Team USA skip Cassie Johnson delivers a stone against Team Canada at the World Womens Curling Championship in Paisley, Scotland, in this March 23, 2005, file photo. When ohnson competes with the U.S. curling team at the upcoming 2006 Winter Olympics in Italy, she'll have an expanded entourage cheering her on, all making the trip to Turin courtesy of Bank of America Corp. Johnson, 24, is one of hundreds of Olympians the nation's second-largest bank sponsors as part of its 'Hometown Hopefuls' program, part of Charlotte-based Bank of America's sponsorship of the U.S. Olympic Committee.

People at the cigar shop always think I'm crazy when I turn on the womens curling.

Then they see the women playing & suddenly they shut up. 🙂

I saw a picture of her in the local paper, she is a cutie. Almost makes me want to take up curling.

We just took the Tiger Scouts to a curling club a couple weeks ago. They had alot of fun.

i like the snowboarding chick on the visa check card commercials... im not sure what her name is .... but she is HOT!! ..plus she snowboards.. that always raises the HOT factor quite a bit!!!

Kind of like a chick that can golf.. it just makes her a big yummier.. if yummier is really a word.. i like to use it

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Please don't make me look this up...

What is Curling?

dd,

sort of like a "twisted" shuffleboard game/contest

the weight she has in her hand slides down the ice and lands on the point's end trying to knock out your competitor.....i believe it's something like that anyway.

i know they slide it down and try to knock each other's weight out of play.

she looks to be great on just one knee!!!

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

;^)

Curling is shuffleboard meets marbles meets Looney Toons. The person slides the stone down the ice. People with brooms smooth the way for the stone, trying to get it to go in a certain direction, and keep the speed up.

I'm still not sure how teams score. Knocking the other team's stone out is supposed to be a good thing. I don't know why.

and this is an Olympic event????

obviously......

It would be much more well known if they had pushed the more "interesting" version of it, beach curling.

Except for the mens games...

This is new to me. We just didn't play curling in my neighborhood while growing up.

Let me see if I have this right.

There's a guy with a broom and someone else with a stone. The broom guy clears you a path then you slide your stone into some other guys stone. Is this about it? Who thought this game up?

What's next as an Olympic event Lawn Darts?... CornHoling?

let me know when the dress code changes to match that of women's volleyball, then I'll watch.

I'm with you Rich. I just don't get it.

i would rather see Naked female wheelborrow racing!!!

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There is a picture of her in the current SI, a real cutie!

I challenge anyone to try curling. This isn't lawn darts folks. Lots of strategy involved. And if you watch them, just coordinating the slide & release of the stone is a finesse I know I don't have.

in Western PA, we call corn-hole "Potty Ball".

Bjaardker I except your challenge... 😉

When I get home tonight I'm going to slide one rock into another.

Check it out.. here's a video with an interview with sed curling cuties. 😃

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=272371173131622908&q=curling