Shot of the year – Glenn Howard at 2009 Tim Hortons Brier

By kingco at 10:36 pm on Wednesday, July 8, 2009

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?

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How they make Curling Stones

By kingco at 7:08 pm on Monday, September 1, 2008

If you’ve ever wondered the process they use to make a curling stone, watch this interesting video:

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It’s curling like a rock star in Banff, Alberta

By kingco at 9:15 am on Monday, March 17, 2008

Here is a fun video that promotes the social aspect of curling from the fine folks at Banff/Lake Louise Tourism.

This video was filmed at the Banff Curling Club in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

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Monday Night Curling

By kingco at 9:32 pm on Friday, December 14, 2007

No this isn’t your Monday night rec league, but a funny clip of a classic SCTV skit with the (late) John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy and Rick Moranis. Great stuff – enjoy…

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But was it cheating?

By kingco at 9:45 pm on Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Calgary Herald columnist Al Cameron has launched a great new blog and today I noticed an interesting post he wrote about Russian skip Liudmila Privivkova’s team and an alleged (foot wedge) sweeping violation they committed that has caused somewhat of a stir:

Sweeping used to be the one big area where you’d find rulebreakers who used dumping techniques — in essence, moving debris in front of the rock with their brooms in an attempt to either slow it down or adjust its line — to some perceived advantage, although the big problem today, I think, is that nobody really understands the convoluted language of modern sweeping rules, so it’s tough to actually break the rules.

Here is the visual evidence from Youtube:

So, what do you think? We’d like to know.

For the record we think its looks a little suspicious and here is what Al Cameron thought:

First of all, I tip my cap to anyone who can use their foot that precisely to help make a shot, so I have an extremely hard time believing she did it on purpose. I believe it was purely accidental.

But — and this is a Sir Mix-A-Lot big but — I also have an extremely hard time believing she didn’t know her foot had touched the running stone, and therefore, it was up to Ezekh (the sweeper on left) to tell someone she’d done it. And, after a round of oh-so-Euro high-fives all around, she did no such thing. And that’s reprehensible. In Canada, a player who did that would be, quite rightly, ostracized as a cheat and would have a hard time finding a new team.

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Summer Viewing III: Retro edition

By kingco at 8:15 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Talk about old school…

Check out this promotional Manitoba curling commercial from 1986. Pretty funny stuff, kind of reminds me of a Juicy Fruit commercial.

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Summer Viewing II: Kelly Scott 8 ender

By kingco at 8:43 pm on Monday, August 13, 2007

Courtesy of our fine friends over at Curltv.com, Kelly Scott pulls off an eight ender against the venerable Cathy King.

Scott had the extremely rare opportunity to draw into the rings for 8 at the 2006 Players Championships. Wow. Bit of a nerve jangler…check it out:

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Summer viewing: Nichols in the Olympic final

By kingco at 9:10 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2007

I can’t get enough of watching this one, I thought it might be a fun one to post up to keep everyone thinking about curling in the summer. Marc Nichols’ amazing raise in the Olympic final.
Enjoy!

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Kids, it’s time to Youtube – Curling style

By kingco at 11:13 pm on Monday, February 12, 2007

It seems like Youtube is everywhere these days. For gosh sakes they are even showing Youtube videos on Canada AM every morning ??

Well, now its time for curling to get into the act. We received this note from a reader today who is trying to drum up interest in the curling section of the ubiquitous website:

Perhaps you can pass the word along… We’re looking for curling videos to add
to our YouTube group.

Anyone with a unique perspective on the world’s “coolest” sport can add their
video to http://youtube.com/group/curling.

We have some great videos already posted, along with an exclusive preview of
Canadian director David Ostry’s ode to the game, “Drinkers with a Curling
Problem”.

So, if you have a video, post it up. If you don’t, go shoot a video and give it a try.

We’ll check in in a few days and post some of the best videos here.

Good luck and have fun. Â

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