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#94 Tevita Fotu, DT Redshirt Freshman, Herriman, Utah
Brother of George “Leki” Fotu, DT for Arizona Cardinals
Transfered to Utah from Snow College after an LDS Mission
#94 Tevita Fotu

#95 Aliki Vimahi   Junior DT from Kahuku, Hawai’i  (6-4 304)
Mainly a back-up role in 2021, with 2 starts (Oregon and Oregon St)
Played against his younger brother, Enokk, (OL Ohio State) in the Rose Bowl.
Graduated High School in 2017, 2 year LDS mission, 2020 Redshirt.

#98  No one on the Spring Roster
#97 Jaden Redding, Junior placekicker from Fredericksburg, Va
2021: 41-43 on PATs, 10-14 on FGs, 50 yarder in the Pac-12 Championship game.
#97 Jaden Redding
 
#96 Tanu Maiava-Ahhing, Freshman DT from Springville, UT.   They grow ’em big in Springville, 305 lbs.  Graduated HS in 2019, transferred to Utah from…[Read more]

#99 Sophomore DT from SLC East High
Tennessee Pututau

Anyone interested in collaborating on a jersey number countdown?

3rd Place in Region, behind Oklahoma (host) and South Carolina, tied with Auburn.   Three 69’s were carded to lead the team.
Utes First Round Results

None of them named “Rising”???   Utes will face another Heisman favorite in Gainesville…
Florida’s Anthony Richardson among Heisman favorites.

Some good way-too-early pre-season ranking hype for the Utes football team…
USA Today Pre-Pre-Season Rankings
ESPN Post-Spring Pre-Season Rankings

Colo Rockies 1st Baseman CJ Chron just made a “significant gift” to the baseball program.   Thanks, CJ!
https://utahutes.com/news/2022/5/4/utah-baseball-program-receives-significant-gift-from-alumnus-c-j-cron.aspx

Anyone watching the ball game on Pac-12 tonight??  Slow start for the Utes, but bats came alive in the 3rd for the Utes, 5-4 BYU lead going into the 4th inning.

Very tight range of scores.  Oklahoma avenges a regular season loss to Florida
1. Oklahoma 198.200
2. Florida 198.0875
3. Utah 197.750
4. Auburn 197.350

Not sure how credible this witness is, but a guy is saying he saw man wandering onto the roadway minutes before Haskins was killed.  No disabled vehicle nearby or anything explaining his presence on the road…Witness describes pedestrian on freeway, Columbus Dispatch

Since the link posted recently, and likely others coming soon to the interwebs near you will have USC as the favorite due to the arrival of Lincoln Riley and Caleb Williams, I’ll point out a few things, though I realize I’m preaching to the choir…
1) Of course football is much more complex than say, NBA Basketball, where you can bring in one…[Read more]

That’s one man’s projection for the 2022-23 bowl season…24/7’s 2022-23 Bowl Season projection, spring edition

No disagreement from me, hard to know what the team will look like, or if Smith will find success, just FYI…Wilner Way-too-Early 2023 Pac-12 Mens Hoops

I love March Madness!
 

Katie Meyer, 22, passed away on Tuesday.  She was the goalkeeper for the 2019 NCAA Women’s Soccer Championship…
https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa-stanford-goalkeeper-katie-meyer-dies-at-age-22-penalty-kick-celebration-210932715.html

Invitees from the state of Utah:
Utes: Devin LLoyd and Nephi Sewell
Southern Utah: Braxton Jones
BYU: Tyler Allgeier
Pac-12
Arizona State: 8 players, leads Pac-12
Oregon: 6 players
USC & UCLA: 5 players each
Washington: 4
WSU: 3
OSU 1; Stanford 1, Colorado 1, Cal 0, Ariz…[Read more]

Glad he could escape Orem to go to Utah.

…and go Matt Gay!  That’s my contribution for Super Bowl Sunday.