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• The Dodgers' pitching strategy in Game 7 cost them the World Series

  02-11-2017 23:53
  The Los Angeles Dodgers deserve a ton of credit for how their 2017 season turned out. Manager Dave Roberts steered his club to 104 regular-season wins and sailed through the playoffs before facing a Houston Astros team playing at just as high of a level.But for a manager that isn't afraid to employ analytics to drive his decisions, he either ignored the numbers or was simply looking at the wrong ones prior to Game 7 of the World Series.Roberts decided to go with Yu Darvish on the mound for the w
  
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• World Series ratings for Dodgers-Astros lower than for Cubs-Indians

  02-11-2017 23:50
  Los Angeles • The Houston Astros' seven-game World Series win over the Los Angeles Dodgers averaged 18.9 million viewers on Fox, down 19 percent from the 23.4 million average for the Chicago Cubs' seven-game victory over Cleveland last year for their first title since 1908.The total audience on Fox's three outlets averaged 19.56 million, the network said Thursday. That included an average of 476,000 viewers on Fox Deportes, up 34 percent from 355,000 last year, and a digital audience averag
  
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• Report finds surge in anti-Semitism across the U.S., including after Charlottesville

  02-11-2017 23:33
  A new report shows a continued rise in anti-Semitic incidents across the U.S. in the first nine months of 2017, partly attributable to the Charlottesville, Va., rally in which white nationalists marched through the city shouting “Jews will not replace us.”The report from the Anti-Defamation League shows a 67 percent increase in physical assaults, vandalism and attacks on Jewish institutions over the same period last year.Specifically, the report cites 1,299 anti-Semitic incidents acr
  
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• Salt Lake City nets $50K award to help restore historic pickle factory

  02-11-2017 23:24
  Salt Lake City is getting a $50,000 historic preservation grant to restore the 123-year-old Utah Pickle Company building in the city’s Granary District for use as a community gathering spot and workplace for local artists and businesses.The project by Ori Media includes expanding the Studio Elevn local business collective into the restored building to provide space for events and media production, offices for local artists and entrepreneurs, and a community garden.“Every dollar towar
  
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• ‘Behind the Headlines’: Feds OK Utah’s Medicaid waiver, a manhunt follows a U. shooting and Utahns in Congress discuss Mueller indictments

  02-11-2017 23:20
  President Donald Trump’s administration approves Utah’s request for a Medicaid waiver to help fund Operation Rio Grande. The fatal shooting of a student near the University of Utah leads to a manhunt and arrests. And Utah’s members of Congress comment on special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s indictments over his Trump campaign investigation.At 9 a.m. Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Paighten Harkins and Luke Ramseth, Washington Bureau Chief Thomas Burr and columnist Robe
  
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• Six Utah school districts put a total of $800 million in bonds up for Nov. 7 voter approval

  02-11-2017 23:17
  Utah voters in some areas will decide the fate of more than their public servants come Election Day.Six Utah school districts along the Wasatch Front and surrounding area will ask their patrons for approval Nov. 7 to borrow millions of dollars to build, renovate or update dozens of schools across the state, in hopes of making room for additional students, new technology and safety upgrades.“We know it’s never easy to ask people to increase their taxes, but this is for the future good
  
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• Texans rookie star QB Deshaun Watson out for season with ACL tear

  02-11-2017 23:09
  Houston • Two people familiar with the situation tell The Associated Press that Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson sustained a season-ending knee injury in practice on Thursday.The rookie suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in one of his knees and will go on the injured reserve. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because the team hadn't announced the injury.The 12th overall pick in this year's draft was named AFC offensive player of the month after throwing for 1,1
  
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• After a baseball season to remember, the NFL is looking even more dreary

  02-11-2017 23:07
  The NFL just got another big problem: baseball.It takes a long time for trend lines to cross. We may be talking about a 10- or 15-year process here. But after a thrilling seven-game World Series for the third time in four years, baseball, a sport that was never far "down," is headed back up, with just a handful of problems, most of them manageable. Meanwhile, the NFL has more intractable issues than a junkyard mutt has fleas.For the third time in four years, baseball had one of the all-time best
  
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• Wharton leads in Salt Lake City Council election financing

  02-11-2017 23:03
  Salt Lake City Council District 3 hopeful Chris Wharton leads all comers in campaign financing through the end of October, spending and raising roughly one-third of the totals for all candidates, according to the latest campaign disclosures.All told through Oct. 31, seven candidates for four council seats have raised nearly $139,000 and spent just under $102,000, with the most money changing hands predictably in the two races for open council seats.Wharton, a lawyer who is running against develo
  
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• Darlene McDonald: Councilman’s racist statements should be denounced

  02-11-2017 23:00
  I watched with horror over the summer as angry shouts and tiki torches filled the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia. I mourned the death of Heather Heyer, murdered by a hateful man motivated by fear and loathing of people not enough like him.I watched with horror, but not surprise.This was the same country, after all, that spent years questioning the legitimacy of the nation’s first black president. This was the same country that had just elevated the leader of this clan of “birth
  
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• Jury selected in federal criminal trial of ex-UTA board member Terry Diehl

  02-11-2017 22:55
  Come Monday, Terry Diehl’s fate will be in the hands of nine men and four women empaneled as jurors in a criminal trial that accuses the ex-Utah Transit Authority board member of lying in a bankruptcy case from 2012.Jury selection was conducted Thursday in Salt Lake City’s U.S. District Court. One of the 13 jurors will serve as an alternate and will hear the case, but not deliberate its outcome.Opening statements are scheduled for Monday and the trial is expected to last 10 days.Firs
  
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• Independent panel backs 'overdue' pay raise for Utah Legislature

  02-11-2017 22:52
  An independent commission recommended Thursday giving Utah legislators what it calls an overdue raise in their daily pay rate, and also backed paying them for more days each year — saying they now often work extra days with no compensation.“I think this is fair,” said Legislative Compensation Commission member Matthew Bell, a former Weber County commissioner. “And we’ve given them a couple of avenues” to help them overcome the usual public criticism of any pay
  
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• Fresh humor and rakish charm of Chris Hemsworth blow the stuffiness out of Marvel’s ‘Thor: Ragnarok’

  02-11-2017 22:50
  In the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s frisky new installment, “Thor: Ragnarok,” the Norse thunder god gets his ego punctured with the sharpest jolt of humor the franchise has ever seen.Thor, though always played with rakish charm by Chris Hemsworth, has always been a problematic figure in Marvel’s cavalcade of superheroes. He’s one of the few Marvel figures who are not from Earth, and his epic quests through Asgard feel a bit like Tolkien sagas with beefier characters.
  
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• Weber School District hopes approval of $97 million bond will help it address surging enrollment

  02-11-2017 22:41
  Weber School District has seen a spike in its student population since it last put a bond before voters in 2012.About 1,500 more students have enrolled in the 32,000-pupil district in the past four years, said district spokesman Lane Findlay, with nearly 500 of them joining the district last school year.That growth has brought overcrowding to the district’s elementary and high schools, a problem district officials hope to alleviate with a $97 million bond put up for voter approval on Tuesd
  
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• Morgan School District seeks $49 million bond measure to ease overcrowding

  02-11-2017 22:41
  Doug Jacobs joked that if enrollment in Morgan School District keeps growing the way it has, students will have to be shuttled into school like skiers headed to Snowbasin Resort.“We’ve outgrown our schools,” the district superintendent said. “We have schools at capacity and huge traffic concerns. We can barely get buses down our main street in town. Something needs to be done.”The northern Utah district east of Layton has added about 100 students per year for the la
  
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• Ogden School District says $106.5 million bond would expand schools, improve learning

  02-11-2017 22:39
  As snows melt each spring, empty buckets line the hallways and classrooms of Ogden School District’s T.O. Smith Elementary School to catch water dripping from its leaky roof.And that’s far from the 62-year-old Ogden school’s only quirk. Circuit breakers regularly blow if too many computers are running, security cameras frequently short circuit and more than half of the school’s nearly 500 students spend part of their school day in portable classrooms.Terry Humphreys, prin
  
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• Suspect in Murray fatal shooting that led to rush-hour traffic car wrecks arrested in Oregon, charged with murder

  02-11-2017 22:29
  The suspect in last week’s fatal shooting in Murray — which prompted a multi-vehicle wreck on State Street during rush hour — was charged Thursday after police arrested him on Halloween in Oregon.Officers found 19-year-old Lucas Marc Deprey at a Western Union in Springfield, Oregon, and arrested him in the death of 33-year-old Ever Hernandez, court documents say.Police traced him to the store after Deprey contacted a friend and asked for money to flee to another state. The frie
  
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• Granite School District would use $238 million bond for school upgrades, improving earthquake safety

  02-11-2017 22:21
  Granite School District will tackle a major overhaul of its buildings should voters approve its $238 million bond proposal on Tuesday.The 10-year bond would not only rebuild 14 Granite schools, including Cyprus and Skyline High Schools, but also pay for major remodel projects on 17 other facilities across the sprawling district.The price tag for taxpayers: a $15 per month property tax increase for the average home in the district, valued at $259,000.“We believe this is the best way to give
  
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• Canyons School District’s $283 million bond aimed at rebuilding high schools, improving lighting

  02-11-2017 22:20
  When Alta High School in Canyons School District was built in 1978, Principal Brian McGill said natural light wasn’t much of a factor in school design.“The architectural philosophy was no windows or light,” McGill said. “Just keep the students contained and teach them what they need to know.” But recent research indicates that natural light and open spaces can help improve students moods and attitudes, helping them learn better during the school day, said the princi
  
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• South Summit School District says $58.6 million bond needed to avoid portable classrooms, year-round schedule

  02-11-2017 22:14
  Officials in South Summit School District see a problem looming in their near future.Thanks to growing enrollment, the Kamas-based district’s elementary, middle and high school will be well over capacity within the next five years. Officials hope voters will approve a $58.6 million bond to build a new high school, which would help disperse the student body between four schools to better accommodate continued growth.“The alternative is we add several portable classrooms and likely swi
  
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• Energy chief Perry: Fossil fuels can prevent sexual assault

  02-11-2017 22:12
  Washington • Energy Secretary Rick Perry says he thinks using fossil fuels can help prevent sexual assault.Perry said Thursday that using fossil fuels to power electricity can help villages in Africa and other developing regions. He said during a recent visit to Africa, a young girl told him electricity was important to her because she has to read by the light of a fire with noxious fumes.Speaking at an event sponsored by Axios and NBC News, Perry said electricity also was important “
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: The public sides with Mueller

  02-11-2017 22:10
  The latest Post-ABC poll shows that Robert Mueller, for now, enjoys overwhelming support for his investigation. He also gets high marks for the indictments of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and adviser Rick Gates. And in even worse news for President Donald Trump, nearly half (49 percent) of Americans surveyed think he committed a crime.Mueller receives 58 percent approval and only 28 percent disapproval from Americans. Even among Republicans, nearly 4 in 10 (38 percent approve). A
  
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• Mormon church donates $10 million to help house Salt Lake City's homeless, needy

  02-11-2017 22:05
  The LDS Church is donating $10 million toward building and developing additional housing in the Salt Lake Valley for those in need, the Utah-based faith announced Thursday.Gérald Caussé, presiding bishop for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said the money comes from contributions Mormons made to the faith’s Humanitarian Aid Fund.“Homelessness affects all sectors of our communities,” Caussé said in a news release. “Around the world, we
  
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• She's got next: In the G League, female refs can make a name

  02-11-2017 22:02
  Miami • The G League season opens Friday night, and there will be someone on the court in places like Grand Rapids or Greensboro or Des Moines whose next job will be in the NBA.That isn't limited to players.Or to men.Nearly one-third of the referees in the G League this season are women, and some — like dozens of players, coaches, front-office staff and refs — are moving closer to realizing NBA hopes. Every referee hired by the NBA in the last 15 years has some experience in wha
  
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• UConn women a unanimous No. 1 in preseason AP hoops poll

  02-11-2017 22:01
  New York • UConn is No. 1 in The Associated Press women's basketball preseason poll for the 12th time in the school's history.The Huskies, who saw their 111-game winning streak come to an end in the Final Four last season, return four starters from that team and add a stellar freshman class to go along with two solid transfers.The entire 32-member national media panel picked UConn first, marking the fifth time the team has been the lone choice atop the poll. The Huskies also matched Tenness
  
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• The only things that are clear for Andrew Luck and the Colts are clearly bad

  02-11-2017 21:58
  What had become increasingly inevitable was made official Thursday when the Indianapolis Colts announced they were placing quarterback Andrew Luck on the injured reserve list, declaring Luck's season over before it ever began.The 2017 season goes down as a washout for Luck and, almost surely, the Colts. The once-so-bright future of Luck and the Colts has been clouded considerably. When and if he returns to the team next season, the prospect he will take the franchise to Super Bowls while craftin
  
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• Former Utes Delon Wright, Jakob Poeltl finally breaking out in Toronto

  02-11-2017 21:56
  Delon Wright struggled as an NBA rookie with the Toronto Raptors two years ago.He wasn’t in a rotation for the first time in his playing career. Wright would call his father, Ray, as he accrued DNP’s on Dwane Casey’s bench. The two would talk about basketball, about life. The basketball message was always the same.Stay ready. The opportunity will come. Be prepared to take advantage when it does.The former Utah star, along with fellow former Utes star Jakob Poeltl, will make the
  
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• Cavs forward Thompson out 3-4 weeks with calf injury

  02-11-2017 21:56
  Cleveland • Cavaliers forward Tristan Thompson could be out for a month because of a strained left calf.He was injured in the second quarter of Wednesday night's loss to Indiana and left Quicken Loans Arena on crutches. The team said he had an MRI on Thursday and is projected to return in three to four weeks.The injury is the latest blow to the Cavs, who have lost four straight and are just 3-5 this season. Cleveland has had its share of injuries, but the bigger issue has defense for the th
  
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• Auburn sits Wiley, Purifoy during NCAA corruption investigation

  02-11-2017 21:55
  Auburn, Ala. • Auburn will hold out sophomores Austin Wiley and Danjel Purifoy indefinitely in connection with a federal investigation into associate head coach Chuck Person.The athletic department sent out a statement Thursday announcing the decision was made "to avoid any potential eligibility issues." Wiley and Purifoy are two of the Tigers' top players.Person faces federal charges for allegedly receiving $91,500 in bribes to steer Auburn players to a Pittsburgh-based financial adviser w
  
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• Corruption, doping issues aired at global Olympic meeting

  02-11-2017 21:54
  Prague • Allegations of corruption and doping were on the minds of national Olympic leaders at their annual gathering on Thursday.The Association of National Olympic Committees assembly was presided over by Sheikh Ahmad of Kuwait in a rare public appearance since being implicated six months ago in an American investigation of bribery linked to FIFA.Senior ANOC official Julio Maglione said its ruling committee "unanimously cleared" the sheikh of wrongdoing, and led delegates in applauding hi
  
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• Former Jazz ball boy selling ‘magical’ shoes given to him by Michael Jordan in 1993

  02-11-2017 21:53
  Utah Jazz ball boy Alex Rodriguez wouldn’t take money from Michael Jordan, so MJ came up with another way to pay him for two tickets to a sold-out Jazz-Chicago Bulls game in 1993: His shoes.“You don’t have an idea of what they’d be worth, you just knew that they were the meccas of game-worn shoes,” Rodriguez said. “The pinnacle, the best you could get.”Before Jordan went off for 37 points that night, scoring 20 points in the fourth quarter to will the Bu
  
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• Jury selection underway in federal criminal trial of ex-UTA board member Terry Diehl

  02-11-2017 21:52
  Jury selection began Thursday in the federal criminal trial of Terry Diehl, a politically-connected developer and onetime Utah Transit Authority board member accused of lying in a bankruptcy case from 2012.First indicted last April on 12 felony counts, Diehl will be tried on only on one charge, after prosecutors went back to a grand jury three times in the past 30 days to reduce the charges.A grand jury handed up the last of those changes Wednesday.Diehl now faces a single count of making false
  
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• Comments sought on Utah Supreme Court nominee Paige Petersen

  02-11-2017 21:52
  The Utah Senate Judicial Confirmation Committee is asking for public comment on Paige Petersen, who has been appointed to the state Supreme Court by Gov. Gary Herbert.The appointment, which was announced Wednesday, is subject to confirmation by the Utah Senate. If confirmed, Petersen will take the place of Christine Durham, who is retiring.Petersen, 45, a 3rd District judge and a former prosecutor, was raised in Emery County and is a graduate of Carbon High School. She earned an associate degree
  
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• Jazz forward Jonas Jerebko helps fill in for Joe Johnson

  02-11-2017 21:51
  Less than two minutes after subbing in, Jonas Jerebko had his first shot as a Jazzman: an open 3-pointer off a pass from Joe Ingles.As he ran back on defense, he swung at Thabo Sefolosha’s high-five with a little too much enthusiasm.“He told me after I smacked it too hard,” Jerebko said. “But I told him it was my first shot as a Jazz [player]. I had to, I was excited.”Jerebko was all smiles on Wednesday after playing his first significant minutes with the Jazz in a
  
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• Utah's all-Republican members of Congress laud new GOP tax bill panned by Democrats

  02-11-2017 21:50
  Washington • Utah’s all-Republican federal delegation praised a GOP tax-reform bill unveiled Thursday, saying the legislation was the long-needed fix to a broken and unfair tax code that will help Americans keep more of their paychecks.The bill, though, was soundly criticized by Democrats and some groups as a giveaway to corporations and the wealthy, who would see more of a benefit than middle-class taxpayers.The House Republican bill would make sweeping changes to the tax code that h
  
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• Real Salt Lake triggers the option to buy Jefferson Savarino

  02-11-2017 21:50
  Jefferson Savarino isn’t going anywhere.Real Salt Lake owner Dell Loy Hansen announced Thursday that the team has exercised the purchase option on the 20-year-old winger following his strong performance this season on loan from Zulia FC. Savarino, now on a permanent contract, will remain a young designated player.No surprises there.The Venezuelan international finished the MLS season with six goals (one short of tying four of his teammates for the team high) and five assists (knotted with
  
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• Suspect in Murray fatal shooting that led to rush-hour traffic car wrecks arrested in Oregon

  02-11-2017 21:49
  The suspect in last week’s fatal shooting in Murray — which prompted a multi-vehicle wreck on State Street during rush hour — was charged Thursday after police arrested him on Halloween in Oregon.Officers found 19-year-old Lucas Marc Deprey at a Western Union in Springfield, Oregon, and arrested him in the death of 33-year-old Ever Hernandez, court documents say.Police traced him to the store after Deprey contacted a friend and asked for money to flee to another state. The frie
  
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• Salt Lake’s first cat cafe opens this weekend

  02-11-2017 21:49
  No, the woman behind Tinker’s Cat Cafe is NOT a crazy cat lady.Lisa Boone likes cats. A lot. But she doesn’t have a lot of them at home. She has one, named Guinness.Well, she’s fostering another dozen or so now at Tinker’s, Salt Lake City’s first cat cafe, which opens on Saturday.“I used to have two cats,” Boone said. “I have one currently, and he’s about 14. And I have a dog.” She’s also had chickens and rabbits because she&rsquo
  
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• Evolution and climate change already at issue in new Utah school science standards that haven’t been written yet

  02-11-2017 21:48
  After months of pleading by Utah’s science educators, the state Board of Education voted Thursday to begin a review — and potential update — to science-related content standards for elementary and high school students.The board last approved new middle school science standards in 2015, with an added emphasis on engineering and hands-on learning. But what is taught for grades kindergarten through five, and nine through twelve was unaffected by that change, and those guidelines r
  
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• Trump nominates Jerome Powell to be next Fed chairman

  02-11-2017 21:47
  Washington • President Donald Trump tapped Jerome Powell on Thursday to replace Janet Yellen as Fed chair when her term ends in February, choosing a moderate member of the Fed’s board who has backed Yellen’s cautious approach to interest rate hikes.Powell, 64, is seen as a safe pick whose selection will likely assure investors hoping for continuity at the central bank. Some analysts see Powell, though, as more inclined than Yellen to ease financial regulations and possibly to fa
  
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• Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin starts social movement supporting Vladimir Putin

  02-11-2017 21:41
  Washington • Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin has voiced his support for Vladimir Putin ahead of the Russian presidential election.Ovechkin posted a message in Russian on his Instagram account Thursday announcing he's starting "a social movement called Putin Team." Ovechkin says he has never hidden his feelings about Putin and has "always supported him openly."The Russian presidential election is scheduled for March 18.Ovechkin is from Moscow and has often been photographed with Pu
  
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• Gordon Hayward: Daughters know ‘Daddy has a boo-boo’

  02-11-2017 21:39
  Waltham, Mass. • Gordon Hayward has been able to spend time with his daughters since his injury, though the 1- and 2-year-old girls aren't sure what to make of the fact that he's around so much more."They know Daddy has a 'boo-boo,'" the Boston Celtics forward said Thursday in his first news conference since a horrific opening-night injury that is expected to keep him out for the rest of the season. "I have a scooter at home; it's another toy for them to play with. Another thing for them to
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Auriemma thinks Pitino should get another chance to coach

  02-11-2017 21:03 via sportspyder.com
  ... hance to coach an… Top Comments Most Popular Mitchell scores career-high 22, Jazz beat Lakers 96-81 Cousins' triple-double, Davis' 30 power Pelicans past Cavs ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Ricky Rubio - The Scoring Point Guard

  02-11-2017 20:51 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz and fellow Louisville great Darrell Griffith. Donovan Mitchell is now averag ...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz forward Jonas Jerebko helps fill in for Joe Johnson

  02-11-2017 20:50 via sportspyder.com
  ... r playing his first significant minutes with the Jazz in a 112-103 win over the Trail Blazers. Getting the nod in place of injured ...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Former Utes Delon Wright, Jakob Poeltl finally breaking out in Toronto

  02-11-2017 20:26 via sportspyder.com
  ... win against the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday. … The Jazz are 5-0 on their home floor. … Utah is looking for its fourth consecutive wi ...
  
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• Woody Harrelson’s good, but ‘LBJ’ is a dry slog of a biographical drama

  02-11-2017 20:19
  If not for a strong central performance by Woody Harrelson, director Rob Reiner’s “LBJ” would be a no-hoper: a well-intended but ham-fisted biographical drama of our 36th president, a power broker who turned his uncouth Texas manner into an advantage.Reiner and rookie screenwriter Joey Hartstone frame LBJ’s story with the day he became president: Nov. 22, 1963, the day when John F. Kennedy (played by Jeffrey Donovan) was assassinated in Dallas and Johnson, JFK’s vee
  
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• Muslims in NJ city fear another backlash after latest attack

  02-11-2017 20:09
  Patterson, N.J. • In the halal bakeries and markets that line Main Street, and in mosques that have been part of the community for decades, a familiar dread has taken hold after the latest terror attack in the U.S.Sayfullo Saipov, the Muslim man accused of using a truck to mow down people on a New York City bike path in the name of the Islamic State group, lived in Paterson.Paterson saw a surge of anti-Muslim harassment after 9/11, particularly after it was learned that as many as a half-do
  
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• ‘Friends’ of Canyons school bond in line to get millions if $283M proposal passes, but, hey, what are friends for?

  02-11-2017 20:09
  The $283 million bond proposal from Canyons School District to upgrade, expand and rebuild several schools may be a good thing.Some of the older schools were built in the 1950s and cannot support the technology needed in today’s classrooms. But while Friends of Canyons School District Bond, the political issues committee set up to promote the proposal, is touted as concerned parents wanting to ensure a better education for their children, the PIC’s financial backers include architect
  
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