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The popular 2002 movie Men With Brooms is coming to the CBC as a sitcom pilot. The pubcaster has given the production order to E1 Television and Serendipity Point Films for a pilot episode to loosely follow Paul Gross' curling comedy and directorial debut. The film racked up $4.2 million on theatrical release, portraying a reunited curling team overcoming personal struggles to capture a national trophy for their late coach. The offbeat comedy starred Gross, Leslie Nielsen, Kari Matchett, Molly Parker and Polly Shannon. "Men with Brooms is a known entity, and it's nice to build on that. It did...

China makes history, claims world curling gold Source: WCF Press Release (Mar 29, 2009) -- New era of curling confirmed as Vancouver 2010 looms GANGNEUNG, Korea -- Ten years ago, Bingyu Wang of China didn't know what a curling stone was. Sunday afternoon in Gangneung, Korea she and her teammates defeated the two-time world and 2006 Olympic champions from Sweden to capture the Mount Titlis World Women's Curling Championship 2009. Winners of 11 straight games coming in to the final, the squad from Harbin exchanged misses with Anette Norberg's Swedish foursome over the first few ends, swapping single points as...

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Streaker Runs Across Ice in Curling Match Feb 24 7:07 PM US/Eastern PINEROLO, Italy The men's bronze medal match Friday was interrupted by a streaker. Midway through the United States' 8-6 win over Britain, a man wearing what appeared to be a strategically placed rubber chicken ran onto one of the covered sheets of ice not being used in that session. He danced around for a bit but never tried to approach any of the players. Curlers probably feel a little safer than most athletes _ it's hard for intruders to run across ice, especially if they're naked. John Shuster...

Last Updated: Tue Nov 22 17:09:33 EST 2005 CBC Sports Women's curling will be getting more attention in the coming weeks, but not in a way that many expect. A new international calendar features nude and scantily clad female curlers. The idea came from Ana Arce, a photographer who skipped three seasons for the Andorran women but has since moved to Spain. "I think it's going to change the image of the sport which is not so nice," Arce, who also poses in the calendar, told The Canadian Press. "I've been playing for eight years and there are so many...

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ESPN gets less sports-centered Cabler to broaden its field with more series, telepix By JOHN DEMPSEY Less hockey and baseball. More original movies and series. That's one big equation on the mind of Mark Shapiro, executive VP of programming and production for ESPN, who's gung ho about broadening the audience for ESPN by reaching beyond the stereotypical potbellied sports nut, stretched out in his undershirt on a Barcalounger with a can of beer in one hand and a remote in the other. ESPN and ESPN2 aimed the National Hockey League games it carried from 1999 through 2004 squarely at this...

Team Canada skip Jennifer Jones directs the sweep at the World Women's Curling Championship in Paisley, Scotland on Saturday. (CP/Andrew Vaughan) PAISLEY, Scotland (CP) - Canada's Jennifer Jones played two games as different as night and day to open the World Women's Curling Championship on Saturday - and won them both. Her Winnipeg team cruised to 9-2 win over Finland's Kirsi Nykanen on near-perfect ice conditions at night after grinding out a 6-5 extra-end victory over Switzerland's Mirjam Ott on ice so frosty that sweepers Cathy Overton-Clapham, Jill Officer and Cathy Gauthier joked about needing shovels to get the...

(AP) - Curling has officially hit the big time in Olympic sports. The curlers don't have a fat TV contract yet, and Nike isn't trotting out ads featuring them and their brooms. But seven years after making its debut as a medal sport at the Nagano Olympics, curling has what's become a rite of passage these days: its first doping violation. Now put the stones and brooms down, it's not quite what it sounds. Mitchell Marks, a promising young curler, was suspended for two years because he refused to take an out-of-competition drug test in October, an automatic violation. But...

A question: Which sports broadcast drew the largest American television audience on Easter Sunday? A PGA Tour special on CBS or an Arena Football League game on NBC?The answer: Neither. A one-hour NBC telecast, tape delayed by a week, of the world curling championships earned a 1.2 rating (about 1.2 million U.S. households). That was higher than arena football (.9) and the PGA special (1). "Easter Sunday is always a tough day to get an audience," said Jon Miller, vice-president of programming for NBC Sports. "But curling did well. I was impressed."The curling show, which featured three Canadian broadcasters,...