After an easy 81-40 win in its exhibition game against Chadron State last week, Utah's women's basketball team will be looking to get another victory in its first regular season game of the year against Utah State on Friday.

The Utah hockey team is coming off a bye week that could not have come at a better time. The Skatin' Utes have spent the time off to focus on preparing for their upcoming home game against Utah State at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday.

The 2009-2010 men's basketball regular season will officially get under way tonight, as the Runnin' Utes host the University of Idaho Vandals at 7 p.m. at the Huntsman Center.

In 2005, the academic journal Science reported that "nearly 20 percent of human genes are explicitly claimed as United States Intellectual Property." The commercialization of the human code has come into contest in a case where the American Civil Liberties Union is suing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office along with the U Research Foundation and Myriad Genetics over the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene patents.

Last week, many Utah fans wondered whether the Utes would be able to keep their focus on the task at hand as they welcomed a winless New Mexico team into Rice-Eccles Stadium. The Utes took on their last opponent before heading to Fort Worth to meet the team at the other end of the winning spectrum.

This weekend's showdown between Mountain West Conference powerhouses Utah and TCU will strongly resemble that of 2008 in more ways than one.

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By Corbin Godfrey, Staff WriterThere might not be any recognized glory in coaching club sports, but don't tell that to men's soccer head coach Gilbert Gaertner Jr. Gaertner loves the game and has turned...

I can understand why our state legislators are so sensitive when it comes to the initiative for ethics reform from the Utahns for Ethical Government. No one wants to be the guy (or gal) who stands up and says unequivocally, "I oppose the proposed ethics reform." It just sounds bad, doesn't it?

Salt Lake City is something of an anomaly in Utah. On the political map, it almost looks like a mistake, as if someone spilled a dash of blue paint on a red canvas.