Few Olympic events confound the public like curling, the obscure winter sport with the frenzied sweeping that gains cult status every four years. There’s the mystifying-to-the-masses strategies of ...

There are a lot of moving pieces in curling, but usually not in a logistically complicated way: athletes merely need a lane of ice, a couple of brushes and a set of granite stones to compete. But at ...

Defending Olympic bronze medalist Eve Muirhead picked a bad time to hog a rock for the first time. On her final stone of the first extra-end in the Olympic women's curling tournament on Sunday, the ...