BLOOMINGTON - Four-time world champion Kurt Browning has been added to the cast of the "Skating for Life Benefiting Susan G. Komen for Cure" event Oct. 15 at Bloomington's U.S. Cellular Coliseum.
Browning will join other Olympic and world-class skaters as well as country music star Sara Evans in the show, which will be taped for an NBC broadcast later in the month.
Many of the skaters involved have been personally affected by breast cancer including the show's host, Peggy Fleming, an Olympic gold medalist and breast cancer survivor. Browning's father is battling breast cancer.
Other skaters on the bill are Sasha Cohen, Emily Hughes, Jennifer Robinson, Silvia Fontana, Steven Cousins, Rena Inoue and John Baldwin, and Jozef Sabovcik.
Tickets are $30 to $105 at the Coliseum box office and area Ticketmaster locations.
Posted in Freetime on Monday, September 8, 2008 12:00 am Updated: 11:10 am.




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