According to a report from Shams Charania of The Athletic, 30-year-old Jimmer Fredette, the former BYU shooting guard and first-round NBA draft pick that took the nation by storm nearly a decade ago, signed a two-year contract with the Phoenix Suns on Thursday, 21...
Thurl Lee Bailey was born in Washington, D.C. on 7 April 1961. He is a graduate of Bladensburg High School in Bladensburg, Maryland. Family is extremely important to Bailey. He is a devoted family man with six children. He and his wife Sindi currently live in Salt...
By Rebecca I attended Brigham Young University (BYU) the same time as the famous Mormon athlete Jimmer Fredette. I remember the hostile debates throughout Utah in response to another studentās article in The Daily Universe (school newspaper at BYU), who complained...
Charity Anderson and Alexis Warr, two phenomenal dancers from Utah County, wowed audiences as they danced their way across the stage with their dance partners on NBCās World of Dance and were judged by Derek Hough, the only six-time champion in franchise history of...
Kahanu Kia, a native of Kaneohe, Hawaii, is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Dubbed as the āBest Linebacker in Hawaii,ā Kahanu is an outside linebacker for Notre Dame. In just a few short weeks, he will be stowing away his football cleats...
When John Peter Lewis was 23, he cashed in his college loan money to take a big riskāhe auditioned for American Idol, a reality television program that helps to ādiscoverā pop music stars. Although Simon Cowell and Rolling Stones Magazine predicted that he would win,...
There are perhaps very few people, the world over, both children and adults, who are unfamiliar with A.A. Milneās Winnie the Pooh stories. Just the mention of the name, Winnie the Pooh, causes the theme song to play in a personās head on eternal repeat. The stories of...
Scott Warner from Orem, Utah, who the Deseret News daubs āthe idiosyncratic entrepreneurial heavy hitter on Twitter, has almost 348,000 followers. According to the Deseret News story, Scott has built a āmassive social media following on a foundation of love for...
Josh Jones, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often referred to as āthe Mormon Churchā), was recently sent home early from his mission in northern Colombia due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He served four months there in the city of Monteria....
Paulo Gallardo from Peru is a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often mistakenly referred to as āthe Mormon Churchā). He loves soccer and is a sports star in his own right. Just a few months ago the 18-year-old attacking player scored his...
Brigham Young University (BYU) sports fans are all too familiar with the schoolās mascot, Cosmo the Cougar. From 2015-2018, Charlie Bird, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often referred to as āthe Mormon Churchā), performed as the schoolās...
Russell Marion Nelson, the 17th and present president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was born on 9 September 1924, in Salt Lake City, Utah. His parents were Marion C. and Edna Anderson Nelson.Ā He was sustained and ordained an Apostle in April...
The Aces are an all-girl band that started in Provo, Utah. They made their late-night debut on May 17, 2018, on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers.Ā They sang “The Last One” a song from their new album “When My Heart Felt Volcanic.”Ā After...
Matteo is a music group made up of four members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints whoĀ served their missions in Taiwan, China. While on their missions they discovered a passion for Chinese music. That passion led them to learn new instruments that have...
Melanie Roach ranks among the most popular women athletes from the Beijing 2008 Olympics.Her perfect hair, make-up, and stern look of concentration that turns in to a smile that radiates pure joy every time she lifts a massive bar of weights over her head, has...
KreÅ”imir ÄosiÄ, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was born on 26 November 1948 in Zagreb, the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. He is the son of son of Ante and Darinka ÄosiÄ. He was raised in Zadar, Yugoslavia, now...
In 2014, Jonathan and Kylene Jones, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often referred to as the āMormon Churchā), wrote a book called āThe Provident Prepper.ā Ever since writing the book, the couple has maintained that their food storage...
Kuinini āNiniā Manumua is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often referred to as āthe Mormon Church”). She was born in American Samoa but spent the first 10 years of her life in her parentsā home country of Tonga. When she was 10, her...
Republican Utah First elected to the US Senate in 1976.Ā Ā In 1976 in his first run for public office, he was elected to the United States Senate, defeating Democrat Frank Moss, a three-term incumbent. Among other issues, Hatch criticized Moss’s 18-year tenure in...
The largest management and leadership development organization in the world. Stephen R. Covey is perhaps best known as the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which is ranked as a No. 1 best-seller by the New York Times, having sold more than 12 million...
World renowned entertainer and recording artist, Marie Osmond, was the featured guest on 12 October 2018, at the historic Kawaiaha’o Church in Honolulu, Hawaii. She and several members of her family, including brothers Alan, Merrill, and Jay, and nephew, David...
Jason F. Wright is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often referred to as āthe Mormon Churchā). He was born on 1 February 1971, near St. Louis, Missouri, to Willard Samuel Wright and Sandra Fletcher Wright. He grew up in Charlottesville,...
Jonathan Edwin Johnson III (a.k.a. “JJ”) is active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often referred to as “the Mormon Church”). He is also a business executive and currently serves as the CEO for Overstock.com. He was...
Which would you rather do: interview the President of the United States or rock a newborn baby?For Jane Clayson Johnson the answer is clear, if not a little surprising to some.As the author of āI Am a Mother,ā DBā¦.., Jane Clayson tells about a journey from some of the...
