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You can follow sports writer and photographer Klas Stolpe’s coverage of the Juneau Lions Club’s 71st Gold Medal Basketball Tournament here.

The 71st Annual Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball Tournament starts Sunday with all eight teams in both the B and C brackets taking to the Juneau-Douglas High School gymnasium floor.

I once scored 32 points in a Gold Medal Tournament B bracket game. And we lost. You see, you have to play defense, too, if you want to advance in the week-long tournament.

Teams have continued pouring into Nome, filling out the upper ranks of the 2017 Iditarod Sled Dog Race. Champion Mitch Seavey won his third title Tuesday in a record time of eight days, three hours, and 40 minutes, slashing more than seven hours off the previous record.

Only one person weighed in during public testimony at Tuesday’s school board meeting on a proposal to lift the ban on out-of-town travel for middle school athletic events, and the mail’s been light, too.

For the sixth year in a row, a member of the Seavey mushing family has claimed the top spot in the Last Great Race. This year it was Mitch Seavey who won finished the Iditarod at 3:40 p.m. Tuesday, March 14.