Photo archive for March 26, 2008
Fairbanks Grizzlies quarterback Bo Bartik celebrates after scoring a touchdown against the Odessa Roughnecks Saturday evening, March 22, 2008. The Grizzlies posted their first win with a 22-17 victory over the Roughnecks.
Skiing fans watch as Sigrid Aas, foreground, collapses from exhaustion after a sprint to the finish of the A Final of the Golden Heart Spring Series classic style ski race Wednesday evening, March 26, 2008, at Birch Hill. Aas took second, being edged out by Laura Valaas.
Bart Dengel, left, edges out Mike Sinnott at the finish line of the B Final of the Golden Heart Spring Series classic style ski race Wednesday evening, March 26, 2008, at Birch Hill. Torin Koos, of the US Ski Team, won the men’s A Final.
Jason Abbott,18, is led into the Sitka Courthouse by Jay Myer and Sitka Police Lt. Barry Allen, right, Wednesday, March 26, 2008 in Sitka. Abbott was arraigned on four counts of first-degree murder with bail set at $1 million.
Four-time Yukon Quest and two-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion Lance Mackey of Fairbanks drives his team out of the starting chute of the $100,000 winner-take-all All Alaska Sweepstakes sled dog race in Nome on March 26, 2008. The 408-mile race goes to the old mining settlement of Candle and back to Nome.
A competitor in the Open North American Championships and his dog team take a turn on the trail through Creamer’s Field on March 16, the last day of the three-day competition.
Open North American Championship racers head for the finish from the Wendell Avenue bridge March 16.
