There aren’t many worthy curling video games to wish for this Christmas, but there are other ways you can bring your favorite sport into your rec room. Like this, for example, which is tagged “return curling”:

From YouTube via plusforcoinc.

Update: It looks like you can buy Return Curling here. . . it will help if you are fluent in Japanese.

Little Mosque on the Prairie is a CBC show about Muslim residents of the fictional prairie town of Mercy. How much of their culture should immigrant communities and religious minorities shed in order to fit into a small Canadian town? And how much of town’s character should be allowed to change to reflect the new demographics? It plays like a classic fish out of water sitcom, but the subject matter is something that U.S. television wouldn’t touch.

I mention this because the curling episode has just been posted on YouTube. It features a cameo by Glenn Howard, and the prescient line, “Nobody wants to be in a bonspiel. Its something that happens to you.”

Here is part 1:

Part 2:

And the conclusion:

From YouTube via LittleMosqueSeason2.

A video of members of the Bozeman, MT based rock band The Clintons curling at the Duluth Curling Club.

From YouTube via theclintons.

Friday is here, which means many Twin Ports curlers will be heading to the Cystic Fibrosis Bonspiel at the Superior Curling Club. I heard they have a big field of teams signed up, so there could be some late nights and early mornings.

And, for those not Soup Town bound, here’s a video of kids curling at the Granite Curling Club in Seattle. Awww. . .

From YouTube via missamo80.

In Japan, curling is very popular among cape wearing shellfish.

Final score: Craig Brown 6, Randy Neufeld 4.

On the women’s side, Krista MacCarville of Thunder Bay defeated Duluth’s Amy Wright in the final.

It is Craig Brown of Madison versus Randy Neufeld of Manitoba in the final of the 2008 Duluth Cash Spiel. After five ends, it is Brown up by one point, 4 to 3.

League play at the DCC officially began last night. Thank you ice crew!