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OGDEN -- With the 2011 season just six weeks away, the Ogden Outlaws have made a significant move in their front office.

Ogden owner/head coach Mike Hickman Sr. has announced the hiring of Miguel Hernandez as the teams General Manager.

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Every Friday, Los Angelenos make a mass exodus to Las Vegas, traveling through the desert on an easy 275-mile drive up Interstate 15. Come Sunday, the caravan reverses, and they head home from a weekend at the casinos.

If youre visiting Las Vegas, why not follow their lead and include a road trip to Los Angeles in your vacation? Better yet, spend a day or more on the drive and explore the landscape in between.

Although much of the California desert is sparsely populated, its... - [Read more]

Sound systems have grown up right alongside TVs. As TVs have become larger, speakers have grown smaller and multiplied. But adding a home theater system doesnt have to cost a bundle, and you dont have to buy it all at once.

Do more speakers equal better sound? Not necessarily.

Geometry of audio

A look at the geometry of speaker placement in relation to listeners reveals why more speakers are not always better.

One speaker fills a room with... - [Read more]

Mark Spragg grew up in Wyoming -- and it is often the setting of his books.

"I know when the grass goes to seed, which constellations are in the sky at what time of year, and when they set on the horizon," he said. "I know the way limestone smells after its struck by lightning."

The author of the memoir "Where Rivers Change Direction," as well as the novel and screenplay for the film "An Unfinished Life," is the speaker at this years Weber Pathways Author Event. The... - [Read more]

Q: How many journalists does it take to write about House Bill 477?

A: All of em.

You gotta believe me when I say that I had no intention of becoming yet another angry newspaperman weighing in on the subject of open government. I swear it.

After all, its not like I could add anything meaningful to the discussion anyway (not that a little thing like that has ever stopped me). Especially since everybody and their dog has already offered... - [Read more]

Books by Mark Spragg

"Where Rivers Change Direction" (University of Utah Press, 1999), a memoir of growing up on a dude ranch near Yellowstone National Park. The account includes everything from insights gleaned guiding pack rides and tales of youthful pranks, to taking care of his dying mother.

"The Fruit of Stone" (Riverhead Trade, 2003), Spraggs first novel, which examines the lives of people involved in a romantic triangle.

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Best bets

* Its a big ending for "Big Love." In the series finale, Bill (Bill Paxton) worries about planning for his familys future just in case he lands in jail. 10 p.m. today, HBO.

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Jon Jones did not get much time to enjoy his victory over previously undefeated Ryan Bader last month.

Jones, one of the rising stars in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, took just a few days off to relax on the beach before he resumed training. The quick turnaround was necessitated by a knee injury to former light heavyweight champion and top contender Rashad Evans, which opened the path for Jones to participate in his first UFC title fight.

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PALM HARBOR, Fla. -- So much about Sergio Garcia looks the same as ever.

Setting up over a shot, he slowly releases his fingers from the grip and carefully replaces them in just the right position, checking himself one last time before unleashing a swing that made him of the best ball-strikers in golf.

So much about him is uncertain -- mostly whats in his heart.

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As a minor league pitcher, Dennis Minogue hardly had Hall of Fame talent. Once he changed his tune -- and name -- and forever linked Willie, Mickey and the Duke, he earned his spot in Cooperstown.

The Hall will honor "Talkin Baseball" composer and singer Terry Cashman this summer as part of induction weekend, 30 years after his song became a ballpark favorite.

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Jerry Jones can take a hit. Knock, knock, knock him down, but you cant knock him out.

Thats the for-better-or-worse beauty of Jerry, about how he personally deals with critics and criticism, with both always in abundance.

Media-wise, you can write it harsh, and you can talk it harsh, and Jerrys reaction is probably going to be an up-yours smile and a verbal zinger in return. But its almost never like hes going to let any of us know that weve actually inflicted a... - [Read more]

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- The awards ceremony for the Gulf Cooperation Council Womens Games was hardly on the grandest of stages.

But the makeshift podium in a tiny conference room of a mostly empty sports resort was the closest thing to an Olympic moment the three women from Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait had ever experienced -- and they embraced it.

As cameras flashed and a crowd of several dozen cheered, each woman wrapped herself in her countrys flag and... - [Read more]

The debate began almost as soon as Gene Tunney got up. Had Jack Dempsey been cheated out of his biggest win because the referee waited too long to start the knockdown count in their heavyweight title fight in 1927?

Dempsey fans sure thought so, and it was hard to find anyone who wasnt one in the immense throng of more than 100,000 that September night at Soldier Field in Chicago. Shirley Povich of the Washington Post would later write that they roared more in the seventh round for... - [Read more]

LONDON -- Clint Dempsey became the first American to score 10 goals during a Premier League season, but could not prevent Fulham from losing 2-1 at Everton. Another U.S. player, midfielder Stuart Holden, sustained a deep knee gash during Boltons 1-0 loss to first-place Manchester United on Saturday.

Dempsey struck a powerful low shot from the edge of the penalty area, beating U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard in the 62nd minute. Seamus Coleman and Louis Saha had earlier put Everton in... - [Read more]

Jalen Rose used the words "Uncle Tom" and said Mike Kryzewski stayed out of Detroits black neighborhoods because he didnt want the kind of recruits found there, and suddenly a two-hour documentary about a college basketball team that never won a title becomes a commentary on race in America.

Rose, a guard for the early 1990s Michigan teams we all know as the Fab Five, is 20 years later presenting an ESPN documentary on the team that captured the countrys imagination in 1991 and 92.... - [Read more]

When Barry Bonds walked into the federal courthouse in San Francisco on Dec. 4, 2003, his career total stood at 658 home runs, baseball had yet to institute drug testing with penalties and the Giants were nearly a half-century removed from their last World Series title.

Much has changed since the brawny, contentious slugger spent 2 hours, 53 minutes answering questions from a pair of assistant U.S. attorneys and grand jurors examining drug use in sports.

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DENVER -- OK, Florida, your move.

Its your chance -- maybe "fate" is a better word -- to line up next week in the Sweet 16 against Jimmer Fredette and Brigham Young.

Gonzaga, which had played marvelously down the stretch in a 10-game winning streak, took a shot at it here in the NCAA tournament, and it wasnt an evening the Zags will want to frame. Fredette, a 6-2 senior guard likely to win several player-of-the-year awards, scored 34 points and got substantial help as BYU... - [Read more]

Although the Utah Legislatures successful attempt to put a time limit on open government via the much-reviled HB477 dominated the news in Utah as the legislative session ended, there was other news from Capitol Hill.

Some of it was good news, some not so good. The following is a report card for the Legislature -- courtesy of the Standard-Examiner -- on various issues:

* Liquor laws: D: The Legislature allowed more restaurants to have liquor licenses, but refused to budge on... - [Read more]

 KAYSVILLE — Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found Saturday night at the Far West Motel, 410 N. Main St.

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A friend loaned me a book published in 1956, "Saints of Sage and Saddle: Folklore Among the Mormons," by Austin and Alta Fife, that turned into a treasure over the weekend I read it.

"Saints of Sage..." is a collection of Mormon folk tales and tall tales. Anecdotes abound from diverse sources that include prophets and pioneers. The prologue essay, "A Mormon from the Cradle to the Grave," is just plain outstanding. Its folksy and witty, irreverent but never disrespectful. Latter-day... - [Read more]