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Crazy two-week chase lands Utah a women’s pro soccer franchise
Sandy • Two weeks ago, Real Salt general manager Craig Waibel got a call from team owner Dell Loy Hansen, who told him he was going to try to bring in a National Women’s Soccer League team to the Salt...
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Derrick Favors’ future with the Jazz is murky, but he’s trying keep his...
New York • From his brief, rookie stay in New Jersey with the Nets to being the most tenured player with the Jazz, Derrick Favors has learned plenty about the NBA in what is now an eight-year...
View ArticleActor Tom Sizemore denies sexually assaulting girl on Utah movie set;...
On social media Thursday, actor Tom Sizemore denied he kissed and groped an 11-year-old girl in Salt Lake City. But the producer for the movie he was working on at the time says he did, and the actor’s...
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He tried to kill a man with a crossbow before slaying a University of Utah...
Days after they killed a man in Colorado, court documents say, a married couple looked for someone to carjack at the University of Utah. Austin and Kathleen Boutain staked out a dirt parking lot in Red...
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Utah's Troy Taylor and Washington's Jake Browning are friends — and now...
Nothing that happens on the field Saturday likely will change the friendship between Utah offensive coordinator Troy Taylor and Jake Browning. Yes, despite a nearly 30-year age difference, Taylor...
View ArticleNew songs about politics and crotches, and 3 other things to know about...
Devotees of The Smiths and their former frontman Morrissey can’t really be told anything about either at this point that they don’t already know. Or anything that will change their minds about them,...
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Steve Holcomb's shadow looms large over USA bobsled heading into Pyeongchang...
Park City • When he takes control of his sled, Justin Olsen will have Steve Holcomb with him. The American bobsled driver will have the late Holcomb’s initials on his race suit. And he will have all...
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Leonid Bershidsky: Zimbabwe's coup is nothing to celebrate
As leader of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe has survived longer than Stalin in the Soviet Union and Mao in China. If it’s coming to an end -- which seems likely, given his apparent inability to emerge from...
View ArticleMonson: Will Dell Loy Hansen stir you to buy tickets for Utah’s newest...
Sandy • OK, so here’s a question only you can answer.Would you be excited about carving out time on summer nights around here to pay for tickets to attend women’s pro soccer games?It’s a question you...
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BYU’s senior class will be led into home finale by Cougars’ iron men — Fred...
Provo • BYU’s football program will honor 18 players Saturday before they play their final home game of the season, against the UMass Minutemen.Linebacker Fred Warner and offensive lineman Tejan...
View ArticleKeystone pipeline leaks 210K gallons of oil in South Dakota
Amherst, S.D. • TransCanada Corp. says its Keystone pipeline has leaked an estimated 210,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota.The company said that crews shut down the pipeline Thursday morning after a...
View ArticleEx-con charged in University of Utah student death that sparked manhunt
Salt Lake City • Prosecutors are filing aggravated murder charges against an ex-convict accused of gunning down a University of Utah student with a weapon stolen from a slain Colorado man.The case was...
View ArticleDonovan Mitchell got first taste of NBA competition with NYC pickup games...
New York • Donovan Mitchell’s NBA education didn’t begin with the Jazz.Rather, his prolonged introduction to pro hoops began at Carmelo Anthony’s house and in pick-up games around New York City.The...
View ArticleUtah's House members praise passage of GOP tax bill
Washington • All four of Utah’s House members backed the GOP tax reform bill that they say will help families and boost the economy but was derided by Democrats as a handout to the wealthy.The bill,...
View ArticleIn the past 10 days, twice as many Utahns signed up for solar panels every...
More than 4,000 Utahns signed up to install solar panels in the 10 days before Tuesday’s deadline, becoming the last residents who will get credit under Rocky Mountain Power’s current — and more...
View ArticleLolo Jones begins another Olympic quest, still seeking medal
Lake Placid, N.Y. • There are six women pushing bobsleds this season for the U.S. national team. Of those, only three will be picked to race in the upcoming Pyeongchang Olympics.Lolo Jones is in the...
View ArticleRoger Federer does Roger Federer things, reaches ATP finals semifinals
London • In a rematch of the Wimbledon final, Roger Federer came out on top again.The second-ranked Swiss lost the first set but still managed to beat Marin Cilic 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-1 at the ATP Finals on...
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Utah's Sen. Hatch backs ‘common-sense solution’ to improve gun background...
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch signed onto a bipartisan bill Thursday that would bolster the federal database for firearms background checks — a modest legislative response that comes after the mass shooting in...
View ArticleRussian Olympic hopes in peril after WADA rips country for doping scandal
Seoul, South Korea • The World Anti-Doping Agency placed Russia's fate for the upcoming Winter Olympics on perilous ground, refusing to reinstate the country's suspended anti-doping operation while...
View Article2018 World Cup field set: Iceland's in, Italy's out and compelling story...
What began 980 days ago in a crude, little venue on the north shore of a southeast Asian island ended Wednesday in the ruckus of an earth-moving national stadium sitting in a South American capital,...
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