From the Hack

This week, we preview the 2017 U.S. Olympic Trials with Phil Drobnick of USA Curling and Joe Calabrese of 12th End Sports/"Extra Extra End Podcast", we continue the "Road to Ottawa" series with an exclusive interview with Mike McEwen and we catch you up on all the news and notes from the world of curling.

This week we interview Brett Gallant following Team Gushue's victory at the Masters Grand Slam, we continue our Road to the Trials series with Steve Laycock and our feature interview is with Katherine Henderson, the CEO of Curling Canada.

In the first of our series of interview with members of the mainstream media that cover the sport of curling, our guest is Devin Heroux of CBC Sports. We discuss some of the major curling stories he has covered over the past year and we look ahead to the Canadian Olympic Pre-Trials and Trials.

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 to victory at the recent World Mixed Championship, Adam Casey joins on our Road to Summerside series and John Epping is our guest in the second of our interviews focusing on the...

This week, Reid Carruthers joins us to discuss his team's win at the Canad Inns Classic, we continue the "Road to Summerside" with William Lyburn and Theresa Breen and, in the first of our Olympic trials Series, we interview 2016 Scotties champion Chelsea Carey.

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 interviews we did earlier this season with two Canadian coaching in Asia, Marcel Rocque in China and Peter Gallant in Korea.

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 our feature interview is with Irantzu Garcia whose breakthrough performance at the 2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championships earned her coun...

In episode 5 of Behind the Hack, Cheryl Bernard interviews 2014 Olympic bronze medalist and 2013 World Champion Eve Muirhead of Scotland who will be representing Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. 

In the second installment of her "Next Steps with Kristen" series, 2017 Canadian Junior champion Kristen Streifel is joined by Brianne Theisen-Eaton a bronze medalist in the Heptathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.  Theisen-Eaton discusses the opportunities and challenges that were part of her development into a world class athlete, her transition from student-athlete to professional, how st...

This week's episode includes an exclusive interview with Colin Grahamslaw, the Secretary General of the World Curling Federation; Nolan Thiessen joins us to discuss his research that led the WCF to adopt the 5 rock rule; Glenn Howard and Darcy Robertson join us on the "Road to Summerside" and Shannon Birchard joins us to discuss her team's first WCT title last weekend at the Colonial Square Classi...

On this week's podcast...Brad Jacobs discusses his team's victory at the Shorty Jenkins Classic and Gerry Geurts of the World Curling Tour joins us to discuss some of the major announcements made at the World Curling Congress in Slovenia.  Meanwhile, Kerri Einarson and Sherry Middaugh join us on the "Road to Summerside" series and tour players/curling bloggers John Cullen and Mike Fournier join us...

In the fourth installment of her Behind the Hack series, Cheryl Bernard has an in-depth conversation with two-time World Champion and three-time Brier winner Kevin Koe.

On this week's episode, we recap the Tour Challenge the first Grand Slam of the season including interviews with Val Sweeting and Jason Gunnlaugson.  We continue our "Road to Summerside" series with skips Shannon Birchard and Mark Bice who will skip their team at the 2017 Canadian Olympic Pre-Trials in November and we interview Marcel Rocque, best known as a member of the famed "Ferbey Four" who i...

In the premiere episode of her new series "Next Steps with Kristen", 2017 Canadian Junior champion Kristen Streifel interviews Kirk Muyres of Team Laycock. The "Next Steps with Kristen" series will focus on Kristen's transition from junior curling to the World Curling Tour and will include interviews with fellow curlers and athletes from other sports that have gone through similar transitions.

In the 3rd episode of the Behind the Hack series, Cheryl Bernard interviews Gerry Peckham, the Director of High Performance with Curling Canada.  Peckham has been an influential, behind the scenes force in helping Canadian teams on the national and international levels for well over 25 years.

On this week's From the Hack podcast - We recap Week 4 action, including an interview with Colin Hodgson fresh off his victory at the Canad Inns Mixed Doubles Classic and look ahead to Week 5, specifically the Tour Challenge.  We have interviews with Pierre Charette of the Grand Slam of Curling and Casey Scheidegger, skip of the 9th ranked team in the world, who will be looking for her 2nd career...

On this episode, we recap Week 3 on the World Curling Tour, we preview the events scheduled for Week 4, we share news and notes from the world of curling in our Fresh Pebble Report and we introduce From the Hack's new "Business of Curling" Series. In the second half of our season preview the focus shifts to Europe and Pacific-Asia.  We interview David Murdoch of British Curling, Silvana Tirinzoni...

From the Hack presents the first episode of a new series focused on the business of curling.  During this series we will discuss best practices and strategies in the areas of club operations, event management, ice-making, memberships, coaching, marketing and sponsorship.   Our first guest is Danny Lamoureux, the Director of Club Development and Championship Services for Curling Canada and a former...

In the first U.S. Curling Report of the season we discuss the progress of the top team's in the U.S. High Performance Program with USA Curling's Phil Drobnick, we chat with 2006 Olympic bronze medalist and reigning U.S. Champion John Shuster and we preview the 2017-18 curling season from an American perspective with Joe Calabrese of 12th End Sports.

In the first half of our 2017-18 season preview, we interview Al Cameron of Curling Canada and Gerry Guerts of the World Curling Tour to get updates on some changes and announcements from this past off-season.  We also present our first panel discussion of the season with Cheryl Bernard of TSN and Mike Harris of Sportsnet who preview this important Olympic season. We also introduce new exclusive f...

This week, 2014 Olympic gold medalist Brad Jacobs joins Cheryl to look back at the journey that led to his team's victory in Sochi, reveals how his team has changed during this Olympic cycle and discusses how Team Jacobs is preparing to defend their titles at the Roar of the Rings and returning to the Olympics.

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 athletes develop the mental strength them to outperform in high-pressure, game-deciding moments. In the premiere episode, Cheryl is joined by Dr. Penny Werth...