• Green’s big game rallies Bengals over Bills 20-16 in rain

    Cincinnati • The Bengals took A.J. Green at his word. They kept throwing his way, even after the ball repeatedly slipped through his wet hands. The elusive receiver found a way to make the difference, just as promised.Green contributed to three turnovers that kept it close, but he also had a 77-yard touchdown and another long catch that set up the go-ahead score Sunday, rallying Cincinnati to a 20-16 victory over the Buffalo Bills in a steady rain.“I understand the ups-and-downs,&rdqu
  • Wentz tosses 4 touchdown passes, Eagles beat Cardinals 34-7

    Philadelphia • Carson Wentz calls third downs the “money down.”Cha-ching.Wentz threw a career-best four touchdown passes and the Philadelphia Eagles continued their impressive start with a 34-7 victory over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday.Wentz tossed three scoring passes on three consecutive attempts in the first quarter, including 59 yards to Torrey Smith, 11 yards to Zach Ertz and 15 yards to Trey Burton. He connected with Nelson Agholor for a 72-yard TD in the third quarter
  • Utah Jazz at Phoenix Suns preseason game primer and info

    After beating the Phoenix Suns at Vivint Arena, Rodney Hood and the Utah Jazz head south for a return engagement. In their final home bout of the preseason, the Utah Jazz improved to 3-0 with a 112-101 win over the Phoenix Suns on Friday. Rodney Hood continued his evolution as the team’s new go-to scorer […]
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  • Giants lose Beckham in loss to Chargers

    East Rutherford, N.J. • Philip Rivers threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Melvin Gordon with 2:58 to play and the Los Angeles Chargers rallied for a 27-22 victory Sunday over the New York Giants, who lost star receiver Odell Beckham Jr. to a broken left ankle in the waning minutes.The touchdown pass was Rivers’ third of the game and came three plays after Kyle Emanuel had a sack, forced fumble and recovery against Eli Manning at the Giants 11-yard line. It also came four plays after Bec
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  • Cutler silences boos with late TD as Dolphins beat Titans

    Miami Gardens, Fla. • Adam Gase stubbornly stuck with Jay Cutler until his quarterback finally silenced the boobirds.Cutler drew jeers while struggling through much of the Miami Dolphins’ home opener, but his fourth-quarter touchdown pass helped them overcome another dismal offensive showing Sunday to beat the Tennessee Titans 16-10.The crowd chanted repeatedly for backup quarterback Matt Moore before Cutler finally got Miami going with a 58-yard drive capped by his 6-yard touchdown p
  • [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - What Exum’s Injury Means to Him, His Future, the Jazz

    ... s the Jazz offered that amount, they’d have the right to match any deal offered to Exum ...
  • ‘This is murder,’ group says ahead of protest of D.A.’s finding that Salt Lake City officer was justified in fatal shooting

    Black Lives Matter in Utah has scheduled a rally for Sunday to protest a finding that a Salt Lake City police officer was legally justified when he shot and killed a fleeing man in August.The Justice for Patrick Harmon rally is slated to begin 4 p.m. Sunday at the Salt Lake City Public Safety Building, 475 S. 300 East.The protest will keep pressure on Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill, who made the finding and who has “proven time and time again that he is more concerned with his
  • 'Sports don't have a gender': Utah women's tackle football players respond to Cam Newton

    The quarterback spent part of the night practicing with the wide receivers, and they all went to a Buffalo Wild Wings to hang out when they were finished. That’s where Elizabeth Lane, who plays tackle football for the Utah Falconz, first heard what Cam Newton had said.“It’s funny,” the NFL star had chuckled when asked a question during a news conference this week, “to hear a female talk about routes.”A thousand miles away, the remark stirred up mixed feelings
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  • [The Score] - Jazz's Sefolosha saved drowning stranger

    ... d the gesture will not be forgotten by Clark. "It's really nice to watch the Jazz now because they have a nice player on who will help anybody," Clark said. " ...
  • VP Pence leaves NFL game after players protest during anthem

    Indianapolis • Vice President Mike Pence has left the 49ers-Colts game after about a dozen San Francisco players took a knee during the national anthem.The former Indiana governor flew in so he could watch Peyton Manning's jersey retirement ceremony on Sunday. But Pence didn't stick around long.Pence said on Twitter: "I left today's Colts game because @POTUS and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem."The White House also issued a statem
  • BYU guard Nick Emery ready to put past struggles behind him

    Provo • A lot of newness surrounds the BYU basketball team, which will begin the formal process of moving on without star center Eric Mika on Monday when preseason training camp officially begins.That newness includes a familiar face — junior guard Nick Emery, who says he is a changed man this fall after a sophomore slump last season followed a sensational freshman year.“Last year, I wasn’t playing at my potential whatsoever, obviously,” Emery said Thursday as Dave R
  • Letter: Our president has no heart

    During Trump’s campaign for president he commented on John McCain that “I like people who were not captured.” It was a shocking and harsh criticism.Having just watched episode 5 of Ken Burns’ “The Vietnam War,” there was a brief segment on McCain’s capture. McCain parachuted out of a plane that had been hit by anti-aircraft fire and was seen in a North Vietnamese medical facility. He was interviewed and explained that his leg and both arms were broken. H
  • Herriman's Jaren Kump announces commitment to Utah football program

    pic.twitter.com/BvBln6rpcw— Tricia Kump (@TriciaKump) October 8, 2017Herriman High School senior Jaren Kump, a 6-foot-5, 261-pound offensive tackle, announced via Twitter on Sunday that he’d switched his commitment from BYU to Utah.ESPN.com and 247Sports each rate Kump a three-star prospect. ESPN rank him the eight-best high school prospect in Utah, while 247Sports ranks him 11th.Kump posted pictures of him with Utes coach Kyle Whittingham as well as him and his parents with assistan
  • Salt Lake Acting Company unveils a comedy with an appetite for revenge just in time for Halloween

    “I’d been wanting to tell a soapy, lively story about revenge in a very modern setting,” playwright Steve Yockey says. “After a particularly intense holiday experience with my family, where it was clear people had lost the ability (or desire) to hear each other or communicate, I had the emotional ammunition.”“Mercury,” the play that emerged, makes its co-world premiere at Salt Lake Acting Company this week. (It also opens in November at Stray Cat Theatre
  • ‘This is murder,’ Black Lives Matter says ahead of protest of D.A.’s finding that officer was justified in fatal shooting

    Black Lives Matter in Utah has scheduled a rally for Sunday to protest a finding that a Salt Lake City police officer was legally justified when he shot and killed a fleeing man in August.The Justice for Patrick Harmon rally is slated to begin 4 p.m. Sunday at the Salt Lake City Public Safety Building, 475 S. 300 East.The protest will keep pressure on Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill, who made the finding and who has “proven time and time again that he is more concerned with his
  • Utah drops out of AP Top 25, slips to No. 23 in Coaches Poll after loss to Stanford

    Utah fell out of the AP Top 25 and dropped five spots in the Amway Coaches Poll to No. 23 after a 23-20 loss to Stanford Saturday night. The top five of both polls changed after Oklahoma was upset by Iowa State, Alabama and Clemson remaining in the top two spots, followed by Penn State at No. 3. Georgia is ranked at No. 4 and Washington at No. 5 in the AP Top 25, while the Huskies are ranked at No. 4 and the Bulldogs at No. 5 in the Coaches Poll. Behind the Huskies, Washington State was the next
  • A year later, much different BYU team faces revenge-minded Mississippi State

    Provo • Exactly a year after knocking off Mississippi State 28-21 in double overtime at LaVell Edwards Stadium, BYU will head east on Saturday for a rematch with the Bulldogs in Starkville, Miss.Believe it or not, it was just a year ago that the Cougars defeated an SEC team. But that victory, and wins in 2016 over the likes of Michigan State and Arizona, seems like an eternity ago given how coach Kalani Sitake’s team has plummeted in 2017. Sure, the Cougars lost two of the most prolif
  • Letter of the Week: LDS positions on bigotry don’t add up

    The headline on the front page of The Salt Lake Tribune on Oct. 1 was, “Same-sex union opposition affirmed.” The article explains that during Saturday’s LDS General Conference, apostle Dallin H. Oaks described the LDS Church’s opposition to same-sex marriage as being a divine decree that will stand forever.Fast forward to the front page of The Salt Lake Tribune on Oct. 2, with the headline, “Mormons urged to stand against bigotry.” The article recounts LDS apo
  • Letter: Trump only cares about making a scene

    I think it is fair to say that everything Donald Trump says is intended to make a political and obviously dramatic effect. He is so insecure that he is the exact opposite of what he tries to be. All he cares about is what others think of him. He constantly alters his ideas to benefit himself as conditions become different.To be able to focus on the job at hand is the cornerstone of a successful outcome. The president is responsible for our national security. He is in a war of juvenile name calli
  • Children’s authors dish on the sly humor of ‘The Wolf the Duck and the Mouse’ ahead of Utah visits

    So, let’s say you’re a mouse. And let’s also say you run into a wolf one day. And let’s finally say the wolf eats you because that’s what wolves do. What would you expect to find in the belly of the beast?If you said, “A duck with an awesome vinyl record collection who lives and feasts like a king, thanks to his host’s unknowing largesse,” then you’ll love “The Wolf the Duck and the Mouse,” the latest collaboration between the ube
  • Utah coaches hope FBI investigation into ‘dark underbelly’ of NCAA men’s basketball scandal ends recruiting problems

    Mark Pope loves his old coach.If not for Rick Pitino, he never would have transferred to Kentucky, won an NCAA championship and become a coach himself.“I’m where I am now because of him,” said Pope, the men’s basketball coach at Utah Valley University.But even with Pitino’s dismissal from Louisville this week, Pope finds himself hoping that the connected FBI investigation ultimately might benefit college basketball.“I’d love the whole recruiting process
  • [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz looking for new backup point guard after Dante Exum injury

    ...good shape, and he looked really good. It’s just unfortunate.” Already, the Jazz are reshuffling the rotation and, in turn, making adjustments to the offense ...
  • Review: Do you need to see yet another ‘Bohème’? Actually, yes.

    If you’re like most people with even a passing interest in opera, chances are you don’t need your arm twisted to go see another production of “La bohème.” But if you’re one of the few on whom the Puccini tearjerker’s charms have been lost, the beautiful production now playing at Utah Opera just might be the one to win you over.“La bohème” was the first show Utah Opera produced, back in January 1978, so the company has brought the oper
  • 'Sports don't have a gender': Utah women's tackle football respond to Cam Newton

    The quarterback spent part of the night practicing with the wide receivers, and they all went to a Buffalo Wild Wings to hang out when they were finished. That’s where Elizabeth Lane, who plays tackle football for the Utah Falconz, first heard what Cam Newton had said.“It’s funny,” the NFL star had chuckled when asked a question during a news conference this week, “to hear a female talk about routes.”A thousand miles away, the remark stirred up mixed feelings
  • Leonard Pitts: When ignorance is impervious to fact

    You could call it a moment of truth, except that what actually came out of that moment was a realization of how little truth now matters.This is back in 2010, after I recounted in this space an astonishing feat of World War I heroism — a small African-American soldier named Henry Johnson, wounded 21 times, single-handedly fighting off a company of Germans. In response, a guy named Ken shot off an angry email calling the story “PC bull.”Judi, my assistant, sent Ken documentation
  • [Deadspin] - Outdoor Adventurer Thabo Sefolosha Saved A Woman From Drowning

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  • Outdoor Adventurer Thabo Sefolosha Saved A Woman From Drowning

    Hey, what’d you do this summer? I built half a porch onto my house, badly, and now have to climb over a construction zone in order to enter my home, with no end in sight. Probably you did something a lot cooler than this. If you’re Thabo Sefolosha, some of what you did this summer is save a woman from drowning to…Read more...
  • [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Joel Bolomboy vs. Royce O’Neale for final roster spot

    ... Utah Jazz: Taylor Braun is team’s first preseason cut by Ryan Aston ...
  • Utah Jazz: Joel Bolomboy vs. Royce O’Neale for final roster spot

    As the regular season gets nearer, the Utah Jazz are faced with a difficult decision regarding who to keep on the roster: Joel Bolomboy or Royce O’Neale. Heading into the preseason, the Utah Jazz roster was all but set in stone. While they have 19 players available during the preseason, that number must be trimmed down […]
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  • Did testimony from state environmental regulators undermine a lawsuit against a Utah uranium mill?

    An environmental group’s long-running lawsuit against southeast Utah’s White Mesa uranium mill has been dismissed in federal court, after state regulators testified on the company’s behalf and convinced the judge that their own actions on the mill’s radioactive emissions were invalid.The Grand Canyon Trust, an Arizona-based advocacy group, sued the mill in 2014 after discovering its owner, Energy Fuels, had self-reported violations of radon emissions standards from one of
  • Only 🔟 days til our season starts!! https://t.co/QF2bqquzel

    Only 🔟 days til our season starts!! https://t.co/QF2bqquzel
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  • Letter: University of Utah students should welcome all points of view

    I was a freshman at the University of Utah in the fall of 1963. I attended a talk by Ross Barnett, governor of Mississippi and an old-line segregationist of the George Wallace school. I agreed with not one word of what he said, but the audience heard him out with no disruptions. A few days later, we heard from civil rights crusader Dr. James Nabrit. I was there for that one, too.I remember thinking, “This is what a university is all about. Opposing points of view, freely and eloquently exp
  • Utahns love energy efficiency and buy more electric cars per capita than Californians, according to new report

    Utah is rising in the ranks among the nation’s most energy-conscious states, according to a new report from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE).Though it has yet to break into the nation’s top 10 states, Utah ranked as the fourth most improved state on ACEEE’s 2017 scorecard, thanks in part to significant reductions in its electricity and natural gas consumption, according to the report.Oh — and its residents are buying more electric cars per capi
  • Letter: Utah follows a greed-driven agenda

    As one who recognizes the value of protecting our public domain, I had a long conversation with Gov. Gary Herbert’s office recently about public land management and the state’s seeming hostility to our public domain, and about Bears Ears. When I asked about why the governor was so quick to dismiss the desires of the native community and their unprecedented petition to protect these lands around the Bears Ears, I was told “their elected government does not represent everyone.&rd
  • Utah State University gives an extreme makeover to its main concert hall

    Logan • Craig Jessop was in the audience when Utah State University dedicated its new Chase Fine Arts Center, with its centerpiece Kent Concert Hall, on Oct. 18, 1967. Jessop, then a senior at Sky View High School in nearby Smithfield, thought it was one of the greatest things that had happened in the Cache Valley.Fifty years later to the day, USU will rededicate its renovated arts center with a gala concert in the brand-new Newel & Jean Daines Concert Hall, which shares a physical loca
  • Now this is a sermon I can get behind: Mormon apostle strikes the perfect chord on perfection

    Raised by orthodox Mormon parents — and being of rather unsound mind — I naturally developed church coping skills at an early age.It’s been years since I was compelled to sit still while some adult held forth on a subject that I didn’t understand, and rightly suspected that I wouldn’t have cared about if I did.But I remember these skills, probably because variations of them still work for me today.First back then, was plugging my ears. With the speaker thus muffled,
  • Meet Kathie Allen: the Democratic congressional hopeful, longtime doctor and ... accordion player?

    From the school auditorium’s sixth row, Kathie Allen quietly waved a piece of paper with “DISAGREE” written in red marker.For months, she’d been disappointed by President Donald Trump’s campaign, frustrated by his rhetoric and irritated by his inauguration. And now her congressman, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, was standing onstage and defending him.“By far Donald Trump was the better choice,” he said during his raucous town hall in February. “There was no
  • Monson: Utes have hope, still, even after a most difficult defeat

    In a game that very well could have been an acceleration point for Utah football, the Utes couldn’t quite do what was required to earn that added speed hurtling into the crunch of their Pac-12 season.• Play black-and-blue football throughout.• Be tough and mean and nasty up front throughout.• Beat the Cardinal throughout.At the end, the final numbers on the board — Stanford 23, Utah 20 — that shined into the late darkness on Saturday night were absorbed by Kyle W
  • Love reigns supreme as Stanford ends Utah’s unbeaten start, 23-20

    Whether credit goes to the Stanford defense or blame gets put on the absence of Utes injured quarterback Tyler Huntley, the Utes offense lacked a finishing kick on Saturday night.Utah settled as many field goals than touchdowns, and senior quarterback Troy Williams threw two interceptions in the fourth quarter in a 23-20 loss to Stanford at Rice-Eccles Stadium that removes Utah (4-1) from the ranks of the undefeated and drops its record to 1-1 in Pac-12 play.“We didn’t do enough good
  • Utes latest victim in Bryce Love's ongoing Heisman campaign

    The Heisman Trophy frontrunner fluttered his feet.And, in a flash, he was gone.No. 20 Utah had bottled up Bryce Love like no other team had in 2017. For all but one 39-yard scamper in the first half, the Utes defense smothered the Stanford superstar running back. Defensive linemen and linebackers alike smacked Love and seldom allowed him to wiggle out of first contact.All it took was one huge gap created by the Cardinal offensive line, and naturally, Love took care of the rest. Utah freshman cor
  • Kragthorpe: Troy Williams fails in the fourth quarter this time around

    With his team trailing Stanford by 10 points in the fourth quarter Saturday night, Utah quarterback Troy Williams found himself right where he was against USC last season when he delivered the biggest performance of his college career.If he was poised then, he panicked this time.Interceptions on consecutive passes thrown by Williams into traffic basically enabled Stanford to complete a 23-20 victory at Rice-Eccles Stadium, spoiling the first start of Williams’ senior season as he replaced
  • Puig powers Dodgers to 8-5 win over D-backs, 2-0 series lead

    Los Angeles • Yasiel Puig had three hits and drove in two runs, Austin Barnes added a key two-run double and the Los Angeles Dodgers used another relentless offensive performance to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-5 on Saturday night for a 2-0 lead in their NL Division Series.Logan Forsythe had three hits and Kenley Jansen earned a flawless five-out save for the 104-win Dodgers, who have made their mediocre pitching irrelevant by pounding out 17 runs and 24 hits in the first two games again
  • At ceremonial swearing-in back home, Jon Huntsman says his goal as ambassador is to restore trust between U.S.-Russia

    Jon Huntsman capped his first week as U.S. ambassador to Russia with a stop at the Utah State Capitol for a ceremonial swearing-in Saturday afternoon.Well-known Utah Republicans such as Gov. Gary Herbert, Rep. Mia Love, Sen. Orrin Hatch and state House Speaker Greg Hughes were all in the crowd gathered in the Gold Room for Huntsman’s return to Utah, where he previously served as the state’s governor.“I haven’t spoken in this room since Gary led a bloodless coup,” Hu
  • Live: Stanford gets interception, leads Utah 23-13 midway through in fourth quarter

    The Utah football team, ranked No. 20 in The Associated Press poll and unbeaten, hosts Stanford and star running back Bryce Love on Saturday night at Rice-Eccles Stadium. Keep updated on the action with our live blog from The Tribune’s host of reporters at the scene.A Twitter List by BrennanJSmith
  • Real Monarchs tie Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2, 1-1, to wrap up best regular-season record in USL

    The Real Monarchs clinched the best record in the USL regular season on Saturday in Sandy.With 8,402 in attendance at Rio Tinto Stadium, the Monarchs got an early goal from midfielder Sebastian Velasquez and held on for a 1-1 draw with the Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2.That result alone would have sealed the regular season title, but the Monarchs (19-5-7, 64 points) clinched the championship when San Antonio FC tied the Tampa Bay Rowdies 1-1 in a game that finished near the 70th minute of the match i
  • Prison program strengthens family ties between incarcerated moms, children

    Point of the Mountain • It was the little changes that the mothers noticed first.The son who has grown so tall that, at 14, he towers over his mother’s head.The voice that’s starting to change and crack. The “two big people teeth” where baby teeth once were.And the freckles.“I didn’t think he would have freckles,” a surprised Elicia Chavez said, beaming at her young son, whose cheeks now are speckled with a constellation of spots. “It was like
  • China’s Ruoteng Xiao wins gold at gymnastics worlds

    Montreal • China’s Ruoteng Xiao is the new men’s all-around champion after winning gold on Thursday night at the gymnastics world championships.Xiao finished with a score of 86.933 points, ahead of compatriot Chaopan Lin (86.448) and Kenzo Shirai (86.431) of Japan.Canadian Zachary Clay finished 21st for his best result at a world championship. His best performance was on pommel horse, where he scored 13.566 for ninth.Women’s vaultMaria Paseka of Russia successfully defende
  • Sources: Dante Exum Could Miss Season with Shoulder Injury

    Utah Jazz guard Dante Exum could miss the entire season with a separated left shoulder, league sources told ESPN on Saturday. Exum, 22, suffered the injury on a drive to the basket in Friday’s 112-102 preseason victory over Phoenix on Friday night. Source: Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN
  • Backup QB Khalil Tate rushes for 327 yards, Arizona beats Colorado 45-42

    Boulder, Colo. • Backup Khalil Taterushed for 327 yards, an FBS record for a quarterback, and accountedfor five touchdowns to help Arizona hold off Colorado 45-42 on Saturdaynight.Tate entered the game after Brandon Dawkins took a late hit out of bounds on the opening drive. Dawkins stood on the sideline with his helmet in his hand as Tate flawlessly orchestrated the offense.The elusive Tate had TD runs of 58, 28, 47 and 75 yards. He also threw for 142 yards, including a 13-yard TD pass to
  • Logan's Luke Falk has 3 TD passes, No. 11 Washington State beats Oregon

    Eugene, Ore. • Luke Falk threw for 282 yards and three touchdowns and No. 11 Washington State held Oregon scoreless after the first quarter for a 33-10 victory Saturday night.The Cougars (6-0, 3-0 Pac-12) were on their first trip after quirky scheduling gave them their first five games at home. The team is off to its best start since winning seven to start the 2001 season.Erik Powell contributed to the victory with field goals from 25, 52, 47 and 29 yards.True freshman Braxton Burmeister ma

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