Kragthorpe: Troy Taylor's imprint is all over Utes' choice of QB Tyler Huntley
If anyone wondered whether Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham genuinely would empower his latest offensive coordinator, the answer came Monday.The Utes named sophomore Tyler Huntley as their starting...
View ArticleUtah football: It’s Tyler Huntley’s team now; Utes go with sophomore...
In hindsight, the clues were there. The adjectives gave it away. Utah’s returning senior starting quarterback and senior captain Troy Williams performance during the preseason was “fine” in the eyes of...
View ArticleMargaret Sullivan: To fight hate speech, don't muzzle it
“One of the problems with defending free speech,” the celebrated author Salman Rushdie said, “is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.”Those...
View ArticlePac-12: Don’t call it reloading; Chris Peterson says Washington is rebuilding...
Washington coach Chris Petersen is known for his low-key, steady nature, never saying anything especially interesting in interviews.He broke away from that persona during the Pac-12 Media Days last...
View ArticleCosby hires Michael Jackson's lawyer for sex assault retrial
Philadelphia • Bill Cosby has hired Michael Jackson’s former lawyer to represent him at his November retrial on sexual assault charges in Pennsylvania.Cosby’s spokesman announced Monday that the...
View Article‘Shock and amazement’ as Dixie State University group sees total eclipse in...
Idaho Falls • Students from Dixie State University gasped, screamed and yelled on the banks of the Snake River as day turned into night at the peak of Monday’s Great American Eclipse.The totality that...
View ArticleUtah State University hosts wild horse summit, but excludes key advocates and...
Critics of a national conference on wild horses, opening this week in Salt Lake City, assert its state organizers have closed the event to the public and excluded key figures in the horse-advocacy...
View ArticleBYU football: Kalani Sitake calls report of LB Francis Bernard's departure...
Provo • Confusion reigned Monday afternoon as BYU coaches addressed the status of star linebacker Francis Bernard. The school announced Thursday that the junior was redshirting this season “for...
View Article'American Idol' is holding auditions in Provo — will anyone care?
Two years, four months and 16 days after its “farewell season” drew to a close, “American Idol” will hold auditions in Provo.First thing Wednesday morning, hopefuls will line up at Courthouse Square...
View ArticleMan who shot judge is father of player convicted of rape
Steubenville • The man who shot a judge outside a county courthouse before being gunned down by a probation officer was the father of a Steubenville High School football player who was convicted of...
View ArticleSWAT standoff in Millcreek ends with man dead
A SWAT team and Unified Police officers surrounded a Millcreek home Monday morning, but were unable to convince an armed and suicidal man inside to surrender before he allegedly shot and killed...
View ArticleTraffic into Utah jammed as eclipse fans head home on Interstate 15
As Great American Eclipse chasers head home from communities on the path of totality, southbound traffic on Interstate 15 in Idaho is heavy. Vehicles were bumper-to-bumper on I-15 Monday afternoon,...
View ArticleUtah football notes: Special teams weapon Mitch Wishnowsky out to one-up...
How does Mitch Wishnowsky one-up himself?“Tough,” Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham said.Make no mistake: Utah’s Australian punter is determined to do so, despite winning the 2016 Ray Guy Award, a...
View ArticleSearch underway for missing sailors; Navy chief orders probe
Singapore • The U.S. Navy ordered a broad investigation Monday into the performance and readiness of the Pacific-based 7th Fleet after the USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker in Southeast...
View ArticlePolice identify man killed in Logan Canyon ATV crash
Police have identified a man killed in an all-terrain vehicle crash in Logan Canyon on Saturday.Cassidy Wakely, 33, of Logan, was riding an ATV with friends on Franklin Basin Road when he failed to...
View ArticleLetting Obamacare fail, as Trump has suggested, would lead to a crisis, warns...
When President Donald Trump pledged to “let Obamacare fail” last month after Republican efforts to restructure the health care law hit a dead end, he was really just nudging lawmakers to act before the...
View ArticleMan charged in gang-related shooting that killed 14-year-old
An 18-year-old man was charged Monday with shooting and killing a 14-year-old boy in West Valley City earlier this month.Frank Tsinnijinnie, of West Valley City, faces one count of first-degree murder...
View ArticleTrevor Siemian wins Broncos quarterback job again
Englewood, Colo • Vance Joseph was admittedly enamored of the idea of a towering, chuck-it-or-tuck-it quarterback with first-round pedigree and a lightning bolt for a right arm leading the Denver...
View ArticleBYU releases depth chart, turns attention to Saturday's opener
Provo • BYU football coach Kalani Sitake joked Monday that the Cougars will try to sneak some extra players onto the field against Portland State on Saturday at LaVell Edwards Stadium.It’s not that the...
View ArticleIts new campus unfinished as school year starts, American Preparatory Academy...
Draper • By 7:45 a.m. Monday, the line of cars entering American Preparatory Academy had turned a half-mile stretch of Lone Peak Parkway into a 10-minute crawl of bumper-to-bumper traffic.And as...
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