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sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Open B Smash skated to a provincial gold over the weekend. The Medicine Hat team was in Calgary for an eight-team provincial tournament, with four teams from the South, including the host, and three from the North. The Smash went 2-1 in Pool A play, beating the Calgary Blitz 5-2, losing 7-6 to [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Already entrenched as a WHL champion in Medicine Hat, Jonas Woo’s legacy will forever be written in Tigers history. The 19-year-old Winnipeg product holds the franchise record for points in a single season by a defenceman, passing Cliff Lane’s mark of 82 points from 1975-76. Woo had a goal and an assist in Friday’s [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Mavericks will return some experience to their infield this summer. The local WCBL club announced Monday shortstop Johnny Vulcano will return for a foruth summer in the red and white. In 38 games last season Vulcano had 43 hits, one home run and 23 RBIs with a .262 batting average. In [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Medicine Hat News The Alberta Marlin Aquatic Club showed out at the Pronghorn Classic this weekend. The local swim club sent 35 swimmers to the 2026 Pronghorn Classic, hosted by the Lethbridge Amateur Swim Club at the Max Bell Pool. Facing swimmers from 10 clubs from across Alberta, AMAC’s competitors set new personal bests [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Tigers took down their Highway 3 rivals in the penultimate weekend of the season. The Tigers beat the Lethbridge Hurricanes 6-3 on Friday and won 6-5 in overtime Saturday to sweep the season series for the first time in the Internet era (since 1997). It’s a pair of wins that sends [...] Read More »

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Celtic and Denmark goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel fears his career might be over because he needs two shoulder operations that will require up to a year of rehabilitation. The 39-year-old Schmeichel said he was given the diagnosis on a visit to a specialist on Monday. He has missed Celtic’s last five matches [...] Read More »

CREMONA, Italy (AP) — Relegation-threatened Cremonese fired coach Davide Nicola on Wednesday amid a more than three-month winless streak in the Italian league. A 4-1 home loss to Fiorentina on Monday left Cremonese in 18th place and three points from safety. Marco Giampaolo, who coached Lecce last season, was expected to take over for the [...] Read More »

MIAMI (AP) — Venezuela manager Omar López went beyond the limit to help his nation win its first World Baseball Classic. Major league clubs routinely place restrictions on how national team managers can use pitchers at the WBC. One key for López and Venezuela in Tuesday night’s championship game was that he talked some MLB [...] Read More »

Scripps Sports is quickly broadening its coverage of pro women’s hockey by adding the PWHL’s Walter Cup Finals to its national TV schedule on ION in May, the league announced on Wednesday. The agreement means the best-of-five series will be broadcast to a U.S.-wide audience on linear television for the first time in the PWHL’s [...] Read More »

A reputation-harming financial scandal. An early and humiliating Champions League elimination. A star player casting doubt on his future. Life at Chelsea often resembles a soap opera, and this week has been appointment viewing at a club where the decision-making of its past and present ownership has come under scrutiny. It started with Chelsea receiving [...] Read More »