California man dies while skiing in Park City

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PARK CITY — A 20-year-old man from California was killed in a ski incident at Park City Mountain Resort on Tuesday, according to the resort.

Police have not released the man’s name, but TMZ identified the man as Charlie Noxon, son of “Orange Is the New Black” and “Weeds” creator Jenji Kohan.

Park City Mountain said in a statement Wednesday that ski patrol responded to a “serious incident” on an intermediate trail near Canyons Village. The man from Sherman Oaks was pronounced dead after receiving emergency care, the resort said.

A spokeswoman with the resort declined to elaborate on the incident.

Sheriff’s deputies received a report of a death at the resort Tuesday about 2:30 p.m., said Lt. Andrew Wright with the Summit County Sheriff’s Office.

He gave few details Wednesday, saying investigators were still trying to figure out exactly what happened.

”Just a truly tragic accident,” Wright said.

Deputies were withholding the skier’s name pending notification of kin.

TMZ reports that Noxon fell and was taken by helicopter to a nearby hospital. He was visiting Park City with his siblings and father, writer Christopher Noxon, according to TMZ.

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Former NBA commissioner David Stern dies at 77

FILE - In this June 18, 1996, file photo, Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan, left, receives the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player trophy from Commissioner David Stern during a ceremony in Chicago. David Stern, who spent 30 years as the NBA’s longest-serving commissioner and oversaw its growth into a global power, has died on New Year’s Day, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020. He was 77. | Charles Bennett, Associated Press

NEW YORK — David Stern, the basketball-loving lawyer who took the NBA around the world during 30 years as its longest-serving commissioner and oversaw its growth into a global powerhouse, died Wednesday. He was 77.

Stern suffered a brain hemorrhage on Dec. 12 and underwent emergency surgery. The league said he died with his wife, Dianne, and their family at his bedside.

“The entire basketball community is heartbroken,” the National Basketball Players Association said. “David Stern earned and deserved inclusion in our land of giants.”

Stern had been involved with the NBA for nearly two decades before he became its fourth commissioner on Feb. 1, 1984. By the time he left his position in 2014 — he wouldn’t say or let league staffers say “retire,” because he never stopped working — a league that fought for a foothold before him had grown to a more than $5 billion a year industry and made NBA basketball perhaps the world’s most popular sport after soccer.

“Because of David, the NBA is a truly global brand — making him not only one of the greatest sports commissioners of all time, but also one of the most influential business leaders of his generation,” said Adam Silver, who followed Stern as commissioner. “Every member of the NBA family is the beneficiary of David’s vision, generosity and inspiration.”

Thriving on good debate in the boardroom and good games in the arena, Stern would say one of his greatest achievements was guiding a league of mostly black players that was plagued by drug problems in the 1970s to popularity with mainstream America.

He had a hand in nearly every initiative to do that, from the drug testing program, to the implementation of the salary cap, to the creation of a dress code.

But for Stern, it was always about “the game,” and his morning often included reading about the previous night’s results in the newspaper — even after technological advances he embraced made reading NBA.com easier than ever.

“The game is what brought us here. It’s always about the game and everything else we do is about making the stage or the presentation of the game even stronger, and the game itself is in the best shape that it’s ever been in,” he said on the eve of the 2009-10 season, calling it “a new golden age for the NBA.”

One that was largely created by Stern during a three-decade run that turned countless ballplayers into celebrities who were known around the globe by one name: Magic, Michael, Kobe, LeBron, just to name a few.

Stern oversaw the birth of seven new franchises and the creation of the WNBA and NBA Development League, now the G League, providing countless opportunities to pursue careers playing basketball in the United States that previously weren’t available.

Not bad for a guy who once thought his job might be a temporary one.

He had been the league’s outside counsel from 1966 to ‘78 and spent two years as the NBA’s general counsel, figuring he could always go back to his legal career if he found things weren’t working out after a couple of years.

He never did.

After serving as the NBA’s executive vice president of business and legal affairs from 1980-84, he replaced Larry O’Brien as commissioner.

Overlooked and ignored only a few years earlier, when it couldn’t even get its championship round on live network TV, the NBA saw its popularity quickly surge thanks to the rebirth of the Lakers-Celtics rivalry behind Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, followed by the entrance of Michael Jordan just a few months after Stern became commissioner.

Under Stern, the NBA would play nearly 150 international games and be televised in more than 200 countries and territories, and in more than 40 languages, and the NBA Finals and All-Star weekend would grow into international spectacles. The 2010 All-Star game drew more than 108,000 fans to Dallas Cowboys Stadium, a record to watch a basketball game.

“It was David Stern being a marketing genius who turned the league around. That’s why our brand is so strong,” said Johnson, who announced he was retiring because of HIV in 1991 but returned the following year at the All-Star Game with Stern’s backing.

“It was David Stern who took this league worldwide.”

He was fiercely protective of his players and referees when he felt they were unfairly criticized, such as when members of the Indiana Pacers brawled with Detroit fans in 2004, or when an FBI investigation in 2007 found that Tim Donaghy had bet on games he officiated, throwing the entire referee operations department into turmoil. With his voice rising and spit flying, Stern would publicly rebuke media outlets, even individual writers, if he felt they had taken cheap shots.

But he was also a relentless negotiator against those same employees in collective bargaining, and his loyalty to his owners and commitment to getting them favorable deals led to his greatest failures, lockouts in 1998 and 2011 that were the only times the NBA lost games to work stoppages. Though he had already passed off the heavy lifting to Silver by the latter one, it was Stern who faced the greatest criticism, as well as the damage to a legacy that had otherwise rarely been tarnished.

“As tough an adversary as he was across the table, he never failed to recognize the value of our players, and had the vision and courage to make them the focus of our league’s marketing efforts — building the NBA into the empire it is today,” the NBPA said.

David Joel Stern was born Sept. 22, 1942, in New York. A graduate of Rutgers University and Columbia Law School, he was dedicated to public service, launching the NBA Cares program in 2005 that donated more than $100 million to charity in five years.

He would begin looking internationally soon after becoming commissioner and the globalization of the game got an enormous boost in 1992, when Jordan, Johnson and Bird played on the U.S. Olympic Dream Team that would bring the sport a new burst of popularity while storming to the gold medal in Barcelona.

Stern capitalized on that by sending NBA teams to play preseason games against other NBA or international clubs, and opened offices in other countries. The league staged regular-season games in Japan in 1991 and devoted significant resources to China, and Stern’s work there would pay off in 2008 when basketball was perhaps the most popular sport in the Beijing Olympics.

Growth slowed near the end of his tenure. The worldwide economic downturn in the late 2000s all but wrecked his longtime hopes of expanding overseas and led to the second lockout, with owners wanting massive changes to the salary structure after losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year on their basketball teams, on top of losses in their personal businesses.

He helped get them, and the league was thriving again by the time he left office. Stern said he felt the time was right, confident that he had groomed a worthy successor in Silver, who had worked at the league for more than two decades.

Stern stayed busy, taking trips overseas on the league’s behalf, doing public speaking and consulting various companies. He was inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2014.

Stern and his wife had two sons, Andrew and Eric.

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Utah troopers make 33 DUI arrests on New Year’s Eve

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SALT LAKE CITY — Troopers in Utah arrested 33 drivers for DUI on New Year’s Eve and in the first few hours of 2020.

The majority were pulled over in Salt Lake County, where an enforcement blitz netted a total of 18 arrests, said Cpl. Colton Freckleton with the Utah Highway Patrol.

The tally does not include DUI arrests made by local police agencies.

Freckleton said he brought a driver to the Salt Lake County Jail during the blitz and spotted officers from several other agencies there who had made similar arrests.

“I can’t imagine the impact we as law enforcement made last night,” he said.

Last year, the Utah Highway Patrol reported 11 DUI’s on New Year’s Eve.

Freckleton did not know Wednesday how many of this year’s arrests were potentially linked to a driver’s blood alcohol level between 0.05% and 0.08% under Utah’s lowest-in-the-nation threshold. The lower limit took effect a year ago.

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Why some environmentalists are upset over BLM’s San Rafael road plan

Mike Vanderhoof crosses the plains while riding from the Sid’s Mountain Wilderness Study Area back to camp in the San Rafael Swell Friday, April 1, 2011, in the San Rafael Swell in Central Utah. | Tom Smart, Deseret News

Groups assert it turns region into off road ‘playground’

SALT LAKE CITY — Critics of a draft travel plan proposed by the Bureau of Land Management say it will do irreparable harm to the San Rafael region should it be enacted because it more than doubles the amount of miles open to off-highway vehicle use.

Released Friday, the plan proposes to turn the San Rafael area into a “playground” for off-road enthusiasts, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and The Wilderness Society assert.

“The BLM’s draft travel plan is short-sighted and wholly fails to account for the diverse array of public land resources and user groups,” said Laura Peterson, staff attorney at Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. “Rather than capitalize on an opportunity to develop a reasonable, manageable and forward-thinking travel plan that ensures public access while preserving the backcountry and minimizing damage, the BLM’s plan does exactly the opposite.”

But Ray Peterson, Emery County’s public administrator, said the plan is the result of a four-year process in which the federal agency reviewed the inventoried routes methodically.

“Emery County is happy with this process. Recognizing there is no such thing as a bulletproof process, this is as good as it gets. It was thorough, meticulous and exhaustive,” Peterson said.

He added that these are not new routes, but existing trails.

“There were a lot more that were nondesignated that the BLM chose not to re-designate,” Peterson said.

The land with the trails makes up about 300,000 acres, he said, adding “it is a big chunk of country.”

But the groups say federal law requires BLM to minimize impacts to natural and cultural resources when designating motorized vehicle routes, and the agency failed to consider impacts like damage to soils, the watershed, vegetation, wildlife habitat and cultural sites.

Additionally, they assert the BLM didn’t consider how the proposed routes would present conflict with other land users.

Soren Jespersen, senior field representative at The Wilderness Society, called the plan one-sided.

“This isn’t travel management, it’s a travel free-for-all, and it’s not what visitors to the San Rafael Desert come to experience,” Jespersen said.

Peterson said the BLM has worked cooperatively for years with multiple groups to come up with the plan, including the governor’s office, the school trust lands administration, recreation interests, conservation organizations and others.

The plan is open for public comment for 30 days.

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Ushering in a new decade

Penelope Karsy plays in Japanese lanterns during the Last Hurrah New Year’s Eve celebration at The Gateway in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News

Penelope Karsy plays in Japanese lanterns during the Last Hurrah New Year’s Eve celebration at The Gateway in Salt Lake City on Tuesday. The free, family-friendly event, back for its third year, is billed as the largest New Year’s Eve celebration in Utah. It featured live music on outdoor stages, as well as indoor games and food trucks. While 2019 ended on a dry note, the first few days of 2020 are expected to be wet and snowy as a winter storm moves into the area. According to KSL’s Grant Weyman, the storm is expected to dump 4 to 8 inches of snow in the valleys and 5 to 10 inches of snow for the benches on New Year’s Day. More snow showers are expected Thursday, but the weather will warm up a bit by the weekend.

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Attendees dance during the Last Hurrah New Year’s Eve celebration at The Gateway in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019.

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Bradlee Anae gives Utes one positive to remember about the Alamo Bowl, becomes all-time sacks leader

Utah Utes defensive end Bradlee Anae (6) greets fans after the Utes’ 35-7 win over the Arizona Wildcats at Arizona Stadium in Tucson, Arizona on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret News

SAN ANTONIO — In his final college game, Bradlee Anae made sure to follow one of the final coaching requests he’ll ever get from Utah defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley.

The directive came earlier in the week at an Alamo Bowl press conference when Scalley was responding to a question about the star-studded 2019 class of seniors, which includes his consensus All-American defensive end.

“Bradlee, since the moment he stepped on campus, has had a high motor and a high care factor, and it’s the reason why — are you leading now?” Scalley said, referring to Anae being one-half of a sack away from becoming the Utes’ all-time leader in the category. “Are you the leading sack? ...”

Anae interrupted his coach.

“I need one more,” he said.

Next came the coach’s order.

“Well, get it,” Scalley said. “Geez, let’s do it.”

Anae didn’t wait too long into the bowl game to do just that. Midway through the first quarter, the senior teamed with fellow defensive lineman Leki Fotu to sack Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger for a 3-yard loss.

A moment later, the Alamodome P.A. announcer let the crowd know that the play made Anae the all-time career sacks leader at Utah with 30. He came into the game with 29.5 sacks, which was how many former Ute defender Hunter Dimick tallied during his career from 2013-16. It also was the fourth-most among active FBS players.

With the half-sack, Anae also increased his school record of sack yards to 212. That ranks third among active FBS players.

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