Sport in brief

CURLING – Perthshire curler Eve Muirhead advanced to today’s final at the NCA Elite Finals in Stirling after completing a clean sweep of eight straight wins in the round robin section.

Having battled Gina Aitken’s rink all winter, Muirhead and teammates Vicky Wright, Jennifer Dodds and Lauren Gray fired an ominous warning after following Monday’s 9-3 victory over Aitken with a 10-5 win yesterday.

The Murrayfield skip counted two stones at the opening end, but Muirhead’s four at the fifth end turned the game in her favour, and a three at the seventh forced Aitken to throw in the towel.

Team Muirhead will now face either Aitken or Kinross youngster Beth Farmer in this afternoon’s final.

SUPER BOWL – Andy Reid and Bruce Arians will make history tomorrow as the oldest coaches to go head-to-head in a Super Bowl.

Reid, who turns 63 next month, returns to the showpiece with the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs a year after ending his long wait for a first career Super Bowl win as head coach.

He will pit his wits against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ Arians, who at 68 is the oldest coach to make his Super Bowl debut and can become the oldest ever winner if he can claim what would be his first career title as head coach.

● BOXING – A world heavyweight title showdown between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua could be announced in the next two weeks.

A unification fight has been on the cards for a while, with Joshua holding the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO belts while Fury is the WBC champion.

The highlyanticipated fight could take place abroad, with promoter Eddie Hearn touting Saudi Arabia and the United States among the possible host sites.