Dick Mize just wanted a place for kids to ski. John Brown just wanted to play basketball. Michaela Hutchison was just following in her family’s footsteps. What started as small ideas turned into something big. Mize, Brown and Hutchison joined Nancy Pease and the Iron Dog to make up the Class of 2015 for the… Read more »
The Alaska Sports Hall of Fame is proud that so many Alaskan athletes agreed to join community members and organizations to stand united against domestic violence and child abuse. Thank you to Hall of Fame inductees Mario Chalmers , Scott Gomez, Trajan Langdon, Kikkan Randall, Mark Schlereth and AK athletes Damen Bell-Holter, Matt Carle, Alev… Read more »
The Alaska Sports Hall of Fame ceremony to honor the Class of 2015 inductees and annual Directors’ Awards winners will be held on Thursday, March 5 at the Anchorage Museum auditorium at 625 C Street in downtown Anchorage. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be from 7:30 p.m. to 9… Read more »
Three athletes with remarkable resumes within their respective sports headline the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2015 announced at a press conference today. Olympic biathlete and Anchorage Nordic skiing pioneer Dick Mize, Ketchikan basketball icon John Brown and mountain running legend Nancy Pease will be the next inductees into the Hall. Soldotna’s Michaela… Read more »
If you have ever listened to the radio in Alaska, there’s a good chance you heard Dick Lobdell’s voice. And chances are you never forgot him. For those of us lucky enough to know the man behind the mic, Lobdell was as warm and as friendly as his dulcet voice. For more than 40 years… Read more »
The author of one of the greatest moments in Olympic history, American Billy Mills stunned the world by winning the gold medal in the 10,000 meters at the 1964 Tokyo Games. Since then he has toured the country telling his inspirational story. He will here Wednesday night, Jan. 29, at Bear Tooth Theatrepub. Mills will… Read more »
A total of 1,600 people voted for the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2014, the third highest vote total in the eight-year history of the Hall. Last year 1,750 people voted. The record is 2,000. “We received a great deal of positive feedback from the public about the voting process,” said executive director… Read more »
Don’t forget to vote! You have until midnight AST on Wednesday to help select the people, moments and events to be inducted into the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2014. Visit the vote page on the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame’s homepage and submit your choices. The accumulative public vote will be the… Read more »
