Curling News

The curling season is upon us! This year the New Caledonian Curling Club is celebrating its 160th anniversary and is offering a fantastic deal to new members - only $99 to curl for the entire season.

Nova Scotia's Mark Dacey remained in the hunt for first place in the round-robin with an 8-7 win over Ontario's Mark Bice at the Canadian mixed curling championship Thursday evening.

Lee Westwood continued to hold Rory McIlroy at bay early in the third round of the Dubai World Championship on Saturday - thanks to some more brilliant putting.

Gilles-Andre Gosselin, a key player in the federal sponsorship scandal, pleaded guilty Friday to several fraud charges.

A body believed to be that of a Brazilian prostitute involved in a scandal that brought down the governor of the Rome area was found in an apartment fire Friday in the Italian capital, police said.

A famous Lebanese pop singer, who normally stirs controversy for her seductive dresses and provocative dancing, has now been accused of singing a song with racist lyrics that compares black Egyptians to monkeys.

MIDLAND a ' What keeps me pumped about the sports world after all these years is the raw emotion on display.

Ontario's Mark Bice routed New Brunswick's Mary Jane McGuire 7-2 to run his record to 8-1 Wednesday at the Canadian mixed curling championship.

Take at look at the person next to you and chances are, at some point in their life, he or she has given time in a volunteer activity.

It's a pretty cool Scottish word for tournament and used in the sport of curling.

NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. - Eight Sitrin STARS athletes will participate in the third annual U.S. Open International Wheelchair Curling Bonspiel to be held November 20 a " 22, at the Utica Curling Club, located on Clark Mills Road in Whitesboro.

Britney Spears' Twitter and MySpace accounts have apparently been hacked. Messages on her Twitter profile Thursday - purported to be from the 27-year-old pop star - claimed she worshipped the devil.

Model-turned-actress Sofia Vergara provoked outrage on a U.S. TV talk show on Wednesday when she joked about being raped.

Quebec's auditor general lambasted the province's handling of the construction industry Wednesday, fuelling a scandal that has already prompted numerous demands for a public inquiry.

POSTED: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 UPDATED: 8:24 am CST November 18, 2009 ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images Actress Maria Nafpliotou , in the role of an ancient Greek high priestess, passes the Olympic Flame during the official lighting ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics in ancient Olympia on Oct.

In this film publicity image released by Warner Bros., Quint Aaron and Sandra Bullock, left, are shown in a scene from, "The Blind Side." The redemption-minded sports flick "The Blind Side" serves its inspiration straight-up with no twist.

They may be ads we don't get tired of seeing. Now that curling is rampant on television the same Season of Champions ads repeat ad nauseam.

Debbie McCormick and her brother grew up pushing each other across the ice on curling stones long before they learned the stones' significance in the game their father played at the Madison Curling Club.

A member of the U.S. Olympic curling team is hoping a dose of reality TV will cure a financial shortfall preventing his family from attending the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.

Mark Bice's Ontario rink took sole possession of first place with a 7-4 win over Prince Edward Island's Kyle Stevenson on Monday in Draw 7 action at the Canadian mixed curling championship.