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The Roaring Game could be heading to the desert this season. World Curling was in “advanced discussions” with the United Arab Emirates to host the 2027 world women’s curling championship, an organization spokesman said Monday in an email.
Canada’s Kerri Einarson defeated Korea’s Kyeong-Ae Kim 6-3 on Sunday to capture the women’s title at the GSOC Co-Op Invitational curling event.
The 2026-27 curling campaign begins in earnest next week with the opening Grand Slam of the season, the CO-OP Invitational from Oct. 14-18 in Victoria, B.C. Let’s look at the major storylines for the 2026-27 season.
Stefano Spiller and Giulia Zardini Lacedelli will represent Italy at the European Curling Championships later this month after winning the country’s qualification event earlier this week.
The three-versus-four player debate has been a hot topic for years in curling circles. World Curling has done its part to settle the matter, and Curling Canada is on board too.
Team Selena Sturmay’s strong start to the 2026-27 curling season continued on Monday night with a victory at the Saville Grand Prix in their hometown of Edmonton.
Grant Hardie is in the winner’s circle as the skip of his own rink.
The Curling Group restructured its Rock League schedule for the second straight season on Thursday.
Edmonton’s Team Serena Gray-Withers scored a significant early season victory on Monday, defeating Alberta rival Team Selena Sturmay, 6-5, in the final of the Saville Shootout.
Legendary Canadian skip Brad Gushue is certainly keeping busy since retiring from competition. He was named USA Curling’s high-performance director last spring, plans to go on a book tour next month, and on Monday was named a television analyst for the Grand Slam of Curling.
Richard Norman spends a lot of time thinking about the future – the future of curling to be exact. Norman’s project is set to hit bookshelves on Sept. 8 with the release of (re)Pebbling: A Story of Blackness and Curling.
Curling Canada will be following an explicit rule on double-touching a stone starting this season as it adopts the World Curling rulebook.
Canadian curling greats Glenn Howard and Team Randy Ferbey are heading into the World Curling Hall of Fame, World Curling announced Thursday.
