Reading Time: 3 minutes Success has this year’s basketball season nicely wrapped up waiting to be opened. And the best presents are always the ones that are better than the year before-but that can leave a lot to live up to. As is the case with the 2007-08 men’s basketball team after Chris Bailey, Peter Brown, David Heck, and Matt Peterson helped Utah Valley to the best Independent record (22-7) since Notre Dame (23-6) in 1986.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Thanks to a scheduling conflict for Utah Valley’s women’s basketball team, a window of opportunity opened up for the Wolverines. On Dec. 18, the lady Wolverines will travel to Durham, North Carolina to take on the Duke Blue Devils at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Having a player that emerges as a leader on the basketball court is common. What’s uncommon for Utah Valley’s men’s and women’s teams is that they both have bona fide leaders who have been leaders since their freshman seasons.Juniors Ryan Toolson and Robyn Fairbanks have starred on the court for a few seasons now, with Toolson’s LDS mission intervening between his freshman and sophomore seasons.
Reading Time: < 1 minute NFLAmong the San Diego County fire evacuees were members of the San Diego Chargers. Running back LaDainian Tomlinson and quarterback Phillip Rivers were among the 40 members of the organization evacuated form their homes last week. The team also cancelled practices and moved practice to the Arizona Cardinals facilities in Tempe, Ariz. The team’s field, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Someone, somewhere has dubbed the BYU against Utah Valley ice hockey game the “Battle for Valley Supremacy,” but the title for the rivalry game hasn’t crowned either team. The teams split a two-game season series last year and with a tie in this season’s game, Utah Valley’s overall record against BYU is 1-1-1.
Reading Time: 2 minutes The New Jersey Institute of Technology provided the Utah Valley women’s soccer team with exactly what it needed in a home opponent: an easy team. Of course players and coaches won’t talk about the poor opponent they played but the 5-0 win and NJIT’s 0-13 record says enough. The Wolverines know the feeling of going […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes It will be here before you know it. Not the jolly old, bearded, fat man, who will come way too soon like usual, or the end of another semester, which never comes fast enough-but this week brings some answers. The curtains are opened and the light starts to shine in. It’s a new season with […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes There is only one undefeated football team in the Mountain West Conference right now, but the BYU Cougars took a week off from conference play to face Eastern Washington. After giving out a 42-7 drubbing to the Eagles, the Cougars can focus on winning the conference now. Although the Cougars routed Eastern Washington, they will […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Nov. 1 Men’s basketball Exhibition against Mesa State, 5 p.m. Nov. 1 Women’s volleyball Against Utah State, 7 p.m. Nov. 2 Women’s basketballExhibition against Eastern Oregon, 7 p.m. in Shurian Activity Center
Reading Time: < 1 minute NBA Oct. 30 Utah at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. on KJZZ Houston at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m. on TNT Nov. 2 L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 8:30 p.m. on ESPN College footballNov. 3 No. 8 Arizona State at No. 10 Oregon, 4:45 p.m. check listings NFL New England at Indianapolis, 2:15 p.m. on CBS