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It seems Johnny Weir has become besties with former Dancing With the Stars pro Karina Smirnoff, and now they’re both angling to pair up for season 11. “I met a few weeks ago and she was like, ‘Johnny, you are the perfect height for me. Let’s dance,’” Weir said. “So…it’s on. I’ve chosen my partner, I’m ready.” If only it were that easy! At least Weir’s casting would set back into ice one of the show’s most basic, inalienable tenets, which ABC shamefully disregarded at the end of season 10: Thy Figure Skater Shall Win.

In the interest in leaving the figure skating coverage to Mandi -- and getting another non-American up in here! -- Day 7's Olympic Stud is Australian snowboarder Torah Bright, who won Australia's first gold in last night's Women's Halfpipe finals. She's so studly because she pulled off the winning run -- including the switch-backside 720, a trick attempted by few men -- after scoring a ridiculous 5.9 in the first heat. Ranking last earlier meant she had to go first later, so while everyone else tried their best to challenge Torah's smiley energy and "I don't need to naturally favor nothin'!'" technique,...

I enjoy a good figure-skating special as much as the next person, but I can't decide how I feel about ABC's Thin Ice, which will air over two nights this March. The View's Elisabeth Hasselbeck and four-time world champion Kurt Browning will host the competition, which will pair up 12 of "the world's greatest pro figure skaters" to perform two-minute routines. To add drama, skaters will come from all four disciplines — ladies, men, pairs, and dance — but no pairs or dance veteran will be coupled with his or her current partner. The only rule is they must entertain us. Judging...