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...
View ArticleMonson: 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.•...
View ArticleKragthorpe: 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...
View ArticleUtes 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,...
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Meet Kathie Allen: the Democratic congressional hopeful, longtime doctor and...
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,...
View ArticleUtah 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...
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Now this is a sermon I can get behind: Mormon apostle strikes the perfect...
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...
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Utahns love energy efficiency and buy more electric cars per capita than...
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...
View ArticleLetter: 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...
View ArticleLetter: 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...
View ArticleDid testimony from state environmental regulators undermine a lawsuit against...
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...
View ArticleLeonard 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...
View Article‘Sports don’t have a gender’: Utah women’s tackle football players respond to...
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...
View ArticleReview: 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...
View ArticleUtah coaches hope FBI investigation into ‘dark underbelly’ of NCAA men’s...
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,...
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Children’s authors dish on the sly humor of ‘The Wolf the Duck and the Mouse’...
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...
View ArticleLetter: 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...
View ArticleLetter 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...
View ArticleA 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,...
View ArticleUtah drops out of AP Top 25, slips to No. 23 in Coaches Poll after loss to...
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...
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