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Bravo to the Boys from Bemidji

I still have one curling match left on my DVR to watch, but I gotta say I’m happy to see that the United States’ men’s curling team beat Great Britain for the bronze medal today, the first American medal in curling. (Granted, curling has only been a medal sport since ’98. Still, a first’s a first.) Yes, there’s a certain amount of home-country jingoism going there, but c’mon, how can you root against a guy who owns his own pizzeria? (Pete Fenson, the team captain or “skip,” owns a couple of places in Minnesota, so you know he was happy to go to Italy.) And according to this news brief, CNBC and MSNBC have been getting a million-plus viewers for their daily curling coverage. Granted, that’s still kind of a niche audience, but those are record numbers for those networks.

Now I just hope someone’s going to televise the Men’s World Championship in April. And that Fenson and his team qualify to represent the U.S.

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February 24, 2006 @ 4:29 pm
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2 Comments

  1. Ping from Pattie Gillett:
    Thursday, March 2nd 2006 at 8:43 pm | 

    I think if the number of women who wrote to the boys in Turin asking to marry them is equal to the number of people that bully some cable network to pick this up, we’ll be fine.

    Apparently something about the combination of the brooms and the tight USA t-shirts resonated with the female audience. Go figure.

  2. Ping from Dave Thomer:
    Monday, March 13th 2006 at 11:07 pm | 

    And Team Fenson’s streak continues – they’ll represent the US at the Men’s World Championships in April. They lost their first two games of the round robin, then didn’t lose the rest of the way. That included two wins over the number 2 team in the playoffs, due to the playoff format. Hopefully they can do as well as or better than their Olympic performance.