Sports

ARCTIC WINTER GAMES— Eight elite athletes from Nome and one coach are headed to the Arctic Winter Games in Greenland.
The world is about to become a lot smaller for eight young Nome athletes who have earned spots on Team Alaska, the organizational body in charge of assembling sporting teams for the 2016 Arctic...
TEAMS AGAINST TOBACCO— Iron Dog racers Mike Morgan, right, and Chris Olds signed autographs and talked with young people about being tobacco free at Old St. Joe's on Wednesday, March 2
Shortly after each pair of racers crossed the Iron Dog Snowmachine Race’s half-way mark near Nome’s East End Park on Tuesday, Feb 23, they were quickly escorted to the Nome Public Works Building....
HANG TIME— Nome's Mikey Scott takes to the sky against Barrow's Kamaka Hepa in a game on Friday night. The Whalers went on to beat the Nanooks 92-51.
Many spectators in the crowded Nome-Beltz gym last week watched forward Kamaka Hepa of the visiting Barrow Whalers with the a feeling they might be witnessing some special history unfolding before...
FIRST INTO NOME— Tyler Aklestad and Tyson Johnson arrived in Nome, the halfway point of the Iron Dog Snowmachine race on Tuesday at 3:34 p.m.
Last weekend, 41 teams started the Iron Dog snowmachine race in the pro class section. The Iron Dog, known as the world’s longest and toughest snowmobile race, runs 2,031 miles from Big Lake to Nome...
SHOOTOUT MPV— Gambelll's Wallace Ungwiluk dribbles thorugh two Brevig Mission defenders during the Norton Sound Shootout on Thursday in the Nome-Beltz gym, Ungwiluk was voted the most valuable player in the high school boys division.
Eight teams from the Bering Strait School District joined Nome’s two junior varsity squads last weekend for the Norton Sound Shootout — the largest high school basketball tournament of the year in...
HIGH LEVEL OF INSTRUCTION— Gambell triathlon coach Katie Nagel, right, brought three of her athletes to Anchorage for a biathlon race last weekend.
A whole new world was opened to several young Gambell students this weekend as they attended their first biathlon race in Anchorage. The event, titled the Sweetheart Relays, was hosted by the Nordic...
UNDERNEATH— Nanook junior varsity player Aaron Motis slips under the Kozebue JV defense on Saturday afternoon in the Nome-Beltz gym
Girls varsity teams from Nome, Point Hope, Kotzebue and Houston met in Kotzebue last weekend for a four-way tournament. While all the northwestern teams came away with victories over Houston, none...
On Saturday at noon, the Nome Kennel Club kicked off the 2016 sled dog racing season with its first race starting at the Greg Kruschek Avenue snow dump facility. Seven local mushers guided their...
Lady Nanooks Double OT Teams from Nome-Beltz got a heavy dose of the Bethel Warriors last weekend as both varsity squads traveled south for three-team tournaments, while junior high squads from...

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