Tag: Curling
SPORTS BRIEFS: Bartley makes statement in GBMCL action
BARTLEY MAKES STATEMENT Don Bartley’s rink made a statement in Week 2 action of the BrokerLink Insurance Grey Bruce Major Curling League with an 8-1 victory over Al Hutchinson and company. Meanwhile, Louis Gregg topped Scott Davidson 8-6 and the Ainsdale Golf Course rink skipped by Pete Newton edged Denomy TV & Appliances (Brett McAllister) […]
SPORTS NOTES: mixed doubles curling; Garrett Peters up for top coach
The fifth annual mixed doubles curling spiel will feature an expanded field of 32 teams, including international entries from the United States and China, starting Friday in Ilderton and St. Marys. The round-robin schedule continues through Saturday at both curling clubs with the Sunday playoffs held at Ilderton. Prize money and points for the Canadian […]
SPORTS BRIEFS: Nissen of the North Stars heading to Canisius
NORTH STAR COMMITS TO CANISIUS Owen Sound’s Laine Nissen has verbally committed to play NCAA Div. 1 lacrosse with the Canisius College Griffins beginning in 2025. Nissen’s lacrosse career began with the under-11 North Stars. Since then she’s progressed through the ranks, competing this year with Owen Sound’s JEWL team and winning a silver medal […]
SPORTS BRIEFS: Curling league seeks teams
COMPETITIVE CURLING LEAGUE SEEKS TEAMS The BrokerLink Insurance Grey Bruce Major Curling League is still accepting teams for the 2023-24 curling season. The league will play a round-robin schedule on Wednesday nights at various curling clubs in Grey-Bruce from November to January with playoffs to follow in February. The BrokerLink Insurance Grey Bruce Major Curling […]
Sports Notes: London Lightning; Junior B playoffs; wrestling golds; Fanshawe soccer
The London Lightning finally return home for a first-place battle.
PHOTOS: Gushue wins 2023 Brier final at Budweiser Gardens
Team Canada skip Brad Gushue earned a record fifth Canadian men’s curling title at his position at the 2023 Tim Hortons Brier final at Budweiser Gardens Sunday evening.
Slow start, strong finish: Brad Gushue wins record fifth Brier as skip
Brad Gushue is the undisputed king of the Tim Hortons Brier. The Team Canada skip earned a record fifth Canadian men’s curling title at his position – all in the past seven years – with a 7-5 victory over Matt Dunstone’s powerful Manitoba rink in the title game before 6,562 Sunday night at Budweiser Gardens. […]
Manitoba’s Buffalo charges to great heights again at a London Brier
If you support Manitoba curling, you want the Brier men’s national championship tournament to return to London again as soon as possible. The last two times it has been held at the downtown arena now called Budweiser Gardens, the Buffalo Boys have reached the final. Matt Dunstone’s rink was trying to beat Brad Gushue’s Team […]
Brad Gushue’s fifth Brier title as skip would stand him alone in curling history
SKIP SUPREME (Team Canada’s Brad Gushue tried to win his historic fifth Tim Hortons Brier title as a skip Sunday at Budweiser Gardens. Here’s the list of other skips who stand at four). Kevin Koe: 2019 (Brandon), 2016 (Ottawa), 2014 (Kamloops), 2010 (Halifax). Lost final in 2022 (Lethbridge), 2012 (Saskatoon). Kevin Martin: 2009 (Calgary), 2008 […]
Fitting Brier final pits Brad Gushue against Matt Dunstone
Fifteen years ago, Brad Gushue was the same age his Brier final opponent, Manitoba’s Matt Dunstone, is right now. He already had an Olympic gold medal under his belt from the previous year but he had not yet won his first Canadian men’s curling championship as a skip. In 2007, he lost the Brier final […]