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sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat College Rattlers’ men’s soccer team started their season on a winning note. The Rattlers men’s team won both of their first two matches at home in shutout fashion, blanking the Red Deer Polytechnic 2-0 on Saturday before taming the Olds College Broncos 11-0. In Saturday’s win, Aleksa Bijelic and Joao Nascimento [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Tennis Club crowned a new mixed doubles champion this weekend. Emilee Krushel and Brent Meyer defeated Tracy and Calvin Heller (6-4, 7-5), ending the Heller’s run of 10 straight wins. In the B division, Dawn Olson and Mike Fentabil defeated CoraLee Riehl and Quinlan McElroy-O’Driscoll (6-2, 6-3). Joe Ciona and Pam [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Boksteyn Bowl Cup will remain at Monsignor McCoy High School for another year. The McCoy Colts beat the Crescent Heights Vikings 31-27 on Friday in the fifth annual Rick Boksteyn Bowl dedicated to the former football coach. Boksteyn, who passed in 2020, helped coach the Colts and the Vikings at different times over [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Tigers’ veterans got their first opportunities of the preseason over the weekend. The Tigers deployed five skaters who played games last season in Saturday’s 4-2 preseason win at Co-op Place over the Lethbridge Hurricanes. Carter Cunningham scored to open the game, and two newcomers, Yaroslav Bryzgalov and Kyle Heger, scored in [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Medicine Hat Tigers fans will get their lone look at the preseason roster this weekend. The Tigers host the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Saturday, the only home game of the preseason calendar. They’ll finish the exhibition season next weekend in Whitehorse, Yuk. with a two-game set against the Kelowna Rockets as part of the Whitehorse [...] Read More »

Expectations were always going to be high for a new closing chapter in the 30th-anniversary edition of Ken Dryden’s seminal book “The Game.” Like he did throughout his Hall of Fame hockey career, Dryden delivered once again. “Ken was a great writer and a great storyteller, so I knew that it was going to be [...] Read More »

ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Falcons signed former Minnesota kicker Parker Romo to their practice squad on Tuesday, creating competition at the position after Younghoe Koo’s crucial last-second missed field goal in the team’s 23-20 opening loss to Tampa Bay on Sunday. Falcons coach Raheem Morris promised on Monday the team would have tryouts to [...] Read More »

Kylian Mbappé got France out of trouble, Cristiano Ronaldo helped Portugal do the same, and England finally got its Thomas Tuchel era into gear. Three of Europe’s soccer powerhouses took big steps closer to the 2026 World Cup on Tuesday, all while Erling Haaland scored five goals in an 11-1 win with fresh stitches in [...] Read More »

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — For all the mastery of passing-play design and quarterback development the Minnesota Vikings have benefited from since Kevin O’Connell became head coach, even he has long realized how vital a vastly improved running game is toward their status as a legitimate Super Bowl contender. The final stretch of their season-opening comeback victory [...] Read More »

SWANSEA — Derek Cornelius’s spectacular free kick lifted Canada to a 1-0 win over Wales in a men’s international soccer friendly Tuesday. The Glasgow Rangers defender sent a curling delivery over the Welsh wall, eluding the outstretched hands of diving goalkeeper Adam Davies, and into the top corner for his first goal in 37 Canadian [...] Read More »