Russ Howard has established himself as one of the most-celebrated curlers in the world in more than 30 years of curling, winning two Canadian championships and two World championships along the way, and setting records as a skip in the Brier - the annual national men's championship -- for appearances, games played and wins. He contributed to building the game with an idea that put more offence into it and also fought for players' right to wear sponsorship cresting in national competitions. Beyond all that, he became an Olympian--and turned 50--at the 2006 Winter Games in Turin, where Howard won Olympic gold as skip of Brad Gushue's rink, the first-ever Olympic gold medal for Canada in men's curling. Russ Howard is an Ambassador for Muscular Dystrophy Canada and the Canadian Liver Association.
Bob Weeks is the editor and co-publisher of the "Ontario Curling Report," now in its thirty-first year of publishing. For 18 years, he has written a weekly column on curling in "The Globe and Mail," while providing coverage of curling's major events for Canada's national newspaper. He has written on curling for publications across Canada and is a regular commentator on both radio and television. He is a two-time winner of the Scotty Harper Award for the top curling story in Canada, and in 1995 he wrote "The Brier: The History of Canada's Most Celebrated Curling Championship," the first comprehensive history of that great event. He is also the author of "Curling for Dummies," When not writing about curling, Bob is the editor of "SCOREGolf Magazine,""" Canada's leading golf publication. He is also heard talking about golf on a nationally syndicated radio program and appears frequently on TSN.
