Real Salt Lake: Away-goal rule adds new wrinkle to MLS postseason
Sandy • This Major League Soccer postseason will feature a new wrinkle — and it’s a pretty big one. Away goals scored in the 2014 MLS Cup postseason will hold more weight than home goals in the...
View ArticlePierce: Get ready to hear a lot about Landon Donovan on RSL-Galaxy telecast
When the NBC Sports Network telecasts the Real Salt Lake-L.A. Galaxy game on Saturday, it will be fascinating to hear how many times Landon Donovan’s name is mentioned. If you want to keep track, you...
View ArticleReal Salt Lake tasked with ending Donovan's epic career
Sandy • The MLS playoff draw demands storylines. Well, they’ve sure got one here. Landon Donovan's epic career, now in its concluding chapter, fittingly goes through Salt Lake City — where a band of...
View ArticleReal Salt Lake: No time to blink in facing Galaxy's attack
Sandy • Don’t blink. Real Salt Lake can’t afford to. Not against the L.A. Galaxy. Not against Robbie Keane and Landon Donovan and Gyasi Zardes. Not against the most compelling offense in Major League...
View ArticleReal Salt Lake's shutout streak guaranteed to be tested against Galaxy
Sandy • Javier Morales’ checklist reads as such: Be smart, keep shape and work. The first shouldn’t be too hard, neither should the latter. It’s the keeping shape part against L.A. Galaxy that will...
View ArticleReal Salt Lake hopes to unleash its offense in series vs. Galaxy
Sandy • There will come a time Saturday evening when the winds swirl and the temperature plummets inside Rio Tinto Stadium, when Robbie Keane curves his way around his defender to ambush Nick Rimando....
View ArticleKragthorpe: RSL may regret missed chances against Galaxy
Sandy Luke Mulholland’s shot sailed just wide of the net, concluding yet another second-half sequence that left Real Salt Lake feeling both fulfilled and frustrated Saturday night. The effect of the...
View ArticleMLS playoffs: RSL's Schuler returns to starting lineup against L.A. Galaxy
Sandy • The imposing 6-foot-4 center back — missing for about a month — was back in the starting XI on a chilly Saturday night at Rio Tinto Stadium. Chris Schuler, face mask and all, earned a starting...
View ArticleReal Salt Lake, LA Galaxy tie 0-0 in first leg of playoff series (with video)
Sandy • Kyle Beckerman stood in front of his locker in front of a bevy of recorders, microphones and cameras and explained the intricacies of the enthralling 0-0 draw that took place inside a chilly,...
View ArticleReal Salt Lake: RSL, L.A. knotted, needing different results
Sandy • There was no commonality or consensus Saturday night. Not that there should have been. It was just clear how the two clubs, now 90 minutes away — possibly more — from survival or elimination...
View ArticleUtah football notes: Safety Chase Hansen returns to practice
Utah strong safety Chase Hansen, a hard-hitting 6-foot-3, 220-pound junior, who went into the offseason as the lone returning starter in a five-man Utes secondary (two cornerbacks and a nickleback...
View ArticleTrump blames media for condemnation of comments on Virginia
Phoenix • President Donald Trump is blaming the media for the widespread condemnation of his response to a Charlottesville, Virginia, protest organized by white supremacists that led to the killing of...
View ArticleJonathan Capehart: Trump's Afghanistan speech and its empty allusions to...
[Watch the entire heated exchange between Trump and reporters over Charlottesville]Hours before President Donald Trump delivered his speech on the war in Afghanistan on Monday, I told MSNBC’s Nicolle...
View ArticleTyler Huntley ready to be the playmaker guiding Utes offense
Tyler Huntley expected his chance to come sooner rather than later when he chose Utah out of high school. He found out Saturday – and the football team announced Monday – that his time had arrived as...
View ArticleVolleyball: Bingham goes to senior Elisaia to get past Corner Canyon
Draper • The Bingham volleyball team’s hitting attack almost could come from anywhere over the course of a match.But when the going gets tough, senior Selaisa Elisaia quickly is becoming the old...
View ArticleUtah forecast: Scattered thunderstorms expected in eastern part of the state
The National Weather Service issued a hazardous weather outlook Wednesday, due to scattered thunderstorms expected in eastern Utah.The storms are expected to develop over the mountains with some cells...
View ArticleLetter: Philo has earned his home
My childhood legacy and love for Utah’s own Philo T. Farnsworth will not be taken away by Adam Gardiner, R-West Jordan.I was a student at Ridgecrest Elementary in the 1980s. Our principal, Bruce...
View ArticleHolly Richardson: Back-to-school. It’s not just for kids anymore.
Summer is over and kids are back in school. Next week, I will be back in school as well and so will a number of my friends. I love seeing that! It’s never too late to start or go back to school.There...
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Gehrke: Nearly 16 years in, there is no good end game for Afghanistan, but...
On Saturday, friends and family and dignitaries will gather in Monticello for the funeral of Staff Sgt. Aaron Butler.He was killed when a bomb detonated as an elite unit of the Utah Army National Guard...
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