The doped racehorse that won the Kentucky Derby on May 1 is on the verge of being disqualified, and the horse’s trainer is suggesting his race was sabotaged. Where have we […]
Shades of Iditarod
Home of the rich
Global warming might portend all sorts of future problems from Alaska, but so far it’s coming up nothing but roses for the Bristol Bay region of the state. The U.S. Bureau of […]
Peace on drugs
End of the trail, the Iditarod finish line in Nome/NPS photo The doping manual for the 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is now out. Gone is the “strict liability” rule that […]
Iditarod crashes
UPDATE: This story was updated from the first version to include Nic Petit’s decision to drop out of the race. Bad judgment is among the most normal of human behaviors, and Iditarod […]
Who done it?
News analysis Only time will tell the consequences of the decision by the new Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race board of directors to reverse course on the old Board and clear […]
Everywhere dope
Doping news was flooding the international world of sports on Monday as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race disappeared into the wild beauty of the Alaska Range and gained some distance […]
More dope
As if the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race didn’t have enough trouble in the wake of the revelation that four-time champ Dallas Seavey had a doped dog-team in Nome last year, a […]
Bigger fish
The Kaplan Herald appears to be an equal-opportunity plagiarist. Forget stories borrowed from the Anchorage Daily News in Podunk, Alaska. Kaplan appears to have moved on to bigger and potentially more profitable targets […]
Iditarod down
In the wake of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race’s first, publicly revealed doping case, the International Federation of Sleddog Sports has moved to distance itself from the globe’s premier sled-dog […]
Last Great Mess
When the guilty go unnamed, everyone becomes guilty, and so it is the mushers in Alaska’s biggest sporting event have become a bunch of dopers. Thank the Iditarod Trail Committee, which this […]
