Just when local fans are getting excited about Real Salt Lake after five straight games without a loss, the team goes and loses in the worst possible way — an own-goal in the 89th minute to one of the league's worst teams. At least RSL still has more than three months left on its schedule, unlike the Blaze, who are done for the year ...

Not that an American has to win the U.S. Women's Open, but it was too bad to see Stacy Lewis fade badly Sunday with a 78. The winner, in case you didn't see, was 19-year-old South Korean Inbee Park, not to be confused with Angela Park, a 19-year-old Brazilian-born 19-year-old of Korean descent, who lives in California. She finished in a tie for third place with Lewis and In-Kyung Kim, not to be confused with Mi Hyun Kim, who finished in a tie for sixth, and Song-Hee Kim, who tied for 24th ...

Who's the best player on the PGA Tour now that Tiger Woods is out for the season? It's got to be 47-year-old Kenny Perry, who won for the second time this year at the Buick Open and moved into third place on the FedEx points list. Kenny Perry? Yikes ...

Finally, for all you diehard college football fans, the season begins exactly two months from today for BYU, Utah and Utah State (Weber State starts two days earlier), with training camps a little more than a month away.

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