Price Atkinson and Joe Calabrese are back with our first podcast of 2018, including guest interviews with two-time Olympian John Landsteiner and Winter Olympic alternates Cory Christensen and Joe Polo.

Plus the results from last weekend’s Challenge Round, our thoughts on the new Cheetos “DoTheCurl commercial, upcoming spiels including the Golden Wrench Classic and The Big Spiel. Also a shoutout to previous podcast guest John Morris on qualifying for the 2018 Winter Olympics to represent Team Canada in mixed doubles with Kaitlyn Lawes.

Our last podcast of 2017 includes CurlingZone President/CEO Gerry Geurts joining host Price Atkinson on the US Mixed Doubles Olympic Trials last week. Plus we look ahead to two big events in January including the Continental Cup and the next Grand Slam event (the Meridian Canadian Open).

World Curling Federation Hall of Famer and one of the two people instrumental in getting curling back into the Winter Olympics, Warren Hansen stopped in to talk about his role with USA Curling, where the sport is headed with mixed doubles and more!

Matt and Becca Hamilton won the U.S. Olympic Trials for Mixed Doubles Curling this afternoon at Fogerty Arena in Blaine and will represent Team USA at the upcoming 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. 

The Hamiltons defeated John Shuster and Cory Christensen 6-5 and will compete in the first ever mixed doubles competition at the Olympic Games in addition their duties playing with Team Shuster and Team Roth. Hear interviews from both teams plus the Hamilton’s father Scott and Matt’s wife Jennie after punching their ticket to the Olympics…again!

The four-team playoff field at the 2018 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Mixed Doubles Curling are now set, as TESN’s Price Atkinson and Sean Murray recap what the four teams did to advance and how they matched up in round robin play. 

Hear interviews with top-seed Cory Christensen & John Shuster plus two-seeded Becca & Matt Hamilton, who’ll play each other tonight. The 3-4 game will pit Vicky Persinger & Jered Zezel against Nina Roth & Kroy Nernberger. All live tonight/Saturday at 9 pm (CST)/10 pm (EST) on NBC Sports Network!

The 2018 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Mixed Doubles Curling are underway from the Four Seasons Curling Club in Blaine, Minn. Price Atkinson and Sean Murray will get you caught up on the first day and a half and who sits atop the standings. 

Plus you’ll hear players and teams talk about their games and results from the day, including Cory Christensen and John Shuster who lead the way at 4-0 overall. TESN’s “The Extra Extra End” is your home for all the results from the Mixed Doubles Olympic Trials!

In this week’s episode, Price talks with mixed doubles team Jamie Sinclair and Korey Dropkin about their prep for the upcoming Olympic Trials (Dec. 13-17) in Blaine, resetting after their recent win at the Mixed Ports Classic in Duluth, the chance to still pursue their Olympic dreams after Omaha and much more! 

Sean Murray joins the conversation as we discussed next month’s Challenge Round entrants released last week by USA Curling, the IOC’s decision to ban Russia from the 2018 Winter Olympics plus the ongoing “Roar of the Rings” Canadian Trials in Ottawa.

We’re back after a week off for Thanksgiving and the 12th End Sports Network’s Price Atkinson talks with one of the eight curling teams competing at the upcoming 2018 U.S. Olympic Trials for Mixed Doubles in Alex Carlson (St. Paul, MN) and Derrick McLean (Bothell, WA). They talked about their preparation, dynamics on the ice including who makes most of the calls, Alex putting Omaha behind her and so much more!

And Price is joined by TESN’s Sean Murray to take a quick look back at the Olympic Trials in Omaha plus the Mixed Doubles Olympic Trials teams who’ll be competing for a spot at the upcoming 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang!

The final day of the U.S. Olympic Trials wrapped up in thrilling fashion with Team Roth and Team Shuster winning the Trials to become Team USA and represent the U.S. at the upcoming 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. You’ll hear the emotion, elation and tears from both teams and more plus a few special cameos at the end of our final podcast from the Trials in Omaha. Now it’s onto the Olympics!

On Friday at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha, both Team Sinclair and Team Shuster forced a decisive game 3 in their best-of-3 series against Team Roth and Team McCormick respectively. Join 12th End Sports Network’s Price Atkinson and CurlingZone’s Gerry Geurts to recap today at the Olympic Trials before tomorrow’s two final games. Plus player interviews with Alex Carlson, Monica Walker, Becca Hamilton, Tyler George and Tom Howell!

The finals of the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for curling are underway and Team Roth and Team McCormick scored wins in game one their best-of-three finals today. Join the 12th End Sports Network’s Joe Calabrese & Price Atkinson along with CurlingZone’s Gerry Geurts again for a recap of all the day’s action plus interviews from all four teams after their games!

Plus we say goodbye to Joe and B.A. (but we got a cameo) heading back to Rochester tomorrow!