Tagged with "BYU"
Divine Comedy Skit: "Shoulder Angel"
MR says: Hilarious. Amazing physicality and subtle humor showed by the shoulder angel. He must have been exhausted afterward!
Most popular teen book characters use most profanity, BYU study says
MR says: Too bad. "Fair is foul and foul is fair" takes on a new meaning in books written for adolescents as the fairest characters take on the foulest language, according to a new study. The study published in the May 18 edition of Mass Communication and Society revealed that most of the profanity in...
Romney faces ‘stained glass ceiling’ with voters, study says
MR says: Another study. This one shows those with only a passing association with Mormons are most likely to react negatively to information about Romney and Mormonism. Americans who have only passing contact with Mormons are more likely to react to negative information about Mitt Romney and his faith and...
VIDEO: BYU baseball player hits walk-off grand slam
MR says: For all you baseball fans out there.
Viewpoint: Making the most of the Mormon Moment
My last companion in Australia was Elder William Hopoate — one of the most famous rugby all-stars in Australia. When he turned down millions of dollars to serve a Mormon mission, it went viral. As we served together, I realized his influence did much more than simply touch the people he came in...
BYU rugby team wins national championship
MR says: Congrats boys. Thousands of BYU fans gathered at the Rio Tinto stadium on Saturday night to witness the BYU Rugby team take the national championship title against Arkansas State. The final score was 49-42. The Red Wolves took advantage of the Cougars’ slow start. Arkansas scored a penalty...
NFL teams accept contracts from four BYU players
The transition from college football to the NFL is hard for any athlete competing in the top league of the popular American sport. Imagine the pressure for a college player signing as a free agent on an NFL team. Four BYU players experienced this feeling after recently signing free-agent...
Ty Detmer will be enshrined to the College Football Hall of Fame
BYU has long been known for producing prolific quarterbacks, and the Cougars' remarkable QB assembly line was honored again Monday, when Ty Detmer was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame. The National Football Foundation announced that Detmer, the 1990 Heisman Trophy winner, is the first...
Viewpoint: The parable of the tabernacle
I live about two blocks from the Provo Tabernacle. I can see it from my house. I could also see it that fateful day in December 2010 when a devastating fire destroyed all but the exterior walls of the building. On Saturday, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland broke ground for those soot-stained walls to...
Y grad aims to build a social network for LDS singles
MR says: The site allows people in the network to not only look for other singels, but to plan and host social events, find housemates or landlords, form groups around shared interests, get recommendations for dating activities in the city where they live, and more. It's hardly a new idea to use the Internet...
The Mormon way of business
MR says: A look at the large number of successful Mormons, and some thoughts on the reasons for it. Jokes about sacred underpants have reached epidemic proportions, thanks to Mitt Romney’s presidential bid and the musical masterpiece by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, “The Book of Mormon”. But the Church...
BYU senior hopes to run in 2012 Olympics
Miles Batty, a senior long-distance standout on the track team, ran his last race in Provo as a Cougar Saturday at the Clarence Robison Invitational. Batty, who currently holds the NCAA indoor mile record at 3:54.54 and was voted national track athlete of the year in 2011, said he hopes to run in...
BYU, University of Utah business schools on News and World Report's 'most popular' list
Two business schools in Utah, Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Business and the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business, have joined the ranks of Harvard and Stanford on U.S. News & World Report’s Most Popular Business Schools list. The rankings were based on the...
Hawaii won't release player to transfer to BYU after mission
Perhaps college basketball was drawing too many transfer controversies because now we have one in college football. The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting Hawaii is denying the transfer of Michael Wadsworth to Brigham Young after the defensive back finishes a Mormon mission in...
The new general Relief Society presidency makes debut
Women’s Conference reached the lunch-hour crowd Thursday with a discussion about “The Vital Role of Women in the Gospel” in the Marriott Center. In one of their first presentations as the new LDS Relief Society general presidency, Linda K. Burton, Carole Stephens and Linda S. Reeves, spoke...
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