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jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Beautiful sights and a pair of wins wrapped up the Medicine Hat Tigers preseason. The Tigers returned Sunday from the WHL’s Whitehorse Showcase, beating the Kelowna Rockets to sweep the preseason and capture the Northern Lights Cup. Head coach Willie Desjardins says they were treated well and he enjoyed the trip to the Yukon. [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Tigers deepened their forward core Tuesday. The Tigers acquired 19-year-old forward Max Sullivan in a trade with the Kamloops Blazers, sending a conditional 2029 eighth-round pick the other way. Sullivan had seven goals and 23 points in 61 games with the Blazers last season. In 106 career WHL regular season games, [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews A pair of the city’s senior high school football teams look to get back in the win column this week. The Medicine Hat High Hawks and Monsignor McCoy Colts lost their Week 3 matchups on Friday. Hat High was shutout 44-0 on the road by the L.C.I. Rams, McCoy lost 25-18 to the Catholic [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Cubs split their lone weekend of preseason action. The Cubs faced the Coaldale Copperheads for a pair of tune-up games over the weekend, winning 4-3 Saturday on the road before falling 1-0 Sunday at the Kinplex. Tash Armstrong, Nolen Sutherland, Blake Dosenberger and Owen Gustafson scored for the Cubs in Saturday’s [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat College Rattlers women’s soccer team split their second regular season weekend. The Rattlers beat the University of Alberta-Augustana Vikings 5-1 on Saturday before falling 2-0 on Sunday at home to the Lethbridge Polytechnic Kodiaks. Saturday’s win, coming on the road, was led by a pair of goals from both Alexis Ratke [...] Read More »

NEW YORK (AP) — Backup catcher Luis Torrens was reinstated from the 10-day injured list Wednesday by the New York Mets as they try to hang onto a playoff spot. Torrens had been sidelined since Sept. 7 with a bruised right forearm. After going 0 for 4 with two strikeouts Tuesday in his lone rehab [...] Read More »

PHOENIX (AP) — Christian Koss hit a two-run double in a five-run 11th inning, and the San Francisco Giants spoiled a nine-inning, one-hit start by Arizona’s Brandon Pfaadt, beating the Diamondbacks 5-1 on Wednesday to end a four-game skid. The Giants (76-76) moved within 2 1/2 games of the Mets, who played later Wednesday, for [...] Read More »

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers have lost another pitcher to injury and are unsure when All-Star closer Trevor Megill can return from his with the playoffs approaching. The latest blow came Wednesday when José Quintana landed on the 15-day injured list with a left calf strain. The veteran lefty was hurt in the fourth [...] Read More »

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The wait was five years. It seemed longer. In the middle of a darkened visitors clubhouse at PNC Park, the Chicago Cubs embraced each other. Champagne flowed and flew. They clinched a postseason berth for the first time since 2020, but celebrated for the first time since 2017. Everything was muted during [...] Read More »

Björn Borg starts his new memoir, “Heartbeats,” with a story about being rushed to a Dutch hospital in the 1990s after overdosing on “alcohol, drugs, pills — my preferred ways of self-medication,” and the Swedish tennis great closes it by revealing that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. “It’s good,” Borg, 69, said in a [...] Read More »