Author Archives: Scott Sommerdorf

About Scott Sommerdorf

tidbits: Internship, Sacramento Bee, 1976, hired to staff position: Sacramento Union 1977, San Francisco Chronicle 1987, DoP SF Chron, 1994, Salt Lake Tribune 2005-present. Judge, POY, 2000. Most proud of the people I was able to give a start to in the business, and the good friends who've remained friends through the good times and the not-so-good times.

Two games – one night

Two games tonight at Rice-Eccles: Lone peak 23 – Mountain Crest 13 Bingham 49 – Alta 26 Continue reading

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Football !!!

It’s back. Yes! It was fun to get back into shooting football again last night. The game I was assigned to was a great one. An emotional game at Cottonwood against Alta. The game was tied 21-21 late in the … Continue reading

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Good Advice

seen today at Judge High School Continue reading

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Plastic

Ski jumping on plastic in the summertime = cool Trying to discover the right plane of focus = challenging Published web only = sorta cool? Continue reading

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” Hozho Nahasdlii “

I’ve covered a lot of these. Families say goodbye to sons and fathers – and mothers and daughters. They go off to war and we carry on here. But either I wasn’t paying enough attention before, or this one was … Continue reading

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F A I L . . . . .

. . . . . it’s not always a bad thing. Continue reading

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Thrilla Gorilla

Best assignment at the Zoo ever. Meeting the zoo’s new 340 pound Lowland Gorilla Husani was cool – but the best part was he made Michael Brandy smile. We were both blown away by Husani’s personality.  Continue reading

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Blast From the Past

Today my five-year-old asked me what a pay phone was. She reminded me of this picture I made in 1985 of the L.A. (yes, L.A.) Rams’ RB Eric Dickerson phoning his mom to make sure she was planning to watch … Continue reading

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