Sports
The 2019 Iron Dog Snowmobile Race blasts off from Deshka Landing at 11 a.m. Sunday, February 17.
Forty-eight pro-class two-man teams will contest the 2,000-mile race through wild, remote Alaska in...
The Nome-Beltz Nanooks took two hard fought basketball games from the Bethel Warriors Friday and Saturday in the Nanook gym.
Friday’s contest ended 67-46 on a night where it would have been closer...
On their home turf, the Nome-Beltz Lady Nanooks twice beat the Eielson Ravens last weekend in lopsided games in which the score didn’t give a true picture of the intensity of play.
The Ravens have...
The Nome Kennel Club, America’s oldest, hosted two mushing races last Sunday. Four ten-dog teams competed over a 15-mile course and two eight-dog teams ran the shorter 8-mile race. Temperatures ran...
Matt Failor set a new all time record in winning the 40th annual Kuskokwim 300 sled dog race in Bethel last Sunday.
Failor’s time of 36 hours and 32 minutes broke Martin Buser’s old record 37 hours...
The world’s oldest kennel club for sled dogs and working dogs, the Nome Kennel Club, is poised for action on the snow. Events planned for the spring 2019 season include four races and the Nome-...
Whether the game is played in Nome or Kotzebue, the rivalry between the two teams packs the gym and ratchets the level of intensity up a few levels. Last week’s games between the Nanooks and the...
The 2019 edition of the annual Subway Showdown basketball tournament included four teams so close in ability that the games were all hard fought, often going down to the final buzzer. Traveling to...
The annual Christmas alumni basketball tournament gave Nome-Beltz graduates a chance to school the young’uns, the pups, on how it’s done.
Friday and Saturday games in the Nanook gym showcased the...
Starr Erikson took the top spot on the podium in the 112-pound category at the Alaska State Championships held in Anchorage on Dec. 14-15.
Erikson won the final match in a fall at 1 minute and 55...