Alaska

Nation Divided

A rugged, no-frills league in the Last Frontier State has funneled almost 400 college players to the majors and kept fans in Fairbanks up late each June with its quirky Midnight Sun Game

A movie probes the mysteries of extreme skiing

DMITRY TURSUNOV Russian tennis player, on the similarities between his homeland and the U.S.: "We both owned Alaska at one point."

I was born the youngest of four, an attention-seeking missile, half boy, half caffeine and a leading cause of teachers' facial tics. But I always had one clear dream--to work at SI.