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jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Beautiful sights and a pair of wins wrapped up the Medicine Hat Tigers preseason. The Tigers returned Sunday from the WHL’s Whitehorse Showcase, beating the Kelowna Rockets to sweep the preseason and capture the Northern Lights Cup. Head coach Willie Desjardins says they were treated well and he enjoyed the trip to the Yukon. [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Tigers deepened their forward core Tuesday. The Tigers acquired 19-year-old forward Max Sullivan in a trade with the Kamloops Blazers, sending a conditional 2029 eighth-round pick the other way. Sullivan had seven goals and 23 points in 61 games with the Blazers last season. In 106 career WHL regular season games, [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews A pair of the city’s senior high school football teams look to get back in the win column this week. The Medicine Hat High Hawks and Monsignor McCoy Colts lost their Week 3 matchups on Friday. Hat High was shutout 44-0 on the road by the L.C.I. Rams, McCoy lost 25-18 to the Catholic [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Tigers wrapped their preseason in winning fashion. The Tigers beat the Kelowna Rockets 5-2 on Saturday to win the WHL’s Yukon Showcase and capture the Northern Lights Cup as winners of the two-game set held in Whitehorse, Yukon. Medicine Hat beat the Rockets 8-4 on Friday. The wins also sweep the [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Cubs split their lone weekend of preseason action. The Cubs faced the Coaldale Copperheads for a pair of tune-up games over the weekend, winning 4-3 Saturday on the road before falling 1-0 Sunday at the Kinplex. Tash Armstrong, Nolen Sutherland, Blake Dosenberger and Owen Gustafson scored for the Cubs in Saturday’s [...] Read More »

MONACO (AP) — Take off had a different meaning for Monaco players when they were unable to fly to Bruges as planned for a Champions League match. The air conditioning on the plane malfunctioned and led to excessively hot conditions. So the players took their clothes off. Videos posted online by Monaco player Jordan Teze [...] Read More »

SHENZHEN, China (AP) — Jessica Pegula and Taylor Townsend sent the United States into the Billie Jean King Cup semifinals for the first time since 2021 after beating Kazakhstan 2-1 on Thursday. Pegula and Townsend topped Yulia Putintseva and Elena Rybakina 6-2, 7-6 (1) in the deciding doubles. In singles, Emma Navarro defeated Putintseva 7-5, [...] Read More »

Barcelona will have to cope without superstar winger Lamine Yamal for a trip to Newcastle in the Champions League on Thursday, when there’s a sooner-than-expected return to Manchester City for Kevin De Bruyne. The final batch of matches from the first round of the league stage also sees Kairat, a tournament newcomer from Almaty in [...] Read More »

Los Angeles Angels (69-83, fifth in the AL West) vs. Milwaukee Brewers (93-59, first in the NL Central) Milwaukee; Thursday, 7:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Angels: Yusei Kikuchi (6-11, 4.08 ERA, 1.46 WHIP, 166 strikeouts); Brewers: Quinn Priester (13-2, 3.25 ERA, 1.23 WHIP, 118 strikeouts) BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Angels, on a six-game losing [...] Read More »

San Diego Padres (83-69, second in the NL West) vs. New York Mets (78-74, second in the NL East) New York; Thursday, 1:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Padres: Randy Vasquez (5-6, 3.72 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 71 strikeouts); Mets: Jonah Tong (1-2, 8.49 ERA, 1.71 WHIP, 13 strikeouts) BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets and San [...] Read More »