What you need to know about 'Rock League', a pro curling venture in the hack for 2026
Those details are still evolving, although The Curling Group promises quite the adventure for a venture long believed to be missing from the sport.
'With curling, there's no professional league yet, so it's the first of its kind there,' said curling legend Brent Laing, a Grand Slam of Curling commentator and competition committee member for The Curling Group. 'There's all sorts of ideas being thrown around all sorts of different formats and stuff. The idea is that you're not going to tune in and watch Team Homan and play Team Paetz the way the teams are right now.
'But at the end of the day, it's going to be mostly traditional curling, and curlers are going to be able to be professionals and get paid not just prize money but a salary, which is pretty awesome.'
Finally there's real cash in hand for the curlers, says curling legend John Morris, who is a strategic advisor for The Curling Group.
'Back when they made the grand slams initially — I think in the early 2000s — there was probably from the the elite curlers at the time, I'm pretty sure they had a league in the back of their mind,' Morris said. 'With The Curling Group, this is our best opportunity to ever have this happen for curlers.'
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