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Brad Gushue didn’t hide what he was thinking on or off the ice. The decorated curler continues that frankness in his book “Gushue: The Making of a Champion” due for release Nov. 3 by Penguin Random House Canada.
The Grand Slam of Curling’s competition committee plans to meet this week to discuss an unusual finish at the Co-op Invitational that sent two Canadian teams into the playoffs and led to pointed words from an American rink left outside the cutline.
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.
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 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.
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.
Eunji Gim and her rink from Uijeongbu, South Korea were victorious at the Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic this past weekend in Vernon B.C.
The defending Montana’s Brier champions are in the winners circle for the first time this season.
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.
The Curling Group postponed a Rock League schedule update planned for Wednesday, the latest hiccup in what has been a period of growing pains for the young professional curling league.
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.
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.
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.
Selena Sturmay and her Edmonton rink captured this weekend’s Asham Icebreaker in Morris, Man., with a 6-5 victory over Alberta rival Team Serena Gray-Withers in the championship game.
Alina Pätz and her new-look Swiss rink got off on the right foot in their first event as a foursome.
The calendar may still read August, but competitive, top-level curling has already begun.
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