Weekly Run podcast: Where the Utah Jazz might end up in the West, Durant...
The Utah Jazz aren’t very different, but the Western Conference is.In this week’s edition of the Weekly Run podcast, Tony Jones and new Tribune beat writer Andy Larsen break down where the Jazz might...
View ArticleNuns increasingly are revealing how they were sexually abused by priests —...
Vatican City • The nun no longer goes to confession regularly, after an Italian priest forced himself on her while she was at her most vulnerable: recounting her sins to him in a university classroom...
View ArticleCommentary: The Catholic Church needs a way to deal with bad bishops
As the sexual abuse scandal surrounding Cardinal Theodore McCarrick continued to spread in the past week, Cardinal Sean O’Malley, who heads the Catholic Church’s Pontifical Commission for the...
View ArticleDreadful away from home in 2018, RSL’s latest shot at getting its road groove...
He’s only been in the league a little over a year, but already Albert Rusnák knows that standings don’t mean all that much when you’re the team boarding a flight to somewhere to try to tip the scales...
View ArticleTaking a ride with 999 in the wake of tragedy
I was almost five hours into what was one of the hardest assignments I’ve ever had — explaining a popular weekly bike ride in Salt Lake City — when an Iraq War veteran walked up and gave me the answer....
View ArticleSalem Hills’ Porter Gustin is a freak, and the USC linebacker loves that...
Los Angeles • USC’s Porter Gustin is a freakish athlete, pass-rushing predator, conditioning consultant and Cameron Smith’s conscience.Whenever he’s craving sweets, Smith hears the voice of his fellow...
View ArticleBagley Cartoon: Physics for Dummies
This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, July 29, 2018. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a...
View ArticleGeraint Thomas can taste Tour de France title with 1 big stage to go
Laruns, France • Having worn the leader’s yellow jersey over the Alps and through the Pyrenees, only one more challenging stage stands in the way of Geraint Thomas winning his first Tour de...
View ArticleClint Capela signs five-year, $90 million extension with Rockets
Houston • Clint Capela has signed a five-year, $90 million extension with the Houston Rockets.Capela, who was a restricted free agent, started a career-high 74 games last season in helping Houston...
View ArticleTribune editorial: This is a desert. Utah’s sense of entitlement to water has...
“This is a hell of a way to run a desert.”— Gov. Scott Matheson, 1983That was one of the best quips ever by a politician, from Utah or anywhere else. It was uttered as Salt Lake City and nearby...
View ArticleMormon feminists urge LDS authorities to remind local leaders that...
Mormon feminists have launched a churchwide letter-writing campaign, urging LDS officials to issue a “statement of support for nursing mothers.”“We need to remove the barriers and difficulties placed...
View ArticleGovernor declares ‘LoveLoud Day in Utah’ ahead of weekend festival...
The second LoveLoud Festival failed to earn an endorsement from LDS Church leaders, as it did for its inaugural event in Orem last year. But on Friday, festival organizers celebrated support and...
View ArticleSurfer takes an epic ride into history
To say Koa Smith was at the right place at the right time is perfectly accurate.To say he got lucky — that’s missing the point.Perched precariously on his surfboard, the 23-year-old from Hawaii rode a...
View ArticleJimmer scores 41 as Team Fredette rolls into quarterfinals of $2 million...
Through three games of The Basketball Tournament, a $2 million winner-take-all event, Team Fredette’s strategy has stayed the same: Fall behind by double-digits early, then let former BYU star Jimmer...
View ArticleWNBA All-Stars, gathered in Minnesota, proud of bigger brand
Minneapolis • Maya Moore, arms outstretched and her right hand gripping a basketball, has been on billboards this summer in Los Angeles, Minneapolis and New York. She’s in the same “wings” pose as the...
View ArticleJanitor charged with sex abuse at Utah elementary school
Spanish Fork • A janitor has been charged with sexually abusing students at an elementary school south of Salt Lake City.The Daily Herald reports that Adrian Villar was charged Friday with aggravated...
View ArticleFeds give $2.5M loan to Provo for airport upgrades to attract jet maintenance...
The federal government gave a $2.5 million boost Wednesday to help build new facilities at the Provo airport needed to expand an aircraft refurbishment company — and create 400 new high-paying jobs...
View ArticleRookie quarterback Sam Darnold a holdout as Jets open camp without him
Florham Park, N.J. • There was no sign of Sam Darnold as the New York Jets opened training camp.The No. 3 overall draft pick officially became a contract holdout when the team began its first practice...
View ArticleEx-Utah A.G. Mark Shurtleff says public corruption case was fabricated as...
When Utah’s former Attorney General Mark Shurtleff sued the Salt Lake County district attorney and nearly every public agency involved in a now-dismissed public corruption case against him for $60...
View ArticleSeahawks' changes leave linebackers Bobby Wagner, K.J. Wright as veteran voices
Renton, Wash. • Bobby Wagner reacted as though he was hoping the question would come.With all the changes on the Seattle Seahawks defense — the leaders, the voices, the veterans no longer around — will...
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