• Pac-12 football: Colorado has ‘a lot to prove,’ even as the South’s defending champion

    Media members who vote in preseason polls often are accused of giving too much value to the previous season’s results. That didn’t happen this year in the Pac-12 South.Defending champion Colorado was picked fourth in the official vote – behind UCLA, which went 2-7 in conference play last season. Colorado running back Phillip Lindsay labeled the poll “cute.”The forecast captures the way the Buffaloes are being viewed in the Pac-12, as a program that was geared to hav
  • Live: BYU leads Portland State 17-6 in fourth quarter of season opener

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  • Prep football: State rankings after Week 2

    Class 6A
    1. Bingham (2-0) • Miners paste previous team-to-beat East 48-17. Next up: Thursday game at Herriman.2. East (1-1) • Time to regroup for Leopards, who visit Saguaro High in Scottsdale (Ariz.) next week.3. American Fork (1-1) • Cavemen go for 2 and miss to fall to Timpview 34-33.4. Lone Peak (1-1) • Knights fall behind early and never recover in stunning road loss at Dixie.5. Kearns (2-0) • Cougars, behind 161 yards rushing form Sese Felila, beat back well-regard
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  • ‘Dad, Mom, I’ve been balling’: Tyler Huntley ready to embrace Utah’s starting QB job

    He was a four-year starter and the Florida Gatorade Player of the Year. He went all over the Southeast with high school teammates and won 7-on-7 competitions, outperforming quarterbacks with multiple Division I offers.“You’re the next guy on our list,” coaches would always tell Tyler Huntley, the type of slight that “you could tell it did bother him,” said Jase Steward, his offensive coordinator at Hallandale High School.Now, Tyler Huntley’s name is atop Utah&
  • Utah painter who found fame and controversy for religious and political art releases first Trump piece

    Conservative Provo artist Jon McNaughton has turned his brushstrokes into brushes with fame at various points in his career — earning an endorsement from Fox News pundit Sean Hannity and satirical praise from Stephen Colbert.Now, the political and religious painter has created his first work depicting President Donald Trump.Titled ”You Are Not Forgotten,” McNaughton’s painting features Trump — his foot on a snake — standing over a young family nursing a s
  • Patricia Dark: Embarrassed to be an American abroad

    It was a typically English day. Overcast sky with the hint of rain and all I wanted was a pint. But when I walked into the pub in a charming, limestone-brick cottage village in East Anglia, I suddenly realized I was embarrassed to open my mouth and ask for a local ale. In just a few days of visiting the United Kingdom this past month, I had become keenly aware that to be identified as the bearer of an American accent was to display the verbal equivalent of a scarlet letter.My trip to the U.K. wa
  • Utah groups helping in Texas with Hurricane Harvey

    To Stan Rosenzweig, Hurricane Harvey, which has has battered south Texas communities along the Gulf Coast, feels a lot like Hurricane Katrina did in 2005.“It is almost exactly that to me,” said Rosenzweig. “We don’t even know yet what the damage will be, but I’ve got an inkling.Harvey made landfall near Corpus Christie, Texas late Friday, its 130-mph hour winds and pummeling rain leaving widespread flooding and damage in its wake.A volunteer and board member for the
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  • Tribune Editorial: Monumental error

    The good thing about politics in a democracy is that, sometimes, differences can be split, compromises can be reached and mutually beneficial deals can be struck.The bad thing about politics in a democracy is that, sometimes, differences are never settled, conflicts are never resolved and matters that should have been considered closed get dragged back into the debate and, often, into legal battles that go on forever.The matter of the Bears Ears National Monument should have been settled last ye
  • [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - [Audio] The SLC Punks Podcast: Kyrie Irving and Isaiah Thomas, All-Time Jazz and Crown Burger

    ... udio] The SLC Punks Podcast: Kyrie Irving and Isaiah Thomas, All-Time Jazz and Crown Burger Has the Kyrie Irving and Isaiah Thomas Trade been cancelled ...
  • Salt Lake City police arrest 50 in weeklong prostitution operation

    Salt Lake City police say by the end of the week, they will have arrested more than 50 people in a weeklong sting targeting prostitution.Undercover officers have targeted those engaging in street prostitution and soliciting call girls, a news release Friday from the Salt Lake City Police Department said, in an attempt to disrupt activity by “Johns” in the Salt Lake area.Under the Justice Reform Initiative, patronizing a prostitute has recently become a class A misdemeanor, meani
  • Utah football: Huntley finds more motivation as mother recovers from serious car crash

    Regina Huntley has been searching frantically online.“I’ve been trying to find me a No. 1 jersey,” she said. “I’m like, ‘You guys make them or what?’”The mother of new Utah starting quarterback Tyler Huntley guarantees she’ll have her own customized jersey soon enough. The question is, however, is when will she be able to make the trip west to see her son lead the Utes at Rice-Eccles Stadium in 2017? After watching Tyler star in Utah’s
  • [Fanrag Sports] - Redrafting top 10 picks of 2014 NBA Draft

    ... t is a huge reason Denver’s offense flourished in 2016-17. I don’t blame the Jazz for taking Dante Exum in the original draft. He’s an exciting young player w ...
  • [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: Expiring contracts could be useful late-season

    ... a decent regular season, but more importantly, almost singlehandedly won the Jazz their first round playoff series against the Los Angeles Clippers. In Game 1 ...
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  • Aggies' offensive line boosted by pair of position changes

    Change is never easy, but it was necessary for the Utah State offensive line.Two players have made position changes to bolster the Aggies’ offensive front. Junior Roman Andrus has moved from defensive end to offensive tackle, while Damian Hobbs — a former quarterback who transferred from Oregon — is now a tight end.“I bought into it. It’s been going really well and I’m really glad I made the change,” said Andrus, who is tabbed as the starting left tackle
  • Moab Music Festival marks 25 years of music among the rocks

    Moab was “kind of a little ghost town,” on the brink of coming into its own as a recreation destination, when Michael Barrett happened through on his way to Santa Fe, N.M., in 1991. The pianist and conductor was drawn to the place instantly; he returned with his wife, violist Leslie Tomkins, the next year.“I became completely smitten in a way that was hard to ignore,” Tomkins said. “Something about the rocks and landscape spoke to me in a way I hadn’t experien
  • NRA’s video message to ‘elites’: ‘We’re coming for you’

    Atlanta • The election of President Donald Trump and Republican control of Congress meant the National Rifle Association could probably rest easy that gun laws wouldn’t change for at least four years. But the NRA has begun a campaign not against pending legislation but what it sees as liberal forces bent on undoing the progress it’s made — and the political powerhouse is resorting to language that some believe could incite violence.Using the hashtags (hash)counterresistanc
  • Kyle Whittingham: Australia trip was offered, but not a good fit for Utes

    As Pac-12 Conference foe Stanford plays its season opener against Rice on Saturday night in Sydney, Australia, Utah coach Kyle Whittingham will not be watching and asking, “Why couldn’t that be us?”Whittingham said on Thursday that the Utes were approached by event organizers several years ago to take part in a game in Australia, but the Utes declined.“We were invited to that, and we didn’t think that made a lot of sense for us,” Whittingham said. “You k
  • [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Will Gordon Hayward find himself in a chaotic situation early?

    ... tuation, I can’t help but ask, will this whole debacle result in former Utah Jazz star Gordon Hayward joining a team in chaos? There are a few likely outcomes ...
  • Dropped after controversy, woman who ran county office while boss suffered mental decline asks for severance pay

    The woman who ran the Salt Lake County Recorder’s Office while her boss apparently suffered from a debilitating and now permanent mental incapacity is asking for severance pay after she was not retained by the newly selected recorder.Julie Dole, who offered changing answers for whether then-Recorder Gary Ott was largely absent from running his office after his 2014 election, wrote in a letter this week she’d like the county to pay her on her way out.County Republicans overwhelmingly
  • Utah Jazz: Will Gordon Hayward find himself in a chaotic situation early?

    The situation facing the Boston Celtics – the team Gordon Hayward left the Utah Jazz for – is starting to turn somewhat chaotic. The most shell-shocking bit of news to hit the Utah Jazz this offseason was without a doubt All-Star Gordon Hayward’s decision to part ways with the team that drafted him and instead […]
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  • This Greek chorus sings doo-wop as Utah theater company gives Euripides’ 'Ion' a 1950s spin

    Euripides’ “Ion,” a rule-breaking Greek tragedy abounding in mistaken identities, gets a rare production in this year’s 47th annual Classical Greek Theatre Festival.With great comic irony, the play of mistaken identities unfolds the coming-to-identity story of Ion and Creusa. He’s a naive teenage orphan who doesn’t know his parentage or even his name. She’s the queen of Athens, a supposedly childless woman with a secret: As a young woman, she was raped i
  • [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: ICYMI Arena Renovation to include 14-foot J-Note statue

    ... rena! 😍😍😍 Details: https://t.co/A0XMC9Zpib pic.twitter.com/fFoZ2KhCVx — Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) August 24, 2017 The release on the official Utah Jazz website ha ...
  • Harvey rolls over Texas coast, smashes homes and businesses

    Corpus Christi, Texas • Hurricane Harvey rolled over the Texas Gulf Coast on Saturday, smashing homes and businesses and lashing the shore with wind and rain so intense that drivers were forced off the road because they could not see the pavement in front of them.The fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade spun across hundreds of miles of coastline where communities had prepared for life-threatening storm surges — walls of water rushing inland.The mammoth system made
  • Utah Jazz: ICYMI Arena Renovation to include 14-foot J-Note statue

    As part of the Vivint Arena renovation, there will be a cool J-Note statue added in the arena plaza that should create a great photo op for Utah Jazz fans. Although it hasn’t been nearly as thrilling as this summer’s incredibly crazy NBA offseason that continues to be unbelievable as we wait for the final verdict of […]
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  • ‘It is very sad’ — After 70 years, last rites loom this month for landmark Huntsville monastery

    Huntsville • Inside the chapel of the Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity, a 30-foot stained-glass window depicts Mary cuddling the Christ child, glowing with red, blue and white light.Sunbeams caress wooden stalls once filled by dozens of Trappist monks chanting prayers and praise; the colored glass illuminating worn, but recently polished linoleum flooring with hints of a fractured rainbow.The now-silent chapel, fashioned more than half a century ago from a cavernous, military surplus Q
  • Prayers, cash will be needed to preserve beloved Utah abbey site — with its monastic memories — and fend off developers

    Plenty of prayers have been offered. Monks do that.But, ultimately, the future use of the Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity’s 1,800-plus acres will ride on money — lots of it.The few remaining Trappist monks who will shutter the 70-year-old Huntsville monastery at month’s end have pleaded that their longtime home be preserved as a combination heritage site and active farming operation.In January 2016, Bill White, a Huntsville Town Council member and attorney, bought the abb
  • Prep football: Week 2 scores

    ThursdaySyracuse 24, Jordan 21FridayAltamont 7, Lyman (Wyo.) 6Grantsville 42, Minico (Idaho) 28Dixie 44, Lone Peak 30Desert Hills 56, Salem Hills 10Springville 32, Spanish Fork 29Bingham 48, East 17Payson 23, Carbon 14Juab 14, Cedar City 3Rock Point (Ariz.) at WhitehorseTaylorsville 55, Stansbury 36Alta 42, Woods Cross 7Preston (Idaho) 27, Ogden 24South Summit 57, Morgan 7Provo 23, Westlake 14Bear River 19, Box Elder 0Beaver 17, Kanab 14Monticello 44, Wayne 0Highland 35, Layton 0Timpanogos 55, M
  • Kragthorpe: Bingham is in a class of its own after rout of East

    South Jordan • The visiting East Leopards took the field in red pants and jerseys Friday night. The Bingham Miners went with their traditional all-blue look.An instant rivalry? With the backing of an overflow crowd, I’d say so.The only thing making that label questionable is Bingham’s degree of domination in a 48-17 victory.East’s move to join Bingham in the new Class 6A created another dimension of big-time competition, likely to be repeated in the state title game at Ric
  • Prep football: Abercrombie sparks West rally past Cyprus

    Magna • Soujah Gasu, the speedy tailback for the Cyprus Pirates, ripped his way through the West Panthers defense through 3 ½ quarters with several long scampers and a touchdown Friday night.However, on one costly possession, Gasu coughed up the football, and the Panthers pounced.West captured its first lead of the evening on the ensuing play when quarterback Romeo Johnston lobbed a beautiful ball to a wide open Viliami Makoni. West never looked back, taking down the PIrates 33-21 an
  • Prep football: Kearns gets defensive in win over West Jordan

    Kearns • The Kearns defense certainly was doing something right Friday night.A West Jordan offense that scored 41 points the week before scuffled against the Cougars early and often. But it was only as a 24-14 victory for Kearns progressed that the individual defensive players began to shine for the home team.The Cougars grabbed a 7-0 lead on their first possession and never trailed as Sese Felila ran for 161 yards.“The holes were there, but most of the time there would be defenders f
  • Prep football: Bingham capitalizes on East miscues to prove Miners still reign

    South Jordan • The East High Leopards have been asking for years for the chance to square off with the best. East was nationally ranked, winners of back-to-back state championships and riding a 23-game winning streak. But as one Leopard put it, “Bingham is the kings.”And on Friday night, the Miners made sure everybody knows who still wears the crown.In a highly anticipated matchup of Utah prep powerhouses, Bingham walloped East 48-17.“Oh, absolutely we wanted to make a sta
  • Kragthorpe: Bingham is in a class of its own after rout of East

    South JordanThe visiting East Leopards took the field in red pants and jerseys Friday night. The Bingham Miners went with their traditional all-blue look.An instant rivalry? With the backing of an overflow crowd, I’d say so.The only thing making that label questionable is Bingham’s degree of domination in a 48-17 victory.East’s move to join Bingham in the new Class 6A created another dimension of big-time competition, likely to be repeated in the state title game at Rice-Eccles
  • Prep football: Juan Diego runs over Catholic rival Judge Memorial 56-14

    Draper • It took five years and a realignment to allow Utah’s two largest Catholic schools a chance to renew their rivalry on a football field.After being blasted 56-14 on a beautiful Friday evening, Judge Memorial may want to wait another five years.Juan Diego didn’t need any Hail Marys, though the two teams prayed before and after the game.In a show of unity, the teams knelt together alternating players in a circle to offer a prayer for ailing Hillcrest football coach Cazzie B
  • Hurricane Harvey slams into Texas Gulf Coast, unleashing punishing winds and torrential rain

    Corpus Christi, Texas • Hurricane Harvey began moving into Texas late Friday, bringing the fierce winds and torrential rain whose forecast earlier sent tens of thousands of residents fleeing a wide swath of the state’s Gulf Coast in hopes of escaping its wrath.Hurricane Harvey smashed into Texas late Friday, lashing a wide swath of the Gulf Coast with strong winds and torrential rain from the fiercest cyclone to hit the U.S. in more than a decade.The National Hurricane Center sai
  • Salt Lake Bees fall to Albuquerque 3-1

    The Salt Lake Bees grounded into four double plays, as they fell 3-1 to the Albuquerque Isotopes on Friday night.The Bees fell behind in the first inning on three consecutive singles that gave Albuquerque a 1-0 lead, and the Isotopes added two more runs in the second to take a 3-0 advantage.Salt Lake had several opportunities to score, but could not cash in, as the Bees went 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position. With a runner at first and one out in thethird, Eric Young, Jr. bounced into a d
  • House Speaker Greg Hughes fields comments about ‘scary,’ ‘insurmountable’ spread of crime, homeless people

    Asked if they wanted to turn the whirring air conditioner back on, westside Salt Lake City residents chose — like some of the officials sitting before them — to take the heat.“I want to hear what people are saying,” said one of about 60 area residents who on Friday night poured into the St. Patrick Parish social hall in Poplar Grove, where some say they have observed an increase in criminal activity and encampments of homeless people after a dramatic crackdown on lawlessn
  • Mayweather and McGregor easily make weight for big fight

    Las Vegas • Floyd Mayweather weighed in at a trim 149 1/2 pounds Friday for his boxing showdown with Conor McGregor, who also made weight at 153 pounds.The undefeated boxer and the two-division UFC champion were comfortably below the 154-pound limit when they stepped on the scales before a raucous crowd at T-Mobile Arena, which will host the so-called Money Fight on Saturday night.The enthusiastic turnout included thousands of McGregor’s vocal Irish fans, who sang and waved flags. May
  • Rep. Rob Bishop talks public lands, national monuments in Layton town hall

    Layton • While Utah Rep. Rob Bishop’s town hall Friday night was much quieter and more subdued than those held by his Republican colleagues since President Donald Trump’s election, it wasn’t without a few sparks, boos and shouts urging him to “answer the question.”Most of the pushback the congressman faced during the 85 minutes was on public lands.The audience members questioned whether Bishop’s interests were skewed toward oil and gas development. They g
  • Category 4 Hurricane Harvey slams into Texas Gulf Coast, unleashing punishing winds and torrential rain

    Corpus Christi, Texas • Hurricane Harvey began moving into Texas late Friday, bringing the fierce winds and torrential rain whose forecast earlier sent tens of thousands of residents fleeing a wide swath of the state’s Gulf Coast in hopes of escaping its wrath.Hurricane Harvey smashed into Texas late Friday, lashing a wide swath of the Gulf Coast with strong winds and torrential rain from the fiercest cyclone to hit the U.S. in more than a decade.The National Hurricane Center sai
  • Judge sends Vegas water pipeline plan back to feds for a fix

    Las Vegas — A federal judge tapped the brakes Thursday but didn’t stop a proposal for a massive and expensive water pipeline to draw underground water from rural valleys along Nevada’s eastern edge to supply the growing Las Vegas metropolitan area.The federal Bureau of Land Management needs to take another look at possible environmental effects of the Southern Nevada Water Authority project and identify what can be done about them, U.S. District Judge Andrew Gordon said.The jud
  • National security aide Sebastian Gorka abruptly exits White House

    Washington • Sebastian Gorka, a White House national security aide whose hardline policy views attracted controversy, is the latest official to exit President Donald Trump’s administration.Gorka told The Associated Press Friday that he had resigned from his position. A White House official, however, said Gorka did not resign but “no longer works at the White House.” That official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.A f
  • Time off after injury forces Utah’s Chase Hansen to reflect on his longevity

    Chase Hansen will tell you how antsy he was, and at times, still is.He couldn’t run the way he wanted to run.He couldn’t lift the way he wanted to lift.His teammates suited up, went through a month of fall camp drenched in sweat, while Hansen could do nothing but sit and wait. To the linchpin of Utah’s defense, it was misery to be sidelined. To pass the time, the junior strong safety, who many view as one of the premier talents in the Pac-12, studied film from fall camp and a y
  • BYU football doesn’t mind opening against FCS Portland State

    Provo • Who cares if temperatures will be in the mid-90s and the opponent from a lower division of college football went 3-8 last season and is breaking in a freshman quarterback?It is football, and after sweating in the late-July and August heat for nearly a month and banging into each other almost daily, the BYU Cougars are ready to play for real for the first time since edging Wyoming 24-21 in last December’s Poinsettia Bowl. BYU will host the Portland State Vikings, a member of th
  • Real Salt Lake star Albert Rusnák is becoming a fan favorite

    Albert Rusnák wasn’t just committing to a new team when he penned his signature on his multi-year Real Salt Lake contract in January. The 23-year-old Slovakian committed to a move across the Atlantic to a club that was depending on him to fill the vacancy left in the wake of beloved playmaker Javier Morales."I'm not putting extra pressure on myself," Rusnák said in his news conference that day. "I know what's expected. I know I have to deliver, and that will be up to me
  • Colorado State opens new on-campus stadium vs Oregon State

    Fort Collins, Colo. • Colorado State’s new stadium can hold 41,000 fans and features a video board that’s nearly the size of a basketball court. Even the concession stands are culinary upgrades,with everything from burrito bowls to barbecue beef brisket.The$220 million on-campus facility has the look and feel of something straight out of a Power Five conference, including the Rams’ first opponent — Oregon State on Saturday.Big aspirations for the team from the Mounta
  • MLB: Players Weekend means Yankees break with uniform tradition

    New York • Batting cleanup and playing right field: All Rise.Hitting fifth, the shortstop: Sir Didi.Over at third base: Toddfather.No, these were not your father’s New York Yankees. Matter of fact, not Joe DiMaggio’s, either.But there they were, playing ball in the Bronx wearing blue jerseys with gray sleeves and catchy nicknames scrawled across the back. Some players even sported flashy, one-of-a-kind cleats.As part of Players Weekend all around the majors, the buttoned-up Yank
  • Broncos' Trevor Siemian unflappable in winning QB job again

    Englewood, Colo. • He’s an undersized underdog, underpaid and unshakable.Trevor Siemian, who considered going into real estate when his college career ended on crutches, has spent three consecutive summers forcing the Denver Broncos to rethink their plans.Siemian has dispatched two former first-round QBsthe last two summers following a year’s apprenticeship under PeytonManning and Brock Osweiler when he flashed so much in training camp thatsneaking him onto the practice squad be
  • Bagley Cartoon: God Helps Those

    This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017.You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below. Want more? Become a fan of Bagley on Facebook at www.facebook.com/notrobertkirby.Honey, I Zinkied the Monuments!Prize For Most Persecuted Goes To ...Know Your CosmologyWhat’s Your Fascist Quotient?Utah’s Civil War MonumentNazi DogAmerica Goes RetroThe Science of Climate DenialHeating Up in KoreaEconomically Anxious Mouse

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