Despite the refusal of either side to discuss the matter, the grassroots of Ontario curling is starting to take notice of the situation, the one that has been festering between the Ontario Curling Association and the Canadian Curling Association. A petition has been launched that urges all the OCA zone reps to listen to the curlers of the province and settle the dispute by whatever means necessary. ...
s the channel that's on most of the TVs in the financial district. (Back in 2010, there were a lot of eyes on Cheryl Bernard. This year, I'm told, the Russian women's team is the favourite). In any case, American curlers biggest promoter Dean Gemmell brought some of the tools of the trade to the floor of the Stock Exchange to show off to some of the hosts. Speaking of tools, one of the hosts was Kevin...
s mouth, so to speak, when he had a chance to chat with OCA president Ian McGillis on Saturday. The president was out watching the Colts competition and agreed to a brief chat with Pavia, who writes for the Ottawa Sun and has a blog at hoglinecurling.com. However, the conversation was brief and reinforced the fact that McGillis, and by association the OCA, doesn't want to talk about how its members...
ll give many of the other Canadians a pass as it was a bit of a hike to get out to the curling rink. In Sochi, as I understand it, most of the facilities are quite close together as well as the Athlete...
t what the national body was looking for. I have been told by multiple sources that the CCA received a letter from the OCA by the Monday deadline but that correspondence didn't satisfy the requirements to end the dispute between the two bodies. As a result, the CCA has called a special meeting for March 11 at which time the other member associations as well as the national board will vote to suspend...
Body: At this time of year (4 years) I normally get quite a few emails from people who watched curling from the Olympics and want to have a GO! It's great - a fun sport, novel, interesting and harder than it looks on TV. We are fortunate, that in our hot dry country, we have curling in 3 cities Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. Sydney - curling is regularly held on weekends at the Sydney Ice Arena in...
t need to know anything about why your association is under sanction or why it's on the cusp of being booted from the CCA. Only we need to know that. You just go over there and wave your flag and clap. Now we know most of what’s causing this issue. You can read all about it here . Still, there’s a big issue that’s affecting all the curlers in the province but the OCA doesn't seem to give a rat’s...
d actually see these three words together in a headline: curling. bodacious. bodies. But here they are in this pictorial about the hot bods on the ice at the Ice Cube in Sochi. We...
” McWilliams recalled. He immersed himself in the sport and now considers himself an expert in all things brooms and bonspiels. He is paid through a small daily stipend, but began as a volunteer with USA Curling. Sweeping, he says, can be difficult on the upper arms, back and shoulders. Backs ache from being bent over so much. Athletes are in better shape, he said, than when he started,...
ve been wondering where defending gold medal skip Kevin Martin is these days, look no further than New York. Yup, the skip who thrilled everyone in Vancouver is helping NBC with its curling coverage, Norm Cowley reports. He's doing it off a monitor in New York City so he won't have to worry about sharing a room with Bob Costas over in Sochi. Martin won...
t usually thought of as a dangerous sport. At the Olympics, you think of luge, skeleton or maybe aerial skiing. But we might have to re-think that for the host Russian men's team after third Andrey Drozdov did a face plant during a game against Switzerland. Most of the time when you see someone wipe out in curling, it's on a slide or perhaps when they're sweeping and get tangled...
s a fun piece that showcases Davis's commitment to the Olympic curling team. He'll once again be the honourary captain for the U.S. rock-tossers in Sochi. Interesting to note that on his uniform this time around, he...
t know), it's started a web site looking for donations from those altruistic curlers who want to give back to the game. According to the site -- called For The Love Of Curling -- which will have its official launch on Feb. 1, you can donate money or stock, make a one-time donation or become a regular monthly donor, all to help out the Roaring Game. Here's some of what appears on the site: Through this...
OK, she might not quite be up to Harnden standards, but this story in a Scottish paper shows that Eve Muirhead has some pretty good guns on her. I think in an arm-wrestling match with Jennifer Jones, I'd give Muirhead the nod. ...
Erika Brown has a pretty remarkable record when it comes to Olympic curling. She made her first appearance at the Games as a 15-year-old in 1988 in Calgary and is returning to the Olympics this year at 41. Of course she also played in Nagano in 1998. In an interview with NBC Sports, the American skip reflected on her Olympic career and how the game has changed over that time period. And just for good...
s a good video on curling which talks about the basics of how a rock curls and what sweeping does. It...
s a curling rock in the photo. We're not quite sure why this photo was taken. Of course it's being released ahead of the Sochi Olympics, perhaps to take attention away from the Russian's expected performance on the ice. As far as photos go, this one is "saucy" (as the Daily Mail called it) but there have been far saucier ones, both in the Women of Curling calendar as well as in in other publications...
A Global News report has the story of the roof collapsing at the Drayton Valley Curling Club. At the moment, the cause of the roof caving in is not known, although it's suspected that heavy snow may be part of the problem. But at the very least, there were no injuries. There were about 20 people inside the facility at the time of the collapse. Luckily, no one was injured. “There was some practice...
t a cashspiel or anything remotely competitive; instead it was a fun event that welcomed all comers. (The Aladdin, by the way, is now Planet Hollywood.) The guy behind it was none other than Doug Maxwell, the publisher/entrepreneur who figured out that if you could combine curling, night life and some warm weather, you could probably attract curlers from all over. And that it did. The event, dubbed...
t usually cover curling but in the lead-up to the Olympics the paper had writer Brian Costa pen a piece on the roaring game. The focus of the article was how the fitness levels of curlers today has improved and whether it's that important to being good at the sport. The headline was certainly eye-catching. That quote machine John Shuster once again offered up a good gem based on his previous Olympic...