Month: January 2017

From the Hack interviewed Kristen Streifel who skipped her team of Chantele Broderson, Kate Goodhelpsen and Brenna Bilassy to the Canadian Junior Championships this weekend in Victoria.  Kristen discusses the championship final, who she thought about first when she realized her

From the Hack interviewed 1998 Olympic gold medalist, three-time World Champions and Sportsnet curling analyst Joan McCusker to discuss the Jiffy Lube Alberta Scotties that she covered for Sportsnet and also to discuss how this year’s Scotties Tournament of Hearts

WEEK 24 RESULTS Canadian Junior Championships At the start of the week, much of the talk at the Canadian Junior Championships centered around the many players participating at this year’s event who come from strong curling bloodlines.  Once the players

The United States Junior Curling Championships concluded on the weekend in Fargo, North Dakota.  In the men’s event, Team Stopera met Team Connolly in the final where Team Connolly took a 3-2 lead when they scored two points in the

Kelsey Rocque, the skip of the 8th ranked team in the world, has taken a brief hiatus from the World Curling Tour to represent Canada at the Winter Universade in Almaty, Kazakhstan.  She earned the right to represent Canada along

From the Hack did a brief interview with Anna Sloan of Team Muirhead following her team’s victory at the Glynhill Ladies International this past weekend.  It has been a difficult twelve months for Sloan who underwent knee surgery that forced

German Masters It was a difficult week for many of the top-ranked teams at the German Masters in Hamburg with Team Ulsrud (NOR), Team Bottcher (CAN), Team Murdoch (SCO) and Team Brewster (SCO) all failing to advance past tie-breakers.  Team

From the Hack recently caught up with freelance writer and sportscaster Don Landry who has covered curling for a number of years and is one of the sport’s most trusted media voices.  He will also be part of Sportsnet’s coverage

This month, our “Curling World” feature takes us to New Zealand for a conversation with Sean Becker who has represented New Zealand internationally for the better part of twenty years including; 4 Pacific-Asia Championships, a 5th place finish at the

WEEK 22 RECAP WFG Continental Cup of Curling Some of the world’s top curling teams made their way to Las Vegas this week for the 13th Continental Cup of Curling with Team North America looking to win over Team World