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Two years in the making, and BYU and Hawaii finally got their answer. Unfortunately for the Cougars, it wasn’t one they liked. The Rainbow Warriors walked out of Saturday’s NCAA championship match in Columbus, Ohio, with the national title; top-seeded Hawaii swept second-seeded BYU. “Hats off to University of Hawaii, all of their players and…

This week, the Utah Jazz’s players and coaches set aside 32 minutes to watch “Two Distant Strangers,” the Oscar-nominated short in part produced by Jazz All-Star Mike Conley. It couldn’t have come at a more appropriate time. With Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict being announced midweek, the message of “Two Distant Strangers” struck a chord. The…

Elizabeth Smart was sexually assaulted on a Delta flight in February 2020. The Washington Post reported that “a man seated next to her put his hand between her legs. She says she woke to him rubbing her inner thigh, and froze.” Smart, who was abducted in 2002 at age 14 from her Salt Lake City…

An Oscars unlike any before will get underway Sunday night, with history on the line in major categories and a telecast retooled for the pandemic. The 93rd Academy Awards will begin at 8 p.m. EDT on ABC. There will be no host, no audience, nor face masks for nominees attending the ceremony at Los Angeles’ Union Station —…

The Utah Jazz’s Monday night blowout of the Lakers really is pretty impressive when you consider that their offensive focal point sat out the entire game due to injury. Hopefully Ersan Ilyasova’s left hamstring tightness isn’t too serious, though. The Turkish big man’s epic performance on Saturday — which saw him go 5 of 5…

Minneapolis • Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the Black man’s neck in a case that touched off worldwide protests, violence and a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S. Chauvin, 45, could be sent to…

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It is about time we recognized the true heroes of the Republican Party. They are not the dopey louts who rampaged through our nation’s capital and the cowards who still cover for them. They are not the ranting demagogues exploiting the emotions of the resentful. They were the unsung people not seeking attention, but doing…

If I have cancer, diabetes and COPD, if I die in a car accident, I still died as a result of the car accident. People who try to argue otherwise are denying reality. If I die with Covid, my other illnesses may make it more likely that I will die, but Covid still killed me.…

The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Gov. Spencer Cox, speaking about mask mandates, said, “Utah has a strong tradition of respecting private property rights.” That statement is not true. Just ask any private property owner who doesn’t want people carrying loaded weapons on their property. George Sumner, Salt Lake City Submit a letter to the…

As faculty and staff at Utah Valley University, we must agree with Arty Diaz’s (Public Forum, Feb. 27) and Kelli Potter’s (Commentary, April 2) assessments that the school’s core value of inclusivity and “Exceptional Care” is undermined by the selection of our 2021 commencement speaker. The administration’s and trustees’ choice to celebrate and give a…

Last year, BYU men’s volleyball was at the height of its season. The Cougars had the top national ranking and were poised to make a run to the NCAA Tournament title game. But then the pandemic put a stop to all that. For days after the 2020 season was canceled, coach Shawn Olmstead continued to…

Window Rock, Ariz. • The Navajo Nation now has had a week of reporting no additional COVID-19 related deaths on the vast reservation where safety precautions like a mask mandate and daily curfews remain. The tribe on Saturday night reported no new deaths for the seventh consecutive day and just two new confirmed cases of…

Gov. Cox and Mayor Mendenhall have declared a water emergency for Utah and Salt Lake City. At the same time, however, the Utah legislature has given the Inland Port Authority $75 million dollars of taxpayer money in a slush fund for infrastructure projects. It is impossible to reconcile the intent of these two sentences, because…

A Utah State University football player was arrested Sunday on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman. The 22-year-old player entered the bed of a woman while she slept, according to a probable cause statement, wearing only his underwear. The woman woke up, pushed him and told him to leave, at which point he put his…

It’s clear: The mindset of some of the NBA’s executives and coaches changed the moment Denver’s Jamal Murray’s ACL tore. On Monday night, Murray was driving the paint when his left knee simply collapsed out from under him, in what didn’t seem like even particularly unusual movement. Murray was out for the previous four games…

I am intrigued by the recent declaration of ‘Second Amendment sanctuary’ in Weber County. I wonder if the members of the Weber County Commission have ever read the Second Amendment. For their sakes, here it is in total: “A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the…