Kragthorpe: BYU's Tanner Mangum discloses his issues with 'mild depression...
Nearly every major story about BYU quarterback Tanner Mangum mentions his happy outlook and relentless optimism. Mangum has revealed those traits are a product of a conscious team effort. Mangum wrote...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Masters rookie Jon Rahm is one to watch, as young stars hit Augusta
Augusta, Ga. Warm weather is coming this weekend, when Augusta National Golf Club will have the pristine look that everyone pictures about this place. That’s not the forecast for the first two rounds,...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Masters rookie Daniel Summerhays almost aces his revered No. 12
Augusta, Ga. Daniel Summerhays’ golf ball trickled backward down the slope of the No. 12 green, stopping 4 inches to the left of the hole. He turned to the gallery and grinned broadly, patting his...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Soft landing sends Daniel Summerhays into Masters weekend
Augusta, Ga. Daniel Summerhays figured his golf ball would roll down the bank and into the water around the 13th green. He worried that it would stay on the fringe surrounding the 18th green after his...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Daniel Summerhays settles for another 75 in Augusta sunshine
Augusta, Ga. Daniel Summerhays took a Saturday stroll in his first Masters appearance, enjoying the sunshine and perfect playing conditions of Augusta National Golf Club and then quoting Bobby Jones...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Daniel Summerhays takes home crystal from his first Masters
Augusta, Ga. Daniel Summerhays walked off Augusta National Golf Club’s No. 8 green happily after making an easy birdie Sunday afternoon, while wishing for a bigger reward from his first Masters...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Sergio Garcia already a different guy, before winning Masters
Augusta, Ga. Wearing a green jacket, Sergio Garcia could joke about his new label in professional golf. “I don’t know if I’ll be the best player to have only won one major,” Garcia said Sunday night...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Jazz reach 82-game finish line healthy, happy
The Jazz’s best regular season in seven years ended dramatically, weirdly and successfully. Fans stood and cheered wildly Wednesday night as a Jazz lineup of Shelvin Mack, Danté Exum, Jeff Withey,...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Jazz's first playoff win will be seven years in the making
The Jazz have clawed their way back to the level nobody ever thought was good enough. That means they have more to do. This team needs to produce a playoff breakthrough, and not merely by hitting my...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Jazz's stunning win is flashback to 2010
Los Angeles Five years of anticipation, ruined within 10 seconds? That sure looked like the story of the Jazz’s long-awaited return to the playoffs, but they produced their own theme of Game 1 of an...
View ArticleKragthorpe: With Game 1 win, Jazz have altered the look of this series
Los Angeles Quin Snyder’s start of his Jazz playoff coaching career is much better than Jerry Sloan’s. Snyder’s challenge for the rest of April is to match the work of Sloan in the Hall of Fame...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Jazz hope Clippers' curse continues
Los Angeles The Los Angeles Clippers already are threatening to give away a first-round playoff series, even after earning the home-court advantage with a strong finish of the regular season and...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Derrick Favors vital to Jazz in Game 2 vs. Clippers
Los Angeles Everyone associated with the Jazz was stunned and frightened when center Rudy Gobert fell to the court with a knee injury of the opening possession of Saturday's Game 1 vs. the Los Angeles...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Jazz's loss to Clippers is an inside job
Los Angeles Jazz center Rudy Gobert returned to the Staples Center, striding purposefully and looking like his usual, overwhelming self Tuesday night. Unfortunately for the Jazz, Gobert's intimidating...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Jazz need Gordon Hayward to heat up on offense
The Jazz hardly could have asked for a better start of the NBA playoffs when it comes to projecting Gordon Hayward’s future with the franchise. That’s true in Boston, anyway. Chicago may be doing the...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Utah Jazz eager to stage home playoff game after five years away
Doc Rivers likes the design of Vivint Smart Home Arena with fans seated so close to the court, and he admires how the Utah Jazz’s crowd loudly supports the home team. “The fans are terrific there,”...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Quin Snyder's bold moves can't produce a Jazz victory
The list of reasons why the Jazz should have won Game 3 of their playoff series with the Los Angeles Clippers is long and lamentable, in the end. Shouldn’t this stuff have been enough to elevate the...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Clippers coach Doc Rivers, once fired in Salt Lake City, is...
The bus drove the Los Angeles Clippers into downtown Salt Lake City, and general manager Dave Wohl remembered a checkpoint in Doc Rivers’ coaching career. “Hey,” he reminded Rivers, “this is where you...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Jazz reward their fans with home playoff victory
In an NBA playoff series that has produced all kinds of twists and turns, personnel losses and comebacks, clutch plays and shooting slumps, the Jazz found the offensive answers they were searching for...
View ArticleJazz's Game 3 loss, Game 4 win framed in six-minute snapshots
The Jazz scored 22 points in a six-minute stretch of Sunday’s fourth quarter, thanks to Joe Johnson’s shooting and passing. This phenomenal display of efficiency came two nights after the Jazz went...
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