From the Hack

It is Curling Day in Canada and on today's episode of the "Waking Up With The Scotties" series we recap the first two draw of the Championship Pool, we interview Mackenzie Zacharias and Karlee Burgess fresh off their first career Scotties appearance and we are joined by Devin Heroux of CBC Sports and the co-host of "That Curling Show"

On today's "Waking Up With The Scotties" - Olympic silver medalist and TSN curling commentator Cheryl Bernard, Matt Dunstone who will skip Saskatchewan at the 2021 Brier and Mary Chilvers, co-host of the 2 Girls and a Game podcast.

On today's episode...reigning and three-time Brier champion Brad Gushue and four-time world champion Glenn Howard join me to discuss the Scotties and Canada's next generation of curlers + we recap Wednesday's action at the Scotties.

On today's episode I chat with Beth Peterson whose team is making their first appearance at the Scotties, I recap Tuesday's action at the Scotties and my final guest is Elaine Dagg-Jackson who is the National Coach & Program Manager, Women's Program with Curling Canada.

On today's episode of "Waking Up With the Scotties" we are joined by Laurie St. Georges of Team Quebec, curling blogger Mike Fournier who is currently preparing to compete in the Brier and Greg Ewasko who is the head ice technician at the 2021 Scotties.

On today's episode of From the Hack's "Waking Up With The Scotties"... Colin Hodgson of Dynasty Curling discusses the design process for Scotties apparel and the logistics of getting the jerseys and jackets to the players, we recap Sunday's action and we interview reigning world junior champions Mackenzie Zacharias and Karlee Burgess of Team Zacharias (Wild Card 2)

On our very first episode of Waking up With the Scotties, we highlight Sandra Schmirler Day, we recap Saturday's action at the Scotties with clips from several players and we interview Krysta Burns and Amanda Gates of Team Northern Ontario.

In Part 2 of our look at the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the sport of curling, we focus on stakeholders operating in different sub-sectors of the sport. Our guests include the owner of the Curlers Corner supply store in Calgary, Bernice Merrick, photojournalist Anil Mungal, Kim Tuck of the Canada Curling Stone company and Stephen Meunier, President of the McIntyre Curling Club in my hometown of Timmins, ON.

This week, we conclude our two-part series on the Calgary bubble by focusing on how it will impact players. Our guests include Marc Kennedy of Team Jacobs who could be in the bubble for as much 5 or 6 weeks. Laura Walker who is a new Mom and could be in the bubble for two events or more. Mike Fournier who has yet to play a game this season yet might be selected to represent Quebec at the Brier as the province's highest ranked men's team. Jill Brothers of Nova Scotia who might have to miss as many as 4 weeks of work if she were to win the right to represent her province at the Scotties.

Our final guest this week is Tabitha Peterson of the U.S. who was selected by USA Curling to represent her country at both the 2021 Word Women's Championship and the 2021 World Mixed Doubles .