Monson: BYU football faces tough reality after LSU shellacking
New Orleans • It’s a tough thing a team must do when it gets crushed, especially in the early part of a season.It has to choose between two unhappy conclusions — either it stares down and blames its...
View ArticleFreeman runs for 4 TDs and Oregon beats Southern Utah 77-21
Eugene, Ore. • The Willie Taggart era at Oregon got off to a fast start with Tony Brooks-James’ 100-yard touchdown return on the opening kickoff against Southern Utah.Fitting for a team that’s (still)...
View ArticleBees lose, trail in division race with two games to go
The Salt Lake Bees’ quest to make the playoffs was delivered a blow by Fresno Grizzlies’ starting pitcher Trent Thorton. Working efficiently and walking none, Thorton held the home team to two runs in...
View ArticleInjuries, targeting ejection, could leave Cougars short-handed for rivalry game
New Orleans • The Cougars not only lost on the scoreboard Saturday night at the Superdome, falling 27-0 to No. 13 LSU, they also suffered some injuries and an ejection that could leave them...
View ArticlePrepared for the worst, a Utah medical team is glad Hurricane Harvey didn’t...
Houston • It could have been worse. The unprecedented flooding in Hurricane Harvey’s wake destroyed about 100,000 homes and killed dozens, but it didn’t create the immense medical need that led federal...
View ArticleMormon fast and testimony meeting is like a box of chocolates. You never know...
Robert Kirby is busy, busy, busy. So don’t bug him, bug him, bug him. This is a reprint of a previous column:It was fast and testimony meeting in my ward last Sunday, as it was in every other Mormon...
View ArticlePope Francis prays for those afflicted by floods in U.S., Asia
Vatican City • Pope Francis has prayed for those afflicted by floods in Texas, Louisiana and southern Asia.Addressing faithful in St. Peter’s Square, Francis on Sunday prayed for comfort for the U.S....
View ArticleAnnual five-day hajj in Saudi Arabia comes to an end
Mecca, Saudi Arabia • The annual five-day Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca known as hajj is officially over.Khalid al-Faisal, governor of Mecca, announced Sunday the formal end of the pilgrimage at a news...
View ArticleThe Muslim hajj pilgrimage by the numbers
The Islamic hajj pilgrimage draws people from around the world to Saudi Arabia each year. The crowds, squeezed shoulder to shoulder in prayer five times a day, fill Mecca and surrounding areas to...
View ArticleLeonard Pitts: Alan Gratz’s novel ‘Refugee’ demands your humanity
“‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’“He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the...
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Rural Utahns hope new push to create jobs means they don’t have to leave home...
When Angela Arnold was laid off at the end of last year, she didn’t know if she would find work that would let her stay in Carbon County. But then she got a job that keeps rural workers home by...
View ArticleLetter: As Mormon leaders condemn bigotry, just another wink from the pulpit?
“Mormon leaders join other faiths in condemning bigotry and worry about persistent racism” (The Salt Lake Tribune, Aug. 15). Yet polls say 60 percent of Mormons voted for Donald Trump in the last...
View ArticleLetter: If subsidies are required for renewable energy, bring them on
Evelyn Everton, local voice for the political arm of Koch Industries, decries financial incentives provided to rooftop solar (The Tribune, Aug. 27) yet conveniently ignores subsidies awarded all other...
View ArticleLetter: Don’t honor the worst from our past with Confederate monuments
Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany and the Confederacy all waged war on the United States of America. Do we have monuments honoring Imperial Japan or the Nazis, their ideals or their leaders? The answer...
View ArticleLetter of the Week: I sit here, wondering what it’s like to die
As I sit here on my patio, continuing to fight the pain, I go over what the primary care physician said: “You can go to the emergency room if this is an emergency.”Really? I was told that we poor...
View ArticleBYU football: Their confidence stripped by No. 13 LSU, downtrodden Cougars...
Provo • There are probably better ways to get physically and emotionally ready for rivalry week than to travel halfway across the country and get demolished in every way imaginable while getting a...
View ArticleFormer Ute pitcher Ryan Reisbeck never heard of Long Drive, before his tee...
Only the golfers standing on Davis Park’s No. 1 tee could have seen any of this coming.The ball that Ryan Reisbeck launched from the No. 18 tee with a borrowed driver, hooking to the left and bouncing...
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Pitchers catch a bad break at elevation, lose significant movement on their...
Batting gloves or helmet?Troy Scribner, the Bees All-Star turned Los Angeles Angels right-hander, already knows where he’s aiming because he knows where he is.He bends slightly at the waist as he pulls...
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A tough lunch lady’s friendship with a tough kid draws the spotlight at Salt...
Two people who might be easy to ignore — a tough lunch lady and a motherless New Jersey street kid — form an unlikely friendship that’s the heartbeat of Chisa Hutchinson’s play “Surely Goodness and...
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Locals in the NFL: The BYU, Utah, USU and SUU players that made initial...
After a swift cut down from 90 players to 53, NFL teams have set initial rosters for the season. Here’s a breakdown of which players from BYU, Utah, Utah State and Southern Utah secured their spot on a...
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