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jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb After winning all their games across a two-month stretch, the Medicine Hat Tigers are getting a refresher course on playing their best. The Tigers came out of a two-game road trip through Saskatchewan with one point, picked up in a 3-2 shootout loss Friday to the Saskatoon Blades. They lost 5-1 Saturday to the [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Mavericks announced a fourth returnee for the 2026 roster. On Monday the Mavs announced infielder Blake Dale will don the red and white for a third summer in the WCBL. The Riverton, Wyoming product played 36 games last season with 33 hits, two home runs and 18 RBIs with a .260 [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Cubs are division champions for the first time in 20-plus years. The Cubs’ split weekend helped them clinch the South division, their first South division title since the 2001-02 season, their debut season in the HJHL. They lost 7-2 Saturday to the North division leading Red Deer Vipers (25-7-2) before they [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat U13AAA South East Tigers won their lone game of the weekend. The Tigers beat the West Central Tigers 9-5 on Saturday. Shawn Mrowil had three goals and five points in the win. Fischer Sprunger had a pair of goals and a pair of assists, Tyson Nguyen had two goals and both [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The MHC Rattlers indoor track team opened the 2026 season with a record-setting weekend in Edmonton. The Rattlers raced at the Concordia Open on Saturday, the ACAC’s first meet of the winter semester. Rookie runner Daniel Friesen led the way for MHC in the men’s 50m, holding off NAIT’s Malachi Muir, last year’s Canadian [...] Read More »

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Iga Świątek picked up a theme that Coco Gauff left the Australian Open with after the 21-year-old American’s racket-smashing, frustration-releasing moments away from the court went viral. Gauff said a “conversations needs to had” about the seemingly limitless access-all-areas cameras that track players from the locker room to the court and [...] Read More »

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 29 points and the short-handed Oklahoma City Thunder beat the New Orleans Pelicans 104-95 on Tuesday night to avoid their first three-game skid of the season. Chet Holmgren had 20 points, 14 rebounds and five blocks for NBA-best Oklahoma City (38-10), which had lost back-to-back home games for [...] Read More »

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Kirill Kaprizov scored the shootout winner as the Minnesota Wild defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 4-3 on Tuesday night. Kaprizov was Minnesota’s second shooter and beat Spencer Knight with a wrist shot. Wild goalie Jesper Wallstedt stopped all three shootout attempts as the Wild came back from a 3-0 deficit to [...] Read More »

DEKALB, Ill. (AP) — Dylan Ducommun scored 21 points as Northern Illinois beat Western Michigan 85-65 on Tuesday. Ducommun went 7 of 15 from the field (7 for 12 from 3-point range) for the Huskies (7-13, 3-6 Mid-American Conference). Taj Walters added 16 points while shooting 7 for 12, including 2 for 5 from beyond [...] Read More »

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Ben Hammond scored 20 points and Jailen Bedford scored 14 points and Virginia Tech nearly squandered a double-digit lead late and held on to beat Georgia Tech 71-65 on Tuesday night. Reserve Christian Gurdak scored 11 points and Tobi Lawal 10 before fouling out. Surprisingly, the Yellow Jackets outshot Virginia Tech [...] Read More »