SHAREEditor’s note: Second in an occasional series reminiscing about games not to be forgotten.Among the many basketball games I got paid to watch back in the days when I was a sports writer, one I won’t soon forget is the night Larry Bird decided making history was not that big a deal.Bird and the Boston Celtics were visiting the Salt Palace to play the Jazz on Feb. 18, 1985. The Celtics were defending NBA champions, in the midst of a seven-year run that would include five trips to the NBA finals and three championships. Visiting Salt Lake City on a clear, cold February night, their...…SHAREEditor’s note: Second in an occasional series reminiscing about games not to be forgotten.Among the many basketball games I got paid to watch back in the days when I was a sports writer, one I won’t soon forget is the night Larry Bird decided making history was not that big a deal.Bird and the Boston Celtics were visiting the Salt Palace to play the Jazz on Feb. 18, 1985. The Celtics were defending NBA champions, in the midst of a seven-year run that would include five trips to the NBA finals and three championships. Visiting Salt Lake City on a clear, cold February night, their...WW…

SHAREPROVO — It’s a sweet story that doesn’t grow old, and the same might be said about the man telling it.Gail S. “Hal” Halvorsen needs no prodding to talk about something he’s been talking about for 72 years.Relaxing in the shade of an apple tree in the backyard of the house he built in 1974 when he retired from the U.S. Air Force and returned to Utah, he enthusiastically launches into a retelling of the time he was called on the carpet by his commanding officer in the summer of 1948.He had just returned to his airbase after flying a C-54 cargo plane to Berlin. Three years after the...…SHAREPROVO — It’s a sweet story that doesn’t grow old, and the same might be said about the man telling it.Gail S. “Hal” Halvorsen needs no prodding to talk about something he’s been talking about for 72 years.Relaxing in the shade of an apple tree in the backyard of the house he built in 1974 when he retired from the U.S. Air Force and returned to Utah, he enthusiastically launches into a retelling of the time he was called on the carpet by his commanding officer in the summer of 1948.He had just returned to his airbase after flying a C-54 cargo plane to Berlin. Three years after the...WW…

SHAREofofofofSALINA, Sevier County — Consider today’s column a public service announcement: If you’re ever driving on I-70 between the towns of Salina and Green River, do yourself a favor and check your gas gauge. It could save you a lot of grief.That’s because out of the thousands and thousands of miles that make up America’s vast interstate highway system — almost 50,000 at last count — there is no longer stretch of blacktop without services than the one between Green River on the east and Salina on the west right here in Utah.One hundred and six consecutive miles of no towns. Or exits...…SHAREofofofofSALINA, Sevier County — Consider today’s column a public service announcement: If you’re ever driving on I-70 between the towns of Salina and Green River, do yourself a favor and check your gas gauge. It could save you a lot of grief.That’s because out of the thousands and thousands of miles that make up America’s vast interstate highway system — almost 50,000 at last count — there is no longer stretch of blacktop without services than the one between Green River on the east and Salina on the west right here in Utah.One hundred and six consecutive miles of no towns. Or exits...WW…