UTAH TECH UNIVERSITY'S STUDENT NEWS SOURCE | May 04, 2024

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Nets on Fire: more than just basketball

 Nets on Fire is a facility that is about more than just basketball and they encourage kids to be better on and off the court.   The non-profit basketball facility holds tournaments, leagues, camps and rents space for athletic and non-athletic events.   It sponsored the Dixie State University men’s and women’s basketball games on Jan. 25 […]

Dixie State University, Greater Zion partner, Trailblazer Stadium to be renamed

Dixie State University agreed to a 20-year partnership with the Greater Zion Convention and Tourism Office. Each year, Greater Zion will invest $500,000 into strategic marketing programs. With this partnership, Trailblazer Stadium will be renamed Greater Zion Stadium. “DSU represents one of the key components in our community’s economic structure,” President Richard ‘Biff’ Williams said. […]

OPINION: WWIII drafting memes not too far, offer healthy way to cope

World War III drafting memes have been labeled insensitive and offensive, but that isn’t the case. After the death of Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian major general, in an airstrike Jan. 3, 2020, the internet took to making World War III memes soon thereafter. The memes consisted of jokes about young men –typically college students– getting […]

DSU adds new athletics position for D1 Move

Dixie State University has added a new associate athletic director for academic services and student-athlete welfare to assist with the higher academic standards in Division I.   The new position was given to Mike Olson and it is aimed at helping student-athletes with their academic requirements. Students will be held to a higher academic standard called […]