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jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb There was a lot to love about Medicine Hat Mavericks’ head coach Jonathon Thornhill’s debut summer in the WCBL. The Mavs tallied 34 wins to their third best record since 2010 and the most wins since 2019, as they navigated a rainy summer and the dog days it brings. A summer of successes ultimately [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Western Canadian Baseball League championship is one day closer to being awarded. The WBCL finals kicked off Thursday night with the Regina Red Sox hosting the Sylvan Lake Gulls for Game 1 of the best-of-three championship series. Game 1 was not complete by press time. The rest of the series, Game 2 and [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Canada and the United States meet today for a spot in the gold medal game of the 2025 Hlinka Gretzky Cup. There are four Medicine Hat Tigers’ forwards vying for a spot in the gold finals in the game, with Markus and Liam Ruck representing Canada and Shaeffer Gordon-Carroll and Noah Davidson donning the [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The semifinals of the 2025 Hlinka Gretzky Cup may have Medicine Hat Tigers fans divided. Team Canada with Tigers forwards Markus and Liam Ruck will face the United States with Tabbies’ forwards Shaeffer Gordon-Carroll and Noah Davidson on Friday at 11 a.m. MST with a spot in the gold medal final on the line. [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Western Canadian Baseball League’s championship will spend the offseason in a new city. The Regina Red Sox and Sylvan Lake Gulls meet in the WCBL finals starting tonight in Regina, with both clubs vying for the Harry Hallis Memorial Trophy. It’s the first season since 2021 when the Lethbridge Bulls were crowned champions, [...] Read More »

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Pep Guardiola said if Brazil internationals Savinho and Ederson want to leave Manchester City they should just come ask. The City manager addressed speculation about the players’ future on Friday, a day before the team opens its Premier League campaign at Wolverhampton. “If they want to leave they will come to [...] Read More »

NYON, Switzerland (AP) — UEFA opened a disciplinary case Friday after an Israeli soccer club’s fans displayed a banner targeting Poland that was criticized by the Polish president and diplomats from Israel. Fallout from the Maccabi Haifa vs. Rakow Czestochowa game Thursday in UEFA’s Conference League adds to current scrutiny around non-sporting issues being aired [...] Read More »

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The NCAA fined Michigan tens of millions of dollars Friday and suspended coach Sherrone Moore for three games for a sign-stealing scandal that has loomed over college football’s winningest program for nearly two years. Moore, who was already issued a self-imposed two-game suspension by Michigan, will also be banned from [...] Read More »

LONDON (AP) — Jacob Bethell will break a record which has stood for 136 years when the 21-year-old allrounder becomes England’s youngest ever men’s cricket captain next month. Bethell will lead England against Ireland in three Twenty20s in Dublin. The previous youngest England captain was Monty Bowden, who was 23 in 1889 when he took [...] Read More »

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan football fined 10s of millions of dollars, coach Sherrone Moore banned for three games in sign-stealing scandal. The Associated Press[...] Read More »