We must admit, we were having fun with this headline."How about: Martin traded to Storm... for Goldline brush and and bag of Chee-tos?"You know, that sort of thing.But on to the story.In advance of his appearance at The National in January, the second Capital One Grand Slam of Curling event of the s

As our Twitter followers know, today is the last day to enter the Uncle Bens Curling Getaway contest.The Team Kevin Martin sponsor is offering two western Canadians a chance to win a trip to the Roar of Rings, the Tim Hortons Canadian (Olympic) Curling Trials, on the championship weekend.Click here

Curling sponsor Tim Hortons  introduced a curling contest back in early October, part of their “Every Cup Tells a Story” campaign.Websurfers were invited to tell their own curling story (involving Tim Hortons, of course)  and the public gets to vote, online, for the best tale. The winning

What’s in the news today?• TCN publisher George Karrys suggests in the Toronto Sun that Wayne Middaugh (CCA photo by Michael Burns), fresh off his qualifying run in Prince George, might want to grab some of that “piss and vinegar” that young Jason Gunnlaugson has been talking about. Is the “black ha

From the last post, to the big reveal.2006 Olympic champion Mike Adam, alternate for Brad Gushue’s victorious foursome and the young man who committed one of “the most selfless acts in sport history” became the first Canadian high-performance curler to carry the Vancouver 2010 torch... and the firs

It was announced today that the 2011 Scotties Tournament of Hearts would return to PEI for the third time in the event's history. "It is a privilege to announce that we are returning to Charlottetown," said Greg Stremlaw, Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Curling Association. "This community ha

Kris Laudien previews this weekend's Asham World Curling Tour events and re-caps the final standings at the 2010 Canadian Mixed Championship.

Nova Scotia, skipped by Mark Dacey, inched a game closer to collaring top spot at the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship by edging Ontario, 8-7, in an extra end during Draw 16. The outcome left the host province, skipped by former two-time provincial junior champion Mark Bice, with a completed 9-

China won Gold, Japan took Silver and Korea won the Bronze in both the men’s and women’s competitions at the Pacific Curling Championships 2009. In the women’s final Team China skipped by reigning women’s world champion Bingyu Wang beat Team Japan's Moe Meguro 10-3. Bot

Kris Laudien reports on the latest standings from the 2010 Canadian Mixed. Also, World Financial Group is sponsoring a couple more curling events and the Pacific Curling Championships have crowned their winners.

Amy Nixon is in Mississauga, Ont., this weekend, wondering if her time might be better spent in Winnipeg.The vice-skip for Shannon Kleibrink’s Calgary curling team is, along with her teammates, taking part on the Three Nations Cup tournament being held in conjunction with the Capital One Grand

There's been an outpouring of sympathy in the curling world to the Miller family after the recent death due to a brain tumour of Linda Miller. Her daughters, Stefanie Lawton and Marliese Kasner, are two of the top female curlers on the planet, and they continued to be so as the mom fought bravel

OK, it takes a lot for a Youtube video to make me laugh out loud. But this one, pointed out to me by curlingzone.com’s Gerry Geurts, truly did. I have no idea who produced it, except that apparently they’re from the Guelph, Ont., area.But anybody who read this blog nearly two years ago,

Let’s face facts, Kelly Scott’s options were fairly limited when it came to replacing Renee Simon at lead on her Kelowna women’s curling team.Most of the top players in the country were already in either the Olympic Trials or the pre-Trials, leaving a fairly thin talent pool.But yo

Based on reports out of the U.K., it looks like Eve Muirhead, the three-time reigning world junior women's champ from Scotland, will handle skipping duties for the newly named Great Britain team at next February's Winter Olympics in Vancouver.Interesting choice; I thought Muirhead, who's

Unless you were running to the fridge to replace your brew or stocking up on more chips, you probably saw the new CCA television ads during the weekend’s broadcast of the pre-Trials-roaring-road thingy. I thought they were excellent and very catchy, something that’s been needed for a long, long time

The numbers for last weekend’s Road to the Roar were solid once again, drawing substantial numbers for TSN. Saturday afternoon’s match drew an audience of 455,000 while the evening game, going head to head with Hockey Night in Canada, had 378,000. I can only imagine what the numbers will be for the

Last weekend I went into my first bonspiel in some time. As I may have mentioned, I’ve been away from regularly playing the game until this year due to injuries and a hockey-playing son who required a chauffeur. So our squad headed over to the Granite Club for the 53rd annual men’s invitational. Tha

Before some comments on the pre-trials, here are two stories I wrote that appeared in Saturday’s Globe. My regular column featured Jennifer Jones, who passed through Toronto making an appearance for Scotties. She’s always a delight to talk to and I really respect her drive, her commitment and the wa

Two days down and lots of great possibilities at the Road to Roar. Top seeds were getting dusted – but that’s no surprise as the seeding was way off to begin with based on recent performance. We also had the first two teams eliminated – Heather Rankin and Michelle Englot. A couple of men’s squads wi

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The pre-trials are over and here's a list of the 16 men's and women's team taking part in the main trials in Edmonton. Congratulations to Amber Holland and Pat Simmons for emerging from the pre-trials. I have a story in Monday's paper on their thoughts on keeping the Olympic dream al

It must be here or I wouldn't b e upating this blog. Here's the media release and everything else you need to know about the Sandra Schmirler Curling Classic. Enjoy but in moderation. We don't want to get going too hard too early, there is still golf left. I hope. Schmirler Charity Curli

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A three-year run of the CTRS comes to an end this week with the Players Championship. Good and about time. I've avoided writing anything about Curling's Totally Rank System because it was too confusing to explain to non-curlers. But it has sorted itself out nicely and this media release does

The latest on the WCT Players' championship next month. Kevin Martin and Glenn Howard Lead Canada’s Top 16 Men’s Teams at Grey Power Players’ Championship Season-ending Capital One Grand Slam of Curling event the final opportunity for teams to secure a berth into the Cana

The skip of the young team that got the last spot at the Pre-Trials in Prince George and turned it into a spot at the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings joined us for a conversation about their successful week and what lies ahead. This is Jason’s second time on the podcast and, as you [...]

The second on one of the four women’s teams that has already qualified for the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings talked to us during a week when 12 other teams were trying to get to Edmonton by qualifying in Prince George. Sherri discussed her team’s recent win in Saskatoon, playing in the T

A few days after Team Howard finished on top at the first Capital One Grand Slam of the season, we talked to Third Richard Hart about the event, the season so far and the impossibility of throwing the rock like Glenn Howard. Subscribe to this podcast by clicking on the iTunes feed or use the [...]

It’s interesting to see the influence of second Brent Laing when it comes to strategic decisions on Team Howard. Whenever Rich and Glenn are mulling over a complicated situation, Laing is the one who weighs in and, typically, his opinion carries the day. After giving up a steal in the second

Down 5-1 without the hammer, the Swedes threw up two corner guards. Edin is now freezing to second shot with four Koe counters in the rings. There’s a reason people with the hammer like corner guards. Koe scores an easy deuce. On the other sheets that aren’t on television, Team Howard

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer. Before you know it curling will be upon us again. Until then look back again and marvel at this shot that Glenn Howard made at this past year’s Brier. I think it’s still the best shot I’ve ever seen, what do you think?

Due to popular demand we have added some new local city curling club listings to CurlingRink.ca. We’re hoping to make it easier for to find the best local club in your area. We’ll be adding listings for all the major centres across Canada over the next while, but here is our first set

Monday night competitive league results:Joel Roy over Fred Elhatton Emile Babineau defeated Pat MaharChris Fisher over Terry WilburAlvin Lavigne defeated John Ferguson and,Terry MacDonald got by Robert Nicolle.

Hello and welcome to your new Curling season.Wobble days are free days so join us and bring a friend or even a truckload of friends and well help you teach them the game. Your friends will need clean shoes (sneakers), loose fitting warm clothing, a pair of gloves and we supply everything else incl