Team Black extra motivated after National Team Program snub
Christina Black’s curling team was already motivated to achieve big things this season after making it all the way to the final of the Olympic Trials last fall.
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Christina Black’s curling team was already motivated to achieve big things this season after making it all the way to the final of the Olympic Trials last fall.
New Brunswick’s Sylvie Quillian earned two wins to move atop the Pool B standings on Thursday at the Canadian mixed curling championship.
The central Alberta town of Olds will serve as host of the 2028 world mixed doubles curling championship, World Curling said Thursday.
Quebec’s Félix Asselin remained the lone undefeated team at the Canadian mixed curling championship on Wednesday with a 7-3 win over Ontario’s Cory Heggestad.
Felix Asselin and Sylvie Quillian are the leaders of their respective pools after three days of action at the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship. And Asselin and his teammates from Quebec are the only unbeaten squad left.
The 2028 Montana’s Brier is headed to Red Deer, Alta., Curling Canada announced.
Adam Arsenault’s foursome from Crapaud Community Club lost 7-4 to Sylvie Quillian of New Brunswick and 8-5 to Colin Kurz of Manitoba at West Prince Curling Club.
Winnipeg skip Matt Dunstone scored three points in the fourth end to grab a 6-1 lead, then held on to beat Scotland’s Bruce Mouat 7-6 in the P&H Masters final on Sunday in Medicine Hat, Alta.
Matt Dunstone’s Winnipeg-based foursome scored twice in the seventh end and stole a single in the eighth to beat Yannick Schwaller of Switzerland 5-3 on Saturday night to advance to the men’s final of the P & H Masters Grand Slam of Curling event.
Brad Gushue names names and shares previously undisclosed stories in his new book, “Gushue: The Making of a Champion.” And in at least one case, Gushue has ruffled some feathers.
The world’s top women’s curling teams are coming to Truro in 2028. World Curling and Curling Canada announced Wednesday the Nova Scotia town will host the women’s world curling championship for the first time.
The world junior mixed doubles curling championship will return to Edmonton this spring, World Curling said Tuesday.
A move from the second position back to skip has agreed with Brendan Bottcher so far this season. His new-look team has settled in quite nicely as well.
Veteran skip Joel Retornaz is a bonspiel winner for the first time this season.
Grant Hardie has another win with his new Scottish-based rink.
John Epping and his new-look rink from Manitoba were victorious at the Henderson Metal Fall Classic in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., on Saturday, defeating Italy’s Team Joel Retornaz in the final, 5-4.
The final stretch is completed of a Newfoundland and Labrador highway honouring curling superstar Brad Gushue and his 2006 Olympic team.
Curling Canada chief executive officer Nolan Thiessen wants people thinking big thoughts and asking new questions about the sport.
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.
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