Mr. Smith Goes to Salt Lake City

I was so pleased to find this story about U.S. skater Scott Smith I decided to post a link to it here. By the way, if there’s a relatively easy way to explain how to create those links that are imbedded within the text, please drop me an e-mail so I can be like all the cool bloggers. Until then, I’ll post ‘em the old fashioned way, like this:

http://www.sltrib.com/slc/ci_9417786

As one of those guys poised for a “breakthrough” season for several years, I was disappointed he didn’t make the cut for NBC’s Nationals coverage this past January… particularly when, as you’ll see in the Clip of the Day, he skated clean and was clearly relieved and overjoyed at the end. No wonder… he’d just taken a huge gamble in leaving his Boston coaches 2 weeks prior to Nationals. At least the above article tells how all that turned out—I was definitely curious.

Here’s the Clip—what another nation saw fit to broadcast, but our own did not…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-OSPV-MUdI