Month: January 2025

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The Nevada Wolf Pack (11-7, 3-4 MWC) will try to continue a three-game winning stretch when visiting the Utah State Aggies (16-2, 6-1 MWC) on Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at Dee Glen Smith Spectrum. This matchup is at 9:00 PM ET on Fox Sports 1.

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Utah State vs. Nevada Viewing Options: Live Stream and TV Channel

• Game day: Wednesday, January 22, 2025
• Game time: 9:00 PM ET
• Location: Logan, Utah
• Arena: Dee Glen Smith Spectrum
• TV: Fox Sports 1
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Utah State vs. Nevada Statistics and Rankings

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Utah State Leaders

• Mason Falslev: 15.9 PTS, 6.3 REB, 3.4 AST, 2.2 STL, 0.2 BLK
• Ian Martinez: 16.7 PTS, 3.3 REB, 3.1 AST, 0.9 STL, 0.3 BLK
• Karson Templin: 9.7 PTS, 5.8 REB, 0.8 AST, 0.7 STL, 0.9 BLK
• Dexter Akanno: 8.2 PTS, 3.5 REB, 1.1 AST, 0.8 STL, 0 BLK
• Drake Allen: 6.4 PTS, 1.7 REB, 3.9 AST, 1 STL, 0.3 BLK

Nevada Leaders

• Nick Davidson: 15.6 PTS, 7 REB, 3.2 AST, 0.7 STL, 1.1 BLK
• Kobe Sanders: 14.7 PTS, 3.2 REB, 4.4 AST, 1.1 STL, 0.3 BLK
• Tre Coleman: 9.1 PTS, 3.3 REB, 4.2 AST, 1.3 STL, 0.4 BLK
• Justin McBride: 7.3 PTS, 4.6 REB, 0.4 AST, 0.4 STL, 0.4 BLK
• Xavier Dusell: 7.9 PTS, 1.7 REB, 0.6 AST, 0.6 STL, 0 BLK

Utah State vs. Nevada Recent Trends

Utah State

• Utah State has a 8-2 record straight-up in its last 10 contests, while covering the spread five times in those games.
• Utah State’s last 10 contests saw five hit the over.
• Utah State’s last 10 outings have ended with an average of 148.8 points scored. That’s 7.3 more points than this contest’s over/under.
• During its past 10 games, Utah State has scored four fewer points per contest compared to its season-long scoring average.

Nevada

• Nevada is 5-5 overall and 3-7 against the spread over its past 10 games.
• Nevada’s last 10 outings saw four go over the total.
• The last 10 Nevada games averaged 140.4 total points, 1.1 fewer points than this matchup’s point total.
• Over the past 10 games, Nevada is scoring 73.8 points per game compared to its 74.8 season average.

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Police have arrested a suspect in the unsolved murder of a Honolulu teenager, whose death rocked the high school where her body was discovered almost five decades ago. They said the man arrested, Gideon Castro, was one of her former schoolmates who joined the U.S. Army Reserve after graduating.

Dawn Momohara was found dead the morning of March 21, 1977, on the second floor of a building at McKinley High School, in Hawaii’s capital, according to the Honolulu Police Department. She was 16 and a student there in her sophomore year.

Officers at the time showed up to a gruesome scene. Momohara was partially clothed and lying on her back with an orange cloth tied around her neck, said Lt. Deena Thoemmes, of Honolulu Police, at a Tuesday news conference. A subsequent autopsy ruled Momohara was strangled to death, and the medical examiner said there were signs of sexual assault.

Although police retrieved an unknown man’s DNA sample from the teenager’s clothing, they could not identify a suspect. Authorities would not develop meaningful leads in the homicide until 2020, after a cold case detective re-submitted evidence for forensic exams using updated technology.

By September 2023, the DNA tests led investigators to two possible suspects: brothers Gideon Castro and William Castro, who had both been interviewed in the immediate aftermath of Momohara’s killing. Back then, Gideon Castro told police he met Momohara at a school dance in 1976, just before he graduated, police said. William Castro in those interviews said he and Momohara periodically talked on the phone but denied ever being in any kind of relationship with her.

Once forensic tests narrowed down the pool of potential suspects to the Castro brothers, Thoemmes said police traveled to Chicago, where William Castro lived, to obtain a DNA sample secretly from one of his children and use it as a comparison. The comparison excluded William Castro as a suspect, and Gideon Castro, now 66, was arrested at his nursing home in Utah on a second-degree murder charge.

Gideon Castro will be extradited back to Honolulu, Thoemmes said.

“On behalf of the Honolulu Police Department, I want to thank all the individuals and agencies that made today’s arrest possible,” the lieutenant said. “Thank you for all your dedication and commitment to the tireless purusit of justice for Dawn and the Momohara family.”

Utah Senate President Stuart Adams warned that if the state fails to respond to a recent court ruling that limited legislative changes to citizen initiatives then Utah could become the next “Petri dish of America.”

Adams predicted that lawmakers will draft language for another constitutional amendment before the 2026 election cycle to work around the Utah Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Legislature’s limited ability to reform citizen ballot initiatives.

“The people in Utah that are elected ought to be making decisions for people in Utah,” Adams, R-Layton, told reporters on Tuesday.

How did we get here?

In July, the Utah Supreme Court ruled that the Utah Constitution prohibits lawmakers from altering the results of citizen-led ballot initiatives that reform the government unless the changes are narrowly tailored to meet a compelling government interest.

In September, the state’s highest court upheld a decision from a 3rd District Court judge that voided “Amendment D,” a ballot initiative crafted by legislative leadership that would have amended the Utah Constitution to allow lawmakers to amend or repeal citizen initiatives in all cases.

But the Utah Legislature is far from ready to cede their ability to amend laws passed via ballot initiative.

Is Utah becoming more like Oregon?

Adams insisted that continuing with the court decision would undermine the state’s republican form of government and would set the state on a path to becoming like California and Oregon.

Adams recounted a conversation he had with the Democratic senate president of Oregon, where a ballot initiative decriminalizing hard drugs wreaked havoc for four years before the legislature stepped in last year with a recriminalization law.

Oregon’s citizen initiative policy made it “the Petri dish of America,” this lawmaker reportedly told Adams. “Every crazy idea in America is passed with an initiative in Oregon,” Adams said.

Citizen initiatives are often driven by activist groups from other states, Adams pointed out. The 2020 Oregon initiative that legalized the possession of all drugs was funded by an organization from New York City.

“Out-of-state companies coming in and running initiatives like that are destroying states,” Adams said.

Another constitutional amendment

Other states have attempted to prohibit foreign influences on ballot initiatives. But these laws have been held up by court challenges on First Amendment grounds, according to Sen. Kirk Cullimore, R-Draper.

Passing this kind of restriction on special interests through a constitutional amendment before all Utah voters could put it on stronger legal footing, Cullimore said.

Voters can only vote on a constitutional amendment during a presidential election year. Adams said he isn’t sure whether the Legislature will pass a bill to place another constitutional amendment on the ballot this session or next.

The last time lawmakers attempted to amend the state Constitution to allow changes to all citizen-led ballot initiatives, the effort was struck down because of misleading language and the failure to adequately advertise the amendment.

“We have served the people well, and I’m just really concerned that out-of-state groups will come in and spend the money and destroy all that we’ve done here,” Adams said.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Connor Ingram made 23 saves and Olli Maatta scored his first goal for the Utah Hockey Club in a 5-2 victory over Winnipeg Jets on Monday night.

Logan Cooley, Barrett Hayton, Matias Maccelli and Clayton Keller also scored to help Utah win its second consecutive home game. Hayton, Josh Doan and Nick Schmaltz each had two assists.

Connor Hellebuyck stopped 23 shots for Winnipeg. Nino Niederreiter and Dylan DeMelo scored in the third period as the Jets avoided their second shutout loss of the season.

Keller headed to the dressing room a minute into the second after a shot from teammate Michael Kesselring deflected high and struck him in the face. Keller returned, with swelling and a cut above his eye, with 4:40 left in the period.

He helped set up Maatta’s drive 40 seconds later that put Utah on the board. Cooley extended the lead on a breakaway with 17.9 seconds remaining in the second.

Hayton and Maccelli each scored early in the third to make it 4-0 before Niederreiter and DeMelo scored 3:16 apart to cut the deficit in half with 8:12 left.

Keller capped the scoring with an empty-netter with 2:05 remaining.

Takeaways

Jets: Played their first road game in January after opening 2025 with eight straight at home.

Utah: Tough defense carried Utah, which allowed one shot on goal over the first 10 minutes and kept Winnipeg off the scoreboard until almost midway through the third period.

Key moment

Maatta and Cooley scored 3:42 apart late in the second to spark an offensive surge for Utah.

Key stat

Utah is averaging 3.8 goals over its last four games.

Up next

Winnipeg visits Colorado on Wednesday, while Utah plays at Minnesota on Thursday.

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah captain Clayton Keller went to the locker room a minute into the second period against the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday night after a puck struck him the face.

A shot from teammate Michael Kesselring got deflected high and the puck struck Keller. He immediately ripped off his helmet, skated off the ice, and headed straight to the locker room.

Keller eventually returned to the ice with 4:40 left in the second with swelling and a cut above his eye. He assisted on Utah’s first goal of the game 40 seconds later and added an empty-netter late in the 5-2 win over the Jets.

“I got lucky,” said Keller, who sported a dozen stitches and a bruised eyelid following the game. “It didn’t catch my eye. It was so fast, you don’t feel much. But I tried to look through my eye and I knew I could, so I wasn’t really too worried after that.”

His quick return and toughness shifted momentum in Utah’s favor and led to a second straight home victory to cap a seven-game homestand.

“Coming back without hesitation, without a doubt in his head — that was great,” Utah coach Andre Tourigny said.

Keller has 10 goals and 20 assists over his last 22 games. He had a goal and three assists in Utah’s 4-2 win over St. Louis on Saturday, matching his NHL career high with four points. Keller leads the expansion club in points (50) and assists (34) this season.

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