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• Joe Tukuafu's inability to transfer from Utah State to BYU without penalty shines light on a growing issue

  17-08-2017 23:57
  He watches his future teammates from the sidelines, lifts weights by himself and waits until practice is over and the coaches are gone before he begins running ladders.Joe Tukuafu suffers alone.But he isn’t suffering silently.“I want to make it known that this rule isn’t fair at all,” the 21-year-old says. “I want to stand up for what I believe is right. I’m standing up for student-athletes in this whole process.”Back in 2014, Tukuafu, then a senior at E
  
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• Commentary: False prophets in the White House

  17-08-2017 23:42
  In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fake news. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has long been sleeping. — 2 Peter 2:3On Wednesday, when President Donald Trump shut down his business advisory committees just ahead of his business advisers’ resigning en masse in the wake of Charlottesville, Va., one of his evangelical advisers, Johnnie Moore, delivered a statement on ABC News that concluded:“Evangelicals consider the gospel
  
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• ‘Brigsby Bear’ is smart, sweet, funny and odd

  17-08-2017 23:32
  A return to normality — whatever that is — takes a turn into moviemaking weirdness in “Brigsby Bear,” a merrily awkward comedy from some of the minds at “Saturday Night Live.”James (Kyle Mooney, who co-wrote with Kevin Costello), at 25, spends most of his time watching his favorite TV show, “Brigsby Bear Adventures,” and recapping the episodes online. He watches the show on VHS, which he receives in a weekly drop, due to the fact that he lives in a
  
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• Documentary ‘Step’ tells inspiring story of hard work

  17-08-2017 23:15
  Amanda Lipitz’s documentary “Step” was one of the biggest crowd-pleasers at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and deservedly so — an exuberant and life-affirming story of a remarkable group of young women in Baltimore.The Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women was founded in 2009 with a class of sixth-graders who, as the movie starts in fall 2015, are in their senior year. They also are living in a Baltimore recently struck by the fallout from the police-caused death
  
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• ‘Logan Lucky’ is a smart caper with a twang

  17-08-2017 23:10
  Director Steven Soderbergh is back and firing on all cylinders in “Logan Lucky,” a Southern-fried heist comedy that is, like its main characters, smarter than it lets on.Soderbergh, returning after a four-year “retirement” from movies, and rookie screenwriter Rebecca Blunt deconstruct the “Ocean’s 11” model, with down-home charm replacing the Vegas glitz.Channing Tatum, who starred in Soderbergh’s “Magic Mike,” stars as Jimmy Logan, who
  
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• Tense thriller ‘Wind River’ is even better than ‘Sicaro’ and ‘Hell or High Water’

  17-08-2017 23:06
  With “Wind River,” screenwriter and now director Taylor Sheridan completes a trifecta of deeply layered, character-driven neo-Western crime dramas, and one that tops the other two, “Sicario” and “Hell or High Water.”Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner) is a hunter for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, precisely shooting wolves and other animals that threaten the humans in his Wyoming district. That district includes the Wind River Indian Reservation, where Lambert g
  
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• ‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’ is fast, freaky and funny

  17-08-2017 23:05
  The “we aren’t partners, and we aren’t friends” strain of buddy-action movie seldom gets played with as much gusto and knowing humor as in “The Hitman’s Bodyguard,” a movie that fires off bullets, jokes and F-bombs with equal frequency.Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson star in this fast and freaky action comedy as private contractors on opposite sides of the law. Reynolds plays Michael Bryce, an “executive protection agent,” a bodyguard-for
  
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• Study: NAFTA has helped Utah businesses with exports

  17-08-2017 22:59
  Utah’s economy has benefited significantly from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which is currently being renegotiated, according to a new study by the U.S. Business Roundtable.The report by the nonprofit association of American CEOs found that Utah companies exported $3.1 billion worth of goods and services to Mexico and Canada in 2015, helping support 121,300 Utah jobs that year.Exports of goods have increased by 104 percent since 2006, while the value of services deliver
  
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• Volunteers drying up at St. Vincent de Paul Dining Hall on Rio Grande Street

  17-08-2017 22:56
  St. Vincent de Paul’s Dining Hall is a godsend, where homeless people can get a hearty lunch and dinner seven days a week — but  it runs on volunteers who seem to be evaporating with the troubling news from Salt Lake City’s Rio Grande district.
  Reports of violence leading up to Operation Rio Grande — a law enforcement sweep targeting drug dealers and addicts — are frightening volunteers away, said Danielle Stamos, spokeswoman for Catholic Community Services of
  
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• Utah guard member killed in booby-trapped Afghanistan building had always dreamed of being a soldier, family says
  

  17-08-2017 22:51
  Draper • The 27-year-old Utah Special Forces soldier killed Wednesday fighting Islamic State loyalists in Afghanistan had always dreamed of joining the military, his family said.Aaron Butler was a four-time state wrestling champion who served a Mormon mission in Ghana after graduating from Monticello High School in 2008. He later became a Green Beret — one of only a handful of soldiers who graduated with honors from the elite Army special forces qualification course in 2016, fami
  
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• From ski slopes to music in Moab, Utah’s tourist attractions share $3.4 million in state funds to help draw visitors

  17-08-2017 22:48
  Ski Utah will get the most state assistance — $233,000 — to help attract out-of-state visitors to the slopes of the state’s 14 active mountain resorts next winter.Discovery Gateway in Salt Lake City will receive the smallest allocation — $1,650 — to advertise itself on the Visit Salt Lake website, figuring that’s the first place out-of-towners check when they’re looking for things to do while they’re here.On average, the 66 projects recently awarde
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Racism isn't dying out with racist grandpas
  

  17-08-2017 22:47
  WASHINGTON — If there was one silver lining to President Trump’s election, it was supposed to be this: Those who voted for Trump because of, rather than despite, his demonization of Muslims and Hispanics; who fear a “majority minority” America; and who wax nostalgic for the Jim Crow era were mostly old white people.Which meant they and their abhorrent prejudices would soon pass on — and be replaced by generations of younger, more racially enlightened Americans.The w
  
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• ‘Behind the Headlines’: Operation Rio Grande arrests, no Herrod concession and heavy metals in schools’ drinking water

  17-08-2017 22:46
  Operation Rio Grande’s arrest tally rises above 100 in less than a week of the downtown crackdown, and the ACLU of Utah calls the strategy “business as usual.” Provo Mayor John Curtis likely wins the Republican nomination in Utah’s 3rd Congressional District, but Chris Herrod, the probable runner-up, refuses to concede until more votes are counted. And high levels of lead in some Utah schools’ drinking water prompt a request for tests of the heavy metal.At 9 a.m. o
  
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• Commentary: Putting our shoulders to the wheel to end racism and white supremacy in Mormonism
  

  17-08-2017 22:42
  As Mormons, we raise our voices to decry as wholly immoral the forces of white supremacy, racism, and neo-Nazism that are becoming more visible and emboldened in the United States.We raise our voices to denounce as an affront to our faith the abuse of LDS scriptures, doctrines, and images of apostles and prophets to advance white supremacy and racism.White supremacists have comfortably used LDS scriptures and quotes from apostles — even the image of Joseph Smith — to support their ca
  
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• Herrod backers can blame themselves for denying their candidate a chance at a runoff

  17-08-2017 22:40
  Supporters of congressional candidate Chris Herrod are now going to Republican Facebook sites to blast Tanner Ainge for getting into the GOP primary race and siphoning votes from their guy.Provo Mayor John Curtis claimed victory in the three-way runoff Tuesday to be the GOP nominee in the bid to replace Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who resigned his 3rd Congressional District seat earlier this year.Curtis had about 42 percent of the vote by the end of election night, while Herrod had about 31 percent and
  
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• Medical marijuana backers in Utah launch signature-gathering campaign

  17-08-2017 22:33
  Nicole Cook and Jayna Bousum walked to a food-truck event at Salt Lake City’s Gallivan Center Thursday expecting to pick up lunch and quickly head back to the office.But when they arrived, organizers for Utah’s medical-marijuana ballot initiative offered them a chance to be among the first to sign petitions to put the issue to a vote in November 2018.Cook and Bousum jumped at the chance.“My mom died three years ago of multiple sclerosis and we tried to talk her into (tryin
  
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• DisCo adjusts its protocol to incorporate video review

  17-08-2017 22:29
  The Disciplinary Committee has adjusted its guidelines accordingly with VAR up and running in MLS,.DisCo has amended its third parameter, which is concerned with incidents the referee sees but does not issue a red card for, the league announced Thursday.As it now is written, DisCo only will take disciplinary action for potential red-card plays that the VAR has reviewed if the committee determines the misconduct merits at least a two-match suspension.Before this amendment, DisCo could issue a sus
  
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• Kevin Costner's new TV series begins production in Utah

  17-08-2017 22:28
  The Paramount Network, which will replace the cable channel Spike in January, has begun production on its first scripted series right here in Utah.Kevin Costner — winner of two Oscars, two SAG Awards, two Golden Globes, an Emmy and a DGA Award — headlines “Yellowstone,” his first starring role in an episodic TV series. He stars as the patriarch of a family that owns the largest contiguous ranch in the United States, which borders on Yellowstone National Park.Ten episodes
  
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• Angler caught biggest trout at Flaming Gorge — but lost the record because his license had expired days earlier

  17-08-2017 22:22
  The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has revoked a catch-and-release fishing record set earlier this year at Flaming Gorge Reservoir.According to the Idaho Statesman, the 57-pound lake trout was caught and released by Soda Springs, Idaho, angler Sidney Cellan.The DWR found that the angler did not have a valid fishing license. It expired a few days before he caught the 48-inch lake trout, negating the record.The agency called the error an honest mistake.That means the previous record of 46.5 i
  
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• Want to help the homeless? The Miller family will match up to $10 million in donations for services at new shelters

  17-08-2017 22:18
  The Miller family, which owns more than 60 car dealerships and the National Basketball Association’s Utah Jazz, will match up to $10 million in donations for programs and services at three new homeless shelters in Salt Lake County.“We can‘t afford to turn our back on the homeless and those who are less fortunate,” Larry H. Miller Companies owner Gail Miller said at Thursday’s announcement. Choking up as she came to the next thought, she said: ”We cannot afford
  
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• Elementary kids used to get a hot lunch in Carbon County district whether they paid or not — now that has to change

  17-08-2017 22:17
  For years, elementary students in Carbon School District were assured a hot meal regardless of whether their parents had remembered to pay for school lunches.But beginning this fall, students in the rural Utah county who fall behind on payments will get a sack lunch instead.“We literally have parents who have never paid for the students‘ lunches the entire time they have attended elementary school,” Carbon School District child nutrition director Patti Rigby said in a statement
  
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• ‘Save the soul of this nation’ — Sharpton’s thousand-minister march gains steam after Charlottesville

  17-08-2017 22:14
  The Rev. Al Sharpton says his thousand-minister march is all the more urgent now than when he began planning it months ago.The Pentecostal-turned-Baptist minister says the recent violence in Charlottesville, Va., has sparked more interest and a greater need for clergy of many faiths to speak up at the march set for Aug. 28, the 54th anniversary of the March on Washington.The march will begin at the Washington memorial honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and end at Justice Department offices
  
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• Utah football: Utes announce team captains for 2017 campaign

  17-08-2017 22:09
  The votes have been tallied.The players have spoken.On Thursday, the Utah football program announced its six team captains for the upcoming 2017 campaign. And for the second-straight season, quarterback Troy Williams is one of Utah’s team captains. Williams is joined by offensive lineman Salesi Uhatafe, defensive tackles Lowell Lotulelei and Filipo Mokofisi as well as punter Mitch Wishnowsky and special teams ace Christian Drews.Wishnowsky, Utah’s stand-out special teams weapon, is t
  
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• [NBC Sports: Pro Basketball Talk] - Chris Bosh to ‘host’ players-union awards revealed via tweets

  17-08-2017 22:05 via sportspyder.com
  ...Favors and Rodney Hood – who posted at least six win shares. Last year, the Jazz were the only team a pair of 26-and-under players – Hayward and Gobert – who ...
  
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• Scholars say Trump went afoul in lumping Lee with founders

  17-08-2017 21:53
  Both were great generals. Both Virginians. Both came from slave-owning plantation families.Is it really so far-fetched to put Robert E. Lee in the same category as George Washington, as President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday?Many historians say yes.“It’s a ridiculous conflation,” said Professor Alice Fahs of the University of California, Irvine. “He’s not a founding father, and it’s as though Trump thinks he is. It’s really astonishing. It’s amaz
  
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• Joe Tukuafu's inability to transfer from Utah State without penalty shines light on a growing issue

  17-08-2017 21:53
  He watches his future teammates from the sidelines, lifts weights by himself and waits until practice is over and the coaches are gone before he begins running ladders.Joe Tukuafu suffers alone.But he isn’t suffering silently.“I want to make it known that this rule isn’t fair at all,” the 21-year-old says. “I want to stand up for what I believe is right. I’m standing up for student-athletes in this whole process.”Back in 2014, Tukuafu, then a senior at E
  
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• Attacker drives van into Barcelona crowd; 12 dead, 80 hurt

  17-08-2017 21:53
  Barcelona, Spain • A white van jumped up onto a sidewalk and sped down a pedestrian zone Thursday in Barcelona’s historic Las Ramblas district, swerving from side to side as it plowed into tourists and residents. Authorities said 12 people were killed and 80 were wounded, 15 of them seriously, in what they called a terror attack.The afternoon attack in the northeastern Spanish city was the country’s deadliest since 2004, when al-Qaida-inspired bombers killed 192 people in coordi
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Globe Guide 2017: Where You Can Catch Jazz Players — OK, Player — in FIBA Competition

  17-08-2017 21:51 via sportspyder.com
  ... ah player slated to play for his home country. Here’s a report on some other Jazz-bearing nations’ summer ball. France’s stars to sit All-NBA center  Rudy Gob ...
  
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• Real Salt Lake: Defense is keeping RSL competitive

  17-08-2017 21:51
  Nick Rimando tracked the ball from D.C. United midfielder Luciano Acosta’s foot to Kofi Opare’s head. He bent his knees as Opare flicked a header in his direction and watched it bounce off the crossbar.That first-half stoppage time shot was D.C.’s last truly dangerous scoring opportunity in a 1-0 Real Salt Lake win Saturday. RSL logged its second consecutive clean sheet to mark the first time RSL has shut out its opponents in back-to-league matches since April 30 and May 7, 201
  
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• 40 years ago, Bruce Springsteen and Steven Van Zandt drove through the Utah and Nevada deserts. The Boss wrote about what he saw in one of his masterpieces.

  17-08-2017 21:42
  There was no limousine waiting when Bruce Springsteen landed in Salt Lake City 40 years ago this week. Springsteen, who already was one of the biggest names in rock ’n’ roll, would spend the next few days driving, riding and even sleeping in a used car. His closest bandmate and sidekick, Steven Van Zandt, accompanied him on the trip. Springsteen also was traveling with someone else who had a role in making him famous — photographer Eric Meola. Together, in that red convert
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz to Participate in Annual ‘Be Well Utah’

  17-08-2017 21:36 via sportspyder.com
  ... m. at Rice-Eccles Stadium on the University of Utah campus. The schedule for Jazz player appearances is Bolomboy from 9:30-11 a.m. and O’Neale from 11 a.m.-12 ...
  
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• Prep football: Maple Mountain Golden Eagles preview

  17-08-2017 21:17
  Maple Mountain never has made it to the state championship game. East dashed the Golden Eagles’ latest effort, taking down Maple Mountain in the state semifinals.The Golden Eagles are looking to break the streak this season, however that may not be too easy with the Golden Eagles coming back with a younger, less experienced team.MAPLE MOUNTAIN GOLDEN EAGLES <br>Coach • Brad Burtenshaw, eighth year <br>Last season • 7-6, 5-1 in Region 8; Lost to East 64-13 in a Class 4
  
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• Police: Woman crashes into Magna home, says she was being followed

  17-08-2017 21:16
  Police and firefighters briefly evacuated 30 residents in 10 homes after a car plowed into a house early Thursday morning, causing a natural gas leak.Unified Police Lt. Brian Lohrke said a 63-year-old woman, who had been reported earlier to be driving erratically, careened through a fence and crashed her car into a residence at 8381 W. 2910 South about 4:30 a.m.That home, and neighboring houses were evacuated as utility crews arrived to make repairs. Residents were allowed to return about 6:30 a
  
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• Prep football: Cedar City preview

  17-08-2017 20:57
  Cedar City put together a 3-2 record out of region, but the ultra-competitive Region 9 beat up the team.“Our region is as tough as any region in this classification,” coach Josh Bennett said. “Our mindset is the same — just take it one game at a time and work to improve each week. The key for us is staying healthy. We just want to and are ready to compete.”CEDAR CITY <br>Coach • Josh Bennett, third season <br>Last season • 4-6, 1-4 in Region 9;
  
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• [NBC Sports: Pro Basketball Talk] - Malik Monk: I thought Knicks would draft me

  17-08-2017 20:52 via sportspyder.com
  ...Favors and Rodney Hood – who posted at least six win shares. Last year, the Jazz were the only team a pair of 26-and-under players – Hayward and Gobert – who ...
  
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• Pelosi calls for removal of Confederate statues from Capitol

  17-08-2017 20:49
  Washington • House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called Thursday for the removal of Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol as the contentious debate over the appropriateness of such memorials moved to the halls of Congress.Pelosi asked Speaker Paul Ryan to join Democrats in supporting legislation to remove the Confederate statues. The legislation can’t pass without support from Republicans, who control both chambers of Congress.Pelosi said the statues in the Capitol should “em
  
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• Matt LeBlanc is back in 'Episodes' and more for your weekly TV preview

  17-08-2017 20:46
  Yes, former “Friends” star Matt LeBlanc will return in the lame CBS sitcom “Man with a Plan” at midseason. But he’s also back in “Episodes,” playing an alternate, awful version of himself in that profane, insane and hilarious show that skewers the TV industry. In the final season premiere, Matt is a successful game-show host, but he’s not happy about it.Watch • 11 p.m. Sunday, ShowtimeThis Weekend
  • ‘What Happened Monday’Glenn
  
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• Prep football: Snow Canyon Warriors preview

  17-08-2017 20:24
  Finishing. That is the area of focus for Snow Canyon heading into the 2017 season.“Even the teams that are playing for state championships out of our region, we are playing them to last minute touchdown games and we are not winning enough of those,” coach Mike Esplin said.The Warriors finished 3-7 overall, 1-4 in region play last season.“It’s about continuing to teach team attitude and doing what is necessary to help the team be successful,” Esplin said. “We a
  
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• Idina Menzel has encouraged women, girls to defy gravity for 20 years

  17-08-2017 20:21
  Every artist strives to make an impact on the world.Idina Menzel has done that in every decade since she first stepped foot on the Broadway stage with “Rent.”The 1996 Broadway musical about life in Alphabet City and the AIDS epidemic resonated with theatergoers who quickly became Rent-heads. Her character, Maureen Johnson, was a bisexual woman who tackled issues from homelessness to sexuality to social justice.In 2003, Menzel turned the “Wicked” Witch of the West into the
  
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• Utah family confirms identity of guard member killed when booby-trapped building exploded in Afghanistan

  17-08-2017 20:09
  Draper • A 27-year-old Utah National Guard member was killed and 11 others were injured Wednesday while they were clearing a booby-trapped building that exploded during a mission battling loyalists with the Islamic State group in eastern Afghanistan, Gov. Gary Herbert said Thursday.
  Monticello resident Aaron Butler was a Green Beret, his family confirmed Thursday morning in a statement. “Aaron was absolutely fearless, selfless, courageous and relentless,” said his father, R
  
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• [NBC Sports: Pro Basketball Talk] - Report: Kyrie Irving and LeBron James didn’t meet in Miami

  17-08-2017 20:01 via sportspyder.com
  ...Favors and Rodney Hood – who posted at least six win shares. Last year, the Jazz were the only team a pair of 26-and-under players – Hayward and Gobert – who ...
  
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• [Deadspin] - The Night They Turned On The First NBA Jam Machine

  17-08-2017 19:48 via sportspyder.com
  ... rogrammed to emulate their flesh-and-blood counterparts. Maximizing the Utah Jazz’s classic small man/big man combo of John Stockton and Karl Malone appeared...
  
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• Monson: Five reasons to look on the bright side with the Jazz

  17-08-2017 19:34
  “The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.” — George F. Will“It doesn’t hurt to be an optimist. You can always cry later.” — Lucimar Santos de LimaUtah Jazz fans have a choice to make through the long offseason of which they are skidding and bumping into the last few weeks. There are two ways to go — the optimistic or the pessimistic route. The realistic route is excluded bec
  
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• Joe Tukuafu's inability to transfer from Utah State shines light on a growing issue

  17-08-2017 19:34
  He watches his future teammates from the sidelines, lifts weights by himself and waits until practice is over and the coaches are gone before he begins running ladders.Joe Tukuafu suffers alone.But he isn’t suffering silently.“I want to make it known that this rule isn’t fair at all,” the 21-year-old says. “I want to stand up for what I believe is right. I’m standing up for student-athletes in this whole process.”Back in 2014, Tukuafu, then a senior at E
  
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• Dog tags, possible remains of WWII soldier found on island

  17-08-2017 19:26
  Albany, N.Y. • A New York military aviation researcher got more than she bargained for on a dream trip to a battle-scarred South Pacific island — the chance to help solve the mystery of an American soldier listed as missing in action from World War II.Donna Esposito, who works at the Empire State Aerosciences Museum in upstate Glenville, visited Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands this spring and was approached by a local man who knew of WWII dog tags and bones found along a nearby jun
  
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• Utah fishing record yanked after licensing snafu

  17-08-2017 19:24
  The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has revoked a catch-and-release fishing record set earlier this year at Flaming Gorge Reservoir.According to the Idaho Statesman, the 57-pound lake trout was caught and released by Soda Springs, Idaho, angler Sidney Cellan.The DWR found that the angler did not have a valid fishing license. It expired a few days before he caught the 48-inch lake trout, negating the record.The agency called the error an honest mistake.That means the previous record of 46.5 i
  
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• Van plows into Barcelona crowd in attack; media say 13 dead

  17-08-2017 19:22
  Barcelona, Spain • A white van plowed into a packed summer crowd Thursday in Barcelona’s historic Las Ramblas district, killing some people and sending dozens fleeing. Barcelona police called it a terror attack and local media reported up to 13 dead.Catalan police tweeted “there are mortal victims and injured from the crash” without specifying any numbers. Spanish media, including Cadena SER radio station and TV3, reported up to 13 dead, while other media had varying death
  
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• Can't get out to see the solar eclipse? Here's where you can watch online or on TV

  17-08-2017 19:21
  Ronald Dantowitz has been looking forward to Monday’s solar eclipse for nearly 40 years.An astronomer who specializes in solar imaging, he’s been photographing eclipses for more than three decades and will be using 14 cameras to capture the celestial event. The cameras have solar filters to capture the eclipse in its partial phases, along with custom modifications that can photograph the corona and light wavelengths that are invisible to the human eye, allowing scientists to view and
  
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• Utah’s Clark Planetarium expected to run out of eclipse glasses within 45 minutes of opening Thursday

  17-08-2017 19:06
  Kristi Swan arrived at Clark Planetarium just after 7 a.m. Thursday, set up a lawn chair and began her three-hour wait for a chance to purchase protective glasses needed for viewing Monday’s eclipse.Swan was quickly joined at the downtown Salt Lake City corner by dozens of others seeking to buy the last pairs available at the planetarium when its doors opened at 10:30 a.m. There are only about 3,500 pairs left and director Seth Jarvis said they were expected to run out within 45 minut
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Marvel's superhero team 'Defenders' is a slow burn on Netflix

  17-08-2017 18:59
  Superheroes have been teaming up in the comic books for more than 75 years, so it’s no surprise that Netflix is giving us “The Defenders” — a lower-budget way of creating a TV version of Marvel’s two “Avengers” hits and DC’s “Justice League” (coming in November).That’s not an insult. Hey, I love TV. But even Netflix — which continues to spend mountains of cash on programming — can’t afford to do a series with a b
  
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