Buffalo Chip to the management of the Orem Owlz for attempting to bully the media into taking their side in a dispute over the name of UVSC's baseball stadium. UVSC awarded naming rights to local car dealer Brent Brown. But Jeff Katofsky, the minor league baseball team's majority owner, claims that calling the field "Brent Brown Ballpark" violates his agreement with UVSC. Oddly, he turned his wrath on the local media, demanding that the park be called "Home of the Owlz" -- a name that rolls off the tongue with the grace of a Tim Wakefield knuckleball. Any news organization failing to comply would lose all access to the team. Not to be bullied, the Herald and Deseret News decided to curtail news coverage of the Owlz. We used to call this a California punch. It's when your opponent steps in to deliver a haymaker and walks nose first into a straight arm.

Beehive to Eric Fullerton for helping save people from an escaped prison inmate who had already killed a prison guard. Fullerton, a 59-year-old truck driver, was in line at a fast-food restaurant when Curtis Allgier burst into the store and attempted to take an employee hostage. Allgier had just fled the University of Utah Medical Center, where he had killed corrections officer Stephen Anderson. Fullerton, a former Army paratrooper, said he just leapt over the counter and wrestled the gun away from Allgier, who then fled to the manager's office where he was apprehended by police. "I don't know where I got the strength," Fullerton said. "I just knew I couldn't let go or I would be dead."Buffalo Chip to Layne D. Hess for abusing Utah's legal system after being spurned by a woman. When Jody Johnston canceled her marriage engagement to Hess in 2005 and returned the ring, Hess sued her for unjust enrichment and breach of contract. He sought to be reimbursed for the thousands he spent in preparation for the nuptials, including a cruise to Alaska, a trip to France and a vasectomy. His case was dismissed in Utah's 3rd District Court, but Hess appealed. The Utah Court of Appeals upheld the initial dismissal, finding that no gifts given during an engagement imply an agreement to get married, so Johnston didn't owe her ex-fiance anything. The court did note that Hess didn't leave empty-handed; he got back his ring. At least we don't have to worry about Hess genetically passing on an attitude to the next generation since he's removed himself from the gene pool.

Beehive to Kim and Karen O'Donnell for being an animal's best friends. For seven years, the O'Donnells have been rescuing animals that were injured or abandoned. It all started when they came to the aid of a dog that was hit by a car. Now more than 100 rescued animals, including goats, pigs and horses, live at their Friends In Need animal sanctuary in Eagle Mountain. They try to arrange adoptions for some of the animals, but others are permanent guests because of injuries and abuse.

This story appeared in The Daily Herald on page A5.

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