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• [The Daily Herald] - No. 3 Louisville routs Kentucky 87-63 in Bluegrass rivalry

  17-12-2017 23:44 via sportspyder.com
  ... leads Warriors past Mavericks for eighth straight win Gobert, Favors hurt in Jazz's 107-95 win over Celtics Bryant scores season-high 29, BYU beats rival Utah ...
  
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• U.S. speedskating team set for Pyeongchang Olympics

  17-12-2017 23:40
  Kearns • As she prepared for the final day of trials at the Utah Olympic Oval, Jessica Kooreman had to wonder.Is this it? Is it over?Kooreman, 34, had struggled through the first two day of two days of the U.S. short-track speed skating trials and knew going into Sunday that there was only one spot still open, one chance to get back to the Olympics.By the end of the day, as she drenched her teammates with champagne on the ice, Kooreman could finally relax.“This was probably one of the
  
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• Utah's loss to BYU secondary to loss of Donnie Tillman

  17-12-2017 23:34
  Bragging rights aside, the biggest loss the Utes suffered last week wasn’t Saturday night’s game against rival BYU.The loss of freshman forward Donnie Tillman will have a much more far-reaching effect. Tillman, who’d become a mainstay in the Utah rotation in the first nine games, sat out the BYU game with a sprained left foot. The 6-foot-7, 225-pound hard-nosed forward watched from the sideline with a protective boot as Utah fell 77-65 in the Marriott Center.“That’s
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - No. 5 Arizona State rallies to beat Vanderbilt 76-64

  17-12-2017 23:03 via sportspyder.com
  ... leads Warriors past Mavericks for eighth straight win Gobert, Favors hurt in Jazz's 107-95 win over Celtics Bryant scores season-high 29, BYU beats rival Utah ...
  
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• Trump transition team says Mueller obtained emails improperly, but legal experts challenge those claims

  17-12-2017 22:49
  Washington • A lawyer representing President Donald Trump’s transition team claimed Saturday that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III improperly obtained a trove of transition emails as part of the inquiry into Russian influence in the 2016 election and other matters.The batch of emails totaling thousands of pages of communications was provided to Mueller by the federal General Services Administration, a lawyer representing the organization known as Trump for America said in a lette
  
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• Leonid Bershidsky: Russia spends less on defense, gets more

  17-12-2017 22:46
  During Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual press conference on Thursday, a friendly journalist asked Putin whether the escalating tension in relations with the U.S. and the crumbling of arms control treaties would draw Russia into an unsustainable arms race. “We will ensure our security without engaging in an arms race,” the president replied, citing widely diverging dollar numbers for the U.S. and Russian defense budgets.That’s a simplistic answer from a politician
  
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• Flames threaten California’s coastal communities as firefighters mourn the loss of one of their own

  17-12-2017 22:33
  Los Angeles • Thousands of firefighters tried Sunday to shield coastal communities from one of the biggest wildfires in California history while a funeral procession rolled past burn-scarred hillsides in honor of one of their colleagues who was killed battling the flames.Crews cleared brush and dug containment lines above hillside neighborhoods in Santa Barbara County, taking advantage of slightly calmer winds a day after gusts fanned a flare-up that prompted more evacuations.“Everyth
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Shepard scores 39, No. 2 Notre Dame women beat DePaul 91-82

  17-12-2017 22:23 via sportspyder.com
  ... leads Warriors past Mavericks for eighth straight win Gobert, Favors hurt in Jazz's 107-95 win over Celtics Bryant scores season-high 29, BYU beats rival Utah ...
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Heat forward James Johnson expected to miss 7 to 10 days

  17-12-2017 22:23 via sportspyder.com
  ... leads Warriors past Mavericks for eighth straight win Gobert, Favors hurt in Jazz's 107-95 win over Celtics Bryant scores season-high 29, BYU beats rival Utah ...
  
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• Utah woman — one of four people charged in Provo homicide — headed to prison

  17-12-2017 22:07
  Provo • A Utah woman has been sentenced to at least five years in prison for her role in the fatal shooting of a man at a house in Provo in March.Maria Hernandez was one of four people charged in the death of Gustavo Ramirez.The Provo Daily Herald reports she was sentenced Wednesday for manslaughter and aggravated burglary.The man accused of actually shooting Ramirez, Jesse Gourdin, has been charged with capital murder.Another accomplice, Brayden Marshall, also has pleaded guilty to manslau
  
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• She was a teen mother, a high school dropout and an onion-field worker — now she’s Utah’s first female sheriff

  17-12-2017 21:46
  Rosie Rivera’s life story seems a little like the plot of a TV movie.You know the one: That improbable tale of a teenage mom and high school dropout, who lived on public assistance, but didn’t let the stacked-against-her odds keep her from fulfilling her dreams.But it really happened that way.In August, Rivera, 55, was named Salt Lake County’s sheriff — the state’s first female sheriff and only the second Latina in the country to be elevated, or elected, to such a p
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Villanova rolls in first game at No. 1

  17-12-2017 21:42 via sportspyder.com
  ... leads Warriors past Mavericks for eighth straight win Gobert, Favors hurt in Jazz's 107-95 win over Celtics Bryant scores season-high 29, BYU beats rival Utah ...
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - McCarty, No. 8 Texas women beat No. 12 Florida State 87-72

  17-12-2017 21:41 via sportspyder.com
  ... leads Warriors past Mavericks for eighth straight win Gobert, Favors hurt in Jazz's 107-95 win over Celtics Bryant scores season-high 29, BYU beats rival Utah ...
  
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• Commentary: I didn't speak up when a congressman rescinded my job offer. Now you should.

  17-12-2017 20:41
  Video: Melissa Richmond thought she’d lost out on a career in politics after an encounter with former congressman Trent Franks (R-Ariz.). Now she works for a nonpartisan group that helps women start political careers.(Kate Woodsome, Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post)I’ve always been proud of the ways I’m independent. So when a middle-aged man stopped me in a parking garage and asked me to jump-start his car several years ago, I was happy to help. As we worked to get his car
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Donovan Mitchell is on an All-Star campaign

  17-12-2017 19:57 via sportspyder.com
  ... tion. Donovan Mitchell could have the inside track for this spot if the Utah Jazz find themselves in the playoff hunt toward the end of January. If Steph Curr ...
  
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• Letter of the Week: I’ve dealt with predators in the Mormon church, the workplace and my family. Our kids need to be prepared.

  17-12-2017 19:45
  When I was a little girl, about 8 years old, the father of one of my friends cornered me at her house and gave me a long nasty kiss. My friend consistently bragged about her father being on the high council of the Mormon church.When I was 12 and at another friend’s home on Christmas morning, her father trapped me in their kitchen and groped me.As a young, newly married woman in the working world, sexual harassment was constant and unrelenting. You learned not to go in the break room alone,
  
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• Once a teenage mom and high school dropout, Rosie Rivera — Utah’s first female sheriff — worked hard to blaze the trail she’s on

  17-12-2017 19:12
  Rosie Rivera’s life story seems a little like the plot of a TV movie.You know the one: That improbable tale of a teenage mom and high school dropout, who lived on public assistance, but didn’t let the stacked-against-her odds keep her from fulfilling her dreams.But it really happened that way.In August, Rivera, 55, was named Salt Lake County’s sheriff — the state’s first female sheriff and only the second Latina in the country to be elevated, or elected, to such a p
  
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• Walden: Bon Jovi’s inclusion doesn’t mean the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is going down in a blaze of glory

  17-12-2017 18:55
  Tommy used to work on the docks, Gina worked the diner all day, and Eric was once as big a Bon Jovi fan as you’ll ever meet.Moving past my regrettable self-reference in the third person, those are, indeed, harrowing words for a music reporter to reveal publicly, cringeworthy and eminently mockable as they may be, but there they are.At the risk of incurring yet further scorn, I will double down: I regret nothing.The first album I ever owned was Bon Jovi’s “New Jersey,” a n
  
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• Do you love ‘A Christmas Story’? Keep your expectations low for the ‘Live’ version

  17-12-2017 18:54
  C’mon, who doesn’t love “A Christmas Story”?No, it wasn’t a hit when it was released in 1983. But it has become a holiday TV classic.Ralphie. The Red Ryder BB gun. “You’ll shoot your eye out.” Santa’s boot. The “major award”/leg lamp. The pink bunny pajamas. “I triple-dog-dare you.” The Bumpus hounds. Skut Farkus the bully. Beheading the duck.If you loved that stuff — if you even liked it — the folks at Fox
  
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• A few legends giving the young gun some advice 🙏 #TakeNote https://t.co/bTZje7oZAT

  17-12-2017 18:45 via twitter.com
  
  A few legends giving the young gun some advice 🙏#TakeNote https://t.co/bTZje7oZAT
  
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• In ‘Darkest Hour,‘ Gary Oldman seeks out the Winston Churchill beyond the history books

  17-12-2017 18:39
  Like most Brits of a certain age, Gary Oldman grew up learning about Winston Churchill.“When I was growing up, and the syllabus was very much that history was the great wars, World War I and World War II, he was and is the hero, the man who saved us from tyranny,” the actor said in a phone interview. “Although it obviously took more than one man, to us he’s the guy that won the war. He’s very much our savior.”Oldman said he has “always been fascinated by
  
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• Anne Applebaum: How did Jones win? Luck played a part — but it wasn’t everything.

  17-12-2017 17:52
  “How did he do it?” That’s the question I was asked more than once by European friends the day after Alabama’s Senate election: How did Doug Jones win?The question was not idle. In many ways, the electoral challenge Jones faced in Alabama was strikingly similar to the challenge facing European politicians of the center-left and even — or maybe especially — the center-right: How to defeat racist, xenophobic or homophobic candidates who are supported by a passio
  
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• Letter: Everyone has a right to protest — from NFL players to Tribune letter-writers

  17-12-2017 17:38
  For the record, I have the utmost respect for members of law enforcement and consider the profession both difficult and dangerous. Thank you for your service to our country and community, David G. Lord. It appears you have built a legacy of which you should be proud.Thank you, too, for questioning my loyalty to our country. It has been 45-plus years since being similarly accused by civilian protesters outside the Oakland Army Terminal, having just arrived wearing my dress greens. It is the firs
  
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• Letter: Which of my fellow Utahns voted to have our happiness taken away?

  17-12-2017 17:36
  I would like to know how many Utahns voted for their representatives in the U.S. Congress for these reasons: To increase the national debt; to significantly cut business taxes; to provide greater tax relief to small business so there is no longer a tax advantage to provide employee retirement plans; to cut Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and Obamacare; to support the moral and ethical vacuum in Congress; to ignore funding for infrastructure, health care and national parks and monuments; to r
  
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• Letter: Why can’t we forgive people like Keillor instead of firing them?

  17-12-2017 17:29
  Is forgiveness totally out the window now? With Minnesota Public Radio dropping Garrison Keillor, one wonders.Keillor put Minnesota Public Radio on the national map with his Prairie Home Companion show. Now that he is in trouble, he is out, just like that.The Salt Lake Tribune quoted Keillor recently in an account of his unacceptable behavior and subsequent apology to the woman involved in which he said something to the effect that, “She said it was all right and not to worry about it. I
  
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• Commentary: Couldn’t Hatch think of something better than this monument nonsense to ask Trump for?

  17-12-2017 17:23
  President Trump visited Utah for four hours last week to rob protections from more than 2 million acres of the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments. For those of us who love these places, the illegal act was made more bitter because it was delivered with a dose of preposterous nonsense.As he slashed two magnificent national monuments into bite-size pieces for digestion by the oil and gas, coal and uranium companies, Trump announced that, “Our precious national treasu
  
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• Is that fog or smog over Utah’s Wasatch Front? During an inversion, it might be both

  17-12-2017 17:14
  In the thick of Wasatch Front air quality problems last week, many residents looked out their windows and asked: Is it really so polluted I can’t see across the street? Or is that just fog?The answer is complicated. Fog is mostly what obscures visibility. But pollution is at least partly what is causing the fog.After an inversion settled into the valley early last week, visibility plunged, and Salt Lake County exceeded federal standards for small particulate pollution on several consecutiv
  
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• Allegations of sexual misconduct are nothing new in Utah politics — here are 8 big cases from the past

  17-12-2017 17:13
  As wave after wave of allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct crash over Hollywood, the media and Washington, D.C. — and, locally, against Utah County Commissioner Greg Graves — it’s time to take a look at Utah’s track record over the past three decades of politicians caught up in sexual misdeeds or, in some cases, the misbehavior of associates.Rob Miller, 2017
  The longtime Democratic activist dropped out of the race for state party chairman after being accused of
  
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• Utahraptor vs. Allosaurus: How a 10-year-old dinosaur fan persuaded a Utah senator to start a legislative battle over the state fossil

  17-12-2017 17:10
  One night at dinner, 10-year-old dinosaur fan Kenyon Roberts asked a family guest — state Sen. Curt Bramble — why Utah had made the Allosaurus its official state fossil.“I didn’t know we had a state fossil,” Bramble says.So Kenyon launched into a long argument about why Utahraptor should have that designation instead. As he explains now, “Its name has ‘Utah’ in it, and it’s only found in Utah. The Allosaurus has been found in Europe, Africa a
  
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• Commentary: We can’t prevent Utah’s inversions, but we can fix our air pollution problem

  17-12-2017 17:05
  At times, Utah cities along the Wasatch Front have the worst air pollution in the entire nation. Yes, we live in a bowl where our air pollution gets trapped by inversions in winter, inversions are unavoidable and natural, but trapped pollution would not be a problem if there were no pollution to trap.We can, should and must fix our air pollution problem, both here and worldwide. Air pollution is harming our health, killing people, shortening all our lives, blocking our view of the great beauty a
  
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• Letter of the Week: I've dealt with predators in all walks of life — our kids need to be prepared

  17-12-2017 17:03
  When I was a little girl, about 8 years old, the father of one of my friends cornered me at her house and gave me a long nasty kiss. My friend consistently bragged about her father being on the high council of the Mormon church. When I was 12 and at another friend’s home on Christmas morning, her father trapped me in their kitchen and groped me. As a young, newly married woman in the working world, sexual harassment was constant and unrelenting. You learned not to go in the break room alo
  
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• ‘It doesn’t matter what you say’: In Utah, the agency that investigates job discrimination is so mistrusted that some lawyers go to the feds instead

  17-12-2017 16:59
  Melisa George was a nursing mother. Her supervisor didn’t seem to like that.“I wish I was breast-feeding so I could go on break anytime I wanted,” he said, according to a complaint George made to an employee hotline in August 2004.George was in her mid-20s. Her supervisor was a man more than twice her age. After the supervisor said and did more that George thought constituted discrimination and retaliation, including recruiting a man to replace her, she complained to the state
  
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• Once a teenage mom and high school dropout, Rosie Rivera — Utah’s first female sheriff — worked hard and kept at it to blaze the trail she’s on

  17-12-2017 16:15
  Rosie Rivera’s life story seems a little like the plot of a TV movie.You know the one: That improbable tale of a teenage mom and high school dropout, who lived on public assistance, but didn’t let the stacked-against-her odds keep her from fulfilling her dreams.But it really happened that way.In August, Rivera, 55, was named Salt Lake County’s sheriff — the state’s first female sheriff and only the second Latina in the country to be elevated, or elected, to such a p
  
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• A Mormon Bishop Kirby would never interview anyone about sex

  17-12-2017 16:12
  One of the truest things I can say about my church is that it will never allow me to be a Mormon bishop.If that isn’t proof that the Lord (rather than Satan, as some insist) is more or less in charge, I don’t know what is. Yell all you want, but that’s what I believe.Only the devil (or some utterly foolish human) would put someone like me in charge of the religious well-being of several hundred people. I don’t even do a good job with my own spirituality.I have, however, b
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - Trending stories: Rudy Gobert's injury, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and more

  17-12-2017 15:20 via sportspyder.com
  ... left tibia, and is expected to be sidelined for approximately Shares Report: Jazz’s Rudy Gobert out one month with sprained knee, bone bruise in tibia – via c ...
  
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• Mormon writers take on another sensitive subject — the end of childbearing years

  17-12-2017 14:35
  This fall, Angela Ashurst-McGee, a 45-year-old West Jordan Mormon mother, noticed she was negotiating mixed feelings, alternatively feeling free and then let down. As her sixth child entered first grade, Ashurst-McGee began exploring what it meant to be at the end of her childbearing years.For Julie Rowse, a single Mormon writer who lives in Nebraska, she found herself experiencing her own set of complicated feelings after her last lengthy negotiation with herself over having a baby.At 18, when
  
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• A Mormon Bishop Kirby, heaven help us, would never interview anyone about sex

  17-12-2017 14:32
  One of the truest things I can say about my church is that it will never allow me to be a Mormon bishop.If that isn’t proof that the Lord (rather than Satan, as some insist) is more or less in charge, I don’t know what is. Yell all you want, but that’s what I believe.Only the devil (or some utterly foolish human) would put someone like me in charge of the religious well-being of several hundred people. I don’t even do a good job with my own spirituality.I have, however, b
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Jazz Lose to Cavs as the King Takes Over Late

  17-12-2017 09:11 via sportspyder.com
  ... very high level when they play one big surrounded by four perimeter players. Jazz coach Quin Snyder continues to show that he can coach an offense, though the ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz fall to the Cleveland Cavaliers

  17-12-2017 08:55 via sportspyder.com
  ... e with 9pts/6rds/9asts. Utah Jazz vs Cleveland Cavaliers: Post Game ReactionPosted by on Saturday, December 16 ...
  
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• Kragthorpe: Defense does it for BYU in rivalry breakthrough

  17-12-2017 08:29
  BYU guard TJ Haws could not convert his long-range bid to subdue Utah, but that miss made for a better story.The dagger came defensively, when the Cougars’ Elijah Bryant moments later absorbed a Ute charge with BYU leading by 13 points in the last eight minutes Saturday night.The Cougars did this with defense: BYU 77, Utah 65.During the brief phase of the Utah-BYU buildup that actually addressed the subject of basketball, Ute coach Larry Krystkowiak covered the Cougars’ revolutionary
  
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• [Jazz Fanatical] - Utah Jazz at Cleveland Cavaliers: Opponent Game Thread Highlights

  17-12-2017 08:24 via sportspyder.com
  ... take him out hasslehoffs Mitchell is gonna be pretty damn good. Good for the Jazz creditkardsandthe Yeah he just needs to find some better shots and make them ...
  
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• Top 25 roundup: Oklahoma takes down No. 3 Wichita State 91-83

  17-12-2017 08:01
  Wichita, Kan. • No one had to convince Oklahoma’s players that Saturday’s game at No. 3 Wichita State presented a measuring stick of sorts.Sooners star guard Trae Young believes the 91-83 victory “will open a lot of eyes in the college basketball world,” and fellow freshman Brady Manek agreed.“That’s probably the biggest crowd I’ve ever played in front of,” Manek said. “We just showed that we can play on a big stage against a great team.
  
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• Bird is the word at Audubon’s annual Christmas count at Red Butte Garden

  17-12-2017 07:57
  Although their faces were often hidden behind cameras and binoculars, all eyes pointed skyward Saturday at Red Butte Garden for the 188th Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count. A spotted towhee, California quail and western scrub jay were among those spotted by bird-watchers.The sold-out event — the longest running citizen-science survey in the world — helps provide data on bird population trends.
  
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• BYU cruises past Utah 67-55 as Childs, Bryant dominate

  17-12-2017 07:46
  Provo • BYU got payback for Utah canceling last year’s rivalry game in the sweetest way possible on Saturday night: a resounding victory over the rival Utes.Elijah Bryant scored 29 points and a hobbling Yoeli Childs added 15 as BYU snapped Utah’s three-game winning streak in the series with a 77-65 win in front of 16,272 at the Marriott Center.It was a cleanly played game, with none of the ugly incidents that marred the past few matchups.“Emotions were still pretty high,&r
  
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• [Basketball Insiders] - Report: James Harden to Play Through Bruised Right Knee

  17-12-2017 07:43 via sportspyder.com
  ...December 16, 2017 By An initial evaluation of the injured left knee of Utah Jazz star center Rudy Gobert revealed a Grade 1 MCL sprain, league sources told E ...
  
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• [Basketball Insiders] - Carmelo Anthony: Knicks’ Tribute ‘big-time’ but ‘bittersweet’

  17-12-2017 07:43 via sportspyder.com
  ...December 16, 2017 By An initial evaluation of the injured left knee of Utah Jazz star center Rudy Gobert revealed a Grade 1 MCL sprain, league sources told E ...
  
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• [ESPN] - LeBron: Level of play doesn't reflect my age

  17-12-2017 07:37 via sportspyder.com
  ... career triple-double and the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the short-handed Utah Jazz 109-100 on Saturday night Facing teammates in ASG OK with LeBron Cavaliers s ...
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Canaan helps Suns rally to beat T-Wolves 108-106

  17-12-2017 07:01 via sportspyder.com
  ... 4-102 No. 18 West Virginia holds off Pittsburgh 69-60 Gobert, Favors hurt in Jazz's 107-95 win over Celtics Auriemma gets 999th win, No. 1 UConn dominates DeP ...
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Alkins leads No. 23 Arizona over New Mexico

  17-12-2017 07:01 via sportspyder.com
  ... 4-102 No. 18 West Virginia holds off Pittsburgh 69-60 Gobert, Favors hurt in Jazz's 107-95 win over Celtics Auriemma gets 999th win, No. 1 UConn dominates DeP ...
  
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• NBA roundup: Harden, Rockets win 13th straight game, beat Bucks 115-111

  17-12-2017 07:01
  Houston • James Harden scored 31 points, Chris Paul had 25 and Houston beat Milwaukee 115-111 Saturday night for its 13th straight victory.The winning streak is the Rockets' longest streak since a franchise-best 22 straight in 2007-08.Harden hit a step-back 3-pointer over Malcolm Brogdon and was fouled, giving Houston an 11-point lead with less than six minutes remaining. In the last two minutes, Paul hit back-to-back mid-range jumpers on consecutive possessions to put the game out of reach
  
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