UPDATE: The Wasilla Police Department late Friday issued a short statement affirming that a thorough investigation of the dog attack reported here had been undertaken, and that “citations are expected to […]
Not so Lucky
Poor, lost dog
First it was Canadians and Danes angry at Alaska’s “Last Great Race;” now it’s the French. Musher Sebastien Dos Santos Borges from Chazey-Bons, France and his supporters don’t think the Iditarod Trail […]
Shades of Iditarod
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 […]
PR reordered
ExxonMobil’s departure as a sponsor of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race this week might have come as a surprise to some fans of the self-identified Last Great Race, but it […]
Mackey family nightmare
Tragedy has once again struck the life of Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race legend Lance Mackey. Not long out of rehab after admitting to problems with drugs and alcohol, the 50-year-old musher […]
Iditarod future
DENVER – With another Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race done, more Iditarod sponsors departed, and another yuge Iditaord money-making idea gone bust, it’s time to talk about what ails Alaska’s Last Great […]
Idit-a-twofer
With a little help from the mainstream media, hard-luck musher Nic Petit from Girdwood this year became the first musher to twice quit the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in the same […]
Idita-threat?
Where does the drive for performance end and torture begin? It could be the question of the month given the charges leveled against Nike by runner Mary Cain at the start of […]
Hitting back
Like the late actor Peter Finch in the hit 1975 movie “Network,” three-time Iditarod Sled Dog Race champ Mitch Seavey is “mad as hell…and not going to take this anymore.” While new […]
Dead bear walking
High above Alaska’s largest city in a subdivision on the edge of the sprawling half-million-acre Chugach State Park, a delinquent young black bear might well owe his life to a snout full […]
