Iditarod faces its future With the departure of the ‘thought leader’ who promised to boost the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race by leveraging media like Michael Jordan and others did to become […]
Still great?
Bye, bye Rob
Iditarod director leaving While most of the sporting world was Friday chattering about the FIFA World Cup, the July Fourth start of the Tour de France, or the latest NFL star facing […]
Bad year
Iditarod dream dies and then…. As if this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race wasn’t enough of a disaster for “expedition” musher Steve Curtis, the Canadian now has bigger trouble in the […]
Iditarod’s toughest
Leave it to a stubborn Irishman to define the spirit of the Iditraod Trail. After more than 32 days in bitter cold and high winds on the 1,000-mile trek from Knik to […]
Winners all
The long, cold ride ends at last Two days after the self-proclaimed “Last Great Race” came to an end in Nome, a Brazilian cyclist now living in Boulder, Colo., led the […]
Iditarod what now
Race leaders go from 1st to last Billionaire, Norwegian “expedition musher” Kjell Røkke and his guide, former Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champ Thomas Wærner, led the “Last Great Race” into the […]
The Stubborn Six
The Iditamob of more than 100 who left Knik on Feb. 22 is now down to a diehard half-dozen/Spencer Martin, Facebook Iditarod Invitational resumes at last Almost everything in and about America’s […]
Top dog
Billionaire musher hangs tough Billionaire “Expedition Musher” Kjelle Røkke put down his marker as one of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race’s top dogs in 2026 by leading the field of 36 […]
Iditarod lost
Last Great Race again abandons historic trail So now it has come down to this: 20 miles of bad trail is enough to send the event that bills itself as the “Last […]
A quiet champ
Iditarod loses one of the good ones Nineteen-eighty-three Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champ Rick Mackey, who died this week at the age of 71, was the quiet man in the Mackey […]
