Utah Utes hope the Pac-12 opens athletic facilities June 1 — with limits

A major step toward regaining some semblance of normalcy in college athletics may be coming this week, at least in the Pac-12.The Power Five conference, whose footprint includes six states with varying stay-at-home and social-distancing guidelines, is expected to announce this week an update to its March 30 mandate of no organized, in-person team activities of any kind through May 31.The Pac-12 could merely extend its ban, but there has been growing optimism at the University of Utah that an ope