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• Utes offensive line will try to squelch doubters as it replaces four pros

  27-08-2017 23:59
  For all the breathless anticipation surrounding the Utes’ quarterback decision — both before and after Tyler Huntley was named the starter last week — arguably the biggest question marks involve the offensive line.The University of Utah football team’s identity has been largely forged in the trenches during Kyle Whittingham’s coaching tenure. The vaunted “O-block,” Utah’s collection of massive beings working in unison to unleash coordinated violenc
  
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• Real Salt Lake: Nick Rimando will join USMNT for World Cup qualifiers this week

  27-08-2017 23:45
  Real Salt Lake goalkeeper Nick Rimando is joining the U.S. national team for its September World Cup qualifying matches.Bruce Arena’s 26-man roster was revealed at halftime of Sunday’s game between Toronto and Montreal. Rimando was one of three goalkeepers selected, joining the Colorado Rapids’ Tim Howard and Atlanta United’s Brad Guzan.“I’m excited for the opportunity to represent my club and country in these next World Cup qualifying games,” Rimando sa
  
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• Trump renews pledge to make Mexico pay for a border wall as he seeks $16B to build it

  27-08-2017 23:26
  President Donald Trump on Sunday renewed his pledge to make Mexico pay for the construction of a border wall between the U.S and Mexico, days after threatening to trigger a government shutdown if congressional Republicans don’t include funding as they tackle a spending bill due Sept. 30.“With Mexico being one of the highest crime nations in the world, we must have THE WALL,” Trump tweeted, adding that, “Mexico will pay for it through reimbursement/other.”The preside
  
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• Utah’s top search and rescue team in Houston saving people trapped in floodwaters

  27-08-2017 23:16
  Utah’s elite search and rescue team has been deployed to Texas to help rescue people trapped in the unprecedented floodwaters caused by Hurricane Harvey.On Thursday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency called in Utah Task Force 1, a group comprised largely of firefighters who have undergone extensive training in responding to disasters.An 11-vehicle convoy carrying 46 team members headed to Texas in the early hours of Friday, according to task force program manager, Bryan Case, who is
  
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• Preseason is only 36 days away! Be there! ➡️ on.nba.com/2aomTqi https://t.co/SJoxIH7hhY

  27-08-2017 22:44 via twitter.com
  
  Preseason is only 36 days away! Be there! ➡️ on.nba.com/2aomTqi https://t.co/SJoxIH7hhY
  
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• ‘A landmark event’: Hurricane Harvey creates catastrophic flooding, leaves 5 dead

  27-08-2017 22:11
  The worst fears of flooding are starting to be realized with Harvey as it unloads some of the most extreme rainfall Houston and other parts of Southeast Texas has ever witnessed. And much more rain is still to come.“Catastrophic flooding in the Houston metropolitan area is expected to worsen,” the National Weather Service said Sunday morning.It later added: “This event is unprecedented and all impacts are unknown and beyond anything experienced.”One to two feet of rain ha
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz offseason retrospective: Grading the trade for PG Ricky Rubio

  27-08-2017 22:04 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz: How important is a healthy Derrick Favors? by Hayden Van de Maat ...
  
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• Pac-12 football: USC has come a long way since that loss to Utes

  27-08-2017 21:51
  USC’s most recent defeat occurred so long ago that Troy Williams was Utah’s star quarterback at the time.The greatest moment of Williams’ Ute career and Sam Darnold’s first start as USC’s quarterback converged at Rice-Eccles Stadium in September, when Utah rallied for a 31-27 victory. The way the Trojans responded to that loss has framed the careers of Darnold and coach Clay Helton, as USC enters the 2017 season with a nine-game winning streak and a No. 4 ranking in
  
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• Utah Jazz offseason retrospective: Grading the trade for PG Ricky Rubio

  27-08-2017 21:46
  The Utah Jazz shored up the point guard position by trading for Ricky Rubio ahead of free agency. Today, we re-examine the deal for the first in a series of summer retrospectives. Basketball fans, rejoice. Summer is finally nearing its conclusion and NBA training camps will tip-off in a matter of weeks. As such, rosters around […]
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• Letter: White supremacism is a tool of con artists, not a heritage to be cherished

  27-08-2017 21:26
  I cannot believe the topsy-turvy, self-justifying, racist reasoning expressed by Ayla Stewart, but thank her for expressing her deliberately inverted, poisonous ideology so clearly:Racism against “white ppl [people] and white ppl [people] only, in the form of denying us our heritage and culture,” she tweeted, “is in direct conflict with gospel of Christ” (“Black Mormons applaud as LDS Church condemns white supremacy as ‘morally wrong and sinful,” Aug. 15
  
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• Police ID 21-year-old fatally shot in Midvale

  27-08-2017 21:09
  Unified police are investigating a homicide in Midvale after finding a 21-year-old man dead Saturday night.About 8:20 p.m. Saturday, neighbors called police with reports of shots fired near Monroe Street and Columbia Drive in Midvale, according to Unified police Lt. Brian Lohrke. When police arrived, they found the body of Jordon Burtell Moulton, 21, of West Valley City, in the yard of 142 W. Columbia Drive. He sustained a single gunshot wound, Lohrke said.Officers later found a gun under M
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: How important is a healthy Derrick Favors?

  27-08-2017 20:38 via sportspyder.com
  ... sports) July 25, 2017 Put simply, with all the great perimeter defenders the Jazz currently have, their defense is unstoppable when Gobert is at center and ev ...
  
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• Letter: Controversy over Confederate monuments speaks loudly of racism in America's past and present

  27-08-2017 20:32
  Ta-Nehisi Coates, one of the best writers in our country, made this astute observation just a few weeks ago. It is something to think about as we grapple with understanding the sad events in Charlottesville.“Nazi Germany was also defeated. But while its surviving leadership was put on trial before the world, not one author of the Confederacy was convicted of treason. Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop was hanged at Nuremberg. Confederate General John B. Gordon became a senator. G
  
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• Trump says Canada, Mexico being "very difficult" on NAFTA

  27-08-2017 20:25
  President Donald Trump is accusing Canada and Mexico of being “very difficult” at the negotiating table over the North American Free Trade Agreement, and threatening anew to terminate the deal.Trump tweeted on Sunday morning that NAFTA is the “worst trade deal ever made.”Trump said at a rally last week in Phoenix that he would “end up probably terminating” NAFTA “at some point.”The U.S., Mexico and Canada began formal negotiations earlier this mont
  
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• Commentary: Operation Rio Grande shows that Utah is proficient at incarceration — but ill-equipped for rehabilitation

  27-08-2017 20:20
  My sister is in jail for the 10th time in the past 24 months for drugs, paraphernalia, false ID, and retail theft. Her life is a vicious cycle of addiction and incarceration. She was last arrested three weeks before the launch of Operation Rio Grande, which in its first day apprehended 87 people and at present accounts for upwards of 300 arrests and 100 releases.Operation Rio Grande is described as a collaborative, multi-jurisdictional plan to eradicate lawlessness and restore public safety thro
  
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• Utah Jazz: How important is a healthy Derrick Favors?

  27-08-2017 20:18
  The Utah Jazz have their work cut out for them to grasp a playoff spot this upcoming season. There are a number of variables that will ultimately determine where they land, but a healthy Derrick Favors could make all the difference in the world. For Derrick Favors, the 2016-17 NBA season was nothing more than an ongoing struggle […]
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• 8 mountain climbers die in 3 different accidents in Alps

  27-08-2017 19:56
  Berlin • Eight mountain climbers have died in three different accidents this weekend in the Austrian and Italian Alps.The Austrian Red Cross said five mountain climbers died Sunday in the Austrian Alps in Wildgerlostal on Mount Gabler, east of Innsbruck, and a sixth climber was severely injured, the Austrian news agency APA reported.The six were roped together when they fell in a very remote area of the mountain at an altitude of about 2,000 meters (6,562 feet.) The lone survivor was taken
  
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• BYU’s game against LSU might be relocated because of Hurricane Harvey

  27-08-2017 19:48
  Provo • The location of Saturday’s AdvoCare Texas Kickoff football game — scheduled to pit BYU and Louisiana State University in Houston — is in serious question because of flooding brought on by Hurricane Harvey.SBNation reported Sunday morning that officials from both schools and ESPN planned to meet on Sunday to discus moving the game. It appears that all three entities are determined to play the game, somewhere, because the remaining open dates on both teams’ sch
  
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• [USA Today] - Kobe Bryant challenges Giannis Antetokounmpo to win NBA MVP award

  27-08-2017 19:39 via sportspyder.com
  ... P Kobe Bryant drives the ball up court during second half action against the Jazz on Nov. 4, 2007.  Robert Hanashiro, USAT Kobe Bryant reacts to Dwight Howard ...
  
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• Pac-12 football: USC has come a long way since that loss to Utes in Sam Darnold’s first start
  

  27-08-2017 19:32
  USC’s most recent defeat occurred so long ago that Troy Williams was Utah’s star quarterback at the time.The greatest moment of Williams’ Ute career and Sam Darnold’s first start as USC’s quarterback converged at Rice-Eccles Stadium in September, when Utah rallied for a 31-27 victory. The way the Trojans responded to that loss has framed the careers of Darnold and coach Clay Helton, as USC enters the 2017 season with a nine-game winning streak and a No. 4 ranking in
  
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• RSL demonstrates flexibility in second half of Rocky Mountain Cup

  27-08-2017 19:20
  Real Salt Lake left back Danilo Acosta pushed up to join the attack, but his pass meant for Joao Plata went to Rapids defender Marlon Hairston’s feet instead. Hairston turned, and Acosta took him out with a slide tackle from behind, earning a red card and putting RSL down a man against Colorado on Saturday night.“He’s a young, eager kid,” RSL coach Mike Petke said of the 19-year-old defender, “and him, Justen [Glad], Brooks [Lennon], [Sebastian Saucedo], guys like t
  
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• LGBTQ concert fundraiser LoveLoud Fest ‘is about changing the hearts of people,’ Imagine Dragons frontman says

  27-08-2017 19:19
  Orem • Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds said that examples of the “divide between my religion and the LGBTQ community” had grown too personal for him to any longer shrug it off as not his problem.He noted that his wedding ceremony, which took place in his parents’ backyard, was missing his wife’s two best friends and roommates, a lesbian couple who refused to attend knowing he was a practicing Mormon, because it took place when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latt
  
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• Conor's choices: Defend UFC belt, box again, or Diaz III?

  27-08-2017 19:01
  Las Vegas • Conor McGregor was exhausted and hurt by the 10th round, his audacious venture undone by every logical problem with a mixed martial artist entering a professional boxing ring for the first time to take on the most accomplished boxer of recent years.Yet the Irishman lasted longer and fought more competitively against Floyd Mayweather Jr. than just about anyone expected. McGregor was gracious and analytical afterward, but he was bothered by one aspect of his defeat: Referee Robert
  
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• Salt Lake theater company finds powerful ritual in Eugene O'Neill tragedy on a new stage

  27-08-2017 18:50
  “They’s no peace in houses,” says Ephraim Cabot, the rough-hewn, hard-eyed religious patriarch at the center of Eugene O’Neill’s 1924 play “Desire Under the Elms.” “They’s no rest livin’ with folks.”Set in 1850, “Desire” is a story of religion, forbidden love and tragic family relations based loosely on the Greek myth of Phaedra. The play, rooted in American soil, burns with religion and sexuality, says director Javen
  
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• Commentary: If hospitals improve patient care, they’ll cut costs, too

  27-08-2017 18:42
  Hospital readmissions remain a costly factor in our health care system. In an attempt to reduce health care costs, for the past several years the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has penalized hospitals that have higher-than-expected readmission rates for patients returning to the hospital within the first 30 days after being discharged.For those hospitals that post actual readmission rates greater than their predicted rates, the penalties can be stiff — as much as a 3 perc
  
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• Water ‘is swallowing us up’: Catastrophic floods hit Houston

  27-08-2017 18:39
  Houston • Rising floodwaters from the remnants of Hurricane Harvey chased thousands of people to rooftops or higher ground Sunday in Houston, overwhelming rescuers who fielded countless desperate calls for help.A fleet of helicopters, airboats and high-water vehicles confronted flooding so widespread that authorities had trouble pinpointing the worst areas. Rescuers got too many calls to respond to each one and had to prioritize life-and-death situations.The water rose high enough to begin
  
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• ICYMI - @ekpeudoh making memories and making ball players during this year's @officialjrjazz summer tour. 😁🏀 https://t.co/QfY7ze7ZV3

  27-08-2017 17:29 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI - @ekpeudoh making memories and making ball players during this year's @officialjrjazz summer tour. 😁🏀 https://t.co/QfY7ze7ZV3
  
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• Rescuers pluck hundreds from rising floodwater in Houston

  27-08-2017 17:18
  Houston • Rescuers answered hundreds of desperate calls for help Sunday as floodwaters from the remnants of Hurricane Harvey rose high enough to begin filling second-story homes, and authorities urged stranded families to seek refuge on their rooftops.A fleet of helicopters, airboats and high-water vehicles confronted flooding so widespread that authorities had trouble pinpointing the worst areas. Rescuers got too many calls to respond to each one and had to prioritize life-and-death situat
  
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• Family of man who died after 2 days in Uintah County jail sues, says he didn’t receive necessary medication

  27-08-2017 16:32
  A man who died in the Uintah County jail didn’t receive adequate medical attention because of the policies the county had in place at the time, according to a lawsuit filed by the deceased man’s family.Jeremy Hunter, 34, was scheduled to stay in the jail for five days on a probation violation when he was booked in December 2014. He died after two.In a filing this month in federal court, the family says the jail should have known of Hunter’s medical issues, that he told them on
  
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• Letter: Trump’s ignorance puts us in great peril

  27-08-2017 16:14
  What will it take to shut him up? Duct tape over the mouth and tie the tiny hands behind his back? A lobotomy?Donald Trump’s appallingly blissful ignorance has not only put us in great peril, but has made us the laughingstock of the world. What does he think South Korea or Guam will be? Just a little collateral damage?A moral core is nonexistent in this man.God bless Robert Mueller. He’s apparently the only one who can save us from this disastrous presidency.Micki Moulton, Taylo
  
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• Six words Mormons dread hearing: The bishop wants to see you

  27-08-2017 16:09
  Years ago, I received a call from the executive secretary of my Mormon ward looking to schedule a meeting between the bishop and me.I was instantly on my guard and refused. The secretary reassured me that it was nothing bad.Me • “Think, Mike. This is me.”Him • “OK, it’s probably a little bad then.”One of the more ominous utterances among churchgoing Mormons is that of being “called into the bishop’s office.” There generally are only two r
  
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• Iraq’s Sunnis wrestle with militants’ religious legacy; some find positives in Islamic State group’s murderous reign

  27-08-2017 16:06
  Mosul, Iraq • Even as the Islamic State group’s rule is being torn down in Iraq, the seeds are there for it — or a successor extremist group — to rise again one day.It’s a disquieting fact: There are those among Iraq’s Sunni Muslim minority who find some good in the group, though they denounce the militants for suffering inflicted during their nearly three-year rule.Listen to the words of a young Iraqi who was impressed by an Islamic State cleric — a comp
  
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• Commentary: Our approach is proficient at incarceration and ill-equipped at rehabilitation

  27-08-2017 16:06
  My sister is in jail for the tenth time in the past 24 months for drugs, paraphernalia, false ID, and retail theft. Her life, a vicious cycle of addiction and incarceration. She was last arrested three weeks before the launch of Operation Rio Grande, which in its first day apprehended 87 people and at present accounts for upwards of 300 arrests and 100 releases.Operation Rio Grande is described as a collaborative, multi-jurisdictional plan to eradicate lawlessness and restore public safety throu
  
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• Utah Symphony hits the road for 1,200 miles of music

  27-08-2017 16:04
  The Utah Symphony is hitting the road again and bringing several friends along.Three years after playing at the state’s five national parks on the Mighty 5 tour, the orchestra and music director Thierry Fischer will give five outdoor performances at state or national parks and monuments. The Great American Road Trip will cover 1,200 miles over five days, Aug. 29 to Sept. 2.In addition to composer-instrumentalist Brent Michael Davids, soprano Abigail Rethwisch and baritone Andrew Paulson, t
  
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• Letter: High time to wake up: Inclusion is orthodoxy

  27-08-2017 16:04
  I cannot believe the topsy-turvy, self-justifying, racist reasoning expressed by Ayla Stewart, but thank her for expressing her deliberately inverted, poisonous ideology so clearly:Racism against “white ppl [people] and white ppl [people] only, in the form of denying us our heritage and culture,” she tweeted, “is in direct conflict with gospel of Christ” (The Tribune, “Black Mormons applaud as LDS Church condemns white supremacy as ‘morally wrong and sinful,&r
  
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• Leonard Pitts: The day Marcellus Williams didn’t die

  27-08-2017 16:03
  Last week, on the day he was scheduled to die, Marcellus Williams didn’t.Just hours before he was to be strapped down and pumped full of poison, Williams, the convicted killer of Felicia “Lisha” Gayle, a former reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, received a reprieve. Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens stayed the execution and announced formation of a panel to review the case.To be sure, no one will ever mistake Williams for a choir boy. At the time he was charged with Gayle&rsqu
  
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• Despite honor code concerns, BYU continues to host the Army and Air Force ROTC program

  27-08-2017 16:03
  They appeared to be on the move as recently as last winter, but it seems the ROTC programs at Brigham Young University aren’t going anywhere. “We have made zero plans at this point,” Maj. John Young, the assistant operations officer at Air Force ROTC Detachment 855 at BYU, said when asked earlier this month if a move to Utah Valley University was underway due to issues surrounding BYU‘s honor code. Classes for BYU’s fall semester begin Sept. 5. Conn C
  
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• Commentary: Improving care and cutting costs

  27-08-2017 16:03
  Hospital readmissions remain a costly factor in our health care system. In an attempt to reduce health care costs, for the past several years the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has penalized hospitals that have higher-than-expected readmission rates for patients returning to the hospital within the first 30 days after being discharged. For those hospitals that post actual readmission rates greater than their predicted rates, the penalties can be stiff – as much as a three
  
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• Religious leaders plan rally in Washington as a moral rebuke to Trump’s presidency

  27-08-2017 15:52
  The Rev. Al Sharpton organized more than 1,000 religious leaders from multiple faiths to rally Monday in Washington, D.C., saying he hopes to show that opposition to President Donald Trump is not merely a political reproach, but also a moral one.The “One Thousand Ministers March for Justice” in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial will come on the 54th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, in which King delivered his famed “I Have a Dream” s
  
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• Vatican No. 2: Anti-Pope Francis jihadist attack threat is worrying

  27-08-2017 15:46
  Rome • Pope Francis’ top aide says a pro-Islamic State group video that targets the pope is worrying but notes Vatican security is already at a high level.Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See’s No. 2 official, told reporters Saturday that a day earlier he had seen the video, which indicates the pope is a target. Recently, another video, transmitted on the pro-IS Telegram channel, suggested that Italy is the next target of an extremist attack.Parolin said: &ld
  
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• Denver Snuffer’s offshoot is drawing away Mormons with the mantra: God can talk to you, too. But will these freewheeling fellowships last?

  27-08-2017 15:10
  Sandy • Don’t call Denver Snuffer Jr. a prophet and don’t view his Remnant movement as a church.Of course, it was the Sandy lawyer’s account about a face-to-face meeting with Jesus that branded him a prophetic figure in the first place. And his 2013 excommunication from the LDS Church for “apostasy” — arguing that after the death of Joseph Smith in 1844, the faith he founded no longer had the exclusive truth or divine authority — seems to have made
  
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• Mayweather stops McGregor in 10th round

  27-08-2017 07:34
  Las Vegas • Floyd Mayweather Jr. figured out a 50th opponent, letting Conor McGregor have the early rounds before stalking him late and leaving the mixed martial artist defenseless and exhausted on the ropes.Mayweather battered McGregor around the ring in the later rounds, finally stopping him at 1:05 of the 10th round Saturday night with a flurry of punches that forced referee Robert Byrd to stop the fight.Before a pro-McGregor crowd that roared every time the UFC star landed a punch, Mayw
  
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• Commentary: Should you be forced to subsidize your neighbor’s solar panels?

  27-08-2017 07:26
  Should Utahns who don’t want or cannot afford to install solar panels on their home be forced to pay for those who can? That’s the crux of the current net metering debate in our state.Net metering allows solar customers to sell excess electricity generated by their rooftop panels back to the utility companies.A study last year found that solar customers, who rely on and use the electrical grid as much as traditional customers, are not paying their fair share for its use.Wha
  
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• RSL routs Colorado, within one point of Western Conference playoffs

  27-08-2017 07:20
  Sandy • With Colorado defender Eric Miller tight on him, Real Salt Lake winger Joao Plata beat goalkeeper Tim Howard at the near post to score late in the first half, wheeling away for a shimmy celebration and a fist pump.After 40 minutes of trying to solve a Rapids defense that dropped deep and defended in numbers, the goal opened things for RSL in an eventual 4-1 win in the Rocky Mountain Cup on Saturday at Rio Tinto Stadium.Plata’s goal changed things “completely,” RSL
  
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• BYU tries to stay positive after struggling to win season opener

  27-08-2017 07:19
  BYU 20, Portland State 6 at a glance<br>• The Cougars win their fourth-straight season opener.<br>• Tanner Mangum completes 16 of 27 passes for 194 yards and a touchdown.<br>• Senior captain Fred Warner records 10 tackles and junior Sione Takitaki has two sacks and three tackles for loss.Provo • Well, that was underwhelming on a day in which the only entity doing any of the expected overwhelming was the heat.It was such an unimpressive opening-game performan
  
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• ‘Dad, Mom, I’ve been balling’: Tyler Huntley embrace the pressure of being Utah’s starting QB

  27-08-2017 07:18
  He was a four-year starter and the Florida Gatorade Player of the Year. He went all over the Southeast with high school teammates and won 7-on-7 competitions, outperforming quarterbacks with multiple Division I offers.“You’re the next guy on our list,” coaches would always tell Tyler Huntley, the type of slight that “you could tell it did bother him,” said Jase Steward, his offensive coordinator at Hallandale High School.Now, Tyler Huntley’s name is atop Utah&
  
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• Monson: In the agony of victory, more questions than answers for BYU

  27-08-2017 07:16
  ProvoDarn near everyone here was surprised/shocked/freaked out by what happened at LaVell Edwards Stadium on Saturday. And some, while wishing complete safety for the people of Texas, wondered if it would be possible for Hurricane Harvey to do BYU a solid and get next week’s game in Houston against LSU canceled.That’s what a clumsy, uninspired performance against an FCS opponent does to folks.It scares them.Bruce Barnum, Portland State’s wonderfully colorful and wickedly unvarn
  
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• After 70 years, last rites loom this month for landmark Huntsville monastery

  27-08-2017 07:16
  Huntsville • Inside the chapel of the Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity, a 30-foot stained-glass window depicts Mary cuddling the Christ child, glowing with red, blue and white light.Sunbeams caress wooden stalls once filled by dozens of Trappist monks chanting prayers and praise; the colored glass illuminating worn, but recently polished linoleum flooring with hints of a fractured rainbow.The now-silent chapel, fashioned more than half a century ago from a cavernous, military surplus Q
  
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• Kragthorpe: BYU’s offense makes fans sweat one out in unsatisfying season opener

  27-08-2017 07:15
  ProvoLaVell Edwards loved afternoon football, but this was the wrong kind of tribute to the legendary coach in BYU’s first game since his passing in December.The Cougars’ partnership with ESPN subjected their fans to temperatures in the mid-90s for a day game in August, and BYU’s offensive performance did nothing to justify the effort. Everybody suffered and sweated through BYU’s 20-6 defeat of Portland State, an exercise that succeeded only to this degree: The Cougars be
  
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• Salt Lake Bees beat Albuquerque Isotopes

  27-08-2017 06:52
  Shortstop David Fletcher had three hits, including a home run, and two RBIs as the Salt Lake Bees beat the host Albuquerque Isotopes 6-4 in a Pacific Coast League game on Saturday night.
  Eric Young Jr. snapped a 4-4 tie in the seventhinning with an RBI single, and the Bees improved to 67-66.After Albuquerque scored two runs in the sixth inning to tiethe game, Nolan Fontana led off the top of the seventh with a walk andthen stole second base. Young followed with a single to right thatbrought home
  
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