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sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Cubs gave up a pair of five-spots in two losses over the weekend. The Cubs, starting a five-game road trip, lost 5-1 Friday at Okotoks to the Bisons and lost 5-2 at Coaldale to the Copperheads on Saturday. Medicine Hat entered the weekend off a pair of home wins, beating the [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Monsignor McCoy Colts ended the football season on a high note. The Colts beat the Catholic Central Cougars 35-3 on Friday at the Methanex Bowl to win the 4A B-Side Jerry Dawson championship trophy. McCoy finished 9-2, their best record since 1999. Hawks fall in provincials The Medicine Hat High Hawks lost out [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Medicine Hat News The Medicine Hat U13AA Hounds outscored their opponents 23-7 en route to a weekend sweep. The Hounds beat the East Kootenay Avalanche 17-3 on Saturday and bested the Lethbridge Hurricanes 6-4 on Sunday. Rylan Johnson had five goals with a pair of assists to lead the Hounds Saturday. Weston Haslbeck and [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Tigers were able to snap out a slump with the shortest lineup of the season. After falling 4-2 to the Edmonton Oil Kings on Friday, the Tigers bounced back with an 8-4 drubbing of the 2024 WHL champion Moose Jaw Warriors on Saturday. Both games at Co-op Place featured a shorthanded [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat College Rattlers women’s cross-country team finished the season with maybe their best race yet. The Rattlers finished 10th at the CCAA cross-country championships in Windsor, Ont. on Saturday. They entered the weekend unranked among the top-15 schools in Canada, yet moved from 12th to 10th at the halfway point of the [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER – Mike O’Shea and Ryan Dinwiddie are together again at the Grey Cup. Winnipeg faces Toronto in the CFL championship game Sunday at B.C. Place Stadium, the second meeting in three years between the two teams after the Argonauts edged the Blue Bombers 24-23 in the 2022 game. Winnipeg is making its fifth straight [...] Read More »

NEW YORK – Former Detroit Red Wings and Edmonton Oilers general manager Ken Holland has joined the NHL’s hockey operations department as a consultant. The league announced the new role for the Hockey Hall of Famer in a release Tuesday. Holland spent 27 years as an NHL general manager, including 22 in Detroit. He helped [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER – CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie has some friendly advice for his successor: Surround yourself with good people and be open-minded. Ambrosie held his final state of the league address Tuesday after announcing last month he planned to retire in 2025 once a new commissioner is hired. The 61-year-old Winnipeg native was named the CFL’s [...] Read More »

TORONTO – The Toronto Sceptres will have a big piece of their lineup missing to start the upcoming Professional Women’s Hockey League campaign. Reigning MVP and scoring champ Natalie Spooner will miss the start of the regular season, general manager Gina Kingsbury announced Tuesday on the first day of training camp. Spooner had told The [...] Read More »

SALEM, N.J. (AP) – The driver charged with killing NHL hockey player Johnny Gaudreau and his brother, Matthew, as they were cycling on a rural New Jersey road briefly appeared in court Tuesday, where the judge extended the window for prosecutors to seek an indictment. The brief hearing, in which the judge granted prosecutors 30 [...] Read More »