{"id":7953,"date":"2017-11-10T12:30:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T17:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=7953"},"modified":"2017-11-10T12:34:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T17:34:54","slug":"pintys-grand-slam-of-curling-returns-to-sault-ste-marie-for-the-boost-national-nov-14-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/10\/pintys-grand-slam-of-curling-returns-to-sault-ste-marie-for-the-boost-national-nov-14-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinty\u2019s Grand Slam of Curling Returns to Sault Ste. Marie for the Boost National, Nov. 14-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Nov 10, 2017 @ 12:30<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p>The world\u2019s elite curlers are returning to \u201cThe Soo\u201d for the second time in two years as the Boost National \u2013 the third event of the 2017-18 Pinty\u2019s Grand Slam of Curling season \u2013 rolls into town November 14-19. Sportsnet\u2019s live coverage of the Boost National kicks off Thursday, Nov. 16 at Noon p.m. ET \/ 9 a.m. PT on Sportsnet and Sportsnet NOW (full broadcast details below).<\/p>\n<p>Taking over the Essar Centre in downtown Sault Ste. Marie, the Boost National features 15 top men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams from around the world, including hometown favourite and 2014 Winter Olympic gold medallist Team Jacobs. All 30 teams will compete in a round-robin style bonspiel, contending for a combined $250,000 purse and a berth in the Humpty\u2019s Champions Cup, the final Grand Slam event of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Returning for another can\u2019t-miss Grand Slam event, Sportsnet\u2019s expert curling commentators will be at the heart of the action in Sault Ste. Marie. Veteran broadcaster Rob Faulds will have the play-by-play call while Olympic gold medallist Kevin Martin, 1998 Olympic silver medallist Mike Harris and 1998 Olympic gold medallist Joan McCusker provide insight and analysis throughout the bonspiel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 10, 2017 @ 12:30 The world\u2019s elite curlers are returning to \u201cThe Soo\u201d for the second time in two years as the Boost National \u2013 the third event of the 2017-18 Pinty\u2019s Grand Slam of Curling season \u2013 rolls into town November 14-19. Sportsnet\u2019s live coverage of the Boost National kicks off Thursday, Nov. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1004],"class_list":["post-7953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district","tag-pintys-grand-slam-of-curling"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 04:03:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7954,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions\/7954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}