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 ...

If you’re anything like me, Olympic curling is a curious obsession that peeks out from behind the TV every four years bearing a playful smirk the likes of which no one can resist. It calls to us ...

A curling team is made up of four players. The player that shoots first is known as the lead, the player who goes next is the second, the next player is the third and the final player to shoot is the ...

Men's and women's curling is played in a match consisting of ten ends, similar to an inning of baseball. In each end of curling, teams deliver eight stones, two per person on a four-person team. In ...

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, ...

A curling team is made up of five players. The player that shoots first is known as the lead. The skip of the team is considered the leader of the team and directs the play of others. He is ...