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jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The CHL USA Prospects Challenge provided NHL scouts an opportunity to learn more about the CHL’s top draft-eligible players. It also gave those players an opportunity to pick up some lessons of their own. The second rendition of the two-game series saw the U.S. NTDP capture the challenge crown for the first time, winning [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb After their busiest week of the season, the Medicine Hat Tigers face another tough test this weekend. The Tigers kick off a two-game road trip tonight in Saskatoon against the Blades before they face the East division-leading Prince Albert Raiders. They hit the road four days removed from a week of four games in [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Team Miller defenced the home-ice territory last weekend at the Curling Centre. The Medicine Hat curling team of Lyndon Sherwick, Emmett Cook, Colby Sherwick and Ryker Miller won the men’s event at the U18 Bonspiel held at the Medicine Hat Curling Centre. They won their game 7-5. Team Roa of Calgary won the women’s [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Boxing Club was represented in Vancouver last weekend. The local club sent Jacob Walne and Nate Vossler to B.C. for a pair of bouts. Vossler lost what coach Kerry Fahlman called an unpopular split decision to Griffyn Gooch from Quintet Boxing in the open 69 kg. elite category. Jacob Walne also [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Cubs are putting things together at the right time of year. The Cubs enter a two-game home stand this weekend on a five-game win streak after beating their South division rival Okotoks Bisons and the North division co-leader Red Deer Vipers last weekend. They host the Strathmore Wheatland Kings tonight, sitting [...] Read More »

The warning signs were there when Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens struggled to move the ball consistently while beating the Browns and Jets. Now, after they fell flat against a Cincinnati defense that had been atrocious for most of the season, there’s no denying the Ravens have a problem. And Jackson is a significant [...] Read More »

TOULOUSE, France (AP) — France superstar scrumhalf Antoine Dupont is set to return for Toulouse in the Top 14 this weekend after more than eight months on the sidelines due to a serious knee injury. Dupont, regarded by many as the world’s best player, has not featured since rupturing cruciate ligaments in his right knee [...] Read More »

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Vanderbilt has given coach Clark Lea a contract extension after he led the Commodores to their best regular season since 1915 and put the program that began in 1890 within one victory of its first 10-win season. Athletic director Candice Storey Lee announced the extension Friday for Lea, the 2024 Southeastern [...] Read More »

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — When P.J. Fleck was hired as Minnesota’s head coach nearly nine years ago, there was no message from Gophers fans he received more frequently or poignantly than this: Just beat Wisconsin. The battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe was so lopsided then that making the Gophers competitive against the rival Badgers in the [...] Read More »

SAO PAULO (AP) — Flamengo and Palmeiras will both go in search of their fourth Copa Libertadores titles and South American bragging rights when they clash on Saturday. The two teams have each won the Copa twice in the last six years and they’ve also competed for Brazilian league supremacy for almost a decade. Flamengo [...] Read More »