by Van Williams | Jun 25, 2022 | Baseball, Cover Story
Time has flown by for Sean Giffen. It seems like yesterday that he was the youngest player on the field and now he’s the oldest player on his team. A very green Service Post 28 squad leaned on its only 18-year-old today as he closed out a 5-4 victory over the Buffalo...
by Doyle Woody | Jun 25, 2022 | Cover Story, Poker
Five years after he quit his job as a software engineer to play poker full-time, Anchorage’s Adam Hendrix continues to make that transition look like a smooth move. Hendrix on Thursday won his second poker tournament this year, and the fifth of his career, when he...
by Van Williams | Jun 23, 2022 | Basketball, Cover Story
It was at Colgate University where Anchorage’s Damon Sherman-Newsome become an elite basketball player. And so it’s fitting he returns to Hamilton, New York, for the next chapter of his hoops career. Sherman-Newsome, 29, this month was named Director of Basketball...
by Doyle Woody | Jun 21, 2022 | Cover Story, Track and Field
As a steeplechaser, Isaac Updike is accustomed to clearing hurdles and negotiating barriers. He came out of Ketchikan with an athletic background that was steeped in soccer as much as running, but he nonetheless walked on to the running program at Eastern Oregon...
by Van Williams | Jun 20, 2022 | Cover Story, Football
After getting a second chance with the Edmonton Elks, Caleb Holley of Anchorage returned to the field and made CFL history for Alaska. The fifth-year wide receiver became the first player from The Last Frontier to reach the 2,000-yard benchmark. Holley hauled in two...
by Doyle Woody | Jun 20, 2022 | Cover Story, Mountain Running
Since Olympic Nordic skier and Alaska mountain-running royalty Bill Spencer won the inaugural race up Bird Ridge in 1989, that three-plus-mile ascent that rises 3,400 feet has been owned by skiers. Sunday’s result: Same as it (usually) ever was. Anchorage’s...
