Vlhova beats Shiffrin to win World Cup slalom
Levi, Finland • Slovakian skier Petra Vlhova wasted no time in confirming her status as Mikaela Shiffrin's main rival for slalom success in the Olympic season.At the first World Cup race in the...
View ArticleUtah AD Chris Hill discusses latest stadium expansion possibilities
Chris Hill has stayed glued to the TV when most football fans opt to take a breather.Utah’s athletic director has been watching every extra point inside every football stadium around the country. What...
View ArticleNo. 10 Auburn knocks off No 2 Georgia, 40-17
Auburn, Ala. • Kerryon Johnson and the Auburn Tigers delivered an emphatic statement to the rest of the Southeastern Conference: Don’t forget us.The 10th-ranked Tigers emerged from the shadows of the...
View ArticleNo. 15 USC clinches Pac-12 South in 38-24 win over Colorado
Boulder, Colo. • Sam Darnold has seen plenty of what cornerback Ajene Harris can do in practice. He’s just thankful he doesn’t have to face him when it counts.Darnold tossed two touchdown passes and...
View ArticleChange is good, as Jazz lineup shows in win over Nets to snap losing streak
In the midst of a four-game losing streak, the Utah Jazz had to patch together a rotation to break out of their slump against the Brooklyn Nets. And they had to do it without their best player.Some of...
View ArticleJuan Diego tops Morgan to complete three-peat with a little trickery mixed in
Ogden • The trick play had to wait.Juan Diego’s good fortune made the patience necessary.When the Soaring Eagle did get the chance to run the play, it led to a touchdown and lead they did not...
View ArticleDana Milbank: Roy Moore and Republicans, taking the Bible literally but not...
Washington • So President Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and fellow Republicans think Roy Moore, the GOP Senate nominee from Alabama, should quit his Senate run only “if these...
View ArticleBarnes helps Milford take down Duchesne in state championship game
Cedar City • Milford coach Thayne Marshall thought his team “didn’t have the mental capacity” to learn how to win when his Tigers faced Duchesne on Sept. 22.Milford’s maturation came full circle...
View ArticleWeber State buries Portland State 63-17
Portland, Ore. • Treshawn Garrett ran for 88 yards and three touchdowns as Weber State scored 56 unanswered points and cruised to a 63-17 win over winless Portland State on Saturday night.Stefan...
View ArticleFamed Berlin ‘candy bomber’ visits Utah junior high musical about his WWII...
Students at Mueller Park Junior High School on Friday and Saturday performed “The Berlin Candy Bomber,” an original musical based on the story of Gail Halvorsen.Halvorsen, a Utah native, delivered...
View ArticleCoach K wins 1,000th at No. 1 Duke, 99-69 over Utah Valley
Durham, N.C. • Make it another 1K for Coach K — with all of these coming at Duke.Mike Krzyzewski became the first men’s Division I coach to win 1,000 games at one school Saturday night when his...
View ArticleGeorge F. Will: Repeal and replace the tax code
Washington • The Republicans’ tax bill would somewhat improve the existing revenue system that once caused Mitch Daniels (former head of the Office of Management and Budget, former Indiana governor) to...
View ArticleGobert sits out Nets game with sore knee
The night before, he was able to play a whole quarter on a bum knee.On Saturday night against the Brooklyn Nets, the Jazz exercised caution and decided to sit Rudy Gobert. It was the first game of the...
View ArticleGeorge Takei, Richard Dreyfuss respond in harassment scandal
New York • George Takei took to Twitter on Saturday to deny groping a male model and Richard Dreyfuss said he never exposed himself to a female writer helping him with a TV script, both back in the...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Struggles on offensive line cost Utes chance at victory
Somehow, having already lost six turnovers and allowed seven sacks, the Utah Utes gave themselves one more chance to do something truly memorable this season.Quarterback Tyler Huntley scrambled into...
View ArticleFowler in 3-way tie for lead in Mexico
Playa del Carmen, Mexico • Rickie Fowler woke up at 5 a.m. Saturday and played three holes in the OHL Classic at Mayakoba. It was enough to get him a three-way share of the 36-hole lead going into a...
View ArticleBYU wins season, home opener behind Bryant’s 27 points
Provo • Elijah Bryant saw to it that the BYU basketball team did not miss troubled projected starter Nick Emery in the season opener on Saturday night, scoring 27 points on 10-of-11 shooting in an easy...
View ArticleLate TD lifts No. 1 Alabama over No. 18 Mississippi St 31-24
Starkville, Miss. • Mississippi State brought the all-out blitz. Alabama’s Jalen Hurts never flinched.Throwing two perfect passes with less than a minute remaining, the sophomore quarterback carved...
View ArticleWazzu QB Luke Falk breaks Pac-12 record in emotional Utah homecoming
The crowd huddled atop the ramp in the southwest corner of Rice-Eccles Stadium awaiting its quarterback. Night long had settled and the temperature was dipping down further, but they stood there.They...
View ArticleUtah defense stood tall against Washington State despite adversity
Utah coach Kyle Whittingham quipped that he almost had to consider using offensive players on the defensive side due to the rash of injuries that have left that unit depleted.The Utes entered...
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