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By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Hurricanes were pummelled by the Saskatoon Blade 8-3 on Friday night at SaskTel Centre. Lethbridge opened the scoring in the contest when Andrew Petruk scored his first goal as Hurricane 2:36 into the game from Nathan Maloney. The Blades Cooper Williams tied the game 10:57 into the first [...] Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Polytechnic Kodiaks men’s volleyball team completed the first semester with a 7-2 record and their coach  liked the growth he saw from the group. “I think there’s a lot of growth,” said Greg Gibos, Kodiak men’s volleyball head coach. The Kodiaks dealt with many injuries towards the end [...] Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Prairie Sky Conference’s  high school football league officially wrapped up  the season with their football awards night  on Wednesday night at LCI. The last award handed out was to the Most Valuable Player (MVP) and that went to  Raymond Comets running back/linebacker Seth Harding. “It feels great,” said Harding. [...] Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Hurricanes began their three-game road trip with a 7-3 defeat to the Brandon Wheat Kings on Wednesday night. The Wheat Kings got the scoring going 1:32 into the game when Joby Baumuller cut into the slot and beat Canes goaltender Koen Cleaver with a wrist shot. Nicholas Johnson [...] Read More »

Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald- Local Journalism Initiative Reporter  It’s no walk in the park to make the adjustment to the WHL, but the four 16-year-old players on the Lethbridge Hurricanes are doing all the right things so far this season. Forwards Tyden Lafournaise, Jake Evans and Enzo DiDomenicantonio all broke camp with Lethbridge to start [...] Read More »

First, Patrick Mahomes went down. Then, it was Micah Parsons. The NFL lost two of its all-time greatest players to serious knee injuries in a span of a few hours on Sunday, ruining a day filled with exciting comebacks and fascinating stories. Forty-four-year-old Philip Rivers played his first game in 1,800 days and nearly led [...] Read More »

Rugby remains “a long, long way” from making a law change to lower the tackle height at elite level despite “positive results” from trials in the amateur game, the world governing body said Monday. World Rugby said trials over the last two seasons involving 11 unions around the world that set the legal tackle height [...] Read More »

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany will face Ghana in March to prepare for the World Cup after the draw blocked a planned friendly with the Ivory Coast. Germany and Ghana both confirmed Monday they will play in Stuttgart on March 30, three days after an already-scheduled away game for Julian Nagelsmann’s team in Switzerland. The [...] Read More »

MUNICH (AP) — Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer could miss his team’s last game of the year because of a hamstring tear. The club said on Monday that the injury to Neuer’s right hamstring was confirmed by a medical examination after the 39-year-old club captain played the entirety of Sunday’s 2-2 draw with Mainz. That [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — Jakub Dobes needed a strong performance after consecutive poor showings. Six minutes into Sunday’s game, the Montreal Canadiens goalie was staring down Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers on a two-minute 5-on-3 power play – an early test against one of the NHL’s most dangerous units. Dobes stopped five shots during that stretch [...] Read More »