(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah's Saturday football opener against Arizona at Rice-Eccles Stadium has been canceled after multiple positive COVID-19 tests among Ute players left them without the Pac-12 minimum 53 scholarship players required to participate.
Josh Newman began covering the University of Utah for The Tribune in 2019. A Long Island, N.Y. native, he covered Rutgers University and Monmouth University for the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey for 15 years. Basketball remains his first love, a cold IPA coming in a close second.