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Curling
McEwen improves to 4-0 at The Players’ Championship; Homan suffers first loss
TORONTO – Mike McEwen downed Sweden’s Niklas Edin 5-1 Thursday night to remain unbeaten at The Players’ Championship at the Mattamy Athletic Centre.
Koe, McEwen, Homan, Middaugh win first games at Players’ Championship
TORONTO – Calgary’s Kevin Koe began the Players’ Championship on Tuesday with an emphatic 8-2 win over St. John’s Brad Gushue in six ends.
Olympic curling champ Jones and Laing make long distance relationship work
TORONTO – Jennifer Jones and Brent Laing will be in the same city this weekend, curling under the same roof.
Canada’s Simmons defeats Finland’s Kauste to win world men’s curling bronze
HALIFAX – Canada’s Pat Simmons defeated Finland’s Aku Kauste 8-4 on Sunday to win bronze at the world men’s curling championship at Scotiabank Centre.
Canada’s Simmons loses to Sweden’s Edin in semifinal at men’s curling worlds
HALIFAX – Canada’s Pat Simmons was hoping to have a chance to win his first world men’s curling title in his home country.
Norway’s Ulsrud beats Canada’s Simmons in Page 1-2 game at men’s curling worlds
HALIFAX – Canada will have to take the long road to get to the gold-medal game at the world men’s curling championship.
Bite your tongue! Mic’ed up curlers have to keep their language in check
HALIFAX – Live television. Mic’ed up curlers. High-intensity games.
Canada warms up for playoffs with pair of wins at world men’s curling playdowns
HALIFAX – Canada’s Pat Simmons warmed up for the playoffs Thursday by earning a pair of round-robin victories at the world men’s curling championship.
Canada’s Simmons wins twice to lock up spot in Page playoff 1-2 game
HALIFAX – Canada’s Pat Simmons rebounded from his first loss at the Ford world men’s curling championship by winning a pair of games Wednesday, locking up a spot in the Page playoff 1-2 game in the process.
First Loss: Simmons falls to Norway for first defeat at men’s curling worlds
HALIFAX – Norway’s Thomas Ulsrud upped the fashion ante Tuesday night.
Father Knows Best: Coach Earle Morris helps Canadian team at curling worlds
HALIFAX – The red and white Canadian colours have become a familiar look for curling coach Earle Morris.
Canada crushes Czechs and tops Russians to stay unbeaten at men’s curling worlds
HALIFAX – With three days of round-robin competition complete, the Canadian side skipped by Pat Simmons is showing it’s the team to beat at the Ford world men’s curling championship.
Canada beats China and Sweden to move to 3-0 at world men’s curling championship
HALIFAX – Pat Simmons has been in fine form since replacing John Morris as skip earlier this month.
Canada’s Simmons beats American Shuster 11-10 in opener at men’s curling worlds
HALIFAX – Pat Simmons is making a habit of hitting clutch draws to the button for dramatic victories.
Simmons and Canadian teammates hope to return to podium at world championship
HALIFAX – A year ago the Canadian men’s curling team was in disarray on the eve of the world championship in Beijing.
Filing: Detroit girl says mother killed her siblings, made her put sister’s body in freezer
DETROIT – A teenager told authorities that her mother killed two siblings and forced her to put one of the bodies in the freezer of their Detroit home where both were found by an eviction crew.
Simmons looking for gold on home ice at men’s world curling championship
John Morris, Carter Rycroft and Nolan Thiessen are all former world men’s curling champions.
IOC panel visits Beijing’s 2022 bid sites as China fires back at human rights critics
BEIJING, China – IOC evaluators began a five-day inspection tour of Beijing’s bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics on Tuesday as Chinese organizers fired back at critics of the government’s human rights record.
Winnipeg’s McEwen beats Sweden’s Edin to win inaugural Syncrude Elite 10 event
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. – Winnipeg’s Mike McEwen swept past Sweden’s Niklas Edin to become the first-ever champion of the Syncrude Elite 10 on Sunday, the newest event in the Grand Slam of Curling.
Jones unable to end Canada’s gold-medal drought in women’s world curling final
SAPPORO, Japan – Jennifer Jones kept Canada’s medal streak alive at the women’s world curling championship, but she wasn’t able to end the country’s gold-medal drought.
Canada’s Jennifer Jones rink Russia 7-4 to move on to gold medal game
SAPPORO, Japan – Canada will play Switzerland for the gold medal at the world women’s curling championship.
Russia beats Scotland 7-2 to reach semifinals at world curling playdowns
SAPPORO, Japan – Russia’s Anna Sidorova defeated Scotland’s Eve Muirhead 7-2 in the Page playoff 3-4 game on Friday to reach the semifinal at the world women’s curling championship.
Canada advances to 1-2 Page playoff at women’s worlds after win over Germany
SAPPORO, Japan – Canada closed out round-robin play at the world women’s curling championship on Thursday with an 8-5 win over Japan in a tuneup for the Page playoff 1-2 game.
Morris in his wheelhouse as Canada’s third for world curling championship
CALGARY – John Morris says he’s comfortable Canada will be attached to Pat Simmons’ name and not his at the upcoming men’s world curling championships.