• Stephen Tryon: Explaining the behavior of some members of Congress

    Stephen Tryon: Explaining the behavior of some members of Congress
    Nine years ago the longest-serving Republican speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, was being blackmailed.A federal judge labelled Hastert a “serial child molester” during his sentencing hearing in 2015. In April 2016, Hastert admitted in court to sexually abusing several boys while he worked as a high school wrestling coach in the 1960s and 1970s. Hastert, who served as speaker of the House from 1999 to 2007, paid $1.7 million to one of his victims, and violated federal law while do
  • The Utah Jazz are among the worst fast-break offenses in the league. Is that because they’re among the worst at forcing turnovers?

    The Utah Jazz are among the worst fast-break offenses in the league. Is that because they’re among the worst at forcing turnovers?
    Coach Quin Snyder has been fond of saying this season that how the Jazz play on one side of the ball inevitably will impact how they fare on the other side.It’s a simple enough concept — if Utah commits a live-ball turnover, for instance, the team’s transition defense is likely to be stressed. How far does it extend, though?After all, while the Jazz have seen marked offensive improvement during this stretch of eight wins in nine games, they nevertheless remain ranked 27th in th
  • [The Spun] - Breaking: Former NBA Commissioner David Stern Has Died

    [The Spun] - Breaking: Former NBA Commissioner David Stern Has Died
    Former NBA commissioner David Stern passed away on New Year's Day after suffering a brain hemmorhage in December.
  • David Stern, NBA’s commissioner for 30 years, dies at 77

    David Stern, NBA’s commissioner for 30 years, dies at 77
    New York • David Stern, who spent 30 years as the NBA’s longest-serving commissioner and oversaw its growth into a global power, has died on New Year’s Day. He was 77.The league says Stern died Wednesday with his family by his side. He suffered a brain hemorrhage Dec. 12 and underwent emergency surgery.Stern had been involved with the NBA for nearly two decades before he became its fourth commissioner on Feb. 1, 1984. By the time he left his position in 2014, a league that had s
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  • [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Jazz are among the worst fast-break offenses in the league. Is that because they’re among the worst at forcing turnovers?

    [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Jazz are among the worst fast-break offenses in the league. Is that because they’re among the worst at forcing turnovers?
    Coach Quin Snyder has been fond of saying this season that how the Jazz play on one side of the ball inevitably will impact how they fare on the other side.
  • Report: TV producer’s son dies skiing in Park City

    Report: TV producer’s son dies skiing in Park City
    A 20-year-old man died in an accident Tuesday at Park City Mountain resort.TMZ says the deceased is Charlie Noxon, the son of Jenji Kohan, who created the television show “Weeds” and “Orange is the New Black.”Margo Van Ness, a spokeswoman for the resort, declined to confirm the victim’s name. She referred to a prepared news release describing the deceased only as a 20-year-old from Sherman Oaks, Calif.“Park City Mountain, Park City Mountain Ski Patrol and the
  • Apes, monkeys among 30 animals killed in German zoo fire

    Apes, monkeys among 30 animals killed in German zoo fire
    Berlin • A fire raced through a zoo in western Germany in the first few minutes of the new year, killing more than 30 animals, including apes, monkeys, bats and birds, authorities said. Police said paper sky lanterns launched nearby to celebrate the arrival of 2020 were probably to blame.Several witnesses saw cylindrical paper lanterns with little fires inside flying in the night sky shortly after midnight Wednesday near the Krefeld Zoo, Gerd Hoppmann, the city's head of criminal police, to
  • The Jazz are among the worst fast-break offenses in the league. Is that because they’re among the worst at forcing turnovers?

    The Jazz are among the worst fast-break offenses in the league. Is that because they’re among the worst at forcing turnovers?
    Coach Quin Snyder has been fond of saying this season that how the Jazz play on one side of the ball inevitably will impact how they fare on the other side.It’s a simple enough concept — if Utah commits a live-ball turnover, for instance, the team’s transition defense is likely to be stressed. How far does it extend, though?After all, while the Jazz have seen marked offensive improvement during this stretch of eight wins in nine games, they nevertheless remain ranked 27th in th
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  • Winter weather hits northern Utah on first day of 2020

    Winter weather hits northern Utah on first day of 2020
    In California, the Rose Parade is winding through Pasadena. At Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas, the National Hockey League is preparing to play a game in the sunshine.In Salt Lake City on Wednesday, people are shoveling. If they can stomp their snow boots to a hill, they can sled down it.The new decade blew into northern Utah on Wednesday carrying 2 to 6 inches of snow in the valleys. The National Weather Service says the totals could be higher than that on benches; the mountains could receive up
  • Australia sending aid to wildfire towns as death toll rises

    Australia sending aid to wildfire towns as death toll rises
    Perth, Australia • Australia deployed military ships and aircraft Wednesday to help communities ravaged by apocalyptic wildfires that have left at least 17 people dead nationwide and sent thousands of residents and holidaymakers fleeing to the shoreline.Navy ships and military aircraft were bringing water, food and fuel to towns where supplies were depleted and roads were cut off by the fires. Authorities confirmed three bodies were found Wednesday at Lake Conjola on the south coast of New
  • [Fansided: The J-Notes] - The Utah Jazz will have a very busy and impactful year in 2020

    [Fansided: The J-Notes] - The Utah Jazz will have a very busy and impactful year in 2020
    The Utah Jazz have a lot of big decision to make this year that will leave a big impact for better or worse. In the calendar year 2019, the Utah Jazz had a...
  • Lawmakers pledge ERA will pass in Virginia. Then what?

    Lawmakers pledge ERA will pass in Virginia. Then what?
    Richmond, Va. • Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment are so confident Virginia is on the verge of becoming the critical 38th state to ratify the gender equality measure, they are already making plans for how they will celebrate.But that jubilation could be largely symbolic. Despite broad support for the amendment in the state, the ERA's prospects nationally are substantially more complicated.The proposed 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution faces a host of likely legal challenges and
  • Arizona transfer Alex Barcello has made an immediate impact at BYU. How did he end up in Provo?

    Arizona transfer Alex Barcello has made an immediate impact at BYU. How did he end up in Provo?
    Provo • Alex Barcello lives by one main motto: be yourself.But during his time at Arizona, he lost himself. And almost lost his will to play basketball altogether.Luckily, Barcello was able to find his way to BYU over the summer – and was granted a NCAA transfer waiver in late October just in time for the start of the 2019-20 season. Instantly, Barcello made an impression on Cougar Nation.In the season opener against Cal State Fullerton, Barcello teamed up with senior TJ Haws to put u
  • The Utah Jazz will have a very busy and impactful year in 2020

    The Utah Jazz will have a very busy and impactful year in 2020
    The Utah Jazz have a lot of big decision to make this year that will leave a big impact for better or worse. In the calendar year 2019, the Utah Jazz had a winning percentage of a 55 win team including an awesome 32-13 stretch run last spring. Donovan Mitchell had the best year of […]
    The Utah Jazz will have a very busy and impactful year in 2020 - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  • Tribune Editorial: Dream Headlines, 2020

    Tribune Editorial: Dream Headlines, 2020
    Trump resigns— Pat Ames, Nampa, IdahoTrump reelected in landslide— Eric Orahood, SmithfieldTrump abdicates— Paul Kleiber, Salt Lake CityTrump resigns, seeks asylum in Moscow. Will live in Edward Snowden’s dacha.— Alan Wright, Salt Lake CityMormon whistleblower identified: The Angel Moroni, blowing his horn— Neils E. Mortenson, Salt Lake CityUtah Legislature listens— Ruby Thomas, Salt Lake CityTrump convicted. Putin moves out of White House.— Scott
  • Utes in review: December’s downturn is revealing for Utah, and not in a good way.

    Utes in review: December’s downturn is revealing for Utah, and not in a good way.
    San Antonio • As fireworks exploded downtown, Utah’s football program again stumbled into a new year.The Utes’ 38-10 loss to Texas in Tuesday’s Alamo Bowl spoiled their planned New Year’s Eve celebration of another season that brought them a Pac-12 South championship and a combo plate of discouraging defeats in the end. For the first time since the Jim Fassel coaching era of the mid 1980s, Utah has lost its last two games in two straight years.This conclusion looks a
  • Trump deploys more troops to Mideast after U.S. embassy attack

    Trump deploys more troops to Mideast after U.S. embassy attack
    Washington • Charging that Iran was “fully responsible” for an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, President Donald Trump ordered about 750 U.S. soldiers deployed to the Middle East as about 3,000 more prepared for possible deployment in the next several days.No U.S. casualties or evacuations were reported after the attack Tuesday by dozens of Iran-supported militiamen. U.S. Marines were sent from Kuwait to reinforce the compound.Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday night t
  • Utah basketball set to host Oregon State as Tres Tinkle, Timmy Allen take the spotlight in Pac-12 opener

    Utah basketball set to host Oregon State as Tres Tinkle, Timmy Allen take the spotlight in Pac-12 opener
    It is unarguable that Timmy Allen is playing at an All-Pac-12 level for the University of Utah.As the Utes ready to open Pac-12 play at the Huntsman Center on Thursday against Oregon State (6:30 p.m., Pac-12 Networks), the junior wing leads the conference in scoring at 21.0 points per game, while grabbing 7.4 rebounds and handing out 2.7 assists per contest.The Beavers feature their own star power in senior guard Tres Tinkle. The two-time All-Pac-12 selection is working on a criminally underrate
  • Utah Utes set to host Oregon State as Tres Tinkle, Timmy Allen take the spotlight in Pac-12 opener

    Utah Utes set to host Oregon State as Tres Tinkle, Timmy Allen take the spotlight in Pac-12 opener
    It is unarguable that Timmy Allen is playing at an All-Pac-12 level for the University of Utah.As the Utes ready to open Pac-12 play at the Huntsman Center on Thursday against Oregon State (6:30 p.m., Pac-12 Networks), the junior wing leads the conference in scoring at 21.0 points per game, while grabbing 7.4 rebounds and handing out 2.7 assists per contest.The Beavers feature their own star power in senior guard Tres Tinkle. The two-time All-Pac-12 selection is working on a criminally underrate
  • Lawsuit challenges Lake Tahoe ski resort’s new parking fees

    Lawsuit challenges Lake Tahoe ski resort’s new parking fees
    Crystal Bay, Nev. • Two season pass holders at a Lake Tahoe-area ski resort have filed a lawsuit against the resort’s owner over new parking fees they say were unjustly imposed.Officials at Northstar California Resort near Truckee, California, announced in October they would begin charging fees for the first time this season at a major parking lot near the premium parking area where fees already were in place.Steven Kroll, a Crystal Bay attorney, and fellow resident Ronald Code filed
  • Four charged with murder in 2017 killing at Olympic Oval

    Four charged with murder in 2017 killing at Olympic Oval
    Prosecutors on Tuesday charged four people with murder for what is described as a botched robbery in 2017 in the parking lot of the Utah Olympic Oval.A single bullet to the head killed 20-year-old Joshua Belen on Oct. 21, 2017. Criminal charges filed Tuesday in state court in Salt Lake City, say it was Carson Michael O’Dell who fired that shot.O’Dell, 19, was charged with murder, robbery and obstruction of justice. So, too, was Israel Ramirez-Torres, 20.Anthony Gene Knight and Angel
  • As more women run for office, child care remains a hurdle

    As more women run for office, child care remains a hurdle
    When Kimberly Dudik ran for her fourth term in the Montana House, state officials told her she could not use campaign money to pay for child care for her four young children.She is now running for attorney general and is trying to visit a big chunk of the sprawling state, spending hours on the road. That means she needs even more help picking up her kids at school and day care when she's away and her husband has a late night at the office.“It just seems behind the times,” Dudik, whos
  • [Salt Lake Tribune] - Weekly Run podcast: Jazz 8-1 in their last 9, thanks to boosts from three players in particular

    [Salt Lake Tribune] - Weekly Run podcast: Jazz 8-1 in their last 9, thanks to boosts from three players in particular
    The Jazz are on a roll. Sure, it’s been against mostly sub-.500 teams, but winning eight of their last nine games is nothing to scoff at, either. How real is this trend, and how can they make sure it continues when the schedule does turn — albeit...
  • Weekly Run podcast: Jazz 8-1 in their last 9, thanks to boosts from three players in particular

    Weekly Run podcast: Jazz 8-1 in their last 9, thanks to boosts from three players in particular
    The Jazz are on a roll. Sure, it’s been against mostly sub-.500 teams, but winning eight of their last nine games is nothing to scoff at, either. How real is this trend, and how can they make sure it continues when the schedule does turn — albeit not for a couple more weeks?Hosts Andy Larsen and Eric Walden talk about three players that have been at the forefront of the good play: Jordan Clarkson, Donovan Mitchell, and Joe Ingles. Why have they helped so much so recently?Here’s
  • Jordan Clarkson Appears To Be Utah’s Missing Link

    Jordan Clarkson Appears To Be Utah’s Missing Link
    Jordan Hicks of Basketball Insiders caught up with Jordan Clarkson after his first game in a Jazz uniform and details just what he'll bring to the team.
  • BYU’s women’s basketball coach Jeff Judkins hits 400 wins

    BYU’s women’s basketball coach Jeff Judkins hits 400 wins
    Provo • When Jeff Judkins played for Highland High School in the early 1970s, his coach was one of the top three coaches in wins in the state of Utah. So, Judkins was familiar with milestone wins.Yet, he never would have thought he'd hit a big milestone in his own coaching career.On Monday, Judkins reached his 400th victory with a 65-47 win at Pepperdine. It was the Cougars' second-straight West Coast Conference win. BYU will continue its conference schedule and start a three-game home-stan
  • Sundance Film Festival wanted a more diverse press corps to review its movies. Now its solution has growing pains.

    Sundance Film Festival wanted a more diverse press corps to review its movies. Now its solution has growing pains.
    Attending his first Sundance Film Festival in 2019, movie blogger Rendy Jones said, was “overwhelming at first,” but “it was amazing.”“I met so many different people from different fields — industry and filmmakers,” Jones said, adding that he saw movies in Park City that “have been the highlights of the year.”Jones, who runs the site Ready Reviews, couldn’t have made the trip from Brooklyn to Utah without the Sundance Institute’s
  • Utah Rep. Ben McAdams still finds optimism in Washington after a polarizing first year

    Utah Rep. Ben McAdams still finds optimism in Washington after a polarizing first year
    Washington • Rep. Ben McAdams found his first year in Congress to be rather discouraging, in that the place is as dysfunctional as it appears. But he says he still found some early successes — even as he enters the 2020 election year as a top target of the Republicans.The Utah Democrat arrived in Washington this past January, joining a House that is bitterly partisan and in a year that ended with a nearly party-line vote to impeach President Donald Trump.“I’ve been disappo
  • Ed Simon: Why we will need Walt Whitman in 2020

    Ed Simon: Why we will need Walt Whitman in 2020
    When Walt Whitman arrived in Washington at the end of 1862 to take up residence in the city and serve as a hospital volunteer, the construction of the Capitol dome was not yet complete. In a dispatch published in the Oct. 4, 1863, edition of The New York Times, Whitman described this “vast eggshell, built of iron and glass, this dome — a beauteous bubble” that “emerges calm and aloft from the hill, out of a dense mass of trees.” The poet recounted how a “few d
  • Letter: Art, and Ken Sanders, shape our city

    Letter: Art, and Ken Sanders, shape our city
    Robert Gehrke’s column on folks in our community who, “Could achieve important things in 2002,” they are all politicians, money people, blah, blah, blah.At least he didn’t cite a sports star.Plato, via Frank Zappa said, “When the mode of the music changes, the walls of the city shake.” That means art is a rock star when it comes to social change.Politicians did not bring about gay rights. Madonna did. And there are a million more examples.Ken Sanders and his b
  • 2020 arrives in northern Utah with snow

    2020 arrives in northern Utah with snow
    In California, the Rose Parade is winding through Pasadena. At Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas, the National Hockey League is preparing to play a game in the sunshine.In Salt Lake City on Wednesday, people are shoveling. If they can stomp their snow boots to a hill, they can sled down it.The new decade blew into northern Utah on Wednesday carrying 2 to 6 inches of snow in the valleys. The National Weather Service says the totals could be higher than that on benches; the mountains could receive up
  • After a polarizing first year, Utah Rep. Ben McAdams still finds optimism in Washington

    After a polarizing first year, Utah Rep. Ben McAdams still finds optimism in Washington
    Washington • Rep. Ben McAdams found his first year in Congress to be rather discouraging, in that the place is as dysfunctional as it appears. But he says he still found some early successes — even as he enters the 2020 election year as a top target of the Republicans.The Utah Democrat arrived in Washington this past January, joining a House that is bitterly partisan and in a year that ended with a nearly party-line vote to impeach President Donald Trump.“I’ve been disappo
  • Fatal crashes near South Salt Lake homeless center spark calls for safety improvements

    Fatal crashes near South Salt Lake homeless center spark calls for safety improvements
    After three men were struck and killed trying to cross the street near South Salt Lake’s new shelter, city leaders and homeless advocates are calling for immediate pedestrian safety improvements.The first happened just weeks after the 300-bed men’s shelter opened its doors last month, when a driver killed a man on 3300 South who was within 100 feet of the crosswalk at 900 West, police said.On Christmas Day, a car hit and killed a man in a wheelchair who was attempting to cross near 3
  • Robert Gehrke: What does 2020 hold for Trump, McAdams and Utah’s next governor? Join me as I peer into the mists.

    Robert Gehrke: What does 2020 hold for Trump, McAdams and Utah’s next governor? Join me as I peer into the mists.
    Last year at this time I predicted we would be preparing for the inauguration of Mayor Jim Dabakis.In my defense, I wasn’t alone. I couldn’t have foreseen Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski opting not to run again, Erin Mendenhall and Luz Escamilla getting in, and everything else that unfolded.It goes to show how quickly things we think we know can change. At least it keeps things interesting.When I made my 2019 predictions, for example, who would’ve guessed that Jon Huntsma
  • New device in New Mexico turns back clock on astronomy

    New device in New Mexico turns back clock on astronomy
    Santa Fe, N.M. • A newly forged steel instrument that can pinpoint the path of stars and planets across the night sky using the naked eye is a throwback to the years just before the advent of telescopes, returning stargazers in the hills of northern New Mexico to the essentials of astronomy in the past.Installed at St. John's College by graduates, the device is a remake of long-lost originals devised by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe in the late 16th century to chart the location of stars an
  • Let’s cancel ‘OK Boomer’ in 2020, and the humblebrag, too

    Let’s cancel ‘OK Boomer’ in 2020, and the humblebrag, too
    New York • Either loudly sing your own praises or don’t in the new year, but let’s leave the humble brag behind, along with a few other oversaturated, cloying or just plain silly cultural quirks that deserve a big goodbye.Among them are pop-up shops, cancel culture and the ever-present "OK Boomer" retort on social media. With much ado about something, here's our annual Over It list of things that should remain in 2019:Double-wristingWearing two timepieces has been around since t
  • Full Medicaid expansion begins in Utah. Here’s how to check if you qualify.

    Full Medicaid expansion begins in Utah. Here’s how to check if you qualify.
    After years of debate over how to administer Medicaid in Utah, the state has moved to a fully-expanded the program for low-income residents beginning Wednesday, guaranteeing access to health care for tens of thousands of people.The move to full expansion means that anyone earning less than 138% of the federal poverty level — roughly $35,000 for a family of four or $17,000 for an individual — is now eligible for Medicaid services. Individuals interested in checking their eligibility o
  • Headless torso found in Idaho cave identified as bootlegger

    Headless torso found in Idaho cave identified as bootlegger
    Boise, Idaho • The headless torso that was found in a remote Idaho cave 40 years ago has finally been identified as belonging to an outlaw who killed his wife with an ax and was last seen after escaping from jail in 1916.Clark County Sheriff Bart May said Tuesday that the cold case will remain open because investigators don't yet know who killed Joseph Henry Loveless. Still, they were able to notify one of Loveless' surviving relatives, an 87-year-old grandson, of his fate.For investigator
  • [Clutchpoints] - Utah Jazz: 2 players who would be perfect trade targets

    [Clutchpoints] - Utah Jazz: 2 players who would be perfect trade targets
    With the NBA Trade Deadline just over a month away, Feb. 6 to be exact, the Utah Jazz find themselves ascending in the Western Conference standings. After struggling to start the new campaign, partly due to Mike Conley struggling to shoot the ball,...
  • Letter: Where is our Helmuth Hubener?

    Letter: Where is our Helmuth Hubener?
    As the overwhelming majority of my faith are followers of Donald Trump, they naturally assume everyone in the faith also follow him.Some in my presence openly call the first black president a Muslim, even though he is a faithful Christian. They pledge allegiance to Trump while discarding all that they have been taught and they continue to teach.They support and defend sexual assault, racism, vulgarity, bribery, worship of money, adultery, buffoonery, dishonesty, conspiracy, pride, immorality and
  • Letter: Utah senators must stand against rogue executive branch

    Letter: Utah senators must stand against rogue executive branch
    Our Utah senators, Mitt Romney and Mike Lee, will soon cast their historic vote in the impeachment trial of our president — a man whom we all know to possess a variety of chronic sociopathic disorders.To deny this fact is to deny him the help he needs to heal his broken soul. To give credence to his illness only enables him to further his obvious inclination toward absolutism and the end of our democracy.The Constitution, as drafted by our Founding Fathers, offer us a means of enforcement
  • Letter: The evidence against the president is clear

    Letter: The evidence against the president is clear
    Dear Sen. Romney,I write this on a flight from — where else — Washington, D.C., to my hometown of Salt Lake City for Christmas. I wish I’d had you as my seat mate. Instead I’m reaching out to you this way to implore you to follow what I believe to be your conscience with regard to the impeachment and conviction of the president.On March 3, 2016, you gave a rather blistering speech about then-candidate Trump, calling him dishonest, reckless and wholly lacking in temperamen
  • Letter: The America that I remember

    Letter: The America that I remember
    As the editors of Christianity Today face a backlash for an editorial expressing a heartfelt view centered on Christian values, I ask myself, at what point are the costs of President Trump’s behavior so large that his supporters are prepared to say that something – anything – crosses a line?The United States of America is the largest, most powerful democracy in the world. Has the character of our nation become so diminished that fear of rebuke by President Trump silences voices
  • Letter: Interesting math

    Letter: Interesting math
    It is interesting to observe that if the Mormon church were to return its $100 billion rainy day fund to the reported living flock of 15 million, each person would receive $6,666.66.H. Richard Klatt, SandySubmit a letter to the editor
  • California eases way for land clearing to prevent wildfires

    California eases way for land clearing to prevent wildfires
    Sacramento, Calif. • California regulators said Tuesday that they have streamlined the state’s permit process to make it faster to approve tree-thinning projects designed to slow massive wildfires that have devastated communities in recent years.The state Board of Forestry and Fire Protection approved a vegetation management program based on more than a decade of analysis of the potential environmental damage from removing different types of fuel, ranging from alpine trees to chaparra
  • [Fox Sports] - Jazz face the Bulls, aim for 4th straight victory

    [Fox Sports] - Jazz face the Bulls, aim for 4th straight victory
    Utah will attempt to continue its three-game win streak with a victory over Chicago
  • Utah struggles to slow down top Texas receiver in the Alamo Bowl

    Utah struggles to slow down top Texas receiver in the Alamo Bowl
    San Antonio • Javelin Guidry is a two-time All-Pac-12 selection as a nickel back for the University of Utah. The junior has played in 41 games with 25 starts, including 12 starts in 14 games this season. He has been an integral part of a strong Utes secondary, and figures to be a large piece of the puzzle in 2020 for head coach Kyle Whittingham. On Tuesday against Texas in the Alamo Bowl, Guidry had a tough night. A handful of times, he was put in 1-on-1 situations against talented Longhorn
  • 7 detained in November killing of 9 Americans with Utah ties, Mexico says

    7 detained in November killing of 9 Americans with Utah ties, Mexico says
    Mexico City • Prosecutors in Mexico said a total of seven suspects have now been detained in connection with the Nov. 4 slaughter of nine U.S. dual-national women and children.Federal prosecutors said three men were arrested in recent days and charged with organized crime for drug offenses, though none apparently yet faces homicide charges.They said four other suspects are being held under a form of house arrest. The name of one suspect announced by federal prosecutors Monday partially mat
  • Gordon Monson: Was Utah a quality team that lost its way at the end? Or a team that was made to look better than it really was?

    Gordon Monson: Was Utah a quality team that lost its way at the end? Or a team that was made to look better than it really was?
    It wasn’t supposed to end this way.Not the season. Not the year. Not Tyler Huntley’s Utah career.No. Not like this.Back in August, the Utah quarterback predicted the Utes would have an extraordinary season, saying “the sky’s the limit” for this team.He was right for most of the fall, as the Utes soared for all but one week.But then, December arrived. And the Utes sagged.Their deck dropped oh-so low on Tuesday night at the Alamo Bowl, where the Utes limbo’ed do
  • Against Texas, Utah’s offense goes stone-cold for second straight game

    Against Texas, Utah’s offense goes stone-cold for second straight game
    San Antonio • Twenty-five days after Utah’s prolific offense went cold against Oregon in the Pac-12 championship game, things didn’t get much better in the Alamo Bowl. After 12 regular-season games, the Utes offense was averaging 35.6 points and 453.6 yards per game, both good for third in the Pac-12 and in the top-25 nationally. On Tuesday night against Texas at the Alamodome, Utah was shut out in the first half of a 38-10 loss at the Alamodome. Against a Texas defense playing

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