Pointers for first-time spielers

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SSCC founder Russ Lemcke was inducted into the USCA Hall of Fame

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The South Shore Curling Club is an arena curling club, which means we don’t have a dedicated curling facility and instead share our ice with hockey players and ice skaters. This means we need to set up our ice for curling each time we use it. We’ve been asked about how we set up our curling ice by […]

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U.S. Curling News magazine has a new column (“Zamboni Trax”) dedicated to arena curling. As you know, the South Shore Curling Club (among almost half of the curling clubs in the U.S.) is an arena club and “enjoys” the challenges that go with it: Zamboni tracks, fall-offs, fall-ins, slopes, negative ice and a variety of other […]

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TV coverage of the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games will include wheelchair curling: NBCSN will present 5.5 hours of wheelchair curling coverage from the Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi. Coverage of wheelchair curling begins with Team USA against China on Wednesday, March 12 at 1:30 a.m. ET. NBCSN will also air the wheelchair curling final on Saturday, […]

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We are a day away from the official start of the 2014 Winter Olympics, and if you’re reading this then the question on your mind is probably: “When is curling going to be broadcast?” We’ve got the answers for you…get ready to set your DVRs! NBC Olympics TV Listings First, you can visit the official […]

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Every four years the Winter Olympics rolls around and introduces more and more people to curling. That’s how many of our club members got interested in curling: we saw it on TV, wondered “what the heck is this?” and were strangely captivated by it. When we finally got the chance to get on the ice […]

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The New York Times ran a slideshow about Ailsa Craig, an uninhabited 220-acre island off the Scottish coast. It has no inhabitants, no electricity, no fresh water and no arable land — nothing of value, it would seem, but for this: For a century and more, its quarries have been the source of the distinctive, water-resistant […]

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We got a message from Sara Shuster (John Shuster’s wife) asking for help getting to the Olympics: As you all probably know, curling is not a  professional sport in the US.  Team USA and their family members would  like to ask for your help in getting the word out about several of our fundraisers in order to get to […]

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If you’re new to curling, you might wonder about the members of a four-person curling team — lead, second, vice, and skip — and their responsibilities. This video will help explain things, whether you’ll be joining us on the ice at one of our Learn to Curl events or just going to be watching curling next month […]

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