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In
the news.....
Bernard team will split after season
It's Over
says Ferbey
More on the Ferbey-Gushue Split
and a reply too
- this is fun!
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'Peg pays $1M for Oly Trials
2011
Playoffs
Set At Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship
concluded...
2011 World Financial Group Canadian Senior Curling
Championships
Digby NS - Mar 19-26
Manitoba men, New Brunswick women prevail at WFG Canadian Seniors
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concluded...
2011 World Mixed & Seniors
April 16 - 23
Women
are 10-0 heading into the metals
along with the men!
Results:
It's Gold for both Canadian Men
(Team Johnson) & Women (Team Jurgenson)!
(No metals for the Canadian mixed team)
The Swiss took Gold; all scores are
here
2011
Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr
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concluded....
TSN Skins!
Jan 22-23
Now, this is curlin' !!
& it's on TV too!
“You have to think, think, think” joked Scottish Skip David Murdoch after the game. “It really does hurt your head after a while...I’m really going to need to get some aspirin! It [Skins] is a great format. I really enjoy it and it makes you have to think differently, outside the box and you have to think a lot more stones ahead than in normal curling.”
concluded....
CBC-TV has got the action!
Sat 29th & Sun 30th
The
Million Dollar Contest
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UPDATES
Day
1,
Day
2,
Day 3
Tiebreakers
to come
Sat
-Stoughton takes out Martin
Semi's -
Howard wins over Koe
McEwen wins over
Stoughton
Should be a good Sunday final!
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This just in: Team McEwen grabs
their second GrandSlam!
It was tied up coming home & McEwen had last rock. Glen made a 'huge' shot followed by an equally 'huge' shot by McEwen for the win!
with
video
International
bonspiel in Karizauwa
Jan 26-30
Jennifer Jones & Ted Appelman
are there for Canada!
Looks like Jones'
Canadian rink came 1st
but Appelman lost in the semi finals
University Games in Turkey
Jan 28 - Feb 5
Canada's
Entry
concluded.....
M&M Junior
Nationals, Jan. 29-Feb. 6
North Hill and Glencoe clubs in Calgary
Watch the finals on TSN TV - Feb 5 & 6
Scoring
Jr.
Men
Jr.
Women(curlcast-takes a minute)
Undefeated
squads top junior standings
Alberta
advances to final at junior nationals
Update
by Al Cameron
Sask
is hot
Men-NL
advances to Semi's
Alberta
women top the field
Alta vs Sask in the final !
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Sask Jr. Women steal the Gold!
Congrats to the Sask-Paulsen
team for the win but you gotta feel for that Alberta team that blew away
the field in the round robin but missed her last rock in the final
More...
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The Jr. Men rock on Sunday's final!
TSN eh!
It went to an extra end
with Sask having the hammer!
-and they needed it as a
measurement was required
for their Gold win!
It's
a Sask sweep for the Juniors!
Alberta Scotties Playdowns
Kleibrink
wins showdown with Bernard
Final
Alberta Update
in progress....
National
Scotties Tournament of Hearts
February 19-27 in
Charlottetown, PEI.
Curling
outdraws NHL on TV
Go figure!
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....it was tied up coming home,
Jones with last rock...
but her raise, raise takeout rolls out....
Sask wins! 8-7 - their first!
Holland won this for her team
with fab last rock to force Jennifer
CBC
on the win. . .
&
Al
Cameron - Calgary Herald
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It's Team
Canada (Jones) and
Sask (Holland) in Sunday's final !!
PS: Bronze goes to NS who exact
a little revenge on ONT with a
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Saturday
Ontario's Homan creams NS for the honour to play
Sask, but in turn gets
beat by a more experienced skip in
Amber Holland, Sask
Fri Nite
It's Team Canada thru to the final.
Sask will meet the winner of ON & NS
who play off Sat morn.
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So, it's Sask & Canada in the 1-2 game
Loser will take on the winner of Ont & either BC or NS
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After the Thurs morning draw, we saw
NS beat AB giving Smith-Dacey a 2nd place tie with Homan, ONT
The big game this afternoon, will be
NS(7-3)against Team Canada(6-3)
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Interesting (Wed) day:
So
now the story is put to rest (we hope)
Jones beats Homan, Cathy O beats
Jones and Smith-Dacey hands Holland
their first loss . . . Yikes!
Huge log jam for 2nd place,
-bring on the Thursday games!
Wed Morn - (3)Jones vs (2)Homan
from
Winnipeg Free Press /22nd
from
Slam sports- Tues 22nd
from
Al Cameron- Cgy Herald
from
CBC sports- Mon - Feb 21
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Scotties Warm-up News
Murray
McCormick opening notes
Kaitlyn
Lawes
close up
Jones-Overton-Clapton
Predictions
by Al Cameron
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Let's dedicate the month of Feb to all these
fine ladies. Good Luck to you all &
keep the mail comin' eh! . . .
This addresses a question from last week
In case you were wonderin' ??
about men
& their numbers
concluded....
Junior Women’s Final Ranking
1. Scotland 9-2 GOLD
2. Canada 8-5 SILVER
3. Russia 8-4 BRONZE
Junior Men’s Final Ranking
1. Sweden 10-1 Gold
2. Switzerland 8-4 Silver
3. Norway 7-4 Bronze
4. Canada 7-5
World Junior Curling
Championships 2011
Mar 5 - Mar 13 2011
Perth, Scotland
Primer
from Murray McCormick
Watch
out for Eve Muirhead/Sco
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Sat Semi's
Alas - Canada's Jr. men lost 6-5 to Switzerland but
The Jr. women came thru with a 9-8 win over Russia
and will meet Scotland's Eve M. in the Sunday final.
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Canada in the 3-4 game for both men & women!
Fri Nite - 10th
four teams now line-up in two sudden-death play-offs - USA v Canada and Switzerland v Sweden – to determine the Page 3 v 4 line-up
Scotland & Russia .are in the 1-2 game
concluded. . .
Mar 5-13, 2011
Standings
to be found
here
Stoughton & team won
a well deserved game & Brier title
from the start of the week to the final
game!
Congrats eh!
How sweet it is after all these years!!
Gushue takes the Bronze,
Howard, the Silver
Our thanks to all the media bloggers for their articles and input!
What the Brier winner gets:
$144,000 From Sport Canada
2011 Ford Worlds Entry
2011 Canada Cup Entry
2012 Continental Cup Entry
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TSN
TV Schedule
A
complete 2011 Brier bios
per: M. McCormick -thx eh
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Sat Semi's
ON had a great day by knocking off AB in the afternoon and
then taking out NL later that night.
Both games were pretty tight but Howard maintained that last end advantage
in both games
It's
Stoughton/MB vs Howard/ON in the final !!
Winner takes home the Brier Tankard and
takes the trip to Regina for the Worlds in April !
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Fri Night
Extra end - MB with last rock
Stoughton wins & goes to the final!
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Thurs Nite: 10th - Day 6
Martin wins over Howard
(tied coming home AB with hammer)
So, NL(1st) & MB play the 1-2 game
AB & ON play the 3-4 game
Thurs morn:
Howard wins & clinches playoff spot
&
Gushue clinches with win over Stoughton
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Martin
pulls the parachute
Wed update
Stoughton
in the 1-2 game!
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Older...
Tues
Morn Update
Monday
Morn Update
Gushue
ends Martin's streak
Sunday
Update
Concluded . . .
Scoreboard
(CBC)
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TSN
TV Schedule
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TV Schedule-Europe
USA: Universal Sports
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Recent Updates:
Ok, so it's tied up coming coming home
- Canada has hammer
Last rock - a delicate shot to clear a guard & draw the button - Alas, it
was not to be!
-it ran out of steam by the time it hit the 4ft.
Sweden has their 3rd world championship!
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China takes Bronze
YouTube
Well China made Canada work for it but Holland & team are in the Sunday final!
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This
just in! - Canada beats Denmark
& will play China later today!
It's Canada & Denmark in the 3-4 game on Sat. Winner will play China who lost to Sweden in the 1-2 game
Round robin
1. Sweden 9-2
2. China 8-3
3. Denmark 7-4
4.=Canada 7-4
4.=Switzerland 7-4
6. Russia 6-5
7. USA 6-5
8. Germany 5-6
9. Scotland 4-7
10. Norway 3-8
11. Korea 2-9
12. Czech Republic 2-9
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Older
Day
5
Holland
on a roll
Record
is improving
Holland off to slow start
concluded. . .
GP Players Championship
April 12 - 18
CBC TV - April 16 & 17
Updates/News
Martin
wins back-to-back championship!
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It's
Martin vs Edin of SWE
in the final
previously . . .
Saturday morning semifinal action will see 2008 world champion Jones collide with Muirhead, while 1998 world bronze medallist Nedohin takes on Homan, the 2010 Canadian Junior champion and reigning Ontario women's titleholder.
The men's quarter-finals go Saturday following the C-level qualifying games.
Edmonton's Kevin Martin and Kevin Koe, Winnipeg's world champion Jeff Stoughton, Brier finalist Glenn Howard of Coldwater, Ont. and world bronze medallist Niklas Edin of Sweden have already earned quarter-final berths.
End
of an Era: Bernard loses in
qt's
Kevin
Martin defeated longtime rival Glenn Howard while Niklas
Edin downed world champion Jeff Stoughton
concluded . . .
World
Men's Championship: Rosters
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TSN
TV Schedule
Stoughton
ready
It's
different from the Brier
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TSN Sunday!
This just in!
It
will be Canada vs Scotland
Scoring
3rd time lucky for Scotland?
uh-uh - Canada wins again!
Stoughton & team are the 2011
World Curling Champions!!
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Sweden takes Bronze with win
over arch rival Norway
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Thank you TSN!
Thank you Vic, Linda & Russ!
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older updates
Canada wins over Scotland in the 1-2 game and now Scotland will await the winner
of SWE & NOR in the 3-4 game
Canada is in the final !!
Canada
loses one
Stoughton
Making History
Stoughton
beats France
and Scotland to go 7-0
BBC's
take
Stoughton
- 5-0
Stoughton
continues hot start
Stoughton
2-0 after day 1
2011 MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS
Winnipeg Manitoba , Mar 27 - April 5 2011
Men
Women
BC wins Manitoba wins