About Utah: 2017: All about bucking the odds

SALT LAKE CITY — And a warm welcome to 2018. But before we start breaking in the new year, here's an "About Utah" look at the one that just ended.
Because it was the year of the impossible — when a man who never held public office became president and the Houston Astros — the Houston Astros! — won the World Series — the stories I remember most writing in 2017 were about things that shouldn't have happened but somehow did anyway.
Leading the way were origin stories a