BYU loses seventh straight game, 33-17 at East Carolina
Greenville, N.C. • Just when it seemed like BYU’s 2017 football season couldn’t sink lower than a ship plundered by a band of angry Pirates, it did.Lowly East Carolina, which had won just one game and...
View ArticleOlorunfunmi's TD run vaults UCLA past Oregon 31-14
Pasadena, Calif. • Josh Rosen threw for 266 yards and two touchdowns and UCLA defeated Oregon 31-14 on Saturday.Bolu Olorunfunmi had a spectacular 22-yard touchdown run in the third quarter where he...
View ArticleMonson: After drubbing against the Devils, will Utah answer the call?
Hey, Utah football … Hello? Are you there?Helloooo? Annyyybbboodddyyy home?No.There was nobody to pick up the damn call. Nothing. Nada. Nichts.The other end of the line was as dead and empty as...
View ArticleTrump says Russian-bought Facebook ads were ‘tiny’ compared with U.S. ‘fake...
President Donald Trump on Saturday downplayed the significance of Russian-bought Facebook ads, which leading lawmakers investigating election meddling have said were intended to influence last year's...
View ArticleHamilton cruises to pole position at United States Grand Prix
Austin, Texas • Every time he gets behind the wheel in Texas, Lewis Hamilton keeps smashing track records.Hamilton set a third in two days at the Circuit of the Americas and grabbed pole position...
View ArticleJazz defense shuts down Thunder on way to 96-87 victory
It happened, and there were 18,300 witnesses.Joe Ingles crossed over Alex Abrines.Joe Ingles says in his shooting, he’s making up for a lousy preseason. Declines to comment on his trash talk tonight....
View ArticleCommentary: Technology and the coming Mormon evolution
Exactly 500 years ago this Halloween, Martin Luther nailed a paper to a door and launched the Protestant Reformation.Or so the legend goes.In reality, scholars debate whether Luther nailed anything to...
View ArticleRowland Hall completes perfect season with 6-3 win over Waterford for 2A...
Sandy • Rowland Hall showed Waterford and the rest of the state what perfection looks like.The Winged Lions capped a perfect season with a 6-3 victory against defending champion Waterford in Saturday’s...
View ArticleReturn of Tyler Huntley can’t fix Utah’s offensive woes
A roar went up from every corner of Rice-Eccles Stadium when Tyler Huntley took the field with the Utes offense for the first time in almost a month. The noise wasn’t just palpable, it was audible.Then...
View ArticleUtah couple accused of starving, beating 7-year-old boy for three years
A Kearns couple charged Oct. 12 with kicking, punching and starving a 7-year-old boy in their care were arrested and booked into jail Thursday.Charges allege the man and woman — who also had a...
View ArticleUtes defense can't stop the ASU running attack
While the Utah offense has struggled to find its footing during Pac-12 Conference play under first-year offensive coordinator Troy Taylor, the defense seemed the likely landmark Utah could always come...
View ArticleGeorge F. Will: The fatal conceit of planning for the future
Washington • Kevin Hassett evidently has not received the memo that economics is “the dismal science.” The ebullient chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers is relishing the...
View ArticleTillerson’s Mideast aim is a Saudi-Iraqi axis against Iran
Doha, Qatar • U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has arrived in the Middle East for several days of diplomacy, and he's hoping to achieve something that's eluded top American diplomats for a...
View ArticleOgden police investigating suspicious death
A shots fired investigation transformed into a possible homicide investigation Saturday afternoon after Ogden police discovered a body.Just before 4:15 p.m., police received a report of shots fired in...
View ArticlePunter Jonny Linehan star of first half for BYU
Greenville, N.C. • What happens when the country’s second-worst offense faces the country’s worst defense?The punter takes over, naturally.BYU’s Jonny Linehan was the star of the first half for the...
View ArticleO’Reilly settled another sexual harassment claim for $32 million, but Fox...
Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly secretly settled a sexual harassment allegation with a network contributor for $32 million — the largest, by far, of six such agreements that eventually toppled the...
View ArticleJazz exhale as Rodney Hood gets favorable diagnosis after injury
Even though the past few seasons have probably edged fans to fearing the worst when it comes to injuries, Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder said he tried to keep a cool head when Rodney Hood fell and...
View ArticleTrump plans to release of JFK assassination documents despite concerns from...
Washington • President Donald Trump announced Saturday morning that he planned to release the tens of thousands of never-before-seen documents left in the files related to President John F. Kennedy's...
View ArticleUtah State dominates second half in 52-28 win over UNLV
Las Vegas • Jordan Love threw for 316 yards and two long touchdowns to lead Utah State to a 52-28 win over UNLV on Saturday.LaJuan Hunt added three more touchdowns and had 101 yards with 16 carries as...
View ArticleTyler, Felila lead Southern Utah past Eastern Washington, 46-28
Cedar City, Utah • Patrick Tyler had three touchdown passes and James Felila ran for 143 yards with two scores on 27 carries and Southern Utah beat Eastern Washington 46-28 Saturday night.Tyler...
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