice Skating Academy in Washington D.C. brings the Asian style of group training to his skaters and finds success. [Gazette.com]

• Former ice dancer Juan Carlos Noria now does politically-charged pop art. [Press-Telegram]

• Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, Child of the Depression. [NYT]

• Evan Lysacek blogs for L.A.'s The Fabulous Forum. [LA Times]

• World champion Jeffrey Buttle spends the holidays in Sin City and blows $20 on blackjack. [icenetwork]

• Hockey fights are on the rise...is this a good thing or a bad thing? [NYT]

• Yu-Na Kim dresses up as Santa and raises over $100,000 for children's charity. [Chosun]

• Greensboro, North Carolina throws its hat into the ring to host the 2011 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. [WRAL.com]

• Scott Hamilton's The Great Eight: How to Be Happy (Even When You Have Every Reason to be Miserable) (see above right) hits bookstores. [LA Times]

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