He has returned

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October 22, 2007

schedule 3 min read

While it’s not quite as dramatic as Michael Jordan’s return to Chicago or Mario Lemieux’s return to the ice in Pittsburgh, Ronnie Price, the face of Utah Valley basketball, is back in the Beehive State as a member of the Utah Jazz. After a two-year stint with the Sacramento Kings, the Jazz signed Price to a multi-year contract as a free agent over the summer.

Real Salt Lake three-for-three in disappointing seasons

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October 22, 2007

schedule 3 min read

Freddy Adu, Chris Klein, Jeff Cunningham and Jason Kreis were among many of Real Salt Lake’s players talking about the possibilities for the team at the beginning of the season. The hopes were high with playoffs a main goal. That was April and things sure changed. The problems mounted all season and none of those […]

Losses continue to mount

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October 22, 2007

schedule 2 min read

Things continue to worsen for Utah Valley on the pitch this season. After dropping two more games to North Dakota State and South Dakota State by a combined score of 8-1, the lady Wolverines’s record drops to 2-11-1 on the year. With two regular season games remaining, both on the road Utah Valley is on […]

Crazy, crazy college football

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October 22, 2007

schedule 3 min read

Maybe we should have known we were in for a crazy, ridiculous, exciting season of college football when Appalachian State beat then-ranked No. 5 Michigan in The Big House the first week of the season. If you didn’t realize it at that point, you must have known when five of the top ten teams went […]

Former Cougar on NFL practice squad

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October 22, 2007

schedule 3 min read

Orem’s own Johnny Harline wasn’t drafted during the NFL draft, but he is doing what he can to make a name for himself in the NFL. If you’re having trouble remembering who Harline is, just think of the 2005-06 football seasons at BYU. Harline came up with key catches for the Cougars during their 10-2 […]

Sports briefs

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October 22, 2007

schedule 4 min read

Women’s basketball Utah Valley women’s basketball head coach Cathy Nixon will be honored for her storied collegiate playing career on Friday night when she is enshrined into the BYU Athletic Hall of Fame. Nixon played at BYU from 1985-88 and ranks fifth on the all-time scoring list with 1,771 career points. The American Women Sports […]

Wolverine Service Center ribbon cutting

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October 22, 2007

schedule 1 min read

– 24,000 square feet– New computer lab houses 30 computers compared to eight in old lab– Athlete tutoring center, study area and lounge– Wrestling area with locker rooms, offices and practice area– Offices for cross country, golf, track, and in the future, women’s soccer– Training room to treat athletes and equipment room for sports housed […]

The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

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October 22, 2007

schedule 1 min read

Adapted from a Ron Hansen novel, Jesse James defies the shoot-’em-up western genre to deliver a biographical drama starring Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck. (Those who seek the gun fighting of a rootin’, tootin’ western will be happier seeing this year’s 3:10 To Yuma.) An oddly quiet and poetic film, Jesse James depicts the downtime […]

We Own the Night

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October 22, 2007

schedule 1 min read

If you’ve seen the trailer, you’ve thought, ‘Sweet-another Departed type of movie." But in reality, they made a movie as lame and pointless as its random nothing-to-do-with-the-movie title. We Own the Night feels like a poor, made-for-HBO rip-off of The Departed. The dialogue feels unnatural and cold. The story relies solely upon random coincidence and […]

30 Days of Night

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October 22, 2007

schedule 1 min read

This vampire movie put an original twist on the genre by having created a non-stop, month-long, high body count attack on a small Alaskan town in the height of its sun-less winter season.Creatively, you’ll see the big screen vampires in new light (what a bad pun).