Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell, center, walks off the court after his team's loss to the Houston Rockets in Game 1 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Sunday, April 14, 2019, in Houston. Houston won the game, 122-90. (AP Photo/Eric Christian Smith)
Eric is a West Valley City native and a graduate of Granger High School and the University of Utah who joined The Tribune in 2003. He hoards rescue cats and guinea pigs, reads historical fiction, watches British baking shows, and obsesses over 1980s hair-metal bands in his spare time.