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by Ben Spiess | Nov 7, 2022 | Adventure, Cover Story, Sailing
I got a call from my old friend Mark Synnott in late August. Mark was in the middle of sailing the Arctic Northwest Passage from Maine through to Nome. Could I join him in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories in a week? He needed crew for the last leg of his voyage –...Read More
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by Van Williams | Nov 4, 2022 | Basketball, Cover Story, Prep Spotlight
It’s official: Sayvia Sellers will begin the high school basketball season on the McDonald’s All-American Game watch list. The reigning Gatorade Alaska Player of the Year out of Anchorage Christian sits at No. 28 in ESPN’s most recent top 100 rankings for the Class of...
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by Doyle Woody | Nov 5, 2022 | Cover Story, Cross Country Running, UAA, UAF
Gotta hand it to UAF runners Kendall Kramer and Naomi Bailey – the distance duo from Fairbanks crushed the Great Northwest Athletic Conference cross-country championships Saturday, and did it hand-in-hand. Kramer and Bailey, who finished holding hands in Monmouth,...Read More
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The Alaska Sports Report tells stories about Alaska athletes achieving great things around the world. Alaska’s sports culture is woven through the fabric of life in The Last Frontier. We provide a unifying voice for our state’s vast and diverse sports community.
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by Doyle Woody | Nov 5, 2022 | Cover Story, Hockey
The Anchorage Wolverines and Fairbanks Ice Dogs kicked it old-school Friday night at Ben Boeke Arena, where the high-scoring action couldn’t have been more vintage 1980s if the skaters wielded wood sticks and the goalies sported narrow leg pads and employed a stand-up...Read More
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by Van Williams | Nov 6, 2022 | Football
Josh Cummings of Fairbanks did some heavy lifting on a light day in the Western Colorado backfield Saturday. The senior running back racked up 82 rushing yards and a touchdown on a dozen carries in a 55-14 victory over Fort Lewis in the Rocky Mountain Athletic...Read More
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by Van Williams | Nov 4, 2022 | Cover Story, Friday Flashback, Soccer
You’d be hard pressed to start a college career any better than Eagle River’s Kelly Cobb, who took the Duke University women’s soccer team by storm in 2011. The 5-foot-10 forward scored game-winning goals in each of her first two appearances as a freshman, the second....Read More
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by Van Williams | Nov 3, 2022 | Basketball, Cover Story
Daishen Nix’s progression in the NBA took a major step forward last night. The second-year Houston Rockets point guard from Anchorage buried a career-high four 3-pointers and played big minutes off the bench in a 109-101 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers in Texas. Nix...
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Alaska Sports Hall of Fame public voting is back for the month of November!
After a three year pause, the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame is again selecting a new class of people, moments, and events to be inducted and the public will play an important role. Vote Here
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by Doyle Woody | Nov 6, 2022 | Hockey
Alaska women are cracking goaltenders across the NCAA Division III ranks. Darci Matson of Wasilla, a sophomore sniper at Aurora University and a Second-Team All-American as a rookie, continues to torment opposing goalies. She racked the game-winning, third-period,...Read More
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by Matias Saari | Nov 3, 2022 | Cover Story, Obstacle Course Running
Lars Arneson beat the best in the sport to become the third Alaskan to win a major obstacle course race on October 22. Arneson, originally from the Kenai Peninsula and now living in Anchorage, came from behind to claim his first Spartan Race in the “Beast” event at...Read More
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by Matt Nevala | Nov 6, 2022 | Cover Story, Hockey
Fresh off playing a role in another thrilling display of hockey theater, Revy Mack relished being back home and inside Ben Boeke Arena’s aging, yet historic walls. “I knew this would be a tremendous opportunity,” Mack said Saturday night after his Anchorage Wolverines...Read More
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by Arielle Himelbloom | Nov 2, 2022 | Cover Story, Cross Country Running, Prep Spotlight
After placing both teams in the top-3 at the cross country running state championships, the South Anchorage Wolverines tested their strength against some of the best teams on the West Coast. At the 74th annual Mt. SAC Cross Country Invitational in Walnut, California,...Read More
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by Van Williams | Nov 2, 2022 | Volleyball
The UAA volleyball team has set up its future nicely after getting a commitment from junior college all-conference setter Kadyn Osborne of Anchorage. The 2020 Gatorade Alaska Player of the Year out of Dimond High confirmed her decision to transfer to UAA after posting...
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by Van Williams | Nov 2, 2022 | Basketball, Cover Story
Defense and dimes, that’s how Anchorage’s Travante Williams got his revenge today in the EuroCup. The playmaker propelled Portuguese League power Sporting over Polish League opponent Anwil 85-73 in a must-have victory in Group G of the prestigious FIBA tournament in...
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by Doyle Woody | Nov 5, 2022 | Running, Track and Field
To say 2022 has been a rough go physically and emotionally for steeplechaser Isaac Updike of Ketchikan is an understatement. Two bouts of COV-19 not only caused him to scratch from his most important competition of the year – the U.S. nationals, which decided berths...Read More
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by Doyle Woody | Nov 1, 2022 | Hockey
In his third straight hockey season in the DEL, Germany’s top circuit, winger Casey Bailey of Anchorage continues to score at a metronomic pace – dude is reliably a point-a-game machine. Bailey, the former NHLer who turned 31 last week, owns 5-11—16 totals in 16 games...Read More
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