Better act fast, it's booked up through summer already

Winter sports can be an exercise in humiliation. If you get into them too late, you can very easily be one-upped by 6-year-olds at a skating rink or ski slope. I ice skated for the first time in my life last year, and I was pleasantly surprised that it was so functionally similar to rollerblading. I could glide easily by the end of my first hour of skating. I don't think I will become Kristi Yamaguchi as a 23-year-old novice, but it's nice to know that I can pick up new skills, especially new a…

Hockey is by far one of the most fun sports to watch live. When I go to a football game, they don't have to enclose the crowd behind tall transparent walls fans can bang to express their spirit. I know when I'm going to a baseball game, I'm not going to see a physical brawl between the second baseman and the shortstop. When I go to the U.S. Figure Skating National Championships, I don't expect the doubles team to get in a fight so brutal, one of them needs to be sequestered into a clear box for…