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sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Alberta Marlin Aquatic Club raced in Calgary this weekend. The local swim club sent 12 qualified swimmers to compete against 12 other teams at the Provincial Series: Cascade Speed Meet hosted at the MNP Community and Sport Centre. AMAC had three other qualified swimmers who were unavailable to attend. The local results are: [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews With Toronto quarterback Chad Kelly breaking his ankle near the end of the third quarter of the Eastern Final, the 111th Grey Cup against Winnipeg will be between David and Goliath. But I happen to know David, aka Nick Arbuckle, so don’t consign the Good Ship Argonaut to dry dock just yet. The man [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Boxing Club sent one fighter to Calgary over the weekend. Medicine Hat’s Nate Vossler fought at a show hosted by Impact Boxing in Calgary. Vossler beat Oliver McCluskie from Marshall Boxing in Edmonton by split decision in the 60 kg. Open Youth[...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The puck drops on the Medicine Hat Hockey Hounds flagship tournament today. The 51st annual U15AAA Hockey Hounds tournament gets underway tonight, with the first set of games across three ice pads getting started at 5:15 p.m. Games will be held at the Hockey Hounds arena and on both surfaces at the Kinplex. The [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb After having his first WHL point relinquished to start the season, Brayden Ryan-MacKay put matters into his own hand. The 16-year-old Medicine Hat Tigers rookie forward was originally credited with an assist in a 4-2 win over the Edmonton Oil Kings in the season opener, Sept. 21. The point was reassigned days later, leaving [...] Read More »

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) – The Tampa Bay Rays will play their 2025 home games at the New York Yankees’ nearby spring training ballpark amid uncertainty about the future of hurricane-damaged Tropicana Field, Rays executives told The Associated Press. Stuart Sternberg, the Rays’ principal owner, said in an interview that Steinbrenner Field in Tampa is [...] Read More »

TORONTO – York United FC will field an under-20 team in League1 Ontario next year. The Canadian Premier League team announced Thursday it has acquired a licence to compete in the League1 Ontario men’s Championship Division, the second tier of the semi-pro league which is also home to the Toronto FC academy side. Starting next [...] Read More »

Sam Miller, Jesse Kilgour and Rhys James are in line for their first caps off the bench Saturday when Canada faces Romania in a men’s rugby test match in Bucharest. All three are members of Rugby Canada’s Pacific Pride development academy. Canada coach Kingsley Jones is preparing his young side for World Cup qualifying, which [...] Read More »

TORONTO – The Toronto Raptors unveiled a new jersey this morning honouring the team’s history and Hall of Famer Vince Carter. The black uniform has a red dinosaur wearing Carter’s purple No. 15 jersey in the midst of a between-the-legs bounce dunk. The acrobatic pose replicates one of Carter’s iconic jams that helped him win [...] Read More »

DUBLIN – Former Rugby Canada chair Sally Dennis has been elected to World Rugby’s executive board. The Vancouver lawyer received 28 votes from the World Rugby Council, ahead of Uruguay’s Sebastian Pineyrua (18 votes) and Samoa’s Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi (five) for the non-high-performance union position on the panel that essentially acts as the world governing [...] Read More »