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RED DEER — From the “Takes One to Know One” files, we turn to Amy Nixon to provide this summation of Heather Nedohin’s playoff performance at the Enmax Centrium this weekend.
“Heather has this little peacock strut, you know?” said … Continue reading
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Alberta measures up (sorry) splendidly in a pressure-packed situation at the Scotties
RED DEER — OK, be honest: did ANYBODY think that Alberta was going to win that measure?
I sure didn’t. Neither did anybody else on the media bench.
Also, for the record, nobody on Heather Nedohin’s Alberta team did, either. … Continue reading
Scott gets the better of a familiar foe in Scotties one-two game
RED DEER — There’s always something compelling about watching Kelly Scott and Jennifer Jones go head to head on the national stage at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, and tonight at the Enmax Centrium was no exception.
Their rivalry has … Continue reading
Alberta oh-so-close to Page 1-2 game; setting up the Scotties playoffs
RED DEER — I should have learned from covering enough of these events not to make any educated guesses about what might happen in the final round-robin draw because, as a rule, those guesses go straight out the window.
For … Continue reading
How to replace a hammer that never should have been replaced, and other Scotties observations
RED DEER — There’s been a few interesting topics of conversation at this Scotties, whether it’s the stomach issues that have knocked various players for a loop, the stunning number of players who’ve fallen on their keesters and, yes, the … Continue reading
Scott putting on a wonderful display of skipping leadership at the Scotties
RED DEER — I started writing this blog at around 9 p.m. tonight, and most of it was devoted to praise to whom I believed (at the time) to be the two best skips in this Scotties Tournament of Hearts … Continue reading
Agree or disagree with Holland’s decision to take the steal after Officer stumble? A tough dilemma…
RED DEER — So, I’ll throw it out there: you’re Team Canada skip Amber Holland and you’re watching Jennifer Jones’s last rock in the sixth end about to make contact for an open hit to score one, and Jones’s second … Continue reading
Team Canada erasing any lingering doubts after so-so start to season
RED DEER — OK, we really shouldn’t be surprised, right? Amber Holland’s Team Canada foursome is the defending Scotties Tournament of Hearts champion because it won the final in Charlottetown, and had some stretches of amazing curling along the way.… Continue reading
Solid start for the Territories, solid start for Red Deer and the Scotties
RED DEER — I had grand plans up until around 6:25 p.m. to declare this the finest day in the history of Yukon/Northwest Territories curling at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
The evidence until then was compelling. Territories skip Kerry … Continue reading
Can Holland and Co. repeat? My predictions for the Scotties Tournament of Hearts
Here’s the situation going into the 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts Canadian women’s curling championship, which begins on Saturday in Red Deer:
The team that finished second at last year’s Scotties in Charlottetown is practically everyone’s pick to win this … Continue reading
