Winter Olympics men’s curling: Scores, standings and schedule

Team Brad Jacobs will aim to get Canada back on top of the Olympic podium for men’s curling for the first time since 2014 this month in Italy.

Here are the standings, schedule and results:

ROUND-ROBIN STANDINGS

Team	Wins	Losses
Switzerland (Yannick Schwaller)	8	0
Canada (Brad Jacobs)	7	1
Great Britain (Bruce Mouat)	5	4
Norway (Magnus Ramsfjell)	4	4
Italy (Joel Retornaz)	4	4
U.S. (Daniel Casper)	4	5
Germany (Marc Muskatewitz)	3	5
Sweden (Niklas Edin)	2	6
Czechia (Lukas Klima)	2	6
China (Xiaoming Xu)	2	6

Top four teams advance to semifinals.

SCHEDULE/RESULTS

ROUND-ROBIN

Draw 11: Wednesday, Feb. 18

Canada 8, Italy 3
Czechia 10, China 5
Switzerland 10, Norway 4
Great Britain 9, U.S. 2

Draw 12: Thursday, Feb. 19, 3:05 a.m. ET / 12:05 a.m. PT

Sweden vs. Czechia
Italy vs. Switzerland
China vs. Germany
Norway vs. Canada

PLAYOFFS

Thursday, Feb. 19, 1:05 p.m. / 10:05 a.m. PT

Semifinals

Friday, Feb. 20, 1:05 p.m. ET / 10:05 a.m. PT

Bronze-medal game

Saturday, Feb. 21, 1:05 p.m. ET / 10:05 a.m. PT

Gold-medal game

PREVIOUS RESULTS

Draw 1: Wednesday, Feb. 11

Italy 7, Sweden 6
Canada 7, Germany 6
U.S. 8, Czechia 7
Great Britain 9, China 4

Draw 2: Thursday, Feb. 12

Germany 5, Norway 4
Switzerland 8, U.S. 3
Great Britain 6, Sweden 3

Draw 3: Friday, Feb. 13

Canada 6, U.S. 3
Italy 9, Great Britain 7
Norway 8, China 6
Switzerland 7, Czechia 3

Draw 4: Friday, Feb. 13

Switzerland 9, China 7
Norway 7, Czechia 4
Germany 6, Italy 5
Canada 8, Sweden 6

Draw 5: Saturday, Feb. 14

Great Britain 7, Czechia 4
Sweden 6, China 4
Switzerland 9, Canada 5
U.S. 8, Germany 6

Draw 6: Sunday, Feb. 15

U.S. 8, Sweden 5
Great Britain 9, Germany 4
Norway 10, Italy 7

Draw 7: Sunday, Feb. 15

Canada 6, China 3
U.S. 10, Norway 8
Italy 10, Czechia 5
Switzerland 6, Great Britain 5

Draw 8: Monday, Feb. 16

Norway 7, Great Britain 6
Canada 8, Czechia 2
Germany 7, Sweden 3
China 11, Italy 4

Draw 9: Tuesday, Feb. 17

Switzerland 9, Sweden 4
China 8, U.S. 5
Czechia 9, Germany 7

Draw 10: Tuesday, Feb. 17

Switzerland 8, Germany 4
Italy 8, U.S. 5
Canada 9, Great Britain 5
Sweden 7, Norway 4

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Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano to headline MMA event in May

Two trailblazers of modern women’s combat sports are set to step back into the cage this spring.

Former UFC champion Ronda Rousey and women’s mixed martial arts pioneer Gina Carano will meet in a featherweight contest at a May 16 MMA event at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) announced Tuesday.

Rousey hasn’t fought since late in 2016 when she was stopped by Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 as she attempted to win back her bantamweight title. The Riverside, Calif., native was a lifelong judoka and won an Olympic bronze medal in judo in 2008 before beginning her MMA career and taking the sport by storm.

The 39-year-old began her MMA career in 2010 and started off 12-0 as a pro. She became a star and champion in the defunct Strikeforce organization, winning all her fights by first-round armbar, and was the inaugural UFC women’s bantamweight champion before eventually losing her belt to Holly Holm in 2015. Rousey returned 13 months later, lost to Nunes in 48 seconds, and she hasn’t been around the sport much since then.

Rousey never formally announced her retirement from MMA and has admitted in recent years that sustaining concussions throughout her career contributed to her walking away from fighting. Following her UFC run, she went on to star in several Hollywood movies and became a WWE superstar for a few years.

Before Rousey’s rise to superstardom, Carano was the face of women’s MMA and regarded as the first woman to become a major MMA star in North America.

Carano began her combat sports career competing in Muay Thai and made her MMA debut in 2006. She began her MMA career 7-0, and her fight with Julie Kedzie in 2007 made history by becoming the first women’s MMA bout to be broadcast live on national network television in the United States.

Her fight with Cris Cyborg in the summer of 2009 made more history by being the first major MMA event headlined by two women when they were featured in the main event of a Strikeforce card.

Carano was stopped by Brazil’s Cyborg, who went on to become an all-time great, and hasn’t fought professionally since her first and only loss 16.5 years ago.

Now 43, Carano has enjoyed a successful post-fighting career in show business, starring in several big-budget action movies and playing a popular recurring character in the Star Wars universe on the hit show The Mandalorian.

Carano has been away from combat sports for longer than Rousey has, but she recently returned to training. She previously trained out of Albuquerque, N.M., with famed trainer Greg Jackson, who also worked with UFC champions Georges St-Pierre, Jon Jones, Andrei Arlovski, Rashad Evans and Holly Holm, among others.

In recent months, Carano has been training with coach John Wood at Syndicate MMA in Las Vegas as she gets back into fight shape.

A hypothetical Rousey vs. Carano matchup has been speculated on over the years, but based on the timing and trajectories of their respective careers, it never previously made sense to pair the two together.

“Ronda came to me and said there is only one person she would make a comeback form, and it has been her dream to make this fight happen between us,” Carano said via the official press release. “She thanked me for opening up doors for her in her career and was respectful in asking for this fight to happen.

“This is an honour. I believe I will walk out of this fight with the win and I anticipate it will not come easy, which I welcome. This is as much for Ronda and me as it is for the fans and mixed martial arts community. What a time to be alive.”

The event will be professionally sanctioned in the state of California under the Unified Rules of MMA. Rousey vs. Carano will be scheduled for five, five-minute rounds, contested in the 145-pound division. The athletes will wear four-ounce MMA gloves, and the cage will have a hexagonal shape, just like the Strikeforce cage in which Rousey and Carano used to compete.

This will be the first MMA event held by MVP, which was co-founded by Jake Paul in 2021 and has exclusively promoted boxing events since its debut. 

“MVP has always been driven by disruption and delivering the biggest moments in combat sports on a global scale, and today we are officially bringing that energy to MMA for the first time,” Paul stated in the press release. “Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano are the two most formative figures in the history of women’s MMA; they are the icons who shattered the glass ceiling and helped build the foundation this sport stands on. MVP’s conviction in women’s boxing was driven by the success achieved by Ronda Rousey, who was the biggest star of the entire sport of MMA during her career.”

MVP will host a Rousey vs. Carano Kickoff Press Conference on March 5 at the Intuit Dome. No other matchups have been announced for the May 16 card at this time, but the lineup is expected to be filled out in the coming weeks.

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Mets owner Steve Cohen: Bichette talks ‘moved quickly’

New York Mets owner Steve Cohen has revealed more about the timeline leading up to his team signing Bo Bichette.

Speaking to reporters at spring training Monday, Cohen confirmed that talks with Bichette accelerated after Kyle Tucker spurned the Mets for the Los Angeles Dodgers in mid-January.

Tucker’s four-year, $240-million agreement with the Dodgers was first reported on Jan. 15. Bichette then agreed to a three-year, $126-million deal with the Mets on Jan. 16.

Cohen said that “the body was still warm” after the Mets learned Tucker would be joining the Dodgers when agents began calling New York to pitch their clients.

“I actually went to bed annoyed,” Cohen said of the whirlwind 24 hours. “But the agent for Bo had called us right after and discussions started. You never know how they’re going to go but they moved really quickly.”

Before his surprise move to the Mets, Bichette was reported to be in talks with the Philadelphia Phillies over a longer-term deal. Instead, he opted for a similar short-term deal to the one Tucker signed, which includes a higher annual salary and allows him to test free agency again in his prime.

According to Spotrac, the Mets have just over $480 million committed to their roster for 2026 after luxury tax costs are calculated, second only to the Dodgers ($527 million).

“(The Dodgers) are formidable. They have the ability to spend. So do I, by the way,” Cohen said. “And they built a great team but I think we built a great team. I think we’ll be really competitive this year and the goal is to meet them somewhere along the way in the playoffs.”

Bichette is one of many new faces at Mets spring training. The team underwent a major roster overhaul this winter after missing the playoffs with a disappointing 83-79 record.

The Mets acquired ace Freddy Peralta in a trade with the Brewers, outfielder Luis Robert Jr. in a trade with the White Sox and second baseman Marcus Semien in a trade with the Rangers. New York also signed free agents Jorge Polanco, Luke Weaver and MJ Melendez, while Pete Alonso (Orioles) and Edwin Diaz (Dodgers) signed elsewhere.

Cohen said the busy off-season was all about putting a winning roster on the field.

“We haven’t won. I really want to win. Each year that goes by, I get more annoyed,” Cohen said. “It’s hard to know when to make those changes, and sometimes they happen in a way you don’t fully anticipate or expect.

“Saying goodbye is always tough but saying hello is kinda fun.”

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Italy’s DiGiacinto suspended for hit to head of Slovakia’s Fehervary

Italian forward Cristiano DiGiacinto has been suspended one game for a hit to the head on Slovakian defenceman Martin Fehervary.

Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported that the Hamilton, Ont., native will not be eligible to play in Italy’s final preliminary game against Finland.

The hit came during the second period of Friday’s game between Italy and Slovakia, which saw the host team lose 3-2.

The play was reviewed for a major penalty, but was ruled a two-minute minor for an “illegal check to the head or neck.”

Fehervary stayed in the game and did not miss a shift after taking the head contact.

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Canada’s Victoria Mboko advances to final at Qatar Open

Victoria Mboko’s strong start to the 2026 season continued Friday.

The Canadian teen beat Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko 6-3, 6-2 to advance to the final of the Qatar Open.

Mboko, ranked 13th in the world, recorded wins over top-10 players Mirra Andreeva and Elena Rybakina earlier this week. She opened her season by reaching the final of the Adelaide International and then made the round of 16 at the Australian Open.

The latest win guarantees Mboko will be in the top 10 for the first time next week.

Mboko, 19, will next face the winner of the other semifinal between No. 14 seed Karolina Muchova of Czechia and Maria Sakkari of Greece at the WTA Tour 1000-level event.

Mboko was ranked outside the top 300 at the beginning of last season. She went on a big winning run underneath the tour level before capturing the National Bank Open Presented by Rogers title last August in Montreal.

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