CEDAR CITY, Utah-Tuesday afternoon, Southern Utah University head football coach DeLane Fitzgerald announced the addition of Darrius G. Smith to the Thunderbirds’ coaching staff. Smith will serve as the T-Birds’ running backs coach and recruiting coordinator per a report from suutbirds.com. Smith has served as the head coach at NCAA […]
BEIJING (AP) — The greatest of all time. The GOAT, as the acronym goes. In most sports, such a title is the source of great debate. Not women’s luge. Definitely not after Tuesday night, when Natalie Geisenberger of Germany became the first to win the Olympic women’s competition three times […]
BEIJING (AP) — Summer Britcher and Emily Sweeney have won World Cup races. They’ve each medaled at the world championships. They’ve each won national championships. Their careers have already been, by any measure, a success. And now both are facing the same decision — keep sliding, or retire. The Beijing […]
BEIJING (AP) — Kjeld Nuis saw the record-setting time of his countryman and knew what awaited in his race. “This is going to hurt,” he mumbled to himself. It was all worth it. Nuis became the first speedskater since 1994 to successfully defend his Olympic title in the men’s 1,500 […]
BEIJING (AP) — Casey Dawson’s around-the-world dash to the Beijing Olympics got him to the starting line in time for the 1,500 meters. Delayed for days in the United States by COVID-19, the speedskater’s journey of 20-plus hours began in his hometown of Park City, Utah. He flew across the U.S. […]
ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Taylor Fletcher almost ended his Nordic combined career shortly after his third trip to the Olympics in 2018. Fletcher’s father died of Lou Gehrig’s disease, his stepfather had a near-death experience in a bike accident and he broke up with a longtime girlfriend. “It was a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Donovan Mitchell had 32 points, seven rebounds, and six assists to lead the Utah Jazz to a 113-104 victory over the New York Knicks on Monday night. Mitchell also had four steals to help rally the Jazz to their third straight win. Bojan Bogdanovic finished […]
HEBER CITY, Utah-Monday, The Deseret News named Wasatch senior boys swimmer Jayden Hicken its boys swimming athlete of the week. At the Region 9 swim championship meet at the Wasatch Aquatic Center this past week, Hicken posted his best times of the season in winning both the 50 freestyle and […]
New York Knicks (24-29, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Utah Jazz (32-21, fourth in the Western Conference) Salt Lake City; Monday, 7 p.m. MST BOTTOM LINE: New York travels to Utah looking to end its four-game road slide. The Jazz have gone 17-10 at home. Utah averages 13.4 turnovers […]
