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I read where Jeff King just won the Itidarod (sp?) Race.

Where's he get the time to do this and play spring ball?

TTom

>I read where Jeff King just won the Itidarod (sp?) Race.

Iditarod shouldn't be over yet.  I think it is expected to end
this weekend....

'Saw

PS  He was leading last I heard.....

Idatrod is over. Winning time was a record 10 days and 15 hours.

The Crazy Met

ps King  must be eager to get to Spring training :-)

    Butcher came in 4th...
    

Article: 10259
From: [email protected] (UPI)
Newsgroups: clari.sports.misc,clari.news.interest,clari.news.interest.animals,clari.sports.top
Subject: Enduring Iditarod leaders turn race into a sprint
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 12:44:44 PST
 
	WHITE MOUNTAIN, Alaska (UPI) -- Iditarod mushers, having covered more
than 1,000 miles of frozen Alaskan trails, were sprinting toward the
finish Tuesday, a margin of just minutes separating the two front-
runners.
	Jeff King was running seven minutes ahead of DeeDee Jonrowe as the
two entered the final miles of the 1,161-mile Iditarod Sled Dog Race
from Anchorage to Nome.
	King arrived at the next-to-last checkpoint at White Mountain, 55
miles from the final checkpoint at Safety and 77 miles from the finish
line, at 4:50 a.m. local time. Jonrowe came in at 4:57 a.m. Rick Mackey
was the third to arrive, about one hour back.
	Four-time winner Susan Butcher was fourth, Tim Osmar fifth and
defending champion Martin Buser sixth, but they had yet to check in at
White Mountain.
	There is a mandatory 12-hour rest stop at White Mountain. The layover
sets the stage for an expected three-way burst to the finish by King,
Jonrowe and Mackey.
	But the weather could turn a leader into an also-ran. The Bering Sea
coast is notorious for sudden storms that could slow the leaders and
allow others to gain ground.
	``Right now, it's clear and about 0 degrees,'' race spokesman Frank
Marineau said. ``But the weather calls for winds building to 20 to 30
mph with higher gusts and some snow. They're looking at a possible light
blizzard late today.
	``If that develops, it definitely changes the complexity of the whole
situation.''
	The race, begun March 6, was expected to end Wednesday. The winning
musher will receive $50,000 and a new pickup truck.
	Buser last year set an Iditarod record by finishing the 1,049-mile
northern route in 10 days, 19 hours, 17 minutes, 15 seconds. On odd-
numbered years, mushers take the southern route covering an additional
112 miles.
	King, of Denali Park, Alaska, won the halfway prize of $3,000 in
silver ingots Thursday, then traded the lead several times with other
mushers over the weekend before regaining it late Sunday.
	On Monday when King left Elim, the 22nd checkpoint 123 miles from the
finish, he was two minutes ahead of Mackey and Jonrowe.
	King, who finished sixth last year and 12th in 1991, has traded the
lead with Jonrowe four times since the midpoint. Jonrowe's best finish
in 10 previous Iditarods was fourth in 1989.
	Among the front-runners this year, only Butcher has failed to take
the lead at some point in the race.
	Nine of the 68 teams that began the race have dropped out. Musher
Dave Branholm was disqualified Saturday at the Nikolai checkpoint so he
could use a snowmobile to search for a dog that escaped his team.
	The 1993 race has claimed the lives of three dogs. One of musher Rick
Townsend's dogs was killed last week when it plunged into a snow bank as
the team bolted after a fox. Two other dogs died in separate incidents
in the early days of the race.
	Last week, a minor flu-like illness, possibly food poisoning, hit
about 75 percent of the 2,000 dogs in the race but caused no deaths or
dropouts.
	The Iditarod Trail follows a route blazed during the Gold Rush of
1908 to 1925, when $35 million in gold ore was extracted from around the
village of Iditarod, now a ghost town. In 1925, the trail became a
lifeline over which vital serum was delivered to diphtheria-stricken
Nome.

    re Iditarod
    
    And the Scenery ony changes fer the lead dog.
    
    JaKe
    

I had heard they had included a couple of mandatory long rest stops
this year, so I figured the race would end around this weekend sometime.
Guess I was wrong.

I did call the hotline a couple of times, but go so busy lately I didn't
have the chance....


'Saw

>    Butcher came in 4th...
 

	The Baker and Candlestick Maker came in 5th and 8th respectively.

:*)

Claybroon   

    
    Hey Take off - who cares about dem racers.  Like where's the Curling
    note?  The big Labatts rock-off is coming off.
    
    CanuckJD

Martin Busser won this year's Iditarod.  He broked some sort of a record,
I'm not sure which.

At any rate, while we were buried with snow here in New England, they had
a pretty warm Iditarod this year, from what I've heard.....

'Saw

    They had to move the start of the race to Anchorage due to lack of
    snow.  Did they say where Rick Swenson (last year's winner) finished?
    
    Mark.

	I know there was a shortage of snow up there (shoulda shipped them 
	some of ours), but I think they always start the Iditarod right in
	downtown Anchorage.  At least they did for the three years I was 
	up that a way.


	billl

    re: .11
    
    > Did they say where Rick Swenson (last year's winner) finished?
    
    Nome?
    
    

    
    Yabbut Mark,
    
    I'm pretty sure he come in a very distant 2nd or third.  I think
    this year's finishing time knocked 2+ hours off the old record.
    
    hth,
    
    I remain,
    wondering how REK would do in it?  ;^)
    Kev
    

Article: 2040
Newsgroups: alt.culture.alaska
From: [email protected] (Jim Grimes - UA Computer Network)
Subject: IDITAROD UPDATE-MARTIN BUSER WINS!!!!!
Sender: [email protected] (USENET News System)
Organization: University of Alaska
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 03:23:51 GMT
 
IDITAROD UPDATE:  CURRENT AS OF 16 MARCH, 0009 AST
 
MARTIN BUSER of Big Lake has won the 1994 Iditarod Sled Dog Race.
His time was 10 days, 13 hours, 2 minutes, and 39 seconds.
Breaking the northern course record set last year by Rick Swenson
by approximately 2 hours.  Martin Buser won the Iditarod in 1992. 
 
Order/musher		Time      Race completion time
1.  Martin Buser	2202	      10:13:02:39
 
Departing White Mountain
2.  Rick Mackey		1626
3.  Jeff King		2031
4.  Rick Swenson	2109
5.  Bill Cotter 	2122
6.  Doug Swingley	2229
 
Arriving White Mountain
7.  Charlie Boulding	1610
8.  Tim Osmar		1622
9.  DeeDee Jonrowe	1636
10.  Susan Butcher	1958
 
Departing Elim
11.  Kate Persons	1628
12.  Matt Desalernos	1630
13.  Peryll Kayzer	1856
14.  Vern Halter	2040
15.  Robin Jacobson	2041
16.  Diana Dronenburg	2106
17.  Ramy Brooks	2110
18.  Linwood Fielder	2136
19.  Laird Barron	2248
20.  David Olesen	2303
 
Next Checkpoints:			Distance from Nome
Elim  (48 miles from Koyuk)			81
White Mountain  (18 miles from Golovim)  	35
 (8-Hour mandatory lay over at White Mountain)
Safety 						22
Nome						Finish
 
 
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Guess no one managed to mistake Susan Butcher for a moose this year
and tried to shoot her.....

� Title:  sounds like a book by Homer

Y'know, I always wondered how that guy managed top catch all thoise passes from
Fran Tarkenton, being blind and all...

    
    
    		Yabbut and now for something a little different (and I
    think it qualifies as a sport to boot since the winner isn't
    predetermined)  ;^)
    
    	Tonight on ESPN they're showing the Iditarod race.  I'm not
    positive but I think it'll start at 9:00EST.  Naturally, you may want
    to check your local listings......
    
    	Anybody wanna bet that with all the dawgs pulling all the sleds
    that REK's gonna clear his calendar to make sure he doesn't miss it?
    
    I remain,
    forced to choose between car maintenance or the Iditarod
    Kev
    

    Only one dog was lost this year, one from Susan Butcher's team.  This
    is ironic since she pampers her team more than any of the other
    mushers.
    
    Mark.

    	This is about as much a sport as 'rasslin is...
    
    				 /Don

>    Only one dog was lost this year, one from Susan Butcher's team.  This
>    is ironic since she pampers her team more than any of the other
>    mushers.
    
Probably got shot by someone trying to rescue Susan from a moose, hitting
the dog and the moose instead of the intended target....

I had thought that the animosity was just between her and Rick Swenson, but
it seems that most of the other mushers can't stand her either....

She does pamper those dogs though.

The dog/health requirements have gotten lots more stringent too, in the
past couple of years......


'Saw

    
    
    		Yabbut just you hold on there /slasher!  It *IS* a sport, 
    although, probably from the dawgs perspective!  Why cain't you see that
    since they (the dawgs) do the left,right, left,right,left,right that it
    qualifies?
    
    ;^)
    
    I remain,
    willing to pick up some Milk Bones for Digger_the_Goat_Dawg so we can
    both watch it!
    Kev
    

>    		Yabbut just you hold on there /slasher!  It *IS* a sport, 
>    although, probably from the dawgs perspective!  Why cain't you see that
>    since they (the dawgs) do the left,right, left,right,left,right that it
>    qualifies?
    
They just wanna pull.  I have a feeling it's so inbred in them....
Mine will pull any chance he gets and he loves it.

Sled dogs are only around 40 pounds -- the good ones.  But man can they
pull....    

Like in other sports too, certain dogs tend to be better at being in
certain spots in the team.   A good lead dog won't run well back in the
traces, nor does it work well the other way around....


'Saw

�    		Yabbut just you hold on there /slasher!  It *IS* a sport, 
�    although, probably from the dawgs perspective!  Why cain't you see that
�    since they (the dawgs) do the left,right, left,right,left,right that it
�    qualifies?
    
    But do the dogs have a choice in the matter?

    
    >>But do the dogs have a choice in the matter?
    
    
    	Yabbut I suppose that has to do with how you define "choice".  I
    seem to recall that when Susan won it for the 2nd time, a tee vee show
    did a special on her, her dawgs and other things.
    
    	One of the things she used to do to get the dawgs to pull was to
    take their puppies away and tell the dawgs that if they didn't pull the
    sled, at record pace, she was gonna ship the poopie puppies off to
    SeaWorld to be fed to Shamu the Killer Whale!
    
    	Most, if not all, chose to pull the sled.
    
    ;^)
    
    I remain,
    not under duress while I answer yer question
    Kev
    

Dog Racing, now that's a sport.

TTom

    
    
     re:  feeding the puppies to Shamu..
    
    
      I've seen that show in Orlando, and I've never seen so 
    many kids crying at the same time. 
      
      The way they hold the little mutt 15 feet above the water.....
    
    
    

    
    It's a PUPPY, not a choice!

    
    
    	Yabbut Brews, are you saying that you're against free choice?
    
    ;^)
    
    I remain,
    wondering if this could begin a new tangent?  ;^)
    Kev
    

what, someone is giving away free puppies?  Shouldn't they take it to 
::CLASSIFIED_ADS

    
    
     ring...ring...click..
    
             
            "Hello, Dominos. May I help you?"
    
    
    SHAMU:  Are you still having the 2 fer 1 special?
    
    	
    	    Yes sir, we are. The offer is good til Friday.
    
    
    SHAMU: Good, I'd like to order two large pupparonis..
    
    
    

    Anyone else see last night's ESPN show on the Iditarod?
    
    Mark.

    Very interesting, and ESPN went out of their way to demonstrate the
    pampering the dogs get from the mushers.
    
    ABC sold out to the PC animal rights groups.  Timberland and ESPN took the
    courageous road by participating with the Humane Society in a program
    to ensure proper care for the dogs, for sponsoring orientation
    programs for new mushers, and for PR programs to educate the media.
    
    Mark.

I saw a presentation by Dewey Halverson last May.

The dogs get better treatment than the mushers in most
cases.  Missed last night's show -- wished I'd have had
a blank tape to record it.....8^(