Saints & Sports
BYU basketball team move up to No. 14 in AP poll
As BYU continues to climb in the national rankings — up four spots to No. 14 in the Associated Press poll — the Cougars are focused on staying grounded. "First of all, it's a big accomplishment for our team, as far as the respect we're getting from around the nation," said guard Jackson Emery....
NFL teaching Kruger to manage time well
Paul Kruger, in his first year as a professional athlete, said the gift of time can be a double-edged sword. "It is different. It is definitely different," said the former Ute standout, a rookie linebacker/defensive end for the Baltimore Ravens. "You learn how to waste your time or make use of...
BYU football coach looking to see leaders emerge
Fresh off an 11-2 season and facing the prospect of having to replace a bevy of experienced players at a variety of key positions, BYU head football coach Bronco Mendenhall is looking forward to the new challenge. The Cougars began their off-season conditioning this week. "This is one of my...
BYU players talk mission calls
This is a tale of two BYU football players who play the same position. One recently returned home from a mission, while the other one has just begun his two years of service. Sophomore nose tackle Romney Fuga, who played as a freshman in 2006, served in the Madagascar Antananarivo Mission...
Ex-BYU trainer surrounded by Texas Tech controversy
If you are Steve Pincock, the past two weeks have been everything you didn't sign up for with Texas Tech firing head coach Mike Leach. A former trainer at BYU, Pincock's job as the head football trainer with the Red Raiders is to heal players so they can return to the field. This work doesn't...
BYU men's basketball team cracks Top 25 polls
The BYU men's basketball team, off to a 14-1 start and fresh off last week's 30-point shellacking of Arizona, have cracked the Top 25 rankings in both the AP poll and ESPN/USA Today coaches poll. It's the fourth straight year in which the Cougars have been ranked in the Top 25 at some point...
On the eve of the Rose Bowl, a profile of 2 starting LDS players
Mormon Life says: I like this - a really nice feature story on two Oregon football players whose faith defines them and makes them stronger (and better) players and friends.
Twelve days before the Rose Bowl, the Oregon Ducks got out of practice almost a half-hour early. It was a Sunday, and coach Chip Kelly knew that he had some players who would be going to church. ...
BYU Basketball star featured on Fox Sports blog
Mormon Life says: The team is looking good so far.
Jimmer Fredette's performance on Monday night was no fluke. BYU's 6-foot-2 junior point guard came to Tucson averaging 19.5 points and 5.4 assists this season and 25.7 points and 5.3 assists in...
Up and coming Notre Dame football player delays mission
Manti Te'o is still a man on a mission. It's just that the Notre Dame freshman linebacker's mission won't look like the typical two-year variety often taken by male members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Not yet anyway. Instead, the Irish defensive prodigy will return...
ESPN analysis of BYU football bowl game win
Mormon Life says: Congrats to the cougars!
This one goes to the Mountain West Conference. Big. Nothing went right for Oregon State in a 44-20 loss to a BYU team that, after a slow start, executed to perfection. A Civil War hangover for...
BYU media blitz surrounding Las Vegas bowl game
Mormon Life says: A look at what is being said from all over.
Just what did the national media have to say before the Maaco Las Vegas Bowl Tuesday night? Here's a sampling of opinion and previews of the game: BYU, Oregon State seek redemption Associated...
Oregon football RMs excel on field, share gospel off of it
By now, Kevin and Devin Unga are used to all of the questions. As twins, as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and as returned Mormon missionaries, they prompt plenty of curiosity from teammates. "It happens all the time," Kevin said. "They ask what year we are. We say,...
LDS U of U football players hold fireside in San Diego
Although his team was spending several days in southern California for its bowl game against the University of California, Utah assistant football coach Morgan Scalley said the most important part of the trip for several team members had already taken place that morning. "The greatest thing we...
BYU football team invades Las Vegas ward
BYU has made five consecutive trips to the Las Vegas Bowl, but this experience was a first. With the game being played on Tuesday, that meant the Cougars were here on Sunday. For that reason, arrangements were made for players, coaches, administrators, and others connected to the program, to...
BYU football notebook: Heaps, Apo make it official, sign with Cougars
A little more than six months after they orchestrated a press conference at a sports bar in Salt Lake City to announce their verbal commitments to BYU, quarterback Jake Heaps and wide receiver Ross Apo have signed scholarship agreements to enroll in January. Now, they're officially Cougars. Four...
