The Canadians are invading Oklahoma, and they’ve brought their sports with them. No, no, not hockey — curling! You know, that ice-based Olympic sport that combines big rocks with handles, brooms, and a giant dart-board target? Okay, you don’t?  Well, curling has arrived in Oklahoma at the Arctic Edge Ice Center in Edmond. 

Okay, so Paul Gross and Molly Parker and Leslie Nielsen aren’t really hanging out in Edmond.  No big deal. People are still throwing stones on ice and probably drinking lots of beer afterwards. Jonathan Havercroft, a Canadian political scientist who teaches at OU, was on KFOR Friday night (must not have been much to do at Campus Corner) demonstrating the finer side of throwing stones and sweeping in this sport that we Ogles find attractive because it combines throwing things with ice — and it looks like a good beer-drinking sport. 

(Here’s the video – we’re still having a little trouble getting KFOR video to post, possibly due to the humorous effects of Lance West on Bobbie Miller).

A little research here at TheLostOgle has reveal that none other than Toby Keith is into curling.  But don’t let that discourage you . . .

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