curling

Hot on the heels of the Scotties last week in Calgary, comes the Montana’s Brier. The national men’s curling championship will be getting underway Friday at Brandt Centre. One of the big storylines is returning champion Brad Gushue, who is looking to be only the second team to win three straight championships. The only one […]

Thanks Curl Canada – we have a Saskatchewan Day, Sunday March 3 at the Brandt Centre. It is the beginning of the Montana’s BBQ & Bar Brier Friday at the Brandt Centre. An evening draw gets you in the mood, then a pop over to the Viterra International Trade Centre for the Reklaws as they […]

Wadena product Jenna Pomedli is a Provincial Curling Champion.  Pomedli and her rink that curls now out of the Saskatoon Nutana curling club captured the Curl Sask U20 Provincial Championship in North Battleford, with a 7-4 victory over Saskatoon’s Ava Beausoleil in the Final.  The rink which also features local product Verne Anderson as Coach […]

Rachel Homan has won the Canadian women’s curling championship with a dramatic 5-4 win over Jennifer Jones. Homan and teammates Emma Miskew claimed the fourth Scotties Tournament of Hearts victories of their careers, but first since 2017. Jones, needing to draw to the button on her final rock, came up just short, allowing Homan to […]

Rachel Homan booked an express ticket to the Canadian women’s curling championship final with an extra-end 5-4 win over Jennifer Jones in an intense playoff game Saturday night. Jones needs a win over fellow-Manitoban Kate Cameron in Sunday afternoon’s semifinal to earn an evening rematch with Homan for the Scotties Tournament of Hearts title in […]

A day after eliminating a heavyweight from contention, Kate Cameron continued her climb into Canadian women’s elite curling by reaching the national championship’s semifinal. Cameron’s team out of Winnipeg’s Granite Curling Club downed Alberta’s Selena Sturmay 6-4 in a playoff game Saturday to get to Sunday’s semifinal in Calgary. After halting Kerri Einarson’s run of […]

The road to another Canadian women’s curling championship for Rachel Homan and Jennifer Jones shortened with playoff wins while Kerri Einarson’s bid for five straight titles came to an end Friday. Homan and Jones, with a combined nine Scotties Tournament of Hearts crowns between them, will clash in Saturday’s playoff game between the top two […]

Krysten Karwacki is in a spotlight not of her own making at the Canadian women’s curling championship. Kerri Einarson’s alternate, or fifth, has played every end for four-time champion Einarson at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Calgary. Regular lead Briane Harris was declared ineligible just hours before the team’s opening draw on Feb. 16 […]

Thirty-four years have passed since the last time an all-rookie team won the Canadian women’s curling championship. So 22-year-old Skylar Ackerman and her unbeaten team of Saskatchewan first-timers might be due. In front of plenty of boisterous green-clad friends, families and supporters at Calgary’s WinSport Event Centre on Sunday afternoon, the young team from Saskatoon’s Nutana Curling […]

A Manitoba curling proverb is “the buffalo feels heavy.” Expectations are high for curlers from that province on the national and international stage. But what about representing another avid curling province that hasn’t won a Brier in over 40 years? Mike McEwen has played in seven Canadian men’s curling championships for Manitoba. He’s about to […]