They’re showing the 2003 Women’s Championships on NBC. This is the first time I have ever seen curling on TV other than the Olympics last year, and possibly the first time it was on in a long time. It’s good to see for someone who appreciates the sport as I do but lacks such coverage as Canada would get.
Anyone else watching?
Well, upon further research, it seems that this match took place a week ago. However, it was still good to see such programming on in the U.S.
My husband is watching. But he’s from northern Minnesota, so he barely counts as an American.
Well, the U.S. championship match was on about a month ago. Same sort of coverage, they only showed the last couple rocks in each end, which seems to me like they’re missing some fairly important stuff. How long does a match take, anyway, from start to finish.
And somebody has to be the first to mention it; the skip for the U.S. women’s team is a major babe.
It takes three hours or so normally. Can’t blame them for editing a bit, although it would be nice to see a whole match. Perhaps they could show it late at night?
And, yes, she is! Another thing I noticed: The Canadian women were wearing skirts (kilts?); I would have thought this a problem for, er, obvious reasons. 
Is this done often?
i grew up in wisconsin, and i grew up with my parents curling. it’s always so amusing to me when people regard curling with such wonder and curiosity. i guess i just never knew that not everyone was as familiar with it as i was.
It’s not uncommon, though there are certainly many teams that don’t wear skirts. They mostly have tights on underneath, so even those with real low toeslide deliveries don’t provide any, errr, inappropriate viewing opportunities.
[slight hijack]Well, the hacked-up version is the same as what they do with sumo (my husband’s major sports obsession, after 23 years in the western Pacific). They take a two-week basho (tournament) and condense it to half an hour, when it’s on in Japan for upwards of four hours a day every single day during all 15 days of the basho. Takes all the interesting parts out of it – the guys crouching there giving each other the hairy eyeball, the ceremonial throwing of the salt, the people in the first row patching themselves back together after 700 lbs of combined sumo wrestlers land on them, etc.
Anyone want to hear all about the new Mongolian yokozuna? I thought not. :rolleyes: [/slight hijack]