For a while, it looked like Rachel Homan was going to win her second straight bonspiel without losing a game. Unfortunately for the Ottawa skip, and her team of Emma Miskew, Joanne Courtney and Lisa Weagle, their season-opening win streak ended at 13. A come-from-behind win by Switzerland’s Silvana Tirinzoni stole the Grand Slam of Curling’s Tour Challenge championship, and the $21,000 pay day.
Team Canada bounced back from a disappointing 6-5 loss to Spain in the morning draw to defeat Latvia 7-4 and stay tied at the top of Group B at the World Mixed Curling Championship in Berne, Switzerland.
Curling’s biggest rock stars will be heading to the Rock in 2017 for the Tim Hortons Brier, it was announced today by Curling Canada.
Max Kirkpatrick and his team from Swift Current, Sask., kicked off the 2015 World Mixed Curling Championship with a 6-4 win over Finland on Saturday morning, the first day of competition in Berne, Switzerland.
Brendan Bottcher has always loved a challenge — be it in school, in his career or on a sheet of curling ice.
So, when the 24-year-old former world junior men’s curling champ was discussing some of the pros and cons of the Canadian Team Ranking System (CTRS), and the Order of Merit — both crucial measuring sticks for high-performance curling teams in Canada — with his coach Rob Krepps, Bottcher realized rather quickly that instead of simply talking about the problem, he should play a role in contributing some potential solutions.
Ten deserving young curlers from across the country have been named winners of the 2015 Curling Canada Foundation Scholarships, it was announced today by Curling Canada.
The sliders have barely cooled from the Stu Sells Tankard in Oakville, Ont., and already another event is underway.
The first world title of the 2015-16 season will be up for grabs in Berne, Switzerland, when the inaugural World Mixed Curling Championship gets underway on Saturday.
Curling Canada’s loss is now the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s gain, it was announced today.
It’s 30 degrees, and sunny… it must be curling season.
As top teams from around the world land in Toronto for the World Curling Tour Stu Sells Oakville Tankard, they might be wishing they’d brought their golf clubs instead of curling brooms. This week in the GTA has seen the highest temperatures of the summer, which makes it hard to believe the curling season is about to kick off.
Fitting its team name, a world-class lineup will comprise Team World for the 2016 World Financial Group Continental Cup, presented by Boyd Gaming, next January in Las Vegas.
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