Alberta’s Kevin Martin and Manitoba’s Jeff Stoughton, who combined to win three of the past four Canadian men’s curling championships, were eliminated in their provincial playdowns on the weekend. Their absence opens up the field for the Canadian men’s...

Kevin Martin and Jeff Stoughton, who have combined to win three of the past four Canadian men’s curling championships, were eliminated in their provincial playdowns this weekend. That opens up the field for the 2012 national bonspiel, which begins...

Tim Hortons Brier. “We're not going there just to make the playoffs, or to finish in second or third place,” said Brad Jacobs, whose team defeated Sudbury's Mike Jakubo 9-2 Saturday night at Soo Curlers Association.”Our goal is to win the Brier. That's...

Perhaps it’s a measure of how far Brock Virtue has come as a curler and as a skip that the pumping of his tires earlier this week by the likes of Kevin Martin, Randy Ferbey and Kevin Koe barely registers with him. Understand, the Lethbridge native,...

This alone is evidence of being qualified for a white jacket with wrap-around sleeves and a room with padded walls. Simmons decided to throw third rocks for the Kevin Koe team which won the Brier and world championship out of the Edmonton Saville...

Michael Burns/The Canadian Press STRATFORD, ONT.—Six-time defending champion Glenn Howard won his first two matches Monday to take an early share of the lead at the Dominion Tankard Ontario men’s curling championship. Howard’s rink from Coldwater,...