Utah football notes: Sophomore linemen vying for time at center
Kyle Whittingham started his post-practice media session Saturday with a familiar declaration.“Nothing on injuries today,” Utah’s football coach said inside Rice-Eccles Stadium. “Zero to talk about...
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Utah football: Move to cornerback energizes former WR Kenric Young
The sideline practice official sprinting down the field was getting an earful.“Come on, ref!” screamed Kenric Young.“No way, ref!” Young went on.When the official tossed a flag for a defensive pass...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Utes’ formerly ‘pedestrian’ offense wants to run faster and...
Kyle Whittingham’s best interviews occur when he gets bored with using the same words over and over, as football coaches tend to do. He’ll mix in a new phrase then seek confirmation about how it fit...
View ArticleTribune Editorial: To clear the air, electrify the fleet
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Director Scott Pruitt announced this week that the agency was moving ahead with defining places that need to do more to reduce ozone pollution, reversing an...
View ArticlePolice investigating body found near river in St. George
A St. George man out on his morning walk on Saturday came across a woman’s decomposing body near the Santa Clara River, police said.St. George police were dispatched to the area of 1545 S. Dixie Drive...
View ArticleMore than 150 volunteers join search for Melvin Heaps, missing since Monday...
After a plea for volunteer assistance, more than 150 people showed up Saturday to search for Melvin Heaps, the Arizona man who went missing in the Uinta Mountains earlier this week.The 74-year-old left...
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Chiefs QB and ex-Utes star Alex Smith is pressed by rookie
St. Joseph, Mo. • Alex Smith has done everything in training camp that Chiefs coach Andy Reid expects of him.He’s made the tight throws and smart reads. He’s thrown the ball away when things break down...
View ArticleGatlin spoils Bolt’s farewell in 100 with remarkable gold
London • Usain Bolt was no longer stunning. He was just stunned.At the end of a career in which he has dominated his sport for a decade, Bolt was beaten in his final 100-meter race by an American...
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Sports radio host Scott Garrard takes over for longtime ‘voice of the Aggies’...
When he was fresh out of high school and looking for a gig to help put himself through college, Scott Garrard picked up a telephone and started calling radio stations all around the Cache Valley. He...
View ArticleU.N. imposes new sanctions on North Korea following missile tests
The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to impose new sanctions on North Korea, banning exports that supply up to a third of the country’s annual $3 billion earnings.The...
View ArticleUtah man dies in accident at Colorado coal-processing plant
Grand Junction, Colo. • A worker has died in an accident at a northwestern Colorado coal processing plant, the mine and federal officials said.The body of Jason Stevens of Vernal, Utah was found under...
View ArticleMonson: Winning is a real pain in this grueling sport
Snowbird • If the authentication of a sport is best set and measured by the difficulty of the challenge it presents then what happened up and down the canyon and mountain roads here Saturday was the...
View ArticleTour of Utah Stage 6: Italian Ciccone surges to claim stage victory
Three miles from the finish line at Snowbird Resort, Italian Bardiani-CSF rider Giulio Ciccone made his move, positioning himself ahead of the Tour of Utah’s top four overall leaders.The gap continued...
View ArticleActivists protest Rio water, which is still filthy despite Olympic promises
Rio de Janeiro • Environmental activists sailed across Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay on Saturday to protest pollution in the city’s waterways and broken promises to clean them up around the 2016...
View ArticleCanada goalkeeper Labbe candid about her depression
When Canadian goalkeeper Stephanie Labbe returned home from the Rio Olympics last summer, everyone wanted to see her bronze medal. It became a constant refrain: Where’s the medal? Can I see the medal?...
View ArticleGehrke: As long as Teflon Trump drives the partisan divide, his popularity in...
It would be an understatement to say that, six months into Donald Trump’s presidency, Margaret Ernstrom doesn’t like what she’s seeing.“He behaves like a teenager who needs to have his phone taken...
View ArticleOp-ed: Rooftop Solar Decision Will Affect All Utahns
“The times are a-changing,” and so are utility rates nationwide, especially for renewable energy. But all electricity ratepayers have a stake in upcoming regulatory decisions, including the rooftop...
View ArticleUtah photos of the week, July 30-August 5
Here's a look at the past week in Utah through photographs by Tribune photographers. Keep up with our photographers by following The Salt Lake Tribune on Instagram.
View ArticleBody of missing West Bountiful man found
Friends of a missing West Bountiful man found his body in Tooele County on Saturday morning. The search party found John Darrell Page just after 9:20 a.m. on a rocky slope in the Lakeside Mountains,...
View ArticleVisit by Dynamo a chance for RSL to erase bad memories
Sandy • The Houston Dynamo’s name unearths bad memories for Real Salt Lake.The last time RSL faced the Dynamo, it lost 5-1 in a dark stretch of the season. So when Houston arrived at Rio Tinto Stadium...
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