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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 »

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Bo Nix and Sean Payton downplayed their most recent sideline exchange as each presented his version of events. The Denver Broncos quarterback maintained that what appeared to be a heated conversation Sunday at Indianapolis wasn’t so much volatile as volume-related. His coach said it was simply a matter trying to get [...] Read More »

PHOENIX (AP) — Brandon Pfaadt and 42-year-old three-time Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander matched a lot of zeros in a mid-September pitcher’s duel between NL West rivals still hoping to get into the playoffs. Both starters were spectacular, though neither got a decision in San Francisco’s 5-1 win over Arizona on Wednesday. Every run [...] Read More »

TOKYO (AP) — Former world sprint champion Fred Kerley has become the first track athlete and first American to join the no-drug-testing Enhanced Games. Kerley is currently serving a ban for missed doping tests and is not at the world championships in Tokyo this week. His lawyers have said he is looking to contest the [...] 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 »

NEW YORK (AP) — Breanna Stewart started for the New York Liberty in Game 2 of the WNBA playoffs against the Phoenix Mercury on Wednesday night, after spraining the MCL in her left knee in the opener of the first-round series Sunday. Liberty coach Sandy Brondello had said earlier Wednesday that Stewart’s availability was a [...] Read More »