American figure skating pioneer Dick Button, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, who went on to have an Emmy Award-winning broadcast career as a TV analyst, died Thursday. He was 95. Button is ...

Dick Button, the two-time Olympic champion who revolutionized figure skating and literally took the sport to new heights, died Thursday, US Figure Skating said. He was 95 years old. Button died ...

By Richard Goldstein Dick Button, whose passionate and often tart commentary on figure skating competitions became a television staple over six decades and made him the sport’s unofficial ...

The trophy room at the Skating Club of Boston is named in Button’s honor, and the club has hosted the Dick Button Artistic Figure Skating Showcase, which is designed to promote the beauty and ...

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 ...

“Dick Button is the custodian of the history of figure skating and its quintessential voice,” said Brian Boitano, the 1988 Olympic champion from Sunnyvale, in Button’s autobiography. “He made the ...

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 inventing ...

Figure skating icon and Indian Wells resident Dorothy Hamill brings theatrical presentation on ice to the Berger Foundation ...

Dick Button, a two-time Olympic champion in figure skating, embodied the sport. He is the 'godfather of this sport,' Tara ...