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jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Markus and Liam Ruck have been racking up the passport stamps in their young career. The twin Medicine Hat Tigers forwards are coming off a third-place finish with Canada at the Hlinka Gretzky Cup held in Czechia and Slovakia. In 2024 they donned the red and white at the Youth Winter Olympics in South [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The United States captured their first gold at the Hlinka Gretzky Cup since 2003, just the second in the country’s history. There was no other goal for the two Medicine Hat Tigers in the U.S. lineup. “We knew that stat but it’s kind of hard to kind of wrap your head around it, how [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The new commissioner of the CFL is Stewart Johnston , the former senior vice president, content and sales, Bell Media. After graduating from Queen’s University in 1997, he began his career with TSN, progressing through the ranks until he became president of that organization. In 2024, he became senior vice president, content and sales, [...] Read More »

Medicine Hat News The Medicine Hat Softball Association honoured the top Thunder players last week. The Thunder wrapped up the 2025 summer season with a banquet on Aug. 16 where they named the award recipients for their three season awards, the most valuable player, heart and hustle and thunder achievement awards. MVP U17: Gracie Eddy  [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Mavericks have named a new head coach for next summer. The Mavs announced via social media Monday that assistant coach Ryan Reed has been promoted to the head coach position for the 2026 season. Reed joined the Mavs this summer from Mid-America Christian University where he is the assistant coach and [...] Read More »

MACKAY, Australia (AP) — Australia’s top three batters bossed an understrength South Africa pace bowling attack with blazing centuries to hand the tourists their largest ever ODI defeat in the third and final game on Sunday. Travis Head (142), captain Mitchell Marsh (100) and Cameron Green’s (118 not out) maiden ODI hundred powered Australia to [...] Read More »

Houston Astros (72-58, first in the AL West) vs. Baltimore Orioles (59-70, fifth in the AL East) Baltimore; Sunday, 1:35 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: Spencer Arrighetti (1-4, 6.94 ERA, 1.63 WHIP, 21 strikeouts); Orioles: Trevor Rogers (6-2, 1.41 ERA, 0.80 WHIP, 67 strikeouts) BOTTOM LINE: The Baltimore Orioles come into a matchup with the [...] Read More »

Kansas City Royals (66-64, second in the AL Central) vs. Detroit Tigers (78-53, first in the AL Central) Detroit; Sunday, 1:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Seth Lugo (8-6, 3.73 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 115 strikeouts); Tigers: Jack Flaherty (7-12, 4.51 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 162 strikeouts) BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals will try to end [...] Read More »

St. Louis Cardinals (64-66, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (62-67, fourth in the AL East) Tampa, Florida; Sunday, 12:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Matthew Liberatore (6-10, 4.13 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 93 strikeouts); Rays: Ryan Pepiot (8-10, 3.95 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, 146 strikeouts) BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays play the [...] Read More »

Boston Red Sox (71-59, second in the AL East) vs. New York Yankees (69-60, third in the AL East) New York; Sunday, 7:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Red Sox: Dustin May (7-9, 4.59 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 114 strikeouts); Yankees: Carlos Rodon (13-7, 3.24 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 169 strikeouts) BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Red Sox will [...] Read More »