Sports

ON THE PODIUM— Unalakleet's Nick Hanson, center, and Makiyan Ivanoff, left, placed first and third in the Arctic sports event of the Two-Foot High Kick in the Arctic Winter Games held in Nuuk last week.
Eleven Bering Strait athletes and one coach found themselves a third of the way around the circumpolar north last week as part of a large sporting contingent know as Team Alaska. The athletes were...
FASTEST TIME— Tre West crosses the finish line with the fastest time of the day.
Sean Octuck had a solid plan for winning the 50th running of the Nome-Golovin 200 Race. “No fear. Ride smart,” said the 28-year-old racer before the start of Saturday’s snowmachine race from Nome to...
WHITE MOUNTAIN CHECKPOINT— Seventy-seven miles before the finish line, Dallas Seavey and his father Mitch rest their dog teams.
The father-son battle between Mitch Seavey and Dallas Seavey was on again in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race as dogs raced up the Bering Sea coastline and headed for the finish line in Nome...
CHAMPIONS— Four-time winner Dallas Seavey and his leaders Reef and Tide once again claimed victory in the 1,000-mile long Last Great Race in record time.
In a record time of eight days, 11 hours and 20 minutes, Willow musher Dallas Seavey, 29, cinched his fourth Iditarod championship and again, in a repeat from last year, beat his father Mitch to the...
CHAMPION— Dallas Seavey, 29, of Willow, Alaska, claimed his fourth Iditarod title when he arrived in record time on Tuesday morning at 2:20 a.m. under the burled arch in Nome.
Dallas Seavey claimed his fourth Iditarod Sled Dog Race title on Tuesday morning at 2.20 a.m. Seavey broke his own record and finished the 1,000-mile race in eight days, 11 hours, 20 minutes. His...
After a one-year absence from the sport, Unalakleet junior Sikulik Johnson returned to his winning ways by capturing both the skate ski race and biathlon race at the 39th annual Koyuk Invitational...
March Madness got off to a strong start in Unalakleet last weekend as a unique combination of two classifications joined in four days of outstanding basketball competition and celebration. For the...
OFF TO NOME— Melissa Owens Stewart, formerly of Nome, leaves the start line in Willow on March 6.
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race got underway Sunday with 85 teams leaving from a frozen lake north of Anchorage and heading to Nome in what officials say promises to be one of the most competitive...
SENIOR SPIRIT— The four senior members on the 2016 Nome-Beltz Cheerleading Squad were recognized in front of the home crowd before their last peformance on Saturday.
  While the Lady Nanooks varsity girls cagers traveled south last weekend to end their regular season with a pair of wins against the Lady Wolfpack of Unalakleet, the Nanook boys basketball team...
ARCTIC WINTER GAMES— Eight elite athletes from Nome and one coach are headed to the Arctic Winter Games in Greenland.
The world is about to become a lot smaller for eight young Nome athletes who have earned spots on Team Alaska, the organizational body in charge of assembling sporting teams for the 2016 Arctic...

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