Sports

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Super Bowl Sunday has a way of sneaking extra responsibilities onto the calendar. There’s food to prep, screens to arrange, guests to wrangle, and a kitchen that somehow needs cleaning just as the fourth quarter gets interesting. Or, you can let someone else handle it. Across Lethbridge, community pubs and [...] Read More »

Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald Coming off a bye week, the Lethbridge Polytechnic Kodiak volleyball teams are hoping to defend home court. Lethbridge will play host to the Olds College Broncos tonight and Saturday afternoon at the Val Matteotti Gymnasium. The Kodiaks had an idle weekend after traveling to Caronport, Sask. for a set with the [...] Read More »

Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald It’s incredible the difference a year can make in junior hockey. At this time last year, Oli Chenier and Hudson Kibblewhite were on the opposite end of one of the fiercest rivalries in all of junior hockey, now the two are teammates with the Lethbridge Hurricanes. Kibblewhite was acquired from the [...] Read More »

Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald When the Lethbridge Hurricanes head to Saskatchewan this week, it will be an opportunity for Carsen Adair to play in front of family and friends. The 18-year-old blueliner is from the village of Clavet, Sask. which is located just southeast of Saskatoon on Highway 16. In an interview with the Herald, [...] Read More »

Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald The first Wednesday in February is always a special one.  Every year, National Girls & Women in Sports Day (NGWSD) takes place to honour the achievement of female athletes, coaches and leaders in the world of sports.  For Lethbridge Polytechnic Kodiaks women’s volleyball head coach Anna Schwark, the day provides a [...] Read More »

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Swiss skier Franjo von Allmen won the first gold medal of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics over the weekend, and he added another on Day 3. It’s turning into quite the Olympic debut for von Allmen, who partnered with Tanguy Nef to win the team combined Monday in the event’s [...] Read More »

ATLANTA (AP) — The attorney for Atlanta Falcons rookie James Pearce Jr. says Pearce “maintains his innocence” as he faces five felony charges following his arrest near Miami on Saturday night. Pearce’s charges include fleeing police after what Doral police said was a domestic dispute with WNBA player Rickea Jackson. Pearce was arrested after crashing [...] Read More »

DOHA — Toronto’s Victoria Mboko and American partner Coco Gauff lost their opening round doubles match at the Qatar Open on Monday. Mboko and Gauff dropped a marathon 4-6, 6-4, 11-9 decision to Spain’s Cristina Bucsa and American Nicole Melichar-Martinez, the seventh seeds. Mboko and Gauff won just 42 per cent of their second-serve points, [...] Read More »

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan dropped its boycott of playing India at the T20 World Cup on Monday. The teams are scheduled to meet on Feb. 15 in Colombo in Sri Lanka, the tournament co-host with India. The Pakistan government posted on X that it “hereby directs the Pakistan National Cricket Team to take the field [...] Read More »

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Lindsey Vonn’s father tells AP he hopes his daughter is done with ski racing after her fall in Winter Olympics downhill. The Associated Press[...] Read More »