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• Russia: Explosion injures 10 at St. Petersburg supermarket

  27-12-2017 22:59
  St. Petersburg, Russia • At least 10 people were injured Wednesday by an explosion at a supermarket in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city and the site of a deadly subway bombing this year.The Investigative Committee, the nation’s top investigative agency, said a device containing 200 grams (7 ounces) of explosives went off at a storage area for customers’ bags. It said the device was rigged with shrapnel to cause more damage.No one has claimed responsibility for
  
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• Kragthorpe: USU’s Quin Ficklin once caught a pass from BYU’s Taysom Hill, and now he’s a valued Aggie lineman

  27-12-2017 22:50
  BYU quarterback Taysom Hill called the fourth-down play against Michigan State with a previously unknown receiver as the primary target. Quin Ficklin was perplexed. “Really, this is the plan?” he thought.It worked. Ficklin stretched to catch Hill’s low throw for a first down and BYU went on to beat the Spartans. If that play seemed unlikely, consider Ficklin’s career trajectory since that afternoon in October 2016. The Cougars’ occasional fullback is now Utah State&
  
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• Utah man injured by explosion while making homemade fireworks

  27-12-2017 22:15
  A 47-year-old Cache County man was injured in an explosion Tuesday while mixing black powder for homemade fireworks.Derek Parkinson, of Richmond, was in his garage mixing black powder at about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday when, due to an unknown reason, it exploded, the Cache County Sheriff’s Office reported Wednesday.Parkinson was taken to a local hospital for treatment of injuries to his face and arm.The residents of the home were evacuated for the night while deputies investigated the scene and a
  
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• Will Utah legislators answer new call to ban phone use while driving?

  27-12-2017 22:04
  State Rep. Carol Moss was leery of the big pickup truck ahead of her as she cruised on I-215 a few months ago. It was drifting back and forth from its lane into hers — then she saw the driver holding a cellphone to his ear.“So I backed off a bit, and just then he slid over all the way in front of me — no signal, nothing,” cutting her off and slowing while cars boxed in Moss on both sides. “I laid on the horn and braked. It was nearly a horrible accident. He just loo
  
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• Holly Richardson: There are so many ways to serve all year ‘round.

  27-12-2017 21:59
  This past Saturday, state Rep. Joel Briscoe and I co-hosted a special Christmas edition of “Red Meat Radio.” We spent a couple of hours talking to people who are actively involved in serving others all year.There were several common threads with all of our guests. One was that everyone needs to feel that someone cares, that they are seen and appreciated. Another is that, for most people receiving acts of service, their rough patches are temporary. A third common thread was that there
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Kevin Durant, Draymond Green won’t underestimate Utah Jazz: ‘They play extremely hard’

  27-12-2017 21:54 via sportspyder.com
  ... t, they’re physical.” Warriors star Kevin Durant talks about facing the Utah Jazz. pic.twitter.com/wFlI1Ny5GL— Eric Woodyard (@E_Woodyard) December 27, 2017 D ...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Warriors' stars say Jazz have been a 'surprise' with tough play this season

  27-12-2017 21:38 via sportspyder.com
  ... bviously we know their playing style. It’s always been a tough game for us.” JAZZ AT WARRIORS When • Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. MST TV • ATTSN The Jazz are 2-9 in t ...
  
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• Kevin Durant, Draymond Green won’t underestimate Utah Jazz: ‘They play extremely hard’

  27-12-2017 21:37
  OAKLAND, Calif. — After Wednesday night’s 107-83 loss in Denver, the Utah Jazz have lost nine of the last 11 games.The Jazz are ranked ninth in the Western Conference, playing without All-NBA center Rudy Gobert for the second major stretch of the season as he recovers from a sprained PCL.On the flipside, the Golden State Warriors are the defending NBA champions, ranked first in the Western Conference and winners of 12 of the last 13 games.So, with the Jazz entering Oracle Arena tonig
  
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• Utah man charged with driving drunk during crash that killed his passenger

  27-12-2017 21:36
  A Layton man is now facing criminal charges after allegedly driving drunk and causing two car crashes, including a rollover that killed his female passenger.Derek Lyle Hendricks, 33, was charged Wednesday in 2nd District Court with second-degree felony automobile homicide in the Nov. 21 death of 32-year-old Amber Lawrence, of Layton.Hendricks also was charged with misdemeanors for causing another crash and for having an open container of alcohol in the car.The episode began at about 3:35 p.m. on
  
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• Warriors' stars say Jazz have been a 'surprise' with tough play this season

  27-12-2017 21:35
  Oakland, Calif. • It has been seven months since the Golden State Warriors swatted the Utah Jazz in the playoffs like a fly buzzing near their ear.The Jazz have seen a huge amount of turnover since then. The Warriors, the reigning NBA champions, have not.On Wednesday night, the teams will meet at Oracle Arena for the first time since the Warriors (27-7) swept the Jazz in May on their way to a second title in three years. This season finds Golden State again gliding atop the NBA, albeit with
  
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• Tonight's 🗝 Matchup: Rodney Hood vs. Klay Thompson Tipoff: 8:30PM MT #UTAatGSW https://t.co/a9gt0Q1M83

  27-12-2017 21:30 via twitter.com
  
  Tonight's 🗝 Matchup: Rodney Hood vs. Klay ThompsonTipoff: 8:30PM MT#UTAatGSW https://t.co/a9gt0Q1M83
  
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• Fresh off their latest bowl triumph, the Utes are already thinking about next year

  27-12-2017 21:25
  Dallas • Back-to-back wins to finish the season and the wealth of underclassmen set to return next season give the Utes ample optimism this coming offseason.Closing wins over Colorado and West Virginia don’t completely change the view of the Utah football season, but those victories did give Utah a winning record (7-6) and certainly tempered any lingering frustration or disappointment from a stretch of six losses in seven games prior to the regular-season finale.Those final two wins a
  
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• Still got a Trump hangover? Robert Randolph — playing in Utah this week — says his music is the cure.

  27-12-2017 21:24
  Robert Randolph may have been named one of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” by Rolling Stone, but even guitar gods aren’t always perfect.His advantage, he joked in a phone interview with The Salt Lake Tribune, is that he has a built-in means of covering for himself.“It kinda feels good to be a pedal-steel slide player, ’cause then you can get away with all of the mistakes!” Randolph said with a laugh. “ ‘Aw, it’s alright, he’s
  
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• Arizona State is the Pac-12 men’s basketball success story as league play gets under way

  27-12-2017 20:57
  Arizona State features some of the same basketball players who produced 10 points in the first half of a game at Utah two seasons ago.The Sun Devils suddenly look a lot different. They’ve become the Pac-12′s biggest story of the first two months of the 2017-18 season, taking a 12-0 record and a No. 3 ranking into a showcase game at No. 17 Arizona as they begin conference play Saturday.“We fought through a lot of hard times over the past two years,” ASU coach Bobby Hurley
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz at Golden State Warriors key matchup: Mitchell and Thompson

  27-12-2017 20:53 via sportspyder.com
  ... hfully, there are very few players that can. More from Analysis 12/27 - Utah Jazz at Denver Nuggets 12/26: What’s going wrong? 12/26 - Utah Jazz at Denver Nug ...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz at Golden State Warriors 12/27: Picking up the pieces

  27-12-2017 20:53 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz at Golden State Warriors key matchup: Mitchell and Thompson by Hayden Van de ...
  
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• Utah Jazz at Golden State Warriors 12/27: Picking up the pieces

  27-12-2017 20:47
  The Utah Jazz face the Golden State Warriors on the second night of a back-to-back after a bad loss in Denver. Aside from two encouraging victories against the Boston Celtics and the San Antonio Spurs, the Utah Jazz have struggled of late. Now, it needs to be said that the difficult schedule (most difficult month […]
  Utah Jazz at Golden State Warriors 12/27: Picking up the pieces - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Jalen Davis set out to become an All-America cornerback at Utah State. Guess what? He did it.

  27-12-2017 20:28
  Logan • Preseason awards generally don’t mean much.But as they honors were being handed out last summer, they meant something to Utah State cornerback Jalen Davis. That’s because when the All-Mountain West preseason team was announced in July, the Aggie senior wasn’t on it.“There were some guys on my team that saw that,” Utah State Matt Wells said, “and used it as internal motivation.”But there can be no overlooking Davis now. Forget the Mountain We
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Where do the Utah Jazz go from here?

  27-12-2017 19:47 via sportspyder.com
  ... ve you made your all-star votes yet? Get voting!!! Vote for NOW ⭐️ ✅: — Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) Vote for NOW ⭐️ ✅: — Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) Look out, but ESPN is ...
  
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• A cougar in your luggage? Hunting carcass with Utah State Fish and Game tag snagged at airport

  27-12-2017 19:45
  Las Vegas • Police say a hunter’s trip home hit a snag in Las Vegas after security screeners found a dead cougar in his luggage.No crime was committed because the man had a hunting tag. But police Lt. David Gordon told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that Transportation Security Administration agents held the man at McCarran International Airport late Tuesday to confirm the validity of the Utah hunting tag.His name and where he was headed weren’t released.Airport spokeswoman Meliss
  
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• Utah Jazz at Golden State Warriors key matchup: Mitchell and Thompson

  27-12-2017 19:26
  Donovan Mitchell and the Utah Jazz will roll into Oracle Arena on the second night of a back-to-back to take on the defending champion Golden State Warriors. It’s a quick turnaround for the Utah Jazz after suffering perhaps their most lifeless, soul-crushing defeat of the season. Nonetheless, the Jazz will have their chance to get […]
  Utah Jazz at Golden State Warriors key matchup: Mitchell and Thompson - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and Mo
  
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• New nickname: Jumpin' Joe 🐇 https://t.co/YXTIGYzDpw

  27-12-2017 19:19 via twitter.com
  
  New nickname: Jumpin' Joe 🐇 https://t.co/YXTIGYzDpw
  
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• Utah Jazz at Denver Nuggets 12/26: What’s going wrong?

  27-12-2017 19:16
  After a 107-83 loss to the Denver Nuggets, the Utah Jazz have now lost nine of their last 11 games. Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert has played in roughly half of his team’s games this season. Given Utah’s recent downturn, which was punctuated on Tuesday by a 24-point loss to the Denver Nuggets, it’s obvious […]
  Utah Jazz at Denver Nuggets 12/26: What’s going wrong? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Deputy who rescued boy from pond says he was desperate, numb

  27-12-2017 18:51
  New Harmony • A Utah sheriff’s deputy said Tuesday he was desperate and numb from the cold as he punched and stomped his way into a frozen pond on Christmas Day to pull out an 8-year-old boy who had fallen through the ice while chasing his dog.With cuts on his forearms, Washington County sheriff’s Sgt. Aaron Thompson said at a news conference that rescuers believe the child was in the 37-degree water for about 30 minutes until the deputy rescued him.“I couldn’t feel
  
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• Amber Phillips: Orrin Hatch, Jeff Flake and the no-win scenario GOP senators face with Trump

  27-12-2017 18:41
  Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., are both well-known senators from red states in the West. Both have relationships with President Donald Trump that are altering their political careers. But that’s where the similarities end.Flake, an unapologetically vocal critic of Trump, has decided to not run for re-election.Hatch, on the other hand, is taking heat from his state’s biggest newspaper because he’s an avid supporter of Trump.The takeaway for GOP senators: You&rs
  
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• 8 Utah restaurant dishes we would order again and again in 2018

  27-12-2017 18:40
  As the year comes to a close, it’s time to reminisce about the foods of 2017 that we can’t forget — the ones that oozed flavor and made us drool.
  Among our year-end favorites are a new way to eat an underrated vegetable, a bacony twist on a childhood favorite, a dish where American barbecue meets Thailand and a swoon-worthy pizza.
  Here’s a snapshot of the eight dishes we especially enjoyed this year and hope to revisit in 2018 and beyond.Sweet potato cannelloni at Table X
  
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• NBA Rookie of The Year Watch – 12/27/17

  27-12-2017 18:14 via basketballinsiders.com
  Shane Rhodes checks back in on a ROY race that might be getting more intriguing.
  
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  27-12-2017 17:56 via twitter.com
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• Why Troy Williams' final act as a college quarterback was exactly what you’d expect

  27-12-2017 17:54
  With nothing but dwindling seconds left in his career as a college quarterback, Troy Williams bent down, swiftly untied the laces on his left cleat and held it up toward the sideline.He needed to come out of the game.Turns out, Williams took himself off the field in his final appearance.Utah’s senior quarterback then jogged off the field in the final moments of the 30-14 win over West Virginia in the 2017 Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl in Dallas on Tuesday afternoon. The decision perso
  
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• Moab tour operator tries to block 28 tourists from suing over boat crash injuries

  27-12-2017 17:26
  An aluminum jet boat left a Moab dock last summer for a sunset excursion down the Colorado River with a full load of 28 mostly older passengers, tourists on a Utah vacation.Allen and Karen Konen were sitting in the front of the craft taking in views of the Spanish Valley framed by sheer walls of sandstone. As the river curved right near the confluence with Mill Creek at the Portal, Allen Konen sensed something was wrong.The boat wasn’t turning on pace with the river’s bend as the lef
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump rams greatness down our throats

  27-12-2017 17:25
  Washington • In this holiday season, a familiar question arises: Is President Trump trying to undermine democracy, or is he just irredeemably vain?It’s a toss of the coin — specifically, Trump’s commemorative “Challenge Coin,” which just had its public debut.Typically, these coins are simple copper-and-silver designs with the presidential seal and signature. But Trump’s is thicker, bright gold and with a built-in stand. Beyond the garish presentation, it
  
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• Letter: What to make of someone who calls everyone else a liar? Consider this

  27-12-2017 17:14
  Anais Nin offered this interesting observation about human nature: “We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.”You can probably find this principle at work in many of the people in your life: the optimistic, the diligent, the faithful. So when you hear someone calling everyone around him a liar, accusing his opponent of rigging elections, or complaining that the press is generating fake news, please consider what that tells you about the speaker.Hydee Clayton, Mill
  
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• Letter: Why not develop cleaner ways of burning coal and tap established mines?

  27-12-2017 17:09
  It’s easy to follow the money trail of mining and drilling contributions to the campaign chests of Utah’s representatives in the U.S. House and Senate, which ensures support of returning federal lands, with just a flick of a presidential pen, to ultimately mining and drilling.It’s easy to read The Tribune map showing coal reserves now outside of what is left of the massacred monuments created by President Obama.What is hard to understand is why more (something) isn’t bein
  
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• Letter: Hatch needs to go, but Mitt is not the answer

  27-12-2017 17:09
  Numerous articles and opinions show that a lot of Utahns want Mitt Romney to take Orrin Hatch’s Senate seat. Why?It would be like changing a lug nut on a car and expect change.Neither Romney nor Hatch are from Utah. Neither know the financial struggles that many Utahns have! Neither of them have ever shown that they have any integrity.Hatch has voted against Utah’s best interests since 1977. He voted for the Reagan, Bush and Trump tax cuts for the rich. Reagan’s and Bush’
  
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• Letter: To improve air quality, we’ve got to give up our love affair with cars

  27-12-2017 17:05
  In response to “Air quality in northern Utah worsens as inversion hits” by The Associated Press on Dec. 9: As the inversion settles along the Wasatch Front, a new norm settles as well — poor air quality. We would revolt at anyone throwing trash onto our local highways, but we readily sit idling in our cars to keep warm.These two things are synonymous, both are littering public goods. Until we see the two as equal, we will continue to sit in our filth. What can we do? 1. Stop id
  
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• Talking emojis and a tiny Matt Damon are among the worst movies of 2017

  27-12-2017 17:02
  Movie critics face a quandary in December: to rank the year’s worst movies or not to rank them.We don’t have a problem making best-of-year lists, because we love to celebrate great movies and call readers’ attention to them But worst lists are another story. The world is already so full of snark and bile, why would anyone want to add to that supply?Me? I find the exercise purgative. It’s a chance to acknowledge the truly terrible movies one last time before sending them o
  
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• Letter: Being each other's counselors might diminish gun violence

  27-12-2017 17:01
  As a high school student, I am constantly hearing about all of these mass shootings. I think that a solution to this problem would be not to focus on tighter gun control, even though that is still a big problem, but to instead focus on how people are doing.We should be more involved in each other’s lives. I think parents, teachers, faculty and fellow peers should pay more attention to how people are doing.Maybe that means just asking someone how they’re doing as you pass them by. May
  
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• Letter: Anachronistic rural thinking is throttling Utah

  27-12-2017 17:00
  I was born in Provo over 70 years ago. I recently returned after 26 years in Houston. Like the frog in the pot of water, I found it too hot, too corrupt (unlike those who stayed?). Utah has taken a wrong turn.Unsure of their political message, Republicans have silenced any opposition. Salt Lake County is politically volatile (can go either way), but it is gerrymandered into impotence. Nancy Workman (2004) was the last Republican county mayor, yet we have three Republicans in Congress representin
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Northwest Notes: Mitchell, Allen, Butler, Gibson

  27-12-2017 16:54 via sportspyder.com
  ... l during the camp that he was good enough to be a first-round selection. The Jazz targeted him after an interview during the Chicago pre-draft camp and traded ...
  
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• Letter: Utah voters are like The Who's Tommy: Deaf, dumb and blind

  27-12-2017 15:29
  Narcissists in the room.The front page shows Trump, Sen. Hatch and the Mormon church leaders all grinning as Trump sells Utah lands to Hatch and his mining pals.The next story shows national news of Trump in the Mormon church’s grocery store.Everyone gets what they want by bowing to the king.Hatch gets his land for Christmas. Trump gets to check another Obama box. The Mormons get a little national face time, their favorite thing.Who gets screwed in the end? All of us. But, Utah voters are
  
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• Letter: Satan has won America

  27-12-2017 15:24
  We have the godless liberals abandoning Christ’s message of repentance and forgiveness as they fire contrite friends and formerly respected celebrities who have confessed misconduct, while those who unrepentantly bellow and bray denial and pain upon their accusers are elected to the highest offices in the land by their adoring Christian followers. Satan has won America.Dan Cortsen, Sandy
  
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• Letter: Getting to the medical center shouldn't be this hard

  27-12-2017 15:23
  I recently had to travel to a medical center at 4100 South and Bangerter Highway; what a mess. What was supposed to save time resulted in taking more time and gas to get back on an east-west road. Most of the time we were traveling in the wrong direction. Whoever designed the new intersection should be fired.Shirley Olsen, Murray
  
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• Marc Thiessen: The 10 best things Trump has done in his first year in office

  27-12-2017 15:21
  As we approach the end of President Donald Trump’s first year in office, the list of extraordinary things he has done — for both good and ill — is nothing short of remarkable. Trump inspires such deep emotions in his critics and supporters that many have struggled to objectively assess his presidency. Some are so blinded by their hatred of Trump that they refuse to acknowledge the good he has done, while others are so blinded by devotion that they overlook almost any transgress
  
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• Ten tricks, tools and techniques to teach a little kid to ski — and spare yourself some misery

  27-12-2017 15:19
  My expectations for my daughter’s first skiing attempts were low.Over the years I had seen enough crying children and frustrated parents scattered across Utah’s slopes to grasp the miseries of teaching a kid to ski. Maybe I should have just put her in a lesson right away. But at least I marched into the breach with my eyes open.To be honest, things started out better than I could have hoped. But eventually we reached that special parenting moment when one must carry two sets of skis,
  
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• In 1977, a Utah history buff sold a press kit signed by four presidents to pay for his daughter’s crib. This year, she helped buy it back.

  27-12-2017 15:17
  It was 1972, and Utah history buff Ron Fox was a fresh-faced 20-year-old in Miami Beach, attending his first Republican National Convention.Fox — then the vice chairman of the Orange County, Calif., branch of Young Voters for the President, an organization supporting the re-election of Richard Nixon — gathered signatures from Republican leaders throughout the week on a red press kit.Some of the autographs belonged to big names, like Nixon and his national security adviser, Henry Kiss
  
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• [Jazz Fanatical] - Utah Jazz at Denver Nuggets: Opponent Game Thread Highlights

  27-12-2017 10:28 via sportspyder.com
  ... y for trey to be able to shine against his old squad. DenverNugs Holding the Jazz to 34 in the first half is increasingly Nugget hyperadhd Just got back drivi ...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz’s subpar effort in back-to-back games is disconcerting

  27-12-2017 09:33 via sportspyder.com
  ... ting wrongs or rallying the troops. The promise of January, during which the Jazz face a boat-load of winnable games and just one back-to-back set, goes out t ...
  
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