
Gordon Monson
Sports Columnist at The Salt Lake Tribune
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
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1 week ago |
sltrib.com | Gordon Monson
Don't want to get too esoteric here, but let's start with a little side note on the following so very serious and urgent matter. The idea that beauty is subject to opinion has been around in various forms since the days of Greek philosophers, beginning with Plato, careening through later centuries to Shakespeare, and then to Ben Franklin, straight into more modern times.
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4 weeks ago |
sltrib.com | Gordon Monson
If you were the athletic director at Utah or BYU, or the commissioner of the Big 12, and you were meeting with the other P4 conference commissioners about the future of the College Football Playoff, what would be your play?
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1 month ago |
sltrib.com | Gordon Monson
Although Napoleon Bonaparte may have said it, along with a number of other historical figures at various times and in various ways, in sports, New York Yankees pitcher Lefty Gomez is credited with popularizing the saying back in the 1930s. "It's better to be lucky than good."Don't the Utah Jazz know it. They are not good and they are not lucky. They fell to No. 5 in the lottery on Monday night, the absolute worst they could do under the rules.
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1 month ago |
sltrib.com | Gordon Monson
If you're troubled by the amounts of money some college football players are pulling down by way of NIL payments, get a load of how much college coaches are making. It is a load. Let's start - and end - with Utah, BYU, and Utah State, with a few others mixed in.
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1 month ago |
sltrib.com | Gordon Monson
They say optimists live longer than pessimists. But nowhere does anyone say optimists garner any kind of lopsided favor from the fates, from Lady Luck and from the basketball gods when it comes to winning the NBA draft lottery. That puissant group might give a little here to a smattering of souls, punishing everybody else over there. It's a cluster made up of cruel, mean-spirited, heartless suckers.
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