It’s a double commitment day for the University of Utah.
After receiving a pledge from three-star Oklahoma tight end Braxton Daniel earlier in the day, the Utes received a commitment from three-star Texas linebacker Aiden Martin in the afternoon.
Martin had offers from Houston, Iowa State, Baylor, Oklahoma State, Northwestern and UCLA, but chose to continue his football career at Utah.
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Monday was pretty normal in Provo.
The sun came up and the Cougars went about their offseason workouts with one goal in mind — getting to the Big 12 championship game and defeating whoever is there to oppose them, especially if it’s their 2025 nemesis, Texas Tech.
The day started much differently in Lubbock when a district judge sided with Red Raider quarterback Brendan Sorsby in his dispute…
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Brendan Sorsby has been granted a temporary injunction against the NCAA that could clear the way for him to play for Texas Tech this fall, even after the transfer quarterback was declared ineligible for wagering on college sports. Some of the bets were made on his own team while at Indiana.
The ruling Monday by Judge Ken Curry immediately prevents the NCAA from being able…
There’s a monthlong period in early summer when Canada geese are rendered flightless. As their feathers drop in preparation for a new coat, geese eventually get to a point of being earthbound.
Since the 1960s, Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources has viewed summer molting as a tremendous opportunity to catch the birds and attach tags to them.
At the Ogden Bay Waterfowl Management Area in…
The Pentagon released on Monday an updated version of its new policy classifying religious affiliation categories for service members, removing the “Christian” label and instead just listing all faith groups as their own categories.
The change comes after the Defense Department announced a change in the agency’s faith coding system, reducing the number of religious affiliation categories from…
For the second time this month already, the Utah Utes football program received a commitment Sunday from a high school offensive lineman in the Class of 2027.
After getting a pledge from Sire Stewart out of Chandler, Arizona last Tuesday, on Sunday they got one from Damian Anyasodo out of Stockton, California.
Anyasodo announced his decision on social media.
Blessed to say I have committed…
In 2024, Brandon Rose made his first start at quarterback for the Utah Utes on one of the biggest stages possible: Against the BYU Cougars.
Seldom-used up to that point, Rose sparked the Utes to a 21-10 halftime lead, completing eight of 10 passes for 87 yards with two touchdowns.
The Temecula, California, native struggled in the second half as the Cougars came back and won 22-21 on a Will…
“Try to say friggin’ and flippin’.’”
In 1989, when Chris Hill, the athletic director at the University of Utah, was in the process of hiring the best, and most ungovernable, basketball coach to ever anchor a bench in the state of Utah, he pulled out a yellow legal pad and in longhand sketched out a contract as he was flying to Seattle to finalize the deal.
Knowing Rick Majerus’s proclivity to…
BYU’s visit to Kansas on Jan. 31 was expected to be a memorable duel between AJ Dybantsa and Darryn Peterson.
But it was Richie Saunders who ended up stealing the show.
With the eyes of the basketball world upon him, Saunders led all scorers with a game-high 33 points. He drained six 3-pointers, grabbed 10 rebounds and added two steals and a block on the historic Allen Fieldhouse hardwood.
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_Adapted from a longer_ article_recently published by the Institute for Family Studies, “Ready to Parent: Helping Couples Overcome the Fear of Parenthood.”_
Several years ago, some good friends invited me over to their home one warm Sunday evening. We sat on the back porch with a lovely view of the nearby Wasatch Mountains. Their married eldest daughter joined us, and she mentioned she was…
Years ago in Dubai, my friend Mariam told me her country had just appointed its first minister of happiness.
“A minister of _happiness_?” I said, with more incredulity than was strictly kind.
Mariam gave me a look. Ours is a friendship that can hold some weight, so she told me directly not to be obnoxious about it, with a smirk that was half serious and entirely on my side.
My incredulity had…
When it’s hot, Ada Weese likes to pack up the children — Annie, 4; Jacob, 2; and Emmy, 1 — and meet her sister and her kids halfway between their homes in Syracuse and Saratoga Springs. Sometimes other relatives come along, too.
That’s how the adults came to be at Millcreek Commons last Thursday, eating a picnic lunch and watching the kids splash around in the water.
“I think if I keep close…
The White Mesa Mill in the southeast corner of Utah is the only conventional uranium processing plant left in the country. By virtue of that capability and the team’s expertise, it’s on the cusp of becoming one of the very few scalable rare earth mineral processing facilities in the United States.
While that may not sound too thrilling on its surface — just wait for the periodic table and…
Great Salt Lake State Park brought out the big crane on Saturday as more than 20 boats were removed from the Great Salt Lake Marina due to critically low lake levels that make sailing difficult.
Known informally as “Crane Day,” the operation involved cranes lifting 23 sailboats with deep keels out of the marina and placing them into dry storage because water levels are too low for safe…
Even though Kai Beckstrand rose to the top on “American Ninja Warrior” last summer, claiming the $250,000 prize as the Season 17 winner, the competitor from St. George, Utah, isn’t ready to be done with the show just yet.
“As long as ‘Ninja Warrior’ keeps calling me back, I’ll keep being on the show,” he told the Deseret News last year.
Now, Beckstrand is returning for Season 18, which…
Most people probably don’t think of Utah when they think about national defense. But they should. Utah plays a central role in America’s national defense. Thousands serve in uniform, and tens of thousands more build the technologies our military needs. These are real people and families across Utah who rely on a strong defense sector. By approving the President’s FY2027 defense budget, Congress…
Utah’s children are growing up in a state that values hard work, teamwork, family and community. Few institutions teach those values better than youth sports. Yet, for too many Utah families, the opportunity to play is slipping out of reach.
That is why we are excited to launch Utah Youth Sports Giving Day — a coordinated effort to expand access to sports for every child, regardless of ZIP code,…
Daniel Lassche sits in a chair inside a narrow room labeled “Dialysis Treatment 2.” The crisp white walls are a stark contrast to the peach-colored door and window frame, which provides a view of a long white hallway with more peach doors. Another man sits beside him, tubes protruding from both of their bodies.
A blue blanket covers Lassche up to the neck as the machine he’s hooked to draws…
Fans around the world are expected to tune in for the 2026 World Cup football matches that begin this week and continue for more than a month in Canada, Mexico and the United States, where the sport is known as soccer.
The sprawling tournament, held every four years by the international sports federation known as FIFA, is often described as the sporting world’s premier event given soccer’s…
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Over the weekend I risked life and limb in the name of fun because that is the Utah summer way.
Or at least that’s the Utah summer way according to the very fun and very adventurous friends who continue inviting me to southern Utah for hikes where the red rock landscapes are breathtaking and the terrain is slick sandstone and one wrong move means instant death.
Honestly, I’m surprised they…
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Hello, friends. Welcome back to another action-packed (read: dramatic) week on Capitol Hill.
The Senate held a vote-a-rama session this week to advance Republicans’ $70 billion immigration funding package — **marking the sixth marathon voting…
As a woman staring down the barrel of her 41st birthday, I came to the Northeast Area Women’s Conference last week for female members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struggling with typical midlife fare. Even though I look fairly youthful for my age, I’m getting wrinkles and, it pains me to admit, they scare me. You think you know yourself, but then you glimpse your crows feet…
If you’re receiving Social Security payments, could you make due with $523 less than you are currently getting?
And if the day comes when you do see such a cut, who would you blame?
The question isn’t some remote hypothetical. Experts now predict Social Security’s main Old-Age and Survivors Insurance fund will become insolvent in 2032, a scant six years from now.
As a newly released report…
Back in 2004, before his 851-game NHL career and the tens of millions of dollars that came with it, Josh Gorges was a 19-year-old kid playing hockey for his hometown junior team, the Kelowna Rockets.
The Canadian Hockey League uses a draft system, so most guys never get the chance to play at home. It’s even less common that a player leads his childhood team to the Memorial Cup, an annual…
Gunfire erupted Saturday near a busy street festival in Ohio, wounding at least 12 people and sending some eventgoers scrambling for cover while others rushed to help the victims.
No suspects were in custody hours afterward, Toledo Deputy Police Chief Joe Heffernan said, and officials urged people who were at the festival to come forward with any photos or videos on their phones for possible…
Hurt people hurt people. Just because that phrase has become a mantra of therapeutic babble doesn’t mean it’s not true. A study to be published soon in the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests we are significantly underestimating how much child abuse and neglect are intergenerational problems, and how much they can affect the likelihood of a family climbing out of poverty.
Led by Duke…
Sports isn’t everything, but to a school interested in keeping its alumni connected, it is a powerful way to pull it off. A newly graduated Derek Miller learned of that firsthand in 2000 when he went to work in Washington, D.C., and the BYU football team came to town.
“I grew up (in Utah County) watching Gifford Nielsen, Steve Young, etc., but it wasn’t until I got outside of Utah and went to my…
Nick Saban will live forever in the lore of college football. He won. He spoke — often colorfully. He led with an iron will and became an icon of the game.
So when the legendary former Alabama coach voiced his blunt opinions before a U.S. Senate committee a few days ago on the chaotic state of college athletics, it landed like a thunderclap in Tuscaloosa and beyond.
Some of what he said wasn’t…
President Donald Trump has issued a pardon to Stephen Buyer, a former Republican congressman from Indiana who served nearly two years in prison for making illegal stock trades based on inside information after he left office.
Buyer was sentenced to 22 months in prison in 2023 for trades made while working as a consultant and lobbyist. He was ordered to forfeit more than $350,000, representing…
