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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

 

 

Prep football: Timpview hires Cary Whittingham as football coach
Salt Lake Tribune
Timpview High School has hired Cary Whittingham as head coach of the football team, succeeding Louis Wong. Whittingham, a former BYU standout and brother of Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham, previously served on the Timpview staff as a defensive

 

Kragthorpe: Solution to Utah-BYU scheduling issue: Just play
Salt Lake Tribune
The Pac-12's alliance with the Big Ten will beef up Utah's schedule, and so will Oregon's becoming an annual conference opponent in the rotation from 2013-18. Yet dropping BYU is not the answer for Utah. Just play. That's my response to this whole

 

2012 Sneak-a-Peek: BYU - WSU Football Blog
Happy Friday Cougs, and as always we hope your week is winding to a nice close as we roll into another weekend. So, earlier this week it was announced that ...

Nick Emery: Who do you think you are? - ESPNHS Boys' Basketball ...

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May 15, 2012 – Deseret News, Scott G. Winterton and AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli BYU commit Nick Emery, left, is a 6-foot-2 guard with ridiculous scoring ability ..

 

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Semis may be played at bowl sites of higher-seeded teams
National Football Post
That game will pit the champions from the Big 12 and SEC. It will be interesting to see how this plan, if it gets put into place, would affect independents like Notre Dame and BYU. Many believe that the Fighting Irish should join a conference in this ...

 

Conference Realignment: What Matters in Realignment? (Post 2)
Bring On The Cats
The aggressors, by and large, look at academics when expanding. However, if your conference is facing hard times, you tend to not look at academics as closely you would otherwise. The Big 12 expanded by taking West Virginia, who has the lowest US News

 

 

Extra-curricular reading

An Acceptable Prejudice?
Inside Higher Ed
The two states with the highest proportion of Mormons did pretty well in the safest category: #5 was Idaho State University, Pocatello, where I work; #13 was Utah State University, Logan, and #17 was Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

 

GOP nominee Mitt Romney poses fears of backlash among Utah's Mormons
Boston Globe
Jabari Parker, one of the top high school basketball recruits in the country, was recently on the cover of Sports Illustrated and, in its pages, spoke openly about his Mormon faith. One of baseball's sensations this year, rookie Bryce Harper,

 

KSL-TV introduces new format, 2 new anchors
ksl.com
In addition to anchoring on KSL, McCann will continue in his assignments as an announcer for BYU football and basketball. "This is a great opportunity," he said. "I think it's the best opportunity in all of television." Headrick is joining the KSL team