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Suzanne Somers, the effervescent blonde actor known for playing Chrissy Snow on the television show “Three’s Company” and who became an entrepreneur and New York Times best-selling author, has died. She was 76. Somers had breast cancer for over 23 years and died Sunday morning, her family said in a statement provided by her longtime publicist, R. Couri Hay. Her husband, Alan Hamel, her son Bruce and other immediate family were with her in Palm Springs, California. “Her family was gathered to celebrate her 77th birthday on October 16th,” the statement read. “Instead, they will celebrate her extraordinary life, and want to thank her millions of fans and followers who loved her dearly.” In July, Somers shared on Instagram that her breast cancer had returned. “Like any cancer patient, when you get that dreaded, ‘It’s back’ you get a pit in your stomach. Then I put on my battle gear and go to war,” she told Entertainment Tonight at the time. “This is familiar battleground for me and I’m...

Salt Lake City now stands alone as a candidate to host the 2034 Olympic Games. Two days after the International Olympic Committee’s executive board proposed awarding both the 2030 and 2034 Winter Olympics at the same time, it was revealed Sunday that Salt Lake is the only site vying to host in 2034. Fraser Bullock, the president and CEO of the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games, told The Salt Lake Tribune he had an inkling his group was the only one. Still, he was glad to hear the revelation from Karl Stoss, the chair of the IOC’s Future Host Commission. “It was everything we could have hoped for,” Bullock said. “It’s a very positive development for Utah.” Sweden, Switzerland and France are contending for the 2030 Games. As opposed to Salt Lake, which has been planning its bid for more than a decade, all three launched their bids earlier this year. They stepped forward after the IOC postponed advancing any country to the “targeted dialogue” stage — where contracts can be ...

Washington moved up to No. 5 on Sunday in The Associated Press college football poll, the Huskies’ best ranking in six years, after a thrilling victory against Oregon and unbeaten Air Force was ranked for the first time since 2019. The top four teams in the country were unchanged after No. 1 Georgia, No. 2 Michigan, No. 3 Ohio State and No. 4 Florida State all won Saturday in blowout fashion. The Bulldogs received 43 first-place votes, Michigan got 16 and Ohio State and Florida State each had one. Washington received two first-place votes and jumped two spots past No. 6 Oklahoma and No. 7 Penn State, giving the Huskies their best ranking since reaching No. 5 on Oct. 8, 2017. The last time Washington was ranked this highly this late in the season was 2016, when the Huskies made the College Football Playoff. That was the last time any Pac-12 team reached the four-team playoff. Washington beat Oregon 36-33 when the Ducks missed a field goal on the game’s final play. Oregon dropped one...

Fort Worth, Texas • Kedon Slovis ’ first pass of the game was intercepted and returned 35 yards for a touchdown, and the Cougars never recovered from there in a 44-11 blowout loss to TCU. The Cougars are now 4-2 on the year. BYU was outgained by more than 300 yards and passed midfield just once in the first half. Meanwhile, TCU backup quarterback Josh Hoover sliced through the Cougar defense for four touchdowns in his first college start. “Today they look a lot like what I saw [TCU do] last year on film,” head coach Kalani Sitake said. “Everything was making a lot of sense for them. Efficient on third-down. Using the run to keep us on our heels. Utilizing their speed and big physical o-line.” BYU didn’t get a score until it was down 24 points. A Keelan Marion three-yard rushing touchdown late in the second quarter only momentarily stopped the bleeding. TCU would score 14 unanswered after that, all but putting the game away. Slovis finished 15-of-34 for 152 yards and two turnover...

Some pregame availability notes for Saturday’s Utah football game against Cal: • Quarterback Cam Rising and tight end Brant Kuithe were not dressed for pregame warmups. The three QBs taking pregame snaps were Bryson Barnes, Nate Johnson, and Luke Bottari. Brandon Rose — who the coaching staff is hoping to redshirt at this point — was not dressed. • Defensive end Connor O’Toole is dressed and appears poised to make his season debut. The coaching staff had originally intended to play him vs. Oregon State, but backed off. He’ll start opposite Jonah Elliss, who comes in second in the FBS with 7.5 sacks. • Running back Ja’Quinden Jackson, who has been banged up most of the season and didn’t play at Oregon State, was dressed and going through warmups. It appears he’ll play, but we’ll see how close to 100% he is. • ESPN 700 — the team’s flagship radio station — reported pregame that wide receiver Mycah Pittman has been ruled out for the rest of the season. The Oregon/Florida State transfe...

Saturday’s annular solar eclipse drew thousands of residents and tourists alike to southern Utah. Ahead of this weekend, the Utah Department of Transportation warned that central and southern Utah highways would see heavy traffic, especially near Richfield and Mexican Hat. This eclipse’s path of annularity — where the whole moon passes in front of the sun for the full ring of fire effect — included parts of Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef and Canyonlands National Parks. Utah towns Richfield and Torrey were in the middle of the eclipse’s path and experienced full annularity for four minutes. The eclipse brought an influx of tourists in its wake. While some communities, like Torrey, welcomed the travelers , others, like Bluff, tried to repel them . In an annular eclipse, the moon doesn’t totally block out the sun as it would during a total eclipse. The moon passes directly in front of the sun but appears smaller. The result is a ring of sunlight around the moon. Utahns on the Wasatch Fro...

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