Today, 3/1/09, on Prairie Home Companion, Guy Noir, Private Eye, is sitting in a tavern where the TV is playing ESPN’s Wide World of Curling. He says something about curling to the waitress. She says, “It’s not as easy as it looks.”
The Evergreen Curling Club in Portland Oregon
Today, 3/1/09, on Prairie Home Companion, Guy Noir, Private Eye, is sitting in a tavern where the TV is playing ESPN’s Wide World of Curling. He says something about curling to the waitress. She says, “It’s not as easy as it looks.”
The ice is great is Seattle.
Curling is a lot like Bocce and a lot like Lawn Bowling. I’ve been curling for five years, playing bocce for two years, and I recently tried lawn bowling, or boules, as they sometimes call it. They are all so similar that I think anyone who plays one of these should at least try the [...]
Tuesday I went to see and experience Lawn Bowling at the invitation of ECC member T. Gae Rusk. I have been playing Bocce for two years now, and when Gae joined the Bocce league this summer, she told me Lawn Bowling was closer to Curling in style and manner of play. Well, it is. I [...]
Understanding the Traditional ScoreboardECC has recently changed the scoreboard from the flip-over-the-number to a traditional scoreboard. This is the kind Granite Curling Club in Seattle uses, and many other clubs use it, too.Understanding the Traditional Curling Scoreboard These are the handiwork of Garry Stasiuk. They look great and provide more information about the game than [...]
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