HOUSTON (AP) — Lauri Markkanen scored a career-high 49 points to lead the Utah Jazz to a 131-114 victory over the Houston Rockets on Thursday night that snapped a five-game skid. Markkanen got out to a quick start with 18 points in the first quarter to help the Jazz to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-University of Utah women’s basketball standout Alissa Pili may be an undersized post player at 6-foot-2. Just don’t tell her that. The scouting report on Pili: A physical presence down low (she attributes that to being an offensive/defensive lineman in football). Difficult to box out (a quality from […]
HOUSTON (AP)-Utah Jazz (19-21, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (10-28, 15th in the Western Conference) Houston; Thursday, 6 p.m. MST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK NBA LINE: Rockets -6; over/under is 232.5 BOTTOM LINE: Houston is looking to stop its seven-game home skid with a victory over Utah. The Rockets […]
PHOENIX (AP) — The trial date for a polygamous sect leader charged with kidnapping and tampering with evidence in a federal investigation into his community on the Utah-Arizona border has been pushed back. Samuel Bateman has pleaded not guilty to the charges in U.S. District Court in Arizona. He was […]
NEW YORK (AP) — LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers and Kevin Durant of the Brooklyn Nets might be headed toward yet another NBA All-Star Game rematch. James is the overall leader so far in All-Star balloting, and Durant leads all Eastern Conference players in early voting returns — putting them […]
The son of one of the NFL’s most prolific running backs made quite a name for himself this bowl season. Southern Mississippi’s Frank Gore Jr. rushed for 329 yards – the most in any bowl game ever – to lead the Golden Eagles to a 38-24 LendingTree Bowl victory over Rice. The […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Eight family members, five of them children, were found dead from gunshot wounds in a southern Utah home Wednesday, according to authorities who did not provide more details or a potential motive for the killings. The victims were found when police did a welfare check […]
STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi State coach Zach Arnett has promoted Matt Brock to Bulldogs defensive coordinator and hired Chad Bumphis and Brad Peterson to his staff. Brock called defensive plays in No. 24 MSU’s 19-10 ReliaQuest Bowl victory over Illinois after serving this season as linebackers coach. The Bulldogs held the […]
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Zach Wilson’s rough second season is over. When — or if — he plays another game for the New York Jets remains to be seen. The struggling quarterback will be inactive Sunday in the team’s season finale at Miami, with Mike White starting a second […]
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The Park City Mountain employee who died in a chairlift accident was a 29-year-old ski patroller from Millcreek Utah, Summit County Sheriff Justin Martinez said on Wednesday. Christian Helger died on Monday morning after being ejected from a chairlift shaken by a tree that fell […]
