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@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Boxing Club was at a bout in Saskatchewan last weekend. The local boxing club sent three fighters to a show in Weyburn, Sask, with two of the three fighters returning with a win. Kade Steiger defeated Andrew Polomares from Weyburn by unanimous decision in the 42 kg Junior division. Gavin Russell [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb It will take time to heal this wound but the Prince Albert Raiders will be stronger from it. The Raiders’ East division champion season came to a close Thursday night on home ice, falling 3-0 to the regular season Eastern conference champion Medicine Hat Tigers, the last loss of a 4-game sweep in the [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Selects Football will be in Medicine Hat in June focusing on player and coach development. The Saskatchewan Selects Football Club will host an ID camp on June 1 at the Rick Boksteyn Field at Monsignor McCoy High School as part of the program’s ‘Rural Road Show’. The camp will focus on player and coach [...] Read More »

bmiller@medicinehatnews.com Sounds of a bowling ball speeding across the freshly waxed softwood floor lane, towards a mocking group of pins, took over in Medicine Hat this week. Next came the rumble of impact as the ball sends the standing pins flying into the back pit. Action wraps up Saturday as more than 100 bowlers and [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Tigers did the best they could, they’re back in Alberta and are East finals bound. The Tigers recorded a series sweep for the first time since 2017 with a 3-0 win Thursday at Prince Albert’s Art Hauser Centre, winning the second-round series with the Raiders 4-0. It’s the first East finals [...] Read More »

SYLHET, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh hopes that Nahid Rana can unsettle Zimbabwe batters with his raw pace in the two-match series opening test beginning Sunday. The 22-year-old Nahid has established himself as the lethal pacer Bangladesh has long craved by regularly bowling 140 kph (90 mph). “When he bowls and Zimbabwe’s batters face him, their [...] Read More »

Lyon weathered a second-half fightback by Arsenal to claim a 2-1 away win in the first leg of the Women’s Champions League semifinals on Saturday, putting the record eight-time champions on course for another title match. Melchie Dumornay, Lyon’s 21-year-old star forward from Haiti, surged through the Arsenal defense to slot home a low finish [...] Read More »

It’s go time. The race for the Larry O’Brien Trophy is finally beginning. The 2025 NBA playoffs start Saturday with four games: Indiana-Milwaukee, Denver-Los Angeles Clippers, New York-Detroit and Los Angeles Lakers-Minnesota. The other four Game 1s are Sunday: Oklahoma City-Memphis, Boston-Orlando, Cleveland-Miami and Houston-Golden State. Miami and Memphis claimed the last two spots with [...] Read More »

CARDIFF, Wales (AP) — Wales midfielder Aaron Ramsey has taken up his first coaching role after agreeing to lead struggling hometown club Cardiff for the rest of the season in the second-tier Championship. Cardiff turned to the 34-year-old Ramsey on Saturday after firing Omer Riza following a 2-0 loss at Sheffield United that left the [...] Read More »

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Nikola Pokrivač, a former Croatia national team midfielder who played at the 2008 European Championship, has died in a car accident, his country’s soccer federation said. He was 39. The federation announced that Pokrivač died Friday night in a car accident in the city of Karlovac. Pokrivač played for Dinamo Zagreb, [...] Read More »