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• COVER: THE BIZARRE BRIER

  Terry Jones on the amazing sights and sounds of Edmonton 2013 – and the reverberations heard throughout the sport

• PHOTOS OF THE YEAR

  Our annual look at the best curling imagery in the world

• CURLING FANS: LET’S GET ROWDY

  Our Brier blogger loved this “new” spectator behaviour

• CURLING TV / WEB GUIDE

  Think April means TV curling is over? Nope – our monthly Curling TV/Web Guide has the world's most comprehensive curling TV and online broadcast details

• THANKS FROM THE CHAMPS

  Team Brad Jacobs, Brier champions, have a special message for their supporters

• THE DOMINION CLUB CORNER

  “Institutional arrogance” a partial factor in the struggles facing the rural curling facility

• THE CURLING NEWS DESK

  Two TCN scribes win national awards… Canadian deaf curlers overcome Russian ethics in world final… Latest on the annual player shuffle… Nashville country star Eric Church sees his crew try the game in Sudbury… New song “Cover of The Curling News” makes waves… Who's in and what to expect from the Players’ Championship at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens… and more!

• THEY SAID IT

  Our popular spotlight on who said what – featuring David Nedohin's new pants, TSN’s busted equipment, the Northern Ontario moose call machines, Team Homan’s Academy Award, Randy Ferbey’s newfound respect, Jon Mead on Edmonton’s apologies… and more!

• THEY SAID IT – ON TWITTER

  An all-Twitter version of They Said It – including tick shots, K-Mart's rocks, TSN geo-blocking, missing purple hearts, a Pope-ish curling smoke signal, the fear of Hulk Homan… and more!

• WHEN THE SUN ROSE FOR ONTARIO

  Garnet Campbell and other western curling legends came to Toronto in the 1960s and kick-started Ontario's competitive legacy – and Bradley Sumner played with them

• WHEELS ROLL AT NATIONALS, WORLDS

  Eric Eales on Jim Armstrong's come-from-behind world wheelchair curling victory, plus the 2013 Canadian nationals

• JUST FOR OPENERS

  Our Senior Columnist lets ’er rip on the STOH, the Brier and more

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