Anchorage skier Jessica Yeaton turns American Birkebeiner into a solo act, winning the women’s 50K by 41 seconds
A 2010 South High graduate, Yeaton is the sixth Alaskan to win North America’s biggest cross-country ski race.
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An accidental marathoner and reluctant newsmaker, Soldotna’s Megan Youngren is poised to make history
She met the qualifying standard for the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, to be held later this month, and hopes to be the first openly transgender runner to compete.
Valley duo Aklestad, Olstad capture Iron Dog championship
The pair reached the Big Lake finish line 30 minutes ahead of defending champions Mike Morgan and Chris Olds.
UAA hockey team avoids shutout with last-second goal in loss to 13th-ranked Bemidji State
Saturday’s rematch is the final home game of the season for the Seawolves, who will honor their six seniors before the game.
Thanks to trailbreakers, Iron Dog is on track to finish Saturday at Big Lake
Deep snow prompted leaders Tyler Aklestad and Nick Olstad and three other teams to hole up in Ruby for 20 hours as trailbreakers worked around the clock to put in a trail to McGrath.
Photos: Alaska’s best high school skiers race for state titles
Kincaid Park is hosting three days of cross-country ski racing from Feb. 20 to 22 to decide the winners of the ASAA State Championships.
West Valley, Service skiers earn one of Alaska’s most coveted titles: Skimeister
Kendall Kramer won her third Skimeister title and Service’s Alexander Maurer claimed his first Friday at Kincaid Park.
Seniors spark UAA women’s basketball team in convincing win over Simon Fraser
Safiyyah Yasin and Yazmeen Goo combined for 35 points for the Seawolves.
Fairbanks’ Kramer wins again, and Anchorage’s Maurer wins his first at Alaska high school ski championships
It was the 13th individual state championship for West Valley senior Kendall Kramer, who owns six in track, four in skiing and three in cross-country running.
A former NHL goon used Twitter to create a hockey-abuse hotline. His inbox exploded.
Daniel Carcillo spent his hockey career abusing players on and off the ice. Now he spends his time blowing the whistle on abuse in his former sport.
Sharp-shooting UAA men take care of business in Fairbanks
With their third win in a row, the Seawolves claimed sole possession of fifth place in the 10-team Great Northwest Athletic Conference.
College hockey teams leaving UAA and UAF behind choose an old name for their new league
Only three WCHA teams are not part of the new conference — the University of Alaska teams in Anchorage and Fairbanks, and Alabama Huntsville.
Iron Dog reaches Nome with Aklestad, Olstad leading the way
Racers will take a long break in Nome, the halfway point of the 2,394-mile snowmachine race across Alaska.
In a dramatic final lap at Daytona 500, extreme risks and rewards of NASCAR on display
Denny Hamlin won his second consecutive Daytona 500 and third in five years on Monday night. Ryan Newman’s car crossed the finish line upside down and in flames.
Mickey Wright, golf great and early force in the LPGA, has died at 85
A Golf Magazine poll of experts in 2009 called her the best female golfer ever.
Fat bikers show their speed in Susitna 100, beating the top runner by 17 hours in the 100-mile race
Fat bikers Nicolas Baudin, Tom Peichel and Mark Hamm cracked the nine-hour barrier and finished within three seconds of each other.
Chip Schoff wins a close race and Alison Arians finishes 8th overall in Sven Johansson 30K
Schoff won the men’s race by nine-tenths of a second and Arians topped the women by more than four minutes.
Two by two, 58 snowmachiners leave Fairbanks for 2,395-mile Iron Dog
The first of 29 teams to start the race included a rookie racer from California.
Two of Alaska’s greatest basketball players battle in Pac-12 game, and share a hug afterward
Ruthy Hebard and the Oregon Ducks got the best of Alissa Pili and the USC Trojans, but both Alaskans put up big numbers.
If MLB won’t punish Astros players, opposing pitchers ready to dole out justice on their own
As baseball’s sign-stealing saga wears on, opponents are outwardly angry enough that Houston Manager Dusty Baker made a preemptive plea to MLB to protect his players.