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 »

MADRID (AP) — Rayo Vallecano’s home match against Oviedo in the Spanish league on Saturday was postponed on short notice because of safety concerns over the field at Vallecas Stadium. The Spanish league said the decision, which was made just hours before the scheduled kickoff early Saturday afternoon in Madrid, was intended to “ensure the [...] Read More »

Barcelona has become the latest soccer club to cut ties with a proposed breakaway European Super League. Barcelona, along with Real Madrid, had at one point been leading the fight to get a rival competition to the Champions League off the ground. But in a short statement on Saturday, Barcelona officially confirmed it would no [...] Read More »

REGINA — Some residents of Saskatchewan’s capital are hoping their city can jump on the “Heated Rivalry” bandwagon, arguing Regina has skin in the game to make hay from the hit series. While the book that inspired the Crave TV production has got locals buzzing — including unlimited digital downloads at the library and a [...] Read More »

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Dak Prescott snapping the ball to Jalen Hurts is a play that can only be witnessed at the Pro Bowl Games, the centerpiece for the NFL’s push to grow flag football on the biggest stage this week at the Super Bowl. Prescott wasn’t just filling in at center, though. He quickly [...] Read More »

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Faheem Ashraf’s late assault rescued Pakistan in a thrilling three-wicket win against the Netherlands with three balls remaining in the opening game of cricket’s T20 World Cup on Saturday. Pakistan can ill afford to lose points in any of the Group A games it plays after announcing it would boycott [...] Read More »