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Author: Doug Clark Publisher: ISBN: 9781554701186 Category : Curlers (Athletes) Languages : en Pages : 0
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In what sport can a player be deaf, blind, or semi-mobile? That's right, it's curling. Played on carefully prepared ice and involving sliding heavy, polished granite stones toward a target, curling has captivated audiences from its beginnings in medieval Scotland. This engaging book traces the sport's history and its enduring appeal, the highlights and lowlights, the superstars and eccentrics. Author Doug Clark covers every inch of curling, from Olympic near-scandals and lampooning by late-night talk hosts to tragedies like the death of nine players in the Windsor tornado.
Author: Doug Clark Publisher: ISBN: 9781554701186 Category : Curlers (Athletes) Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
In what sport can a player be deaf, blind, or semi-mobile? That's right, it's curling. Played on carefully prepared ice and involving sliding heavy, polished granite stones toward a target, curling has captivated audiences from its beginnings in medieval Scotland. This engaging book traces the sport's history and its enduring appeal, the highlights and lowlights, the superstars and eccentrics. Author Doug Clark covers every inch of curling, from Olympic near-scandals and lampooning by late-night talk hosts to tragedies like the death of nine players in the Windsor tornado.
Author: Bob Weeks Publisher: John Wiley and Sons ISBN: 0470738898 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 268
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A lighthearted, fact-filled guide to the roaring game: curling Immensely popular in Canada, curling has captured the hearts of millions of diehard enthusiasts around the world. Full of quirky characters, fascinating facts, intriguing history, and amazing trivia, this unique guide gives curlers (and lovers of the game) a colorful and often amusing look at this singular sport. With odd, funny factoids on every page, the book sheds light on the long-forgotten Downer Disc, a round curling broom, and how Charlie Kerr, a Brier curler of the '40s, was thwarted by the ash from his own cigar. This one-of-a-kind volume is the ultimate bonspiel prize for curling fans everywhere.Bob Weeks (Toronto, ON) is the editor of the Ontario Curling Report and the author of three books.
Author: Adrian Room Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786442263 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 187
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The specialized jargon of some sports can be quite esoteric. Non-Americans, for example, are likely puzzled by baseball terms such as bunt, cut-off man, and safety squeeze, while the non-British may pause over cricket's Chinaman, doosra, golden duck, off-break, popping crease, and yorker. This new dictionary gives the definitions of more than 8,000 terms used in sports and games from around the world, including mainstream sports like basketball and billiards alongside the more obscure netball and snooker. Entries cover sports equipment, strategies, venues, qualifying categories, awards, and administrative bodies, while a comprehensive system of cross-references offers assistance and clarification when needed. An appendix lists standard abbreviations of sports ruling bodies and administrative organizations.
Author: Joan Axelrod-Contrada Publisher: Capstone Classroom ISBN: 1429692723 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 33
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"Offers intriguing either/or questions and content on animal topics to encourage critical thinking and debate"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Geoffrey Lansdell Publisher: OverTime Books ISBN: 9781897277300 Category : Curling Languages : en Pages : 256
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Scottish immigrants brought the game “across the pond†in the 18th century. Since then the roaring game has amassed its fair share of amusing and interesting stories, facts and anecdotes:• The flamboyant curling character Paul Gowsell once ordered a pizza to ice level during a match, briefly earning him the nickname “Pizza Paul†• Legendary Brier journalist Cactus Jack Wells turned down a Hockey Night in Canada play-by-play job in order to continue covering the Brier and Winnipeg Blue Bomber games• In 1912, the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax served as a temporary morgue for recovered bodies in the aftermath of the Titanic disaster• In cashspiels, curlers win money, but in bonspiels, they win things like cars, T-bone steaks or new curling stones• Canada is said to be the only documented place where the iron curling “stone†was used• Before the 1988 Olympic Trials, the Canadian Curling Association informed the “The Wrench,†Ed Werenich, that he would have to lose weight if he qualified for the Olympics• Canada invited Scotland to tour Canada in a curling tournament in 1858, but didn't end up making the overseas journey until 44 years later in 1902• Curling did not become an official Olympic sport until 1998 in Nagano• In 2009, NBC will host a curling reality show called Rockstar Curling to determine who will represent the United States at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.And much more…
Author: James Kreis Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1491838418 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 482
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This book encompasses a unique decade in the history of the United States, one that figuratively exploded in terms of business expansion and worth, social experimentation, individual ingenuity and general prosperity – the vast majority of those achievements coming in the first half of the period. Who possibly would have thought all those cutting edge gains would come to an abrupt halt as the 1930’s loomed, eventually propelling the nation into a calamitous depression. Within these pages are the exploits of several important and controversial characters whose escapades helped shape not only their times but those for many years to follow. Very recognizable names -- even in current times – such as Hearst, Darrow, Hoover, Capone and the obscure {but powerful} Wayne Wheeler were major protagonists of the decade’s events – both publicly and covertly – as chronicled in this volume. Others like Sacco and Vanzetti, Leopold and Loeb, were non-descript men whose murder trials initially revolted, then captivated the nation’s attention as the tales of their testimony spread throughout the daily front pages of every major newspaper in the country. Even Organized Baseball, America’s favorite pastime, was rocked by news of a scandal as arguably the sport’s best team would become branded as the “Black Sox” for baseball perpetuity. Hollywood would not escape their share of notoriety either – as one of their best known and revered comedians was unwarrantably thrust into the national spotlight, an entertainment mogul was dogged by allegations of a hushed up murder with still another of Tinseltown’s most controversial celebrities a victim of personal frailty. A small hamlet in Tennessee was the site of another national story, this one pitting the Bible against modern science. All these events began life with a national ban on the sale and distribution of alcohol {Prohibition} and ended with the devastation of the nation’s economic barometer {Wall Street}. While the passage of time has perhaps dulled the memory and effect the men and women detailed herein contributed to the culture of the United States, either in positive or negative ways, the retelling of their stories help us determine where we come from and hopefully, who we are.
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