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No madness here: BYU cracks Final Four — for academics
Mormon Life says: This is a nice consolation, but I am still hoping for the team to be successful in the actual March Madness games.
Looking for an upset in your March Madness bracket? How about 14th-seeded Ohio toppling powerhouse Georgetown? Or lowly Vermont taking down a top-ranked Syracuse squad? What about a BYU run to the...
Experts weigh in on BYU tournament chances
By now, most of Cougar Nation knows that the BYU men’s basketball team received a No. 7 seed in the NCAA Tournament and will play No. 10 seed Florida in Oklahoma City in the first round on Thursday. There is no doubt the more ambitious Cougar fans have also already filled out their brackets for...
BYU football: Riley Nelson aims to win heated BYU QB battle
Mormon Life says: This quarterback battle is going to be fun.
BYU junior quarterback Riley Nelson was the first to emerge from the locker room Monday, jogging alone onto the practice field for the first day of spring practice. As one of three contenders,...
To BYU fan haters
Mormon Life says: This is in response to a debate that resulted from BYU fans throwing trash on the basketball court after an upsetting home loss. Should our behavior at sporting events be tempered due to our beliefs?
I am speaking on behalf of all the loyal BYU sports fans. There have been complaints by some of our fellow students on campus, including a letter to the editor on March 2, that BYU has “some of...
BYU professors rank No. 3 on RateMyProfessors.com
After every semester at BYU, Kaylie Stephens goes to RateMyProfessors.com to evaluate her learning experience. The 20-year-old from Sandy joins millions of other college students around the nation who go on the MTV-owned site to rate their professors on helpfulness, clarity, ease of the class and...
BYU is 'most popular school' U.S. News says
As long as he can remember, Dalton Griner knew he would come to BYU. "Ever since I was little, BYU was it for me," the 18-year-old Sandy native said. So when his long-shot application to Princeton was accepted, he was flattered and excited — but not swayed. Students like Griner and Cody Pettit...
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's newest housing development unveiled
What was once a cubist skyline along 900 East will soon become a sleek new housing development. BYU officials and architects shared floor and site plans Thursday evening with the next-door Wasatch neighborhood regarding four new, four-story residence halls to replace Deseret Towers. The...
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...
BYU fans respond (or don’t) to religious taunts from San Diego State
Before Wednesday night's matchup between BYU and San Diego State in Provo, Utah, several BYU students had tried to call on fellow classmates to dress like missionaries while in attendance, according to a story written by the Deseret News' Jeff Call, via the Mormon Times. The plan was a...
The argument for a companion to BYU's mascot Cosmo
Mormon Life says: This is funny—and yet I think he is serious.
Calling all BYU sports fans and supporters alike. Anyone who could ever call themselves a true BYU student knows and loves our dashing mascot Cosmo. BYU just wouldn’t be the same without him and his...
The conversion story of a new BYU recruit
Mormon Life says: This high school football player was not a fan of BYU growing up but when he gets an offer to play at BYU just two days after his baptism he feels it is time to change his allegiance.
Jordan Black is a 6-foot-7-inch, 265-pound offensive tackle prospect from Alta High School in Sandy, Utah. Those that are familiar with the area know that a predominant Mormon culture exists there,...
BYU football: Bronco insists recruits make firm commitment to Cougars
Bronco Mendenhall refused to discuss the specific case of a recruit from Hawaii, defensive end Kona Schwenke, who signed a National Letter of Intent with Notre Dame on Wednesday, a week after BYU withdrew his scholarship offer for taking a late recruiting trip. Mendenhall said it would be unfair...
BYU alters international student policy
If you’re not a U.S. citizen and you want to come to BYU, you’d better have a few thousand dollars lying around. Starting summer semester 2010, incoming international students will have to pay $4,000 as a deposit to be returned upon graduation — an announcement that is causing controversy on...
