Why We Need Curling Now More Than Ever
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by Mike Fournier
1y ago
  My wife has a recurring dream where she wakes up angry at me. She wakes up and tells me that she dreamt that I was cheating on her with an unknown mistress. She spends the whole dream trying to figure out who the other woman is, only to find out in the end that it is a curling sheet. Weird, but understandable. Admittedly I have had a life-long affair with curling. It started when I was 13. I started curling in a junior league at Lachine Curling Club, and I loved it. I started Saturday morning juniors in September, and by Christmas I was hooked. I was asked to spare for a team with some ..read more
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LSG! LSG! And what I want to be when I grow up.
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by Mike Fournier
1y ago
  LSG! LSG! LSG! A bit sleep deprived this week watching my friends Laurie St-Georges and team kicking some butt at the Scotties this week. Watched her shoot the lights out tonight against BC, after watching her shoot the lights out last night against Lawes. And it looks like her game against NS tomorrow night will again force me to stay too late at a curling club after my Thursday night game to watch. I am usually a big Russ Howard fan – but he keeps talking about how Laurie is such an underdog since her team has only played 4 spiels this year. Yes that is true, but Laurie eats, sleeps ..read more
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Time for the Scotties!!!
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by Mike Fournier
1y ago
  The Scotties kicks off this week, which signals the beginning of the season of curling on TV. Sure there is curling before, there are Slams before Christmas, but the Scotties kicks off the full TSN coverage, which they do very well. I really enjoy the Scotties. The curling is good, and the women will tend to have a few more rocks in play than you would see at the Brier. The women’s game also seems to have more emotion and fun. This will be a compelling week of curling. Teams have been shuffled since last year, so apart from the defending champs, most of the favorites are using new line ..read more
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An open letter to David Murdoch
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by Mike Fournier
1y ago
 Dear David; I am overjoyed to hear of your appointment to lead the High Performance program at Curling Canada. I have enjoyed curling against you and watching you over many years of success at beating Canadian teams and in teaching other how to do the same. So as a fellow steward of this great game that we love, let me share with you my wishes to help this increasingly troubled Canadian program develop. First, you need to recognize that curling in Canada is unlike any other country. Yes, you Scots might have invented the game, but we made it more than something you do on a frozen loc ..read more
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TEAM FOURNIER ANNOUNCEMENT: Namaste, Salvadore
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by Mike Fournier
1y ago
  TEAM FOURNIER ANNOUNCEMENT After much thought and careful consideration, Team Mike Fournier has decided to part ways with team Astrologist and Meditation Consultant Salvadore Zabat-Kihn. This decision was far from easy, as Salvadore has been a part of the team since his spiritual chanting of "Boom, Boom" was instrumental in the team winning the Kitchener-Waterloo bonspiel earlier this season, but as the team prepares for the upcoming Ontario Provincial Championship, we felt the need to seek out a new spiritual and mental direction. We wish Salvadore all the best as a curling advisor ..read more
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An Indecent Proposal: let me sponsor your golf/curling tournament.
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by Mike Fournier
1y ago
  In the classic eighties movie Indecent Proposal, Robert Redford offers Woody Harrelson a cool million bucks to spend one night with his wife, Demi Moore. Many of my favorite sports now find themselves in the role of Woody Harrelson, wondering if the big cheque you are getting is worth having some creepy dude screw around with something you love. I have been a sports junkie my whole life. Whether its playing, watching, discussing or watching sports movies, I have always thought that sports provides a great common reference point for us all. Sports has become the new religion, it often ..read more
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Thanks Lethbridge, and Let's not let the Arsonists write the fire safety rules
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by Mike Fournier
2y ago
I am back from Lethbridge, struggling to jump back on the moving train that is my life after escaping into curling nirvana for 10 exciting days. The Brier this year, and everything leading up to it has been an emotional rollercoaster. First, I was not supposed to even be on the ride. I had said that I was stepping away from the game back in November, only to find out that my team still needed me after my replacement went down with a wrist injury. After thinking my competitive career was at an end, I was called back into service. We then won Charlevoix a few weeks later. I had never seen a team ..read more
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Bet...bet...BET...BET!!!!
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by Mike Fournier
2y ago
  As I eagerly await the start of the pre-trials next week in Liverpool (which Kevin Martin apparently thinks I should not even be playing at!), just a few thoughts on pervasive trend that has developed in the last few years. Bet…bet…BET, BET, BET!!! Fred Flintstone’s eyes rolled back into his head, and he lost all control, as this cartoon from my childhood so elegantly addressed gambling addiction. Fast Forward to 2021. Like Fred Flinstone, my beloved sport of curling is getting into the gambling game. Years ago it was just some hard-core sports gambling sites giving odds on the Brier ..read more
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The Dreaded "R" Word.
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by Mike Fournier
2y ago
I always swore that when I would decide to hang up my curling shoes, I would not do some sappy Facebook/Twitter post announcing it to the world; I would just quietly exit, stage right. But I kinda feel the need to share some news as we head into the start of what will hopefully be a more conventional and social curling season: Once the Olympic Trials are done for this year, I will be stepping back from competitive curling. I was getting to the point in my career where I have started to notice the game passing me by. I am 49, about to turn 50, and as much as I have tried to stay in shape and ke ..read more
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Real Men, Curlers or Habs Don't Cry - or do They?
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by Mike Fournier
3y ago
  Sometimes I have an idea for a blog rumbling around in my head, and then something happens in the world outside of curling that helps bring it all together for me. Last week was the European Super League debacle, reminding me of the universal theme of what made a fan a fan. This week it happened again. I have been thinking for a while about a few folks that emerged as heroes from the Calgary Curling bubble, and not so much for their curling. Colin Hodgson and Darren Moulding emerged as heroes to me, not so much because of what they did on the ice (although both are pretty fine at curlin ..read more
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