The director of a controversial, though yet-to-screen movie about the sled-dog business has emerged from hiding to tell the CBC that most people have no idea what goes on in mushing kennels. […]
Iditarod non-cheats
Commentary Hard to believe, but the most honest people in American sport are all a dither about fears modern-day communications might lead to cheating in Alaska’s most famous sports competition. Yes, we’re […]
A tale of two mushers
UPDATED April 30, 2016 Brennan Norden is the outlawed Iditarod musher nobody knows. Four years before Alaskans started worrying about the treatment of Travis Beals, who the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race […]
Iditarod bans Travis Beals
A week after it was first reported the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race had allowed musher Travis Beals to compete while awaiting trail on domestic-violence charges, Alaska’s signature sporting event took a […]
Iditarod musher facing domestic violence charges
© 2016 craigmedred.news All Rights Reserved A little over a month ago, 24-year-old Travis Beals from Seward happily rode into Nome behind a team of six dogs to claim his second top-20 […]
Iditarod musher faces domestic violence charges
© 2016 craigmedred.news All Rights Reserved A little over a month ago, 24-year-old Travis Beals from Seward happily rode into Nome behind a team of six dogs to claim his second top-20 […]
Dirty little secrets
As you read this, the odds are good a woman is being beaten by her husband, fiance, boyfriend, partner or the like somewhere in the 49th state. A 2010 study by the […]
Better kept quiet
With the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race caught in a wrongheaded but understandable bit of a cover-up this week because the reality of Alaska can be just a little too real, more […]
Iditarod’s problem?
So now it is official. Not one, but two female mushers in the Iditarod Trial Sled Dog Race were threatened or grabbed by men this year as they traveled along a wild […]
A third Iditarod assault
As alleged Iditarod assailant Arnold Demoski from Nulato was settling into a cell at the Fairbanks Correctional Institute on the evening of March 13, an attack on at least one more Iditarod […]
