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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 »

Canadians Charles (Air) Jourdain and Kyle (Killshot) Prepolec have been added to the Oct. 18 UFC Fight Night card in Vancouver. Jourdain (16-8-1) will face English bantamweight (Dangerous) Davey Grant (17-7-0) while Prepolec (18-9-0) meets veteran American lightweight Drew Dober (27-15-0 with one no-contest). The main event at Rogers Arena pits Reinier (The Dutch Knight) [...] Read More »

BILBAO, Spain (AP) — Oihan Sancet scored the only goal from the penalty spot as Athletic Bilbao beat Rayo Vallecano at home to stay unbeaten in La Liga on Monday. The midfielder was fouled by Florian Lejeune inside the box midway through the second half and took the spot kick himself, sending it straight down [...] Read More »

BALTIMORE (AP) — Kyle Bradish will make his 2025 debut on the mound for the Orioles on Tuesday night, far too late to help Baltimore salvage an extremely disappointing season. Bradish can, however, provide hope that next year might be a whole lot better — for the right-hander and the last-place Orioles. Bradish hasn’t pitched [...] Read More »

WASHINGTON (AP) — A small crowd of people gathered around the bullpen at the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball academy to watch Mo’ne Davis pitch on the first day of the Women’s Professional Baseball League tryouts. Their phones were raised to capture the moment, as the former Little League World Series sensation called out “two-seamer!” before [...] Read More »

NEWCASTLE, England (AP) — Sixteen-year-old substitute Rio Ngumoha scored a sensational last-gasp winner as Liverpool topped 10-man Newcastle 3-2 in a Premier League game for the ages on Monday. Newcastle played the second half with 10 men after Anthony Gordon was sent off just before halftime. Liverpool, 1-0 up at the break, went 2-0 ahead [...] Read More »