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Utah, BYU To Resume Rivalry After Sucker Punch Forces First Break Since 1944
Only two things can stop the Utah-BYU college basketball rivalry: The most destructive war humanity’s ever witnessed, and a pasty guard sucker-punching another guard in garbage time. ...

Bucs Draft Pick Had To Live Out Of His Car Because Of Dumb NCAA Rule
Stevie Tu’ikolovatu was just drafted in the seventh round by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after playing a year at USC, where he was the school’s 2016 defensive MVP and the MVP of the Rose Bowl. He also spent two months living out of a car and an SUV after he transferred from Utah—with his wife joining h...

Oregon Knocks Off Utah With Late Touchdown Pass, Replay
Oregon stunned 12th-ranked Utah in Salt Lake City today as Justin Herbert found Darren Carrington in the end zone with two seconds remaining on a play officials initially declared an incomplete pass before overturning the call upon a lengthy video replay....

Free Mustache Rides: Your Salt Lake City <i>College GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
ESPN’s College GameDay aired live from Salt Lake City this morning. Here are some signs people brought to that event. Yes, Mormonism is involved!...

Utah Drives 93 Yards In Final Five Minutes To Beat USC
USC’s woes continued tonight as the Trojans allowed Utah to drive 93 yards while eating up nearly all of the 5:37 remaining on the clock on the way to a Troy Williams touchdown pass to Tim Patrick, the fifteenth play in a remarkable series that featured two fourth downs and multiple penalties....

Utah Lineman To BYU At Las Vegas Bowl Welcome Dinner: "You’re A Dirty Team"
One of the more entertaining bowl games will take place on Saturday, when in-state foes Utah and BYU meet-up in the Las Vegas Bowl for the Holy War in Sin City. Besides the natural rivalry, there is also the element of BYU’s conduct at play. There was the brawl with Memphis during last season’s bowl...

BYU's Nick Emery Ejected For Throwing A Cheap Shot To The Face
BYU freshman Nick Emery was assessed a flagrant fouled two and tossed from tonight’s rivalry game against Utah, after he socked Brandon Taylor with no apparent provocation. As Taylor lay on the floor holding his face, Emery stared him down:...

Utah Tires Of Pummeling Oregon, Starts Beating Up Fox Camera Operators Too
Utah extended its shocking blowout lead over Oregon 55-13 tonight with a 69-yard punt return that confused fans, Ducks punt coverage team members, and Fox camera operators. The fake fair catch seemed to fool everyone except, of course, Gus Johnson. (You might remember the Rams running this play last...

Two Utah Football Players Suffer Gunshot Wounds At Party
Two Utah football players are in stable condition following gunshot wounds suffered late Saturday night. The players are named as sophomore TE Lo Falemaka and freshman RB Marcel Brooks-Brown. ...

Duke's Meaningless Last Second Free Throw Cost Vegas Millions
Last night's Duke-Utah game seemingly ended in a 62-57 win for Duke. With eight seconds remaining Utah's Jordan Loveridge missed a three-pointer, and the Utah players only half-heartedly tried to foul or tie up the rebounder, Duke's Quinn Cook. But with 0.7 seconds left a referee blew for a foul a...

Receiver's Blunder Turns 78 Yard TD Catch Into 100 Yard Fumble Return
Kaelin Clay should have had a 79-yard touchdown catch to put Utah up 14-0 on Oregon. Instead, the Ducks tied the game when Clay dropped the ball short of the goal line and Oregon's Joe Walker picked it up to go the entire length of the field in the opposite direction....

This Is The Photo That Got A BYU Football Player Suspended
No, really. That's it. That's Spencer Hadley, senior linebacker, having what looks like a swell time in this undated photo from what looks like a club located in the dark heart of somewhere sinful. Hadley's the one in the greenish-blue shirt in the middle, holding up a bottle of what we're guessing...

The Jovial, Bleak, Affectionate Bully That Was Rick Majerus Simply Cannot Be Comprehended In Full
Today, a week after his death, many of Rick Majerus' friends, former players and colleagues gathered to wish the basketball coach farewell from this mortal coil. Del Harris and George Karl were reportedly there, as was Glenn Rivers, whose nickname Majerus pinned on him years ago when he saw the youn...

Legendary College Basketball Coach Rick Majerus Passed Away Today
First, this, from Loyola University of Chicago's head basketball coach and onetime Rick Majerus assistant Porter Moser:...

College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Sad, Sad Tennessee)?
Our weekly college football shame index. ...

USC's Robert Woods Couldn't Keep His Balance After A Helmet-To-Helmet Hit, Missed One Play
Above, the uncanny floundering of USC wide receiver and All-American Robert Woods after he got spun around on a helmet-to-helmet hit. The spin itself might have made him dizzy—Woods does a full 180 after the hit—but as Jesse Palmer noted during the aftermath, it was pretty obvious Woods had his "b...

Last Night's Holy War Game Between BYU And Utah Ended Bizarrely As Utes Fans Rushed The Field Three Separate Times
Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City became the stage for farce in the closing moments of last night's Holy War game between Utah and BYU, as fan confusion over the end of the game led to them rushing the field three times....

Footage Shows Drunk Utah Linebacker Driving Wrong Way On Highway
A Utah state trooper pulled over to a car parked on the shoulder of S.R. 201 early Sunday morning — and facing in the wrong direction. The driver was an intoxicated University of Utah linebacker, Nai Fotu, who told the trooper he'd had "one beer, two beers" with his teammates at the University cam...

Last Night's Winner: Pointless Tradition
In sports, every one is a winner—some people just win better than others. Like the Utah Utes, who have won nine consecutive bowl games....every single one of them completely meaningless. We must preserve this hallowed system....

Hated Rivals No Longer Allowed To Hate Each Other
BYU's Max Hall led his team to an incredible overtime win against hated rival Utah, but now he's been forced to apologize for hating his rival? I thought that was the whole point....