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All eyes on Q: Senior tailback powers Utah to season-opening victory over Arizona
With just three minutes on the clock in a three-point ballgame, all the U football team needed was a couple of first downs to all but ensure its 17th consecutive win. Quinton Ganther heard the call and delivered the victory.
Ganther rushed for 127 yards on 24 carries to lead the Utes to a 27-24 triumph over Arizona in their season-opener Friday night.…
Soccer wins two at home
Victories tempered by another injury to Katie Battazzo
The Ute soccer team is off to a flying start after easily dispatching Utah Valley State and Idaho and moving to 4-0 on the season.
The victories were not without loss however, as the Utes were bitten again by the injury bug.
Ranked No. 22 nationally by Soccer Buzz Magazine, this year's squad boasts endless scoring talent, and Ute fans were treated to a dominating offensive display during the weekend's home stand.…
Utes aided by second look: Utah benefits from inaugural use of instant replay
A new era began Friday night, albeit not as high profile as the debuts of Kyle Whittingham and Brian Johnson.
Instant replay was used for the first time in Ute football history, and it came in handy for the home team. Two plays in Utah's 27-24 win over Arizona were challenged, with both turning out in the U's favor.…
Volleyball loses twice to ranked teams
Spikers fall to 2-2 on the season
The young U volleyball team learned about losing for the first time this season as the Utes dropped two matches over the weekend in Columbia, Mo.
While Utah (2-2) did not win a game over the weekend, head coach Beth Launiere sees plenty of positives in the losses.…
New player, same results
Casteel making a name for himself
Although there have been several personnel changes for the U football team this season, No. 6 is once again making the big plays.
Only this year the man behind the uniform isn't Steve Savoy-it's Brent Casteel.
The departure of both Savoy and Paris Warren-who combined for more than 2,000 receiving yards and 23 touchdowns last year-left a void at the receiver position.…
AFC West preview: The Broncos will take it, those mother-buckers
Get ready to hear one cliché after another about "shootouts" in the "Wild West."
That's because the only thing more offensive than the AFC West is, I don't know, the Holocaust? It's also the only division in football in which each team is just as likely to storm to a division title as they are to finish cellar dwellers in 2006.…
Cross Country takes third in opening meet
The women's cross country team finished third in its first meet under new head coach Kyle Kepler at the America West Heritage Center Open in Logan.
Utah State won the meet with 25 points, led by top finisher Tiffany Strickland, who completed the race with a 15-minute, 36-second time.…
RSL is home, but gets same result: MLS leaders New England prevail on late goal, 1-0
Real Salt Lake (5-16-4) came out Saturday loaded for a match it absolutely had to win to keep pace with the surging Colorado Rapids in the race for the fourth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference.
The aggression and flat-out determination Real Salt Lake carried onto the pitch, along with more than 17,000 fans, went all for naught as the visiting New England Revolution stole the match in the waning minutes to win 1-0.…
NFC East preview
Beast of the East: Eagles will soar again
Remember when the NFC East was the class of the NFL every year? Remember when there was actually competition at the top? OK, so maybe you little freshmen are too young. But it's the truth.
Surely the Eagles must be getting sick of this. They must be tired of waltzing away with the divisional title every year, beating up on quarterbacks like Patrick Ramsey, Danny Wuerrfel, Quincy Carter, Vinny Testaverde and Eli Manning.…