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by Beth Bragg | Feb 24, 2024 | Cover Story, Nordic Skiing
A group of West High boys who began their high school careers four years ago wearing facemasks and doing their best to stay a ski-pole’s length away from each other wrapped things up Saturday with smiles covering their faces after an impressive display of social...
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by Van Williams | Feb 25, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
Another day, another legend leapfrogged by Alissa Pili on Alaska’s all-time women’s basketball scoring list. On Sunday, the Anchorage native dropped in 23 points to push her career total to 2,042 and pass former Nebraska All-American Kelsey Griffin (2,033) of Eagle...
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by Alaska Sports Report | Feb 22, 2024 | Athlete of the Week, Nordic Skiing
Gus Schumacher of Anchorage was selected as our Alaska Athlete of the Week after making history by winning the 10-kilometer freestyle Nordic World Cup race Sunday in Minneapolis. The Service High School graduate became the first American men’s distance World Cup...Read More
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by Doyle Woody | Feb 26, 2024 | Cover Story, Hockey
Life could hardly be better for the Anchorage Wolverines these days. They’re riding a franchise record-tying, six-game winning streak, the longest current streak in the North American Hockey League, after their three-game home sweep of the Chippewa Steel over the...Read More
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by Van Williams | Feb 23, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
The comeback kings were at it again Thursday. The UAA men’s basketball team lived up to its reputation as a team tough to put away after the Seawolves rallied in the second half to beat 17th-ranked Saint Martin’s 80-79 in Lacey, Wash., after Tyson Gilbert hit a free...Read More
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by Beth Bragg | Feb 24, 2024 | Cover Story, Nordic Skiing
Six days ago he took on the world and won. On Saturday, Anchorage skier Gus Schumacher took on a continent and was gold again. Schumacher, who recently became the first American man to win a World Cup race in more than 40 years, won Saturday’s 50-kilometer American...Read More
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by Van Williams | Feb 23, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
As he comes down the stretch in his college basketball career, Demarcus Hall-Scriven has saved his best for last. The senior guard out of Anchorage has played an instrumental role in helping the UAF Nanooks post a three-game winning streak to keep their slim playoff...Read More
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by Arielle Himelbloom | Feb 26, 2024 | Cover Story, Running, Track and Field, UAA
It may have been his second collegiate track and field meet, but UAA’s Joshua Caleb competed like a veteran at the GNAC Championships, zooming to a pair of titles in the 60 and 200, and shattering the all-time conference records in the process. A freshman from...Read More
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by Van Williams | Feb 24, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
Deng Deng was so nice they named him twice, and he was Deng good Friday night. The 6-foot-4 East junior came off the bench to deliver 15 points and two dunks to lift the top-ranked T-birds’ boys basketball team to a 54-37 victory at Bartlett in the Cook Inlet...
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by Beth Bragg | Feb 26, 2024 | Cover Story, Wrestling
The Interior Grappling Academy of Fairbanks is a wrestling club that thinks big. It caters to all ages — little kids in Ninja and Gladiator age-group classes, adults in MMA and boxing classes and teenagers who comprise one of the most competitive high school teams in...
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by Doyle Woody | Feb 21, 2024 | Cover Story, Hockey
UAA’s late-season bounce-back continued last weekend with a road sweep at fellow independent Lindenwood University in Missouri, where Lions junior goaltender Trent Burnham of Eagle River put up heavy resistance. The Seawolves won 5-3 (empty-netter) on Friday and used...Read More
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by Van Williams | Feb 21, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
High school freshmen basketball players are typically on the C team, but not at Service. The youth movement has started early on the Hillside. The school doesn’t have a C team because all the ninth graders are on varsity. And they aren’t just on the team – they are...
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by Matt Nevala | Feb 24, 2024 | Cover Story, Hockey
Seconds before the Anchorage Wolverines’ opening faceoff Friday, the town’s hockey community shared in a little, legitimate synergy. Beloved public-address voice and veteran media mogul Bob Lester announced UAA’s overtime victory over Augustana down in South Dakota....Read More
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by Van Williams | Feb 25, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
Wasilla’s Sullivan Menard scored 11 of his 21 points in the second half and hit two big free throws with 19 seconds left Saturday to help the Whitworth beat Whitman 81-75 to win the Northwest Conference title for a third straight year. The 2019 Gatorade Alaska Player...Read More
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by Van Williams | Feb 20, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story, Prep Spotlight
Alaska Class 4A boys basketball coaches are in agreement East is the best team, but East coach Chuck Martin hopes to convince his players that whoever the T-birds take on is the best team. “It’s still early," Martin said. In other words, rankings don’t guarantee...Read More
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by Van Williams | Feb 23, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
No longer just a 3-point specialist, King Cove’s Elaina Mack has blossomed into a complete player for the UAA women’s basketball team. But that doesn’t mean she stopped shooting – and making – 3s. The sophomore sharpshooter on Thursday pumped in five treys and matched...Read More
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