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These skiers, snowboarders, curlers, and skaters will have you chanting ‘U-S-A!’Yes! The Winter Olympics are here, and I’m not going to be sitting at a copy desk in a Colorado ski town awaiting results from halfway around the world this time. I don’t know what to be happier about: My work inbox being free of Olympic coverage plans, or my knowledge of skiers, snowboarders, cross...

From John Shuster's Persistence To Rachel Homan's Disappointment, Every Olympic Curler Is On A JourneyLast November, my team played in a World Curling Tour event. Our team couldn’t be considered “competitive”—we play about one such event a year, whereas the good ones are looking at about a dozen weeks a year. We know what we’re doing; we’re just out of shape. Still, we finished 0-3 in our pool and o...

United States Wins First-Ever Curling Gold On John Shuster's FiverA brilliant eighth-end hammer delivery by U.S.A. skip John Shuster turned a 5-5 nailbiter into a 10-5 lead that the Americans held onto through the final two ends en route to beating Sweden 10-7 and claiming their first-ever gold medal in curling, and only the second medal ever for the U.S. in the s...

USA Humiliates Vile Canadians On Ice Again

For the second time in just a few hours, the United States showed Canada who’s best on ice....

Nina Roth And John Shuster Win Olympic Curling Spots In A Nailbiting Trials

USA Curling held their Olympic trials over the past weekend and officially have their teams for Pyeongchang in 2018. The women’s team will be led by Nina Roth alongside Tabitha Peterson, Aileen Geving, and Becca Hamilton, in the first Olympics for everyone on that team. On the men’s side, well, stra...

Best In The World? Not Even Best In Northern Minnesota

This explains everything. Our men's curling team managed to lose their most recent Tuesday night league game at the Duluth Curling Club. To be fair, it is the place to be on Tuesday nights in Duluth. [NY Times]...

Our Long National Nightmare Is Over

In news that probably interests only me, they've finally benched the choking captain of our choking team of choking curlers. [NBC]...