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Pulling the credential of a local sports columnist is not the only controversial move made by Real Salt Lake under the ownership of Dell Loy Hansen.
As misplayed hands go, this ranks somewhere below allowing former coach Jason Kreis’ contract enter into its final year without an extension and not giving former general manager Garth Lagerwey more autonomy within the front office.
But the decision to bar Salt Lake Tribune writer Gordon Monson from covering Saturday’s home match against New England for a pair of critical stories he’d published about Hansen last season does indicate just how tin-eared things have become behind the scenes of an organization once respected throughout Major League Soccer.