Inside Curling with Kevin Martin & Warren Hansen

What’s Happening Around the Curling World?Two men’s events were completedthis past weekend. The Astec SafetyChallenge in Lloydminster and the GoldenWrench Classic in Tempe, Arizona. We willdo a quick review of what happened in bothevents. The 4 th Grand Slam of theYear the WFG Masters is underway inGuelph, Ontario and we will take a lookat how things are going there so far. Brianne Harris was finally clearedthis week by the Court of Arbitration forsport what will this mean for Brianne andTeam Einarson? The controversy with regard to thetype of broom heads being used by the topplayers continues and we will give you an up-date on what is happening. Mailbag and What is Happening on SocialMedia. We will address a couple of emails andprovide our thoughts on some of the most populardiscussions on social media from the AstecChallenge in LloydminsterIn The House. Joining us today from the Grand Slam WFGNational in Guelph is Matt Dunstone who is justcoming off a big win at the Astec Safety Challengein Lloydminster. Curling Moments to Remember. A lookinto curling’s rich history. Each weekeither Kevin or Warren will relate back tosomething that happened in curling’s past that isalways interesting. Today Kevin will bring us agreat curling moment Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What’s Happening Around the Curling World?The Canadian Mixed DoublesOlympic Trials were completed in Liverpool, NovaScotia on January 4 th and we will review the finalresults. There is an event coming up thisweek in Lloydminster, Alberta, the Astec SafetyChallenge and it involves some of the best men’scurling teams in the world and we will discuss whois involved and what this event is all about….Mailbag and What is Happening on Social MediaWe have been reviewing social mediafrom the past three days and a few topics seem tobe getting the most attention. First, from the lastfew days is probably the changes involving teamEinarson and Carey. From a few days beforethat the suggestion of a game between Homanand Mouat got an enormous response on FBsomething like 70,000 hits, we will review bothof those situations and give you our thoughtsIn The HouseThe Canadian Mixed Doubles Champions andCanada’s potential representatives at the 2026Olympics were crowned in Liverpool, NovaScotia, the winners were Brett Gallant andJocelyn Peterman, who are a married couple thatare going to join us. Curling Moments to Remember A look into curling’s rich history. Each weekeither Kevin or Warren will relate back tosomething that happened in curling’s past that isalways interesting. Today Warren will bring usa great curling moment Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Happy New Year and greetingsagain everyone and welcome to this SpecialEdition of Inside Curling.Right now in Liverpool, Nova Scotia weare getting close to the end of an eventthat will determine Canada’s MixedDoubles representative at the 2025World Mixed Doubles Championship inFredericton, NB This team will alsorepresent Canada at the Olympics in2026 in Italy if Canadaqualifies and we will explain.Yet, another curling team has made achange and this time on the women’sside of things as Team Chelsea Careyannounced a change in it’s lineup for thebalance of the year. This team wasalready qualified for theScotties might that be impacted wewill explain. On our show we announced a few weeksago that the brushing wars were cominginto the forefront again when onemanufacturer announced they werecoming out with a new broom using afoam that had previously beendetermined to be not acceptable. Lastweek, our sponsor Goldline announced itis now producing a new broom that willbe known as the Pursuer with a similartype of foam being used and apparentlyHard Line, the third big player in thegame is in the process of doing the samething what is happening here dowe have the start of anotherBroomgate? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is our final show of 2024 so we are going to do something special. Sportsnetcurling play-by-play guy, Rob Faulds is joiningus as our special guest and we are going to review somecomments from Face Book, look at a couple of interestingemails and review the past season and look at what could behappening for the balance of the year. So, before we get into it there is something else weneed to address. This morning it was officially announcedthat our Kevin Martin has been inducted into the Order ofCanada. Wow. Much deserved. We are lucky and proud to know you and get to work with you, Kevin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.