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Wasatch Sports Roundup: 2/11
Boys Basketball Region 9 HEBER CITY, Utah-Mitch Lind led the way with 19 points and the Wasatch Wasps surged past Springville 56-50 in Region 9 boys basketball play at The Nest Friday. Jake Nadauld’s game-high 28 points led the Red Devils in the loss. James Ballstaedt’s squad improves to 9-13 […]
Utah takes on Orlando, aims for 5th straight victory
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-Orlando Magic (13-43, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Utah Jazz (34-21, fourth in the Western Conference) Salt Lake City; Friday, 7 p.m. MST BOTTOM LINE: Utah comes into a matchup with Orlando as winners of four consecutive games. The Jazz are 19-10 in home games. Utah […]
Mickey Mental Named Weber State Football Offensive Coordinator
OGDEN, Utah-Friday, Weber State head football coach Jay Hill announced the hiring of Mickey Mental as the Wildcats’ new offensive coordinator. Mental will also serve as Weber State’s quarterbacks coach. Mental, a native of Olmstead, Ohio, spent the last two season as the head coach at NCAA Division II Notre […]
Cover boys: The US Bobsled team stars in its own calendar
BEIJING (AP) — The athletes of the U.S. men’s bobsled program needed to quickly raise $70,000. They brainstormed ways to come up with that kind of cash. And one idea, something that had been considered a few times over the years, seemed to make the most sense. “It’s very silly,” […]
Grotheer gives Germany another Olympic sliding gold medal
BEIJING (AP) — Germany has its first Olympic skeleton champion, and the country is simply sliding away from all challengers so far at the Beijing Olympics. That’s no surprise. This, however, was: China has its first Olympic sliding medal — ever. Christopher Grotheer was a runaway winner in the men’s […]
Some US Olympians enlist in order to make it to the Games
ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Nordic combined is a niche sport, even athletes in the discipline acknowledge, leaving Olympians who participate in the mix of ski jumping and cross-country skiing searching for options to fund their dreams. Unlike some countries, the U.S. government does not pay Americans to go for gold. That leaves the United […]
Traore, Knight lead BYU past Loyola Marymount 83-82 in OT
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fousseyni Traore had 19 points and 12 rebounds and Seneca Knight made a free throw with 0.7 seconds to play to give BYU an 83-82 overtime win over Loyola Marymount. Knight was fouled going for a last-second shot after LMU’s Keli Leaupepe tied the game with […]
Narracott on cusp of Australia’s 1st Olympic sliding medal
BEIJING (AP) — The last time Australia won an Olympic medal in a sliding sport? That would be never. Never even been close, with the country’s best result in any bobsled, skeleton or luge race being a 10th-place showing in 2010. Jaclyn Narracott is now two runs away from changing […]
Packers QB Aaron Rodgers earns 4th MVP award, 2nd in a row
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A four-time MVP, three Super Bowl players and the beginning of a brother act. The Associated Press 2021 NFL awards had a bit of everything, starting with Aaron Rodgers becoming the fifth player to repeat as Most Valuable Player. “It is kind of surreal sitting here,” […]

















