"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." One of the very first sports to be showcased at Beijing's 2022 Winter Olympics, curling may seem more ...

Interest in curling — that curious sport in which players chase a huge stone puck with brooms on ice — has surged worldwide over the past few decades thanks to appearances in the Winter Olympics. But ...

Sweeping can be such a drag in the desert. But if you’re on a sheet of ice in a frosty, air-conditioned rink, sweeping is a blast. “When someone over-sweeps, I jokingly tell them I’ve got plenty of ...

Broomgate 2.0 has finally been swept aside. After months of controversy, World Curling has made a decision to entirely ban firmer broom foams that many players said gave sweepers too much control of ...

To the eye-rolling chagrin of many observers, the world of curling high-performance is once again embroiled in an equipment schmozzle. First, there was Broomgate. Now? Might as well call it Foamgate.

"Broomgate." Yes, that's really what some people are calling it. OK, it may not quite rise to the level of a "-gate" scandal, but it is bringing about some big changes in the sport of curling. But ...

SYDNEY (AP) — In a sunburned country, with no ice to call their own, Australian curlers Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt were left to practice their sport’s legendary sweeping in the most ironic of places: ...

Bemidji, Minn. - It's 11 a.m., and a compact car and a beer truck are the only vehicles outside the Bemidji Curling Club. That'll change before long, as members of Thursday's businessmen's curling ...

The club provides all the equipment necessary for beginners, so there is no barrier for entry, and all lessons are designed ...

Has curling taken over your workplace TVs? It has ours. "We're going to watch curling all day because the market's not open," declared The Oregonian's personal finance columnist Julie Tripp as she ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- The sport of curling has found an unlikely home in East Oakland. Known much more as Midwest sport, it's starting to pick up in popularity on the West Coast. With the "clank" ...