• Monthslong emphasis on involving outside backs in attack results in two goals by Real Salt Lake defenders

    The morning of Real Salt Lake’s 3-2 loss at Vancouver, left back Chris Wingert tuned into Premier League action and watched forward Harry Kane curl a cross into the net and accidentally score his 100th goal for Tottenham.“Why can’t I get one like that?” he said to his roommate, backup goalkeeper Matt Van Oekel.That night, he did. Wingert scored on a curler meant for Yura Movsisyan’s head. Later Tony Beltran put RSL’s second goal into the net to make Saturday t
  • Combs, bottle caps, you name it — this Roy man can turn that trash into art

    Roy • Let’s just say Rex Hipwell’s tastes and artistic sensibilities run outside the mainstream.“My mind just goes different places,” he says. “I don’t like to be Mr. and Mrs. Smith across the street with their plants.”Rather, call him Mr. Hipwell with what wife Lynette Hipwell lovingly calls his “gutter art,” hanging in the backyard of their Roy home.The retired Utah Transit Authority bus driver and one-time garbage man — who came
  • Utah football: Utes defense returned to form against BYU

    The identity crisis ended quickly. Saturday night, the Utes’ defense responded to its coach’s challenge and produced havoc at LaVell Edwards Stadium.In the immediate aftermath of their season-opening win, Utah coach Kyle Whittingham talked about his defense as though he didn’t quite recognize it. After all, the unit’s trademarks of pressuring the quarterback and forcing turnovers weren’t as evident as usual in the season opener against North Dakota.The rivalry game
  • NFL: Stafford’s 4 TD lift Lions to 35-23 win over Cardinals

    Detroit • Matthew Stafford threw two of his four touchdown passes to rookie Kenny Golladay in the fourth quarter Sunday, helping the Detroit Lions rally to beat the Arizona Cardinals 35-23.The Lions picked off three of Carson Palmer’s passes, returning one for a score. They also knocked David Johnson out of the game after forcing him to fumble in the third quarter Sunday.Detroit set an NFL record last year by rallying to win eight games after trailing in the final quarter and opened t
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  • NFL: Ravens force 5 Dalton turnovers, beat Bengals 20-0

    Cincinnati • Baltimore’s rebuilt defense picked off Andy Dalton four times and forced him to fumble Sunday, making it easy for Joe Flacco in his return from a back injury as the Ravens pulled away to a 20-0 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals.The Ravens (1-0) ended a five-game losing streak in Cincinnati by pressuring Dalton into matching his career high for interceptions, three of them in the first half. The Ravens got a pair of touchdowns 24 seconds apart late in the half to take co
  • NFL: Ryan leads 2 TD drives in 4th, Falcons beat Bears 23-17

    Chicago • Matt Ryan threw an 88-yard touchdown to Austin Hooper and led two fourth-quarter scoring drives, and the NFC champion Atlanta Falcons held on to beat the Chicago Bears 23-17 in the season opener on Sunday.The butt of jokes following their epic Super Bowl collapse against New England, the Falcons survived as the Bears missed several chances to score a touchdown in the final seconds.The Bears had a first down at the Atlanta 5 in the closing minute. Glennon’s pass to a lunging
  • NFL: Fournette, strong defense lead Jaguars over Texans 29-7

    Houston • Leonard Fournette ran for 100 yards and a touchdown in his NFL debut, and Jacksonville had 10 sacks and forced four turnovers to help the Jaguars to a 29-7 win over the Houston Texans on Sunday.Blake Bortles threw for 125 yards and a touchdown, Calais Campbell had four sacks and Dante Fowler returned a fumble 53 yards for a score as the Jaguars snapped a six-game skid against Houston.The Texans hoped to provide a boost to the area ravaged by Hurricane Harvey with a win. Instead, T
  • NFL: Bills open McDermott’s coaching era with 21-12 win over Jets

    Orchard Park, N.Y. • Tyrod Taylor threw two touchdown passes and the new-look Bills beat the New York Jets 21-12 on Sunday in Sean McDermott’s debut as Buffalo’s coach.Mike Tolbert also scored on a 1-yard run , while Buffalo’s defense had three interceptions, including linebacker Ramon Humber picking off Josh McCown’s pass to thwart a 2-point conversion in the third quarter.Safety Micah Hyde, a free agent offseason addition, sealed the victory by intercepting McCown
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  • NFL: Wentz, pass rush give Eagles season-opening win vs. Washington

    Landover, Md. • Carson Wentz threw for 307 yards and two touchdowns as the second-year quarterback guided the Philadelphia Eagles to a 30-17 victory over Washington on Sunday in a sloppy, mistake-filled season opener between the NFC East rivals.Wentz was 26 of 39 and threw an interception that Ryan Kerrigan returned for a touchdown. But Wentz made fewer errors than Washington’s Kirk Cousins, who was picked off at the goal line and fumbled twice. Cousins’ second fumble was forced
  • NFL: Carr, Raiders edge out Titans yet again 26-13

    Nashville, Tenn. • Derek Carr threw for 262 yards and two touchdowns, and the Oakland Raiders beat the Tennessee Titans 26-13 in a season opener pitting two of the NFL’s rising, young quarterbacks.And Carr won his third straight against Marcus Mariota and the Tennessee Titans in as many years.Amari Cooper caught a TD pass as the Raiders made the Titans pay for opening the season with an onside kick they couldn’t recover. Marshawn Lynch also looked very refreshed after his year a
  • NFL: Big Ben leads Steelers to 21-18 win over Browns in opener

    Cleveland • Ben Roethlisberger threw two touchdown passes to tight end Jesse James as the Pittsburgh Steelers, with minimal help from Le’Veon Bell, opened the season by holding off the Cleveland Browns 21-18 on Sunday.Roethlisberger improved to 21-2 in his career against the Browns, who gave their rivals all they could handle — a positive sign for coach Hue Jackson and Cleveland fans after a horrid 1-15 season.But the Browns couldn’t stop Pro Bowl wide receiver Antonio Bro
  • Hillary Clinton says Trump’s inaugural address was ‘a cry from the white-nationalist gut’

    Washington • Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton said Sunday that racial grievances had a significant influence on the 2016 presidential election and continue to be stoked by President Donald Trump.“He was quite successful in referencing a nostalgia that would give hope, comfort, settle grievances for millions of people who were upset about gains that were made by others,” Clinton said on CBS’s “Sunday Morning” ahead of the Tuesday release of her campaign
  • FEMA director says ‘it’s going to be a race to save lives’ as monster Hurricane Irma passes through Florida

    Miami • A monster Hurricane Irma roared into Florida with 130 mph winds Sunday for what could be a sustained assault on nearly the entire Sunshine State, flooding streets, knocking out power to more than 2 million homes and businesses and snapping massive construction cranes over the Miami skyline.The nearly 400-mile-wide storm blew ashore in the morning in the mostly cleared-out Florida Keys and then began a slow march up the state’s west coast. Forecasters said it could hit the
  • BYU football: Former Wisconsin signee hopes to spark struggling offense as Cougars await Badgers' first visit

    Provo • After their latest dismal offensive performance, a 233-yard effort in Saturday night’s 19-13 loss to Utah, the BYU Cougars once again went searching for answers.They think they might have found one: Freshman running back Ula Tolutau.Although Tolutau had just five carries for 25 yards and a touchdown — all in the second half — he ran fearlessly and physically and displayed the same vision and toughness that made him one of the leading rushers in state history out of
  • Months long emphasis on involving outside backs in attack results in two goals by Real Salt Lake defenders

    The morning of Real Salt Lake’s 3-2 loss at Vancouver, left back Chris Wingert tuned into Premier League action and watched forward Harry Kane curl a cross into the net and accidentally score his 100th goal for Tottenham.“Why can’t I get one like that?” he said to his roommate, backup goalkeeper Matt Van Oekel.That night, he did. Wingert scored on a curler meant for Yura Movsisyan’s head. Later Tony Beltran put RSL’s second goal into the net to make Saturday t
  • Utah skydiving family shares more than a quarter-century of experience

    Tooele • Tell anyone that you’re about to go skydiving and the general reaction is somewhere along the lines of “are you crazy?” or “you must have a death wish” or “wow, an adrenaline junkie!”Ask an experience skydiver those questions, and they’ll likely get a bit annoyed with that reductive stereotype.“Honestly, when someone asks me if I’m an adrenaline junkie, it’s almost kind of offensive,” said Mackenzie Winkelstein
  • [NBC Sports: Pro Basketball Talk] - Watch Kristaps Porzingis’ Top 10 plays from the 2016-17 NBA season

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  • Monster hurricane Irma roars into Florida

    St. Petersburg, Fla. • A monster Hurricane Irma roared into Florida with 130 mph winds Sunday for what could be a sustained assault on nearly the entire Sunshine State, flooding streets, knocking out power to more than 1.5 million homes and businesses and snapping a construction crane over the Miami skyline.The nearly 400-mile-wide storm blew ashore in the morning in the Florida Keys and is expected to make a slow, ruinous march up the state’s west coast, hitting the heavily popu
  • Utah football drops one spot in Coaches Poll, remains unranked in AP Top 25 after win over rival BYU

    Despite a 19-13 road victory over BYU Saturday night, Utah fell one spot in the Amway Coaches Poll to No. 24 and remained unranked in the AP Top 25. The top five of the AP Top 25 reshuffled after Oklahoma upset Ohio State — The Sooners rising three spots to No. 2. Alabama remained No. 1 and Clemson at No. 3 — while USC rose two spots to No. 4 after a blowout win over Stanford and Penn State slipped one spot from No. 4 to No. 5. The top five of the Coaches Poll shifted as we
  • [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: Rudy Gobert is ready to silence the doubters

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  • 2 security workers stabbed after fight at SLC bar

    Police say two security guards were stabbed early Sunday morning after escorting a patron out of a downtown Salt Lake City bar.One of the men had a wound to his back and the other to his stomach.Police say the suspect was being kicked out because he had been in a fight with other patrons inside the bar.The guards were in stable condition and expected to recover.The suspect fled in a silver sedan.
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  • How the Utah Jazz can succeed offensively

    Following the departure of All-Star Gordon Hayward, the Utah Jazz immediately filled the void from a defensive standpoint, but were unable to bring in much offensive firepower. Before the news broke that Gordon Hayward was leaving for Boston, the Utah Jazz acquired Ricko Rubio via trade. In a move that I saw as more of […]
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  • [NBC Sports: Pro Basketball Talk] - Terry Rozier says he knew the Celtics wouldn’t trade him

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  • Utah football drops one spot in Coaches Poll after win over rival BYU

    Despite a 19-13 road victory over BYU Saturday night, Utah fell one spot in the Amway Coaches Poll to No. 24. The top five of the poll shifted after Oklahoma upset Ohio State — the Sooners rising three spots to No. 3. USC traded places with Penn State, moving up to No. 4 while the Nittany Lions slid to No. 5. Clemson moved up to No. 2 with a win over Auburn while Alabama remained on top of the rankings. Behind USC, Washington is the highest ranked Pac-12 team at No. 6. Stanford d
  • Letter of the Week: I fear I don’t have enough time left in my life for America to get out of this precarious situation

    I am close to turning 100 years old. I’ve voted in every election since I became eligible. I am saddened, and shocked at what is happening in my country every day under this administration. It was not that long ago that we worked through a horrible war. How did we get into such a dangerous stage as we find ourselves in now?We knew Donald Trump’s complete lack of high moral standards. It was reported to us in intimate detail. We knew about his questionable support and connections with
  • [Torn By Sports] - Will the NBA Fix the Draft? #RIPProcess

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  • Small margins of victory add up to a snowballing streak as gap grows between Utah, BYU

    Provo • Throughout the week, Kyle Whittingham had made the same prediction over and over again.“This game is its own entity,” the Utah coach had said. “It almost doesn’t matter what’s happened prior to this game. If you look back through the years, it’s always a battle. It’s always a hard-fought, close game, right down to the wire.”Sure enough, late Saturday night, with midnight approaching, Whittingham patrolled the sideline at LaVell Edwards
  • ‘Pray for everybody’: Irma begins its assault on Florida

    St. Petersburg, Fla. • Announcing itself with roaring 130 mph winds, Hurricane Irma plowed into the mostly emptied-out Florida Keys early Sunday for the start of what could be a slow, ruinous march up the state’s west coast toward the heavily populated Tampa-St. Petersburg area.“Pray, pray for everybody in Florida,” Gov. Rick Scott said on “Fox News Sunday.”With an estimated 127,000 huddling in shelters statewide, the storm lashed the low-lying string of island
  • Commentary: SLC’s dangerous Rio Grande neighborhood needs urgent help, not empty platitudes from The Tribune

    The Salt Lake Tribune’s Sept. 2 editorial on Operation Rio Grande peddled unhelpful platitudes and ignored the real and urgent problems of this area.We believe the proposed safe zone on Rio Grande Street presents an option worth trying and that policymakers should be encouraged to try new avenues for dealing with the area’s difficulties and to do so quickly.Given that we have seen previous crackdowns in this neighborhood focused principally on law enforcement typically resu
  • Letter: Keep the Endangered Species Act strong

    I am writing in support of the Endangered Species Act, and in opposition to efforts by Congress to undermine this landmark wildlife conservation law.The Endangered Species Act is a safety net for fish, plants and wildlife on the brink of extinction. Since President Richard Nixon signed the law in 1973, hundreds of species have been saved from disappearing forever, including the American bald eagle, the peregrine falcon and the American alligator, and many more are on their way to recovery.But no
  • Once a child bride, Elissa Wall now has ambitions to remake a polygamous community

    The day a judge awarded her $16 million in damages, Elissa Wall was busy. She had orders to fill and employees to supervise at her business, My Baby Rocks, an online retail store for punk and alternative baby and toddler clothing. The offices are in Colorado City, Ariz., home to the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint. Just on the other side of the state line, in Hildale, Utah, Wall lives with her two children in a home she received as part of a settlem
  • Getting married is one thing, but staying married is something else

    On Thursday evening, with storm clouds threatening, Killer’s son got married. The bride was beautiful and the groom looked both in love and appropriately terrified.Watching them become a legal couple was personally gratifying in that I had been Killer’s best man when he married a girl who clearly would have rather had Satan in her wedding line than me.Back to love and terror. In my mind, that’s the perfect start to a marriage because it’s at least a hint that you’re
  • Meet Utah’s John Curtis: Republican congressional hopeful, sock enthusiast and one-time watch salesman

    Provo • John Curtis points to the ceiling in his office where two of the tiles are a slightly darker shade of gray than the rest.“That’s where my foot came down,” he explains with a laugh.The 57-year-old mayor is a social media-savvy communicator whose phone chimes often with Snapchat alerts. He’s a ballistics devotee who can expertly track the trajectory of bullets. He used to sell watches from a rolling suitcase the size of a minifridge. And now he’s the Repu
  • Tribune Editorial: Police have a heavy burden — an individual's actions can tarnish the whole force's reputation

    Hospital administrators are concerned. Nurses are frightened. Civil libertarians are steamed. The internet is alight with indignation.But it should be clear that the law enforcement profession itself is the group that has been harmed the most by the widespread reporting of — and reaction to — the case of a Salt Lake City police detective mistreating a University of Utah Hospital nurse.It has been a little more than a week since the world first heard the story of Detective Jeff Payne
  • Letter of the Week: I am saddened and shocked

    I am close to turning 100 years old. I’ve voted in every election since I became eligible. I am saddened, and shocked at what is happening in my country every day under this administration. It was not that long ago that we worked through a horrible war. How did we get into such a dangerous stage as we find ourselves in now?We knew Donald Trump’s complete lack of high moral standards. It was reported to us in intimate detail. We knew about his questionable support and connections with
  • Commentary: Utah delegation can lead the charge for a standalone DREAM act

    When Donald Trump announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, he made a very cynical political decision. He tried to have it both ways: assuage his nationalist base by fulfilling a mean-spirited campaign promise, while at the same time claiming compassion for DREAMers by urging congress to take up the issue. Trump is playing a dangerous game of political hot potato, and our young people are caught up in the middle.As an employee of the University of Utah, work
  • ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ is a dramatic season opener for Pioneer Theatre Company

    It’s a curious thing to take on the role of Christopher Boone, the brilliant but emotionally isolated 15-year-old kid at the center of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” The character’s hypersensitive perceptions present physical, emotional and mental challenges — often at once.“When the character focuses on something, it opens up doors to that thing,” says Harrison Bryan, the 25-year-old New York-based actor who is bringing to life the
  • Commentary: We can’t lose the DACAmented Utahns who’d lose everything if America goes back on its word

    Five years ago, our government made a deal with immigrant youth: Come forward, register, pass a criminal background check, and you can live, study and work here lawfully.In a climate of stalled progress on immigration reform, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was an important, albeit small, step toward fixing our country’s broken immigration system.Federal immigration authorities have taken similar actions over the past 40 years, offering relief for vulnerable popul
  • [NBC Sports: Pro Basketball Talk] - Entering contract year, Rodney Hood stayed in Utah all summer to work on game

    ... forward. Hood will be a restricted free agent next summer, unless he and the Jazz come to an agreement on a contract extension before the October deadline. Th ...
  • Commentary: The future rests with Utah’s youngest residents — so expand the Child Care Dependent Tax Credit

    With tax reform shaping up as the next big debate on Capitol Hill, the conversation to date has primarily focused on closing loopholes and lowering rates. But with a common goal of using reform to strengthen the U.S. economy for the long-haul, lawmakers should remember that America’s future rests with its children.By expanding accessibility to high-quality early learning and child care, families will be better positioned to support young children during the critical early periods of their
  • Leonard Pitts: Nothing to see here, say the climate deniers

    Katia and Jose? Seriously?As if it were not bad enough that Houston is still drying out from Hurricane Harvey and South Florida is hunkered down in the face of Hurricane Irma, last week found the newly formed hurricanes Katia and Jose, respectively spinning in the Gulf of Mexico and whirling west across the Atlantic. We face multiple, simultaneous, catastrophes.But it’s not just their timing that has some of us watching weather maps with fearful speculation. It’s also the record-shre
  • Kragthorpe: Ute defense overcomes offense’s shortcomings

    ProvoUtah coach Kyle Whittingham made yet another change of offensive coordinators after last season for one basic reason: The Utes kicked too many field goals.The same issue surfaced Saturday night, but Utah’s defense made sure it was a not a major problem.The Utes scored a touchdown on only one of their six trips inside BYU’s 20-yard line — seven, counting the kneel-down sequence at the end — and got stuffed on a fourth-down play. Even so, Matt Gay’s four field go
  • Tyler Huntley carried the offense, but Utes can’t afford for that to last much longer

    Even in those moments when a few low snaps went rolling around the grass or Tyler Huntley turned the wrong way to hand the ball off, he still made it work more often than not for the Utes in a hostile environment.Huntley, the high-energy and highly athletic motor of the Utah offense, put his imprint on the Utah-BYU rivalry with a remarkable individual performance in his second career start in a 19-13 win on Saturday night at LaVell Edwards Stadium. Huntley passed for 300 yards and rushed for a t
  • BYU still on prowl for answers as Cougar offense continues to sputter

    Provo • Tanner Mangum dropped to one knee, his uniform stained green from taking knock after knock from Utah’s defense, as one fan on the east side of LaVell Edwards Stadium screamed out in admiration.“We love you Tanner!” the call came down from the seats.Mangum stayed on one knee, staring down at the grass inside his home stadium, his right hand atop his helmet, having just seen another rivalry game slip away in all-too-familiar fashion. A week after BYU’s offense
  • Monson: BYU is tortured again by a Utah team it cannot beat

    Provo • So, the suffering continues.The mountain BYU looked forward to climbing — or did it, really? — on Saturday night against its rival offered a wicked ascent. Everybody, including the Cougars themselves, knew Utah had owned them for six straight games, and seven long years.And now, their chance was here, again, to scale a rugged face that opened for them an opportunity to end that bad dream or to sleep and agonize through that nasty slumber for another 12 unbearable m
  • Kragthorpe: Ute defense overcomes offense’s shortcomings to beat BYU again

    ProvoUtah coach Kyle Whittingham made yet another change of offensive coordinators after last season for one basic reason: The Utes kicked too many field goals.The same issue surfaced Saturday night, but Utah’s defense made sure it was a not a major problem.The Utes scored a touchdown on only one of their six trips inside BYU’s 20-yard line — seven, counting the kneel-down sequence at the end — and got stuffed on a fourth-down play. Even so, Matt Gay’s four field go
  • Utah holds off BYU 19-13 for seventh consecutive win in rivalry

    Provo • BYU’s struggling offense met Utah’s brick wall of a defense on Saturday night, and the result was what everybody expected in what is annually one of the country’s most unpredictable rivalries.Utah held the Cougars to a mere 223 yards and forced three turnovers, former Utah Valley University soccer player Matt Gay kicked four field goals and quarterback Tyler Huntley ran for a score and threw for 309 yards in a 19-13 Utah victory in front of a sellout crowd of 63,47
  • [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Kokoskov’s crew advances at EuroBasket; Diaw eliminated

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  • Utah Jazz: Kokoskov’s crew advances at EuroBasket; Diaw eliminated

    Utah Jazz assistant coach Igor Kokoskov and Slovenia are moving on to the EuroBasket quarterfinals. Former Jazzman Boris Diaw and France are heading home. Following a week of play at EuroBasket 2017, the tournament’s knockout stage tipped off on Saturday in Istanbul, Turkey. Although Rudy Gobert opted not to suit up for his native France […]
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