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The 2012 World Financial Group Continental Cup at the Langley Events Center in Langley, British Columbia officially launched Wednesday evening with FAN Appreciation night. Fans had the opportunity to get face time with all the athletes in the competition and party to sounds of March Hare, a Vancouver, BC-based show band that plays rock, country and new music hits. But the action begins Thursday, Jan. 12 with four days of international curling competition. [More]

World Financial Group sponsored the fan favourite TSN Curling Skins Game this weekend, Jan. 7-8, from Casino Rama in Rama, ON. The annual invitational event featured four of the best curling teams in the world — current world champion Jeff Stoughton, along with Kevin Martin, Kevin Koe and Glenn Howard — skips of the last four Canadian teams to win world championships — competing for a $75,000 (CD) prize. The competition is a single-elimination format in which anything can happen, as the winner is decided by total prize money and not total points. [More]

World Financial Group (WFG) is a proud sponsor of World Professional Chuckwagon Association (WPCA) driver Buddy Bensmiller. WFG Sports received a photo from Bensmiller Racing that we thought we would share with our readers — it’s Buddy riding the WFG wagon at the Medicine Hat (Alberta) Exhibition & Stampede in June. [More]

World Financial Group-sponsored chuckwagon racer Buddy Bensmiller participated in the 75th annual Ponoka Stampede from June 27 to July 3. Buddy raced in the fifth heat opposite Luke Tournier, Jordie Fike and Rae Croteau, Jr., unless noted otherwise. How did Buddy and the WFG wagon do? [More]

After the postponement of the Badlands Dinosaur Derby in Drumheller, Alberta because of inclement weather, the 2011 World Professional Chuckwagon Association (WPCA) resumed its 2011 season with the North American Chuckwagon Championship in High River, Alberta. Among the drivers seeking the championship at the event, which ran from June 23-26, was World Financial Group (WFG)-sponsored chuckwagon driver Buddy Bensmiller. Over the four days he raced Kirk Sutherland, Colt Cosgrave and John Walters in his quest for the title. [More]

Summer is the season in which we usually concentrate on staying cool, so what a great time to focus on the icy sport of curling. There is a little more than six months until the action begins at the 2012 World Financial Group (WFG) Continental Cup of Curling, but there’s no reason why we can’t do a WFG review on the latest news about this amazing event that features the best curlers in the world meeting vying to win one of sport’s more prestigious events. [More]

The 2011 World Professional Chuckwagon Association season continued at the Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede in Medicine Hat, Alberta from June 9-12. Competing at the event was none other than World Financial Group (WFG)-sponsored chuckwagon racer Buddy Bensmiller. Let’s review his results. [More]

After the Round Robin portion of the 2011 World Financial Group (WFG)-sponsored Canadian Seniors Curling tournament in Digby, Nova Scotia, Team Ontario and Team Manitoba earned automatic berths in women’s and men’s finals respectively. Their opponents, however, needed to be determined through a series of tie-breaker matches played on March 25 and the final played on March 26. [More]

On day six of the 2011 World Financial Group (WFG)-sponsored Canadian Seniors Curling tournament in Digby, Nova Scotia, a logjam among the women remained while the men appeared to be locked and loaded for the semifinals. Would this still be the case after the last day of the Round Robin? Here are the day six results. An asterisk (*) denotes the team who had the hammer as well as which ice sheet the match was played on. [More]

Day five of the 2011 World Financial Group (WFG)-sponsored Canadian Seniors Curling tournament in Digby, Nova Scotia began with a logjam on the scoreboard. Will the jam continue, or will a team break loose? For this day of the Round Robin (or should we say “Rockin’ Robin”?), the women’s matches took place on sheets C, E, G and H while the men played on sheets A, B, D and F. Here are the day five results with an asterisk (*) by the team who had the hammer. [More]