TOP: Dan Brown warms up before playing against the Olympic curlers at the Eau Claire Curling Club. BOTTOM: au Claire, Wis. — Laurie Marsh, left, and Lynita Delaney, right, sweep for Ava Roessler, 3, at the Eau Claire Curling Club. Delaney is Roessler's grandmother. Marsh and Delaney curl at the Centerville (Wis.) Curling Club.
Pat Borzi, a Minneapolis journalist who often strings for the New York Times, has a good eye for great stories. He recognized a golden opportunity when he heard of a fundraiser at the Eau Claire (Wis.) Curling Club. The Men's Olympic squad and the Skip (or leader) of the women's team would take on all comers to help raise money to send the olympians' families to Vancouver later this winter. As he told me "that's like Kobe Bryant and LeBron James heading down to the local gym to take on the guys in a pickup game." I shot the story in mid-November, and it appeared in the Times Dec. 15-16.
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