• Oregon football promotes Mario Cristobal to head coach

    Oregon has promoted offensive coordinator Mario Cristobal to head coach.Cristobal was co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at Oregon this past season and was named interim coach on Tuesday when Willie Taggart left to become head coach at Florida State. He becomes the 34th coach in Oregon history."Mario's leadership skills, work ethic, and experience makes him a perfect fit to lead the Oregon football program," Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens said in a statement. "He has a passi
  • After a yearlong police investigation and no arrests, two Utah parents are left to wonder: Who killed our son?

    It’s been one year since three masked intruders broke into Cyle Van Komen’s South Ogden home, held those inside at gunpoint, and ultimately fired their weapons, killing two people and injuring another.But not a single arrest has been made since the Dec. 9, 2016, shootings.Police have not even publicly identified a person of interest in the deaths of 24-year-old Van Komen and his neighbor, 61-year-old Kevin Nelson.It’s frustrating for Van Komen’s parents, who for the past
  • Royce O'Neale muscles way into Jazz lineup with toughness, grit

    Royce O’Neale isn’t supposed to be a rotation guy for the Utah Jazz. He’s not even supposed to be in the NBA.Making the best league in the world and thriving is usually reserved for those on a specific path. The player becomes a superstar in high school and on the AAU circuit before sifting through hundreds of college offers. Then it’s on to success at the collegiate level. Next comes the draft, where the player shakes hands with commissioner Adam Silver before joining an
  • BYU falls to Kentucky in Sweet 16 women’s volleyball match

    History repeated itself in the NCAA women’s volleyball championships for the BYU Cougars on Friday.The Cougars had a 5-1 lead in the fifth set against No. 4 seeded Kentucky, but the SEC champion Wildcats scored 14 of the next 18 points in the race to 15 and took a 3-2 win at Memorial Coliseum in the regional semifinals.The scores were 20-25, 25-17, 22-25, 25-18 and 15-9.“I am very proud of the match our team played,” BYU coach Heather Olmstead said. “All year we’ve
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  • [Uproxx: Dime Magazine] - Rudy Gobert On The Jazz Finding An Identity And The Frustrations Of Being A Defensive Star

    ... sed video games, but also talked about his health, what he thinks led to the Jazz’s surge towards the end of his rehab, the frustrations of being a defensive...
  • [CBS Sports] - Donovan Mitchell is gunning it, and the Jazz are revved up because of it - CBSSports.com

    ... ts on 46-41-82 shooting splits in the past 10 games. And out of nowhere, the Jazz have surged from 26th in offense on Nov. 15 to third since then.  Mitchell i ...
  • Retired war dog comes to Fruit Heights for chance at new life

    Ogden • Retirement is proving to be a huge change filled with "firsts" for one Fruit Heights resident.First snow. First tennis ball. First belly rub.It's a stark contrast to the five years Mazzie, a floppy-eared German shepherd, spent as a narcotics detection dog in Kuwait.The change is apparent to the dog's new owners, Jim and Linda Crismer. The first photo of Mazzie's return to the United States showed an underweight dog with clear signs of neglect."He was so scared," Linda recalled, "it
  • BYU guard McKay Cannon says Weber State ran him off, but he’s not bitter toward former team

    Provo • Saturday’s game against his former team in the Zions Bank Beehive Classic represents another chance to compete for BYU guard McKay Cannon.Nothing more, nothing less.The Cougars (7-2) take on Weber State (4-4) at 8 p.m. at Vivint Smart Home Arena in the second game of the long-awaited event’s doubleheader. But Cannon, the former Wildcat, says he just is thankful that the NCAA granted his eligibility waiver request and doesn’t need revenge or vindication of any sort.
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  • Suspect in homicide of University of Utah student ChenWei Guo: ‘My wife is innocent. Please let her go.’

    As a perfunctory scheduling hearing in the murder case against Austin Boutain wrapped up, he asked Third District Judge Vernice Trease if he could speak.“My wife is innocent,” he professed. “Please let her go.”Boutain, who was shackled and dressed in yellow jail garb, left most of the talking up to his attorneys, David Mack and Tawni Hanseen Bugden. But then he broke his silence.It was difficult to hear in the courtroom and Boutain did not speak into the microphone on the
  • Ex-aide: Franks offered $5m to carry his child

    Washington • A former aide to Republican Rep. Trent Franks has told The Associated Press the congressman repeatedly pressed her to carry his child, at one point offering her $5 million to act as a surrogate mother.The eight-term lawmaker abruptly resigned Friday, bowing to an ultimatum from House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis. Ryan told Franks that he would refer the allegations to the Ethics Committee and urged him to step aside.The former staffer said the congressman at least four times asked
  • Japanese star Shohei Ohtani will sign with the Los Angeles Angels.

    Anaheim, Calif. — Shohei Ohtani has decided he’s on the side of the Angels.The Japanese two-way star announced Friday he will sign with the Los Angeles Angels, ending the sweepstakes surrounding his move to the majors in a surprising destination.Ohtani turned down interest from every other big-league club to join two-time MVP Mike Trout with the Angels, who are coming off their second consecutive losing season and haven’t won a playoff game since 2009.But the Angels’ comb
  • First Quarter Grades: Northwest Division

    Spencer Davies breaks down the group of five in the Northwest Division and gives a grade to each team at this point in the season.
  • Aspiring journalists at conservative Liberty University see themselves as the antidote to 'fake news'

    Lynchburg, Va. • What do you do when everyone around you thinks the media is "fake news" — and you want to work for the media?That's the question professor Amy Bonebright needs to help her students answer. This is Liberty University, the world's largest evangelical Christian school. Most students come from politically and religiously conservative families and churches inclined not to trust the news — and, indeed, the president of the university is Jerry Falwell Jr., a fervent ad
  • "A place where only those who gather experience the anticipation of what's to come." – Coach Snyder https://t.co/myuAZipwDG

    "A place where only those who gather experience the anticipation of what's to come."  – Coach Snyder https://t.co/myuAZipwDG
    "A place where only those who gather experience the anticipation of what's to come."– Coach Snyder https://t.co/myuAZipwDG
  • Holly Richardson: Don't let emotional labor suck the joy out of Christmas

    Cookies, tree decorating, office parties, school parties, neighborhood gifts, getting family pictures done, Christmas cards, Christmas carols, family gift exchange and coordinating seating arrangements at family dinners so the uncle with the MAGA hat doesn’t sit next to the niece in the “I’m with her” campaign shirt.Wait. I’m not done.Messiah sing-alongs, choir concerts, gift shopping, gift wrapping, braving traffic on the roads and in the stores, finding the perfec
  • Mormon missionaries begin returning to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico

    A small contingent of Mormon missionaries is returning to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, LDS Church officials said Friday, but it remained uncertain when the faith’s missionary operations will fully resume there.The Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints evacuated missionaries from Puerto Rico and its neighboring Caribbean islands after Hurricane Maria lashed the region in September. Scores of people died as the storm and flooding decimated electrical, water and communicati
  • Weekly Run podcast: Donovan Mitchell is taking names and earning respect, but a rocky road ahead for the Jazz

    Is Donovan Mitchell a Rookie of the Year candidate? Are there issues with the Utah Jazz starting lineup? Will Tony Jones ever get the credit he so richly deserves?We answer that and more in this week’s episode of the Weekly Run, The Tribune’s podcast about the Jazz. A quick breakdown:At 2:30 • Donovan Mitchell is surging, averaging more than 23 ppg over the last eight games. What’s changed about his game since the start of the season, and can he legitimately be the the NBA
  • Air quality in northern Utah worsens as inversion hits

    A dirty layer of winter air is hovering over many northern Utah cities as an inversion sets in that is expected to last for days, if not weeks.National Weather Service meteorologist Pete Wilensky said Friday that a high-pressure system over much of the U.S. West is leading to the murky winter air that causes problems for people with asthma and other respiratory illnesses.Wilensky says the inversions are expected to last through all next week with air quality gradually deteriorating. The earliest
  • Hale’s classic ‘Carol’ hits most of the right notes in its posh new home

    Sandy • For years, I cursed West Valley City’s Hale Centre Theatre for its inconsideration of its sizable older audience. I’m talking stairs, bathrooms, lines, hearing, parking, legroom.So when I took my 93-year-old mother to see Hale’s holiday chestnut, Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” at the new Mountain America Performing Arts Centre in Sandy, my editors and I were as interested in the accessibility of the building as the production.The two-theate
  • BYU falls to Kentucky in Sweet 16 volleyball match

    History repeated itself for the BYU Cougars in the NCAA women’s volleyball tournament Friday.The Cougars had a 5-1 lead in the fifth set against No. 4 seeded Kentucky, but the Wildcats scored 14 of the next 18 points in the tiebreaker and took a 3-2 win at Memorial Coliseum.The scores were 20-25, 25-17, 22-25, 25-18 and 15-9.BYU led No. 4 seed Texas 5-0 in the fifth set in Austin, Texas, last year before losing the match. The Cougars had a 2-1 lead over Kentucky, but the Wildcats rolled to
  • Interior chief spent more than $53K on 3 helicopter trips

    Washington • Newly released records show Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke spent more than $53,000 on three helicopter trips this summer, including one that allowed him to return to Washington in time for a horseback ride with Vice President Mike Pence.Records released by the Interior Department show Zinke spent more than $39,000 on a July helicopter tour above two national monuments in Nevada. Zinke was considering whether to recommend downsizing the two sites.He also spent $8,000 on a round-t
  • Tom Wharton: Utah politicians would rather fight than manage public lands

    As someone who has covered public lands issues for over 40 years and has spent days exploring what were Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments, this week’s reductions in the size of the monuments challenged me to try understand both sides.The action was preordained once President Donald Trump ordered the review. The whole process was a cynical sham. No amount of public comment or support would have changed it.Despite what Gov. Gary Herbert said at the ceremony reducing
  • [Salt Lake Tribune] - Kragthorpe: Beehive Classic at last is a reality, but will it catch on with fans?

    ... s that people are just now recognizing that it’s basketball season. Even the Jazz’s attendance tends to ramp up gradually; the team’s second sellout in 16 gam ...
  • How did a Utah chemistry major accidentally start a concert poster empire in Salt Lake City?

    It started as a way to get into concerts for free.Travis Bone began sketching show posters for his friends’ bands to test the design skills he’d learned while working at an office supply store during college. “I’ve always really liked to draw and, for as long as I can remember, have really been into music,” Bone said, standing in his combined garage and studio in Midvale among stacks of paint cans and filing cabinets full of colorful posters.As a kid, he’d scr
  • Second actress steps forward to accuse Dustin Hoffman

    New York • A second actress has come forward to accuse Dustin Hoffman of allegations of sexual harassment.Kathryn Rossetter, who co-starred with Hoffman in "Death of a Salesman" on Broadway in 1983, says the Oscar-winner would grope her nightly, demand foot rubs and once pulled her slip over her head to expose her breasts in front of the crew.Rossetter told her account in The Hollywood Reporter on Friday, which comes a month after actress Anna Graham Hunter alleged Hoffman groped her and ma
  • Kragthorpe: Beehive Classic at last is a reality, but will it catch on with fans?

    Pace Mannion and Greg Grant would have packed the Salt Palace. Yoeli Childs and Donnie Tillman won’t come close to filling Vivint Smart Home Arena.More than 30 years after the concept of bringing together four in-state college basketball teams initially was discussed, the Zions Bank Beehive Classic is happening Saturday night. The event will celebrate the sport in Utah, and its creation is long overdue.That’s the problem. This is not the 1980s.The Beehive Classic, beginning a three-
  • By popular vote, here are the guests joining Kurt Bestor’s annual Christmas shows

    The 30th edition of Kurt Bestor’s Christmas shows will feature four guest artists from past years, chosen by popular vote. Jenny Oaks Baker (click here to read more) will kick things off.Bestor fest<br>Kurt Bestor presents his 30th annual Christmas concerts, each with a different musical guest chosen by popular vote.<br>Jenny Oaks Baker • Thursday, Dec. 14, 7:30 p.m.<br>Lexi Walker • Friday, Dec. 15, 8 p.m.<br>One Voice Children’s Choir • Saturd
  • Utah judge wants to know what happens to refugee convicted of sex assault and facing deportation

    A Somali refugee who was sentenced to probation after serving six years in a juvenile facility will remain in federal custody while U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials decide whether to deport him.
    Mohammed Ali Mohammed, 20, sexually assaulted two women at knifepoint on consecutive nights in Salt Lake City when he was 14. He attacked one woman who was standing outside of her home, and, on the following night, broke into another woman’s home and assaulted her there before dem
  • Kirby: Finally, my dream Christmas — no decorating, no hassles, just a comfy recliner

    Watch yourself out there. Christmas really is the most blunderful time of the year.Not only is yuletide labor intensive, it’s also cold, dark and icy — perfect conditions for hurting yourself while trying to capture the true spirit of the season.I know. I fell off the roof of our house years ago, dragging 100 feet of electrical cord, a light-up Santa and the rain gutter with me. That wasn’t so bad. It was landing on the lawn furniture I still hadn’t put away that really h
  • Suspect in murder of University of Utah student ChenWei Guo: 'My wife is innocent. Please let her go.’

    As a perfunctory scheduling hearing in the murder case against Austin Boutain wrapped up, he asked Third District Judge Vernice Trease if he could speak.“My wife is innocent,” he professed. “Please let her go.”Boutain, who was shackled and dressed in yellow jail garb, left most of the talking up to his attorneys, David Mack and Tawni Hanseen Bugden. But then he broke his silence.It was difficult to hear in the courtroom and Boutain did not speak into the microphone on the
  • Interior delays Obama-era regulation on methane emissions

    Washington • The Interior Department said Thursday it is delaying an Obama-era regulation aimed at restricting harmful methane emissions from oil and gas production on federal lands.A rule being published in the Federal Register delays the methane regulation until January 2019, saying the previous rule is overly burdensome to industry. Officials said the delay will allow the federal Bureau of Land Management time to review the earlier rule while avoiding tens of millions of dollars in compl
  • [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Houston Rockets season Utah Jazz with salt to spare

    ... couldn't miss in the 3rd quarter and that makes it nearly impossible for the Jazz or any other team in the league to guard. Jazz rookie sensation got his offe ...
  • Veterinarians seek permission to research marijuana for pets

    Bend, Ore. • Dr. Byron Maas surveys a supply of marijuana products for dogs that lines a shelf in his veterinary clinic. They’re selling well.“The ‘Up and Moving’ is for joints and for pain,” he explains. “The ‘Calm and Quiet’ is for real anxious dogs, to take away that anxiety.”People anxious to relieve suffering in their pets are increasingly turning to oils and powders that contain CBDs, a non-psychoactive component of marijuana. But
  • Four things to know about the Foo Fighters ahead of Tuesday’s show in Salt Lake City

    Given that when the Foo Fighters started little more was thought of them than, “Oh, that’s that band with the Nirvana drummer,” it’s somewhat amazing that the Foos are now considered perhaps the modern elder statesmen of rock and roll.Their new album, “Concrete and Gold,” is considered a bit more sonically adventurous than previous efforts, on account of it being helmed by superproducer Greg Kurstin, who, to that point, was best known for his work with pop sta
  • [Salt Lake Tribune] - Former Jazzman Trevor Booker looks forward to challenge with new team, the Sixers

    ... een a long 12 hours. I haven’t gotten a lot of sleep.” Booker, a former Utah Jazz power forward, was swapped for Jahlil Okafor and Nik Stauskas in a deal that ...
  • Great listen about our very own @spidadmitchell 🕷️ #TakeNote #ROTY twitter.com/wojespn/status…

    Great listen about our very own @spidadmitchell 🕷️#TakeNote #ROTY twitter.com/wojespn/status…
  • Utah police say autopsy backlog is causing investigation delay

    Farmington, Utah • Police say an investigation into the death of a 20-year-old man at a Farmington jail is still open nearly 16 months later because of a backlog of cases at the Utah Medical Examiner's Office.The Standard-Examiner reports the Unified Police Department was called to conduct an independent investigation after Dominic Landreth died in the Davis County Jail in August 2016.Police Sgt. Tim Duran says the death appears to be self-inflicted, but they require a medical examiner's re
  • After a yearlong police investigation and no arrests, two Utah parents are left to wonder: Who killed their son?

    It’s been one year since three masked intruders broke into Cyle Van Komen’s South Ogden home, held those inside at gunpoint, and ultimately fired their weapons, killing two people and injuring another.But not a single arrest has been made since the Dec. 9, 2016 shootings.Police have not even publicly identified a person of interest in the deaths of 24-year-old Van Komen and his neighbor, 61-year-old Kevin Nelson.It’s frustrating for Van Komen’s parents, who for the last y
  • [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell having best rookie campaign in Utah since 1985

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  • Utah Jazz vs Houston Rockets Instant Reactions: Utah’s identity crisis continues

    The Utah Jazz struggled to find a rhythm against a surging Houston Rockets team as they lost their second straight game by a total of 112-101 at home. On a night like last night, Utah Jazz fans have to dig deep to find the silver linings after a tough loss. One such victory came even […]
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  • Zion sets visitation record, highlighting crowding concerns

    Zion National Park has already set a new visitation record with a month left to go in 2017, a milestone that highlights concerns about overcrowding at the iconic red-rock landscape.Nearly 4.4 million people visited the park through the end of November, an increase of about 5 percent over last year, The Spectrum in St. George reported Thursday.Attendance at Zion has risen steadily over the past decade and is up some 70 percent since 2010, when there were 2.7 million visitors for the year. Though
  • Doug Robinson: NBA still values the wrong numbers

    SALT LAKE CITY — In this the age of super teams in the National Basketball Association, there is one hope for the rest of the league: There is still a lot of wrongheaded thinking going on out there.Take the Oklahoma Thunder, for instance. They believe the old math: All-Star + All-Star + All-Star = championship. It’s not that simple, especially if one of those All-Stars is Carmelo Anthony.If the goal is to win games and not score points — it’s not the same thing — An
  • Salt Lake City native Nathan Chen edges Japan's Uno to win Grand Prix Final

    Nagoya, Japan • Salt Lake City’s Nathan Chen held on to his lead from the short program to edge Shoma Uno and win the figure skating Grand Prix Final on Friday.Skating to "Mao's Last Dancer," Chen landed three of five attempted quad jumps in his free program.Uno, two points behind Chen after the short program Thursday, won the free skate but it wasn't enough to overtake Chen, who finished a half point ahead with a total of 286.51 points.Russian skater Mikhail Kolyada was third with 28
  • Former Jazzman Trevor Booker looks forward to challenge with new team, the Sixers

    Trevor Booker was taking his customary pregame nap in Mexico City when he got the phone call Thursday. His Brooklyn Nets were set to take on the Oklahoma City Thunder later that night.He was to report immediately to the lobby of his hotel. He had been traded to the Philadelphia 76ers.“It definitely came as a surprise to me,” Booker said in a Friday morning interview with The Tribune. “It’s been a long 12 hours. I haven’t gotten a lot of sleep.”Booker, a former
  • George Pyle: How Romney could be the beginning of the end for the Republicans.

    Back when soon-to-be ex-Sen. Al Franken was a comedian, and saying and doing outrageous and tasteless things was what he got paid for, he performed one of the most daring feats of comedy ever seen on broadcast TV.The NBC show “Saturday Night Live” was going though one of its creative and ratings down times, limping along without any big stars and seriously missing the guidance that creator and sustaining impresario Lorne Michaels had given it.On April 11, 1981, the regular “Wee
  • News Roundup: Inside the Democrats’ plan: Why Franken had to go

    Inside the Democrats’ plan: Why Franken had to go. Claims against a Utah county commissioner couldn’t be substantiated. State senator asks LDS Church to clarify its take on hate crimes legislation.Happy Friday. Sen. Al Franken says he’s going to resign. Rep. John Conyers has done so, too. There’s a reason Democrats have started a zero tolerance movement within their own ranks and are purging those who face allegations: They want to be known for standing for something and
  • Police say autopsy backlog is causing investigation delay

    Farmington, Utah • Police say an investigation into the death of a 20-year-old man at a Farmington jail is still open nearly 16 months later because of a backlog of cases at the Utah Medical Examiner's Office.The Standard-Examiner reports the Unified Police Department was called to conduct an independent investigation after Dominic Landreth died in the Davis County Jail in August 2016.Police Sgt. Tim Duran says the death appears to be self-inflicted, but they require a medical examiner's re
  • Catherine Rampell: China isn't America's rival — pinkie swear

    Beijing • The Chinese government would like Americans to know that China has no ambitions to replace the United States as the world’s biggest superpower.Really! They pinkie-swear!Sure, maybe the United States has turned its back on globalization. Maybe the U.S. government has said it will withdraw from a 195-country pact on climate change. Maybe it has hollowed out its diplomatic corps and retreated from the international promotion of democracy, human rights and other American values.
  • By popular vote, here’s the guests joining Kurt Bestor's annual Christmas shows

    The 30th edition of Kurt Bestor’s Christmas shows will feature four guest artists from past years, chosen by popular vote. Jenny Oaks Baker, (click here to read more), will kick things off.Bestor fest<br>Kurt Bestor presents his 30th annual Christmas concerts, each with a different musical guest chosen by popular vote.<br>Jenny Oaks Baker • Thursday, Dec. 14, 7:30 p.m.<br>Lexi Walker • Friday, Dec. 15, 8 p.m.<br>One Voice Children’s Choir • Satu
  • When it comes to Kurt Bestor and his besties, Jenny Oaks Baker tops the list

    On paper, it looks like a musical mismatch: She’s a conservatory-trained veteran of a major U.S. orchestra and daughter of a prominent LDS Church leader; he’s a shaggy-haired, free-spirited purveyor of new-agey jazz whose left-leaning sympathies sometimes rile his more conservative social-media followers.Meet BFFs Kurt Bestor and Jenny Oaks Baker.“Jenny and I are quite opposite, and yet, together, we have created her sound — an amalgam of my arranging and her playing styl

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