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Curlers are the Biggest Olympic Party Animals

Posted July 8, 2012, 1:15 pm by (No Comments)

Curlers like to party.

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TSN2′s Preemption of March Madness For Women’s Curling Confirmed By A Horrified Bachelor Party

Posted March 22, 2011, 11:55 am by (34 Comments)

Yesterday Twitter tipped us off about Canada’s TSN2 switching from the NCAA Tournament’s late games to show women’s curling. Last night, we got confirmation from a reader who was in Canada for a bachelor party. After the jump, allow Ryan to share his harrowing tale.

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Canada’s TSN2 Switches From March Madness To Women’s Curling

Posted March 21, 2011, 4:30 pm by (16 Comments)

Curling vs. March Madness – According to Twitter (here, here, here) TSN2 (That’s Canadian for “ESPN2″) cut coverage short of one of the late NCAA Tournament games second half to show the Women’s World Curling Championships. If true, this is truly one of the most Canadian programming decisions of all time. Not that I blame [...]

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Curling Outdraws Hockey On Canadian Television

Posted February 25, 2011, 3:30 pm by (45 Comments)

Curling! Remember curling? It was the absolute hotness a year ago during the 2010 Winter Olympics. The fever has not subsided in Canada. “Wednesday night’s curling grudge match between Jennifer Jones and Cathy Overton-Clapham drew more television viewers than the NHL game that followed.” The Oilers and Avalanche game have nothing to be ashamed of. [...]

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Paralympic Curler Arrested For Selling Counterfeit Viagra and Cialis

Posted October 25, 2010, 1:45 pm by (3 Comments)

Paralympic Curling Drug Case: Jim Armstrong and his son Gregory, pleaded guilty to selling and dispensing counterfeit drugs with intent to mislead or defraud. Armstrong was the 2010 gold medal skipper of Canada’s wheelchair curling team. ”Armstrong, who is 59, was accused of trying to smuggle 2,544 counterfeit Viagra pills and 260 Cialis pills from China [...]

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Swedish Curlers Are Totally Metal

Posted February 22, 2010, 7:45 am by (9 Comments)

I haven’t tried to hide my love of curling. If it were on television 18 hours a day (Like it has been), I would probably watch it 18 hours a day. (Like I have been.) So when I sat in my living room last night watching the USA vs. Sweden ladies curling match and heard [...]

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