This week's guests: 2018 World Mixed Curling champion Danielle Inglis joins us to discuss her team's world championship victory in Kelowna. (3:01) Chelsea Carey joins us to discuss her team's win at the Canad Inns Classic in Portage and she gives an update on her lead Rachelle Brown who recently gave birth to a baby boy. (8:28) The "Godfather" of curling podcasts Dean Gemmel joins us to provide his take on U.S. curling and also to look back on "The Curling Show", the podcast he launched back in ...
Oct 23, 2018•56 min
This week our guests include Olympic champion Marc Kennedy who discusses his win with Rachel Homan at a Mixed Doubles event this weekend and how he has stayed involved in the sport of curling despite taking a break from the World Curling Tour... Mike McEwen of Team Carruthers joined us to discuss the transition to a new team after 11 seasons and he shares interesting details on why that transition hasn't always been easy so far this season... Val Sweeting joins us to discuss her own transition t...
Oct 16, 2018•33 min
This week's guest include Anna Hasselborg and Brad Gushue fresh off their victories at the first Grand Slam event of the season, Matt Dunstone and Karsten Sturmay who both led their teams to titles on the World Curling Tour this past weekend and Mike Harris of Sportsnet who joins us for his yearly early season look at the world of curling.
Oct 02, 2018•42 min
On this week's episode, we recap the action from Week 6 of the 2018-19 season including an interview with Shannon Birchard of Team Einarson. With the first Grand Slam of the season scheduled for Week 7, we interview Pierre Charette, Competition Director for the Grand Slams, and we also interview Laura Walker and Reid Carruthers who will both skip their new teams in the Elite 10.
Sep 25, 2018•43 min
Our guests this week: Kirk Muyres (3:56), Tyler Tardi (14:52), Jonathan Brazeau (19:06), Jill Officer (29:22), Peter Gallant (32:52) and Graeme Thompson (39:16).
Sep 19, 2018•56 min
This week our guests include Kerri Einarson and Casey Scheidegger fresh off their victories at events last weekend. We also present the first part of our European preview for this season with guests Silvana Tirinzoni, Peter de Cruz and Bruce Mouat.
Sep 12, 2018•27 min
This week, in the second part of our Season Preview, our focus shifts to the United States. Our guests include Olympic Champion John Shuster, Alex Carlson of Team Sinclair, Tabitha Peterson of Team Roth and Phill Drobnick the Director of Coaching at USA Curling.
Sep 04, 2018•48 min
Part 1 of our 2018-19 Season Preview focuses on Canada. Guests include - Joanne Courtney, B.J. Neufeld, Kerri Einarson, Brent Laing, Jocelyn Peterman, Chelsea Carey and Gerry Geurts of the World Curling Tour.
Aug 30, 2018•43 min
Our guest for the final episode of the 2017-18 curling is Devin Heroux of CBC Sports. We discuss some of the "moments" from this past curling season from Devin's perspective as someone who was in attendance at most of the major curling events this season.
May 08, 2018•45 min
This week we recap the 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship with Kim Tuck who was on-site in Sweden doing broadcasting work for the World Curling Federation and we chat with Laura Crocker who teamed up with Kirk Muyres to win a bronze medal for Canada in the event. We also chat with Emma Miskew of Team Homan and Brad Gushue of Team Gushue on their respective wins at the season-ending Champions Cup in Calgary.
May 02, 2018•39 min
This week's guest - Jamie Sinclair and Marc Kennedy fresh off their respective victories at the 2018 Players Championship in Toronto.
Apr 17, 2018•24 min
On this week's episode, we welcome Mike Harris of Sportsnet to discuss the 2018 World Men's Curling Championship in Las Vegas and this week's Pinty's Grand Slam of Curling Players' Championship in Toronto.
Apr 11, 2018•18 min
This week's guests: Laura Crocker and Kirk Muyres (2018 Canadian Mixed Doubles Champs) as well as Kristen Streifel and Karsten Sturmay (skips of the 2018 Canadian University champs)
Apr 03, 2018•33 min
This week's guests - Kaitlyn Jones and Tyler Tardi (2018 World Junior champion skips), Jamie Sinclair and Greg Persinger (2018 U.S. Nationals champion skips), Sportsnet's Mike Harris (2018 Brier recap and a preview of the Elite 10 Grand Slam)
Mar 14, 2018•40 min
NOTE - THERE IS AN ISSUE WITH THE AUDIO IN THIS FILE...PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING LINK FOR A REVISED VERSION... Link to revised podcast This week's guests - Kaitlyn Jones and Tyler Tardi (2018 World Junior Champion skips), Jamie Sinclair and Greg Persinger (2018 U.S. National Champion skips) and Mike Harris of Sportsnet (Recap of the 2018 Brier).
Mar 14, 2018•32 min
This week's guests - Phil Drobnick (Coach - Olympic champions Team Shuster), Cheryl Bernard (Alternate - Team Homan), Nolan Thiessen (Curling Canada), Mike Fournier (Skip, Team Quebec - 2018 Brier), Brendan Bottcher (Skip, Team Alberta - 2018 Brier), Brett Gallant (2ns, Team Canada - 2018 Brier)
Feb 28, 2018•1 hr 12 min
Cheryl Bernard, the alternate for Team Homan, joins us from Pyeongchang to discuss her first few days in Korea, how Team Homan prepared for the start of the competition and how the larger Canadian curling team is working together to help the curlers be as prepared as possible for each game they will play in Olympic competition.
Feb 15, 2018•11 min
This week we focus on our Canadian Olympic Trials preview. Sherry and Wayne Middaugh join us to preview the women's and men's fields respectively, Kaitlyn Lawes and Ryan Fry join us on the "Road to Ottawa" and Kevin Palmer joins to dig deep into the numbers and tell us which teams have fared the best against the teams they'll face in Ottawa. Also, we are joined by Bart Sawyer and Stacey Fordyce who led their teams to victory at the Travelers Curling Club Championships. Complete Women's Trials pr...
Nov 28, 2017•1 hr 24 min
This week our guests include Nina Roth and John Shuster who led their respective teams to victory at the U.S. Olympic Trials, Bruce Mouat whose team became the first men's team from Scotland to win a Grand Slam event at the Boost National in Sault Ste Marie and Mike Anderson the skip of Team Ontario who won the Canadian Mixed Championships. We also continue our "Road to Ottawa" series with Casey Scheidegger and Kate Cameron (3rd - Team Englot).
Nov 22, 2017•57 min
This week we recap the Canadian Olympic Pre-Trials with guests Jim Cotter of Team Morris, Russ Howard of TSN, Devin Heroux of CBC Sports and Al Cameron of Curling Canada. We can an update from the U.S. Curling Trials from Gerry Geurts of CurlingZone.com and our guest on the "Road to Ottawa" series is Brent Laing of Team Koe.
Nov 15, 2017•1 hr 2 min
This week, we preview the 2017 U.S. Olympic Trials with Phil Drobnick of USA Curling and Joe Calabrese of 12th End Sports/"Extra Extra End Podcast", we continue the "Road to Ottawa" series with an exclusive interview with Mike McEwen and we catch you up on all the news and notes from the world of curling.
Nov 07, 2017•59 min
This week we interview Brett Gallant following Team Gushue's victory at the Masters Grand Slam, we continue our Road to the Trials series with Steve Laycock and our feature interview is with Katherine Henderson, the CEO of Curling Canada.
Oct 31, 2017•46 min
In the first of our series of interview with members of the mainstream media that cover the sport of curling, our guest is Devin Heroux of CBC Sports. We discuss some of the major curling stories he has covered over the past year and we look ahead to the Canadian Olympic Pre-Trials and Trials.
Oct 24, 2017•26 min
In this week's episode - Gerry Geurts of Curling Zone joins us to discuss the first quarter of the season including some of the trends he has seen developing, Grant Hardie joins us to discuss leading his team from Scotland to victory at the recent World Mixed Championship, Adam Casey joins on our Road to Summerside series and John Epping is our guest in the second of our interviews focusing on the Olympic Trials,
Oct 24, 2017•41 min
This week, Reid Carruthers joins us to discuss his team's win at the Canad Inns Classic, we continue the "Road to Summerside" with William Lyburn and Theresa Breen and, in the first of our Olympic trials Series, we interview 2016 Scotties champion Chelsea Carey.
Oct 17, 2017•38 min
This week, we offer a tribute to the late Ray Turnbull including memories from Vic Rauter and Russ Howard. We recap the weekend action and with the recent success of Asian teams on the World Curling Tour we flashback to interviews we did earlier this season with two Canadian coaching in Asia, Marcel Rocque in China and Peter Gallant in Korea.
Oct 10, 2017•53 min
In this week's episode we interview Colton Flasch to discuss his team's victory at the College Clean Restoration Classic, we catch-up with U.S. Champion Jamie Sinclair, we continue on the Road to Summerside with Jean-Michel Menard and Nadine Scotland and our feature interview is with Irantzu Garcia whose breakthrough performance at the 2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championships earned her country its first world curling medal.
Oct 03, 2017•43 min
In episode 5 of Behind the Hack, Cheryl Bernard interviews 2014 Olympic bronze medalist and 2013 World Champion Eve Muirhead of Scotland who will be representing Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
Oct 03, 2017•1 hr 1 min
In the second installment of her "Next Steps with Kristen" series, 2017 Canadian Junior champion Kristen Streifel is joined by Brianne Theisen-Eaton a bronze medalist in the Heptathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. Theisen-Eaton discusses the opportunities and challenges that were part of her development into a world class athlete, her transition from student-athlete to professional, how striving for Olympic success impacted her relationships and why she decided to retire while still at th...
Sep 26, 2017•42 min
This week's episode includes an exclusive interview with Colin Grahamslaw, the Secretary General of the World Curling Federation; Nolan Thiessen joins us to discuss his research that led the WCF to adopt the 5 rock rule; Glenn Howard and Darcy Robertson join us on the "Road to Summerside" and Shannon Birchard joins us to discuss her team's first WCT title last weekend at the Colonial Square Classic in Saskatoon.
Sep 26, 2017•35 min
