Recent Articles by Tad Walch
Published: Friday, April 27, 2012 3:36 pm MDT
A father's dream comes true when his son falls in love with baseball, but the joy is scarred as steroid use by the boy's favorite players raises familiar coming-of-age questions about children and their heroes....
Published: Friday, March 30, 2012 3:59 pm MDT
If you liked David Halberstam's "The Teammates," you'll enjoy "Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball's Greatest Gift." Harvey Araton describes the unique relationship between Berra and Guidry. ...
Published: Friday, March 9, 2012 5:00 pm MST
President Obama has attended 191 fundraisers for himself and other Democrats, more than any president, by far, in the past 35 years.
Published: Thursday, January 5, 2012 12:00 am MST
As he promised earlier this week, Newt Gingrich unveiled a TV commercial critical of Mitt Romney today in New Hampshire. The ad called Romney's economic proposal "timid" and characterized Gingrich's own plan as...
Published: Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:00 am MST
Craig Bergman joined Newt Gingrich's team last Thursday as the Iowa political director for the Republican frontrunner. He resigned Wednesday after he appeared to call Mormonism a "cult."
Published: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 12:00 am MST
The speech Mitt Romney gave Friday stands out from the others in his Republican primary campaign. Bold was one word used to describe it today by both the Wall Street Journal editorial board and New York Times c...
Published: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 12:00 am MDT
LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson pinned a large portion of his devotional address at BYU on Tuesday on the story of how Harvard business professor Clayton Christensen received his testimony of the Book of ...
Published: Thursday, October 13, 2011 12:00 am MDT
Mormons follow Christ, worship Christ and at Sunday worship services take the sacrament — "where we eat and drink the symbolic representation of Christ's body and blood" — the head of public affairs...
Published: Sunday, August 21, 2011 12:00 am MDT
"56: Joe Dimaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports," by Kostya Kennedy, Sports Illustrated, $26.95, 368 pages (nf)
Joe DiMaggio and his best friend Lefty Gomez couldn't have been more different. Nobody wa
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Published: Saturday, August 6, 2011 12:00 am MDT
A submarine chaser in the Navy during World War II, Elder Marion D. Hanks risked his life to fly into hot combat zones during the Vietnam War to minister to LDS soldiers.