More than just the most accomplished men’s figure skater in history, Dick Button was one of the sport’s greatest innovators and promoters.

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 powerful ...

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 widely ...

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 Deborah Wilker Dick Button, the two-time Olympic champion who revolutionized figure skating by completing the first triple jump in competition, then spun TV ratings gold with his pithy ...

American figure skater Dick Button, a five-time world champ and two-time Olympic gold medalist who later became the voice of the sport, has died at 95.

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 ...

Dick Button, a dominant and electrifying force in figure skating who was the first American to win an Olympic gold medal in the sport, then shaped the public understanding of skating for decades ...

Jan. 31 (UPI) --Dick Button, who won figure skating gold for Team USA in 1948 and 1952 before going on to star as a commentator, has died, his family announced. He was 95. His family confirmed the ...

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

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 the flying ...

Dick Button, the two-time Olympic gold medalist who parlayed his figure skating success into a career as an Emmy-winning TV commentator, died on Thursday in North Salem, N.Y.