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by Doyle Woody | Jul 10, 2023 | Cover Story, Running, Track and Field
For so long, steeplechaser Isaac Updike of Ketchikan was the unlikeliest of suspects to achieve running glory on a national stage. He didn’t race high school track, but instead played soccer in spring. He was a walk-on, beginning in 2010, at Eastern Oregon University,...
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by Doyle Woody | Jul 4, 2023 | Cover Story, Mountain Running, Running
Christy Marvin is tougher than trigonometry and as reliable as sunrise. Those qualities, along with surpassing talent, delivered her third Mount Marathon women’s title on a rainy, windswept Tuesday in Seward. In the 95th running of the Super Bowl of Alaska mountain...
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by Alaska Sports Report | Jul 5, 2023 | Athlete of the Week, Wrestling
Anchorage wrestler Manny Novelli was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after achieving a spectacular double at the USA Wrestling Kids Nationals in Farmington, Utah on June 26th and 27th. Novelli was named National Champion in both wrestling styles (freestyle and...
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by Van Williams | Jul 8, 2023 | Baseball, Cover Story
There isn’t a lot of suspense when batters step to the plate to face relief pitcher Brody Jessee of Anchorage in the minor leagues. Hitters can expect a steady diet of his high-90s fastball and disappearing slider. And they can expect to get rung up. Jessee has struck...
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by Van Williams | Jul 3, 2023 | Cover Story, Football, Prep Spotlight
Elite high school athletes keep leaving Anchorage in a troubling trend, but Tavita Faletoi wants to break the pattern. He loves Alaska. Everything he loves is here – his family, his friends and his football team. He takes great pride in playing for the West Eagles and...
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by Van Williams | Jul 1, 2023 | Cover Story, Swimming and Diving
The ‘Fearsome Threesome’ didn’t disappoint Friday night at the USA swimming national championships in Indianapolis. Comprised of reigning Olympic champion Lydia Jacoby of Seward, world-record holder Lilly King of Indiana and defending national champion Kaitlyn Dobler...Read More
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by Doyle Woody | Jul 4, 2023 | Cover Story, Mountain Running, Running
David Norris’ Mount Marathon resume requires just one line: Legend. Four races, four wins. King David on Tuesday throttled the men’s field in the 95th edition of the race up and down the 3,022-foot slab of pain in Seward to add to his victories in 2021, 2018 and 2016....Read More
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by Harlow Robinson | Jun 30, 2023 | Cover Story, Soccer
History was made this last week in Boise Idaho at the US Youth Soccer Far West Regional tournament where the Alaska Rush U17 Girls Club defeated Utah's La Roca FC 4-1 to earn a bid to the National Championships. It was the first Alaska club team ever - boys or girls -...Read More
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by Doyle Woody | Jul 2, 2023 | Cover Story, Poker
What Adam Hendrix coveted most Sunday was to earn his first bracelet as a World Series of Poker event winner. That did not happen. Hendrix’s consolation prize, though, will surely salve that wound — $570,671 buys a lot of Band-Aids. The poker pro from Anchorage...Read More
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by Doyle Woody | Jul 4, 2023 | Cover Story, Mountain Running, Running
Coby Marvin’s dream of breaking Bill Spencer’s 50-year-old junior boys record on Mount Marathon did not become reality Tuesday morning in Seward – rain and wind conspired for difficult conditions – but he seized a sweet consolation prize: Repeat victory. Marvin, 16,...
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by Van Williams | Jun 29, 2023 | Basketball, Cover Story
A pair of Alaskans just got a lot closer to fulfilling their NBA dreams as Utqiagvik's Kamaka Hepa and Anchorage's Kok Yat each were picked up for next month’s Vegas Summer League. And another Alaskan made it happen for one of them. New Orleans Pelicans general...Read More
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by Van Williams | Jul 5, 2023 | Baseball, Cover Story
It must have felt like old times for Anchorage Bucs pitcher Isaac Johnson. A local, he was nearly unbeatable at Mulcahy Stadium when he played high school and Legion for South, and he looked just as sharp Tuesday night. Johnson pitched 6.2 scoreless innings to...Read More
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by Van Williams | Jun 27, 2023 | Cover Story, Football
He hasn’t played in the Indoor Football League since 2016, but it’s like Anchorage Caleb Holley never left. The 32-year-old Vegas Knight Hawks wide receiver is back after a six-year stint in the Canadian Football League and has put up nearly identical stats as he did...Read More
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