Curling

A Daily Dose of Ice Cubes…

Providing More Enjoyable Viewing For Non-Curlers — Every Winter Olympic year, there is a huge upswing in interest in curling. People unfamiliar with the sport are intrigued by its odd means of play, and also by an Olympic Sport that looks like fun for everyone. (It is!) Curling is the greater of the two well known games…

I’ll try not to yell. — The natural human reaction to discovering curling? It looks a lot like Rosie tries Wasabi. And as it is with that evil mother, I can’t help myself when it comes to exposing other people to curling: I can almost see the subtitles under their poor unsuspecting faces: W.T.A.F. is…

It’s that time again. Once every four years, the Winter Olympics comes along, and the world rediscovers curling. Curling is sometimes explained as “chess on ice”. That conjures up pictures of Bobby Fischer vs Poindexter for Olympic gold. Nah, it’s not that. Curling is actually much more like NFL football…

The round-robin of the 2020–2021 World Women’s Curling Championship is nearing the home stretch with each team having either four or five games left before the start of the playoffs. After writing about the round-robin results from the last time the World Women’s was held, I figured it would be…

With the start of the World Women’s Curling Championship this past Friday, I decided to dig through the data and see what could be learned from the last time a World Women’s was held, all the way back in 2018–2019. For those of you who don’t remember, the 2018–2019 World…