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Month: January 2018

Americas Zone Challenge – Interview with Glenn Howard

  Canada will face Brazil in a best-of-five series  this weekend in London, ON with the winning country receiving the second spot reserved for the Americas Zone at the 2018 Ford World Men’s Championships. Canada has to compete for this

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2018 WFG Continental Cup – Coaches Lang and Lindberg

The 2018 WFG Continental Cup is taking place this week in London’ ON.  We caught up with Rick Lang and Fredrik Lindberg who will serve as the coaches for Team North America and Team World respectively. Lang and captain Al

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Canadian Junior Championships – Skip interviews

The Canadian Junior Championships will take place in Shawinigan, QC from January 13th to 21st.  Following are short interviews we did with six of the skips that will lead their teams into the competition, starting with Tyler Tardi the reigning

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Mixed Doubles Trials Recap with Devin Heroux, CBC Sports

Devin Heroux of CBC Sports joined us for an in-depth look back at the Canad Inns Mixed Doubles Trials.  Devin was one of the few individuals who was on-site and watched each draw of the Pre-Trials, Trials and Mixed Doubles

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Canadian Mixed Doubles Trials – Day 3 Summary

Round-Robin Surprises There were two teams that caught our attention in the round-robin by surpassing the expectations of many observers. Dana Ferguson and Brendan Bottcher are both accomplished curlers that few people were pointing to as a pre-event favourite. Both

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Canadian Mixed Doubles Trials – Day 2 Summary

At the start of the Canad Inns Mixed Doubles Trials, most curling observers felt that three losses was the maximum number of defeats a team could afford if they had playoff aspirations. At the end of Day 2 in Portage,

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Canadian Mixed Doubles Trials – Day 1 Summary

There were five players that had had to find new partners for the Mixed Doubles trials after their original partners qualified for the men’s or women’s events in Pyeongchang at the recent Men’s and Women’s Olympic Trials in Ottawa. There

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Canadian Mixed Doubles Trials – Interviews with Carey, Gallant and Carruthers

This week, 18 teams will be in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba to compete in the first ever Canadian Mixed Doubles Olympic Trials. Following are interviews we did with three of the curlers participating in the Mixed Doubles Trials; Chelsea Carey,

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Canadian Mixed Doubles Trials

An interesting, and important, curling event is taking place in Portage la Prairie (MB) this week and most Canadians will miss out until the final results are mentioned by sports media next Sunday. Understandably, the 2018 Canad Inns Canadian Mixed

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