by Harlow Robinson | Jun 27, 2024
Minutes before the first game of Scotty Gomez’s National Hockey League career, New Jersey Devils captain Scott Stevens wandered past a small room adjacent to the dressing room, then did a double-take to confirm the confounding sight he had glimpsed out of the corner...
by Natalie Osborne | Nov 21, 2023
When the unheralded UAA hockey team traveled to mighty Boston College for the opening round of the 1991 NCAA Championships, the Seawolves were considering little more than an appetizer for the Eagles. Turned out the underdog dined. The Seawolves engineered a sweep of...
by Natalie Osborne | Nov 21, 2023
Kikkan Randall was already a rock star as she stood at the start line for the women’s team sprint at the 2018 Winter Olympics. She was the most decorated cross-country skier in U.S. history, a three-time medalist at the World Championships, a 34-time medal-winner on...
by Natalie Osborne | Jun 5, 2019
Any time a rural basketball team upsets a big-city squad the comparisons to the popular movie Hoosiers are inevitable. But Kodiak’s historic 55-52 victory over East Anchorage did provide a Hollywood-type script. You had one of the state’s smallest Class 4A schools...
by Natalie Osborne | Oct 6, 2018
In the early 1990s, Dolly Lefever became known world-wide as first Alaskan woman to climb 29,029-foot Mount Everest in 1993 and the first American woman to complete climbs of the Seven Summits in 1994. The two mountaineering achievements permanently put Lefever’s...
