Smoke sends high school athletes indoors and postpones some events
A Friday night football game may need to be relocated, and the season-opening flag football games could be delayed or moved to The Dome.
Sports
Alaska-grown point guard Daishen Nix picks UCLA
Considered one of the country’s premier high school point guards, Nix played in Anchorage through the eighth grade.
The wind roars at Anchorage RunFest, and so do the women
Keri McEntee of Fairbanks became the first woman in nearly 30 years to win the overall title in the marathon.
Close call decides 64th annual Seward Silver Salmon Derby
Eagle River angler Michelle Murray won with a coho that was a little more than nine grams heavier than the second-place fish
Running at high altitude, Anchorage’s Chad Trammell claims 2nd place at Leadville 100
Trammell finished the 100-mile race in the Colorado Rockies in less than 18 hours.
Dimond gets back in the win column by shutting out Kodiak
The victory was the first in more than a year for the Lynx, who are coming off a season spoiled by an alleged sexual assault scandal.
Anchorage RunFest kicks off with the Anchorage Mile
Victories went to Tennessee Tremain and Ilana Schnaufer.
Alaskans make their mark in hockey tournaments
On Saturday, UAA coach Matt Curley won a silver medal with the U.S. Under-17 men’s team and Anchorage’s Clair DeGeorge and her U.S. Under-22 teammates tangled with Canada.
By beating West Eagles in season opener, Stars realign in Alaska football
All of the state’s reigning champions — East, Soldotna and Eielson — opened with wins, with Soldotna retaliating against the team that ended its epic winning streak a year ago
Cross-country season opens with tight race between ACS’s Merchant and Dimond’s Prosser
Anchorage high school runners returned to action with three meets Friday.
RunFest brings two days of racing to downtown Anchorage
The big day is Sunday, when there are four races ranging in distance from 5K to 49K.
UAA men’s basketball team gets a last-minute addition from Florida
DeAndre Osuigwe replaces Travis Adams of Utqiagvik, who has put his basketball career on hold because of a chronic back condition.
Alaska football begins with Monroe’s team of 12 at Seward, West-Soldotna IV and a pair of polls
When Seward hosts Monroe Catholic on Friday afternoon, the Seahawks expect to have 13 players and the Rams expect to have 12 — and not all of the Monroe players are from Fairbanks.
A bad back drives UAA point guard Travis Adams out of college basketball
The former Barrow Whalers star would have been a sophomore for the Seawolves in the 2019-20 season.
Eagle River woman leads Seward Silver Salmon Derby with a 15.99-pound fish
The 64th annual derby ends Sunday at noon in Seward.
Precision and power are taking an Anchorage teen to the Junior Pan Am Games in karate
Rickyjon Balgenorth won an age-group national championship last month to qualify for the international competition in Ecuador.
Biles soars to 6th US gymnastics title
Simon Biles began her preparation for the 2020 Games by drilling her boundary pushing triple-twisting, double-flip (aka the “triple-double”) at the end of her first tumbling run on floor exercise Sunday night, the exclamation point of another dazzling performance.
Mario Chalmers ‘connected for life’ with Heat as he chases 10th NBA season while playing in Big3
“I’d love to be back in the NBA, especially to get in my 10th year. But other than that, I just love to play basketball,” said the 2005 Bartlett High grad.
Wilderness women rise to meet Eagle River Challenge
On Saturday, a pair of Anchorage runners became the first female champions in the 15-year history of the 5- and 10-kilometer races in Chugach State Park.
Anchorage Bucs topple Pilots to capture Alaska Baseball League championship
The Bucs won the best-of-3 series with a 7-1 rout of their rivals in the third game.