The Air Force Academy is the only team standing between Utah and a second-place finish in the Mountain West Conference, which would earn the Utes a first-round bye in the upcoming Mountain West Tournament.

Whittingham cannot underplay the importance of this game on the road. New Mexico historically gives the Utes fits. Throughout the history of the match-up, Utah either wins by a lot or loses close games. If the game stays close through three quarters, the Lobos and their fans will smell the wafting scent of an upset.

When the 2008 football season started, defensive coordinator Gary Andersen hoped that he'd eventually have four starting defensive tackles to choose from. Two weeks into the season, he would have been satisfied with two.

Internet will be, if it isn't already, as ubiquitous as roads or TV, and it would serve Utah well to make an investment in what is increasingly a necessity in today's world.

Hospital patients could one day swipe a card to learn the results of their blood and urine tests almost as quickly as swiping a credit card in the grocery store.

The Utes play New Mexico and their high-powered, high-pressure, sack-the-quarterback 3-3-5 defense that head coach Rocky Long has been running for the past 15 years.

Brown v. Board of Education desegregated schools in 1954, and a man passing laws for our entire state believes that was the wrong thing to do. That atrocious idea in its own right should be reason enough for Buttars to be ousted from office Tuesday.

The Chronicle endorses the following candidates and proposals for this year's election.

Ten members of the U Bicycle Collective celebrated the installation of the new routes and raised awareness of the bike lanes with a Halloween ride.

To handle the increasing number of cancer patients every year, the Huntsman Cancer Foundation and the U broke ground today on an extension to the hospital that will double the number of beds and open updated centers and technology for cancer care.