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Media picks TCU to win MWC; Cougars third in poll
Defending Mountain West Conference football champion TCU was predicted to capture its second consecutive title in 2010 in a poll of media members, announced today at MWC Football Media Day being held at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas. The Horned Frogs posted a perfect 8-0 record in Conference...
BYU amends 2006 lawsuit against Pfizer
The world’s largest pharmaceutical company made misrepresentations and concealed documents from BYU in ongoing $1 billion litigation over creation of the arthritis drug Celebrex, according to an amended complaint filed this month in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City. BYU and biochemistry...
BYU, Utah Utes football: Rivalry revisited
It's a sunny, sweltering afternoon in early September 2015, and LaVell Edwards Stadium is sold out for the season-opener. On this day, BYU faces a familiar non-conference opponent from the Pac-10. It's not Washington or UCLA or Arizona or Oregon State. It's the University of Utah. Instead of...
BYU attempts world's largest water balloon fight
If you can't entice them with smaller class sizes, shorter lines and less traffic, try 120,000 water balloons in the "Cougar Cooldown," BYU's attempt at the world's largest water balloon fight. BYU is hosting its first summer mega-activity Friday to encourage students to stay in Provo beyond...
BYU, YMCA both loved as 'the Y'
The YMCA has confirmed what BYU has known for decades — there's power in a single letter. The nonprofit Young Men's Christian Association announced recently that it will be calling itself just "the Y," thus joining an informal club of institutions that rally around the semivowel. "We've both...
BYU athletic director addresses the future of Cougars' program
Is BYU going independent? What's the state of the BYU-Utah rivalry? Was BYU ever a candidate for the Pac-10? After months of rebuffing interview requests on the recent shake-up in the college football landscape, BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe addressed those topics and more with a group of...
Harold B. Lee Library: Study like a scholar, scholar
Mormon Life says: This is hilarious. A funny play on the old spice commercials running now...but for BYU's library.
BYU football: Former Cougars tight end Gordon Hudson headed for College Hall of Fame
Former BYU tight end Gordon Hudson will be enshrined this weekend into the College Football Hall of Fame. Hudson will be joined by 23 others who will be honored in South Bend, Ind. At BYU, Hudson tied the NCAA record for receptions by a tight end in a single season with 67. As a junior, he was a...
BYU ranks 77th in country for degree value
Only 76 schools in the country offer a degree worth more than one from BYU, according to a report compiled by Bloomberg Businessweek. The University of Utah ranks 281st. A BYU graduate can expect an almost $800,000 return on his or her college investment over 30 years, the report said. The...
Pro-quality ad campaigns flowing out of BYUs AdLab
"Before you wear the colors, you have to be a team." "Finally something we can all drink to." "I am my anti-drug." These slogans, born in the creative think tank of the BYU AdLab, have grown to occupy TV screens, websites, magazine pages and radio waves — as polished as any professional ad...
Ex-BYU star Harvey Unga shows NFL scouts his ability — and accountability, too
Mormon Life says: This article shows the character of Unga--someone who made a mistake, is taking responsibility for it, and is not blaming BYU for his fate.
His parents, Jackson and Theresa Unga, and his uncle, former Weber State and NFL running back Fine Unga, all stood in the background watching an NFL pro day workout unfold. Nearby, a contingent of...
BYU is lone holdout for not playing on Sundays
Mormon Life says: A article that shows the history of Sunday sports play.
In the current realignment of college sports leagues, a lot has been made of BYU's policy of not allowing its sports teams to play on Sunday, citing, specifically, No. 4 of the Ten Commandments — or...
BYU basketball: July evaluation period critical for recruiting efforts
It might not involve any actual instruction or coaching, but the work that lies ahead during the next few months for the BYU basketball staff will nonetheless have a major impact on the program's future. July is a key evaluation month where, during two 10-day periods with a six-day dead time in...
Athletic director Tom Holmoe says BYU athletics has bright future
Mormon Life says: For anyone that is a BYU fan, this is a very hopeful article.
There were no signs he had tried to gouge out his eyes or pull out his hair. There weren't even bags under his eyes from lack of sleep. BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe didn't look like a man on...
Y. women win broadcast awards
This just in: three BYU students have been named some of the best females college broadcasters in the country. Sable Petersen, Kristine Pratt, and Amy West were three of eight students recognized at the Alliance for Women in Media Gracie Awards in Hollywood, an annual event that celebrates...




