Iditarod “Saboteur X” – if he or she exists – appears to have had only a few hours to infiltrate a Nome dog yard and dope the team of four-time Iditarod Trail […]
Idit-a-mystery
PETA wrong
An investigation by the Matanuska-Susitna Borough into an animal-care complaint filed by a dog there handler has cleared the kennel of four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race champion Dallas Seavey of […]
Iditarod turmoil
Blowback from a doping accusation against four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion Dallas Seavey is today rattling the world’s premier long-distance sled dog race to its very core. All of a […]
Iditarod deaths
Update: This story has been updated with a Seavey comment. As if the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race didn’t have enough of a problem with accusations of doping and sabotage rippling in […]
Iditarod crossroads
Commentary Before the last of the ice melts from frozen Fairbanks, Alaska, and the 2017 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race fully disappears into the ground blizzard of history, it might be a […]
A richer Iditarod
The rumored $1 million dollar Iditarod reached Nome earlier this month. No, it wasn’t the dog sled race. It was a Chinese tour, which some along the Iditarod Trail nicknamed the […]
Director strikes back
The director of the controversial though yet-to-be seen film “Sled Dogs” is pushing back at accusations she misled the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race into helping her film crew follow a rookie […]
Internet dog war
Veteran Canadian film maker Fern Levitt still isn’t talking about her yet-to-be-seen but already controversial documentary “Sled Dogs,” but she’s got to be relishing the ever-growing attention the film is getting. Shot […]
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 […]
Idit-a-mistake
Sometimes it is hard to avoid wondering if the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is trying to kill the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Last year the event, which likes to […]
