Inside Curling with Kevin Martin & Warren Hansen

In The House today is Brad Gushue

What’s Happening Around the Curling World?

The curling world was shocked on November 9

to hear about the passing of curling writer Ted

Wyman. We will do a tribute to Ted and his

outstanding contribution to curling over the years.

Yet another team is making a change in mid-

season, this time it is Team Carruthers. What’s

happening there?

The second Grand Slam of the season

concluded in Nisku, AB this past weekend and we will

review everything that happened at the Coop

Canadian Open

4) (Jim) What’s coming up this week…..we will take a

look at the major curling events that will be started in

the next seven days………..

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C) - Hot Rock Topics……..(Jim) There has been a lot of talk

in recent years about how to attract a younger audience to a

curling event……….Warren made an observation this past

weekend and will offer an idea of what might help to attract

people under 40……

D) - Mailbag……..(Jim) We will read you some comments

about streaming from the Grand Slam along with a rant from

Face Book…..

E) - Curling Moments to Remember……..A look into

curling’s rich history……….Each week either Kevin or Warren

will relate back to something that happened in curling’s past

that is always interesting…….Today Kevin will bring us a great

curling moment……..

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Greetings again everyone and

welcome to this Special Edition of Inside

Curling, known as Inside the Slam!

The second Grand Slam of

Curling event of the season is underway, The

Coop Canadian Open that started on Tuesday

in Nisku, Alberta at the Silent Ice

Centre and we have ready to reached the

finals. Kevin is there with Sportsnet and

you have probably heard him on the

broadcast. We will also see how the

selections we made for the final two have

worked out. The Canadian Mixed Championship

is underway at St. Catharines, Ontario and it

ended today and we will check in to see who

the winners are.

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The second Grand Slam of

Curling event of the season is underway, The

Coop Canadian Open that started on Tuesday

in Nisku, Alberta at the Silent Ice

Centre. Kevin is there with Sportsnet and

you have probably heard him on the

broadcast, we will talk about that

event and what has happened so far. We

will also see how the selections we made for

the final eight have worked out. The Canadian Mixed Championship

is underway at St. Catharines, Ontario and

we will check in to see how things are

going.

Hosted by Kevin Martin, Warren Hansen and Jungle Jim Jerome.

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Today joining us In The House is Mike McEwen.

What’s Happening Around the Curling World?

This past weekend a major competition for men was held in Penticton in

the way of the NuFloors Penticton Classic.

There aren’t any foreign teams in the event

but it did feature five of Canada’s best we

will review. The Pan Continental Championship

started last Sunday in Lacombe, Alberta and

this is an important event because it qualifies

a number of teams for the 2025 Women’s

and Men’s World Championships….Canada is

represented by Brad Gushue and Rachel

Homan. Hot Rocks Topics. The Pan Continental

Championship started a few days ago and in a couple of

weeks the European Championship will start and in

both cases teams are being qualified for the 2025

World Men’s and Women’s Championship. In all

probability the Pan Continental will qualify (six – we will

explain) and the Europeans seven of the 13

teams. But at the WC Congress in September a

thought was put on the table…..is there a better way of

doing this?

So, today we have an email but

we have also gone to our FB Group where someone

asked about the Pan Continental being on television

and it got 109 comments. Curling Moments to

Remember - A look back into curling’s rich

history. Each week either Kevin or Warren

will relate back to an experience or observation to

something that has happened in curling’s rich

history. Today Kevin will bring us a great curling

moment.

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In the House today joining us is Matt Dunstone who just won the Fall Classic in Sault Ste. Marie.

What’s Happening Around the Curling World? This past weekend a major cashspiel, the Fall Classic was held in Sault Ste. Marie and it featured some of the best teams in the world….we will review the results. The World Mixed Championship (four person mixed) concluded this past weekend in Aberdeen, Scotland and we will tell you about the final results. We received a letter from Phil Drobnick, USA National Team Director who brought to our attention a very unique event being held by USA Curling in the middle of November, We will share with you what Phil brought to our attention, The Pan Continental Championship will start on the 27th in Lacombe, Alberta. This is a pretty important event because it will determine five women’s teams and five men’s teams for the 2025 World Championships.

Hot Rocks Topics, for sure curling isn’t getting any faster and more and more emphasis is being placed on all sports to shorten the time span. Does curling need to finally make another change at the top level to speed things up even more? We have a couple of emails to look at today actually one is in a response to the email we read on the show last week from Mike Roeke that we did not interpret correctly.

Curling Moments to Remember. A look back into curling’s rich history. Each week either Kevin or Warren will relate back to an experience or observation to something that has happened in curling’s rich history. Today Warren will bring us a great curling moment.

Inside Curling is Hosted by Kevin Martin, Warren Hansen and Jungle Jim Jerome.

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In The House joining us is Brendan Bottcher. What’s Happening Around the Curling World? 

The social media world is buzzing today about Brendan Bottcher joining the Brad Gushue Team but some of it is pretty nasty. A major women’s bonspiel happened this past week in Calgary, The Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Classic featuring some of the best female curlers in the world? The Stu Sells Toronto Tankard happened last week and a number of the better world women’s and men’s teams participated and we will give you the final results. The World Curling four-person championship started last weekend in Aberdeen, Scotland and we will take a look at what is happening in Aberdeen. Word came out this week about another curling club having to close it’s doors from financial pressures caused by an equipment malfunction. We have a very interesting email today that has its focus on the television commentary for video streaming……You don’t want to miss this one?

Curling Moments to Remember, A look back into curling’s rich history. Each week either Kevin or Warren will relate back to an experience or observation to something that has happened in curling’s rich history. Today Kevin will bring us a great curling momen

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Today joining us is Kerri Einarson who just won the Hearing Life

Challenge in Charlottetown….her first big win

of the season. What’s Happening Around the Curling World?

This past weekend the Hearing Life

Challenge, the first Grand Slam of the season

took place in Charlottetown, PEI with a Tier I

and a Tier II event one the ice…..We will

review both events and give you the

highlights. The Aaron Sluchinski team

announced Tuesday that Aaron has left the

team…..we will talk about where he is going?

I think we have talked about the

hogline and violations on two of our shows

already this year but because of email and FB

comments this past weekend we will address

the issue one more time

Hot Rocks Topics, Curling needs an injection of

something new and different could two person

stick curling maybe be the answer to that

question could two person stick become

curling’s “Cornhole” or “pickleball” We will talk

about how this take on curling could be a way to

get people into a curling facility and not just

older curlers who can no longer slide…?

We have had lots of comments in

email and social media about the added

broadcasts of the GSOC this past week on video

stream. We will take a look at one of them. Curling Moments to

Remember, A look back into curling’s rich

history. Each week either Kevin or Warren

will relate back to an experience or observation to

something that has happened in curling’s rich

history……Today Warren will look back to a major

happening that took place in March of 1977 in

Montreal

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Greetings again everyone and welcome to this Special Edition of Inside Curling......Known as Inside the Slam!

The first Grand Slam ofCurling event of the season is underway, The Hearing Life Challenge started on Tuesday in Charlottetown. Kevin is there on the ground and we will talk about that event and what has happened so far. We will also see how the selections we made for the final eight have worked out. There is also a Tier II event taking place in Charlottetown the same time as the Tier I and we will see how things are going with Tier II.

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Inside Curling is Hosted by World Curling Hall of Famers Kevin Martin and Warren Hansen...and also legendary broadcaster and undisputed King of the Patch, Jungle Jim Jerome.

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The first Grand Slam of Curling event of the season, The Hearing Life Challenge started on Tuesday in Charlottetown. Kevin is there on the ground and we will talk about that event and what has happened so far. We will also see how the selections we made for the playoff’s have worked out. There is also a Tier II event taking place in Charlottetown the same time as the Tier I and we will see how things are going with Tier II?

Broadcasts will start at 11ET / 9MT / 8MT on saturday, regardless of what Jim says...listen to the episode, you'll see what I mean.

Hosted by Kevin Martin, Warren Hansen and Jungle Jim Jerome.

Produced by Mike Rogerson.

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