Curling doesn’t offer the excitement of other winter sports — no thunderous body checks, no vertical leaps, no million-dollar superstars. But when Scott Russell visited curling clubs across the country, attended the Brier in Calgary and the Olympic games in Salt Lake City, and spent time with curlers, from celebrities like Colleen Jones to the unsung father, uncle and son-team who built the Eagle Hill Curling Club in Alberta, he discovered the magical allure of curling. As Canadian Olympic gold medalist Joan McCusker said of curling’s appeal: “Ordinary people doing extraordinary things is the attraction.”

Open House takes us inside the world of curling, and captures the spirit and lore of the sport, the dedication and passion of its participants.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Scott Russell is an award-winning sports journalist who has covered the Olympics, the Commonwealth Games, and the Canada Games. Author of Ice Time: A Canadian Hockey Journey and co-author of the bestselling The Rink: Stories from Hockey’s Home Towns, he lives in Toronto