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Pac-12 Football Blog: Happy Memorial Day

Mon, 28 May 2012 10:38:35 -0400

The Pac-12 blog will be dark today in observance of Memorial Day. However you and yours decided to spend the day, have fun and be safe. We will be back tomorrow.

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Salt Lake Tribune: Utah baseball: Utah finishes season with 3-2 loss to CSU Bakersfield

Sun, 27 May 2012 20:23:39 -0400

Utah baseball: Utah finishes season with 3-2 loss to CSU Bakersfield

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Published May 27, 2012 06:17PM MDT

Utah’s baseball team finished its season with a close loss, falling to Cal State Bakersfield 3-2 on Sunday in Bakersfield, Calif. With the score tied 2-2, the Roadrunners’ Dylan Christensen led off the bottom of the ninth with a triple, then scored the game-winning run on a single by Andrew Letourneau. Shaun Cooper doubled in Utah’s first run in the fourth inning, then scored on Jo Jo Sharrar’s single to give the Utes a 2-0 lead. Bakersfield (25-29) got one run back in the bottom of the fourth a...

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Deseret News: Utah baseball: Utes fall in season finale to Cal State Bakersfield

Sun, 27 May 2012 20:08:34 -0400

CSU Bakersfield broke a 2-2 tie in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Utah baseball team ended its season with a 3-2 loss...

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Utes Official Site: Baseball. Utah Baseball Drops 3-2 Heartbreaker to CSU Bakersfield in Season Finale

Sun, 27 May 2012 19:53:30 -0400

CSU Bakersfield broke a 2-2 tie in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Utah baseball team ended its season with a 3-2 loss to the Roadrunners.

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Utes Official Site: Baseball. Utah Baseball Drops Two Games in Bakersfield

Sun, 27 May 2012 01:32:42 -0400

The Utah baseball team dropped a pair of games on Saturday, falling to UC Santa Barbara 6-2 in game one before losing to CSU Bakersfield, 7-5.

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Utes Official Site: Track. Amanda Mergaert Qualifies for NCAA Championships in 1500 Meter Run

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:08:39 -0400

Junior Amanda Mergaert finished seventh in the 1500 meter semifinals at the NCAA West Preliminary Saturday in Austin, Texas. She now advances to next weekend's NCAA Championships in Des Moines, Iowa.

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Deseret News Blog: Cullen to join basketball staff

Sat, 26 May 2012 03:38:35 -0400

Former Runnin’ Ute Phil Cullen is joining the University of Utah basketball staff. He’ll replace Randy Baruth, who took the head coaching job at Saginaw Valley State College after one season as Utah’s director of player development and camps. Cullen … Continue reading»

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Deseret News: Campus briefs: Pouha joins 2 others in giving to University of Utah athletics

Sat, 26 May 2012 01:08:28 -0400

Former Ute and current New York Jets defensive lineman Sione Pouha and his wife Keiti have contributed $50,000 to Utah's...

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Utes Official Site: Track. Senior Brianna LeRoy Qualifies for NCAA Championships in the High Jump

Fri, 25 May 2012 22:23:29 -0400

Senior Brianna LeRoy of the University of Utah track and field team qualified for the NCAA Championships as she advanced through the NCAA West Preliminary meet in Austin, Texas, Friday.

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Utes Official Site: Baseball. Late Rally Falls Short for Utah Baseball in 3-2 Loss to UC Santa Barbara

Fri, 25 May 2012 21:08:29 -0400

Despite a late rally that saw Utah tie the game at 2-2 in the top of the ninth inning, the Utes baseball team fell to UC Santa Barbara, 3-2, after the Gauchos scored the game-winning run in the bottom of the ninth.

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Pac-12 Football Blog: Mailbag: What's next with realignment

Fri, 25 May 2012 18:39:05 -0400

In advance, I hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable Memorial Day weekend. Please, remember to take a moment to think about what it's all about. And then have a great cook out. You can follow me on Twitter. To the notes. Scott from Honolulu writes: My question is with rumors of Florida St. talking with the Big 12 and the new college football playoffs being put into place in the near future, do you foresee another round of conference realignment?

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Pac-12 Football Blog: Video: Top 20 Roundtable -- USC

Fri, 25 May 2012 17:38:39 -0400

College Football Live's panel of experts discuss the upcoming season for the USC Trojans.

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Yahoo! NCAAF: Utah coach Kyle Whittingham is still leaning toward ending the Utah-BYU series (Dr. Saturday)

Fri, 25 May 2012 17:38:38 -0400

The BYU-Utah rivalry — a rivalry that has been played since 1896 (or 1922 if you're a BYU fan) - is inching closer toward the sidelines. Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said in an interview with Yahoo! Sports this week that taking a couple years off from the rivalry might be the best path for his program. "Bottom line is we've got to do what's best for our program," Whittingham said. "That supersedes anything to do with the rivalry. If taking a year or two off periodically is best for our program, best for our scheduling, then that's what we've got to do. "Our program is bigger than the rivalry. That's got to take a backseat to us doing what's best for our program."

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Pac-12 Football Blog: Most important game: USC

Fri, 25 May 2012 16:38:51 -0400

Every game counts. But some games count more. Or tell us more. We're going through the Pac-12 and picking out one game that seems most important -- or potentially most revealing -- for each team from our vantage point today. We're going in alphabetical order. USC Most important game: at UCLA, Nov. 17 Why it's important: One of the problems of this series running into a national title contender, such as USC, is that the Trojans' schedule has been pretty well picked over by the Pac-12 Blog.

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Pac-12 Football Blog: Pac-12 lunch links: Good news for Colorado

Fri, 25 May 2012 14:38:27 -0400

Happy Friday. More on Arizona going copper top: It's part of a Pac-12 trend. A former Arizona State QB talks to current Sun Devils QBs. More on California's dismissal of OLB Cecil Whiteside. Colorado gets some good news on defense. It doesn't matter who plays QB for Oregon because the supporting cast is so strong. A consideration of Oregon State's recent bit of off-field trouble. Stanford's endowing coaching positions is a stroke of genius.

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Pac-12 Football Blog: WeAreSC links: Looking back at star duos

Fri, 25 May 2012 13:38:33 -0400

Garry Paskwietz writes : With Ty Isaac and Justin Davis recently committing to USC, it's natural to take a look back and see how position duos in the past worked out. Greg Katz writes : USC was the toast of Los Angeles for most of the Pete Carroll era. Thanks to a talented group in 2012, that hype is starting to build again. WeAreSC Mailbag : In this weekly feature, Erik McKinney answers reader questions about changes in Lane Kiffin's recruiting approach, and skill-position recruiting.

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U of U Sports: Former Ute donates to athletic fund

Fri, 25 May 2012 13:23:32 -0400

Former Ute donates to athletic fund

The Salt Lake Tribune

Published May 25, 2012 11:20AM MDT

Utah athletic director Chris Hill continues to tap former Utes for donations to his 'Invest in Excellence' campaign with former Ute and current New York Jets lineman Sione Pouha and his wife Keiti contributing $50,000 to the funding of Utah's new football complex. The alumni locker room, which will open for the 2013 season, will be named after Pouha, who was an all-conference defensive tackle for Utah's 2004 team that went undefeated. Earlier this month, quarterbacks coach Brian Johnson donated ...

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Yahoo! NCAAF: Ex-QB Brian Johnson still directing Utes offense (The Associated Press)

Fri, 25 May 2012 13:08:37 -0400

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) As a kid, Brian Johnson was so inquisitive he read the warning label inside his football helmet and nearly quit the game.

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Utes Official Site: W. Volleyball. Utah Unity to Make PVL Debut in Salt Lake City on May 26-29

Fri, 25 May 2012 12:38:32 -0400

Former University of Utah players Cinthia Angus and Brenda Whicker will compete for the Intermountain Volleyball Association's Utah Unity during the professional team's inaugural season.

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Pac-12 Football Blog: Take 2: Best Pac-12 trap game

Fri, 25 May 2012 12:08:31 -0400

Our Take Two topic this week: Which is the Pac-12's most dangerous trap game? Kevin Gemmell: Since we're talking trap games this week -- and traps usually involve teams expected to do well -- I see a big one in Week 3 for the USC Trojans traveling north to Stanford. This game has brought two of the Pac-12's most exciting matchups in consecutive years. There was the last-minute field goal in 2010 and the triple-overtime thriller at the Coliseum last season.

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Utes Official Site: Football. NY Jet, Former Ute Sione Pouha Donates $50K to U

Fri, 25 May 2012 11:09:08 -0400

Former Ute and current New York Jets defensive lineman Sione Pouha and his wife Keite have contributed $50,000 to Utah's Invest in Excellence campaign for the new Utah football complex. The alumni locker room of the center, which is scheduled to open for the 2013 season, will bear Pouha's name.

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Pac-12 Football Blog: Gemmell: Marines shaped ASU's Sheffield

Fri, 25 May 2012 11:09:08 -0400

This is not a story about war; it's a story about football. This is not a story about Jake Sheffield, former corporal in the United States Marine Corps. It's a story about Jake Sheffield, defensive tackle for Arizona State University. This is not a story about the friends Sheffield lost during two hellish tours in Fallujah, Iraq; but a story about the friends he's met through football and the two years of eligibility he has remaining at ASU. But to understand the story of Jake Sheffield the football player, it's important to understand the story of Jake Sheffield the Marine.

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Pac-12 Football Blog: Tight race for most hated coach in Pac-12

Fri, 25 May 2012 09:08:33 -0400

We asked which coach you hated most in the Pac-12. You have spoken with much bile. Congrats. It was sometimes hard to figure out exactly which coach you hated the most in your notes, as many of you listed several coaches. Some of you listed several coaches and provided many details on the sources of your hate. In total, you named more than 20 different coaches. Even Oregon State's Mike Riley got a vote. So did legendary coach Bill Walsh (Huskies!

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Yahoo! NCAAF: Clark holding steady - Utah [$$] (Rivals)

Fri, 25 May 2012 01:53:25 -0400

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Block U: How good can Utah be in the Pac-12?

Fri, 25 May 2012 00:54:54 -0400

What is your overall expectations for this program?

Can they contend for the national championship - maybe win a national championship? I'm not talking an Alabama-like program that is almost always in contention for a title even before a game is played, but a team that can, every so often, rise up and contend for a title. Maybe a program like Oregon or Wisconsin or Virginia Tech. Not necessarily historical college football powers, but good enough, consistent enough, that when you say, "hey, they have a legitimate shot at winning it all", it doesn't sound implausible.

Granted, none of those programs has ever won the championship, but two have played for it and is that a realistic expectation for Utah? Can this program,

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