I love Olympic Curling. Simply because it looks like something I could actually do. I think it is a really cool sport. There is nothing like getting excited over a big stone.

...Paintings by a 16th Century Flemish Artist, (click here) Pieter Bruegel (1530-1569) portrayed an activity similar to curling being played on frozen ponds. The first written evidence appeared in Latin, when in 1540, John McQuhin, a notary in Paisley, Scotland, recorded in his protocol book a challenge between John Sclater, a monk in Paisley Abbey and Gavin Hamilton, a representative of the Abbot. The report indicated that Sclater threw a stone along the ice three times and asserted that he was ready for the agreed contest...