By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 16B PARK CITY, Utah – Anyone hoping to make a pilgrimage to the halfpipe where three American men swept the medals Monday will be sorely disappointed. Within a few hours of Ross Powers’ gold-medal run, the cheers and ska-punk were replaced with the sounds of churning engines and crashing […]
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 14B FARMINGTON, Utah – They’re handing out gold, silver and bronze for roping, riding and wrestling. Too bad they’re not the real thing. For years, some rodeo aficionados have been trying to get rodeo made into a full Olympic sport. And this year, for the second time, the sport’s […]
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 14B SALT LAKE CITY – Attention, Olympic volunteers: It’s OK to have fun. Encouraged, even. According to the training manual given to the 30,000 volunteers at the Winter Games, volunteers need to “consciously remember” to enjoy themselves, lest they become too serious. “A lot of people, especially around here, […]
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Page 14B When I told a friend I was going to Salt Lake City to cover the Olympics, she told me a friend of hers had raved about the place: “He just feels so cool when he goes there.” Sure, Utah shows up on no one’s list of the world’s hippest places. The state’s boundaries […]
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By Terrence Stutz and Joshua Benton Staff Writers Page 1A Kathy Duffin, Cedar Hill mother of two, is fed up with testing. She says educators spend so much time preparing students to pass mandated skills tests that she often becomes the real teacher. “With all the emphasis on testing, they end up skipping some of […]
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 26B SALT LAKE CITY – Olympic Host City isn’t the only important title Salt Lake City has won in the last few years. Just as valued in the hearts of many is its status as Jell-O Capital of America. “Out on the East Coast, there are a lot of […]
Page 5B SALT LAKE CITY – Less than one percent of 3,639 athletes tested in the last 13 months had banned drugs in their system, according to data released Friday by the World Anti-Doping Agency. WADA released the names of the 16 athletes – eight winter sports competitors, eight summer, and none American – who […]
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 4B SALT LAKE CITY – Mark Burton rents armored vehicles. His business depends on people feeling insecure. But at these Olympics, he’s finding most people don’t need a bulletproof windshield to feel safe. “We had a lot of tire-kickers asking about them early on, but I think with all […]
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By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1A All Barbara Senter wanted was to get her son into a good school. She didn’t think it was too much to ask. She lived in the boundaries of the Wilmer-Hutchins school district, which meant 13-year-old J.C. was supposed to attend Kennedy-Curry Middle School, which Ms. Senter describes as […]
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 33A Voters in two fast-growing cities north of Dallas decided to loosen restrictions on alcohol sales Saturday, while a town slightly farther from the area’s suburban growth rejected a similar proposition. Such measures have become increasingly common in area suburbs as newcomers push to change alcohol restrictions, which can […]