Curling

TORONTO — Top-ranked Bruce Mouat of Scotland defeated American Korey Dropkin 5-1 on Wednesday morning at the AMJ Players' Championship. Mouat, who won a world championship last weekend in Moose Jaw, Sask.

MOOSE JAW — Determined to go out on a high after falling in the semifinals, Canada lead Ben Hebert said his team had a simple plan for Sunday's bronze-medal game against China's Xiaoming Xu at the BKT World Men's Curling Championship.

MOOSE JAW — There will be a new champion at the BKT World Men's Curling Championship this year. And it won't be Canada. Brad Jacobs dropped a 7-4 decision to Scotland's Bruce Mouat in semifinal play Saturday at the Temple Gardens Centre.

MOOSE JAW — The Canadian team's swear jar remains empty at the Temple Gardens Centre.

MOOSE JAW — The Canadian team skipped by Brad Jacobs ticked a few boxes with its victory Friday afternoon at the BKT World Men's Curling Championship.

MOOSE JAW — Four-time world champion Glenn Howard is as busy as ever since moving to the coach's bench after his retirement as a curler. "To say it's been a roller-coaster ride would be an understatement," Howard said with a laugh.

MOOSE JAW — Three fights in nine seconds? Now that would be a story. Elbows up? Only if you count the arm motion from heavy sweeping.

MOOSE JAW — The host team is standing tall at the BKT World Men's Curling Championship. It's the 12 teams below Canada in the round-robin standings that have been somewhat unpredictable.

MOOSE JAW, Sask. — Only one team is consistently throwing in the 90s at the BKT World Men's Curling Championship. When it's your skipper who's leading the way, the victories will follow.

MOOSE JAW, Sask. — Canada entered play against Sweden on Tuesday with a game plan to make the defending world men's curling champions throw big-weight shots in key moments.