Author: Dena Rosenberry
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Syracuse hoops team tries curling
Well, sort of. Check a VIDEO of the Orange messing about during practice inside the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center. According to Trevor Hass, assistant sports editor of The Daily Orange, “Jerami Grant and B.J. Johnson channeled their inner Haavard Vad Petersson and Christoffer Svae. Grant rolled a basketball forward, flaunting the same silky touch…
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Curling 101: How do you play (breaking down the basics)?
(From our Gazette archives during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.) How many times do you throw stones down the ice in a game? Each game, or match, in national or international competition consists of 10 ends (like innings in baseball). Each team delivers 8 stones from one end of the ice sheet to the other…
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Learn to Curl
Curlers don’t let friends curl with milk jugs! Curlers in Fort Wayne created this VIDEO to promote their club and their Learn to Curl events. Funny stuff! If YOU want to learn to curl and you’re near Colorado Springs, join me at the Colorado Sports Center (where Olympian Jason Brown trains) on Saturday, Feb.…
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Curling 101: Sweeping and ‘Throwing’
(From our Gazette archives during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.) Time to answer a few more questions that I’ve been asked about curling: Are you the thrower or the sweeper? I’m both. In fact, all players throw, or deliver, stones and sweep stones. After one player delivers a stone toward the skip, or captain, who…
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Team Coco goes curling!
My friends at the Orange County Curling Club in Southern California had a great time teaching Andy Richter of Team Coco and the Conan O’Brien show to curl. Check out his form! Andy said it was a lot like sweeping his patio – with a bit more drinking involved.
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Going old school
Curling has been around for centuries – there’s evidence it has been played since the 1500s in Scotland. Since I just came from a weekend of competing and practicing at the Chicago Curling Club, home of the American Curling History Museum, I thought I’d share this gallery of fantastic photos of curlers from the mid-20th…
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Heading to U.S. Mixed Nationals
I’m heading to U.S. Mixed Nationals! Over the weekend, Team Colorado won a playdown in Chicago and earned the right to represent the region at the U.S. Mixed National Championships in March. Mixed curling pairs two men and two women on a team, alternating positions. Some teams are skipped by men, others women. My teammates…
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Winter fun in Colorado: Have rock and broom, will curl
You may only think about curling during the Winter Olympics, but there are plenty of places in Colorado to try the sport. Colorado has a handful of active curling clubs and a fledgling club in Craig. All will open their doors to Learn to Curl events this winter (about $20 a person for instruction, equipment…
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Tips for first-time campers
Summer vacation has arrived for many students in the Pikes Peak region, so it won’t be long until families are flocking to the high country on camping trips. To ensure your trip is a smooth, successful voyage, here are some tips shared by Out There readers: – Set up a tent in your backyard –…
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Column: Mixed feelings about the Incline
I plan to hike the Manitou Incline on Sunday for the second time ever. My first climb was nearly nine years ago, a few weeks after I moved to Manitou Springs. It was a thigh-burning and lung-busting 32 minutes. 2,500 ties. 2,000 feet. 
1 mile. There’s poetry in those numbers and a masochistic romance in…