Morning Issue 5 – Sunday, December 5, 2010 • An Offi cial Publication of the Canadian Curling Association. Here’s the deal: Cheryl Bernard, Carolyn Darbyshire and Cori Morris have qualified for their first Canada Cup women’s final. Clean sweep? ■ Kevin Martin seeks his fourth ■ Cheryl Bernard, Stefanie Lawton Canada Cup title in a classic are on a collision course . confrontation with Glenn Howard with a $25,000 payday at stake Page 2 Page 3 Marc Try the Make Your Day! Kennedy Single Day Passes are Also Available! If weekdays work better for your schedule, sample Half Cup! our day passes on Thursday and Friday. This is the package that puts you in the heat of the action all day Saturday and all day Sunday… $ when all the big points are on the line! 69 Includes GST & service charges. For tickets call or order online $ 780.451.8000 165Includes GST & service charges. +BOVBSZo t4FSWVT$SFEJU6OJPO1MBDF Page 2 Sunday, December 5, 2010 Hello, stranger: Martin, Howard to meet in final Larry Wood but then John did. And John and Todd Kimberley didn’t play very well last Morning Cup Editors night (in their pool-play fi - Men’s nale against Randy Ferbey), eamwork is prov- so then Marc did. So it’s all Final ing to be the key up to somebody else.” Today Tfor Kevin Martin’s Which is to say, it’s a defending Olympic cham- team game. 12:30 p.m. — pion quartet as they head Howard, whose record Kevin Martin into today’s 12:30 p.m. against Martin is far from (6-0, A1-B1 championship fi nal in the scintillating — 0-for-6 in Canada Cup of Curling at the Tim Hortons Brier, winner) vs. Glenn the Medicine Hat Arena. 1-for-3 in the Canadian Howard (6-1, The Edmonton-based Olympic trials and the semifi nal winner) Martin outfi t won its Canada Cup and 1-for-2 sixth straight game at the in the Players’ champion- Canadian Curling Associa- ship — earned another shot didn’t pick up on. But for tion’s fi rst major event of at the gold-medal team this game we get to pick a the season, defeating Glenn Saturday night by ousting whole net. I think we’ll be Howard of Coldwater, Ont., defending Brier champion fi ne.” 7-4 in the Page One playoff Kevin Koe of Edmonton The Ontario skip admit- game at The Arena on Sat- 9-7 in the semifi nal. ted his record against the urday morning. “We’re all mentally Martin outfi t has been “hor- “We feel good. It’s the ready,” said Howard after- rible lately. truth,” said Martin, whose ward. “It’s just all four of “The last few years he’s Saville Sports Centre outfi t us have to be playing well. got us just about every includes third John Morris, My front end struggled time. We throw the odd second Marc Kennedy, and this morning and put a lot one in there for his three or lead Ben Hebert. of pressure on us. We had four,” said Howard. “I didn’t play very well, a couple of bad rocks we “We didn’t play well at all this morning. I felt gthe fi rst four or fi ve ends he should have blown us out. We just have to come out better this time.” The semi-fi nal progressed in yo-yo fashion for open- ers. Howard opened with a deuce, Koe replied with one and then stole two in the third when Howard admitted pulled the string on a last-rock draw. But Koe couldn’t abide with that prosperity. Howard rebounded with a four-ender in the fourth end when two gambling big-weight shots from Koe failed to come off. “He threw two bad ones,” said Howard. Please see MEN, Page 10 Above, top: Kevin Koe and Carter Rycroft discuss strategy during Saturday night’s 9-7 semifinal loss to Glenn Howard. Above: Mike McEwen lets it all hang out during his Page Two-Two playoff defeat to Koe earlier in the day. Left: Wayne Middaugh and Brent Laing bring a Howard rock into the house. 2010 Canada Cup Page 3 Bernard, Lawton take turns GET A bursting Kleibrink’s balloon BITE AT Larry Wood fi fth- and sixth-end singles lead when Anderson became in the honeymoon stage but it RIVERDENTAL.COM and Todd Kimberley en route to a 6-4 duke in the available. “And she brings a has been enjoyable. Morning Cup Editors Page One morning match and calming manner.” “I think, from advanced directly to experience playing the championship with your fam- algary’s Cheryl Bernard fi nal. ily, playing with is back in Olympic- Kleibrink ap- sisters, it’s different CGames form and she’ll peared frustrated by and you do things face Saskatoon’s Stefanie Law- a relentless Lawton differently with ton to provide conclusive proof onslaught in the somebody who’s when the women’s scrapping at afternoon semi-fi nal not your sister. Canada Cup of Curling winds and surrendered 8-4. “It’s probably up in a battle for $25,000 today Lawton, with working well in 378 1ST ST. SE | 403.526.5991 at 11 a.m. MT at The Arena. Sherry Anderson, the house with Bernard and Lawton took Sherri Singler and Stefanie because turns making short work of Marliese Kasner op- we’re more of an 18-game winning streak erating effi ciently in a team and not amassed by Calgary’s Shannon front, clobbered Krista two sisters back Kleibrink heading into Satur- McCarville of Thun- there, if you get day’s Page playoffs. der Bay 9-2 to emerge what I mean. Winning her eighth straight from the sudden-death And Marliese is over her Cowtown rival, Page Two scuffl e. playing so well Bernard and her team of Susan “We came to play at lead, she O’Connor, Carolyn Darbyshire today and it re- hasn’t missed and Cori Morris stole vital ally showed,” said the a double this 30-year-old Lawton. year, I don’t “We made all kinds of think.” shots. Lawton said Women’s “They (Kleibrink) her team will just struggled with draw need “the Final weight and having an A-game” Today early lead we were able if it hopes to hit away.” to compete 11 a.m. — Cheryl Much was being made with Bernard’s Bernard (5-1, A1-B1 of the addition of veteran Stefanie Lawton: Two big wins on Saturday. Olympians this winner) vs. Stefanie skip Sherry Anderson to Law- morning at The Arena. ton’s lineup. Said Anderson, who closed Lawton (6-1, “She brings a ton of expe- out the Saturday semi with a semifi nal winner) rience,” says Lawton, who triple takeout: “Maybe the time Please see WOMEN, moved sister Kasner down to is right for this now. Were still Page 7 Page 4 Sunday, December 5, 2010 +855<+$5' 25*2+20( Proud to be at the 2010 Canada Cup of Curling Kevin Martin’s Edmonton-based crew now has six straight wins at The Arena. “It’s important to us to come out and play like we have in the past,” he says. ®ATB Financial is a registered trademark of Alberta Treasury Branches. Albertans flex that Olympic muscle Vancouver 2010 Olympic In sending Glenn Howard Winter Games, completed and Shannon Kleibrink to TSN’s daily double Satur- the semi-fi nals, they actually day. delivered stronger messages They both won to put than that. themselves through to More like: “We still own today’s televised fi nals of you!” the Canada Cup, curling’s Both claimed they had no Season of Champions lead- idea the extent they’ve main- off event. tained dominance. But curl- But mostly these two deliv- ing has reached the point of ered messages. growing public appeal where They’re back! And they people are starting to keep TERRY JONES mean business! track of this sort of stuff. Sun Media Columnist When you’re on top, it’s That was the eighth straight not a bad idea to come to time Bernard has defeated 780-465-6232 www.konicaminolta.ca hey’re still the ones. the fi rst big event after the fellow Calgarian and 2002 They’re still having Olympics and remind people Olympic bronze-medal win- Tfun and they’re still you haven’t gone away, that ner Kleibrink. It also stopped the ones. you haven’t lost your desire an 18-game winning streak Olympic curling heroes and your fi re. Kleibrink had put together Kevin Martin and Cheryl Both Olympic gold-medal this season. Bernard, who both played winner Martin of Edmonton before almost seven million and silver-medal winner Canadians on TV in their Bernard of Calgary did that Please see JONES, gold-medal games at the Saturday morning. Page 10 Editor: Morning Larry Wood Associate Editor: Todd Kimberley Photography: Michael Burns, Jr. 2010 Canada Cup Page 5 LARRY WOOD Great Morning Roar Editor Not so, say players and fans, who object to the idea that eight-end games are inevitable in curling 8? f everything continues to tran- fl ames. So, too, were the abolition of spire the way the Asham World extra ends and tiebreakers at world ICurling Tour and iSportsMedia championships. people have been operating, this All of which leaves you to wonder Canada Cup championship you’ve what iSportsMedia and World Tour watched this week at the Hat Arena execs were smoking and who they is something of a dinosaur among were canvassing when they suggest- cash bonspiels.