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		<title>$68,083 for Sick Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TORONTO – The donations continue to arrive as a final first-year total of $68,083 was announced for the Capital One Charity Bonspiel in support of SickKids Foundation.
24 celebrity curling skips joined 72 other curling fundraisers in early June for the inaugural event, which will return next year on June 2-4, 2011 at the Toronto Cricket [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheryl Bernard joins Curling Skins Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cheryl Bernard (left) and her 2010 Olympic silver medallists will battle the boys at the 2011 TSN Curling Skins Game.
Bernard and her Calgary women’s team will take on the Vancouver 2010 Olympic men’s champions from Edmonton, Team Kevin Martin, in one of the two event semifinals played January 22, 2011 at Casino Rama just outside [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecurlingnews.com/blog/chery-bernard-joins-curling-skins-game/</link>
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		<title>Olympic curling star returns to ice wars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When news of her Olympic team breakup came just two weeks ago, legendary Swedish women’s curling skip Anette Norberg indicated she would stay involved with her sport, and seek to nurture young talent for the future.
Norberg has taken that one step further. The two-time world and two-time defending Olympic women’s champion has formed a new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecurlingnews.com/blog/olympic-curling-star-returns-to-ice-wars/</link>
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		<title>Big bucks for Sick Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TORONTO – They came, they curled (and played golf, tennis and croquet) and now they’ve departed&#8230; and the SickKids Foundation is a lot richer for it.
24 celebrity curling skips joined 72 other curlers/fundraisers and, together with a fine collection of event sponsors, raised over $65,000 for charity at the Capital One Celebrity Bonspiel in support [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecurlingnews.com/blog/big-bucks-for-sick-kids/</link>
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		<title>Tiger Woods goes curling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prior to the release of today’s incredible Tiger Woods curling footage (link below) there already was a connection between the golf legend and the Roaring Game.
U.S. curling athlete Bill Todhunter won bronze at the 2007 world men’s championship with Team Todd Birr. Later, Todhunter was curling with Beau Welling, a USA Curling board member from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecurlingnews.com/blog/tiger-woods-goes-curling/</link>
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		<title>Wine Auction for Sick Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to June, everyone.
The Capital One Celebrity Bonspiel in support of SickKids Foundation is getting closer (June 4-5) and the first celebs are due to arrive in town Wednesday night, June 2, when Scottish stars Eve Muirhead and Anna Sloan arrive at the airport.
On that same night, a special Wine Auction in support of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecurlingnews.com/blog/wine-auction-for-sick-kids/</link>
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		<title>Men With Brooms for 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we’ve known since last fall, and first revealed back in February, a new half-hour TV comedy based on the 2002 curling movie Men With Brooms has been brewing.
Yesterday, Canada’s CBC-TV announced their fall show lineup and MWB is one of only two new shows featuring next season.
What’s more, the new edition of Brooms stands [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecurlingnews.com/blog/men-with-brooms-for-2010/</link>
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		<title>Team Norberg calls it quits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two Olympic gold medals are enough.
It may not be a shock to many curling followers, but yesterday’s news conference in Sweden still managed to draw gasps of surprise as it marked the official end of the road for one of the greatest women’s curling teams in history.
Team Anette Norberg, twice world champions and also Olympic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecurlingnews.com/blog/team-norberg-calls-it-quits/</link>
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		<title>Muirhead and Capital One confirmed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Capital One – one of the sport of curling’s BFFs – announced today that it is sponsoring the new charity event in Toronto June 4-5.
As we’ve pointed out in recent days, the Capital One Charity Bonspiel offers single-entry participants the chance to curl alongside Olympic and world champion competitors, while raising funds for SickKids Foundation, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecurlingnews.com/blog/muirhead-and-capital-one-confirmed/</link>
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		<title>Muirhead for Sick Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Big news is about to be revealed with regard to the new celebrity/charity curling event scheduled for June 4-5 in Toronto (see previous post).
The Curling News has learned that the phenom from Scotland –  2010 Olympian and world silver medallist Eve Muirhead – has been added to the roster of skips.
Muirhead and 2009 world junior [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecurlingnews.com/blog/muirhead-for-sick-kids/</link>
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		<title>Curling for Sick Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[April is not only the month for various world curling championships; it’s also the traditional time of year for celebrity charity events.
Some of these events – like the House of Hearts in Duluth, MN – are still growing. Some, like the Spinal Tap, are still new to the celebrity aspect. Others are struggling a bit, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecurlingnews.com/blog/curling-for-sick-kids/</link>
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		<title>Big change for Jennifer Jones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you shut down your computer early last night, preferring to attempt – once again – to engage Season 3 of Lost, then you missed the big news.
Jennifer Jones has shaken up her curling team, again, this time dumping third stone Cathy Overton-Clapham. The official team news release is published here; the Canwest story can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecurlingnews.com/blog/big-change-for-jennifer-jones/</link>
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		<title>World Mixed Doubles and Seniors in Chelyabinsk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you think it was over?
Nope, this wild 2010 Olympic season is not yet done, as there are many stones being thrown in faraway Chelyabinsk, Russia, the site of the combined World Mixed Doubles and World Seniors Championships.
The venue is a mammoth winter sport training facility, the Ural Lightning Ice Palace, and no less than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecurlingnews.com/blog/world-mixed-doubles-and-seniors-in-chelyabinsk/</link>
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		<title>Armstrong arrested on drug smuggling charges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jim Armstrong, the six-time Brier competitor who won Paralympic gold for Canada at the recent Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games is facing charges in Seattle, WA on allegations he tried to smuggle thousands of counterfeit erectile dysfunction pills into British Columbia.
A story published late Tuesday in seattlepi details the U.S. federal criminal complaint, in which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecurlingnews.com/blog/armstrong-arrested-on-drug-smuggling-charges/</link>
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		<title>Last political curling chapter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Rodger Schmidt
After having quite a lot to say for most of last week about the World Curling Federation and their activities – I don’t have much to say about it today.
The World of Curling is probably going to be surprised that this organization took out their President in a well-orchestrated fix, but to anyone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecurlingnews.com/blog/last-political-curling-chapter/</link>
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