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The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race pushes participants to the brink on an unforgiving trek to the end of the world. And, as one writer who tracked the race by air discovers, that is exactly the point.

Last year, the youngest musher ever to win Alaska's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race said his 25-year-old stamina gave him the advantage to get his dogs to the finish line first.

Upsets, clinched conference championships and just straight-up slam dunks -- all are featured in a college-hoops-heavy (but not college-hoops-only) Photos of the Week gallery. Photos of the Week: Mar. 4-7...

Dallas Seavey was the first Iditarod musher to reach the Nome finish line and became its youngest-ever champion on Wednesday.

Dallas Seavey won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday evening, becoming the youngest musher to win the nearly 1,000-mile race across Alaska.

Alaska might not have a major league sports team or a lot of citizens or a livable climate or a winning vice presidential candidate or recognizable landmarks or relevant cultural exports or a name conducive to anagrams, but it has at least one thing ...

These five varied women all have the courage, toughness and sense of adventure to tackle Alaska's 1,049-mile Iditarod sled dog race.

The sky was gray and rainy but one got the sense that crowds of 750 don't often gather under the Interstate, along the east side of the Willamette River. Not, at least, to avoid a late-winter drizzle. Two of Portland's finest had already taken notice...

If you can't get up to Alaska, then the urban iditarod is for you.

John Baker crossed the finish line first Tuesday in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to reclaim the title of Iditarod champion for an Alaska Native musher.

Sleepless nights and 12 days driving a team of 16 dogs more than 1,000 miles in the dangerously frigid cold in Alaska is not for the faint of heart. But for 15 women, the Iditarod is the chance to show that if you want to do something you can do it.

The real madness in March might have nothing to do with basketballs, and everything to do with dogs, sleds and the snow and ice of America's Last Frontier. A look at the athletes from the Lower 48 who might have been perfectly suited for the Iditarod...

The real madness in March might have nothing to do with basketballs, and everything to do with dogs, sleds and the snow and ice of America's Last Frontier. A look at the athletes from the Lower 48 who might have been perfectly suited for the Iditarod...

Four-time Iditarod champ Lance Mackey has had to overcome a lot more than his opponents to become the best musher in the world

Seth Wickersham profiles Iditarod racer Lance Mackey, a man who has won four straight of the races and whose body has paid the price.