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Gordon Monson

Salt Lake City

Sports Columnist at The Salt Lake Tribune

What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

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  • Kyle Whittingham, Kalani Sitake, Bronco Mendenhall are hauling in the bucks, but not as many as some other college coaches

    5 days 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.

  • As the Utah Jazz pucker up for Lady Luck now, expect them to pucker up again later

    6 days 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.

  • Are tall LDS temple steeples really worth fighting for?

    1 week ago | sltrib.com | Gordon Monson

    Is a fight over the design of a holy place worth having? Or is neighborly peace a better course for a church bent on building big, beautiful, bulbous houses where it says the Lord can dwell? Those are questions that appear to be rising as high as some temple steeples erected by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

  • Blow the roof off the Delta Center? I could almost imagine it happening.

    1 month ago | sltrib.com | Gordon Monson

    I did something last week that I haven't done in a long, long time. I connected with you, the fan, by going to a game that I wasn't - technically, at least - covering. I just went - with no notebook, no pen, no computer, no column in mind, no deadline to meet, no nothing. Just an idea to do what most normal people do - enjoy a sport for that sport's sake, and for my own. My wife, Lisa, and grandson, Brody, went along. It was, in part, a celebration of Brody's 13th birthday.

  • A proud, loud and vulgar voice from the past cries out to the Utah Jazz

    1 month ago | sltrib.com | Gordon Monson

    It's not easy being what the Utah Jazz are. And what exactly are they, what's the right word? Pick out your favorite. Lousy. Awful. Horrible. Pathetic. Terrible. Lame. Brutal. Dreadful. Wretched. Inferior. Abysmal. Crappy. Atrocious. Odious. Ugly. Sad. Bad. Miserable. Maybe that last one is more what the fans are, but it probably fits most of the players' and coaches', too. Nobody likes to lose. Even worse, nobody likes to try to lose. Nobody, at least, with any self-respect and pride.

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Gordon Monson
Gordon Monson @GordonMonson
14 May 25

New BYU athletic director Brian Santiago says, "If we're not relevant, nobody cares who we are": https://t.co/mAuWzUJl5n

Gordon Monson
Gordon Monson @GordonMonson
13 May 25

Now it's time for Ryan, Danny and Justin to make some Utah Jazz luck of their own: https://t.co/YPDUidTyzi

Gordon Monson
Gordon Monson @GordonMonson
10 May 25

Kyle Whittingham, Kalani Sitake, Bronco Mendenhall are hauling in the bucks, but not as many as some other college football coaches: https://t.co/MT18EpEuDg