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Gordon Monson: A fond good goodbye to Kurt Kragthorpe, a sportswriter’s sportswriter

That was Kurt Kragthorpe’s answer to darn-near every question. And it was his explanation for why the challenge of being a longtime sports columnist for The Tribune was for him, at times, so great.

He considered everything in his search for it. Every aspect, every side of every issue before cracking open his computer. And his panorama/perspective was expansive enough to find room for so much of that everything, for both the affirmative and the negative and all points in-between. And that’s a compliment, not any sort of criticism for waffling, for being irresolute.

Kragthorpe put a wrap on his 42-year journalism career, 30 of those years at The Tribune, after Utah lost to Texas in the Alamo Bowl the other night.