An ode to curling
With the Winter Olympics fast approaching, I find looking forward to watching a little curling.
Once every four years, sports fans are treated to watching people slide a stone towards a target while other folks sweep the ice to achieve just the right speed and direction.
I said I liked it. I never said I understood it.
Anyway, the sport dates back to the mid-16th century and a quick glance at the Olympic TV schedule tells me that all of the U.S. men's and women's matches will be televised.
And that's a good thing.
Want to know more? Here are a few links:
Curling lingo - http://www.usacurl.org/basics/glossary.html
Olympic site - http://www.nbcolympics.com/curling/index.html
Olympic TV schedule - http://www.nbcolympics.com/tv/index.html
Once every four years, sports fans are treated to watching people slide a stone towards a target while other folks sweep the ice to achieve just the right speed and direction.
I said I liked it. I never said I understood it.
Anyway, the sport dates back to the mid-16th century and a quick glance at the Olympic TV schedule tells me that all of the U.S. men's and women's matches will be televised.
And that's a good thing.
Want to know more? Here are a few links:
Curling lingo - http://www.usacurl.org/basics/glossary.html
Olympic site - http://www.nbcolympics.com/curling/index.html
Olympic TV schedule - http://www.nbcolympics.com/tv/index.html
posted by Randy Capps at 12:08 AM
4 Comments:
We do the same thing here in the sunny south, but since we don't have ice we just call it skipping rocks. :)
I'm a bard trapped in a sportswriter's body.
Bard? I thought that was when you used something that belonged to someone else.
"You got a chainsaw?" "No, but I bard his."
Now that's funny...
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