In its 10th year, the Alaska Airlines Center not also housing hockey is well known regardless of your personal sports fandom. Yet, on the facility’s basketball court Saturday night, Savannah Kroon gloriously withstood the kind of body check puck heads adore. No harm....
As per usual when most high school sport’s regular seasons wind down, the night belonged to 13 seniors wearing Dimond hockey’s white, gold and maroon. The players and two cheerleaders were feted in a pre-game ceremony that delayed Wednesday’s Cook Inlet Conference...
St. Joseph’s Tounde Yessoufou of Santa Maria, Calif., is the first 100-point man in Alaska Airlines Classic history. He might as well be the Six Million Dollar Man because he looked like an astronaut with another out-of-this-world performance in Saturday night’s title...
The battle of Anchorage came down to the wire Friday night and even though the finish featured an unlikely hero, the ending continued a trend as East beat West 53-52 in the semifinals of the Alaska Airlines Classic. A crowd of 2,500 packed inside the city's oldest...
All eyes were on five-star recruit Tounde Yessoufou and it took him all of 70 seconds to wow the crowd at West High School with the first of five dunks on his way to scoring 33 points as the Knights of Santa Maria, Calif., pulled away in the second half to beat up...
The last time Tounde Yessoufou was at the Alaska Airlines Classic in 2022, the 6-foot-5 human highlight reel tried to break the rims at West High. The St. Joseph star threw down 12 dunks in three games and averaged 24 points, 12 rebounds and four blocked shots to...
New name, new coach. Same girls basketball dynasty. Mountain City Christian is no longer called ACS, but the school still goes by the Lions and there was a lot of resemblance to the team that has run roughshod over Alaska competition for the last six years. MCC took...
Fourteen of the 19 uniformed West High players in Friday’s late afternoon Cook Inlet Conference hockey action also participated in last season’s Division I state championship contest. The Eagles came up empty back on that February day, and the regiment of returners...
Dating back to 1985, the Gatorade Player of the Year award is the king of kings for Alaska high school football. It might as well be the Heisman Trophy. This week, Aaron Hampton of West struck the pose. Hampton became the first Eagles’ star to be named Gatorade Alaska...
On this night, another snow-tastic one throughout Anchorage, the Dimond High hockey team sufficiently aced the test. Unfortunately, Lynx sophomore defenseman Brayden MacMillan wasn’t left feeling as positive about his end-of-semester chemistry and math finals arriving...
Already the best wide receiver in the state, West High’s Aaron Hampton proved he’s also quite the running back after rushing for 140 yards in the state title game. With playmaker written all over him, the 6-foot-2, 220-pounder was also a lethal linebacker and usually...