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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 »

OTTAWA — The reigning world and Canadian women’s curling championship team skipped by Rachel Homan has announced Heather Nedohin as its coach for the upcoming season. Homan, third Tracy Fleury, second Emma Miskew, lead Sarah Wilkes and alternate Rachel Brown out of the Ottawa Curling Club are No. 1 in the world in World Curling’s [...] Read More »

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Caitlin Clark and four other injured teammates have been ruled out of have been ruled out of Tuesday’s key late-season matchup between the Indiana Fever and Seattle Storm. The announcement came when Indiana updated its injury report Monday. Fever players and coaches were not scheduled to have media availability. Clark has not [...] Read More »

NEW YORK (AP) — Venus Williams has started her first Grand Slam match in two years on Monday night at the U.S. Open, facing 2023 French Open runner-up Karolina Muchova in Arthur Ashe Stadium. At age 45, Williams is the oldest singles player at the hard-court tournament since Renee Richards was 47 in 1981. She [...] Read More »

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Defensive tackle Jordan Phillips is returning for a fourth stint with Buffalo after signing with the Bills on Monday. The 32-year-old’s signing was included in the NFL’s daily transaction list, and not yet announced by the Bills. Phillips has 10 seasons of NFL experience and returns to Buffalo after finishing [...] Read More »

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — After three mostly productive seasons in Washington, Brian Robinson isn’t quite sure why things didn’t work out with the Commanders. Figuring that out now isn’t very important as Robinson tries to get up to speed quickly with the San Francisco 49ers following a trade late last week. “It was like [...] Read More »