The awful possibility that curling may become not just cold, but cool

From: The Scotsman | Date: February 21, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

WHEN CURLING was simply an outdoor winter sport played by mad, drunken toffs, there would be a regular culling of its stupider, most inebriated red-nosed participants. After knocking back the requisite bottle or two of rubbing whisky, they would head out to the local loch for a bit of a bonspiel, ignoring the ominous glistening of the ice and the warning of a warming sun. One sundering crack, and into the cold black water they would go, clutching desperately at their Ailsa Craig stones and their oversized hipflasks.

Thus, curling remained for decades a strange, minority sport, through a ...

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