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(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Real Salt Lake midfielder Noel Caliskan (92) fields the ball during the game between the Real Salt Lake and the San Diego FC at America First Field in Sandy on Saturday, April 18, 2026.

Real Salt Lake’s Noel Caliskan is a steady force in midfield

By The Salt Lake Tribune | May 5, 2026, 12:02 p.m.

(Julio Cortez | AP) Steve Saunders is Utah's new director of football sports performance.

Utah’s new strength coach was part of an F-minus staff in the NFL, but has the backing of a Utes legend

By Jason Batacao | May 4, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

College football has a history of older players — but is age always an advantage?

Utah Royals win their club-record fourth straight game

UTAH Jazz

Gordon Monson: The Utah Jazz start in now on their Season of Fortune, be it good or bad

By Gordon Monson | April 15, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

Are the Utah Jazz a playoff team next season? Here is what Will Hardy and Austin Ainge expect, or don’t.

Here are the Utah Jazz’s NBA Draft Lottery odds after a season of tanking

Are the Utah Jazz done rebuilding? After years of losing, some fans aren’t so sure.

Jazz lose by winning in the ‘Tanking Super Bowl’ — but optimism reigns as team imagines possibilities for next season

utah utes

Utah’s new strength coach was part of an F-minus staff in the NFL, but has the backing of a Utes legend

By Jason Batacao | May 4, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

Utah football director of sports performance resigns months after a promotion

Meet the 317-pound Utah football player who is going viral for his surprising moves

For the first time, the Utes have two players picked in the first round of the NFL draft

Utah’s No. 1 high school quarterback recruit just committed to Kyle Whittingham’s Michigan Wolverines

byu cougars

College football has a history of older players — but is age always an advantage?

By Seth Emerson | The Athletic | May 3, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

Can BYU football be this season’s Indiana? Kalani Sitake doesn’t like the comparison.

AJ Dybantsa’s NBA Draft declaration came with a promise: He’ll still be a BYU student

Gordon Monson: In retaining Rob Wright, BYU demonstrates once again that it is what it’s always wanted to be

BYU’s revamped roster starts to take shape with a homecoming and a surprise reversal

RECREATION

Highland High’s massive $300M rebuild is officially underway. Here’s what’s planned.

By Carmen Nesbitt | April 23, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

Utah’s wildflowers as confused as we are about the warm winter

One of Park City Mountain’s last free parking areas is going away next season

SLC wants to make it safer to cross the street to a long-awaited park. A new state law adds a hurdle to improvements.

He was a snowboarding outsider who brought the sport to a ski resort near you — and to the Olympics

MORE RECREATION

Olympics

The U. wants to open a new Olympics research center, aiming for ‘relevance on the international stage’

By Courtney Tanner | April 13, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

How a Utah Olympian turned a Nevada roadside into a sand sculpture gallery

Sundance has left Park City. Shaun White is stepping in.

5 lessons Utah 2034 Olympics organizers learned from the Milan-Cortina Winter Games

From gold medals to proposals: Utah athletes steal the show at 2026 Winter Games

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Utah Mammoth

Gordon Monson: Defeat is a cruel schoolmaster for the Utah Mammoth, leaving them with lessons to learn

By Gordon Monson | May 2, 2026, 2:34 p.m.

‘Only going up from here’: As Utah Mammoth exit NHL playoffs, fans have high hopes for the future

Key takeaways from Game 6 between the Utah Mammoth and the Vegas Golden Knights

These NHL fans paid hundreds and couldn’t see the goals — and that’s fine by them

Key takeaways from Game 5 between the Utah Mammoth and the Vegas Golden Knights

MORE UTAH MAMMOTH

Real Salt Lake

Real Salt Lake’s Noel Caliskan is a steady force in midfield

By The Salt Lake Tribune | May 5, 2026, 12:02 p.m.

Real Salt Lake bounces back to beat Portland Timbers

Late penalty kick lifts LA Galaxy over Real Salt Lake

Lionel Messi gives Utah soccer fans ‘a memory they will hold onto forever’

Lionel Messi llegará a Utah hoy. Algunos aficionados quieren comparar asientos, otros los han vendido.

MORE REAL SALT LAKE

Utah state aggies

Has Utah State finally found a head coach that will stick around? Here’s why Ben Jacobson is a different sort of hire for the Aggies.

By Jason Batacao | April 1, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

Concerned about athletics, Utah State proposed charging each student $290 to keep the program afloat

Utah State hiring Northern Iowa basketball coach to replace Jerrod Calhoun

Gordon Monson: The leaving and the laughing continue at Utah State. Will it ever change?

Are March Madness Cinderellas dead? Jerrod Calhoun’s Utah State exit shines a light on a harsh reality.