Vol. 56 Issue 6: April 2013
NOTE – APRIL DIGITAL EDITION NOW ONLINE featuring extra pages and enhanced content!
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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
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PHOTOS OF THE YEAR
Our annual look at the best curling imagery in the world
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CURLING FANS: LET’S GET ROWDY
Our Brier blogger loved this “new” spectator behaviour
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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
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THANKS FROM THE CHAMPS
Team Brad Jacobs, Brier champions, have a special message for their supporters
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THE DOMINION CLUB CORNER
“Institutional arrogance” a partial factor in the struggles facing the rural curling facility
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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
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WHEELS ROLL AT NATIONALS, WORLDS
Eric Eales on Jim Armstrong's come-from-behind world wheelchair curling victory, plus the 2013 Canadian nationals
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JUST FOR OPENERS
Our Senior Columnist lets ’er rip on the STOH, the Brier and more
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Updated Mar 29, 2013
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Niklas Edin (Sweden)
Euro champs win Victoria Classic prior to worlds
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B. Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, ON)
New Brier champions are pumped to wear the Maple Leaf
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Jeff Stoughton (Winnipeg)
Bad day the Brier office - in the final, anyway
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Glenn Howard (Coldwater, ON)
Bronze in Edmonton no consolation
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Mike McEwen (Winnipeg)
Runner-up in Grande Prairie and Victoria
Updated Mar 29, 2013
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Eve Muirhead (Scotland)
World champions
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Rachel Homan (Ottawa)
Strong rebound from missed shot in world semi
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M. Sigfridsson (Sweden)
Another silver, impressive consistency; Anette who?
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Jennifer Jones (Winnipeg)
STOH finalist lost in Grande Prairie tiebreakers
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Heather Nedohin (Edmonton)
Fourth at the STOH - but not really






