Reading Time: < 1 minute MLB Joe Torre won four World Series with the New York Yankees and took the club to the playoffs all 12 seasons he was there, but New York still wanted Torre to take a pay cut. Torre turned down a one-year offer with a $5 million base salary, $2.5 million less than he made last […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Utah Valley men’s basketball team started practice on Oct. 12 to start a new season where expectations are high after last season’s 22-7 record. What was remarkable about the mark was that is was the best finish for an NCAA Division I independent since Notre Dame finished with the same record in 1986-87. "It was […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Of all the public institutions of higher education in Utah, UVSC has had the second greatest percentage growth in enrollment numbers this year, according to the Utah System of Higher Education. The enrollment review, conducted at all 10 of Utah’s public higher education institutions, showed an overall 0.09 percent decrease in higher education students throughout […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes In recent years, the number of organizations dedicated to volunteer work worldwide has increased considerably; alongside this has come a wide expansion in diversity. Delta Society is an international, non-profit organization with a unique mission. Utilizing professionally trained therapy animals, Delta Society is dedicated to providing medical support to millions of Americans suffering from physical […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Both of the Affleck brothers have found their niche with Gone Baby Gone, Ben belongs behind the camera and Casey deserves the lead role.Ben Affleck reused his Academy Award winning adaptation skills by writing this touchy screenplay about more than just kidnapped children.
Reading Time: < 1 minute 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).
Reading Time: < 1 minute 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 […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute 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 […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute – 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 […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes 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 […]