September 11th, 2025

Sports

Local Sports

  • Inside the CFL: It’s the Riders’ world, how will they live in it

    sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Now begins the stretch drive of the 2025 regular season. Every team has six games to go. It is clear Saskatchewan is the pick of the CFL litter. With a record of 10-2 it would take a collapse of epic proportion to keep them from finishing in first place. They are second in total [...] Read More »

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  • Tigers, Rockets to battle for WHL Northern Lights Cup at Yukon Showcase

    jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Tigers head to the Yukon looking to capture a second piece of hardware in 2025. The Tigers leave today for Whitehorse with the WHL’s Yukon Showcase to get underway tonight. They will face the Kelowna Rockets in a pair of preseason games at Takhini Arena in Whitehorse, with the winner of [...] Read More »

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  • Med Hat Lawn Bowling crowns league champions

    sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Lawn Bowling Club crowned their singles league champions on Monday. The local lawn bowling club wrapped up their competes singles leagues with the men’s and ladies’ finals. Men’s Division On the men’s side, three-time runner-up Mike Gilchrist broke through to win his first men’s championship. He finished first in the round [...] Read More »

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  • Tigers trim preseason roster ahead of Yukon Showcase

    jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb A crowded ice surface at Co-op Place was a little clearer Tuesday. The Medicine Hat Tigers preseason roster was trimmed after the 4-2 preseason win Sept. 6 at home over the Lethbridge Hurricanes. They reassigned 2009-born forwards Jaxson Craig and Owen Hayes to their respective clubs and released forwards Ben Deacon (2007), Sam Auld [...] Read More »

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  • Rattlers cross-country opens season with trio of medals

    sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat College Rattlers’ cross-country team picked up a trio of medals over the weekend. A contingent of six Rattlers runners raced at the ACAC #1 Concordia Open on Saturday. Maddie Scrimger, the Rattlers’ female athlete of the year in 2024-25, led the Rattlers with a second-place finish in the women’s 6km event. [...] Read More »

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National Sports

  • Jacob deGrom going back to where career began to face Mets for 1st time since leaving for Texas

    ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jacob deGrom is excited to be going back to where his career began, the home stadium where he made 109 of his 245 starts in the big leagues and had back-to-back Cy Young Award-winning seasons with the New York Mets. “It holds a special place in my heart,” deGrom said. “I [...] Read More »

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  • Blue Bombers turn to Streveler with Collaros sidelined for matchup in Hamilton

    HAMILTON — Zach Collaros is out of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ lineup for Friday night’s matchup with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. The veteran quarterback remains sidelined with a neck injury suffered in last week’s 21-13 loss to Saskatchewan, with backup Chris Streveler starting in his place. Streveler’s mobility gives Winnipeg a new wrinkle in the backfield [...] Read More »

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  • Chelsea hit with 74 charges for breaches during Abramovich ownership

    Chelsea was charged with 74 breaches of English soccer’s rules on Thursday. The charges cover a period from 2009-22, and relate to regulations covering soccer agents, working with intermediaries and third party involvement in player transfers. Chelsea said in a statement it self-reported the potential breaches to the English Football Association, which came to light [...] Read More »

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  • No. 5 Miami takes on No. 18 USF, and it’s a matchup of quarterbacks who are on hot streaks

    MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Miami quarterback Carson Beck hasn’t thrown an interception since November, which obviously means he’s been fairly accurate tossing the football. Now, consider South Florida quarterback Byrum Brown, who hasn’t thrown an interception since November — that is, November 2023. There are many ways to dissect a suddenly bigger-than-many-might-have-expected matchup on [...] Read More »

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  • Canada coach makes three changes for Rugby World Cup quarterfinal against Australia

    Canada coach Kevin Rouet has made three changes to his starting 15 for Saturday’s quarterfinal against seventh-ranked Australia at the Rugby World Cup in England. Courtney O’Donnell starts in the second row and Caroline Crossley slots into the back row at blindside flanker, shifting Fabiola Forteza to No. 8. Tyson Beukeboom and Gabby Senft drop [...] Read More »

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