Sherry Anderson and her Saskatchewan rink will go into Day 2 of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Calgary with a record of 1-1, but she knows she should go in sitting at 2-0. In her opening game Saturday morning, Anderson had a 5-2 lead over Prince Edward Island’s Suzanne Birt, but Birt fought back […]
Uncertainty will be a prevalent theme at the Canadian women’s curling championship. The 2021 edition of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, which starts Friday in Calgary, will be a one-of-a-kind playdown that kicks off a run of six straight bonspiels at the Markin MacPhail Centre. Most of the top Canadian teams are in the field […]
The province announced 183 new COVID cases on Tuesday. Curling icon Sherry Anderson empathizes with all of those people. In a conversation on Tuesday’s Sports Cage, the 7-time Saskatchewan Scotties champion revealed she contracted COVID-19 in November. “I’ve done my quarantine and I was sick for a few days and I seem to be recovered. […]
Team Matt Dunstone is considering relocating from Saskatchewan due to mounting frustrations stemming from provincial COVID-19 restrictions. After being advised this month that they couldn’t compete outside the province due to the pandemic, teams were dealt another blow Thursday night when they were told a provincial men’s tour event scheduled for this weekend in Regina […]
Braeden Moskowy has a new roommate in skip Matt Dunstone thanks to provincial rules that have limited the Saskatchewan curling team’s options this season. Dunstone, who normally lives in Kamloops, B.C., arrived in Regina this week to begin preparations for a campaign loaded with question marks. Saskatchewan Health Authority guidelines say that interprovincial travel is […]
Saskatchewan’s curling community is in shock. Glen Despins, who won the provincial senior men’s title as a skip in 2015, and represented Saskatchewan twice at the Brier as a third on Rod Montgomery’s rinks in the late 90’s was one of two men killed last week in a traffic accident near Osler on Highway 11. […]
The first-ever “Saskatchewan Men’s Super Series” is coming to Regina’s Highland Curling Club starting October 16. The five-team, round-robin event, presented by Vaderstad and Calidon Leasing, will feature defending men’s provincial champ Matt Dunstone and rinks skipped by Colton Flasch, Rylan Kleiter, Kody Hartung and Shawn Meachem. Dunstone helped organize the event and says like […]
The 2020 Canada Cup curling competition has been postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Canada Cup was originally scheduled for Nov. 24-29 in Fredericton. Curling Canada said in a statement Tuesday that it would attempt to reschedule the Canada Cup in the new year, as results at the tournament could help determine teams […]
Sportsnet is trimming its six-stop Grand Slam of Curling circuit to just two events next season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The network, which owns and operates the top-flight curling series, said Wednesday that three Canadian stops will not be held this fall as scheduled. The circuit’s American debut in January was also scrubbed. Instead […]
Curling Canada’s return-to-play guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic include changes to sweeping rules, on-ice player positioning and pre-game handshakes for players planning to participate in the 2020-21 season. The 29-page document, which appears on the federation’s website, covers topics including game play, building cleanliness, food and beverage plans, customer awareness, financial planning, insurance and national […]
