Sports

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com Some of the world’s top curling talent will be on display in Medicine Hat this fall. The Grand Slam of Curling’s Masters event will be held at Co-op Place from Nov. 3-8, announced Tuesday morning at Co-op Place. The six-day event will feature 16 of the men’s and 16 of the women’s top teams [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Rattlers men’s relay team hit the podium twice at the ACAC Indoor Track Championship this weekend. MHC, led by Askia Tahrou, Christian Panagay, and twins Daniel and Joshua Friesen, raced to a pair of podium-worthy finishes at the championships in Edmonton. The men’s 4 x 200m team finished second in a school record [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat U17AAA South East Tigers enter the AEHL playoffs on a high note The Tigers beat the Lethbridge Hurricanes 8-1 Saturday before winning 3-2 in overtime Sunday at home over the Calgary Flames. Hayden MacNeil led the offence in Saturday’s win with two goals and an assist. Illya Khazov had two goals, [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Four Medicine Hat female minor hockey teams took home banners this weekend. The Medicine Hat Wildcats captured four banners across three age groups. The U13A Wildcats beat Red Deer in a best-of-three series for the Rocky Mountain Female Hockey League Championship. They captured the title with a 7-0 win Saturday at the Hockey Hounds [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Heritage Junior Hockey League has announced the game times and dates for the league finals. The South Division champion Medicine Hat Cubs will take on the North Division and regular season champion Red Deer Vipers in the best-of-five league finals. Red Deer holds home ice advantage in the final, hosting Games 1, 3 [...] Read More »

Bayern Munich and Atletico Madrid took giant strides toward the Champions League quarterfinals with big wins Tuesday. Liverpool and Barcelona still have work to do. Bayern thrashed Atalanta 6-1 without top scorer Harry Kane in the starting lineup. And Atletico made under-pressure Tottenham coach Igor Tudor pay for his bold call to drop first-choice goalkeeper [...] Read More »

NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA and its players’ union met at a hotel Tuesday to continue discussions on reaching a new collective bargaining agreement, with a deadline to get the season started on time at hand. The meeting comes on a day that the league has said at least a handshake agreement on a [...] Read More »

Quarterback Geno Smith is returning to where his career started after the New York Jets acquired him in a trade with Las Vegas, a person with knowledge of the deal said Tuesday. The Raiders could have been in position to release Smith, their starter for a 3-14 team last season, with the expectation that they [...] Read More »

BERGAMO, Italy (AP) — Alphonso Davies covered his face with his shirt as he left the field with an injury in Bayern Munich’s game against Atalanta in the Champions League on Tuesday, raising questions about the Canadian star’s availability for the World Cup. Davies sank into a squatting position on the field after an apparent [...] Read More »

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Chargers and tight end Charlie Kolar agreed on a multi-year deal Tuesday. Kolar spent the past four seasons with the Baltimore Ravens and then-coach John Harbaugh, who was fired in January. Now, Kolar will play under Harbaugh’s brother, Jim, who is the head coach of the Chargers. [...] Read More »