We've moved!

Welcome to our 799th post here at The Curling News Blog... and our last one on the Blogger platform.

Each and every posting dating back more than four years, starting with our very first one in September 2005, has moved over to our new bloghome, which is located here.

This is, of course, also the location of our brand-new website, which launched somewhat quietly during the Canadian (Olympic) Curling Trials earlier in December.

As you can see from the screen capture above, we have kicked things off with a new blogpost at our new home. So do check back, and often, at our new location... just as so many of you curling fans did at this former location, and quite religiously, over the years.

We've moved, but we're not leaving. We are The Curling News, founded in 1957, and we love curling.

Merry Ho Ho, everyone!

Curling party website

If you recall September’s launch announcement for Season of Champions TV, you will also recall mention of another new website coming soon: AtThePatch.ca ...!

This morning, the official website of curling’s biggest party palace – the Keith’s Patch – went live... check it out!

Curling fans can eyeball the bands listed to play at each of the SoC major events, as well as other information... and fans can even follow announcements on Twitter!

And we’ve got another idea for the CCA web moguls. We suggest building a place on the site for party fans to upload their own party pics... much as The Curling News Blog did during last year’s Tim Hortons Brier in Calgary: once, twice, thrice and again.

Patch it up, people!

TCN on Twitter!

The November 2009 issue of The Curling News, founded in 1957, is now in the mail, jetting its way across Canada and around the world.

Click here to subscribe. You don’t want to miss it.

The Curling News Blog (ahem) continues to churn out content, posting five times yesterday alone. We’re now at more than 725 diverse, detailed and always entertaining postings since the fall of 2005.

This blogpost is the first to show off our newish Twitter account, simply @curling, which has been churning out all kinds of tweets (153) since we launched on September 12.

This includes weekend tournament up-to-the-minute updates and stories.

The Curling News has been your best source for wide-ranging curling news and information since 1957 ... !! ... and now you can follow us on Twitter!

Brier: Crazy French Guys

CALGARY – Okay.

So CurlingZone Brier Blogmeistress Stina did a fine job of taking pictures of visiting international athletes faster than our Brier Bloggals.

Muddy and the Otts are two examples.

But she missed our French friends, led by skip Thomas Dufour (right, with Richard Ducroz) who went from Vancouver to Calgary and then, presumably, back to their training camp in Trois Rivieres in the lead-up to Moncton.

Last year the lads spent two entire months training in Toronto – going home for a handful of days to win the French championship before returning – which we covered in the March 2008 issue of The Curling News.

In Cowtown, these wacky guys found themselves in some kind of locker room, and proceeded to test out some kind of loony oversized curling props.

Trop de bière?

The Curling News: January 2009 issue

Happy New Year to one and all.

The January 2009 issue of The Curling News is in the mail and should be arriving any day now.

And as we draw closer and closer to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, we think you should definitely become a subscriber.

We will be using this blog to highlight some of the content non-subscribers have been missing over the past months, just to illustrate how neither one – blog and print edition – can really work without the other.

You need both. One is free, the other costs just 35-odd bucks a year. That’s all.

So subscribe today, and you’ll get stuff like this, every month, first in line ...


• Is Scotland’s David Murdoch the Neo of curling? Regardless, Canadians should be wary;
• European Championships report from O’vik;
• Larry Wood asks if today’s curling ice is actually too good to be true;
• John Morris dons the gloves and Jennifer Jones goes sailing in new CCA ticket drives;
• The Dominion Club Corner looks at curling liners – the Easy Sheet – as a real option for your curling club;
• Matt Hames, new American citizen, is back on the curling ice;
• Wayne Middaugh robs Brad Gushue at The National, Larouche on fire and Gushue/Lawton lead Capital One Cup standings;
• They Said It: our monthly look at quotable quotes includes Walchuk, Lang, Jones, Murdoch, The Ferb, Johnny Mo, Howard (both of them) and even a CurlingZone chatter;
• Kimberly Tuck dishes on the Canadian Mixed in Iqaluit;
• The Curling News Book Blowout: there’s still time to grab one of five awesome classic curling titles from our vaults;
• Rodger Schmidt exposes the crazy world of Swiss curling, Olympic-style;
• The Other Kevin Martin – no, not the Old Bear, but a Guinness World Record breaker;
• Martin on the haunting of Lloydminster, the Calgary Brier and his disdain for the Hall of Fame... Johnny Mo doesn’t feel like an outsider any more... Swift Current grabs the 2010 Ford Worlds, and more!