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The World Financial Group Canadian Senior Men’s and Women’s Curling Championships get underway Saturday at the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club.

Supposedly, also purportedly, the Ford World women’s curling championship field departing the blocks Saturday at the Credit Union iplex is inferior to that which gathered last month in Vancouver to chase Olympic medals.

The 2010 Ford World Women’s Curling Championship, presented by Monsanto, gets underway Saturday at the Credit Union i-plex in Swift Current.

The first official visit for Canada’s 2010 Olympic gold medal winners in men’s curling took place right here in London at the White Oaks Mall.

It took a cold out-turn draw to a piece of the button in an extra end for Kevin Koe to win Alberta’s 25th Brier title, 6-5 over Ontario’s Glenn Howard.

From swagger to stagger?  Maybe it was a task too tough for the Moosies.  Getting behind on the scoreboard has, over a period of a couple of seasons in the curling wars, been tough for a lot of teams playing Kevin Koe and his Edmonton troops.

Defending champion Alberta’s entry prolonged its hot pursuit of another Tim Hortons Brier on Saturday night, defeating Northern Ontario’s Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie 10-3 in a semi-final collision.

Alberta’s Kevin Koe, skipping an Edmonton team from the Saville Sports Centre, home of luminaries like Kevin Martin and Randy Ferbey, today advanced to the Tim Hortons Brier semi-final slated for 7:30 p.m. AT/6:30 pm ET, live on TSN, from the Metro Centre.

It was nip, tuck, to say nothing of tense, but Ontario’s Glenn Howard finally escaped with his 12th straight victory at the Tim Hortons Brier on Friday night.

For the first time since the last time Glenn Howard of Ontario won the Tim Hortons Brier (2007), the playoff field emerged cut and dried from the round-robin preliminary.

Ontario clinched top spot in the round-robin standings and Quebec fell out of the running as the playoff picture continued to clear up Thursday afternoon at the 2010 Tim Hortons Brier, presented by Monsanto, at the Metro Centre.

The Canadian Curling Association (CCA) today announced a number of features to better inform and involve Canadian curling fans about the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver during the curling dates – March 13 – 20, 2010.

The last time Northern Ontario made the playoff round at the Tim Hortons Brier, Brad Jacobs was seven years old and had never shaken the chaff from a corn broom.

How often do they notch six-enders at the Brier?

Brad Jacobs knows the history, and he knows the odds. But Jacobs’ Northern Ontario outfit clearly isn’t satisfied with outsider status at the 2010 Tim Hortons Brier, presented by Monsanto.