The Ihurtadog? (The Iditarod’s Trail of Death and Suffering)

[riky]

The Ihurtadog? (The Iditarod’s Trail of Death and Suffering)
      

On March 8, the media reported that the first dogâ€"a 7-year-old named Zasterâ€"had died in the 2008 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, a grueling 1,150-mile trek from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska. Their choice of words reveals a lot about the annual event. Although I have yet to see a sports columnist comment that the “first” pitcher of the baseball season has collapsed and died on the mound, every year reporters write that the “first” dog has diedâ€"as opposed to explaining that “a dog” has tragically diedâ€"during the Iditarod race.
         

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