LAS VEGAS (AP) — Taylor Funk’s 32 points led Utah State over New Mexico 91-76 on Thursday in the Mountain West Conference tournament quarterfinals. The third-seeded Aggies will face the tournament’s No. 2 seed, Boise State, in Friday’s semifinal. Funk shot 10 for 16 (6 for 10 from 3-point range) […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jason Spurgin led third-seeded Southern Utah with 19 points and sealed the victory with a layup with 53 seconds remaining as the Thunderbirds turned back upset-minded Utah Tech, the tournament’s No. 11 seed, 76-75 on Thursday in the Western Athletic Conference tournament quarterfinals. Spurgin also contributed […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Justin Harmon scored 23 points to lead Utah Valley to a 72-58 victory over Tarleton on Thursday night in the quarterfinal round of the Western Athletic Conference Tournament. Harmon added three steals for the second-seeded Wolverines (25-7). Trey Woodbury scored 21 points and grabbed seven rebounds. […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Lauri Markkanen scored 31 points, Talen Horton-Tucker added 23 and the Utah Jazz snapped a four-game losing streak with a 131-124 win over the Orlando Magic on Thursday night. Simone Fontecchio scored 17 points for Utah, and rookie center Walker Kessler’s 13 points and 10 rebounds […]
DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers are looking to strengthen the state’s role as a safe haven for abortion rights in a region largely dominated by conservative states that have restricted the practice since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Democratic lawmakers announced at a Thursday news conference that […]
Utah Jazz (31-35, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (27-39, 13th in the Eastern Conference) Orlando, Florida; Thursday, 5 p.m. MST BOTTOM LINE: Utah is looking to break its four-game losing streak with a win against Orlando. The Magic have gone 15-18 at home. Orlando is seventh in […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Brandon Angel’s double-double of 16 points and 12 rebounds led a balanced attack that lifted 10th-seeded Stanford to a 73-62 win over seventh-seeded Utah in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament on Wednesday night. Angel followed up two free throws with a jumper that gave the Cardinal […]
Coming off an unprecedented performance at the world championships, 18-year-old Jordan Stolz is already facing the inevitable comparisons to the greatest speed-skater of them all. Eric Heiden. Stolz chuckles a bit at being mentioned in the same sentence with the guy who won five gold medals — in five individual […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Body camera footage released Wednesday by a suburban police department in Utah shows five officers repeatedly firing into all sides of a car in a fatal shooting after yelling “Gun!” several times. The deceased’s family called the incident “brutal murder” in the lead-up to the […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Cameron Gooden scored 22 points and Frank Staine scored 18 points and Utah Tech offered a mild surprise Stephen F. Austin 80-76 in overtime in a Western Athletic Conference Tournament opener on Tuesday night. Isaiah Pope scored 14 points and reserve Dancell Leter 12 for the […]
