Raise your hand if you have zero clue what curling is all about. (We’re with you.) To help straighten things out, we gleaned the basics from Ian Alexander, vice president of the Philadelphia Curling ...

Team USA is headed to a men's Olympic curling final for the first time. Skip John Shuster and teammates Tyler George, Matt Hamilton and John Landsteiner will take on Sweden on Feb. 24 for the historic ...

(From our Gazette archives during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.) How many times do you throw stones down the ice in a game? Each game, or match, in national or international competition consists of ...

Curling: It's that one Olympic sport we all hear about, but likely don't know much about it. A bunch of people sweeping the ice — how hard could it be? Well, with the Winter Olympics on our minds, ...

MARIETTA, Ga -- The 2018 Winter Olympic Games has sparked an interest in some sports here in metro Atlanta, and that includes the intriguing competition known as curling. 11Alive's Jerry Carnes joined ...

Most brooms have synthetic bristles. Straw brooms were used in the past, but leave remnants of straw on the ice and thus are not commonly used in Olympic-level competition. Special curling shoes are ...

At the 2025 Women’s World Championships, Rachel Homan led the Canadians to their second consecutive world title, establishing themselves as gold-medal favorites in Cortina. Homan, a mom of three, has ...

In the above video, Matt Hamilton, a Team USA curler from Wisconsin, breaks down curling using Legos (Courtesy: NBC Sports). AUSTIN (KXAN) — It’s become a highly watched event, and it’s one Americans ...

Matt Moore, left, and George Thomsen sweep the ice in front of a granite curling stone during a demonstration, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, at the EWU Recreation Center in Cheney, Wash. Matt Moore, of ...

(From our Gazette archives during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.) Yet another great question, this time from Corinna, via Facebook. “I heard someone say you have to throw the rock 150 feet to the ...

Team McCormick and team Shuster compete along with other curling teams during the U.S. Olympic Curling Team Trials in 2017. Check out a little curling 101 before you head out to the U.S. team trials ...