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Monson: NBA playoffs are Brick City, just plain ugly

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:29:19 -0400

SALT LAKE CITY - By GORDON MONSON

Family Glance: 'Star Trek Into Darkness,' 'The Great...

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:49:21 -0400

A guide to movies from a family perspective: - "Star Trek Into Darkness"

Henry: Gay athlete Jason Collins gets points for coming...

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:26:40 -0400

By REG HENRY - Nostalgia grows old, but there's a part of me that wishes that sports news was, you know, still about sports.

Moulton: Jason Collins coming out breaks a barrier, but not...

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:26:21 -0400

By DAVID MOULTON - Jason Collins is gay. OK, that's significant. But not as big a deal as most are making it out to be, for a couple of reasons.

Seahawks deliver message: Follow our model for big...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:22:16 -0400

RENTON, Wash. - By DAVE BOLING

Religion: Inside the soul of Jackie Robinson

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:05:49 -0400

Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey knew that the first black player in major league baseball was going to go through hell. - That's why the cigar-chomping, Bible-thumping Rickey set out to find a man who would keep believing -- when facing bitter, scathing racial hatred -- that the powers of heaven were on his side. As baseball writers have often noted, Rickey needed someone who could turn the other cheek, as well as turn a double play.

Film: Matthew McConaughey shines in coming-of-age story...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:36:55 -0400

"Mud" has the feel of a classic, although it's perhaps not enthralling enough to be one. The third and most elaborate feature to date from writer-director Jeff Nichols seems to have been adapted from a novel that doesn't exist -- something by James Lee Burke, perhaps, or Cormac McCarthy, or some other specialist in frequently violent tales about the challenges to masculinity and the forging of new identities that face rural people who belong to a sprawling modern world -- who might be hanging out in a supermarket parking lot one moment and falling into a creek full of deadly cottonmouths the next. - That actually happens to young Ellis (star-in-the-making Tye Sheridan, in his second feature, after "The Tree of Life"), the true hero of "Mud."