Jon Margolis

The prosecutor was shooting pool with the defense lawyer, the juke box wasn`t working very well, and the veterinarians were engaged in serious conversation about dog diets. ''Ask `em about...

When his dogs pulled him out of Anchorage a week ago, Joe Reddington made sure the official starter quoted him, for all the world to hear, saying, ''I wish I`d...

It wasn`t exactly the whole town that turned out to welcome Rick Swenson and his dogs as they mushed down the main street here-400 miles from Anchorage and only about...

They are not big animals. The 1,400 or so dogs that began pulling 70 sleds and riders across Alaska last weekend are called huskies, but they are far smaller than...

Nobody said, ''Mush.'' It seems the French, the first Europeans to drive dog sleds, used to shout ''marche'' to get the dogs going. But even Jacques Philip, the French physician,...

The dogs strained in their harnesses, the mushers said their last goodbyes. The call of the wild came from the northern hills as the most grueling, lonely and dangerous of...

When the numbers are so imprecise, this can`t be sport. It has to be myth. Sports are obsessed by numbers. Everything is statistics. Box scores. Tenths of seconds. All-time records....

The scourge of busybodyism came last week to the world of sports, where it does not belong. It came from its natural home-government-by way of the Secretary of Health and...

Sure, there was a good crowd here the other night on the campus of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Isn`t there always? Aren`t Jerry Tarkanian`s Runnin` Rebels one of the...

As a very wise man once said, merely changing locales every so often is good for the soul, no matter where it is you go. Actually, if a very wise...