Weeks, Bob

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 wo...