Date: May 29, 2007

It promises to be a memorable day in Coldwater on Saturday, June 2 as members of the Glenn Howard 2007 World Men’s Curling Championship rink will honoured at a dinner hosted by their home curling club.

From 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Coldwater and District Curling Club, the team will be honoured for the April world championship win in Edmonton.

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Last Updated: Sunday, April 8, 2007 | 4:15 PM ET
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Canada’s Glenn Howard captured his first world curling championship as a skip with an 8-3 trouncing of Germany’s Andy Kapp in eight ends in Sunday’s gold-medal game in Edmonton.

The win by Howard and his Coldwater, Ont., rink of third Richard Hart, second Brent Laing and lead Craig Savill gave Canada its 30th men’s world title, and the first since Randy Ferbey’s 2005 victory.

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WATCH 2007 WORLD CURLING CHAMPIONSHIPS

The breakout sport of the 2006 Torino Olympics is back! As curling sweeps its way into the spotlight again, both the United States men’s and women’s curling teams are back in action.

The 2007 World Championships are the first opportunity for the nations to earn qualifying points toward the upcoming 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. With both the men and women riding the wave of success from recent years, the teams are hopeful the momentum will carry them to victory at this year’s world championships.

Don’t miss out on all the curling action! Get your All-Access package and watch all matches LIVE or on demand for $19.99 or catch your favorite men’s and women’s competitions for $14.99 each.

Available only in the U.S.A.

Yes .. I know that kind of sucks for Canadian Viewers, but I think this could turn into something interesting by the next Olympics, if a lot of support is given. NBC Sports is partnering up with MediaZone to show the games either LIVE (a high-quality 500k stream) or ON DEMAND (available as a 700k download made available on a daily basis within 24 hours after the match).

What is also neat about this … is that although it’s NBC Sports … commentary is not available on these feeds. Natural sound is included from the event happenings and surroundings .. what it would be if you were in the stands (apparently, as I cannot confirm this of course, being located in Canada).

So - I would be curious if any Curling Fans from U.S.A. want to give this a try .. and let us know how it works out! Here’s the banner again to click - you should be transported to another window.

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2006 World Men’s Curling Championships

April 09, 2006

Scotland (David Murdoch of Lockerbie) defeats Canada (Jean-Michel Ménard of Quebec City) to win the 2006 Men’s World Curling Championships in Lowell, Massachusetts. It is the fourth title for Scotland since the event began in 1959 and the first since 1999, when Scotland skip Hammy Mcillian won the world title in Saint John, New Brunswick.

FINAL SCORE: Scotland 7, Canada 4

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WebPosted Sat, 08 Apr 2006 16:23:47 EDT
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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

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Here are the final Round Robin Standing of the Men’s Curling Championship

Website: http://www.wcc2006.org/

1st Place - Scotland
2nd Place - Canada
3rd Place - Norway
4th Place - United States

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Updated at 18:41 on April 6, 2006, EST.

LOWELL, Mass. (CP) - Canada nailed down a playoff spot at world men’s curling championship Thursday by beating the 2006 Olympic silver medallists.

Jean-Michel Menard’s team from Quebec City held off a charge by Markku Uusipaavalniemi’s foursome from Finland to win 6-4 and ensure Canada will be one of four countries in Friday’s Page playoff. Uusipaavalniemi’s team lost in the Olympic curling final to Canada’s Brad Gushue on Feb. 24 in Turin, Italy.

“It’s always great to be able to defeat a team that won a silver medal at the Torino Olympics,” Menard said.

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MEMO: The Battle of North America (See Schedule) will be at 7:00pm ET Thursday April 6, 2006 on CurlTV if subscribed

Canada to take on Olympic medallists at world men’s curling championship

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With one day remaining before the playoffs .. here are the standings (after 14 sessions, 9 draws each - there are 17 sessions in total)

From: Official Website

1st Place … Tied / United States and Scotland (7 wins, 2 losses)
2nd Place … Canada (6 wins, 3 losses)
3rd Place … Tied / Finland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland (5 wins, 4 losses)

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Did I mention this before?

To subscribe to our RSS Feed .. you just have to either click the top left Bloglines icon in our sidebar (if you use Bloglines.com) or right-click and copy link location on the RSS feed icon and add it to your own local newsreader. There are also other links down the page …

The Worlds Men Curling Championship is also offering RSS feeds on the little stories on their main start page .. if you wanted to add it to your reader .. here’s the link

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Here are the results after 7 sessions

USA is currently in first place with 4 wins, 1 loss .. and then there is a 5-way tie for second place between Canada, Denmark, Norway, Scotland and Sweden

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CANADIAN PRESS
Canadian skip Jean-Michel Menard calls the sweep during the draw against Germany at the men’s world curling championships in Lowell, Mass., yesterday. Canada won the game 8-3, and went into last night’s game with a 2-2 record. (Right)

LOWELL, MASS. (Apr 4, 2006)

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According to the 2006 World Men’s Curling Championship website …

E-mail Your Favorite Team

Through out the event, you can e-mail your favorite team and root them on to victory. Send your comments, congratulations, and good wishes to fanmail@wcc2006.org for any of the teams. We will deliver the messages every day so they know how much their fans support them.

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A LITTLE BACKGROUND OF THE GAMES

Sweeping the World / Brushing with History

The World Men’s Curling Championship is coming to Lowell, Massachusetts from April 1-9, 2006, hosted by the Grand National Curling Club of America (GNCC) the eastern U.S. regional curling association. The 12-team round-robin event will include teams from around the world competing for curling’s most coveted prize.

Source: www.wcc2006.org/

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