http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/articles.sec-8370-1-sports.html By Geoff Griffin

It’s hard to think of higher praise you could get from the greatest Jazzman of all time than what the Mailman said about Jason Collins, after Collins became the first active, openly gay player in any of the four major American sports leagues.]]> By Geoff Griffin

Major League Baseball comes to Salt Lake City on March 30, when the Colorado Rockies host the Seattle Mariners in a spring training exhibition game at Spring Mobile Ballpark.]]> By Geoff Griffin

The Utah Jazz were supposed to open up their preseason schedule Oct. 10, with the regular season due to start Nov. 1.]]> By Austen Diamond

For F.B.G.M., the clinking of $1 PBR cans is a triumphant sound. As other Beehive Sport and Social Club kickball teams trickle into Fat’s Grill ...]]> By Geoff Griffin

Attending a Utah Blitz football game is, in most ways, much like attending a high school football game ...]]> By Geoff Griffin

Boozer is the clear front-runner for Utah’s most hated ...]]> By Bill Frost

Online Exclusive: Local roller-derby referee Collin DeShotz (aka Niall Wade) officiates games for the Salt City Derby Girls, as well as for other leagues in Utah and across the country ...]]> By Geoff Griffin

Getting athletes to come to the Dew Tour stop in Salt Lake City isn't difficult...]]> By Louis Godfrey

Brandon Wood's swing is a major-league swing. His hands start low, about chest level, and never vary from that plane as his wrists break and his arms whip around his body. ]]> By Geoff Griffin

It’s a sad situation that occurs over and over: A community builds an alternative, grass-roots scene the locals become passionate about. When it’s hitting its peak, outsiders with big money take notice ...]]> By Geoff Griffin

At first blush, it seems like any other recreational softball league holding games on the weekend. Teams with names like "The Family," "Softball Heroes" or "Trash Talkers" come and go ...]]> By Geoff Griffin

We all cringed laughed rejoiced recently when it was announced that Utah is the leader in the entire United States in per-capita online-porn subscriptions. But that’s old news now that Utah can make a claim to being the per-capita leader in something else: the number of teams in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. ]]> By Geoff Griffin

As local college football teams get ready to kick off the 2008 season on Saturday, hopes are high for both BYU and the University of Utah. Both teams are ranked in the top 30 in most national polls, and both are being mentioned as having a shot at being...]]> By Jacob Stringer

Driving farther and farther into the farmlands that dot the south end of the Salt Lake Valley, you can’t help but notice softball diamonds and rodeo grounds kicking up dust clouds in the retreating heat of a midsummer evening. Deep into those fields...]]> By Geoff Griffin

If you show up at EnergySolutions Arena and ask if you and your out-of-shape buddies can play a little three-on-three on the Jazz hardwood floor, you’re likely to get a polite decline. Walk into a Major League stadium on an away day and ask if you...]]> By Geoff Griffin

The remarkable growth of the Utah Capital Division of the World Adult Kickball Association (WAKA) is pretty easy to explain according to league president Beau Brosius: “It’s like having recess and then having beers. That’s the whole...]]> By Geoff Griffin

David Locke is trying to bring some new thinking to an old genre—and it’s not an easy job. As a sports-talk radio host on Utah Jazz flagship station KFNZ 1320 AM, he’s trying to introduce Jazz fans to a whole different way of looking...]]> By Geoff Griffin

March Madness will be unleashed upon workplaces on Monday, March 17, as employees arrive to find a copy of the 65-team bracket for the men’s NCAA basketball tournament on their desks or in their mailboxes. Entering the NCAA office pool is one of...]]> By Geoff Griffin

Amid all the recollections earlier this month during what came to be known in the local media as the “Passing of a Prophet”—as if he were some sort of kidney stone—one story of Gordon B. Hinckley stood out in terms of the impact...]]> By Geoff Griffin

The most popular athletes at the University of Utah during the winter aren’t the usual suspects: very large men who can move their implausibly large bodies impossibly fast while being televised. No, the competitors who draw the biggest crowds to...]]>