Dr. Team Gushue

As if winning a gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino wasn't enough, now Brad Gushue and his team are going to get honorary degrees from Memorial University. At the university's Convocation this spring, more than 2000 students will receive their degrees. In that group are the six members of Newfoundland's Olympic curling teams; Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Russ Howard, Jamie Korab, Mike Adam, and Toby McDonald. The six guys from the gold medal team will all receive honorary doctor of laws degrees at the May 26 session of convocation. Joining them will be leaders from academia, business and the arts.

This isn't the first time that members of this team have received degrees from the university. Brad Gushue has a BBA from MUN, and Mark Nichols also attended MUN and received a kinesiology degree. Mike Adam recently graduated from the College of the North Atlantic and Jamie Korab graduated from Academy Canada in 2001.

To all those people who make fun of curling: HA! I don't see Joe Sakic or Steve Nash getting degrees for doing well at the Olympics... oh wait, they didn't do well at the Olympics. Well yes, Steve Nash did very well considering the team mates he had to work with, but still.