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Originally published on Soap Opera 451
It's the Cyber Monday prior to a Winter Olympics! That means every skating fan's virtual basket should be filling up with books dedicated to their favorite sport, including veteran ABC Sports director Doug Wilson's The World Was Our Stage (see the Buy link at the bottom of this post).
And enjoy Part #5 - The Scandal Edition, below:
Wilson reveals, "There's a no-man's land between center ice and the corner, where we have no camera. Very often, great skaters -- because when they skate in arenas they want to cover the whole audience--will stand in that position, making eye-contact with the audience. And all I see is an ear. They're looking away. What they want to do to the audience of 1,000 people in front of them, they're not doing to the TV audience that's ten million people watching center-ice. If they're about to present themselves to the world, it's better if we see their faces."
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