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jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb No better way to start a busy week than on a winning note. The Tigers kicked off their four-game week with a big 6-2 win Wednesday at Calgary over the Hitmen, the start of four games in five nights and the first of three against the Hitmen this week. “It was a huge one, [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Cubs have the second half of the HJHL season to continue growing. The Cubs head into a two-game weekend that will be the halfway point of the season, sitting fourth in the South division with a 10-6-1 record. They’re just a point back of the Okotoks Bisons (10-6-2) and Strathmore Wheatland [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews For the sixth time the Professional Bull Riders Canada’s Elite Cup Series will buck its way back to Medicine Hat. The PBR Medicine Hat Classic will be held at Co-op Place on Oct. 17, 2026 marking the sixth appearance by PBR in the Gas City. The Cup Series was in Medicine Hat in October, [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Two Hatters will be vying for the Vanier Cup this weekend. A former Monsignor McCoy Colt and a Medicine Hat High Hawk are part of the Saskatchewan Huskies who will face the Montreal Carabins in the 60th Vanier Cup on Saturday at Mosiac Stadium in Regina. Freshman defensive lineman Kai Kukurudza has played three [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews arly in the third quarter of the 112th Grey Cup after Saskatchewan scored a touchdown to go up 22-7 and the Alouettes went two and out, I made a note to myself, “They should be able to cruise home now.” Yeah, right. Who was I kidding? It’s just not part of Roughrider DNA to [...] Read More »

HELSINKI (AP) — United States champion Amber Glenn took another step forward ahead of the Olympics by taking the lead in the short program in Finlandia Trophy figure skating on Friday. Skating to Madonna’s “Like a Prayer,” Glenn started with a triple axel on her way to a season-best score of 75.72 points to lead [...] Read More »

NEW YORK (AP) — Side-arming left-hander Ryan Yarbrough and the New York Yankees finalized their $2.5 million, one-year contract on Friday. Yarbrough can earn an additional $250,000 in performance bonuses. He gives the Yankees a possible starter to join Max Fried, Cam Schlittler, Luis Gil and Will Warren in the rotation early in the season [...] Read More »

ZURICH (AP) — Days after Panama qualified for the 2026 World Cup, FIFA banned the country’s soccer federation president for failing to respect a previous ban imposed for fat-shaming a women’s national team star. FIFA said Manuel Arias was “banned from all football-related activity for six months,” which will expire about four weeks before the [...] Read More »

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — The first official test race on the controversial sliding track being rebuilt for the Milan Cortina Olympics was won by skeleton world champion Matt Weston of Britain on Friday. Weston beat European champion Samuel Maier of Austria by 0.15 seconds after two runs in the head-first discipline down the Eugenio [...] Read More »

BOLOGNA, Italy (AP) — Matteo Berrettini beat Raphael Collignon 6-3, 6-4 to give two-time defending champion Italy the lead against Belgium in their Davis Cup semifinal on Friday. The No. 56-ranked Berrettini, a 2021 Wimbledon runner-up with 10 singles titles on the tour, clinched the first set on serve against No. 86 Collignon. Collignon dropped [...] Read More »