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Grand Slam TV news; picks for the Alberta Scotties
It’s been one of the busiest couple of weeks on the curling front that I can remember in a long time, with playdowns at the local, regional and provincial level all converging at once, along with the...
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Kaufman hangs tough to clinch first Alberta Scotties playoff berth
LEDUC — Few would have picked Jessie Kaufman to be coming out of tonight’s A-event final at the Scotties Alberta women’s curling championship. Fewer still would have picked the pint-sized Edmonton skip...
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Nedohin scraps her way into title contention at Alberta Scotties
LEDUC — Heather Nedohin is in perfect form at the Alberta Scotties; which is to say, her voice is all but gone. That’s what a day like Friday will do for the Edmonton skip, who had to endure a pair of...
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Kaufman silences the doubters for another day to reach final; Webster still...
LEDUC — I would like to meet the person who predicted that Jesse Kaufman would be riding a 10-game win streak into Sunday’s afternoon’s championship final at the Scotties Alberta women’s curling...
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Nedohin puts years of disappointment behind her with Alberta Scotties triumph
LEDUC — If you could say someone was “due” to win an Alberta women’s curling championship, few would fit the description better than Heather Nedohin. The Edmonton skip has been knocking on the door...
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Can Holland and Co. repeat? My predictions for the Scotties Tournament of Hearts
Here’s the situation going into the 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts Canadian women’s curling championship, which begins on Saturday in Red Deer: The team that finished second at last year’s Scotties...
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Solid start for the Territories, solid start for Red Deer and the Scotties
RED DEER — I had grand plans up until around 6:25 p.m. to declare this the finest day in the history of Yukon/Northwest Territories curling at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. The evidence until then...
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Team Canada erasing any lingering doubts after so-so start to season
RED DEER — OK, we really shouldn’t be surprised, right? Amber Holland’s Team Canada foursome is the defending Scotties Tournament of Hearts champion because it won the final in Charlottetown, and had...
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Agree or disagree with Holland’s decision to take the steal after Officer...
RED DEER — So, I’ll throw it out there: you’re Team Canada skip Amber Holland and you’re watching Jennifer Jones’s last rock in the sixth end about to make contact for an open hit to score one, and...
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Scott putting on a wonderful display of skipping leadership at the Scotties
RED DEER — I started writing this blog at around 9 p.m. tonight, and most of it was devoted to praise to whom I believed (at the time) to be the two best skips in this Scotties Tournament of Hearts...
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How to replace a hammer that never should have been replaced, and other...
RED DEER — There’s been a few interesting topics of conversation at this Scotties, whether it’s the stomach issues that have knocked various players for a loop, the fire alarm tonight (smoke from the...
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Alberta oh-so-close to Page 1-2 game; setting up the Scotties playoffs
RED DEER — I should have learned from covering enough of these events not to make any educated guesses about what might happen in the final round-robin draw because, as a rule, those guesses go...
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Scott gets the better of a familiar foe in Scotties one-two game
RED DEER — There’s always something compelling about watching Kelly Scott and Jennifer Jones go head to head on the national stage at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, and tonight at the Enmax...
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Alberta measures up (sorry) splendidly in a pressure-packed situation at the...
RED DEER — OK, be honest: did ANYBODY think that Alberta was going to win that measure? I sure didn’t. Neither did anybody else on the media bench. Also, for the record, nobody on Heather Nedohin’s...
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Nedohin and Team Alberta strut their way to a memorable Scotties triumph
RED DEER — From the “Takes One to Know One” files, we turn to Amy Nixon to provide this summation of Heather Nedohin’s playoff performance at the Enmax Centrium this weekend. “Heather has this little...
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On the Rocks: Webster mixes up strategy in hunt for elusive Alberta Scotties...
Crystal Webster wants to win a provincial curling title and she’s willing to give up last shot to do it. A perennial contender at the Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the 39-year-old Glencoe Club...
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On the Rocks: Report of Jones rink's demise greatly exaggerated
With no playdowns to worry about, January is all about money and having fun for Team Jennifer Jones. While others are gearing up for provincials, the reigning Canadian women’s champions have already...
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On the Rocks: Sweeting brings in coach Stoughton ahead of Alberta Scotties
The Val Sweeting rink would have done well at the tables in Las Vegas if they had been on Team North America for the Continental Cup. While they were playing at the TSN Pinty’s All-Star Skins Game in...
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Curling vet Stoughton returns as team Sweeting's coach
Jeff Stoughton arrived at Calgary’s North Hill Curling Club late Friday just as everyone else was leaving. The curling great came to spend time alone on the ice following that day’s final draw at the...
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Carey gets redemption, beating Sweeting for Alberta Scotties title
Chelsea Carey would not use the word ‘vindicated’ to describe how she was feeling Sunday afternoon. Dumped by one team last spring, the former Winnipegger-turned-Edmontonion-turned-Calgarian captured...
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