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ISSUE 3 | MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2019 AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF CURLING CANADA
For the love of
MIKE
LOCAL BOY
MCEWEN
BACK TO
HIS ROOTS
IN PURSUIT
OF HIS FIRST
BRIER TITLE
PAGE 3
OFFICIAL
PARTNER-OF-THE-DAY
LEARN MORE ABOUT THEM
ON PAGE 19
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BRIER
A wild and woolly victory
BRANDON 2019
Sunday night’s comeback came way So the five-rock does challenge you to we’re playing great. Everybody feels
By GRANT GRANGER earlier. Wild Card was down 5-0 after keep making shots,” said McEwen. comfortable, everybody’s got a good
four ends. But two ends later they were With his final shot in the 10th, already handle on the ice, everybody’s getting
T
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ahead 6-5. having shot rock, McEwen tried to along. It’s boring, but it’s good,” said
eam Wild Card was on the right “Just like we drew it up,” said a navigate a narrow port to score two for Jacobs.
side of making Brier history, smiling Bottcher. “I really didn’t think we the win but just ticked on a guard. In the “We have played well to this point, but
Manitoba on the wrong side at the were playing badly. I just think these first extra end, Bottcher had an easy hit-and- we’re expecting a real big grind ahead of
2019 Tim Hortons Brier presented by AGI few games we’ve been getting our share stick for a 9-8 win. us.”
at Westoba Place Sunday night. of the bad breaks. We’ve just got to trust “(Vice skip Reid Carruthers) and Saskatchewan, skipped by Saskatoon’s
The hometown favourites skipped by that it’s a long week and by the end of the I need to be better than that,” said Kirk Muyres, kept pace at 2-1 with a
Mike McEwen (Winnipeg) blew a 5-0 week it will equalize out. McEwen. “That’s just poor execution. 9-2 victory over Prince Edward Island
lead after four ends, losing 9-8 in 11 ends “We did get our share of the breaks. We had to make easy ones and Reid and (Charlottetown, 1-2). Skip John Likely’s
to Edmonton’s Brendan Bottcher. To come back like that you have to get I missed two or three really easy ones. A squad were outscored on the day 23-6
POOL A
your share of the breaks and we definitely couple of outright flashes, which is just having lost 14-4 to Team Wild Card in the
did. Hats off to my guys (third Darren not to our expectations. You shouldn’t be morning draw.
Moulding, second Brad Thiessen and lead seeing that from the calibre of players like Yukon’s Jon Solberg (Whitehorse)
Karrick Martin) for sticking with it for us. That’s poor.” bounced back from an 11-1 defeat to
as long as we did because it would have Both teams, however, are chasing Quebec on Saturday with a narrow 6-5
Wild Card’s comeback tied a record been really easy to fold up shop and go Northern Ontario’s Brad Jacobs in Pool loss to Saskatchewan in the morning,
for the biggest comeback in Brier history. back to our hotel for the night.” A. The 2014 Olympic gold medallists and then matched last year’s win total for
It’s been done three times before, the last As for the record-breaking comeback, are 3-0, outscoring their opponents 25-7. the territorial team by downing Andrew
time in 2004 when British Columbia’s Jay Bottcher quipped “five-rock rule at Sunday night’s victim was Martin Crête Symonds of Newfoundland/Labrador (St.
Peachey defeated Brian Wasnea of Yukon/ its very best.” McEwen had a similar of Quebec (Levis, 1-2), who fell 7-3 to John’s, 0-3) 8-4.
Northwest Territories 8-6 after trailing 6-1 opinion. the Sault Ste. Marie squad.
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McEwen hopes
friendship results
in first Brier title
By GRANT GRANGER/DAVE KOMOSKY
Tankard Times
T hey’re best buds off the ice. But does that
make them the best backend on the ice,
even though they’re two of the best curlers
in the country?
The jury’s still out on whether Reid Carruthers
and Brandon boy Mike McEwen joining forces
this season will be the beginning of a beautiful
relationship. But bringing Manitoba a record 28th
Canadian men’s curling championship at the 2019
Tim Hortons Brier could certainly make it so.
The on-ice marriage of the two friends got off
to a rocky start. It started with Carruthers skip-
ping and McEwen throwing last rocks. Then hard-
ship hit and the lineup became almost a bonspiel-
to-bonspiel mystery of who was skipping and who
was throwing last rocks.
It’s settled now. The lineup that worked best for
the team — that includes second Derek Samagal-
ski and lead Colin Hodgson — at the provincial
championship down Highway 1 in Virden was
McEwen skipping and throwing last rocks, so
that’s what they’re going with in Brandon, at least
to start. But, like prairie weather, wait 15 minutes
and that could change.
The team’s connection to Brandon is big. The
38-year-old McEwen was born in Brandon before
moving to Winnipeg when he was 27. While in
the Wheat City, he took two teams to national
junior championships, coming third in 1998 and
“
then losing the 2001 final to some guy named
Brad Gushue. Mike McEwen calls the sweep as Derek Samagalski and Colin Hodgson do the grunt work.
It was Brandon where Carruthers booked his
team’s spot in the 2017 Tim Hortons Roar of the been through so much. But they couldn’t quite
Rings in Ottawa by winning the 2016 Canada get to the top of the mountain together, and As an
Cup. And Samagalski lives in Brandon.
It would be poetic justice for McEwen to win
they knew it.
“It was just time,” said McEwen. “It’s kind of athlete
his first Brier in his old stompin’ grounds. He was
Hard Luck Mike for many year, sticking it out in a
hard to explain that feeling. As an athlete we’re
always looking to get better. To grow in some we’re always
game that handed him one setback after another
and broke his heart multiple times. But he’s no
way. It just felt like after 11 years we did a re-
ally good job of growth when we needed it, but looking to
quitter and kept coming back for more with the
idea one day he’d wear a Maple Leaf on his back.
there was a feeling that we did everything, and
there wasn’t much to turn over. That was a scary get better.
So it may have come as no surprise when the
Brandon native switched gears this summer, said
thought, thinking there wasn’t. That we had tried
everything and did everything we could with that
To grow in
s’long to his team of 11 seasons, and joined forces
with buddy Carruthers to start afresh in chasing
foursome. some way.
that elusive dream. — Mike McEwen
It wasn’t easy. McEwen and his former Win- See McEWEN
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and B.J. Neufeld were close, very close, and had
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Cotter: Need to be ‘better’
BRANDON 2019
POOL B
we need to better,” said Laycock, who
By JOHN KOROBANIK represented Saskatchewan in seven
previous Briers, “We have some tough
J
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im Cotter has always been climbing that and get the wins is nice, too.”
a mountain, usually against heavy their opening game Saturday and had a Saskatchewan skip Steve Laycock to play Now, said Cotter, it’s a question of
odds, in his ongoing bid to achieve little easier time of it Sunday in a 10-4 third ahead of second Tyrel Griffith and playing their best, especially against
his dream of one day winning the win over Nunavut. lead Rick Sawatsky. teams like Gushue, whom they play this
Canadian men’s curling championship. In “We’re 2-0 but we definitely need to “Steve’s been awesome. He’s a real morning, and Koe, to get themselves
seven previous appearances he has come play a bit better,” Cotter said. “That’s good friend and a great player,” Cotter into the championship round that begins
painfully close only once, in 2014 playing the way our team is, we sort of climb the said of the addition. “He and I were very Thursday. The top four teams in each pool
as vice-skip for John Morris when they mountain. We keep making shots and try comfortable playing with each other, so advance.
lost the final to Kevin Koe. to keep getting better every game. With it’s worked out really well.” “It’s a grind, a long week, so you have
At this week’s Tim Hortons Brier, the new format you definitely want to The team hasn’t played as much this to bring your best each and every game to
presented by AGI, Cotter and his Team jump out to a good start.” winter as usual, prompting them to have put yourself in a position to do that,” said
British Columbia mates are off to an Cotter, Koe and Gushue are all 2-0 a “training camp” in Phoenix after about Cotter.
2-0 start in Pool B that features three after two days of play at the Westoba a seven-week break, practising several Cotter’s been curling since he was
perennial playoff teams – Koe of Alberta, Centre, followed by Nova Scotia and New times, playing one event and then rolling seven years ago and to win a Brier would
Team Canada skipped by Brad Gushue, Brunswick at 1-1, and Ontario, Nunavut through the provincials to earn their spot be the pinnacle of his curling career.
and Ontario, this year represented by and Northwest Territories winless in two here. Their performance in their first two “I’ve been playing for a long time and
Scott McDonald. games. games, while both wins, were not what it’s always been a goal to win a Brier,” he
Cotter, third Steve Laycock, second A 44-year-old information systems the team expected. said. “It would be a phenomenal feeling
Tyrel Griffith and lead Rick Sawatsky programmer/analyst, Cotter changed his “To be honest we probably brought I’m sure and hopefully that can happen
snuck by Nova Scotia 8-7 in 11 ends in team again this season, adding long-time our ‘B’ game the first two outings and one day.”
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The South, suh, did not rise again, Brandon has plenty of other things
but the city of Brandon did thanks to to crow about besides Crow’s, like
a Confederate Army general. once setting a world record for
That would be Major General the biggest batch of poutine ever
Thomas Lafayette Rosser, a one-time made. The gang at Joe Beeverz Bar
West Point classmate and friend/foe of and Grill whipped up the 1,949-pounds
things you should know
Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong gastrinomical giant in 2014, and there’s
Custer. no truth to the rumor that they’re still
serving leftovers.
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Maj. Gen. Rosser and Lt. Col.
Custer rattled sabres in more than one The head count in Brandon is
skirmish during the American Civil War, 48,859, and it’s taken every last
including at the Battle of Tom’s Brook one of those good people to finish
in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia that vat of poutine (pass the Pepto,
about visiting Brandon
where the Confederate officer boasted please).
6
he would give Custer “the best whipping What would you wash down all
ever.” That didn’t end so well for the that poutine with? How about some
Greycoats and, less than a year later, Seagram’s whiskey? World-renowned
the South surrendered, whereupon Maj. boozemaker Samuel Bronfman spent
Gen. Rosser found himself in the employ his formative years in Brandon, arriving as
of the Northern Pacific Railroad as a Photo courtesy of Brandon Tourism an infant when his parents immigrated from
construction engineer. Russia. Living in the Wheat City didn’t
That post, in turn, led the Civil War drive young Samuel to drink, but it’s where
veteran to the Canadian Pacific Railroad, he and his family discovered that booze
six years after old friend/foe Custer truly sells and they soon began turning it into a
vast fortune.
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did receive “the best whipping ever” in an
argument with the Sioux, Cheyenne and Speaking of liquid, a shipment of
Arapaho at the Little Bighorn. furniture destined for the grand Prince
Rosser arrived in Western Manitoba Edward Hotel dining room sank to
as chief engineer of the CPR in May a watering grave with the Titanic in
1881, and he was tasked with choosing 1912. The PEH still opened that year to
townsites for the laborious march across considerable fanfare, but it, too, is gone. Its
the Prairies. His initial choice was Grand original downtown site is now the Kristopher
Campbell Memorial Skate Plaza.
8
Valley, a tiny, yet bustling settlement
established by the McVicar boys, John MoneySense Magazine ranked
and Dougald. There are conflicting Brandon the best place to live in
versions of how it all went down, but the Manitoba in 2018, and third best
consensus seems to be that Rosser offered in Saskatchewan/Manitoba, behind
the McVicars $25,000 to set up shop on only Weyburn and Saskatoon. What do
a portion of their land. Ill-advised by they have that Brandon doesn’t? We’re
not sure, but it can’t be the poutine.
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friends, the brothers rejected the offer
and, instead, demanded $50,000. The Brandon Wheat Cities twice
“I’ll be damned if there’ll ever be challenged for the Stanley Cup, in
a town of any kind built here,” Rosser 1904 and ’07. They were beaten in
harrumphed. two games by Ottawa in 1904 and by
He promptly hitched up his horse-and- Kenora (formerly Rat Portage) Thistles
three years later.
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buggy and moved a few kilometres west,
where he happened upon a chap named The Father of Medicare in
D.H. Adamson, squatting in a shanty Canada and former leader of the
where Brandon is today. New Democratic Party, Tommy
An offer was made for a quarter
section of land. Adamson accepted. Thus,
If you’re here for the Tim Hortons Brier Douglas, spent six years of
his book learning at Brandon College.
Brandon was born.
And that’s why the main drag in the
and are new to the city, here’s what you Elected Senior Stick (student body
president) in his final year, when Douglas
wasn’t in class he could be found roaming
Wheat City—Rosser Avenue—came to be
named after a Confederate officer from should know about the Wheat City the Westman countryside preaching.
the American Civil War.
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began driving railway spikes into the with century-old furnishings that include Patti Dawn Swansson is a longtime
The original Brandonites were in a ground. a working jukebox with plenty of vinyl, journalist and freelance writer who has
3
hurry. No hamlet, village or town There are 20 places called Brandon vintage signage, an antique White Rose
designation for those folks. Their fond memories of covering the Manitoba
in the United States, but none of gas pump, and the horse harness from senior men’s curling championship, the
numbers swelled so rapidly that them boasts what our Brandon the last milk wagon used in the city.
Brandon has never been anything other Olympic curling trials, junior hockey and
has—Crow’s General Store. Talk Opened in July 2016 by Don Ditchfield Winnipeg Blue Bombers training camp in
than a city, incorporated in May 1882, about a blast from the past. Essentially (his friends call him Crow), the store is
exactly a year after Rosser’s CPR crew the Wheat City.
an ice cream shoppe, Crow’s is adorned connected to the Treesblood Farm and
party at the
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TEAM PROFILE Andrew
SPONSORED BY Symonds
POSITION: Skip
AGE: 44 (July 6, 1974, St. John’s N.L.)
FAMILY: Wife Tanya; children Ryan
(14), Kallie (8) and Liam (5)
OCCUPATION: Business development
(Verafin) LIVES: Torbay, N.L.
YEARS CURLED: 20
Newfoundland Chris
Ford
and Labrador
POSITION: Third
AGE: 28 (November 14, 1990,
Clarenville, N.L.)
FAMILY: Single
RE/MAX CENTRE, ST. JOHN’S OCCUPATION: Plant technician (Vale)
LIVES: St. John’s
YEARS CURLED: 16
HISTORY
Adam
Boland
POSITION: Second (vice-skip)
AGE: 25 (April 27, 1993, Gander, N.L.)
FAMILY: Single
OCCUPATION: Client services officer
NEWFOUNDLAND AND Last championship — 2017 (Government of Newfoundland and
Labrador)
LABRADO AT THE BRIER Brad Gushue LIVES: Gander
Last five years: Canadian titles — 2 YEARS CURLED: 16
2018: Greg Smith (1-6) World titles — 2017 Brad
2017: Brad Gushue (9-2 Gold) Gushue
2016: Brad Gushue (9-2 Silver) Other prominent male Keith
2015: Brad Gushue (9-2) curlers from Newfoundland Jewer
2014: Brad Gushue (6-5) and Labrador — Bob Cole. POSITION: Lead
AGE: 44 (June 3, 1974, St. John’s, N.L.)
FAMILY: Wife Michelle; son Adam (15),
daughter Sarah (11)
OCCUPATION: Senior auditor
(Government of Newfoundland and
Labrador)
LIVES: St. John’s
YEARS CURLED: 32
Newfoundland has no crickets, porcupines, skunks, ALTERNATE:
snakes or deer. It does, however, have a whole lot of Rick Rowsell
moose…over 100,000. They were introduced over
100 years ago. COACH:
Craig JewerTANKARD TIMES • MARCH 4 • 2019 | PAGE 12
TEAM PROFILE
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POSITION: Skip
AGE: 59 (September 29, 1959,
Haileybury, Ont.)
FAMILY: Wife Carla; children Hunter
(24), Brady (22)
OCCUPATION: Director of Community
Services (City of Stratford)
Nunavut
LIVES: St. Marys, Ont.
YEARS CURLED: 47
Peter
Mackey
IQALUIT CURLING CLUB POSITION: Vice-skip
AGE: 54 (January 30, 1965, Gander,
N.L.)
FAMILY: Wife Robyn; children Peter
(29), Karielle (27) & Keegan (25)
OCCUPATION: Self-employed
HISTORY
consultant
LIVES: Iqaluit
YEARS CURLED: 24
Jeff
Nadeau
POSITION: Second
AGE: 53 (December 11, 1965, St. Paul’s
River, Que.)
FAMILY: Sons Dylan (19), Koby (13)
NUNAVUT AT THE BRIER Last championship — OCCUPATION: Office manager
None (Canadrill Limited)
LIVES: Iqaluit
Last five years: Canadian titles — None YEARS CURLED: 23
2018: David St. Louis (0-7) World titles — None
2017: NA
2016: NA Lloyd
2015: NA
2014: NA
Kendall
POSITION: Lead
AGE: 58 (November 16, 1960, Burgeo,
N.L.)
FAMILY: Wife Jacqui; son Manasie (26)
and daughter Karle (22)
OCCUPATION: Retired
LIVES: Iqaluit
YEARS CURLED: 17
Nunavut is home to Canada’s smallest capital city. A ALTERNATE:
total of 6,699 people call Iqaluit home, making the
city Canada’s smallest capital by population — which
None
is ironic because Nunavut is the country’s largest COACH:
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“
always wanted three [Brier
appearances] because my dad
had three and I couldn’t get it.
It only took him 10 years, it
took me 34.” It’s been a
Andy Likely played in
the 1947 (as a third), 1955 long time. I
(second) and 1956 (second)
Briers.
quit curling,
Likely, 57, is a born-and-
bred Charlottetowner. His
I played a
thick Islander brogue proves
that. Likely sold the 600-seat
few games,
restaurant and nightclub he
owned for 22 years about
so this
three years ago. That’s why
he was sitting around Florida
is pretty
when lead Robbie Doherty
called asking him to skip
sweet.
because he, second Steve — John Likely
Burgess and third Anson
Carmody had lost their skip,
Robert Campbell, to work
commitments. Likely checked
the dates with his Florida
schedule. They didn’t conflict
so he said, “I’m all in.”
So will he wait another
17 years for his fourth Brier Winnipeg’s Kerry Burtnyk
appearance or go for it next and then losing the bronze on
year? Not likely. the last shot. That same year
“Nah, I don’t know about he played against Nunavut
that. We’ll see how this week skip David St. Louis, who
goes,” said Likely. “It was fun at 59 is the oldest skip here,
[Saturday]. I wanted to take it at the junior men’s national
all in because the last couple championships.
I didn’t really take them in. Likely has skipped
It’s very tricky for us. The ice the P.E.I. champions at
Scratching
at home is so much straighter. nine Canadian mixed
This is a whole new different championships, the last
golf course than we play. time in 2004 at Timmins,
We sank a couple of putts, I Ont. He holds the record
guess. for the most appearances
“Even the Briers I was at and wins as a skip at the
before I’d never see it curl Canadian mixed.
like that when it comes into Likely is old school in
the house.” another way. When he throws
When he made his first his stones he does it holding
an old-fashioned corn broom.
a 17-year itch
Brier appearance his current
teammates weren’t even close Not one with a tiny head
to being born. Doherty and wrapped in duct tape like
Burgess are 30, Carmody, Mike McEwen does, but a
29. When Likely noticed new-old stock corn broom.
Doug Armour of Souris, He’s been using the same
Man., being honoured as the one for the last few years,
third for the Manitoba team although he admits it hasn’t
skipped by Mel Logan that gotten much use. He brought
represented the province a never-used one just in case
at the 1982 Brier held in the one he’s using busted.
Brandon he pointed it out to And he’s got more where
«
those came from.
Likely enjoying the joy of being back in the Brier
young teammates.
“The boys had quite a “I probably bought
chuckle this morning,” said probably a dozen of them
R
Likely. “Dougie Armour and when they were going out
ight on schedule, John Matheson at Moncton, N.B., March 6, 2002 when he beat
his boys had their sweaters because if I’m going to curl
Likely is back at the going 6-6. Seventeen years Saskatchewan’s Scott Bitz
on and they were looking at I’m going to slide like that. If
Brier. later he skipped P.E.I. to a 2-9 5-3 on the Tuesday morning
them, and I said, ‘I played they change then I’m done,”
The Prince Edward record at the 2002 Brier in draw at the Saddledome.
him twice.’ And the boys said Likely. “I’ve got a bunch
Island skip is participating Calgary. Likely beat Newfoundland
GRANT in his third national men’s On Saturday, 17 years that year, too, downing Mark couldn’t believe it.” of brand new ones. I shouldn’t
GRANGER curling championship. later, he skipped P.E.I. to a 5-4 Noseworthy 8-5. This isn’t Likely’s first say that, now everyone’s
time playing a national going to want them now.”
It just so happens they victory over Newfoundland “That was pretty sweet,”
competition in Brandon. He’ll probably still have
occurred 17 years apart. and Labrador in the first said Likely of the win. “It’s
He was here for the 1979 them when the Brier rolls
His first appearance for the draw of the 2019 Tim been a long time. I quit
Canada Winter Games. He around 17 years from now.
Charlottetown native was Hortons Brier, presented by curling, I played a few games,
recalls losing a semifinal to Not likely. After all, Likely
playing second for Wayne AGI. His last Brier win was so this is pretty sweet. I
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The Gushue Effect
More teams competing on The Rock
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“The last time we
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I
Tankard Times Writer
t’s been 16 years since Brad Gushue first carried (teams). I’d feel guilty
the Newfoundland and Labrador colours in the if we go back and
Canadian men’s curling championship and every
year since then his increased success has spurred there’s two again.”
interest in the sport in his home province.
This year’s provincial championship attracted 12
teams, all hopeful of winning the title with the Gushue — Brad Gushue
foursome not competing for a second straight year, Canada colours, Gushue said he likes the fact there’s
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title and the rights to be Team Canada. The absence of to off-island bonspiels, trying to get better.
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number of teams in the provincial playdowns. “I is for everyone else, but if you want to succeed it’s
just love seeing the amount of teams and if we the price you have to pay.
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McEwen
FROM PAGE 3
“I think all the guys would say we
had that gut feeling it was time to see
if there was something else, some-
where else that would spur some
development as a player.”
So that was it. After two appear-
ances at the Tim Hortons Brier rep-
resenting Manitoba, multiple cash-
spiel victories but much heartbreak,
including losing five provincial finals
in six years, the team was torn apart
and McEwen was on to a new chap-
ter of his curling career.
The early stages of his new part- capable underdogs you can come
nership with Carruthers was, in McE- across. So all that fan support is just
wen’s terms, “wavy.” But it kept get- positives for us.”
ting better as the season progressed, The team has already felt the
and culminated with a trip to the effects of the crowd. In Manitoba’s
Brier where they’re one of the favou- opener, McEwen made the shot of
rites to make the four-team playoffs. the week, an angle-raise takeout on
They will have the Brandon crowd in the button, to save the game against
their corner, which can never hurt. Kirk Muyres of Saskatchewan.
“I think it’s (home crowd ad- “You don’t get too many things
vantage) a pretty cool effect,” said that feel better than that kind of
McEwen. “Some people might look adrenalin rush.,” said McEwen.
like it’s more pressure, but I feel like “That’s why people play sports. That’s
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SAM RICHARDSON
Sam Richardson was to curling in Saskatchewan what Norm Peter-
son was to Cheers—every time he entered a room, he was greeted
with a rousing chorus of “Sammy!!!!!!”
Everyone loved Sam, who played second on the legendary Rich-
ardsons curling clan that included skip/brother Ernie and cousins
Arnold and Wes, winners of three Briers and a fourth with Mel Perry
replacing Wes at lead.
It wasn’t just success on the pebble that endeared Sam to the good
folks of the Flatlands, though. It was his gift of the gab.
Sam had ’em rolling in the aisles from coast-to-coast as an after-
dinner speaker, a sideshow that began when he pinch-hit for former
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker at a 1976 Brier function in Regina.
It was at that same Brier that Sam served as chauffeur and unof-
ficial coach to Jack MacDuff, the only Newfoundland skip to win the
championship until Brad Gushue came along.
How did Sam coax a title out of the MacDuff team in ’76? He turned
off the beer and Screech taps.
“Newfoundland curlers always had 50 people drinking in their
room,” Richardson recalled. “I kicked them out and kept them out.”
And it was bottoms up to Newfoundland.
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BRIER SCOREBOARD
STANDINGS LINESCORES Draw 5
7 p.m.
Draw 3
POOL A 9 a.m. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Total
W L Wild Card (Bottcher) 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 1 1 0 1 — 9
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total Manitoba (McEwen) *0 2 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 — 8
N.Ontario (Jacobs) 3 0 Yukon (Solberg) 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 — 5
Manitoba (McEwen) 2 1 Sask. (Muyres) *2 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 — 6 PEI (Likely) 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 x x — 2
Sask. (Muyres) *1 2 2 3 0 0 0 1 x x — 9
Wild Card (Bottcher) 2 1 NL (Symonds) 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 x x — 2
Sask. (Muyres) 2 1 N. Ontario (Jacobs) *2 1 0 0 3 0 0 2 x x — 8 N. Ontario (Jacobs) *0 2 0 1 0 0 4 0 x x — 7
Quebec (Crête) 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 x x — 3
Quebec (Crête) 1 2 Wild Card (Bottcher) *0 2 0 4 4 0 4 0 x x — 14
PEI (Likely) 1 2 PEI (Likely) 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 x x — 4 NL (Symonds) 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 x — 4
Yukon (Solberg) *1 0 2 0 3 1 0 0 1 x — 8
Yu k o n ( S o l b e r g ) 1 2 Manitoba (McEwen) 1 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 1 x — 8
NL (Symonds) 0 3 Quebec (Crête) *0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 x — 3 * — Last rock
Draw 4
POOL B 2 p.m.
W L
Alberta (K. Koe)
Canada (Gushue)
2
2
0
0
Canada (Gushue)
NWT (J. Koe)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
*2 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 x
0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 x
Total
— 7
— 5
SCHEDULE
B.C. (Cotter) 2 0 BC (Cotter) *0 1 0 4 0 2 0 3 x x — 10 TODAY
N. Scotia (Thompson) 1 1 Nunavut (St. Louis) 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 x x — 4 9 a.m. Draw
A — NB vs. AB; B — NS vs NT; C — NU vs. ON; D — BC vs. CA
N.B. (Odishaw) 1 1 N. Brunswick (Odishaw) *0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 x — 3 2 p.m. Draw
Ontario (McDonald) 0 2 Nova Scotia (Thompson) 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 x — 7 A — SK vs. QC; B — WC vs. NL; C — YT vs. MB; D — NO vs. PE
NWT (J. Koe) 0 2 Alberta (K.Koe) *0 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 x — 8
7 p.m. Draw
Nunavut (St. Louis) 0 2 Ontario (McDonald) 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 x — 5 A — NT vs. ON; B — NB vs. BC; C — CA vs. AB; D — NU vs. NS
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Canadian teams
off and running
Ideson rally falls short Mark Ideson made it close at the
at 2019 Universiade
end, but Team Canada fell just short
in a 7-6 loss to Latvia’s Polina Roz-
kova as the 2019 World Wheelchair
Championships got underway on
A pair of University of Alberta teams led by Sunday in Stirling, Scotland.
skips Karsten Sturmay and Kristen Streifel Ideson, vice-skip Collinda
kicked off the curling competition at the 2019 Joseph, second Jon Thurston, lead
Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, in Marie Wright, alternate Ina Forrest
winning fashion. and coach Wayne Kiel fell behind
Sturmay, vice-skip Tristan Steinke, second early and trailed 5-1 after five ends.
Chris Kennedy, lead Glenn Venance and coach But the Canadians rallied with a
Rob Krepps stole two ends on their way to a score of four in six and followed
9-4 win over South Korea’s JeongJae Lee in that up with a steal of one in the
their opening game. seventh to take a 6-5 lead. Rozkova
In women’s action, Streifel, backed by vice- finished it off with a deuce in eight
skip Danielle Schmiemann, second Selena for the win.
Sturmay, lead Jesse Iles, alternate Paige Pap- Ideson, the 2018 Paralympic
ley and coach Garry Coderre, opened with a bronze-medallist, is trying to win
10-3 win over China’s Zixin Wang. The Canadi- his first gold medal as a skip at the
ans scored two three-enders and a four-ender World Wheelchair Curling Cham-
in a dominant performance. pionships. He won the gold in 2013
playing as alternate for Jim Arm-
Streifel finished the opening day with a 6-1
strong.
win in seven ends over Japan’s Kaede Kudo.
Canada will be back on the ice
Coming up, the Canadian women will face for two games today, starting with
Sweden’s Isbella Wranaa today while the men South Korea’s Jinho Cha. Later
were up against Great Britain late Sunday and in the day, Canada will face the
play the U.S.A. today. three-time world champion Rune
Lorentsen of Norway.
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