Mushing star Dallas Seavey is our Alaska Athlete of the Week. The 37-year-old Talkeetna resident became the first person to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race six times. Seavey and his team finished the 52nd Iditarod at 5:16pm on Tuesday, March 12th, in a time of 9...
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Mushing: Bethel’s Pete Kaiser wins eighth Kusko 300, moves within one victory of matching Jeff King’s record
Pete Kaiser won his eighth Kuskokwim 300 Sled Dog Race on Sunday with a patient, efficient run that brought him to the Bethel finish line 41 minutes ahead of Willow’s Matthew Failor on Sunday morning. With one more win, Kaiser can match Jeff King for the most wins at...
Mushing phenom Emily Robinson named Alaska Athlete of the Week
Emily Robinson, a 16-year-old musher from Nenana, topped a stellar field to win the Knik 200 race on Sunday, garnering her our Alaska Athlete of the Week honors. Robinson, the two-time defending Junior Iditarod champion, was only allowed to participate because the...
Mushing: With late pass, Nenana teen Emily Robinson tops stacked field to win Knik 200
Thirteen seconds separated teenager Emily Robinson and race leader Brent Sass as the pair approached the homestretch of the Knik 200 in an online video posted Sunday. Sass, the 2022 Iditarod champion, must have felt like a sitting duck. He desperately ran up a small...
Alaska sports legends gather for a “celebration of heroes,” share tales of adventure and inspiration
An all-star lineup of Alaska athletes and adventurers shared some of their stories last week at the Anchorage Museum, wowing a sold-out crowd for the December installment of Trail Tales with cliffhangers, crevasse-hangers and paddle-hangers. Clint Helander of...
Inspirational athletes, teams and tandems named finalists for Trajan Langdon Award recognizing character
A mother who resumed her track career while still breastfeeding, a musher who rescued a rival in the middle of nowhere and a runner who halted his race to help a teammate are among the finalists for the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame's Trajan Langdon Award. The award...
Iditarod champ Ryan Redington named Alaska Athlete of the Week
Ryan Redington earned Alaska Athlete of the Week honors after an inspiring victory in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The grandson of Iditarod founder Joe Redington Sr., Redington held on to earn his family’s first victory in the 51-year-old race. Redington is one...
Buddy Streeper wins Rondy Sled Dog Race, ties mushing icon George Attla with 10 World Championship titles
Buddy Streeper built up such a time advantage over the first two days of the 2023 Fur Rendezvous Championship Sled Dog Race that he could allow himself to soak up the moment during the third and final leg on Sunday. The Fort Nelson, British Columbia musher departed...
Eureka’s Brent Sass camps his way to another win in 550-mile Yukon Quest
Musher Brent Sass is an outlier: no matter the temperature, he prefers to camp along the trail and eschew the comfort of checkpoints. The trail is where Sass is most comfortable and feels his dogs get the best rest, so unless mandatory rest is required at a checkpoint...
Bethel’s Pete Kaiser claims 7th Kuskokwim 300 crown
Hometown hero Pete Kaiser held off a surging Matthew Failor by just eight minutes for his seventh Kuskokwin 300 victory on Sunday. Kaiser, of Bethel, continued to dominate his hometown event — he’s now won seven of the last nine Kusko races — and trails only Jeff...
Burke mushes past big names to win Knik 200
Eddie Burke, Jr. is a musher on the rise. Burke won the Knik 200 mushing race on Sunday by coming from behind to top some of the biggest names in the sport. Burke completed the two-lap course in the Mat-Su Valley in 25 hours, 16 minutes. That placed him 11 minutes...