The Saranac Lake girls cross-country skiing team came up just short of winning the state title Tuesday, finishing second to Brighton in the NYSPHSAA Nordic Ski Championships team scoring at Harriet Hollister Spencer State Recreation Area in Springwater. The Red Storm went into day two of ...
SARANAC LAKE — With an opportunity to host the NJCAA Region III women’s basketball finals for the first time in school history on the line, the North Country Community College Saints poured it on in a quarterfinal game on their home floor Tuesday. With all-American sophomore Kayla ...
Adrian Hayden placed second for the Saranac Lake boys and teammate Sophia Kelting took third in the girls race Monday on the opening day of the NYSPHSAA Nordic Ski Championships at Harriet Hollister Spencer State Recreation Area in Springwater. Hayden was within striking distance of the ...
OBERHOF, Germany — USA Luge ended the Junior World Championships on Saturday in warm and windy Oberhof with a fourth-place result in the team competition, while doubles teams Sean Hollander and Michael O’Gara took sixth, Dana Kellogg with Duncan Segger were eighth, and Maya Chan and ...
Kaillie Humphries of the U.S. is a bobsled champion again, winning her third world title Saturday to put an emphatic cap on her comeback season. Humphries teamed with Lauren Gibbs to finish four runs over two days in Altenberg, Germany with a time of 3 minutes, 45.49 seconds. Germany’s ...
LAKE PLACID — John Rosen was sipping coffee while watching the sunrise, soaking in retirement with his wife, Nancy Rosen, at a campground in Oregon. It was July 2019, and the furthest thing from Rosen’s mind was the sliding sports of bobsled and skeleton. That is until he got a call ...
SARANAC LAKE — Before this year, the last time the North Country Community College men’s basketball team hosted a Region III postseason game was back in 2007. On Saturday, the Saints made the most out of their chance to compete at home in the playoffs for the first time in 13 years. ...
SARANAC LAKE — The field wasn’t big, but for those who showed up to compete Saturday in the first races of this year’s Adirondack Snowshoe Festival couldn’t have had a much better day to run in the snow. On an afternoon where temperatures made it warm enough that gloves were ...
USA Luge pulled its team out of the World Cup luge races in Winterberg, Germany, adding to a chorus of athletes from many nations protesting what they are calling unsafe ice conditions. Austria also withdrew its team from the weekend events and even several sliders from Germany said they ...
LAS VEGAS — Amidst a sports-filled weekend that included the heavyweight championship boxing match and a NASCAR race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, hockey fans were reminded about believing in miracles on Saturday night. Prior to the game between the Vegas Golden Knights and Florida ...
SARANAC LAKE — When it comes to high school football in the North Country, seeing three seniors from the same team move on to play the game at the college level is a pretty rare occurrence. That, however, is the case for last fall’s Saranac Lake Red Storm, a team that battled through ...
LAKE PLACID — The woman had been waiting for her opportunity for more than an hour, which was no big deal because, technically, she had been waiting 40 years. She went to the Lake Placid Center for the Arts on a frigid night earlier this week with a folder containing a stack of perfectly ...
LAKE PLACID — Four Olympians and two aspiring Olympians — ranging from ages 16 to 65 — shared stories about their relationship to this village’s Olympic legacy Monday at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts. The event — “Lake Placid’s Olympic Legacy: An Athlete’s ...
LAKE PLACID — The benefits of a miracle have been reaped in Lake Placid for 40 years. The plan now is to keep those miracles — and miracle-seekers — coming. Parts of Lake Placid’s sports landscape are largely under construction again these days, a plan that walks a tightrope ...
LAKE PLACID — Tai Babilonia never hesitated. When the call came in inviting her to Lake Placid for the 40th anniversary of the 1980 Winter Olympics — the site of one of the most disappointing nights of her career, a place where she and partner Randy Gardner were supposed to medal but ...
PLATTSBURGH — The Saranac Lake Placid boys hockey team is heading into the playoffs in exactly the manner it was hoping for. On Thursday, SLP wrapped up the regular season on a high note, skating past Beekmantown 4-2 to finish unbeaten in Section VII play with a 7-0-1 mark. The lone ...
ALTENBERG, Germany — When Kaillie Humphries won the women’s bobsled 2012 World Championships in Lake Placid she watched as the men’s bobsled champions hoisted a trophy etched with the names of generations of winners. There was no trophy to commemorate the women, who were added to ...
