Saints & Sports
BYU women's basketball team shows they don't have to play on Sundays to win
Huddled in a news conference on a Sunday afternoon in a basketball arena in Ames, Iowa, a handful of reporters from around the country were stunned -- eyebrows raised and mouths agape. They couldn't believe what they were hearing on that March day in 2002. Dressed in Sunday-best attire, a couple...
BYU basketball: Jimmer Fredette named third-team All-American, player of year for District 8
Mormon Life says: Congrats to BYU's star player!
Brigham Young junior guard Jimmer Fredette was named third-team All-American on Tuesday by the Sporting News, and also received the U.S. Basketball Writers Association player of the year award for...
NBA team puts on 'LDS Family Night'
Mormon Life says: I just think it would be so cool to be at an NBA game where missionaries are singing the National Anthem.
In an effort to increase attendance, the National Basketball Association's Golden State Warriors wanted to know how they could draw Latter-day Saint families and their friends to a game. Some Church...
2 Olympics medals for Mormon athletes
Seven Mormon athletes competing in the 2010 Winter Olympics accounted for one gold medal, one bronze medal and a fourth-place finish. * Torah Bright of Australia took first place in women's snowboard halfpipe. The 23-year-old, who trains in Utah, has become a media star in Australia, and...
Fans love to remember the villains in Utah-BYU rivalry
Back in 1996 when Utah and BYU played in the Huntsman Center, Cougar freshman Nathan Cooper got in a little skirmish with Ute star Keith Van Horn under the east basket. Cooper fouled Van Horn a little too hard for Van Horn's liking as well as the fans in the sold-out arena. Van Horn came up...
When BYU was closer to joining the Pac-10
Mormon Life says: Why the Sabbath day might be the key point to keep BYU out of bigger conferences.
With Utah and BYU being mentioned in conference expansion stories, I got wondering just how close that came to happening in years past. Was either of them ever truly poised to move to a bigger...
LDS 4-man bobsledder ready for Olympic Games
Mormon Life says: A good profile into one of the final LDS athletes to compete in the Olympics.
Chris Fogt was running track for Utah Valley University in Orem when a couple of men approached him and asked him a question that would take his well-planned life in a totally different...
Gold medalist Torah Bright example of faith, dedication
Mormon Life says: Another, more LDS-centric, feature on Torah Bright.
"So do you think Torah will be an inspiration for young girls who are interested in action sports?" Torah Bright waves from the podium after winning a gold medal in womens halfpipe.(Marcio...
Mormon trying to drive top U.S. bobsled to a medal
Shauna Rohbock is trying to solve a mystery at the Vancouver Olympics, but time is running out on the 32-year-old pilot for Team USA's top bobsled. Rohbock says she cannot find the right sequence for turns 4 and 5 at Whistler Sliding Center's super-fast course. "I don't know, I just keep falling...
BYU basketball: Cougars jump three spots on both polls
Mormon Life says: BIG week ahead for BYU basketball.
The new men's college basketball polls are out, and the BYU Cougars are ranked No. 11 in the ESPN/USA Today poll and No. 13 in the AP poll — up three spots from where they were ranked in both polls...
LDS skeleton rider just misses out on bronze medal
At first blush, it might seem like fate doesn't favor Noelle Pikus-Pace. "That was so close," the Orem, Utah, native said after a fourth-place finish in Friday night's skeleton competition at the Whistler Olympic Park. "I could never picture this moment any better than it is." Then she took a...
Olympic hopeful totally focused -- on Mormon mission
Somewhere in southeastern Germany, there is a Mormon missionary being tormented by thoughts of the Olympics. Prior to his mission call, he was one of the top ski jumpers in the U.S. Many of his friends are in Vancouver, British Columbia, competing for Team U.S.A. One has even won a silver medal. ...
Mormon Pikus-Pace still in the running for skeleton medal
Noelle Pikus-Pace is just sixteen-hundredths of a second from a bronze-medal pace after two rounds of skeleton at Whistler Olympic Park. "This is amazing," said the Orem native. "I could never have imagined how I would feel in this moment. It's indescribable." The women have two more rounds of...
Snowboarding gold medalist’s Mormon ways help make her a sponsor's dream
Mormon Life says: So happy for Torah!
SNOWBOARDING star Torah Bright is set to make the leap from extreme sports queen to every sponsor's dream, following her halfpipe gold medal win in Vancouver yesterday. ...He said that, while a...
Mormon Torah Bright wins gold!
Torah Bright slid to a stop after a near-perfect halfpipe run and put her hands on her head. No one told her what her score was. The judges hadn't even announced it. But the Australian snowboarder and practicing Mormon who makes her home in Salt Lake City knew she'd likely achieved what...
