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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — J.J. McCarthy finished his first game for the Minnesota Vikings with a flourish, refusing to let early struggles sidetrack his focus in the daunting environment of a night game on the road against a division rival. He gets to play at home this time, with the hero’s welcome that will surely be [...] Read More »

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump attended the New York Yankees game on Thursday night, drawing a mixed reaction while marking the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, after honoring the memories of the victims at the Pentagon earlier in the day. Authorities installed security glass outside an upper level suite on the [...] Read More »

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Texans coach DeMeco Ryans usually bristles at questions about the past, preferring instead to look ahead with his team. This week he made an exception when asked about his memories from the previous time the Texans faced Tampa Bay ahead of their matchup Monday night. In that 2023 game, C.J. Stroud [...] Read More »

TORONTO — As Kevin Gausman took his first steps out of the home dugout to start the ninth inning, the crowd of 41,224 fans at Rogers Centre got up with him, giving the Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher a standing ovation. They understood what he was trying to accomplish. Gausman pitched a complete game shutout [...] Read More »

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Conventional wisdom says a divisional game counts more like two in the standings because of the separation created between the winner and loser. But in Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh’s mind, it’s really 2 1/2 games when a potential tiebreaker is factored in for playoff seeding. “The math of it,” Harbaugh said. [...] Read More »