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I had the brilliant idea of getting my wife a bicycle for her birthday. Nothing fancy, mind you, just a comfortable touring bike. I had visions of us leisurely cycling to a nearby lake on a warm summer day, with sandwiches neatly stored in a picnic basket and Vivaldi’s “Summer,” from the “Four Seasons,” playing mysteriously, yet relaxingly, in the background.

Gov. Spencer Cox said the choice of an Olympic speedskater to take over the committee bidding to bring the Winter Games back to Utah underscores what the state has to offer the world in the race to host again in 2030 or 2034. Catherine Raney Norman, who competed in four...

Radio personality Dave Ramsey is again involved in a legal battle, but this time not because of his company’s “righteous living” policy, but because of his connections with an advertiser on his national personal finance show. Timeshare Exit Team, which Ramsey has personally endorsed, has been sued by the Washington...

There wasn’t any one thing that was the downfall of the Utah Jazz in their Game 3 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday. Rather, it was a the culmination of a lot of small mistakes and a little bit of bad luck. Donovan Mitchell was the first to...

“Star Wars” legend Liam Neeson just threw some cold water on rumors that he would appear in the upcoming “Obi-Wan Kenobi” Disney+ series. Will Liam Neeson appear on ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ series?. Neeson recently had an interview on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” to talk about his new Netflix movie, “The Ice Road.”...

For Tony Finau, the choice of where to play one of his final warmup rounds before this week’s U.S. Open came down to two courses — Victory Ranch, one of Utah’s premier golf clubs, or Rose Park Golf Course, on the west side of Salt Lake City, where he grew up.

Shiba Inu coin dropped recently due to the general cryptocurrency dip — but it could be in store for a rebound. The Wall Street Journal reported that cryptocurrency investors — specifically those dropping money into Ethereum and Dogecoin — have been selling their crypto investments due to “concerns about heightened government intervention adding to recent pressure on cryptocurrencies.”

NAACP President Derrick Johnson stood Sunday morning at a pulpit and asked a Latter-day Saint congregation in Salt Lake City, Utah, to build a wall of love and inclusion. “Our uniqueness is actually our genius,” Johnson said. “And I believe the Lord truly wants us to bring all of our geniuses together behind a wall of love, so that we can truly experience his blessing. Thank you for this opportunity to worship with you today.”

Editor’s note: Last in a series of stories examining the 12 football programs in the Pac-12. In the season finale to cap a bizarre 2020 Pac-12 football season, Utah rallied from a 28-7 halftime deficit to score 38 unanswered points and beat Washington State at Rice-Eccles Stadium, 45-28. WSU visits...

United States President Joe Biden stood with other world leaders at the end of the G7 summit on Saturday, calling for unity across the globe to tackle environmental concerns, the economy and a “return to diplomacy.”. The Group of 7 could not agree about when to stop burning coal, but...

Famous musicians such as Johnny Cash, Hank Snow and Lynn Anderson have crooned the familiar Australian song “I’ve been everywhere, man” since the 1960s, but when it comes to the real thing, few of those singers have anything on new BYU offensive line coach Darrell Funk. The native of Fort...

Bobby Rose, owner, operator, proprietor and head mechanic of a Phillips 66 gas station and two-bay car repair shop on the corner of 3rd Avenue and N Street in Salt Lake City, operated these past 34 years on one business philosophy:. Do unto others as you would like to have...

I never understood why people always say that “history repeats itself”. To me, history never repeats itself. Instead, history is made in novel ways and people fail to recognize patterns. As if the only way to recognize evil was to see someone sporting a little square mustache, lift their right arm and barking non sensical hatred at Jews. But absent of these characteristics, we seem to fail to recognize evil and a strange complacency takes us over.

Heading into the second-round playoff series between the Utah Jazz and LA Clippers, one of the more fun storylines was the beef between Jazz forward Joe Ingles and Clippers forward Paul George dating back to a playoff series in 2018 when George was with the Oklahoma City Thunder. On Saturday...

NCAA super regionals, ESPN2/ESPNU, 10 a.m., 1 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. Rockies at Reds, AT&T SportsNet, 11 a.m. Teams TBA, MLBN, 11 a.m., 2 p.m. Cardinals at Cubs, ESPN, 5 p.m. Nets at Bucks, ABC, 1 p.m. WNBA: Mystics at Dream, NBA TV, 1:30 p.m. Suns at Nuggets, TNT,...

Donovan Mitchell limped off the court at Staples Center with 7:05 left on the clock in the fourth quarter and went to the locker room. He was favoring that right ankle that was sprained back in April, the one that kept him sidelined through the rest of the regular season and out of Game 1 of the Jazz’s first-round series against the Memphis Grizzlies — even though he very publicly disagreed with the decision to hold him out of that game.

The one-two punch that the Clippers envisioned when they first paired Paul George and Kawhi Leonard together two years ago certainly manifested itself in Game 3 of Los Angeles-Utah series Saturday night at the Staples Center. George led the way in the first half of the Clippers’ decisive 132-106 victory...

The Utah Jazz lost Game 3 of the Western Conference semifinals, 132-106, to the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday at Staples Center in L.A. Let’s start this one with a silver lining — despite the loss, the Jazz will go into Game 4 on Monday with a 2-1 series lead. They are still in a good position, but there’s a lot to be worried about. We’re going to look at the most worrying stuff first, tonight.

Jackson Dopp is nearly 21, a strapping young man who’s 6-foot-1 and weighs nearly 200 pounds. When he becomes agitated and runs down the street screaming, which happens often, one could easily misread the situation. His parents Jennie and Ryan Dopp, of Layton, Utah, have spent a lot of time...

DEL RIO, Texas — The 5-month-old baby fidgeted as the young mother checked the wrap securing him to her back in the sopping-wet heat. Then Jouseline took a deep breath and stepped into one of the world’s most dangerous places, the notorious jungle of Panama’s perilous Darién Gap. She put little Jayden on her back for a mother’s reason: She was placing herself between her son and the menaces ahead — wild animals, robbers or a fall into a river or onto the jungle’s jagged rocks.