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Jamie Korab said he was surprised when he was kicked off the Olympic gold-medal curling team, one year after the rink won gold at the 2006 Olympic games in Torino, Italy.
Korab, former lead, says he had no idea it was coming until skip Brad Gushue told him the news during a team meeting April 4.
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Activities that boost children’s “cardio-respiratory fitness” should be the focus of a federal tax credit, an expert panel urged Thursday as it outlined the types of activities and costs that should qualify.
The panel was appointed to advise Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservatives on their proposed tax credit for parents with children in organized sports, proposed in May 2006 to fight obesity and encourage fitness among young Canadians.
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For the second year in a row, Canada and Scotland will play for world men’s curling supremacy.
FROM APRIL 7, 2006: Canada’s Menard makes curling final
MEMO: The Battle of North America (See Schedule) will be at 7:00pm ET Thursday April 6, 2006 on CurlTV if subscribed
By JIM BENDER – Winnipeg Sun
In just the past two weeks, one of Manitoba’s all-time greats has lost half his team.
Jeff Stoughton’s long-time third, Jon Mead, has decided to take at least next year off to spend more time with his wife, Eileen and three-year-old daughter, Sophia, and commit more time to his job.
By Bruce Campbell
Times Editor
Wednesday March 29, 2006
While Bruce Campbell wrote the following article, the responses from Olympic bronze medallist Shannon Kleibrink were the result of hard-hitting questions from Karen Andrews’ Grade 6 class at Senator Riley middle school. Andrews has curled with Kleibrink at the Nanton Meatspiel and the Highwood Mixed Bonspiel.
Shannon Kleibrink had a hot news tips for Senator Riley school journalists — sure winning a bronze medal in curling at the XXth Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy is great, but gee, sometimes you have no idea who your neighbours are.
By Rick Patzke // USA Curling // March 26, 2006
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(GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alberta) - Debbie McCormick’s Team USA was on the losing end of Anette Norberg’s perfect season falling 10-9 to Sweden in the gold-medal game Sunday afternoon at the 2006 Ford World Women’s Curling Championship at the Canada Games Arena in Grande Prairie, Alberta.
“It was a good game,” said McCormick, the 2003 world champion. “We really wanted to win but it was a terrific week. We had a great run at it. I’m proud of my girls. Unfortunately, this one doesn’t have the same shininess as the other one. ”
McCormick (Rio, Wis.) and teammates Allison Pottinger (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Nicole Joraanstad (Madison, Wis.), Natalie Nicholson (Bemidji, Minn.) and Caitlin Maroldo (Rochester, N.Y.) started the game a lot more aggressive than they hoped but it momentarily paid off as Sweden was held to just one point in an end that looked like it had disaster written all over it for the Americans.
Team Canada skip Kelly Scott after losing to the USA in Grande Prairie, Alta. on Saturday. (CP/Andrew Vaughan)
March 25, 2006 - 17:42
By: BILL GRAVELAND
By CON GRIWKOWSKY, EDMONTON SUN
GRANDE PRAIRIE — Curling’s Olympic exposure is starting to pay huge dividends.
The World Curling Federation expects a $12-million share of marketing and television ratings from Turin, much of which will be invested into world-wide television production.
That share is up from $4 million in Nagano and $8.3 million in Salt Lake City.
Monday, March 20, 2006 | Source: Larry Wood
GRANDE PRAIRIE, March 20…Defending champion Anette Norberg and her methodical Swedes paired down the ranks of the undefeated at the Ford World Women’s Curling Championship to themselves on Monday.
And Canada’s Kelly Scott managed to finagle another split out of another hair-raising day on the Canada Games Arena freeze. Sweden defeated Debbie McCormick of the U.S. 8-5 in the morning, then knocked over Denmark’s Madeleine Dupont 8-6 in the afternoon. Dupont was pummelled 9-2 by McCormick in the evening.
The Canucks, meanwhile, wound up facing another pair of hunting parties gunning for the red maple leaf target. “It was our dream to beat Canada,” said 21-year-old Bingyu Wang of Harbin after out-hitting Scott’s Canadian champions 5-4 on the early shift. Scott came back in the afternoon to steal a 7-6 win from Kelly Wood of Scotland when she was off-line on a seven-foot runback with Canada’s winner sitting hidden in the four-foot.
Canadian Press
3/16/2006 2:13:40 PM
REGINA (CP) - Manitoba skip Jeff Stoughton says he’ll appeal his $1,000 fine for unsportsmanlike conduct at the Canadian men’s curling championship.
The Canadian Curling Association disciplined Stoughton after he kicked rocks and slamming his broom in a game against New Brunswick on Wednesday, but Stoughton also said he was told by the CCA he had been accumulating offences, some of which he was unaware.
“I thought they would at least let me know I was accumulating some fines,” Stoughton said Thursday. “We’ll write a letter and see what they do.”
Canadian Press
3/14/2006 7:23:49 PM
REGINA (CP) - Glenn Howard remained upbeat after his Ontario team’s winning streak came to an end at the Canadian men’s curling championship Tuesday.
Alberta’s Kevin Martin halted Ontario’s run of wins at six with a 7-4 victory over Howard and then earned a matching sixth victory with a 8-1 decision over Newfoundland and Labrador at night.
Ontario and Alberta were both 6-1 at the top of the 12-team field and their game was the best yet in the preliminary round of the Tim Horton’s Brier. It also could have been a preview of the Sunday final.
Mar. 15, 2006. 01:00 AM
BRIAN MCANDREW
STAFF REPORTER
REGINA—Glenn Howard has always curled in the shadow of his big brother Russ, but he doesn’t mind standing in the shade.
Even now that the younger Howard, 43, has made it to the national men’s curling championship as a skip, he’s already been upstaged by 50-year-old Russ Howard’s gold-medal performance at the Olympics with Brad Gushue. And the attention will turn away from the front-running Howard rink here at the Brier when the Gushue team arrives tomorrow night in advance of Friday’s day-long adulation and autograph sessions.
The Yomiuri Shimbun
A curling boom has swept through the nation thanks to the surprising performance of the Japanese women’s team at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin. The Games squad, Team Aomori, won the national championship Sunday.
Curlplex Fuji, a curling training facility in Yamanashi Prefecture, has been inundated with applications from people who want to join the beginners course. The facility is run by Hiroshi Kobayashi, 58, who joined the NHK announcer on television during Olympic curling coverage.
CURLING: BRITISH COLUMBIA 8, CANADA 6
BOB WEEKS
Special to The Globe and Mail
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A bad break on her final rock derailed Team Canada’s Jennifer Jones yesterday and gave British Columbia’s Kelly Scott the 2006 Scott Tournament of Hearts title.
St. John’s streets to be named after Brad Gushue & Co. Canadian Press
Published: Monday, March 06, 2006
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Olympic curling champion Brad Gushue and his rink are receiving another honour.
February 28, 2006
The public will be given an opportunity to meet and greet Brad Gushue’s gold winning Olympic Curling Team on Saturday. Bob Osborne of the St. John’s Curling Club says the open house will take place from 1 - 4 p.m. at the St. John’s Convention Centre. Osborne says there’s no charge but people have been asked to bring along a non-perishable food item. He told Bill Rowe on VOCM’s Backtalk Russ Howard will join the team for the event, but he encourages everyone to arrive early. The Gushue Rink will be recognized at the Fog Devils game on Saturday. Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab, Mike Adam, Russ Howard, and coach Toby MacDonald will be on hand to drop the ceremonial puck. The team will also sign autographs on the concourse from 6 to 6:45 pm.
Meantime, it was a raucus welcome home for the Gushue curling rink early this morning at St. John’s International Airport. A huge crowd turned out to show Brad, Mark, Jamie, Mike and Toby just how proud they are of the team’s accomplishment. There was pride galore, with Canadian flags by the dozens waving to celebrate the homecoming. Brad Gushue was overwhelmed by the turnout. The coach of the Olympic champions, Toby McDonald, says the support has been fantastic.
Wed, March 1, 2006
By MORRIS DALLA COSTA,
FREE PRESS SPORTS COLUMNIST
Only the final numbers are still to come.
Wed, March 1, 2006
By MORRIS DALLA COSTA,
FREE PRESS SPORTS COLUMNIST
Only the final numbers are still to come.
