Curling

JOHNSON – Curling, cheating and the controversy about ‘double touching’

February 17, 2026 // 2 Comments

ONE WOULD NOT really consider curling the bastion of sport controversy … but this is oddly where we find ourselves. Curling a very long time ago was known as a past time [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – How curling was ruined by trying to make it better

March 29, 2025 // 2 Comments

CURLING USED TO BE a great sport. Things went wrong along the way. I confess, I love watching curling. I watched as much of the World Women’s Curling Championship as I [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Have a nice day… seriously

April 7, 2023 // 0 Comments

The following column was first published in The Kamloops Daily News on Feb. 22, 1985. ‘SHOOT! SHOOT! You lousy!” This is the gentleman sitting one row up and a couple of [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Common sense forgotten in City council’s curling club decision

September 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD is important in business but sometimes it can be a little too level. For example, have you ever decided to go to the [Continue]

BEPPLE – It’s a big, wide world, and it all eventually comes to Kamloops

February 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

EVERYWHERE I WENT this week, there were small signs of the bigger happenings. First I drove to Lytton and back to Kamloops. On railway sidings from Kamloops down to Lytton [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Olympics find new ways to surprise, and not always in a good way

February 22, 2018 // 0 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. JUST WHEN we think there are no new ways the Olympics can surprise us, they do — and not in a good way. Never mind that [Continue]