Reading Time: 2 minutes As of March 26, the men’s baseball team is 6-14 on the season and has lost 10 of their last 11 games. It seems to have been a rough road trip for the Wolverines. The road trip started in Washington against Gonzaga, where the Wolverines struggled to get any momentum.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Todd Fairbourne, who is in his 11th year as the head softball coach at UVU, has brought success to the Wolverine’s program. Before Utah Valley made the jump to Division I competition, Fairbourne helped guide UVU to the schools only national championship while competing in the junior college ranks.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Fairbanks Named Independent Player of the Year for Third Time Coaches and sports information directors at 14 independent schools have named Utah Valley University’s Robyn Fairbanks both the Division I Independent Player of the Year and as a selection to the All-Independent first team.
Reading Time: 2 minutes The humming of the Xerox machine in your office has a bit of a different tone to it in mid March. The anticipation around the buzzing machine increases as NCAA Tournament brackets are spewed out of the printer and piled on top of each other like a newspaper fresh off the press.
Reading Time: < 1 minute NFL wants to play more NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is proposing a plan to NFL owners to raise the amount of games in a regular season from 16 to 17 or 18 games. The proposal would also make it so there are fewer preseason games. Goodell said that the league does not need four exhibition games anymore.
Reading Time: < 1 minute With the first half of the women’s softball season complete, the Wolverines 2009 season sits at 10-15. UVU began the LMU Invitational at the beginning of this month. This invitational will take them through the remainder of their season, which will go through the end of this semester.
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Utah Valley Wolverines’ baseball team had their first home stand of the season, winning three and losing three against Northern Colorado and St. John’s. Utah Valley then flew to Spokane, Washington to face Gonzaga in a four-game series in which they were swept.
Reading Time: 2 minutes The UVU Rodeo Team hosts their sole “home game” of the spring season this weekend in Heber, giving fans and newbies alike a chance to watch top-ranked UVU athletes compete in one of the final rodeos of the season. The three-day rodeo at the Wasatch County Special Events Center in Heber will be the second-to-last rodeo for Wolverine competitors to qualify for the National Collegiate Rodeo Championships, and coach Shane Draper says that his teams are in a good spot to earn a trip to Nationals in June.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Cathy Nixon. Has been at the helm for the lady Wolverines for 14 seasons and has played a significant part in many landmark milestones at Utah Valley. As a player, Nixon starred at BYU where she was named as an All-American in her sophomore, junior and senior seasons.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Cutler Demands Trade Pro Bowl quarterback Jay Cutler of the Denver Broncos has asked to be traded. Cutler was upset because the Broncos were willing to trade him in order to acquire Matt Cassel, and when that trade fell through there was still bad blood. Cutler refused to show up for the first team meeting of the year and hopes to never have to show up again.