From the Hack

This is an interview I did with Mike McEwen prior to the 2017 Olympic Trials.  I referred to it as my favourite FTH interview in a tweet recently and I thought I would post it here for those that are interested.

It's time for our favourite episode each year where we interview some of the best junior curlers in the world this season, the skips of the teams that won the Canadian and U.S. Junior Championships. - Luc Violette (02:59), Delaney Strouse (13:03), Mackenzie Zacharias (18:30) and Jacques Gauthier (25:10).

On this week's Holiday Special, we interview seven juniors from across Canada and the U.S. - Emily Deschenes (03:15), Ryan Abraham (08:52), Natalie Hollands (15:38), Landon Field (23:12), Serena Gray-Withers (30:21), Mack Ellis (37:40), Abby Hagger (43:45).

On today's World Curling Report...we recap Day 1 of the 2019 Canada Cup.  

On this week's podcast we focus on the Canada Cup with past champion Reid Carruthers (04:09), Adam Kingsbury - former coach of Team Homan and Team Jacobs (11:53) and 1998 Olympic silver medalist Mike Harris share his thoughts on this week's Canada Cup (26:16). 

On this week's podcast - Jean-Sebastien Roy, Canadian Mixed champion skip (03:19)... EJ Harnden of Team Jacobs (10:50)... Korey Dropkin of Team Dropkin (25:50)... Sara McManus of Team Hasselborg (33:09)... and clips of interviews with Anna Hasselborg, David Murdoch, Ross Paterson and Alina Paetz discussing the European Championships.  

On today's World Curling Report... the host province wins the Canadian Mixed Championship for a second consecutive year, the Pacific-Asia region crowns their champions and the finals are set in both the Tier 1 and Tier 2 Tour Challenge events.

On today's World Curling Report... It's playoff time at the Pacific-Asia Championships and the playoff pictures are slowly starting to take shape at the Canadian Mixed and at the Tour Challenge slam.

On today's World Curling Report... Teams are approaching crunch time at the Pacific-Asia Championships, some teams are starting to separate themselves at the Canadian Mixed and the world's best are in Pictou County for the Tour Challenge slam.

On today's World Curling Report... we recap Day 2 of the Pacific-Asia Championship and the weekend's World Curling Tour action. 

On today's World Curling Report...  The Pacific-Asia Championships are under way in China with Day 1 in the books and we catch you up on who qualified A side at World Curling Tour events across North America.

On today's World Curling Report... we set you up for the 2020 Canadian Mixed Championship that starts this weekend, including a curling legend teaming up with her son and a young skip teaming up with his Mom, Dad and his fiancée.

On this week's episode of the From the Hack podcast...  Tracy Fleury and Matt Dunstone discuss their first career Slam titles, Colin Kurz discusses winning the 2019 World Mixed Curling Championship and I explain the content you can expect on the From the Hack podcast this season.

On today's World Curling Report... We recap the final day of the 2019 Canadian Beef Grand Slam in North Bay where two skips earned their first career Slam titles.

On today World Curling Report... we update you on the Canadian Beef Masters in North Bay, ON.

On today's World Curling Report.  Marc Kennedy of Team Jacobs  shares why it was important for him to play in this week's Master's Grand Slam a week after the passing of his father + we recap action from Day 1 of the Masters. 

On today's World Curling Report... we are live from the Canadian Beef Masters in North Bay and Jennifer Jones discusses the special place that Memorial Gardens in North Bay holds in her heart after her team won the 2018 World Championships in the very same building.

On today's World Curling Report... A sudden, tragic loss in the Saskatchewan curling community, a familiar team returns to #1 in the world rankings and two young Alberta teams come out on top in Medicine Hat.

On today's World Curling Report... a couple of big upsets in finals on the World Curling Tour as teams prepare for the first slam of the season. 

On today's World Curling Report - Canada win the World Mixed Curling Championship for the second straight year and the playoff pictures take shape at events in Canada and in Europe.

On today's World Curling Report... The playoff picture is set at the World Mixed Championship with Canada earning the top seed and the Tier 1 and Tier 2 fields have been announced for the Pinty's Grand Slam of Curling Tour Challenge taking place in Pictou County, Nova Scotia in early November. 

On today's World Curling Report... The playoff picture is becoming clearer at the World Mixed Championship, the U.S. Olympic Trials are returning to a familiar place and there is a new #1 women's team in the world.

On today's World Curling Report... the host nation leads the way at the World Mixed Curling Championship, Team Einarson defends their title at one of the more prestigious events on the World Curling Tour and an Olympic gold medalist ties the knot.

On today's World Curling Report... Mother Nature wins the Canad Inns Men's Classic, the reigning European men's champions will not get to defend their title and a super-sub leads Team Scheidegger into the Autumn Gold playoffs.

On today's World Curling Report... 40 curling nations are in Aberdeen, Scotland for the 2019 World Mixed Curling Championship, Team Einarson looks to defend their title at the popular Autumn Gold event in Calgary and several of the world's top men's teams are in Portage la Prairie for the Canad Inns Classic.