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Scott Hamilton will be skating on television for the first time from a brain tumor from a fight, joining member of the Olympian and cancer survivor Dorothy Hamill on Thanksgiving Day special to animate the audience to triumph over a disease. Kaleidoscope, airing November 26 on Fox, is to encourage viewers to overcome cancer. It will feature 1992 Olympic champion figure Ski Kristi Japan and twice Ganador Nancy Kerrigan. Hamill, the Gold Medal of 1976, the skate of music performed by Olivia Newton-John. Both were diagnosed with breast cancer. The program is designed to entertain and motivate, "said Scott Hamilton, winner of Olympic gold medal in 1984 and four times world champion. He battled testicular cancer and non-cancerous brain tumor.

"I've had this really cosmic connection to him my whole career," said Lysacek, who would love to keep that interstellar bond going in Vancouver in February. He took one more step in that direction Saturday, skating a clean long program to win his first Skate America title in six tries at the Grand Prix series event. "I feel the pressure and I know why it could be construed, maybe, as a negative thing, but it's been so positive for me, the opportunities that have come my way have been so great," said Lysacek, who broke a 13-year drought for American men when he won the world championships in March. Lysacek isn't taking this weighty season lightly, but he's also striving not to labor under his stature. There are plenty of reasons a gold medal at worlds isn't necessarily a prescription for greatness at the next Olympics. The events are separated by nearly a year and take place in different seasons.