The Saskatchewan Rattlers return home tonight on fan appreciation night to close out their regular season schedule against the Guelph Nighthawks. The Rattlers are riding a five game winning streak including last week’s home and home sweep against first place Edmonton and have an 11-8 record in the Canadian Elite Basketball League. Guelph is hoping to end a two-game slide and are 5-14. Opening tip-off at SaskTel Centre will be at 7 p.m. The Snakes are also hosting the final-four championship weekend on August 24 and 25.
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The Saskatchewan Roughriders are on a bye-week after Friday’s lightning shortened 17-10 win in Montreal. The Green and White have won four in a row and now have a 5-3 record tied with Calgary and Edmonton for second place in the Western Division. The Riders return to action August 24th at Mosaic Stadium against the Ottawa Redblacks. Opening kick-off is at 5 p.m.
In the CFL tonight…
B.C. at Winnipeg, 6;30 p.m.
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The five-time defending Canadian Bowl Champion Saskatoon Hilltops open their 2019 Prairie Football Conference regular season Sunday in Winnipeg against the Rifles. Once again, 92-9, THE BULL is the broadcast home for Hilltops football. The broadcast of the opening game starts at 11:30 a.m. with play-by-play at Noon. The Toppers first home game isn’t until Saturday, September 7th against the Regina Thunder. Game time is 7 p.m. at Saskatoon Minor Football Field.
The Prairie Football Conference opens its 2019 regular-season Saturday, August 17th when Calgary visits the Edmonton Huskies.
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It’s day two of the University of Saskatchewan Huskies football training camp. There is one workout today at 10;30 a.m.. The Green-and-White intrasquad game is set for 3 p.m. on Friday August 23.
The defending Canada West Conference Champion Huskies open the regular season Friday August 30th in Winnipeg against the Manitoba Bisons. Countdown to kick-off on CJWW starts at 5 p.m. with game time set for 6 o’clock. The home opener at Griffths Stadium is Friday Sept 6th at 7 p.m. against the U-B-C Thunderbirds.
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MLB
American League
Seattle (Milone 1-7) at Detroit (Turnbull 3-10), 11;10 a.m.
Cleveland (Plutko 4-3) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 8-6), 5;05 p.m.
Minnesota (Smeltzer 1-2) at Texas (Payano 1-1), 6;05 p.m.
Chicago White Sox (Lopez 7-9) at L.A. Angels (Heaney 1-3), 8;07 p.m.
Houston (Sanchez 5-14) at Oakland (Fiers 11-3), 8;07 p.m.
National Leauge
L.A. Dodgers (Buehler 10-2) at Miami (Smith 7-6), 1;05 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (Darvish 4-6) at Philadelphia (Smyly 2-6), 5;05 p.m.
St. Louis (Wacha 6-5) at Cincinnati (Gray 7-6), 5;10 p.m.
N.Y. Mets (Stroman 6-11) at Atlanta (Teheran 7-7), 5;20 p.m.
San Francisco (Rodriguez 4-6) at Arizona (Young 4-2), 7;40 p.m.
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Canadian Girls U-19 Fastball Championships in Kitchener Ontario.
Twin City Angels vs Waterloo Ontario, 10;30 a.m.
Twin City Angels vs PEI Braves, 3 p.m.
Saskatoon Coop Selects vs Toronto, 12;30 p.m.
Saskatoon Coop Selects vs BT Warriors (Ont), 5 p.m.
Both the Angels and Selects have 1-3 records.
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Canadian Womens Fastball Championships in St. John’s Newfoundland
Saskatoon G-Force vs Galway NFLD, 10 a.m.
Saskatoon G-Force vs NFLD Wildcats. 3;30 p.m.
G-Force has one win and one loss after the first day of competition.
