She doesn’t score a ton of points or grab a lot of rebounds, but Sylvia Bullock does a lot of winning. The Anchorage forward is part of the 12th-ranked University of Miami women’s basketball team that won the regular-season title in the mighty Atlantic Coast Conference. The title run completes a worst-to-first journey for the… Read more »

No team in the Summit League playing as well as Oral Roberts University. And perhaps no ORU big man is playing as well as Alaska’s Damen Bell-Holter. Bell-Holter, of Hydaburg fame, delivered a double-double in points and rebounds as Golden Eagles won their eighth straight game last night with a 69-57 win over visiting Western… Read more »

For the second time in his career, Caleb Severns of Fairbanks can call himself a conference champion. The University of Denver senor finished second in the men’s 200 backstroke at the Sun Belt Conference Swimming and Diving Championships in Rockwall, Texas. He clocked a NCAA B cut time of 1:45.47, just a blink behind teammate… Read more »

With a possible NCAA playoff berth on the line, the Adams State College men’s basketball team continued their last-season push with hopes of becoming just the second team in school history to qualify for the D2 big dance. The Grizzlies overcame a 13-point second-half deficit on the road to beat Mesa State College 68-65 in… Read more »

Alaska’s Jenna Johnson and the red-hot Utah State University women’s basketball team are approaching unchartered territory. The Aggies – winners of eight of their last nine games – are one win shy of breaking the school record for most victories in the Western Athletic Conference following last night’s 72-61 victory over New Mexico State in… Read more »

Facing a must-win situation today in the Euroleague Top 16 playoffs, Spanish power Caja Laboral was in search of a hero. And Brad Oleson of North Pole answered the call. The 6-foot-3 two-guard poured in a Euroleague career-high 16 points to fuel a 78-63 victory over fellow Spanish pro team Unicaja, keeping alive Caja Laboral’s… Read more »

The 10th-ranked Southern Oregon University wrestling team captured another NAIA West Qualifying Group team championship recently, and Ninilchik’s Austin Vanderford was a big reason why the Raiders are on top. The 174-pounder was one of two Southern Oregon wrestlers to win his weight class, lifting the team to a 3-point win over eighth-ranked Montana State-Northern…. Read more »

After two Alaskans won medals at X Games 15 this year in Aspen, Colo., Andrew Kurka of Palmer was primed to join the club. The 18-year-old is Alaska’s top mono skier and Challenge Alaska’s top athlete, a threat to podium every race. Yet it wasn’t mean to be this time as Kurka crashed during practice… Read more »

For the first time this season the Bartlett boys basketball team has wrestled the No. 1 ranking away from the West in the Alaska Association of Basketball Coaches Poll, released today. The Golden Bears leapfrogged the previously top-ranked Eagles in the 4A boys poll after beating them 76-70 in overtime last night, thanks to the… Read more »

For the second time this season, Illinois State University’s Anthony Cousin of Anchorage earned bragging rights over Bradley University’s Will Egolf of Haines. The two former Alaska all-state players squared off in the Missouri Valley Conference again tonight, and just like the first time it was a one-point thriller. Illinois State won 51-50, snapping a… Read more »