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Football Report: Derryk Snell repeats as First Team All-Big Sky Conference; four Alaskans named all-league in North Star
Most football players can’t sit out half the year and make the all-conference team, but Big Sky coaches didn’t hold a lower-body injury against Montana State’s Derryk Snell. The senior fullback out of Chugiak High was named first team all-league for the second...
Prep Hockey: West whips up plenty of offense in 12-1 victory over Service
In summation, the West High hockey team made quick work of its Cook Inlet Conference opponent Tuesday night. Up to this point of the vaunted league’s 63rd season, the Eagles’ display proved one of the few signs of pace or movement of any kind. West scored four...
Around The Rinks (NCAA D-I Edition): Mikayla Lantto, Nicole Ness prosper coming out of transfer portal; Trent Burnham savors a shutout
Mikayla Lantto took care of business in crunch time Saturday night for the Long Island University women’s hockey team. After LIU fell behind 1-0 five minutes into the third period at Stonehill, Lantto delivered the game-tying goal with less than 10 minutes to go....
Around The Rinks (NCAA D-III Edition): Kaylee Merrill ties Potsdam’s career goal-scoring record; Kaylin Garner is heating up; and Gabi Gibson resurfaces
All Kaylee Merrill does for the SUNY-Potsdam NCAA Division III women’s hockey team is snipe, which she continued to do last weekend, which once again stamped her name all over the program’s record book. Merrill, the Bears’ senior captain and First-Team All-American...
Around The Rinks (Pro Edition): Man, North Pole’s Pheonix Copley badly needed the sharp performance he delivered Monday night for LA Kings; Swayman and Bruins fall in OT
Cumulatively, the first four starts goaltender Pheonix Copley of North Pole made for the Los Angeles Kings this NHL season were shaky – and that’s probably being a little gentle. He gave up five goals on just 24 shots in his season debut, a 6-5 shootout loss to...
Hometown hero Alissa Pili named Alaska Athlete of the Week after MOP performance at Shootout
Anchorage basketball player Alissa Pili enjoyed the ultimate homecoming this weekend as she earned a Great Alaska Shootout title and Most Outstanding Player award. She also earned our Alaska Athlete of the Week honors. Pili powered the fourth-ranked Utah Utes to a...
Around The Rinks (Junior Edition): Anchorage Wolverines keep pocketing points by dropping consecutive 7-goal anvils on Kenai River Brown Bears (plus NAHL, USHL notes)
Outbursts like the seven-goal anvil the Anchorage Wolverines dropped on the Kenai River Brown Bears on consecutive nights over the weekend tend to take care of business. The Wolverines’ 7-5 win in Anchorage on Friday and 7-2 win in Soldotna on Saturday leave them...
Tales From The Table: Anchorage poker pro Adam Hendrix stacked cash – $577,000 – during a weeklong heater
When last we checked in with poker pro Adam Hendrix of Anchorage, about a month ago, he had just cashed in big. Hendrix pocketed his seventh career victory, winning $172,000 for taking down the PokerGo Tour Pot Limit Omaha Progressive Bounty tournament in Las Vegas...
College Cross Country: Santiago Gomez-Prosser helps NAU to runner-up finish, claims All-American honor with UAF’s Kramer & Fordham
Anchorage’s Santiago Gomez-Prosser provided yet another strong performance at the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships, helping Northern Arizona University to a runner-up finish and securing his second All-American honor. The former Dimond High standout...
College Hoops: Alissa Pili powers Utah to Shootout title, becomes second Alaskan to win MOP award in 40 years
She came. She saw. She conquered. Queen Alissa Pili of Anchorage enjoyed the ultimate homecoming this weekend as her reign in The Last Fronter extended to include a Great Alaska Shootout title and Most Outstanding Player award. Pili powered the fourth-ranked Utah...
College Hoops: UAB imposes will down the stretch, holds off Seawolves in Shootout third-place game
The play was a thing of beauty as UAA’s Jaisa Gamble’s perfect post feed to Tori Hollingshead resulted in a basket and foul that set up a potential three-point play. The crowd at the Alaska Airlines Center rose to its feet and this looked like the moment when the...
Prep Wrestling: It’s a mat, mat, mat, mat world at the Lancer Smith Memorial wrestling tournament
Wrestlemania, Alaska style, brought more than a thousand wrestlers from across the state to Wasilla for the annual Lancer Smith Memorial tournament. The Lancer Smith is the biggest and maybe the baddest regular-season tournament on the high school calendar, and it...
Around The Rinks (Pro Edition): Jeremy Swayman begins this NHL regular-season like he ended the last one – blow-torching opponents (plus, ECHL, SPHL notes)
As Boston Bruins goaltender Jeremy Swayman of Anchorage continued his scorching start to this NHL regular season – 7-0-1 after 20 saves Saturday in a 5-2 win over Montreal – there was a niggle in the back of my brain that this felt familiar. Little digging and,...
College Hoops: Largest crowd to watch women’s game at AAC show up to watch Pili and No. 4 Utah stomp UAA
Alaska loves Alissa Pili. The largest crowd to watch a women's basketball game at the Alaska Airlines Center showed up Saturday night to catch a glimpse of the NCAA All-American from Anchorage. They saw a lot of Pili and a lot of points scored by nationally ranked...
College Hoops: UAA faces No. 4 Utah tonight at Shootout; Seawolves celebrate Native American Heritage Month with turquoise uniforms
Even though the Seawolves tonight will wear turquoise uniforms for the first time at the Great Alaska Shootout, they can’t alter their identity on the court. They must keep an even keel when facing fourth-ranked Utah and not get caught up in the moment and do...
College Hoops: It’s homecoming week for Utah’s Alissa Pili, the star of this year’s Great Alaska Shootout
Ever since there’s been a Great Alaska Shootout, the Seawolves have been the crowd favorites. Even when facing some of the most famous teams and players in college basketball history, UAA has been capable of stealing the show, sometimes for a 10-minute spurt in the...
Hoops Report: Moses looks marvelous; Griffin scores WNBL-high 33 points; Green hits five 3s for Regis; Williamson ranks among ACCAC FG% and assist leaders
After stubbing his toe against the Tar Heels last week, Isaiah Moses of Anchorage kicked it into high gear and produced the finest two games of his young NCAA Division I career. The UC Riverside sophomore guard posted career highs in points (22) and assists (6)...
Football Report: Derryk Snell repeats as First Team All-Big Sky Conference; four Alaskans named all-league in North Star
Most football players can’t sit out half the year and make the all-conference team, but Big Sky coaches didn’t hold a lower-body injury against Montana State’s Derryk Snell. The senior fullback out of Chugiak High was named first team all-league for the second...
Prep Hockey: West whips up plenty of offense in 12-1 victory over Service
In summation, the West High hockey team made quick work of its Cook Inlet Conference opponent Tuesday night. Up to this point of the vaunted league’s 63rd season, the Eagles’ display proved one of the few signs of pace or movement of any kind. West scored four...
Around The Rinks (NCAA D-I Edition): Mikayla Lantto, Nicole Ness prosper coming out of transfer portal; Trent Burnham savors a shutout
Mikayla Lantto took care of business in crunch time Saturday night for the Long Island University women’s hockey team. After LIU fell behind 1-0 five minutes into the third period at Stonehill, Lantto delivered the game-tying goal with less than 10 minutes to go....
Around The Rinks (NCAA D-III Edition): Kaylee Merrill ties Potsdam’s career goal-scoring record; Kaylin Garner is heating up; and Gabi Gibson resurfaces
All Kaylee Merrill does for the SUNY-Potsdam NCAA Division III women’s hockey team is snipe, which she continued to do last weekend, which once again stamped her name all over the program’s record book. Merrill, the Bears’ senior captain and First-Team All-American...
Around The Rinks (Pro Edition): Man, North Pole’s Pheonix Copley badly needed the sharp performance he delivered Monday night for LA Kings; Swayman and Bruins fall in OT
Cumulatively, the first four starts goaltender Pheonix Copley of North Pole made for the Los Angeles Kings this NHL season were shaky – and that’s probably being a little gentle. He gave up five goals on just 24 shots in his season debut, a 6-5 shootout loss to...
Hometown hero Alissa Pili named Alaska Athlete of the Week after MOP performance at Shootout
Anchorage basketball player Alissa Pili enjoyed the ultimate homecoming this weekend as she earned a Great Alaska Shootout title and Most Outstanding Player award. She also earned our Alaska Athlete of the Week honors. Pili powered the fourth-ranked Utah Utes to a...
Around The Rinks (Junior Edition): Anchorage Wolverines keep pocketing points by dropping consecutive 7-goal anvils on Kenai River Brown Bears (plus NAHL, USHL notes)
Outbursts like the seven-goal anvil the Anchorage Wolverines dropped on the Kenai River Brown Bears on consecutive nights over the weekend tend to take care of business. The Wolverines’ 7-5 win in Anchorage on Friday and 7-2 win in Soldotna on Saturday leave them...
Tales From The Table: Anchorage poker pro Adam Hendrix stacked cash – $577,000 – during a weeklong heater
When last we checked in with poker pro Adam Hendrix of Anchorage, about a month ago, he had just cashed in big. Hendrix pocketed his seventh career victory, winning $172,000 for taking down the PokerGo Tour Pot Limit Omaha Progressive Bounty tournament in Las Vegas...
College Cross Country: Santiago Gomez-Prosser helps NAU to runner-up finish, claims All-American honor with UAF’s Kramer & Fordham
Anchorage’s Santiago Gomez-Prosser provided yet another strong performance at the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships, helping Northern Arizona University to a runner-up finish and securing his second All-American honor. The former Dimond High standout...
College Hoops: Alissa Pili powers Utah to Shootout title, becomes second Alaskan to win MOP award in 40 years
She came. She saw. She conquered. Queen Alissa Pili of Anchorage enjoyed the ultimate homecoming this weekend as her reign in The Last Fronter extended to include a Great Alaska Shootout title and Most Outstanding Player award. Pili powered the fourth-ranked Utah...
College Hoops: UAB imposes will down the stretch, holds off Seawolves in Shootout third-place game
The play was a thing of beauty as UAA’s Jaisa Gamble’s perfect post feed to Tori Hollingshead resulted in a basket and foul that set up a potential three-point play. The crowd at the Alaska Airlines Center rose to its feet and this looked like the moment when the...
Prep Wrestling: It’s a mat, mat, mat, mat world at the Lancer Smith Memorial wrestling tournament
Wrestlemania, Alaska style, brought more than a thousand wrestlers from across the state to Wasilla for the annual Lancer Smith Memorial tournament. The Lancer Smith is the biggest and maybe the baddest regular-season tournament on the high school calendar, and it...
Around The Rinks (Pro Edition): Jeremy Swayman begins this NHL regular-season like he ended the last one – blow-torching opponents (plus, ECHL, SPHL notes)
As Boston Bruins goaltender Jeremy Swayman of Anchorage continued his scorching start to this NHL regular season – 7-0-1 after 20 saves Saturday in a 5-2 win over Montreal – there was a niggle in the back of my brain that this felt familiar. Little digging and,...
College Hoops: Largest crowd to watch women’s game at AAC show up to watch Pili and No. 4 Utah stomp UAA
Alaska loves Alissa Pili. The largest crowd to watch a women's basketball game at the Alaska Airlines Center showed up Saturday night to catch a glimpse of the NCAA All-American from Anchorage. They saw a lot of Pili and a lot of points scored by nationally ranked...
