Utah Women’s Basketball Independent
Unaffiliated but friendly with the University of Utah, the Big 16 Conference, and other Pac-12 remnants
Did the Crimson Coalition give her a new car for that? If not, the Utah sportsperson of the year award still puts Coach Roberts in the ballpark with TIME magazine’s person of the year Taylor Swift. A Zone Sports Network broadcaster said Coach Roberts is “always quotable”. That’s fair-weather media for you — that guy […]
When I was a kid forming college dreams, Weber State was on my list because they had an outstanding journalism program. It was a long time ago, when reporters adhered to principles like having two sources to credibly support the facts, and being uninvolved in the stories. That sounds certifiably mad today. Sportswriting was always […]
When I put my mind to avoiding spoilage of movie endings, sports scores, or news items, I can. Something happened within the University of Utah athletics department. It’s days-old, stale news, but I’m waiting for Coach Roberts to tell me about the car — or cars. Utah’s Crimson Collective — how that’s separate from the […]
UCLA 95Florida St. 78 As UCLA brushed Florida St. aside, I had this thought: I’m in the 96th percentile of American chessplayers. If you put me across the board from Caruana or another player in the 100th percentile, the game begins 0-0, but eventually it’s windshield vs. bug, and it was never really close. Among […]
Utah 74St. Joseph’s 48 Revisit the LaLooshian exchange in which media says: “In the absence of one of your best players, who needs to step up?”, and then the coach tries not to roll eyes before replying: “They all do”. In the case of the Utah women’s basketball team, stepping up to fill a Gianna […]
The best interview in the business was UC Davis coach Sandy Simpson. If you let him talk, he’d quote novelists and Beat poets, but that’s now how today’s sports media works. Sideline reporter Charissa Thompson got in hot water last month for saying she fabricated football coaches’ quotes, and Erin Andrews — one of the […]
Utah guard Gianna Kneepkens, on the watch list for national player of the year and shown in the background picture above, is out for the season following a foot injury suffered Saturday. Utah coach Roberts said in a press release that the “entire program is devastated for Gianna”. I’m a grain of sand in the […]
Colorado 74Air Force Academy 58 Long ago, a friend made a quip about Air Force that has stuck with me. I left the office, saying I was off to watch basketball. “Who’s playing?” Joseph said. “Air Force at Saint Mary’s”, I said. He laughed. “Air Force? Air Force has a basketball team?” “Uh huh.” “You […]
The Great Alaska Shootout was dead for a few years, but it restarted in a new venue — thank you, big oil company for spending big oil dollars on the naming rights; forget those freeloading polar bears — and is (for this year, at least) thriving. Utah forward Alissa Pili won a couple of state […]
The standard cliche is that the only thing that stop a team is injury or themselves. OK, injury will take down any contender, but I don’t think “themselves” always applies. For that to work, I think a team must lack chemistry, or suffer internal distraction. For instance, LSU, whose players’ mothers bicker over social. Utah […]