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Team USA Curling – Representing Minnesota

Published on February 21, 2010 in Minnesota and Sports. 1 Comment Tags: , .

Upon hearing that the US curling team is predominantly composed of Minnesotans, I couldn’t help but write a blog post about it.

Minnesota and Wisconsin represent the mecca of curling in the United States, with thousands of people playing in everything from mixed-doubles leagues to elite-level bonspiels. The St. Paul Curling Club, with more than 1,200 members, is the largest club in the country.

Of course, I’m certain our similar climate and border with Canada are no coincidence.

Curling’s popularity in Canada is second only to hockey; tournaments are frequently televised, top-notch skips are big stars, and it’s estimated that a million of the sport’s 1.1 million participants live in this country.

Besides having a slight affinity with respect to accents and a love and long history of hockey, it appears that we share a strange and mostly unpopular sport (as far as the U.S. is concerned). I have never curled before, but I do remember that Northwestern had a team for graduate students. An interesting phenomenon that just hasn’t really spread south of Canada or out of Europe.

So far, the men’s curling team has not won a single match to my knowledge. Maybe if we have an incredibly successful team that could turn the sport around in America.

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  1. Arlinda Espaillat posted the following on March 5, 2010 at 2:27 am.

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