I still have one curling match left on my DVR to watch, but I gotta say I’m happy to see that the United States’ men’s curling team beat Great Britain for the bronze medal today, the first American medal in curling. (Granted, curling has only been a medal sport since ’98. Still, a first’s a first.) Yes, there’s a certain amount of home-country jingoism going there, but c’mon, how can you root against a guy who owns his own pizzeria? (Pete Fenson, the team captain or “skip,” owns a couple of places in Minnesota, so you know he was happy to go to Italy.) And according to this news brief, CNBC and MSNBC have been getting a million-plus viewers for their daily curling coverage. Granted, that’s still kind of a niche audience, but those are record numbers for those networks.
Now I just hope someone’s going to televise the Men’s World Championship in April. And that Fenson and his team qualify to represent the U.S.