Inside Curling with Kevin Martin & Warren Hansen

Inside Curling
Inside Curling with Kevin Martin & Warren Hansen Podcast

Curling Hall of Famers Kevin Martin and Warren Hansen talk everything curling with host Jim Jerome. No show brings you more expertise, insight, and knowledge about curling’s past, present and future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    Rachel Homan and Dan Sherrard are in the House!

    What’s Happening Around the Curling World? On September 17th and 18 th an interesting new event took place in Lafayette, Colorado, the Everest North American Curling Club Championship. We will review what happened in Lafayette and the men’s winner. Dan Sherrard from Edmonton will join us to recap his feelings about the event. This past weekend in Okotoks, Alberta the ATB Okotoks Classic event was held with many of the top players on the men’s side of the equation participating and we will take a look at what happened in Okotoks. An event took place in Calgary involving the Mixed Doubles Super Series with some of the best mixed doubles teams in the world involved. Also, starting Wednesday, September 25 th at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary is the PointsBet Invitational and we will do a review on what that event is all about. Hot Rocks Topics…. A lot of discussion around video streaming of events the past couple of years. The World Curling Congress in Montreal a few weeks ago discussed some of the challenges world curling is facing with streaming and similar problems are also haunting Curling Canada we will discuss what that is all about. In the House with us today is the number one women’s skip in the world, Rachel Homan. We will look at an email where a listener has asked for some direction that possibly more of our listeners might need. What Are You Hearing? We are hearing that in the PointsBet this week Laura Walker will be subbing for Shannon Birchard as second for Kari Einarson - Where is Shannon? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    58 min
  2. SEP 17

    Inside Curling is back! Brad Jacobs is in the house to talk about the 2024/25 season

    Welcome to Inside Curling season number five....this is our first official show of the 2024 – ’25 season and we have a lot of things to cover. When we did our summer show in August we announced that Inside Curling is no longer part of Sportsnet and have moved over to Acast. We would again like to thank everyone at Sportsnet for the three great years we spent with the network. Also, in addition to kevin, Warren and Jim we would like to welcome our technical producer for the third year, Mike Rogerson along with Rod Palson who is doing our social media for the fifth year, mainly Face Book and X (Twitter) but once we are into the season we are also going to branch into Instagram and Tik Tok more than we have in the past. In this coming season we will have clips, segments and some interviews on You Tube. Here is what is on the show today’s show… What’s Happening Around the Curling World? World Curling concluded it’s annual Curling Congress in Montreal on September 8 th and Warren was there so we will review what took place. A number of smaller spiels have already happened and this weekend in Cornwall, Ontario the annual Shorty Jenkins Classic is taking place involving some of the best teams in the world so we will look in on what is happening there. On September 17th and 18 th an interesting new event is taking place in Lafayette, Colorado, the Everest North American Curling Club Championship….We will review what is taking place there. An interesting playoff took place this past week in Sweden involving Anna Hasselborg and Isabella Wrana….We will review what happened. During our summer show we talked about the Governor General’s Curling and it held its 150 anniversary gathering in Ottawa, September 8 – 12…We announced the Showdown at the Saville on our show in August and we will bring you up-to-date on what is happening with the Showdown. Hot Rocks Topics, During the World Curling meetings some interesting discussions were brought up regarding rules enforcement by some retired athletes and coaches who were present….you will be surprised at what they had to say…. The issue of 8 ends versus 10 wasn’t on the agenda...wasn’t even discussed…what would be the reason for that? In The House, Brad Jacobs is now the skip of the old Brendan Bottcher team and Brad will be with us to talk about the up coming season. Mailbag, Even though it is summer we are getting emails and we will review one. What Are You Hearing, Brianne Harris, lead on team Einarson was suspended from all competition at the end of February because of a banned substance detected in a sample taken on January 24 th . A-B sample was taken in early March and the substance Ligandrol was detected again. Harris has been suspended since but this week on Face Book a posting was made bringing everyone up to speed on the situation - we will take a look at it. Hosted by Kevin Martin, Warren Hansen and Jungle Jim Jerome. Recorded, Edited, Mixed by Mike Rogerson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 8m
4.7
out of 5
28 Ratings

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Curling Hall of Famers Kevin Martin and Warren Hansen talk everything curling with host Jim Jerome. No show brings you more expertise, insight, and knowledge about curling’s past, present and future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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