Hope everyone is enjoying their summer. Before you know it curling will be upon us again.
Until then look back again and marvel at this shot that Glenn Howard made at this past year’s Brier. I think it’s still the best shot I’ve ever seen, what do you think?
Had a chance to take in tonight’s 1-2 page playoff game at the Tim Horton’s Brier in hamilton – between Brad Gushue and Glenn Howard. My first ever Brier game (hopefully not the last).
Despite the fact that Gushue played really well, Glenn Howard and his team just couldn’t get it together tonight. A number of uncharacteristic misses by the Ontario team led to a 4-0 deficit after 2 ends. Howard rallied in the 10th to make it interesting, but the 2nd half of tonight’s match was relatively uninspiring.
Here are a couple quick photos – and by the way – in case you were wondering, getting good seats for tonight’s game was a snap. We walked up for seats right before the match and had plenty of really good seats to pick from…Â
Pre-game at the Brier
Glenn Howard of Midland, Ontario
Olympic champ Marc Nichols of NFLD
Patrons of the upcoming Brier in hamilton can now purchase day passes for seats that weren’t snapped up during weekly pass sales.
From the curling.ca press release:
“This is a great opportunity for curling fans to pick a day of their choosing to enjoy all the flavour of the Tim Hortons Brier,” said Host Committee Chairman Dwayne Pyper. “It’s another way to allow fans who may not be able to attend for the entire week or for either the first or last weekend to at least experience the event for a day, at a very affordable price.”
And yes, entry to the Brier patch is included. Get’em while its hot, or before all the seats are gone….get Brier tickets online at the CCA website here.Â
What a hoot!
The Canadian Curling Assoc has released a series of historical Brier videos on their www.Curling.ca that profile the MacDonald’s Briers as far back as 1948 and as recent as 1974. The videos were originally shot as short films for MacDonald Tobacco who owned the rights to the Brier prior to 1980. In curling’s early days, they videos were the only TV coverage of curling available and would be shown on the CBC after evening newscasts as an annual wrap-up of the beloved tournament.
CurlTV.com has the whole story here.
Beginning today weekly passes as well as particular weekend packages for the 2007 Brier at Copps Coliseaum go on sale. Visit the site here.
Individual daily tickets don’t go on sale until a few weeks before the event.
Hamilton last hosted the Brier in 1991 when Alberta’s Kevin Martin and his rink of Martin, Kevin Park, Dan Petryk and Don Bartlett defeated Randy Woytowich in the final.