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Latest news from the Iditarod...
by Graham 
...is that leader Jeff King has reached White Mountain, which is less than 100 miles from Nome. He has a 4 hour lead over second-placed Doug Swingley.
The window for tactical moves shuts at White Mountain, because every musher has to take a mandatory 8… more »
03/14/06 11:16:38 am, Iditarod latest...
by Graham
...as I expected, a musher has made a tactical move by not stopping to rest at a checkpoint. Paul Gebhart blew through Shaktoolik, stopping for only 9 minutes and passing Dee Dee Jonrowe to take over third place. He had a good time of 5 hours 21 minutes… more »
Iditarod latest
by Graham
Jeff King and Doug Swingley are into Unalakleet, on the Bering Sea coast, and still almost tied together with string. They took just over 12 hours from Kaltag. Swingley claims he would have been in the lead but for suffering an overturned sled which inju… more »
Day 7 of the Iditarod...
by Graham
...and the lead is being fought out between Jeff King, Doug Swingley and Dee Dee Jonrowe. This report suggests that Jonrowe's dog team may currently be the freshest. King and Swingley have been playing a game of tactical cat-and-mouse over the last 3-4 d… more »
NFL Free Agency - it's like the Christmas rush
by Graham
With the free-agency period less than a day old, the market is like the Christmas sales...with a lot more cap money available, teams have gone from muttering about not being able to answer the phones to installing more phones...already a lot of players h… more »
The NFL CBA has been extended....
by Graham
...which will allow normal service to be resumed. Episodes of the soap opera known as the NFL Off-Season will resume, starting Saturday.
While all of the CBA extension excitement was occurring, Duante Culpepper has been busy proving that (a) if you're… more »
Day 4 of the Iditarod...
by Graham
...and 4-time winner Doug Swingley still leads at the halfway point. However, for the next 2 days the real race positions will be obscured by mushers taking their mandatory 24 hour layover. Most mushers take the layover shortly after the halfway point. T… more »
The Iditarod started today...
by Graham
....and for the next 2 weeks I will be bringing you snippets of coverage from the world's most famous sled dog race. Here is the route map for the race.
There are 83 mushers taking part in this year's race. Here is the entry list. Once again, a lot of… more »
Matt Birk weighs in with his opinion of the NFL Players Union leadership....
by Graham
...in Friday's NFL rumor mill column, which quotes remarks made in a recent interview by Birk.
Matt Birk has become the Robert Smith of the current NFL generation - an intelligent, articulate guy with a good BS detector who calls it as he sees it. He h… more »
Now the real weird stuff starts in the NFL...
by Graham
While some folks get excited about the VP bagging a lawyer instead of a quail, not very far from us a series of tales of deceit, double-dealing, backstabbing, financial avarice, public posturing, bullshit and other examples of human mendacity is starting… more »