Archive for April, 2009
April 20, 2009 at 8:36 am in Canada / News
World Mixed Doubles…does anybody care?
Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy is hosting the 2009 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship this week. There are twenty-seven teams consisting of one female and one male curler from across the globe competing for the title.
An end consists of five stones…
April 13, 2009 at 6:46 pm in Alberta / Canada / News / World / opinion
Eating curling crow
Let me get this over right away. I was wrong about David Murdoch’s Scottish team.
I still believe the worlds field is a lot weaker than the Brier field – except for David Murdoch. There are two levels of teams…
April 8, 2009 at 10:59 am in Alberta / Canada / World
Martin laying waste to worlds field
“He’s like the Tiger Woods of curling on the ice.” according to Thomas Ulsrud of Norway.
Canada’s Kevin Martin continued his domination of the world men’s curling championship in Moncton, N.B., on Wednesday, hammering Finland’s Kalle Kiiskinen 12-4 in the…
April 8, 2009 at 10:55 am in Alberta / Canada / World
The man behind the Martin machine
The man behind Kevin Martin’s Canadian curling machine sits perched in the coach’s box. He has his binoculars out, so are his stack of curling papers.
And when things get tense on the ice for his team — not that…
April 6, 2009 at 8:34 pm in Alberta / British Columbia / Canada / World
Scottish skip Murdoch says world field is tougher than Brier
What?!
David Murdoch has been doing far too much rectal spelunking. He made the claim in the Eye Opener newspaper, the free publication handed out to fans at the world men’s curling championship, ” that the worlds field was tougher…
