| + Kevin Martin | |
| Kevin Martin (left) with former team mate Carter Rycroft | |
| Team K. Martin | |
| Alternate | |
| Lead | Ben Hebert |
| Second | Marc Kennedy |
| Third | John Morris |
| Skip | Kevin Martin |
| Club | Saville Sports Centre |
| Brier appearances | 9 (1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2008) |
| Top CCA ranking | 1st (2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07) |
Kevin Martin (born July 31, 1966 in Killam, Alberta) is a Canadian curler from Edmonton.
Martin is one of the most successful curlers in the world, especially in the World Curling Tour, where his team has won almost $1 million in his career. Martin first came on the curling scene in 1985 when he won the Canadian Junior Championships. This qualified him for the 1986 World Junior championships, where he won the silver medal. Five years later, he qualified for the 1991 Labatt Brier, which he ended up winning and going on to the World Championships where he won the silver medal. In 1992 Martin qualified for the 1992 Winter Olympics in which curling was a demonstration sport and finished fourth. He would then play in the 1992, 1995 and 1996 Labatt Briers before winning the Brier again in 1997. That gave him a berth at the World Championships where he would again fall short of gold, finishing fourth. He would not return to the Brier until 2000 where he finished with a disappointing 6-5 record. Martin once again went to the Olympics two years later for the 2002 Winter Olympics, the second Olympics where curling was a full-medal event. At the 2002 Olympics, Martin had an 9–1 record before losing to Pal Trulsen of Norway in the final, missing a presumably "easy" draw in the last round.
On April 26, 2006 Martin announced the break up of his long-time team Olympic silver medalist team of lead Don Bartlett, second Carter Rycroft and third Don Walchuk. Those three would be replaced by 2-time World Junior Champion skip John Morris now playing third, Marc Kennedy at second and Ben Hebert at lead.
Martin is known for his ability to pull off near-impossible shots in complex situations, to the degree where other curlers have been using the expression "to do a Martin", meaning to attempt such a shot.
Martin has won a career eight Grand Slam victories. He was the second skip (after Wayne Middaugh) to win a "career Grand Slam"—winning a title in each Grand Slam event. He did this after winning the National Grand Slam event on March 25, 2007.
Titles:
Kevin Jeffrey Martin (born December 14 1966) is the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He was nominated to be a commissioner by President George W. Bush on April 30 2001, and was confirmed on May 25 2001. On March 16 2005, President Bush designated him as FCC chairman, to replace Michael K. Powell. President Bush renominated Martin to a new five year term on the Commission on April 25 2006, and he was reconfirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 17 2006.
Kevin Dallas Martin, Jr. (born ) is an American professional basketball player currently with the Sacramento Kings in the NBA. He is known for his unorthodox style of shooting.
Born in Zanesville, Ohio, he played for Zanesville High School and attended college at Western Carolina University, where he majored in sports management. He ranks fourth all-time on Western Carolina's scoring list with 1,838 points. Martin was selected by the Sacramento Kings with the 26th overall pick in the 2004 NBA Draft. In the 2004–05 season, Martin averaged 2.9 points, 1.3 rebounds and 0.5 assists per game. He showed much improvement the following year, averaging 10.8 points, 3.6 rebounds, and 1.3 assists. Martin also started from time to time during the 2005–06 season, which included a start at small forward due to Ron Artest being suspended for Game Two of the team's first-round playoff series against the San Antonio Spurs following a flagrant foul (elbow to the head) on Manu Ginobili.
When interviewed on a segment by TNT during a game, Martin credited Doug Christie for helping him learn how to defend in the NBA. Likewise, Martin also credited Cuttino Mobley for helping him with his shooting. Martin played behind both guards during their tenure with the Kings.
In the general managers' survey at the start of the 2006–07 NBA season, Martin tied for second as the player most likely to have a breakout campaign, behind Orlando Magic's Dwight Howard.
Martin played in the 2005, 2006 and 2007 Zanesville Gus Mackers tournaments.
During the 2006-07 season, Kevin Martin proved himself to be among the top scorers in the NBA, averaging 20.2 points per game, while averaging 4.3 rebounds and 2.2 assists, all career highs. He is also one of the best shooters in the league with a 47.3% shooting percentage from the field and 38.1% from beyond the three-point arc (along with 84.4% FT shooting). Kevin finished second to Monta Ellis in the NBA Most Improved Player Award.
On August 28th, 2007, the Sacramento Kings and Martin agreed to a 5-year, $55 million deal.
In the 2007-08 season Martin is averaging 23.2 PPG (9th in the league), 4.7 RPG, 2.0 APG and averaging 44% from the court and 40% from three point range. However, he missed 17 games due to a groin injury. On March 7, 2008 Martin scored a career high 48 points against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Kevin Martin is a London-based musician, record producer, and journalist.
His musical projects have included:
He also compiled the Macro Dub Infection (parts one and two), Isolationism (album) and Jazz Satellites CDs for the Virgin Ambient series.
He has previously written for music magazines such as Muzik and Jockey Slut.
