March 6, 2010 at 5:32 pm in Canada / News
CCA misses opportunity without Martin at Brier
Kevin Martin’s team has been touring the country as rock stars after winning their Curling Olympic Gold Medals. This weekend they are in Halifax, Nova Scotia and autograph seekers are waiting in long line-ups just for the chance to have…
February 28, 2010 at 1:30 pm in Canada / World
Martin exorcises demons on way to Curling Gold
Eight years later, Canada’s Kevin Martin finally has redemption for his missed opportunity at Gold in 2002. The Canadian team dominated the competition during the Olympic tournament becoming the first team ever to go undefeated winning the second Gold medal…
February 28, 2010 at 11:05 am in Canada / News
Martin’s golden redemption
Easy rests the Olympic crown on Kevin Martin’s head. Finally.
Eight years after his last shot in Salt Lake City slid far enough for silver and Norway celebrated that last half an inch for all the gold it was worth…
February 28, 2010 at 10:52 am in Canada / News / World
Martin elevated to Canadian sporting royalty after curling gold
As the Canadian men’s curling team neared victory in the gold medal match against Norway on Saturday, the crowd in the Vancouver Olympic Centre stood and began singing “O, Canada.”
When Canadian skip Kevin Martin threw the last stone, ensuring…
February 28, 2010 at 10:50 am in Canada / News / World
Canada Wins Men’s Olympic Curling Gold
The men’s curling gold medal match started with noise: foot-stomping, head-splitting, ground-shaking noise.
The bagpipes came next. Then the pants. Not just any pants, but checkered pants, Rodney Dangerfield meets argyle meets the jack of diamonds. They belonged to the…
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…
March 16, 2009 at 9:43 am in Alberta / Canada
Kevin Martin and the Nostradamus prophecies
Martin first read of the prophecies of Nostradamus 20 years ago, and has come not only to put some faith in them, but also make decisions based in part on them.
“He’s right a lot, in my opinion,” said Martin…
