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This entertaining series features fascinating quick-reference guides to all the Winter Olympic sports and events. Filled with fun facts, dramatic stories, and dynamic photographs, each book is a terrific guide to both historical and current records, as well as to the reigning Olympic champions. He shoots...he scores! Readers will score with this full-colour book featuring two of the coolest sports on ice: hockey and curling. From the hard-hitting, puck-flying action of hockey to the precision sliding and sweeping of curling, these challenging team sports have it all. In this fantastic book, you'll learn about the rules, the records, and the heroes of the games. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: [s.n.] in 1882 in 95 pages; Subjects: Curling; History / General; Sports ... Read more

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Chapters: Shetland Official Football Team, Western Isles Official Football Team, Royal Caledonian Curling Club, Orkney Official Football Team, Highland Jaguars, the Clan Softball Club. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Shetland football team represents the islands of Shetland, Scotland. It is not a member of FIFA or UEFA and is therefore not eligible to enter the World Cup or the European Championships. The team regularly compete in the Island Games. Shetland normally play their home matches at Gilbertson Park (capacity unknown, highest attendance approximately 5000) in Lerwick. Some matches, particularly friendlies, are occasionally played elsewhere, often at Seafield and Harbison Park. They also go on tour to play pre-season friendlies against Highland League clubs in July. They are not part of FIFA or UEFA meaning they do not have much regular games. The latest most noticeable event to take place in Shetland was the Island Games with many of the group matches being played on Pitches all around Shetland and the final taking place on Gilbertson Park (sometimes referred to as "the Gibbie"). As of the 2008/2009 season, Shetland wil be entering the S.F.A Challenge cup (North), competing against teams from the Highland League 2005Match: Final Shetland Islands 2 (0) V 0 (0) Guernsey Time: 16:00 Date: Friday 15 July 2005 Venue: Gilbertson Park The following players were in the Island Games squad in 2009. (Last update: 26 July 2009) ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6978594 ... Read more

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The game of curling has been an intrinsic part of life on the Prairies since the 1800s. The smallest towns are home to a rink, a league, and even a local bonspiel. The Stone Age: A Social History of Curling on the Prairies chronicles the sport's development from a crude game played by fur traders on a frozen river, to the sophisticated Olympic sport it is today. In the early years, curling survived and adapted to a wave of immigration, railway expansion, two World Wars, and a depression, gathering countless fans along the way.

Since the 1950s, curling has experienced an explosion in the number of men, women, juniors, and seniors who have taken up the game - both on the Prairies and across Canada - along with increasingly lucrative bonspiels, intense media coverage, and its share of controversy. The Stone Age looks at this important legacy of success both on and off the ice. It also highlights the careers of curlers such as Bob Dunbar, curling’s first superstar, Sylvia Fedoruk, Joyce McKee, Ernie Richardson, Sandra Schmirler, all of whom made vital contributions to the development of the sport.

Thanks to four-time Canadian Women's champion Vera Pezer's long and outstanding involvement in the game, she brings character and colour to The Stone Age, with her personal stories of the events, players, and reporters who brought curling from the Prairies to the world stage.

The Stone Agewill be of interest to curling fans and Prairie history aficionados. It explores the impact of the sport on the cultural and social life of the Canadian Prairies and why it developed in a substantially different direction here than in its native Scotland or even Eastern Canada. More than that, for anyone with a love of the sport and history, The Stone Age provides a purely entertaining read.

"Top 10" Developments that Changed Curling Forever:

1. George Cameron, a Winnipeg businessman, persuaded Walter Stewart of the Macdonald Tobacco Company of the merit in supporting a Canadian Curling Championship. The Brier was born.
2. Nipawin, Saskatchewan, staged a car bonspiel in 1947.
3. Ken Watson discovered, by accident, that removing the toe rubber from his forward foot gave him a longer, smoother slide.
4. Joyce McKee joined the Hub City men's league in 1952, curling with her father and brother.
5. Winnipeg introduced matching rocks, coloured rings, and more ceremony and media coverage to the 1940 Brier, the first staged outside Toronto.
6. Calgary Brier champion Howard Palmer convinced his employer, the T. Eaton Company, to sponsor a Western Canadian Women's Championship (1953).
7. Clubs began to install artificial ice.
8. Manitoba's Bruce Hudson deliberately blanked an end at the 1928 Brier.
9. Gordon Craig, President of TSN, decided to give curling greater prominence on television.
10. Ernie, Arnold, Sam and Wes Richardson competed in the 1959 Scotch Cup.

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A history of Superior, Wisconsin's Championship Curling Club. Includes sections on how the game of curling is played(including curling safety and ettiquette), curling's origins, the beginnings of curling in the new world and lists of inductees in the Curling Hall of Fame and national championship teams. ... Read more

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Very Interesting
If you like learning about new things and want to learn about curling and also about Superior, Wisconsin, this is a great place to start.

This book was enjoyable and fun to follow from beginning to end.

O.K.
It is not a good book for just curling in general beacause it focuses on Superior,MI's curling team and history.But it was O.K. for the info I wanted, but the book not what I was looking for.

Ultimate curling reference book
For the few books on curling that I have found, this has to be one of the most informative ever.Author Gidley writes in an easy to follow style that makes the sport interesting for the novice or expert. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1889Original Publisher: W. H. AllenSubjects: HuntingSports ... Read more

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Chapters: List of International Sport Federations, List of Curling Clubs in Alberta, List of National Lacrosse Organizations, List of Curling Clubs in Manitoba, List of Judo Organizations, List of Curling Clubs in Quebec, List of Curling Clubs in Nova Scotia, List of Orienteering Clubs. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: This is a list of international sports federations, each of which serves as a non-governmental governing body for a given sport and administers its sport at a world level, most often crafting rules, promoting the sport to prospective spectators and fans, developing prospective players, and organizing world or continental championships. Federations which are members of the IOC (ASOIF,AIOWF and ARISF) are members of SportAccord, formerly known as General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF).And furthermore, several other federations which aren't a IOC's member are members of the AGFIS, even if this is not a governing body of a sport. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=398336 ... Read more

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Chapters: Wheelchair Soccer, Powerchair Football, Wheelchair Curling, Wheelchair Dancesport, Wheelchair Rugby League, United States Power Soccer Association. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Powerchair Football (Power Soccer) is the first - and only - competitive team sport for people with disabilities who use power wheelchairs. It is played in numerous countries around the world: France, Belgium, England, Denmark, Portugal, Japan, United States, Canada, Turkey, South Korea, Ireland, Switzerland, Hong Kong, and Russia. Power soccer combines the skill of the wheelchair user with the speed and power of the chair itself, in an extremely challenging and competitive - sport. The game is played in a gymnasium on a regulation basketball court. Two teams of four players use powerchairs equipped with footguards to attack, defend, and spin-kick a 13-inch soccer ball in an attempt to score goals. Also called "Powerchair Football", the game is most similar to Futsal. The international organization governing the sport is the Fédération Internationale de Powerchair Football Association (FIPFA) located in Paris, France, with member organizations around the world. On 13 October, 2007, the United States National Team made soccer history when they won the first Powerchair Football World Cup, beating France in a thrilling penalty kick shootout in Tokyo, Japan. The sport will be demonstrated at the 2012 Paralympics in London, England and possibly at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Wheelchair soccer is a variation of the game, in which all of the participants are wheelchairs users due to physical disability. Intellectual disabilities can also be a factor, but this is not always the case. The wheelchairs can be either motorised, or manually-pushed. In case of al...http://booksllc.net/?id=11428297 ... Read more

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At last, a book about curling, the noble sport that every winter turns otherwise sane Canadian men and women into broom-waving fanatics. Given the chance, any one of them would actively consider selling their soul to the devil for a chance to win the national championship known as “the Brier.”

That’s the offer made to Willie MacCrimmon in this hilarious story by W.O. Mitchell. The time is the not-too-distant past, and the place is Shelby, Alberta, a small town in the foothills. Willie, a widower, is the town’s shoe-maker, but like a good Scot he lives to curl; curling in fact is “his only active religion.” He and his rink are so expert that he attracts the attention of the Devil himself, who comes to Shelby and makes him an offer hard to resist. The Devil (a keen curler–and how they keep good ice in hell is fully explained) promises Willie that he’ll win the Brier–if on his death Willie will undertake to come and curl in hell for him in the Celestial Brier.

Willie makes the Faustian deal – but with the proviso that he will save his soul if he and his Shelby rink can beat the Devil’s rink in a challenge match. And so Willie and his friends – with the help of the Reverend Pringle – take on the Devil’s crew of Judas, Macbeth and Guy Fawkes in the most crucial curling match of all time, a matter of after-life and death.

It's a fine, old-fashioned funny story, as you’d expect from W.O. Mitchell. You might even call it a sweeping saga.
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Good people having clever fun on the Devil's expense account




Orillia's curling rink in the 1950s was more closed, aloof and elite than the golf club, truly a gathering place of the anonymous mysterious elite of town;in contrast, Mitchell's fellow curlers in Shelby, Alberta, are a most delightful democratic bunch.

An avid curler himself, Mitchell brings curling to life with wit and humour in his 'Great White North' version of the old Faust legend.Americans adapted Faust into the Broadway musical 'Damn Yankees' with the matchless Gwen Verdon and superb Ray Walston;Mitchell adapted Faust into a short story, then a radio play which grew into a popular stage play and finally this book.

It's as charming as 'Shoeless Joe' by fellow Canadian W. P. Kinsella, which Hollywood turned into the enormously popular 'Field of Dreams.'Canadians, it seems, are masters of printed words;Americans favour moving images held by chemicals on celluloid or electrical pulses trapped in chips.

Someday, if the government sponsored Canadian Film Industry ever decides to film Canadian fantasies, dreams, hopes and humour, this should be one of the firsts.Until then, the genius of Canadian creativity is limited to ink on ground-up trees rather than digital bytes in R-O-M chips.(For the benefit of Trawna folks, R-O-M is "Read Only Memory," not "Royal Ontario Museum.")

Like much Canadian humour, it's an easy evening read without a moral burden.Americans love stories with a moral;they can't appreciate beauty for its own sake--look at the reaction to Tiger Woods, who should be valued for his matchless golf skills instead of being judged on his morals.

Canadians have more of a tendency to appreciate life for what it is, rather than what it might be with proper moral guidance.It's what makes this book a slice of pure Canadiana;good people having clever fun without hurting others or frightening the all-important American tourists.Canadians find subtle humour in the midst of all seriousness;Americans want their humour to have a serious moral.

Mitchell is a master Canadian storyteller.He deserves to be read for that reason alone, and this book is a fine introduction to his skills.Read it and you'll feel morally uplifted.Oooops!Is that an Americanism slipping in?Perhaps it's what's needed to recommend this book to Americans who are looking for at least one delightful story.


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