COVER: RISE OF RUSSIA The 2014 Olympic hosts impress on the ice; Canada Cup declares trials berths; the $1 million dream is dead
CURLING TV / WEB GUIDE EXCLUSIVE: How Sportsnet will handle four events on one January weekend! Only our monthly Curling TV/Web Guide has the world’s most comprehensive curling TV and online broadcast details
THE DOMINION CLUB CORNER Okay, curling club – time to change your name to “centre”
THE NEWS DESK A different brush for Mr. Clean… All-Star Skins vote and blowback… Euro federation voted to dissolve itself… Canada’s Minister for Sport goes curling… curling star bikes 1,200 km across Africa for charity… cool truck graphics… it’s a resounding LEGO victory… and more!
THRILLS AND SPILLS Guy Scholz is “Curling in America” on some of the craziest ice surfaces you’ve never dreamed of
THEY SAID IT Jennifer Jones on her baby… Kevin Martin on his hernia… curling stars on the NHL hockey lockout… Mark Nichols on Manitoba weather… Mixed curlers on relegation… Sportsnet kudos (live production) and curses (the website)… one fan is sick of Howard… and more!
IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE? Rodger Schmidt is back from the Europeans, and he says there’s work to do
THE GOLD TRAIL World Curling Tour lists Homan first and Martin third. We say Lawton is first and KMart is fifth. Only The Curling News Gold Trail tracks ALL the money, everywhere…
WOODY AND THE MUCKAMUCKS Senior columnist Larry Wood on the WCF rules questionnaire – the right answers, that is
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