Sports

Nome wrestlers competed in Anchorage last week.
By Corey Erikson, Wrestling Coach The Mountain City Christian Academy girls and boys wrestling tournament in Anchorage is the biggest 123A wrestling event of the year.  Nome wrestlers competed...
OFF THEY GO— The boys high school race gets underway at the Nome-Beltz Musk Ox Classic on Saturday, Sept. 6.
By Ariana Crockett O’Harra | Competitors and spectators from six communities gathered in wet and windy conditions on Saturday for the annual Nome-Beltz Musk Ox Classic cross-country running race....
DOWNHILL— Andrew Rohrer descends Anvil Mountain during the July 4 Anvil Mountain Run.
By Laura Robertson The Anvil Mountain run is a time-honored Fourth of July tradition in Nome, a nearly half-marathon length race to from City Hall on Front Street to the White Alice towers and back....
Henrik Tördal from Sweden was the fastest runner in last week's Stroke-N-Croak.
Overcast skies, cool temperatures and a light fog obscuring Anvil Mountain were the backdrop to last Sunday’s running of the 41st annual Stroke-n-Croak Triathlon. The event consists of a one mile-...
STRONG— Wyatt Ahmasuk outpulls his opponent in the Stick Pull, during the NYO competition in Anchorage  that started on April 24 and lasted for three days.
By Laura Robertson This year, two Nome teams competed at the Native Youth Olympic Games in Anchorage during the state event held last weekend in April. As usual, Nome-Beltz sent a team to compete...
Mike Morgan won the 2025 Cannonball race, held on Saturday, April 19, 2025
The roar of snowmachines filled the Nome outer harbor on Saturday, as 20 Nome Cannonball snowmachine racers took off to run laps around Nome, with the harbor being the start and finish point. The...
Nanooks celebrate their state championship victory.
Sirens blared and Nanook flags flew high as Nome welcomed the Nanooks home from the state basketball tournament on Sunday evening. On Saturday, the Nanooks beat Sitka’s Wolves 62-43, bringing home...
The Wolfpack’s Isaac Smith threads heavy defense as he makes his way to the hoop in the 2A State Championship Game.
Last weekend, Shaktoolik and Unalakleet made the region proud, bringing home two State Championship trophies from a successful weekend at the 1A and 2A Basketball States in Anchorage. The Shaktoolik...
Matt Hall is arriving in Unaklakleet in second place, on Tuesday, March 11.
Conventional Iditarod Trail Sled Dog races see a finish in Nome by Tuesday, but not so this year. A 130-mile longer trail, rerouted from the Iditarod trail to Fairbanks and thus mostly run on the...
START YOUR ENGINES—Cody Sherman, winner of the Nome-Golovin race, starts his engine in front of a crowd of people waiting.
Cody Sherman won the Open-C Class competition and the overall race, in last Saturday’s Nome-Golovin 200 snowmachine race, in a time of 2 hours and 14 minutes. The race started on the beach by...

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