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The midget AAA St. Albert Cardinals faced some of the top teams in the league on the weekend and went 1-3. St.

It's one thing to allow a rival race car driver to waltz into your trailer and help himself to a $10,000 engine. It's something else altogether to let him help himself to an inch of space on the race track.

The Alberta Cup St. Albert premier men have a chance to jump into first place today. St. Albert (5-1-0) takes on the Clansmen (5-2-0) at 3 p.m. this afternoon at Edmonton’s Ellerslie Rugby Park. St.

The squirt St. Albert Select Angels took home the provincial title from Red Deer on Sunday. The 11- and 12-year-old softball stars went 6-0 through the three-day tournament, including a 9-3 win over the hosts in the final.

Megan Boothby may be heading to the 2010 Special Olympics Canada Summer Games, but education is her real focus. The 19-year-old athlete from St. Albert will be competing in five different swimming events in London, Ont.

The midget AAA St. Albert Cardinals lost Wednesday to the SEEBA 1 Cardinals and begin the final stretch of the regular season this weekend. SEEBA pounded St. Albert 7-2 at Legion Memorial Park, a game in which St. Albert only managed two hits.

The St. Albert Impact Rangers play their penultimate game of the season Thursday when they host the KC Trojans 1 squad at Riel Park at 7 p.m. St.

The Alberta Cup St. Albert rugby firsts didn’t play the way they’re capable of Saturday, but it was still good enough for the win. St. Albert (5-1) topped the Edmonton Lep/Tigers (0-5) 40-20 at Ellerslie Rugby Park.

People around the world will watch Nate Diaz fight on pay-per-view on Aug. 28, but on Saturday he was in St. Albert to lead a training session.

St. Albert’s winning streak had to end eventually and it ended in a big way Sunday. After winning nine straight games overall in tournaments and league play, the bantam AAA St.