is one of the most complete curling sites.
Curling is played on ice in sneakers & warm loose clothing (you may "trade up" to specialized shoes & gloves). The idea is to get your team's stones to the target at the other end of the ice (as many as possible closer to the center than the opposing team's stones). I love curling because of the strategy, the good sportsmanship (everyone shakes hands before and after games, for example), and how every teammate participates in every shot, whether calling it, launching it, or sweeping it. Perhaps Ed White's curling poems can give you a feel for the game sometimes referred to as the Winter Sport of Fitness and Finesse.
I was lucky enough to learn to play at the Rochester
Curling Club, a great group of folks. I helped them put on the 1994 Mixed National
Championship. Besides there and in the D.C. area, I've played at the club houses in
Utica, NY (pre-fire), Seattle (the Granite Curling Club folks kindly allowed
me to participate in one of their ladies' spiels, a fun event with a Western
theme and a great Oklahoma! curling parody), Easton, MD (Chesapeake CC), Philadelphia,
and Plainfield, NJ. I always enjoy going to the
bonspiels (tournaments); people are so friendly, and it's interesting to see their different set-ups.
is one of the most complete curling sites.