Mayfield throws for 3 TDs as No. 5 Oklahoma tops No. 2 Ohio St 31-16
Columbus, Ohio • Baker Mayfield threw for 386 yards and three touchdowns as No. 5 Oklahoma pulled ahead in the second half to knock off No. 2 Ohio State 31-16 on Saturday night to give first-year head...
View ArticleReal Salt Lake dealt hammer blow to playoff chances with loss at Vancouver
Vancouver, B.C. • Everyone gets a helpful bounce once in a while. For Real Salt Lake, the vital helpful bounce went against it.A 3-2 loss the Whitecaps on Saturday night is a massive blow to Real Salt...
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Led by a U. grad, dozens of sailors are set to descend on SLC for Navy Week
There will be a rare sight in northern Utah this week: dozens of sailors. Salt Lake City is one of 15 host cities this year for Navy Week, in which the U.S. Navy drops in to meet local officials and...
View ArticleNo. 6 USC routs No. 14 Stanford 42-24 for 11th straight win
Los Angeles • Steven Mitchell and Deontay Burnett caught two touchdown passes apiece from Sam Darnold, and No. 6 Southern California extended its winning streak to 11 games with a bruising 42-24...
View ArticleBYU football: Vandals caught red-handed painting U logos on cougar statue
Provo • A statue of a cougar on BYU’s campus was vandalized Saturday morning, and police say the suspects were literally caught red-handed.The statue, near LaVell Edwards Stadium, was spray-painted...
View ArticleUtes senior Sunia Tauteoli ejected in the first half for hit on Tanner Mangum
The officials ejected Utes starting linebacker Sunia Tauteoli from Saturday night’s game for targeting on a hit on BYU quarterback Tanner Mangum in the first minute of the second quarter.Tauteoli...
View ArticleLetter: Family's experience left us grateful to Sheriff Arpaio
After my mentally ill brother was arrested for injuring a police officer during a welfare check, he was held in the Maricopa County jail in downtown Phoenix.Hoping that the judge would sentence him to...
View ArticleMonson: BYU is tortured again by a Utah team it cannot beat
Provo • So, the suffering continues.The mountain BYU looked forward to climbing — or did it, really? — on Saturday night against its rival offered a wicked ascent. Everybody, including the Cougars...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Ute defense overcomes offense’s shortcomings
ProvoUtah coach Kyle Whittingham made yet another change of offensive coordinators after last season for one basic reason: The Utes kicked too many field goals.The same issue surfaced Saturday night,...
View ArticlePrep football: Bingham defense hands Hawaiian foe its first shutout since 2008
Las Vegas • Honolulu Kahuku’s may have had more fans at Sam Boyd Stadium than UNLV did in its historic home loss to Howard last week, but it was Bingham’s football team that made the loudest statement...
View Article‘I’m scared to death’: Hurricane Irma’s life-threatening winds, storm surges...
St. Petersburg, Fla. • Hurricane Irma closed in on the Florida Keys with top winds of near 130 mph early Sunday as forecasters monitored a crucial shift in its trajectory — just a few more miles to the...
View ArticleTyler Huntley carried the offense, but Utes can’t afford for that to last...
Even in those moments when a few low snaps went rolling around the grass or Tyler Huntley turned the wrong way to hand the ball off, he still made it work more often than not for the Utes in a hostile...
View ArticleBYU still on prowl for answers as Cougar offense continues to sputter
Provo • Tanner Mangum dropped to one knee, his uniform stained green from taking knock after knock from Utah’s defense, as one fan on the east side of LaVell Edwards Stadium screamed out in...
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Leonard Pitts: Nothing to see here, say the climate deniers
Katia and Jose? Seriously?As if it were not bad enough that Houston is still drying out from Hurricane Harvey and South Florida is hunkered down in the face of Hurricane Irma, last week found the newly...
View ArticleCommentary: The future rests with Utah’s youngest residents — so expand the...
With tax reform shaping up as the next big debate on Capitol Hill, the conversation to date has primarily focused on closing loopholes and lowering rates. But with a common goal of using reform to...
View ArticleCommentary: We can’t lose the DACAmented Utahns who’d lose everything if...
Five years ago, our government made a deal with immigrant youth: Come forward, register, pass a criminal background check, and you can live, study and work here lawfully.In a climate of stalled...
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‘The Curious Incident’ opens doors of awareness, while staying true the...
It’s a curious thing to take on the role of Christopher Boone, the brilliant but emotionally isolated 15-year-old kid at the center of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” The...
View ArticleCommentary: SLC’s dangerous Rio Grande neighborhood needs urgent help, not...
The Salt Lake Tribune’s Sept. 2 editorial on Operation Rio Grande peddled unhelpful platitudes and ignored the real and urgent problems of this area.We believe the proposed safe zone on Rio Grande...
View ArticleCommentary: Utah delegation can lead the charge for a standalone DREAM act
When Donald Trump announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, he made a very cynical political decision. He tried to have it both ways: assuage his nationalist base...
View ArticleTribune Editorial: Police have a heavy burden — an individual's actions can...
Hospital administrators are concerned. Nurses are frightened. Civil libertarians are steamed. The internet is alight with indignation.But it should be clear that the law enforcement profession itself...
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