Curling Canada Championships

ESTEVAN, Sask. – Brad Jacobs has an impressive resume – Olympic gold medal, Tim Hortons Brier gold medal, men’s world championship silver medal – and now he can add the Home Hardware Canada Cup. The Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., skip and his mate shepherded a deuce in the first end ... read more

ESTEVAN, Sask. – Jennifer Jones showed once again on Sunday why she’s been one of the premiere female curlers in the world for years. The 44-year-old Winnipeg skip calmly executed a long runback double takeout to score three in the ninth end to beat Kerri Einarson’s Gimli, Man., team 8-5 ... read more

ESTEVAN, Sask. – Veteran Jennifer Jones rode a three-ender in the fourth to an 8-4 victory over Rachel Homan of Ottawa in the women’s semifinal at the Home Hardware Canada Cup on Saturday evening at Affinity Place. Jones and her teammates from Winnipeg will play Kerri Einarson of Gimili, Man., ... read more

ESTEVAN, Sask. – It will be Kevin Koe of Calgary versus Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., in Sunday’s men’s final at the 2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup after Koe rallied for a 7-5 win over Brad Gushue of St. John’s, N.L., in Saturday’s semifinal. Two uncharacteristic misses by ... read more

ESTEVAN, Sask. — It has been a magical and, yes, surprising start to the 2018-19 curling season for Kerri Einarson’s new team. And while the concept of four skips combining to form one team may buck conventional wisdom, the evidence presented to date by Einarson and her team based in ... read more

ESTEVAN, Sask. – Brad Gushue is in while Kevin Koe and Brendan Bottcher will play a tiebreaker Saturday morning to determine the last playoff team after the final round-robin men’s draw at the Home Hardware Canada Cup at Affinity Place in Estevan, Sask. Gushue (St. John’s, N.L.) scored a crucial ... read more

ESTEVAN, Sask. – In the end it was typical Brad Jacobs: make the big shot on final stone for a come-from-behind victory. And in this case one that clinched first place in the round-robin and moved his Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., team right into Sunday’s final of the 2018 Home ... read more

ESTEVAN, Sask. — On the surface, it was another round-robin game at the 2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup between two of the top men’s teams in Canada. But if you wanted, you could peel back a layer or two and look at Friday morning’s clash between Edmonton’s Brendan Bottcher and ... read more

ESTEVAN, Sask. – Jennifer Jones and Rachel Homan have had some epic battles since Homan’s Ottawa-based team emerged as heir apparent to the powerful Winnipeg crew. Thursday night at the Home Hardware Canada Cup was not one of those. The Jones team, the defending Home Hardware Canada Cup champs, scored ... read more

ESTEVAN, Sask. — Thursday was not a great day for John Epping and his Toronto teammates at the 2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup. The foursome went into the day tied for top spot at 2-0 but emerged severely bruised at 2-2. The No. 2-ranked team on the Canadian Team Ranking ... read more

ESTEVAN, Sask. — It was a shot that would test any elite team — never mind one that featured a vice-skip playing just his third game with his new team. It demanded precision weight from the thrower (skip Brad Jacobs), precision weight judgment by the sweepers (second E.J. Harnden and ... read more

ESTEVAN, Sask. – Just when it looked like they were in deep trouble, Kerri Einarson and her Winnipeg team dug themselves out of a hole by rallying from a 5-2 fourth-end deficit to beat Allison Flaxey of Winnipeg 7-6 in the third draw of the 2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup. ... read more

ESTEVAN, Sask. — Brad Jacobs executed two nearly perfect draws in the fifth and seventh ends to break open a tight battle between two Olympic gold medal winners and take an 8-4 win over Brad Gushue in the second draw of the Home Hardware Canada Cup Wednesday. The win moved ... read more

ESTEVAN, Sask. — Alli Flaxey’s team was the last women’s entry into the 2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup, but it didn’t take long for the Winnipeg squad to pick up its first victory. Playing in the opening draw Wednesday morning at Affinity Place, Team Flaxey scored deuces in the third ... read more

Canada’s best collection of curling talent will be under one roof when the 2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup gets underway Wednesday at Affinity Place in Estevan, Sask. Eight women’s and seven men’s teams will take to the ice in Estevan, chasing not only their shares of the $140,000 purse, but ... read more