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This week, 2014 Canadian mixed doubles champ Wayne Tuck and 2018 Canadian mixed doubles champ Kirk Muyres join us to discuss the current state of mixed doubles.
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On this week’s episode we take a look back at the 2022 European Championships with winning skips Madeleine Dupont of Denmark and Bruce Mouat of Scotland. We also chat with Greg Baldson who led his team to a title at the 2022 Everest Canadian Curling Club Championship.
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This week we bring you a mini-episode with 2022 Canadian Mixed champs Laurie St. Georges and Félix Asselin.
On this week’s episode of the From the Hack podcast we recap the first-ever Pan-Continental Championships held last week in Caglary. Our firs guest is Jessica Smith whose team earned New Zealand’s first ever invite to the World Women’s Championship
On this episode we take a deep dive into two major issues that are currently the focus of the entire U.S. curling community.
This week we present an abbreviated episode that includes short interviews conducted at the first Grand Slam of Curling event of the 2022-23 season. Our guests – Niklas Edin, Jamie sinclair, Tracy Fleury, Glenn Howard, Joel Retornaz, Matt Dunstone and
On this week’s episode we preview the 2022-23 Grand Slam of Curling with Pierre Charette and we discuss the U.S. High Performance Program teams with Phill Drobnick of USA Curling.
On this week’s episode we recap the PointsBet Invitatiomal in Fredericton with guests Karlee Burgess of Team Jennifer Jones, Reid Carruthers and Chelsea Carey.
Part 1 of our 2022-23 season preview with guests David Murdoch of British Curling, 3x Scotties champion Kerri ‘Einarson and 4x world champion Glenn Howard.
This week, From the Hack previews the 2021 World Women’s Curling Championship with guests Alina Paetz of the reigning world champions from Switzerland, Reid Carruthers who discusses his experience of competing in a world championship with the added pressure of
On this week’s podcast we discuss the false positives at the Men’s Worlds with expert Dr. Paul Luethy and we discuss the Grand Slam of Curling with Canadian Curling Hall of Famer with Pierre Charette.
On this week’s episode we chat with the mixed doubles teams of Jocelyn Peterman/Brett Gallant, Kadriana Sahaidak/Colton Lott and Kim Tuck/Wayne Tuck Jr. along with Scott Pfeifer who looks after the mixed doubles program for Curling Canada.
This week we recap the 2021 Tim Hortons with guests Tim March of Team Glenn Howard, Greg Smith of Newfoundland & Labrador and Brendan Bottcher, skip of the 2021 Brier champions from Alberta.
In part 2 of our 2021 Brier preview, we welcome – Brad Jacobs of Team Northern Ontario, Reid Carruthers of Wild Card Team McEwen, Greg Smith of Team Newfoundland & Labrador, Glenn Howard of Wild Card Team Howard and Brendan
Part 1 of our 2021 Brier Preview with guests BJ Neufeld of Wild Card Team Koe, Matt Dunstone of Team Saskatchewan, James Grattan of Team New Brunswick, Ryan Fry of Team Ontario and Brad Gushue of Team Canada.
In Part 2 of our look at the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the sport of curling, we focus on stakeholders operating in different sub-sectors of the sport. Our guests include the owner of the Curlers Corner
This week, we conclude our two-part series on the Calgary bubble by focusing on how it will impact players. Our guests include Marc Kennedy of Team Jacobs who could be in the bubble for as much 5 or 6 weeks.
This week, From The Hack kicks off with a look into the “business” side of the Calgary bubble announcement. Three interviews are featured – former national team athlete and current Curling Canada staffer Nolan Thiessen, Carson Ackroyd of Tourism Calgary,
Up first on this week’s episode is Olympic figure skater Meagan Duhamel who joins us to discuss the recent Battle of the Blades competition and why she decided to donate her winnings to the Sandra Schmirler Foundation. Next are Nathan
In the first part of this special two-part episode, ten high-performance competitors describe how their season has been practically shut down by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the difficulties they’ve faced this season.
On the Season 6 season premiere – Following some exciting news, we hear from U.S. skip and defending Olympic champion John Shuster; we chat with the newest tour event champ Mike McEwen; and Quebec curler/PhD candidate Sarah Benkirane joins us
On this special episode of the from the Hack podcast our guest is Olympic, World and three-time Brier champion Brad Gushue. We discuss his most recent Brier win in Kingtson and tackle other subjects such as a player’s association for
It’s another special episode of the From the Hack podcast and my guest is Bryan Mudryk of TSN. Bryan not only covers curling for TSN but he also does the play-by-play for the network’s Montreal Canadiens coverage. We discuss curling,
My guest on this special edition of the From the Hack podcast is Bob Weeks of TSN. Bob is one of the pre-eminent curling and golf journalists in the country. Bob and I touch on several different curling and golf
With most people having to stay home these days, From the Hack will be producing a series of interviews with different individuals to help that curling gap in your lives. The second guest in our series is three-time U.S. champion
With most people having to stay home these days, From the Hack will be producing a series of interviews with different individuals to help that curling gap in your lives. We start with 1998 Olympic silver medalist Mike Harris of
In this edition of the From the Hack podcast we welcome 2020 Scotties champion skip, Kerri Einarson. We discuss the 1 vs 2 game against Jennifer Jones, we discuss the key moments of the championship final against Team Homan and
On this week’s podcast we focus on the Canada Cup with past champion Reid Carruthers (04:09), Adam Kingsbury – former coach of Team Homan and Team Jacobs (11:53) and 1998 Olympic silver medalist Mike Harris shares his thoughts on this
On this week’s podcast – Jean-Sebastien Roy, Canadian Mixed champion skip (03:19)… EJ Harnden of Team Jacobs (10:50)… Korey Dropkin of Team Dropkin (25:50)… Sara McManus of Team Hasselborg (33:09)… and short clips of interviews with Anna Hasselborg, David
On our first podcast of the 2019-20 season we interview Tracy Fleury and Matt Dunstone fresh of their first career Grand Slam victories at the Masters in North Bay, ON. We also interview Colin Kurz who recently skipped his team
This week we are joined by the winning skips from the 2019 Players Championship, Kerri Einarson (03:12) and Brendan Bottcher (08:24). We are joined by World Champion skip Niklas Edin (15:31) and BJ Neufeld of Team Koe who reached the
On this week’s episode – 2019 World Women’s champ, Alina Paetz (03:56), Price Atkinson of the Extra Extra End Podcast discusses the incident where Jamie Sinclair injured herself at the Women’s Worlds (11:15), 2019 Canadian Mixed Doubles champs, Jocelyn Peterman
On this week’s podcast our guests are 2019 Tim Hortons Brier champions BJ Neufeld of Team Koe (4:45) and TSN curling analyst and two-time Brier champion, Russ Howard (20:24)
This week’s guest include – 2019 Scotties Champ, Chelsea Carey (3:47), skip of Team BC at the Scotties, Sarah Wark (11:47), 2019 World Junior champion, Tyler Tardi (19:36), Kristen Streifel who will represent Canada at the 2019 Winter Universiade (24:35),
In part 2 of our 2019 Scotties preview – Chelsea Carey (2:58), Tracy Fleury (10:13), Emma Miskew (15:14), Krista McCarville (26:42), Sarah Wark (36:06), Jill Brothers (44:54) and Gabrielle Lavoie (53:00).
Part 1 of our 2019 Scotties preview from the people that will be participating. Guests – Casey Scheidegger (3:01), Kerri Einarson (14:21), Jennifer Jones (20:09), Robyn Silvernagle (26:15), Kerry Galusha (32:23) and Andrea Crawford (39:03) Watch for Part 2 tomorrow
This week’s feature interview is with Katherine Henderson, CEO of Curling Canada. We discuss many topics including the Olympic Trials schedule, the format for the Scotties and Brier, what Curling Canada is looking for in its next broadcasting partnership and
On this week’s episode – Brendan Bottcher joins us to discuss his team’s first-ever Grand Slam title last weekend at the Canadian Open in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. We also preview the 2019 Continental Cup of Curling taking place this weekend
This week’s guests – Ross Paterson fresh off his team’s win at the Boost National (2:57). Lisa Weagle joins us to discuss Team Homan’s win at the Boost National and their excellent start to the season (9:43). Devin Heroux of
On this week’s podcast – Marc Kennedy discusses winning the Canada Cup with Team Jacobs and also discusses the exchange of words he had with Ben Hebert during the men’s final (3:44). Coach Phill Drobnick of USA Curling joins us
This week, guest contributor Kristina Frlan of the Lazy Handle Curling Show on YouTube helps us with interviews of Joanne Courtney (4:10) and Ben Hebert (12:35) as they prepared for the Canada Cup. We also welcome Jamie Sinclair (29:25) and
On this week’s episode, our guests are: Robyn Silvernagle – Red Deer Classic champ (4:40), Scott Howard – Stu Sells Halifax champ (9:01), John Morris – Canad Inns Mixed Doubles champ (14:04), Kadriana Sahaidak – Canad Inns Mixed Doubles runner-up
This week our guests include Colin Kurz who skipped his team to the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in Winnipeg on the weekend. We also welcome Kirk Muyres and Emma Miskew whose teams won the Men’s Tier 2 and Women’s Tier
This week’s guests include Matt Dunstone following his team’s win at the Dekalb SuperSpiel and Paul Melia, the CEO of the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport joins us to discuss the current saga involving the World Anti-Doping Agency and
This week, we recap the 2018 Canadian Beef Masters Grand Slam with guests Agnes Knochenbauer of Team Hasselborg (2:56), John Epping of Team Epping (5:48) and Joan McCusker of Sportsnet (11:27)
This week’s guests: 2018 World Mixed Curling champion Danielle Inglis joins us to discuss her team’s world championship victory in Kelowna. (3:01) Chelsea Carey joins us to discuss her team’s win at the Canad Inns Classic in Portage and
This week our guests include Olympic champion Marc Kennedy who discusses his win with Rachel Homan at a Mixed Doubles event this weekend and how he has stayed involved in the sport of curling despite taking a break from the
On this week’s podcast – Anna Hasselborg and Brad Gushue discuss their titles at the season’s first Grand Slam. Matt Dunstone and Karsten Sturmay join us to discuss their World Curling Tour titles on the weekend and Mike Harris of
The guest’s on this week’s From the Hack podcast – Shannon Birchard (Team Einarson), Pierre Charette (Grand Slam of Curling), Laura Walker (Team Walker) and Reid Carruthers (Team Carruthers).
Our guests for this week’s podcast – Kirk Muyres, Tyler Tardi, Jonathan Brazeau (Sportsnet), Peter Gallant (Coach, Team Tirinzoni) and Graeme Thompson (Program Director, British Curling)
This week’s guests – Kerri Einarson, Casey Scheidegger, Peter de Cruz, Silvana Tirinzoni and Bruce Mouat.
In Part 2 of our 2018-19 Season Preview, our focus shifts to the U.S. with guests John Shuster, Alex Carlson of Team Sinclair, Tabitha Peterson of Team Roth and Phill Drobnick, Director of Coaching for USA Curling.
In Part 1 of our 2018-19 Season Preview, our guests include – Joanne Courtney (Team Homan), BJ Neufeld (Team Koe), Kerri Einarson (Team Einarson), Jocelyn Peterman (Team J. Jones), Brent Laing (Team Epping), Chelsea Carey (Team Carey) and Gerry Geurts
This week’s guests – Kaitlyn Jones and Tyler Tardi (2018 World Junior champions skips), Jamie Sinclair and Greg Persinger (2018 U.S. National champion skips) and Mike Harris of Sportsnet (Recap of the 2018 Brier and preview of the Elite 10
This week, 2014 Canadian Mixed Doubles champion Kim Tuck to discusses the just completed Olympic mixed doubles competition, Jamie Koe (Northwest Territories) and Brad Jacobs (Northern Ontario) join us to discuss winning their provincials on the weekend and Cheryl Bernard
Our focus in Part 2 of our Olympic Preview is North America. Our first guest is John Dunn, coach of Team Koe, who provides an insider’s perspective on the journey that has led this team to the Olympics in Pyeongchang.
In Part 1 of our Olympic Preview – 1998 Olympic silver medalist and CBC Olympic curling analyst Mike Harris provides insights on the 2018 Men’s and Women’s Olympic competitions, Sander Roelvaag (WCF Broadcaster) provides a European perspective on Olympic curling,
This week our guests include Jennifer Jones and Shannon Birchard (2018 Scotties champions), Madison Bear and Andrew Stopera (2018 U.S. Junior Champions), Reid Carruthers (Manitoba Tankard champion) and Steve Laycock (Saskatchewan Tankard champion) Jennifer Jones (3:39), Shannon Birchard (6:36), Andrew
This week our guests include Kaitlyn Jones and Tyler Tardi fresh off their victories at the Canadian Juniors, Chelsea Carey joins us to discuss her team’s victory at this weekend’s Canadian Open grand slam event, Olympic gold medalist and three-time
This week your guests include Devin Heroux of CBC Sports (Mixed Doubles Trials), Rick Lang and Frederik Lindberg (Continental Cup), Glenn Howard (Americas Zone Challenge), Cheryl Bernard (Alternate for Team Homan at the upcoming Olympics) and six of the skips
This week our guests include Rebecca and Matt Hamilton fresh of their victory at the U.S. Mixed Doubles Trials (2:56); we chat with Michelle Englot (11:27) who will skip Team Canada at the 2018 Scotties; reigning Canadian Mixed Doubles champion
This week, we recap the 2017 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials including post-game interviews with Homan, Koe, Carey, McEwen, Kennedy, Courtney, Hebert and Weagle. We also interview the co-founders of the Klutch Curling App.
From the Hack’s recap of Day 3 at the Canadian Olympic Trials. Includes clips of interviews with Gushue, McCarville, Carey, McEwen, Jacobs, Miskew, Koe, Lawes. Note – Interviews and all content recorded at the Canadian Tire Centre. Apologies for crowd
Our Canadian Olympic Trials special. Sherry and Wayne Middaugh preview the women’s and men’s events, we interview Kaitlyn Lawes and Ryan Fry and Kevin Palmer of “Curl with Math” joins to dig deep into the numbers of how each team
This week our guests include Nina Roth and John Shuster who led their respective teams to victory at the U.S. Olympic Trials, Bruce Mouat whose team became the first men’s team from Scotland to win a Grand Slam event at
This week’s podcast includes our 2017 U.S. Olympic Trials preview with guests Phil Drobnick and Joe Calabrese. We continue our “Road to Ottawa” series with an exclusive in-depth interview with Mike McEwen and we catch you up on the latest
This week we interview Brett Gallant about Team Gushue’s victory at the Masters Grand Slam, we continue our Road to the Trials series with Steve Laycock of Team Laycock and our feature interview is with Katherine Henderson, CEO of Curling
In this week’s episode – Gerry Geurts of Curling Zone joins us to discuss the first quarter of the season including some of the trends he has seen developing. Grant Hardie joins us to discuss leading his team from Scotland
This week, Reid Carruthers joins us to discuss his team’s victory at the Canad Inns Classic in Portage on the weekend. We continue our Road to Summerside series with former Scottish junior champion, turned Canadian, William Lyburn and Theresa Breen,
This week, we offer a tribute to the late Ray Turnbull including memories from Vic Rauter and Russ Howard. We recap the weekend action and with the recent success of Asian teams on the World Curling Tour, we flashback to
In this week’s episode we interview Colton Flasch to discuss his team’s victory at the College Clean Restoration Classic, we catch-up with U.S. Champion Jamie Sinclair, we continue on the Road to Summerside with Jean-Michel Menard and Nadine Scotland and
In the second instalment of her “Next Steps with Kristen” series, 2017 Canadian Junior champion Kristen Streifel welcomes Brianne Thiesen-Eaton, a 2016 Olympic bronze medalist in the Heptathlon.. Thiesen-Eaton discusses her development into a world class athlete, her transition from
On this episode we welcome Colin Grahamslaw the Secretary General of the World Curling Federations; Nolan Thiessen joins us to discuss the research that helped him convince the WCF to adopt the 5 rock rule; Glenn Howard and Darcy Robertson
On this week’s episode, we recap the Tour Challenge the first Grand Slam of the season including interviews with winning skips Val Sweeting and Jason Gunnlaugsson. We continue our “Road to Summerside” series with skips Shannon Birchard and Mark
In the 3rd episode of the Behind the Hack series, Cheryl Bernard interviews Gerry Peckham, the Director of High Performance at Curling Canada. Peckham has been an influential, behind the scenes figure in helping Canadian teams compete at the national
On this week’s episode, we have an interview with Colin Hodgson fresh off his victory at the Canad Inns Mixed Doubles Classic, the first of our “Road to Summerside” series includes interviews with Tracy Fleury and Brianne Meilleur, we preview
This week, in the second half of our preview of the 2017-18 curling season, the focus shifts to Europe and Pacific-Asia. Our guests include David Murdoch of British Curling, Silvana Tirinzoni of Switzerland and Peter Gallant, coach of Korea’s Team
From the Hack presents “Behind the Hack” with Cheryl Bernard, an exclusive series of interviews through which the 2010 Olympic silver medalist and TSN curling analyst takes you into the minds of elite curlers and coaches to discover how these
From the Hack presents “Behind the Hack” with Cheryl Bernard, an exclusive series of interviews through which the 2010 Olympic silver medalist and TSN curling analyst takes you into the minds of elite curlers and coaches to discover how these