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NYT Puzzle Master Will Shortz Adds Alaska To His Table Tennis Quest

Alaska Public Media | By Lisa Phu
Published June 6, 2013 at 9:29 PM AKDT
Fred Ssessanga plays against Will Shortz (front) while Tim McCloud plays Robert Roberts (back) at the Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School Gym. (Photo by Heather Bryant/KTOO)
Fred Ssessanga plays against Will Shortz (front) while Tim McCloud plays Robert Roberts (back) at the Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School Gym. (Photo by Heather Bryant/KTOO)

NPR’s puzzle master Will Shortz will be taping his weekly puzzle for Weekend Edition from Anchorage, where he’s exercising his other passion – table tennis. Anchorage is the second stop of a seven-day table tennis tour in Alaska that Shortz is taking with Caribbean table tennis champion Robert Roberts.

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Lisa Phu
Lisa Phu is a reporter at KTOO in Juneau.
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