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jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Monsignor McCoy Colts senior football team heads into the fall looking to continue taking strides. The Colts had a resurgence in 2024, finishing with an 8-3 record and falling one drive short of a South Zone title. They graduated a large class from that team but aren’t looking to rest on last year’s [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat High Hawks senior football team will turn to some youth this fall. The Hawks graduated 19 seniors last season, leaving a lot of open spots for younger players to step up and perform in, head coach Quinn Skelton says. “We graduated some great kids last year but we have also been [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Crescent Heights Vikings senior football team didn’t need to do a lot of team building to get their season underway. The Vikings enter the 2025 season as a cohesive group, head coach Anthony Anderson says. It’s his third season with the Sr. Vikings but he’s worked with his now senior players since they [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews ast Saturday, the cream of the CFL crop met at McMahon Stadium with the Calgary Stampeders defeating the Saskatchewan Roughriders 32-15. Except for five minutes in the second quarter when the visitors scored two majors to take a 15-14 lead, the locals thoroughly dominated the Green and White for the second time. The defence [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb A mere three months removed from hoisting the Ed Chynoweth Cup and falling in the Memorial Cup final, the Medicine Hat Tigers are back on the ice beginning preparations for the title defence. Training camp gets underway today for the Tigers ahead of their 56th season as they look to add to the trophy [...] Read More »

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — If Jordan Poyer had his way, the safety wouldn’t have left Buffalo in the first place after being released in March 2024 as part of the Bills salary cap-saving purge of veteran players. Some 17 months later, and after what he called a difficult season with the Miami Dolphins, the [...] Read More »

TOULON, France (AP) — Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome will undergo surgery on Thursday after “a serious training crash” that saw the British cyclist airlifted to a hospital in France. Froome’s team Israel-Premier Tech said he was “stable and did not sustain any head injuries” but added that scans confirmed a pneumothorax, five [...] Read More »

Canada coach Kevin Rouet has made six changes to his starting lineup for Saturday’s game against Wales at the Women’s Rugby World Cup in England. Five of the changes are in the forward pack with wing Asia Hogan-Rochester slotting into the backline. The second-ranked Canadians ran in 11 tries in dispatching No. 14 Fiji 65-7 [...] Read More »

NEW YORK (AP) — Aryna Sabalenka was on a boat. She was lounging by the pool. The reigning U.S. Open champion was anywhere, it seemed, except a tennis court. When the professional tours moved to North America for the hard-court tournaments ahead of the trip to New York — where the second round wraps up [...] Read More »

DETROIT (AP) — DETROIT LIONS (15-3) Expectations Lions coach Dan Campbell said this season’s team is his best in five years. If that ends up being accurate, it would be quite a feat. Detroit won a franchise-record 15 games last season, a year after having a 17-point, third-quarter lead in the NFC championship game before [...] Read More »