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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 »

BOSTON (AP) — Walker Buehler pitched seven strong innings, Kristian Campbell’s base-loaded grounder rolled into right field for a two-run single and the Red Sox beat the Chicago White Sox 4-2 on Monday in Boston’s annual Patriots’ Day game. Rob Refsnyder added a solo homer over the Green Monster in the same direction where runners [...] Read More »

Landry Fields was fired as general manager of the Atlanta Hawks on Monday after three seasons, with the team missing the playoffs in the last two of those. The Hawks promoted Onsi Saleh to the GM role, while also announcing that they have opened a search for a president of basketball operations. Atlanta went 40-42 [...] Read More »

MADRID (AP) — Former champion Novak Djokovic has returned to the Madrid Open for the first time in three years in hopes of achieving his 100th tour-level title. Djokovic is seeded fourth in the same half of the draw as second-seeded Carlos Alcaraz, the home favorite who arrives at the Caja Magica this week with [...] Read More »

LOS ANGELES — Jeff Skinner has experienced a lot over 1,078 NHL games. The energy and excitement of a playoff game, though, have eluded him so far. That will change Monday when Skinner and the Edmonton Oilers take the ice for Game 1 of their first-round series against the Los Angeles Kings. The chance to [...] Read More »

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Hugo Gatti, nicknamed “El Loco” and considered one of the greatest goalkeepers in Argentine history, has died. He was 80. The Argentine Football Association and the South American Football Confederation announced the news on Monday. He died at Pirovano Hospital in Buenos Aires, where he spent 60 days in intensive [...] Read More »