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By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald   The Lethbridge Hurricanes improved to 3-2 on their season-high seven-game road trip after edging the Victoria Royals 4-3 on Tuesday night in B.C.’s capital city. Victoria got the scoring going 50 seconds into the contest when Seth Fryer scored his first of the year from Roan Woodward and Reggie [...] Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald Next week’s 2025 CHL USA Prospects Challenge will see top prospects that are eligible for the 2026 NHL Draft  from the Canadian Hockey League compete against the USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program (NTDP) Under-18 Team in a two-game format. “It’s an absolute premier showcase for the NHL draft,” said [...] Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Polytechnic Kodiak women’s basketball won their third game in a row on Saturday with a 65-59 victory over Keyano College at Val Matteotti Gymnasium. The win also meant a weekend sweep on home court after they beat Lakeland 59-42 on Friday and a  four-way tie for first place [...] Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald Two local-area  high school football teams are moving on to School Sport Alberta provincial semifinals after their quarterfinal wins,  while two other local teams others were sent packing on Saturday. The Raymond Comets defeated the St. Francis Browns 29-10 on home turf, while the LCI Rams were sent packing after [...] Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald A local ringette tournament came through in a big way with its generosity in a time of need over the weekend. The Lethbridge Ringette Association hosted its annual Bridge Battle Fall tournament at Cavendish Farms Centre over the weekend, and it was between initiative lead and LRA parent Cara Parks, [...] Read More »

ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) — The final six places for the 2026 World Cup will be determined by two playoff tournaments in March. Four more teams will qualify from Europe, along with two from the rest of the world. The UEFA playoffs will consist of 16 nations, while FIFA’s intercontinental playoffs feature six. The successful teams [...] Read More »

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona’s next Champions League match at home will be at the renovated Camp Nou stadium with a partial capacity. The club said Wednesday it will host Eintracht Frankfurt at the venue on Dec. 9 in the league phase of the European competition. About 45,000 tickets are expected to be available for [...] Read More »

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — 0The tiny Caribbean island country Curaçao will go to the 2026 World Cup as the smallest nation by population ever to qualify for the marquee event in men’s soccer. Curaçao, an autonomous territory of about 156,000 people within the Netherlands kingdom, takes the record of Iceland, with a population of just [...] Read More »

Two matchups of Associated Press Top 25 teams will have College Football Playoff implications Saturday and a bevy of other games will impact conference races. No. 16 Southern California heads to No. 6 Oregon for what essentially will be a battle for the third spot in the Big Ten’s CFP pecking order behind Ohio State [...] Read More »

The Kansas City Chiefs are scoring more points than at this point last season, allowing fewer, and have improved their turnover margin. Those are usually ingredients for success but that’s not the case for the three-time defending AFC champions, who have four fewer wins compared to this point last season and are currently outside of [...] Read More »