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• Coming off a bye week, RSL’s final two matches remain crucial

  14-10-2017 23:57
  When Kyle Beckerman sat down to watch MLS games last week, he experienced an odd feeling.“I was more nervous to watch the games than I am to play in them,” he said. “I turned the TV on and I was like, ‘Why am I nervous all of a sudden?’ I couldn’t explain it.”When Houston’s home match against Kansas City rolled around Wednesday, Beckerman opted to get updates second-hand. That was a common experience for Real Salt Lake players during their bye last
  
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• Tribune Editorial: For Salt Lake City Council

  14-10-2017 23:53
  Salt Lake City voters have it easy. In the three contested elections for seats on the Salt Lake City Council, it will be nigh on to impossible for the voters to make a bad choice. Each of the candidates is engaged, energetic and virtually tumbling over one another for the chance to work for the benefit of their districts and the city as a whole.All of the candidates worry about air quality, building a police force that is large enough and well trained and doing something to make a real, long-ter
  
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• Utah's success sending linemen to NFL convinces Herriman's Kump to join Utes

  14-10-2017 23:40
  Herriman • To get himself ready for games, Jaren Kump often finds himself watching videos of one of his favorite linemen: Garrett Bolles, the Denver Broncos’ powerful rookie left tackle.“I look up to him a lot,” Kump said.Last weekend, however, Kump was simply eye to eye with Bolles as he chatted with the former Utes star during an official campus visit.Bolles’ success is part of the reason Kump, a senior at Herriman and a standout offensive tackle himself, announced
  
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• Little goes right for 1-6 BYU in humbling 35-10 loss at Mississippi State

  14-10-2017 23:39
  Starkville, Miss. • That broken record coach Kalani Sitake keeps talking about, the one that repeats itself and has come to symbolize the 2017 BYU football season, played out on the field again deep in SEC territory on Saturday.The downtrodden Cougars played conservatively and with little creativity on offense, failed to capitalize on their opponents’ few mistakes and were dominated by Mississippi State on both sides of the ball in an easy-as-expected 35-10 Bulldogs romp in front 54,8
  
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• Mississippi State’s long TD drives doom BYU to a sixth straight defeat

  14-10-2017 23:38
  Starkville, Miss. • In a 35-10 victory, Mississippi State’s offense produced five touchdown drives of 70 yards or longer.BYU’s offensive players can only wonder how that feels.Considering the Cougars’ offensive struggles this season, nothing was unusual about a 176-yard effort against a Southeastern Conference opponent. The surprise was that BYU’s defense allowed those long scoring drives Saturday at Davis Wade Stadium.Bulldogs on the march<br>Mississippi State
  
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• Motion Picture Academy expels movie mogul Harvey Weinstein

  14-10-2017 23:31
  New York • Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been revoked by its board.The decision was reached Saturday in an emergency session. It comes after recent reports by The New York Times and The New Yorker that revealed sexual harassment and rape allegations against Weinstein going back decades. The move by the Academy is virtually unprecedented.The Academy is the world's top movie organization and is home to the Oscars.In
  
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• [Yahoo Sports: The Vertical] - Sleeper teams for each conference in 2017-18 NBA season

  14-10-2017 23:30 via sportspyder.com
  ... tiple years and would’ve pushed Utah’s ceiling much higher. This season, the Jazz rebounded with enough veterans – Ricky Rubio, Thabo Sefolosha, Jonas Jerebko ...
  
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• Former BYU player Harvey Langi in serious car accident

  14-10-2017 23:15
  Foxborough, Mass. • New England Patriots linebacker Harvey Langi has been involved in a car accident in Foxborough and hospitalized.The Patriots say Langi, a rookie from BYU, was stopped a traffic light on Friday night when he and another passenger were rear ended by another car. The team says the two “are receiving medical attention,” and there is no immediate word on their condition.Langi, 25, signed with New England as an undrafted free agent after this year’s NFL draft
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz a projected playoff team per FiveThirtyEight, SI

  14-10-2017 23:02 via sportspyder.com
  ... th teams. In our preseason composite power rankings here on The J-Notes, the Jazz were ranked sixth, while Blake Griffin’s squad came in at No. 7. The key to...
  
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• [KSL] - The Jazz Daily: Exum comes to practice, Jazz make roster cuts

  14-10-2017 22:52 via sportspyder.com
  ... n here." That's saying a lot! After all, at the beginning of the season, the Jazz were rated as having the No. 1 bench in the NBA last year. While it didn't t ...
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Curtis for Congress

  14-10-2017 22:50
  The race to fill the congressional seat in Utah’s 3rd District is nearing the finish line. Mail ballots will be sent to voters on October 17, early voting begins the 24th and election day is November 7.Third district voters are appropriately chagrined that they’re voting for this office again. Just last November they voted for Jason Chaffetz to represent them, but he quit in June to chase an apparent Fox News talking head dream. Good riddance.Six candidates are vying for the seat, bu
  
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• Utah Jazz a projected playoff team per FiveThirtyEight, SI

  14-10-2017 22:43
  The Utah Jazz are projected as a playoff team in the West despite a tumultuous offseason and an influx of talent into the conference. Despite incurring major losses over the summer, the Utah Jazz seemingly continue to inspire confidence within their fanbase. Gordon Hayward and George Hill are gone, but there’s a palpable excitement surrounding […]
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• Vegas shooting victim from Utah remembered as devoted mom, wife

  14-10-2017 22:41
  Enoch, Utah • Las Vegas shooting victim Heather Warino Alvarado is being memorialized as a devoted wife and mother at a funeral in her southern Utah home town.The 35-year-old Warino Alvarado was killed in the Oct. 1 shooting at country music festival while with her teenage daughter, who was unharmed.The Spectrum newspaper reports that at the funeral held Friday in the small city of Enoch, close friend and former neighbor Kailye Jones remembered how Heather would wish it was time to pick her
  
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• Misty K. Snow: Recognizing the misogyny faced by women in politics

  14-10-2017 22:40
  There is a special election coming up in Utah’s 3rd Congressional District and Kathie Allen is the Democratic nominee. Over the last six months, Allen has been receiving lots of criticism from “Democrats” for not being “good enough” on certain issues.In recent weeks, these criticisms against Allen have intensified, with many “Democrats” choosing to support her Republican opponent, John Curtis. Curtis is a man who has voiced opposition to women’s ri
  
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• Ghanwoloku one of BYU’s few bright spots

  14-10-2017 22:25
  Starkville, Miss. • BYU was defeated handily by Mississippi State on Saturday at Davis Wade Stadium, but it could have been worse if not for sophomore cornerback Dayan Ghanwoloku.The former Northridge High star intercepted two passes off Bulldogs quarterback Nick Fitzgerald, who otherwise had a sensational game. Ghanwoloku’s first interception came in the Cougars’ end zone, and he returned it 67 yards to the MSU 33. His second pick came deep in BYU territory, and he returned it
  
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• Dana Milbank: Revising biblical law by executive order

  14-10-2017 22:16
  Washington • Seems Roy Moore, the Ten Commandments Judge and very likely the next U.S. senator from the state of Alabama, has been playing a bit fast and loose with the whole thou-shalt-not-bear-false-witness thing.My Post colleagues Shawn Boburg and Robert O’Harrow Jr. reported this last week that Moore, who claimed he did not take a “regular salary” from the Christian-values charity he founded, in fact received $180,000 a year — more than $1 million from 2007 to 20
  
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• Publishing company dismissed from Duggar siblings' lawsuits

  14-10-2017 21:47
  Fayetteville, Ark. • A publishing company has been dismissed from separate lawsuits by reality TV actors Josh Duggar and four of his sisters over decade-old information about a sexual abuse investigation involving the siblings.The lawsuits were filed against the city of Springdale, Washington County and Bauer Publishing after Bauer's InTouch Weekly magazine published an article based on investigative documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.U.S. District Judge Tim Bro
  
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• [The Score] - Report: Jazz, Exum exploring non-surgical options for injured shoulder

  14-10-2017 21:39 via sportspyder.com
  ...Report: Jazz, Exum exploring non-surgical options for injured shoulder by 32m ago Kelley...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Report: Dante Exum still exploring options for shoulder injury

  14-10-2017 21:36 via sportspyder.com
  ... ign the athletic phenom as it looked in preseason as the Utah Jazz had something special on their hands with the backcourt duo of Exum and rook ...
  
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• Thabo Patrick Sefolosha, from Vevey, Switzerland, is a 🔒 down defender and has a 1.1 steals avg for his entire 11 y… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-10-2017 21:22 via twitter.com
  Thabo Patrick Sefolosha, from Vevey, Switzerland, is a 🔒 down defender and has a 1.1 steals avg for his entire 11 y… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• [ESPN] - Sources: Exum exploring nonsurgical options

  14-10-2017 21:19 via sportspyder.com
  ... ude him from undergoing season-ending surgery, league sources told ESPN. The Jazz and Exum have been exploring multiple medical opinions on an injured shoulde ...
  
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• Mississippi State runs over BYU 35-10

  14-10-2017 21:18
  Starkville, Miss. • This time, BYU’s defense had as much to do with the Cougars’ blowout loss as the offense did. Maybe more so.Mississippi State moved the football almost at will Saturday at Davis Wade Stadium, and took an easy 35-10 win over BYU, handing the Cougars their sixth-straight loss.It is BYU’s first six-game losing streak since 1968, when it eventually lost seven before getting its second victory that year.The Bulldogs (4-2) had racked up 521 yards of offense t
  
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• Commentary: Mitt Romney must run for president in 2020

  14-10-2017 21:04
  Should Mitt Romney run for the U.S. Senate? By all means. Indeed, Sen. Orrin Hatch should step aside. The Old Souls in the House and Senate will be taking a beating this coming year and Judge Roy Moore, newly nominated gunslinger from Alabama, will lead the charge. Possibly on horseback.For with the rise of Donald Trump to the Oval Office, America has entered a new age of Andrew Jackson. Trump has even placed a portrait of Jackson in the Oval Office to boldly indicate the dramatic shift in parad
  
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• [Yahoo Sports: The Vertical] - Sources: Exum exploring non-surgical options

  14-10-2017 21:01 via sportspyder.com
  ... preclude him undergoing season-ending surgery, league sources told ESPN. The Jazz and Exum have been exploring multiple medical opinions on an injured shoulde ...
  
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• Pro-Trump states most affected by his health care decision

  14-10-2017 20:55
  President Donald Trump's decision to end a provision of the Affordable Care Act that was benefiting roughly 6 million Americans helps fulfill a campaign promise, but it also risks harming some of the very people who helped him win the presidency.Nearly 70 percent of those benefiting from the so-called cost-sharing subsidies live in states Trump won last November, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.The subsidies are paid to insurers by the federal government to help lower consumers'
  
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• [ESPN] - Sources: Exum exploring non-surgical options

  14-10-2017 20:55 via sportspyder.com
  ... preclude him undergoing season-ending surgery, league sources told ESPN. The Jazz and Exum have been exploring multiple medical opinions on an injured shoulde ...
  
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• Commentary: There is no 'great equalizer' without a compassionate educational system

  14-10-2017 20:54
  “Education is the great equalizer,” or so they say. What happens, then, when education itself is unequal? For many students, their experience with the “great equalizer” is anything but fair; students of marginalized identities are far more likely than their peers to receive harsh and punitive treatment, leading to trends in which they are pushed out of school at high rates.A recent report by Voices for Utah Children and the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law s
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Brad Rock: Donovan Mitchell and the reality of rookies

  14-10-2017 20:34 via sportspyder.com
  ... t looked great even when healthy. He’s still young, but he has been with the Jazz long enough to see that even without injuries, he’s not a dominant player. M ...
  
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• To make it back to playoffs, Jazz must put together a new puzzle

  14-10-2017 20:26
  After hours of uncertainty, Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey and head coach Quin Snyder boarded a plane last July 4, heading home with a the answer they didn’t want and lots of work to do.It was a five hour flight. Lindsey and Snyder talked. They turned their attention forward. Steven Schwartz, now Utah’s director of basketball operations, started to write down their thoughts.“Just to have those hours on the flight back were critical,” Lindsey said. “It did help
  
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• Zinke pledges 'action' on harassment inside Park Service

  14-10-2017 20:21
  Washington • Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Friday that he was determined to end a culture of harassment inside the National Park Service as a new survey found that almost two in five employees experienced harassment or discrimination in the past year.The long-awaited survey also found that more than one in 10 employees felt sexually harassed on the job. The report confirmed a pattern of widespread misconduct that broke into the open two years ago with a scandal at the Grand Canyon Nati
  
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• [Yahoo Sports: The Vertical] - Jazz Waive Kendall Pollard

  14-10-2017 20:21 via sportspyder.com
  ...TeamUtah Jazz Dunk Team Interactive TeamInteractive Team Parking Vivint Smart Home Arena B ...
  
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• The mother jailed for refusing to vaccinate her son says she would 'do it all over again'

  14-10-2017 20:21
  Days after a Michigan mother was put in jail for ignoring a court order to vaccinate her 9-year-old son, she said that given the choice, she would "do it all again."Rebecca Bredow, who lives in the Detroit area, was sentenced last week to nearly a week in jail for contempt of court almost a year after an Oakland County judge ordered her to have her son immunized."I was trying to protect my kids," the 40-year-old mother told ABC News on Friday morning. "I was trying to stand up for what I believe
  
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• 'We've got to go!' A California couple awoke to flames crackling. They couldn't flee. So they jumped in their pool.

  14-10-2017 20:20
  Daniel Pomplun jolted awake. It was 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, and he heard the crackling of flames. He noticed the power was out, and he rose from bed and went to the window.They had been fast asleep, and Daniel and his wife, Cindy, had missed the warnings. The residents of Santa Rosa, California, had been evacuating for more than three hours already as the rapidly spreading wildfire approached. The red glow through the window told Daniel it was too late. The fire was here."Cindy! Wake up!" Pomplun, 54
  
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• Brad Rock: Donovan Mitchell and the reality of rookies

  14-10-2017 20:20
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Jazz’s latest draft discovery is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous and kind. A regular Boy Scout.Donovan Mitchell also has a 6-foot-11 wingspan on a 6-3 body.With all that out of the way, I have one small request: Could we just tap on the brakes?The post-Gordon Hayward era begins Wednesday at home against Denver, at which point things move beyond “hopeful” and into “real.” Mitchell is perceptive enough to understand that. He
  
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• Increase in people with Alzheimer's has a personal cost

  14-10-2017 20:09
  Provo • Alzheimer's is often referred to as the silver tsunami, affecting around 30,000 people over the age of 65 in the state of Utah with that number increasing at a rapid rate, according to the Alzheimer's Association."By our counts, we will be anywhere from fourth to sixth in the nation by 2025," said Jeremy Cunningham, public policy and communications director of the Utah Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association.The state of Utah has seven Walks to End Alzheimer's, including one in Utah
  
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• Commentary: Kids and families can’t afford to wait for CHIP to be renewed

  14-10-2017 20:08
  Imagine if tomorrow you received a letter that said your child’s health insurance was ending. What if you learned that the coverage you had come to depend on for your child’s asthma medication, tooth ache or recent soccer injury was just no longer available. What would you do? How would you suddenly adjust to the new expenses and disruptions?Unfortunately, this could soon be a reality for thousands of low-income Utah families. Federal funding for the Children’s Health Insurance
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Jazz Waive Naz Mitrou-Long

  14-10-2017 19:39 via sportspyder.com
  ... t Lake City Stars in the G League. Following the release of Mitrou-Long, the Jazz are now carrying 18 players. Two of those players are on two-way contracts,...
  
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• Historian digs into the hidden world of Mormon finances, shows how church went from losing money to making money — lots of it

  14-10-2017 19:23
  Some Mormons — and plenty of others — were appalled to witness their church build a $1.5 billion mall in downtown Salt Lake City and hear their prophet proclaim, “Let’s go shopping.”Isn’t religion, they argued, supposed to be about feeding the hungry and clothing the poor? How is selling Tiffany jewelry, Nordstrom cocktail dresses and luxury condos any part of a Christian faith?Such critics, though, fail to understand Mormonism, says historian D. Michael Quinn
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz Waive Nazareth Mitrou-Long

  14-10-2017 19:21 via sportspyder.com
  ... iewsShootaround Interviews Postgame InterviewsPostgame Interviews Game Night Jazz Dancers Utah Jazz Bear ProForm Stunt Team Gameday Giveaways Utah Jazz Dunk T ...
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz Waive Kendall Pollard

  14-10-2017 19:21 via sportspyder.com
  ...TeamUtah Jazz Dunk Team Interactive TeamInteractive Team Parking Vivint Smart Home Arena B ...
  
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• We’ve Waived Nazareth Mitrou-Long Details: on.nba.com/2gFs6Qm https://t.co/j2VF6R3yjC

  14-10-2017 19:15 via twitter.com
  
  We’ve Waived Nazareth Mitrou-LongDetails: on.nba.com/2gFs6Qm https://t.co/j2VF6R3yjC
  
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• Draper man enters not guilty pleas in hate crime case

  14-10-2017 19:01
  Court records show 58-year-old Mark O. Porter entered the plea Wednesday to a federal housing violation charge, and was taken into custody ahead of a detention hearing.Prosecutors say he yelled a racial slur at the 7-year-old boy and told him to "get out of here" in Draper on Nov. 3.Charges say Porter hit the father in the neck with a stun cane when he told Porter not to yell at his son.Porter faces up to 10 years in prison.Attorney Gabriel White said Thursday he no longer represents Porter but
  
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• We’ve waived Kendall Pollard Details: on.nba.com/2hH91gm https://t.co/NJzkuFpyHv

  14-10-2017 19:00 via twitter.com
  
  We’ve waived Kendall PollardDetails: on.nba.com/2hH91gm https://t.co/NJzkuFpyHv
  
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• Letter: Some dates that will live in infamy

  14-10-2017 18:59
  Dates that will live in infamy: Dec. 7, 1941, Sept. 11, 2001 and Jan. 20, 2017, the Trump presidential inauguration.Loni F. De LandSalt Lake City
  
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• Utah governor urges appeal of records panel’s order on releasing secret legal opinion in 3rd District race

  14-10-2017 18:55
  The Utah State Records Committee ruled unanimously Thursday that the Utah Attorney General’s office should make public a written legal opinion it prepared for the Legislature on Gov. Gary Herbert’s setting of rules for the special 3rd Congressional District election.Paul Edwards, Herbert’s deputy chief of staff, called Friday for a court review of the decision, noting that the records committee had also found the document to be a protected record under state open-records laws.&
  
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• Search continues for missing Brigham City man with dementia

  14-10-2017 18:53
  Brigham City police are continuing to search for an 89-year-old man with dementia who has been missing since Wednesday evening.Floyd Kling found the keys to his red pickup truck on Wednesday at 6 p.m. and disappeared from his home with a three-quarter tank of gas, police wrote on Facebook Thursday.“It would be so helpful that people consider that he may be on foot now,” said Kling’s daughter, Holli Ames, in an email early Saturday morning. “The truck had 3/4 tank of gas,
  
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• Prep volleyball rankings for Oct. 15

  14-10-2017 18:27
  Records based on best 3-of-5 matchesClass 6A1. Lone Peak (13-1) • Knights reclaim top spot with sweep at American Fork and narrow home win over Pleasant Grove.2. Pleasant Grove (8-2) • First a 3-2 win at Bingham then a five-set loss at Lone Peak.3. Bingham (8-3) • Miners still looking for breakthrough against top two.4. American Fork (7-4) • After 3-0 loss to Lone Peak, Cavemen sweep Westlake.5. Syracuse (8-0) • Long stretch of inactivity ends when Titans host Northridge
  
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• Live: Mississippi State grabs lead over BYU on its first drive

  14-10-2017 18:16
  The BYU Cougars, losers of five in a row, visit Mississippi State of the Southeastern Conference on Saturday morning in the first of two consecutive long road trips for Kalani Sitake’s team. Follow the live blog here with The Tribune’s Jay Drew and others. A Twitter List by BrennanJSmith
  
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