After lighting up the scoreboard Friday night, Utah needed every last minute to get by Wyoming on Sunday afternoon at Ute Field.

Make it to Nov. 23 with a perfect record before you start worrying about who is trying to knock you out of the boat and leave you stranded in the icy water.

The beginning of this season might not have gone the way head coach Rich Manning and his squad pictured it, but starting tonight, the Utes will do their best to ensure that their 2008 campaign doesn't end the same way it started.

It's that time of the year again, when Utah students and fans alike get excited for yet another run at a national championship by Utah gymnastics head coach Greg Marsden and the Red Rocks.

According to my math, the Utes only have about a 22 percent chance of even making it to a Bowl Championship Series game, which is only slightly better than your chances of survival in a game of Russian roulette.

Consider the inaugural JimmyBall scrimmage a success. Head coach Jim Boylen praised the essentials that he wants his team to have this upcoming season: Play zealous defense. Get out of the box. And run, run, run.

With the calendar days quickly fading away, the Utah women's basketball team has just started gearing up for the beginning of its season.

This bye week, while stalling a lavishly impressive start to the season, gives the Utes the opportunity to gather up two important things8212;rest and psych.

While this might be a football town, it's our basketball team that has the history.

The first week the Mountain West Conference chose swimmers and divers, Utah athletes nearly swept the ballot, receiving three of the four awards.