Sports

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald Coming out of an early season bye-week, the Lethbridge Polytechnic Kodiaks women’s volleyball team were swept in three sets (25-22, 25-17, 25-21) on home court by The King’s University (TKU) Eagles on Friday night. “I had to admit to the girls it’s even for me confusing when a team passes [...] Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Polytechnic Kodiaks men’s basketball team have clawed out two road wins on their four-game road trip to start the season which has their head coach beaming about some areas of their game. Head coach Ryan Heggie has been happy with the team’s defensive game right out of the [...] Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald With the Alberta teachers’ strike ending on Wednesday after three weeks , it also meant that local high schools had to figure out a way to complete the Prairie Sky Conference football season after it was put on pause on Oct. 6 due to the strike.  League coaches met via [...] Read More »

Graham Kelly  Inside the CFL Calgary dominated the first half of the season, sweeping the Roughriders and Bombers. The Lions were dominant down the stretch and go into the semi-final on a six-game winning streak. Which teams will show up Saturday at B.C. Place? “We are kind of a team that gets on runs,” Calgary [...] Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge Hurricanes rookie 17-year-old forward Lukas Lima is relishing the new environment with his new team after being acquired from the Everett Silvertips in the offseason. “All the boys have been great (and) all the staff have been very  welcoming, so it’s been fun so far,” said Lima. Lima comes [...] Read More »

VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) — Kevin Willard waited in the Boston Celtics’ staff room as Rick Pitino unloaded after a crushing last-second loss and delivered one of the great rants in ticked-off sports coach history. Pitino’s tirade is remembered and mimicked to this day — how Larry Bird and other Celtics greats weren’t “walking through that [...] Read More »

Wolverhampton Wanderers, the Premier League’s last-placed team, fired manager Vitor Pereira on Sunday after a winless start to the season. Pereira joined Wolves in December when the team was in next-to-last place in the league, secured its survival in the lucrative top flight by April and was handed a new three-year contract in September. However, [...] Read More »

PARIS (AP) — Alizé Cornet has been named the French captain of the Billie Jean King Cup team a few months after retiring as a player. The French tennis federation announced the nomination on Sunday, saying that Cornet stood out from other candidates because of her “investment in French tennis, her profile, her motivation and [...] Read More »

MUNICH (AP) — Bayern Munich announced club-record financial and membership figures at its annual general meeting on Sunday, when members also celebrated the team’s record 15-game winning start to the season. Bayern president Herbert Hainer said the club gained 50,000 new members in the last year, taking its total to 432,500, “more than any other [...] Read More »

WOLVERHAMPTON, England (AP) — Wolverhampton Wanderers, the Premier League’s last-placed team, fired manager Vitor Pereira on Sunday after a winless start to the season. Pereira joined Wolves in December when the team was in next-to-last place in the league, secured its survival in the lucrative top flight by April and was handed a new three-year [...] Read More »