Palmer’s Jessica Moore will be shooting for hardwood history when her Indiana Fever tips off against the Phoenix Mercury in the best-of-5 WNBA Finals starting tonight on ESPN2. Moore, a backup center for the Eastern Division champions, is enjoying her finest professional season in helping the Fever reach the Finals for the first time. Indiana… Read more »

When the Idaho football team needs to dial up a score, it’s starting to call the 907 area code. As in Alaskan Daniel Hardy. Hardy, of West High fame, hauled in a 26-yard score for his second touchdown catch of the season to help the Vandals earn a 34-31 road win at Northern Illinois. The… Read more »

There’s a butte in Bend, Ore., with Lars Flora’s name all over it. The Alaskan Olympian nordic skier set the course record Saturday in the 11th running up Bend’s landmark Pilot Butte, a punishing one-mile uphill race that covers nearly 500 feet of elevation gain. The 31-year-old Flora, a two-time Olympian who splits time between… Read more »

After winning a state title at Valdez High School and becoming an All-American at the University of Alaska Anchorage, Carl Arts enjoyed the kind of success where he hoped to play professionally. His first shot with the ABA’s Alaska Dream didn’t pan out. But he struck gold in Australia. Arts, 24, excelled in his rookie… Read more »

You may assume the mood at the summer biathlon world championships are a little more chill than the winter competition, but that’s just not the case. “World champs are world champs,” Kasilof’s Jay Hakkinen told the United States Olympic Committee Web site. Game on. Hakkinen, Anchorage’s Jeremy Teela and two other Americans will represent the… Read more »

Four years ago, Alaskan Michaela Hutchison made American history when she became the first girl to win a high school state championship against boys. These days she’s proving to be nearly unbeatable against women. Hutchison, of Soldotna, is a national champion for Oklahoma City University after winning the 121-pound weight class at last year’s Women’s… Read more »

Zack Bowman of Anchorage got his first NFL start with the Chicago Bears, collecting 7 tackles in a 17-14 overtime victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Bowman held his own, although many people wonder why Big Ben didn’t test the second-year cornerback more often. Nonetheless, he didn’t get burned, and he helped the Bears bagel the… Read more »

An injured Jessica Moore is marching on in the WNBA playoffs. The 6-foot-3 center from Palmer, who is playing despite a hyper-extended knee suffered less than a week ago, helped the Indiana Fever sweep the Washington Mystics in the best-of-3 semifinal series to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals. The defense-minded Moore logged only 8… Read more »

Alaskan Geoff Roes is one of the most accomplished ultra-marathoners in the country, but even he walked away from this week’s Wasatch 100 shaking his head. And he won the race. The annual contest up and down the Wasatch Mountains in Utah lived up to its claim as “a premier run that will test the… Read more »

Anchorage’s Sarah Hibbert has always been ahead of the curve. She graduated a semester early from South High School. And now she’s playing a starring role for the University of Utah volleyball team as an underclassman. Hibbert, a 6-foot-1 outside hitter, leads her team in kills (129) despite ranking sixth in hitting percentage (.213), a… Read more »