2002 Olympic Champion Sarah Hughes is one of my favorite skaters, as much for her off the ice life as her on the ice skill. Yesterday's USA Today article on her is a good illustration of why. Here you have a young woman who has captured the most desired championship in her sport, and she's quietly attending Yale and trying very hard to be a regular person and good student. I've consistently been impressed with her (and her family's) down to earthness and her ability to avoid most of what I consider to be the excesses of professional sports. People like this are hard to find, Olympic Gold medal or no.