This week's episode is our season finale. We recap and discuss the major stories from the 2023-24 season with Devin Heroux, and we follow-up with a panel discussion that includes John Cullen and Mike Fournier.
This episode focuses on the recent announcmeent that the Grand Slam of Curling was sold to a new entity called The Curling Group. I chat with Nic Sulsky, a key member of The Curling Group about their plans for the Slams moving forward and with Olympic gold medalist Marc Kennedy about what impact this new era for the Slam might have on the players.
This week, we preview the 2024 World Men's Curling Championship by interviewing Bruce Mouat and Brad Gushue who faced each other in last year's final and are both back for another crack at a championship. We also chat with the skip of a Team New Zealand that has been on an interesting curling journey this season, to say the least.
On this week's episode we look back at the 2024 Brier with guests Mike McEwen and E.J. Harnden.
On this week's podcast we preview the 2024 Women's Worlds with guests - Alina Paetz (SUI), Rachel Homan (CAN), Anna Hasselborg (SWE), Tabitha Peterson (USA), Jen Dodds (SCO) and Jess Smith (NZ).
This week's podcast includes interviews with 2024 Scotties champion Tracy Fleury of Team Homan, all-star alternate Krysten Karwacki of Team Einarson and Myla Plett who just led her team to a 4th place finish at the World Jrs and qualified Canada for the event in 2025.
In this year's Brier preview we welcome the two brads, Gushue and Jacobs along with Mike McEwen, Ben Hebert, Matt Dunstone, Aaron Sluchinski and Tyler Tardi.
In Part 1 of our 2024 Scotties preview we are joined by - Jenn Jones, Sarah Wilkes of Team Homan, Clancy Grandy (BC), Kate Cameron (WC), Danielle Inglis (ON) and Heather Smith (NS).
On this week's episode, we chat with Beau Welling, president of the World Curling Federation. We discuss many of the sport's hot-button topics. I also ask the world-renowned golf course designer if the sport of curling ever comes up in his conversations with Tiger Woods.
In this week's episode, we chatted with Nolan Thiessen, the new CEO of Curling Canada. We cover several hot-button topics facing Thiessen and the team at Curling Canada.
In the final episode of 2023, we chat with Olympic gold medalist Marc Kennedy, Laura Walker of the #1 ranked mixed doubles team in the world, Alyssa Nedohin from the reigning Canadian U18 and U21 Canadian champs Team Plett, and we are also joined by Northern Ontario curling upstart Deanna Chilton.
On this week's episode, we are joined by four-time world champion Glenn Howard. We are also joined by Kayla Skirlik, who represented Alberta at the 2023 Scotties. Howard and Skrlik were coming off big wins on the World Curling Tour last weekend.
On this week's episode we are joined by Emma miskew of Team Homan and Jacques Gauthier of Team Kevin Koe whose teams each won the tour event in Red Deer las weekend. Our discussions touch on many topics including Miskew's work with curling's developing player's association and Gauthiers transition from skip to second.
On this week's episode, my guests are Olympian Hans Frauenlob, who joins us to recap an exciting and controversial 2023 Pan-Continental Championship and Mike Fournier, who recently penned a blog in the persona of the "Unknown Curling Fan", which received a lot of attention in the competitive curling community.
On this week's episode, we hear from Karlee Burgess of Team Jennifer Jones. Karlee won her first career Grand Slam last week in Niagara Falls. Our second guest this week is Olympic gold medalist Ryan Fry who now coaches Italy's Team Retornaz. We discuss the Italian team, currently ranked second in the world and recap their win at the first Grand Slam of the season. We end this week's episode with Sergio Vez who skipped Team Spain to a silver medal at the 2023 World Mixed Championship.
In the Season 9 premiere, we welcome David Murdoch, the new Director of High Performance at Curling Canada. We also chat with Laurie St. Georges and Felix Asselin who will represent Canada at the 2023 World Mixed Curling Championship. The duo recently won a mixed doubles event and they also have several events planned with their respective four-person teams in what will be a very busy season.
On the 2022-23 season finale, we are joined by Devin Heroux of CBC Sports, 2021 Brier champion Brendan Bottcher and Phill Drobnick of USA Curling.
This week, we recap the 2022-23 season with John cullen and Mike Fournier who have both curled at the elite level and are also well-known for their work in covering the sport through their blogs, podcasts and other platforms.
On this episode we are joined by Mark Ideason who recently won a silver medal at the World Wheelchair Curling Champonship and his teammate Gil Dash who recently also won his 4th Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship. We are also joined by Myla Plett, a young lady who has already won three Canadian titles; a U20 title and two U18 titles.
On this week's peisode we chat with Bruce Mouat who won his first World Championship last week in Ottawa. Mike Harris joins us to recap the Men's Worlds and Laurie St-George discusses her new lineup for next season.