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Michael Noah Smigelski peacefully entered heaven on March 20, 2023. He was born in Medicine Hat, Alta., on March 11, 2003, the only son of Neil and Anne Marie Smigelski…

It’s been a great year for Canadians on the world’s athletic stages. As 2025 winds down, it’s time for the year-end awards in the top three categories — male and female athlete and top team.

In hockey-mad Canada, fans spend their time watching hockey, thinking about hockey, talking about hockey and mentally planning Canada’s roster for the 2026 Olympic Games in Italy.

The big prize in next summer’s National Hockey League amateur draft is expected to be Gavin McKenna, the pride of Whitehorse, Yukon, a former Medicine Hat Tiger superstar…

Now, just like the rabid fan base that lives and dies with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Canadian Football League fans across the land are green — with envy.

Alberta’s government is investing $7 million to support sport and recreation infrastructure projects across the province, officials announced Wednesday.

Data about cigarettes causing cancer eventually resulted in tobacco advertisements being banned from print and electronic media, but will the data about lives being ruined…

If this year's World Series could be narrowed down to a simple ‘Who killed the Toronto Blue Jays?’, let’s get right to the point and play a sports version of Clue.

Sunday, October 26, was the first day of the Winter Series Gymkhana held at the Crossroads Centre in Oyen. Fifty-five people of all ages come out for a day of Halloween dress-up with their horses…

Curling in Canada through the years has been dominated by players from Manitoba, Alberta, Ontario and Saskatchewan, but No. 1 on the all-time list of Canadian greats is from St. John’s, NL.

The Oyen and District Curling Club is preparing to launch its 2025-26 season this November, running through the end of February.

Baseball statistics are getting ridiculous. Every day, it seems, some analytical expert delivers a new statistical category that, ultimately, will probably result in fans learning…

Connor McDavid could have asked for the moon, and Edmonton Oilers’ owner Daryl Katz would have somehow arranged to have it pulled from the sky.

It didn’t take new Canadian Football League commissioner Stewart Johnston long to become a household name among football fans north of the border.

Fringe players in the National Hockey League will have special reason to enjoy the 2025-26 season, which gets under way this week, thanks to a nearly three-week break…

Wilf Girletz was a three-time Canadian All-Around champion, and five-time bull riding champion, and still shares the record for most Canadian titles in this event.

With temperatures in the mid 20’s, the 4th annual Kathy Allen Memorial 3 lady scramble was buzzing with excitement as 20 teams waited to tee off in the 18 hole best ball…

Toronto Blue Jays finished off their 162-game regular season on Sunday, Sept. 28, and ‘Yes!’ is the answer to the biggest question posed by Jays’ fans.

The Desert Blume Golf Course was filled with energy and community spirit on September 11 as the Yuill Family Foundation hosted its inaugural Golf Classic.

September is baseball and football season but in Canada, hockey is a 12-month-a-year deal, so no one should be surprised that one of the hottest sports story today…

The West Central Events Centre was alive with adrenaline this past weekend as the Energy Dodge Dakota Buttar Invitational brought two nights of world-class bull riding to Kindersley.

The top five reasons Toronto Blue Jays are going to give Canadian sports fans an October playoff thrill: George Springer, Bo Bichette, Daulton Varsho, Addison Barger and Alejandro Kirk.

Winnipeg is playing host to this year’s Grey Cup game but for the first time in six years, the Blue Bombers likely won’t be the West Division’s representative.

The 2025 National Football League season starts this week, so it’s the perfect time for a few recollections and some look-aheads.

The countdown to the Special Olympics Canada Summer Games hit the one-year mark today, and preparations are in full swing as Medicine Hat gets ready…

We’ll worry about playoff teams and who will contend for the World Series as late September and October nears, but for now, here’s a look at six of the best Major League Baseball stories of 2025.

MEDICINE HAT – The countdown to the Special Olympics Canada Summer Games hit the one-year mark today, and preparations are in full swing as Medicine Hat gets ready…

The small town of Cereal is bursting with pride as three of its own — through family ties — are representing their provinces at the 2025 Canada Summer Games in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

It was Summer’s summer of domination until Vicky came along with victory after victory to steal the show.

Vasek Pospisil wasn’t the biggest name taking part in this year’s National Bank Open in Toronto, but he was likely the best player to retire at the end of the competition.