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Meet The Mushers: Rachael Scdoris

By oddJoe ⋅ January 3, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

I would need to be blind drunk to agree to run the Iditarod, but Rachael is running the Last Great Race and she’s just plain blind. Born with Congenital Achromatopsia, this 20-year-old native of Bend, Oregon, has nonetheless excelled in several sports. She was captain of both her high school track and cross country teams […]

Meet The Mushers: Glenn Lockwood

By oddJoe ⋅ December 29, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Glenn blames his son for getting him involved in dog sledding. You see, Glenn’s son, Brian, read Balto as a child so he naturally then wanted a Siberian husky. This led to buying another, because the first needed a companion, of course, and then one thing led to another (as they say) and few months […]

Meet The Mushers: Ben Stamm

By oddJoe ⋅ December 28, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Ben lives in Wisconsin and I give him a lot of credit. When he’s not training for mushing events, he sells bait and rents boats to rude, drunk flatlanders up from Chicago. That is not a job anyone should have to have. Ben has been training sled dogs since 1999 and ran his first Iditarod […]

Meet The Mushers: Bjørnar Andersen

By oddJoe ⋅ December 28, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Bjørnar comes from the land of the ice and snow. (Cue Robert Plant: Ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh!) Yes, he’s a Norseman come to pillage the Iditarod Trail Race trophy, and he just might do it. Bjørnar finished in fourth place last year becoming the first rookie to finish The Last Great Race in the top […]

Why Do I love James Toney?

By Josh ⋅ December 28, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

I could go into a big song and dance about Toney’s vast ring skills, predict that he’ll be the next WBC heavyweight champ, or point out the wisdom behind his choice of Freddie Roach as a trainer. Really, though, this picture says it all. They guy just makes me laugh again and again.
Check out www.jamestoney.com […]

Meet The Mushers: Peter Bartlett

By oddJoe ⋅ December 27, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Peter is a young man from Maine who moved to Alaska in 1997 so that he could pursue mushing. In his first Iditarod run in 2002, though, our man Peter hit a tree and got separated from his team. Luckily, another musher spotted his team and secured the dogs until Peter could get back to […]

Meet The Mushers: Max Hall

By oddJoe ⋅ December 27, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Pip, pip, cheerio, and all that good stuff. Max is an Englishman and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Well, at least he shouldn’t get lost along the trail to Nome. Max first experienced the Iditarod Trail Race as a tourist in the early 1990s before entering the race in 1995. His 47th place […]

Meet The Mushers: Warren Palfrey

By oddJoe ⋅ December 26, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Warren is one of a select few Iditarod challengers racing under the Maple Leaf flag. Yes, he’s all Canadian: born and raised in Manitoba and a current resident of Yellowknife. He’s a veteran musher but this is his first attempt at The Last Great Race. A plumber by trade, Warren raises Alaskan huskies with his […]

Official Johnny Damon Website

By oddSeth ⋅ December 24, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Not only does the official Johnny Damon website have forums, chat rooms, stats, and more, but you can see photos of Boston’s favorite traitor getting shorn for his Steinbrenner-mandated shave and a haircut.

Meet The Mushers: Lance Mackey

By oddJoe ⋅ December 24, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m thinking that Lance puts a lot of pressure on himself. You see, both his father and his brother have won the Iditarod, and even though he’s the reigning Yukon Quest champion, Lance has yet to be the first to cross the finish line in Nome at the end of The Last Great Race. Lance […]