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After a week of nonstop trash talk and fake hot-tub baptisms, Saturday's rivalry matchup between BYU and the University of Utah will undoubtedly fulfill all expectations for a game appropriately nicknamed the "Holy War." But, fans of either school should be able to agree that this World War II telegram from a BYU-quarterback-turned-Navy-yeoman is pretty awesome.--- Click on the image to enlarge.
Though the Utah Blaze's 2013 season will probably go down as one of the worst in recent memory, at least wide receiver LaVaughn Macon capped it off with this WWE-inspired touchdown routine.---
Saturday, May 25: Ogden’s Junction City Roller Dolls beat the Bakersfield Diamond Divas 252-159 at O-Town’s Golden Spike Arena over Memorial Day weekend.
For nearly the past five years, fans of World Wrestling Entertainment have been branded as the marketing-cliched tagline “WWE Universe,” with the idea attached that the company listens to the fans because the “universe makes the superstars.” --- Like any company looking to be appealing to its fanbase, it will lie and manipulate its message to the masses to bring in a buck. However, this past Monday night was the first time those very fans actually made it mean something, and could possibly take it away from the very company that spawned it.
[Updated June 3] Your so-called local “sports media” is unaware that Utah women’s flat-track roller derby is has entered its ninth(!) year of existence behind the Zion Curtain.
If you're a woman who's always wanted to play football, it's a good weekend in Utah for you to give it a shot. Both of Utah's teams in the Women's Football Alliance tackle league will be holding open tryouts this weekend.
This weekend, Deer Valley Resort will host its annual Celebrity Skifest, as it has done for more than 20 years, in conjunction with JUMA Entertainment. The event is a charity to benefit Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Waterkeeper Alliance, --- a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the world's waters, including the protection of every major watershed around the world.
On a night when Real Salt Lake needed perfect goalkeeping,
Nick Rimando answered the call. In the first leg of Major League Soccer’s Western Conference
Semifinals, against the Seattle Sounders at Centurylink Field, RSL was under
siege for nearly 100 minutes.
