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• Prep football: Mountain Crest Mustangs preview

  13-08-2017 23:41
  Difficult circumstances plagued Mountain Crest last season.Despite new high school Ridgeline taking a large chunk out of the school’s student body, the Mustangs were forced to remain in Class 5A until 2017’s realignment.Then long-time coach Mark Wootton stepped away from the program.After being forced to play undermanned and with little experience, second-year coach Jason Lee is hoping to reap the benefits of a tough season in 2016 with loads of returning starters who have the size a
  
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• LDS Church dedicates Tucson temple

  13-08-2017 23:31
  Mormons on Sunday dedicated the Tucson, Arizona, Temple, making it the sixth in the state and 157th worldwide.Weekend events included cultural celebrations, a dedicatory prayer and the traditional cornerstone ceremony led by President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, according to a release from the LDS Church.“The temple is such a wonderful sign of light and of purpose, which is the purpose, which is heavenly,
  
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• Prep football: Gunnison Valley Bulldogs preview

  13-08-2017 23:09
  The writing is on the wall for Jack Pay and his Gunnison Valley football team. And it’s not the bad kind.The Bulldogs are primed to put themselves in a position to make a little school history. The best record for Gunnison Valley football was a 7-4 mark in 2005, so Pay’s group, which has a significant number of regulars from last year coming back, is taking aim at that — for starters.“I think it’s an attainable goal this year. I expect to do well in the preseason,&r
  
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• Prep football: American Leadership Eagles preview

  13-08-2017 22:55
  New coach Nate Porter has been an assistant coach for American Leadership Academy in Spanish Fork off-and-on over the last seven years while he’s been a clinical therapist in Springville and Provo while earning his doctorate in psychology.Much of his recent analysis is devoted to the ALA Eagles football squad.Among the results: The Eagles of 2016 could have had its win-loss record reversed with just a little more fortune.“Last year, we just had a couple of games [Gunnison Valley, Lay
  
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• After Charlottesville protests, a Kentucky mayor wants to remove Confederate statues

  13-08-2017 22:51
  Lexington, Ky., Mayor Jim Gray doesn’t have to watch footage of the violent protests in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend to know how divisive Confederate monuments can be.At family reunions and holiday dinners his whole life, he has heard about his great-uncles fighting each other in the Civil War’s Battle of Shiloh. Two were on the Union’s side. One fought for the Confederacy.Now, the 53-year-old mayor, who is white, is bracing for more controversy — and potentiall
  
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• Ou-yang Nana swings from Jackie Chan role to Disney album

  13-08-2017 22:35
  Taipei, Taiwan • Ou-yang Nana may be the new “it girl,” with a starring role in the next Jackie Chan movie, but she’s returning to her roots and first love: cello.The 17-year-old actor just released her second cello album, “Cello Loves Disney,” where she plays all the classic hits from her favorite fairy tales. Ou-yang said it was a dream come true to record the songs she loves and knows by heart, including the title song from “Beauty and the Beast.&rdquo
  
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• Prep football: South Summit Wildcats preview

  13-08-2017 22:33
  The letter H comes after C alphabetically, but South Summit coach Mike Grajek is switching the order on his list of priorities entering his second season.“We need to stay humble and hungry,” Grajek said, “instead of cocky and content.”With a run in the Class 2A playoffs that ended only with a state championship game loss to Beaver, chances are decent that the current crew of South Summit players won’t exactly be content.And confidence might stay clear of cockiness s
  
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• Small, Sundance-acclaimed movie ‘Step’ is a big leap for the women in it

  13-08-2017 22:32
  When the Lethal Ladies of BLSYW perform, the first thing one notices is the thunder.The sound comes when boots hit the floor, in unison and in rhythm, as the members of the high-school step team from the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women perform intricate and powerful routines. The power of their feet landing is matched by their hand claps, forming complex and precise percussion with every move.But before these women get a chance to show off their stuff in their step routines, they hav
  
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• Salt Lake County sheriff pick Rosie Rivera faces immediate battle on jail space, violence in homeless district, opioids

  13-08-2017 22:27
  Sandy • Salt Lake County Democrats on Saturday chose Unified Police Deputy Chief Rosie Rivera to lead one of the state’s largest law enforcement agencies as county sheriff through 2018.Once the County Council signs off, she will become the county’s first female sheriff and the only woman overseeing a sheriff’s office in Utah.Rivera, who has more than 20 years of law enforcement experience and has overseen policing for the Unified Police Department in its Riverton precinct,
  
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• Alleged driver of car that plowed into Charlottesville crowd was a Nazi sympathizer, former teacher says

  13-08-2017 22:24
  Charlottesville, Va. • An explosion of violence turned deadly in this normally bucolic university town on Saturday as hundreds of white supremacists clashed with counterprotesters in the streets, and a car — allegedly driven by a young man who had long sympathized with Nazi views — plowed into crowds, killing one person and leaving 19 injured.The accused driver, James Alex Fields Jr., 20, of Ohio, espoused Nazi ideals in high school, according to Derek Weimer, a history tea
  
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• NBA heads to the Holy Land to develop talent, promote values

  13-08-2017 22:16
  Jerusalem • The NBA is heading to the Holy Land this week, bringing together some of the top emerging talent from across Europe as part of the league’s push to attract more foreign players and expand its global reach.An NBA delegation, led by Commissioner Adam Silver, is in Israel as part of “Basketball Without Borders,” a program that hosts training camps for top teenage players throughout the world. The visit comes at a time when Silver is seeking ways to make improvemen
  
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• NFL: Chiefs showcase deep ball in apparent change of mindset

  13-08-2017 22:01
  St. Joseph, Mo. • Patrick Mahomes II was poised to enter his first NFL game, the butterflies no doubt waltzing in his stomach, when Andy Reid sauntered over and asked him about the first play he would call.It was the first play that starter Alex Smith and backup Tyler Bray had run, both of them hitting a deep ball down the sideline.Smith’s throw to Tyreek Hill helped to set up a touchdown in Friday night’s game against San Francisco, while Bray’s 83-yard touchdown throw wa
  
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• Prep football: North Summit Braves preview

  13-08-2017 21:48
  Gary Crittenden was a longtime football assistant in Morgan, but living in Coalville knowing that North Summit needed a coach was making it tougher and tougher for him not to do anything about it.“My boy’s going to be a freshman, and I didn’t apply right at first,” Crittenden said.He was a senior on the 1991 state championship team at North Summit, the school’s third title in a row.“I couldn’t see these kids and look them in the eye, knowing I didn&rsquo
  
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• ICYMI - Donovan & Tony // Rookie Photo Shoot 📸📸 Photo Gallery: on.nba.com/2hX81YY https://t.co/LgvoYRfUWZ

  13-08-2017 21:42 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI - Donovan & Tony // Rookie Photo Shoot 📸📸Photo Gallery: on.nba.com/2hX81YY https://t.co/LgvoYRfUWZ
  
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• Prep football: Union Cougars preview

  13-08-2017 21:36
  Returning starters almost always are good for a high school team. If those regulars still are young, there’s major upside for the future.So it should be no surprise that Union High, despite only winning a couple of games last year, is brimming with optimism.“I like where we’re heading. I think everybody’s excited,” Cougars coach Matt Labrum said about the possibilities.Union brings back seven starters on offense and six on defense. The offensive line might be the be
  
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• Remembering the Virginia state troopers killed in a helicopter crash while monitoring the Charlottesville clashes

  13-08-2017 21:34
  Two Virginia State troopers killed doing surveillance work during Saturday’s white nationalist rally in Charlottesville were well-known to Gov. Terry McAuliffe.H. Jay Cullen, 48, was a veteran pilot who spent several years shepherding the governor around Virginia. Berke Bates, who would have turned 41 Sunday, was just beginning to realize a lifelong dream of becoming a helicopter pilot.“I was close to both of those state troopers,” McAuliffe said at a memorial service in Charlo
  
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• Charlottesville victim ‘was there standing up for what was right’

  13-08-2017 21:32
  Charlottesville, Va. • Police on Sunday identified the woman killed Saturday when a vehicle plowed into a group of counterprotesters here as 32-year-old Heather D. Heyer.Authorities said 19 other pedestrians suffered injuries ranging from serious to minor.As a girl, Heyer stood up for people being picked on while riding the schools bus.On Saturday, she was killed standing up for her country, according to a childhood friend.Heyer was among those gathered in Charlottesville to oppose the neo-
  
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• Prep football: Grantsville Cowboys preview

  13-08-2017 21:18
  After Kody Byrd got the job as the Grantsville coach after serving as an assistant at Spanish Fork, he made the decision not to rehash the recent past at his new school.And that extends to how the Cowboys finished in region or their playoff results.“To tell you the truth, I haven’t looked too far into it,” Byrd said about the 2016 win-loss record.But Byrd’s entrance isn’t because of a bad year on the field. After a 4-7 campaign that ended with a first-round one-poin
  
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• Prep football: Emery Spartans preview

  13-08-2017 21:04
  A graduating class of 18 players is a big deal if a school only has 45 to 55 in the entire football program.And that’s the predicament facing the Emery Spartans as coach Jon Faimalo enters his second season. Emery made it to the Class 3A state quarterfinal round last year, where it lost to Juab, but this year’s edition is going to be young.Faimalo remains optimistic, however.“You’ve got seniors who were juniors, who had been biding their time,” Faimalo said. “
  
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• Salt Lake County sheriff pick Rosie Rivera supports community policing to address issues like homelessness, opioids

  13-08-2017 20:48
  Sandy • Salt Lake County Democrats on Saturday chose Unified Police Deputy Chief Rosie Rivera to lead one of the state’s largest law enforcement agencies as county sheriff through 2018.Once the County Council signs off, she will become the county’s first female sheriff and the only woman overseeing a sheriff’s office in Utah.Rivera, who has more than 20 years of law enforcement experience and has overseen policing for the Unified Police Department in its Riverton precinct,
  
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• Book review: Karin Slaughter’s ‘Good Daughter’ has solid plot

  13-08-2017 20:34
  Each Quinn sister, in her own way, tries to be the good daughter but neither of these complicated, often prickly, women has come to terms with the horrific crime that changed their lives in Karin Slaughter’s excellent stand-alone novel, “The Good Daughter.”Samantha was 15 and Charlotte was 13 when two men forced their way into their rural Pikeville, Georgia, home looking for their father, Rusty, a disliked defense attorney who townspeople believed “served at the right han
  
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• Trump faulted for not explicitly rebuking white supremacists

  13-08-2017 20:29
  Bedminster, N.J. • President Donald Trump is drawing criticism from Republicans and Democrats for not explicitly denouncing white supremacists in the aftermath of violent clashes in Virginia, with lawmakers saying he needs to take a public stand against groups that espouse racism and hate.Trump, while on a working vacation at his New Jersey golf club, addressed the nation Saturday soon after a car plowed into a group of anti-racist counter-protesters in Charlottesville, a college town where
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Former Utah Jazz star Gordon Hayward surprises JP Gibson with get-well gift

  13-08-2017 19:07 via sportspyder.com
  ... resonate with Jazz fans everywhere. The seven-year-old had been in remission for two years, bef ...
  
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• Former Utah Jazz star Gordon Hayward surprises JP Gibson with get-well gift

  13-08-2017 18:50
  Despite leaving the Utah Jazz this summer, Gordon Hayward continues to support JP Gibson’s fight against cancer. Sometimes, you just have to swallow your pride and give the devil his due. Utah Jazz fans are still reeling from Gordon Hayward’s decision to leave the team last month. Take a quick glance at his or his wife’s social […]
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• Letter: Don’t repeal and replace —rename and stabilize

  13-08-2017 18:08
  The current Congress and administration may be more successful at passing a new health care program with the following changes:Rename the current law and pass it as is. Re-instate TV and advertising for participants to be educated concerning deadlines and enrollment options. Enforce the “individual mandate.” Do not provide the tax breaks in the current proposal (billions of dollars) for the wealthy and corporate interests and use this money to provide incentives for insurers in the r
  
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• Letter: Birth control is the moral choice

  13-08-2017 18:08
  It is rare that I am excited about policy championed by Republican lawmakers, but I am writing to express my strong support for Rep. Ray Ward’s proposal to expand access to birth control for poor Utah women.Providing access to birth control is family friendly and supports children. Giving women more control about whether and when to have children means that they can further their education and gain financial stability. It also allows them to care for the children they already have. Planned
  
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• What we've learned about BYU football as Cougars camp enters final week

  13-08-2017 18:07
  Provo • Unlike last year, when there was a marquee starting quarterback battle and uncertainty at almost every position group, there hasn’t been a lot of drama at BYU’s preseason training camp in 2017.Heading into the final week of camp — to be culminated with an open practice and scrimmage at 10 a.m. Thursday at LaVell Edwards Stadium — only a few starting positions are still up for grabs. After Thursday, the Cougars will turn their attention to the Aug. 26 opener a
  
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• Letter: Take care of the trees

  13-08-2017 18:07
  In 1846 the only trees along the valleys of the Wasatch Front were growing by streams and springs. The pioneers built canals and planted and tended trees in what was desert grassland.Orchards were planted and even the dry ridge that is now Vine Street had big trees.Sadly, despite ownership, properties today only receive water for growing grass and flowers. Our poor trees have suffered years of drought and their needs for water are very different. Trees make a city livable and are long-term inves
  
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• Leonard Pitts: With this president, subtlety would be the greater sin

  13-08-2017 18:07
  A few words on trash-talking the president.Said words are occasioned by emails from a large number of readers who have noted an increased propensity toward that practice in this space. Many found that rather ironic in light of an admonition that appears in the auto response received by any person who sends me an email. It warns that the reader who engages in name-calling will not receive a personal reply.How, these readers demand to know, can I square that delicate concern for decorum with the f
  
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• Utah football: Safety Josh Nurse one of big camp surprises, despite not playing last season

  13-08-2017 18:06
  University of Utah sophomore transfer Josh Nurse made an 180-degree shift from wide receiver to free safety this week. A raw play-maker as a wide receiver, he’ll now change gears from trying to make defensive backs’ lives miserable to attempting to stifle the passing game.Utes defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley said he’d seen “good signs” from Nurse in practice. Specifically, Scalley pointed to his range, athleticism and ball skills before he added, “That&rs
  
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• Newly released emails show University of Utah president sought ‘total control’ of Huntsman Cancer Institute

  13-08-2017 17:47
  When a frustrated Peter Huntsman requested a late-February meeting with University of Utah President David Pershing, he hoped to resolve a monthslong funding dispute over the Huntsman Cancer Institute. The way he saw it, the U. had failed to give the institute and its director, Mary Beckerle, the $13.5 million per year outlined in a memorandum of understanding.Pershing had his own take on the financial dispute, but he also had bigger goals, which he spelled out in a Feb. 25 email to Vivian Lee,
  
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• A small movie, 'Step,' is a big leap for the women in it

  13-08-2017 17:05
  When the Lethal Ladies of BLSYW perform, the first thing one notices is the thunder.The sound comes when boots hit the floor, in unison and in rhythm, as the members of the high-school step team from the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women perform intricate and powerful routines. The power of their feet landing is matched by their hand claps, forming complex and precise percussion with every move.But before these women get a chance to show off their stuff in their step routines, they hav
  
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• Letter: Becker's bike lanes are a boon

  13-08-2017 17:04
  As a recent retiree with a delightfully flexible schedule, I’ve rediscovered the pleasures of bicycling rather than driving. The system of protected bike lanes throughout the city is a game-changer.How great to feel safe and secure when bicycling throughout the city. And how nice to not be burning fossil fuels and to exercise at the same time.A belated thank you to former Mayor Ralph Becker for his vision of a Salt Lake City that encourages us to get out of our cars and take safely to the
  
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• Letter of the Week: Save the canyons with buses

  13-08-2017 17:03
  Just I recently returned from a visit in Big Cottonwood Canyon. It really is lovely up there, but talk about being overrun with humans. Living in Moab, we know whereof we speak in terms of places being loved to death. The entire Big Cottonwood road is essentially a parking lot, and the well-known hikes may as well be airport conveyor belts. If it’s peace and solitude you are after, forget it, unless you know some secret spots or are willing to work really hard.All the yammering, negotiatio
  
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• A real trial of faith: Sitting through yet-another boring Sunday school lesson, Mormon or otherwise

  13-08-2017 16:46
  At some point in my church life, I concluded that the phrase “Sunday school” was an oxymoron. I think I was about 12 and sullenly trapped in some church class on what was otherwise a lovely day.“School” implied some form of education or learning. “Sunday” meant — at least to me — the methodical restriction of behavior, knowledge and study.Today, at the ripe old age of 60-plus, I’ve heard or at least sat through lessons on every aspect of the
  
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• No-no for a man to have a business lunch with a woman not his spouse? Such thinking may be rooted in past Mormon counsel.

  13-08-2017 16:40
  For decades, LDS Church authorities cautioned every Mormon man not to be alone with a woman who wasn’t his spouse. Don’t drive with her. Don’t dine with her. Don’t stay at the same hotel when traveling for work.The same counsel went to LDS women in regards to one-on-one encounters with men.These days, Mormon career women — and men — are getting different advice, says Jeff Thompson, director of public management for the Marriott School at LDS Church-owned Brigh
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz Best Case/Worst Case Scenario Series: Jonas Jerebko

  13-08-2017 16:38 via sportspyder.com
  ... t to be better than that from the get-go, so he should instantly provide the Jazz with even more versatile lineup options than what they had last season. Grea ...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - The Utah Jazz have established a winning culture

  13-08-2017 16:38 via sportspyder.com
  ... ithout having a big budget or getting their big stars on TV commercials, the Jazz are now set to be dominant for a long time to come. They’ve built an organis ...
  
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• Some Utahns say men and women should keep their distance at the office and beyond. That may be holding women back.

  13-08-2017 16:37
  Keep the door ajar and the shades up. Invite a third person to a work lunch or dinner. Hold meetings in a glass-walled conference room. Avoid one-on-one interactions altogether.These are all tactics Utahns told The Salt Lake Tribune they use at work when they may be alone with a man or a woman other than their spouse.A new Tribune-Hinckley Institute of Politics poll shows some men and women struggle to share social spaces — and it may have an impact on women’s ability to perform and
  
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• The Utah Jazz have established a winning culture

  13-08-2017 16:31
  Through the ups and downs of the Jazz’s 38 years in Utah, they’ve built a winning culture. Despite not winning a championship as of yet, the Utah Jazz are now the NBA’s model franchise. The Jazz’s 38 years in Salt Lake City have been nothing short of extraordinary; we’ve seen all-time greats like ‘Pistol’ Pete Maravich, […]
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• Utah Jazz Best Case/Worst Case Scenario Series: Jonas Jerebko

  13-08-2017 16:25
  Utah Jazz newcomer Jonas Jerebko should have a heightened opportunity in his new role and it will be entirely up to him to take advantage of it. In an interesting turn of events, while the Utah Jazz lost Gordon Hayward to the Boston Celtics this offseason, as it turned out they were able to take […]
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• Prep football: Stansbury Stallions preview

  13-08-2017 08:18
  This just might be a permanent trend.When Clint Christiansen got the job as the first football coach at Stansbury, the first couple of seasons didn’t go well. His teams won a total of three games in 2009 and 2010.But Stansbury has been winning ever since.Christiansen’s mark in the last six years is 52-16, and the school made its first state semifinal appearance last season.Although Desert Hills thumped the Stallions to finish the campaign, the beat goes on.“We feel we are as go
  
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• Prep football: Tooele Buffaloes preview

  13-08-2017 08:05
  Kyle Brady incrementally took a Tooele team that won only one game in his first two seasons to a dependable contender for region titles during his six years as coach. But Brady unexpectedly exited the program in January, and former assistant Jeff Lewis took over.The goal? To keep the steady upward movement going.“We’re pleased with the progress that coach Brady brought the program to,” Lewis said. “I’m stepping into a really good situation. Two playoff appearances o
  
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• Prep football: Ogden Tigers preview

  13-08-2017 07:44
  Ogden was a power in football at one time. The Tigers won a pair of state championships and were runner-up three other times during one 15-year stretch.But last year marked the 50th anniversary of the end of that era — the 1966 title — and it was a season where the Tigers played an independent schedule for a consecutive straight year.Ogden went winless for a third straight season, and its losing skid stands at 33 games.Into all this comes veteran coach Erik Thompson after leaving a f
  
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• Prep football: Morgan Trojans preview

  13-08-2017 07:30
  The path was set for Morgan last year. The Trojans, coming off a state runner-up finish in 2015, headed into the state semifinals to play a team they already had beaten in the regular season.And Morgan held a lead in that game too, before Delta came back to win the contest.So the Trojans, looking for the school’s first championship in 20 years, will have to wait.How long might be dependent upon how quickly a group of young players can develop.“We have to have our younger kids play at
  
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• Ninth-inning homer lifts Salt Lake Bees over Sacramento River Cats

  13-08-2017 07:29
  Shane Robinson belted a three-run homer on an 0-2 pitch with two outs in the top of the ninth inning to give the Salt Lake Bees a 3-1 win over the host Sacramento River Cats in a Pacific Coast League game Saturday night.With the Bees trailing 1-0, Eric Young Jr. led off the ninth with a single to left off of Sacramento starter Andrew Suarez, and one out later, advanced to third on a double to right by Ramon Flores. River Cats reliever Tyler Rogers came on and retired Carlos Perez on a come-backe
  
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• Dana Milbank: Democrats must beware of Berning out

  13-08-2017 07:12
  Washington • Things could go well for the Democrats in next year’s midterm elections — if they don’t Bern out.President Trump is woefully unpopular, feuding with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and other Republicans. The GOP can’t manage to repeal Obamacare or do much of anything. Voters say they’d like Democrats to run Congress.But here come the Bernie Bros and sisters to the Republicans’ rescue: They’re sowing division in the Democrat
  
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• Prep football: Milford Tigers preview

  13-08-2017 07:06
  Milford is stacked. Like first-team all-state returning quarterback, four other first-teamers returning and an offensive line that returns all but one player.Oh, and the quarterback is only a sophomore.“Our whole team is looking 10 times better this year than we did a year ago at this time,” coach Thane Marshall said. “These kids have worked their tail ends off to be better this season.”Quarterback Bryson Barnes threw for 1,916 yards and 19 touchdowns last season. He had
  
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• Ohio man charged with murder in attack at white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., that killed 1, injured 19

  13-08-2017 07:04
  Charlottesville, Va. • Chaos and violence turned to tragedy Saturday as hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members — planning to stage what they described as their largest rally in decades to “take America back” — clashed with counterprotesters in the streets and a car plowed into crowds, leaving one person dead and 19 others injured.Hours later, two state police officers died when their helicopter crashed at the outskirts of town. Officials i
  
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• Prep football: San Juan Broncos preview

  13-08-2017 06:53
  San Juan saw great success in 2016 but is in a different spot heading into the 2017 campaign.First-year coach Barkley Christensen brings a new offensive scheme — the spread offense. The Broncos graduated 17 players from last season’s 9-2 team, and they have only two returning starters with one playing both ways.Even with all these changes, one thing will stay the same.“San Juan football and defense have always gone hand-in-hand,” Christensen said. “Our defense is lo
  
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