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• Utah Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell says it’s a ‘huge honor’ to be selected for Skills Challenge

  28-01-2018 23:51
  Utah Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell smiled profusely when asked about his inclusion in the All-Star Weekend Skills Challenge.He said participating in the event would be special for him. He’s grown up wanting to be a part of All-Star Saturday Night, which has always been one of the overall highlights of the weekend.Mitchell was added to the skills challenge on Saturday, which means he will be participating in two of the three major events. He’s also a part of the Rising Stars Challenge
  
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• Trump wants Jay-Z to know the black unemployment rate is at a record low

  28-01-2018 23:00
  Washington • President Donald Trump is urging his followers to inform rapper Jay-Z that "because of my policies," unemployment among black Americans is at the "LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!"The president's tweet Sunday appears to be in response to a CNN interview in which the rapper said the president's vulgar comments about African countries and Haiti were "disappointing" and "hurtful."Somebody please inform Jay-Z that because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at
  
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• Three potential trade packages for Ricky Rubio

  28-01-2018 22:18
  The Utah Jazz are open for business.
  Don’t take our word for it. Instead, listen to veteran reporter Sam Amick of USA Today, who recently joined the HoopsHype podcast, on the matter.
  According to Amick, Utah is looking to make moves with the future – primarily Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell’s primes – in mind.
  “My understanding of Utah’s situation is that they’re as much of an open shop as there is in the league right now.
  
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• Air Force One's new refrigerators will cost taxpayers $24 million

  28-01-2018 22:00
  Air Force One is upgrading its refrigerators, and the cost to taxpayers will be a cool $24 million.Under a new government contract awarded to Boeing, the U.S. Air Force will pay the aeronautics behemoth $23,657,671 to replace two of the five chiller units on the plane currently used by President Donald Trump.Both of those units, which are used to store food, were installed on the plane when it was originally delivered in 1990, according to the Air Force. Increasingly, however, the plane has need
  
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• Sen. Marco Rubio fires chief of staff after allegations of 'improper conduct'

  28-01-2018 21:21
  Washington • Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has fired his chief of staff after looking into allegations of "improper conduct," he announced late Saturday.Rubio said in a written statement that he had "sufficient evidence to conclude" that his chief of staff, Clint Reed, "had violated office policies regarding proper relations between a supervisor and their subordinates." He further concluded that this led to actions that "amounted to threats to withhold employment benefits."The Florida senator s
  
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• Furniture for all: IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad dies at 91

  28-01-2018 21:00
  Stockholm • Ingvar Kamprad, the IKEA founder who turned a small-scale mail order business into a global furniture empire, has died at 91, the company said Sunday.IKEA Sverige, the chain’s Swedish unit, said on Twitter that Kamprad died Saturday at his home in Smaland, southern Sweden. Later it said he died peacefully following a short illness.“He will be much missed and warmly remembered by his family and IKEA staff all around the world,” the company said.Jesper Brodin, CE
  
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• Utes come away from Arizona feeling like they could've had a sweep

  28-01-2018 20:40
  After beating Arizona State in their own arena, the Utes got greedy. They could smell an even bigger upset cooking. Instead, the Utes came away from splitting road games against Arizona and Arizona State with a bitter taste in their mouths and a somewhat empty feeling. Earlier this month in Salt Lake City, the Utes faded down the stretch against Arizona and a tie game turned into a 12-point loss in the final four minutes. Coming off of a win against the 21st-ranked Sun Devils this time around, t
  
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• Mike Petke enters his first full RSL season with a meticulous plan

  28-01-2018 20:32
  Mike Petke squatted at the edge of the turf, a folded practice plan hanging out the back of his Adidas training pants.The paper was the result of several 10- to 12-hour days with his coaching staff over the offseason. Now he made a mental note of everything from ball movement to where his players’ eyes went first — to the obvious pass, or up, scanning for another option.“It was a day-by-day, minute-by-minute, session by session layout, and it took a long time,” Petke said
  
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• 20 years ago: Karl Malone passes Oscar Robertson

  28-01-2018 20:15
  Editor's note: Every Sunday, the Deseret News takes a look back into our archives.Karl Malone, with a free throw not five minutes into a 115-88 win against the Golden State Warriors, became the sixth-leading scorer in NBA history.The Mailman surpassed one of the all-time hoop greats, Oscar Robertson, with his seventh point of the night. At that point, Malone had scored 26,724 points during his career.He put the ball with the other game balls hes collected over the years, including the ones from
  
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• Dastrup’s spark in BYU’s win over Pacific begs the question: Why doesn’t he play more?

  28-01-2018 19:53
  Provo • Midway through the first half of their eventual 80-65 win over Pacific on Saturday night, the BYU Cougars were in a bit of trouble. They had gone six straight possessions without scoring and trailed 20-12. The Marriott Center was dead quiet.Dependable big man Yoeli Childs, who didn’t start due to illness, had a shot swatted by 7-footer Namdi Okonkwo. The Cougars were playing sluggishly and their crowd was lethargic and nervous that the Tigers were going to beat them again. Ent
  
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• 'A whole new level of gross': Photos of raw pork being carted into store sparks investigation

  28-01-2018 19:53
  Loretta Seto couldn't believe what she was seeing at a San Jose supermarket Thursday, so she took our her cellphone and snapped photos of the surreal scene.Two men, dressed in yellow coats, were pushing oversized shopping carts filled with raw, unwrapped meat into the store - presumably for sale. In both carts, the meat was piled high, topped with unwrapped pork legs that jutted out into the open air.Seto posted the pictures on Facebook later that night, with a caption expressing her shock and d
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz 2017-18 Week 16 Outlook, Predictions

  28-01-2018 19:26 via sportspyder.com
  ... Derrick Favors refutes notion that he’s unwilling to re-sign with Utah Jazz by Jared Woodcox ...
  
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• Utah Jazz 2017-18 Week 16 Outlook, Predictions

  28-01-2018 19:10
  The Utah Jazz come into the 16th week of the 2017-18 NBA season with some nice momentum, but will be in for some tough challenges. Well, the Utah Jazz went 2-1 last week just as I predicted. But I never could have foreseen the way they’d go about it. Utah began the week by dropping […]
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• We’ve recalled Tony Bradley from his 12th assignment to the @slcstars 🌟 https://t.co/Lu5oCLYqqH

  28-01-2018 19:00 via twitter.com
  
  We’ve recalled Tony Bradley from his 12th assignment to the @slcstars 🌟 https://t.co/Lu5oCLYqqH
  
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• Roger Federer defeats Marin Cilic to win Australian Open and notch his 20th major title

  28-01-2018 18:11
  Melbourne, Australia • As Roger Federer cried while accepting his 20th Grand Slam title, Rod "Rocket" Laver took a chance to snap a picture for posterity.Federer has won more major tennis titles than any man, including a record-equaling six on the court that bears the great Rod Laver's name at Melbourne Park.This one, following a tension-filled, momentum-swinging 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 win over Marin Cilic in Sunday's Australian Open final, was a keeper.Laver has been involved in the o
  
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• Walden: With diversity a Grammy focus at last, will this be Kendrick Lamar’s year?

  28-01-2018 17:34
  You wouldn’t look at Adele and automatically assume she’s a troublemaker — aside, perhaps, from her propensity to drop the occasional f-bomb on network television during awards acceptance speeches.Adele a rabble-rouser? [Bleep] that.And yet, the top categories at this year’s Grammy Awards have a decidedly different feel, and Adele is unquestionably the reason.Whether her 2017 sweep of Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Song of the Year at the expense of a criticall
  
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• For Ruth Watkins, new University of Utah president, the job centers on students — while also making history

  28-01-2018 17:33
  Like many students she will soon oversee as University of Utah president, Ruth Watkins wasn’t sure what to study after high school.“I was an undeclared college student,” she remembers, “and really had a little trouble finding what I wanted to do.”Growing up in Elkador, Iowa — “a little, tiny town,” says Watkins — she worked off and on for her father, a large-animal veterinarian, but decided against it as a profession in part because of the am
  
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• George Pyle: Connecting some dots. Dreamers. LGBT. Native Americans. Democrats.

  28-01-2018 17:32
  Now this is a good idea:As a Native American I just had an epiphany about undocumented DACA people. How big of a coronary would trump and ryan have if the tribes welcomed the DACA folk onto the reservations, affording them protection under the sovereignty of the tribes......— cj bakken (@Eaglewoman4) January 24, 2018I’ve said more than once that I wish the Navajo Nation would open an embassy here in Salt Lake City, in case I ever need to seek political asylum.On sltrib.com in the las
  
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• Bill Richardson: Three steps Myanmar should take to turn around the Rohingya disaster

  28-01-2018 17:30
  For the past two months, I have served on an international panel designed to help the Myanmar government arrive at just and reasonable policies for its conflict in Rakhine state, including its long-suffering Rohingya minority. This week I resigned. The reason: I have little confidence in the body’s ability to address the critical challenges facing the region and the country.Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s effective leader, is isolated and unwilling to listen to constructive criticism
  
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• Letter: What should you call yourself if you vote for Romney?

  28-01-2018 17:27
  Regarding Rosemary Holt’s letter of Jan. 19:Dear Rosemary: You call yourself a “Democrat for Romney.” I think you’re confused — what you should actually be calling yourself is a Republican.Alan Linett, Sandy
  
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• Westminster College and Cottonwood High students star in ‘I and You,’ a popular playwright’s move into YA territory

  28-01-2018 17:26
  Like John Green’s best-selling novel “The Fault in Our Stars,” Lauren Gunderson’s play “I and You” captures the real ways kids talk — and actor Tristan Johnson expects his fellow millennials to be drawn to it in the same way.Johnson plays Anthony, a high-school senior and basketball player who wants help from classmate Caroline (Cora Fossen) on an English assignment. She’s been sick at home for weeks due to a liver condition, and she freaks out at
  
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• Rideshare diaries: I tried to help my passenger avoid ‘the cult’ in Utah

  28-01-2018 17:25
  I picked him up at Westminster College and started driving toward the Avenues. He told me he’d only lived in Utah for a few months and that he’d just moved to the United States two years ago.I asked him what he thought of our state. He said, “I like everything but the cult.”I assumed he meant Mormonism because … Utah. We’re known for Mormonism. And people outside the state (and heck, inside the state) have their ideas and opinions. I responded, “I under
  
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• Leonard Pitts: What if Donald Trump were smart?

  28-01-2018 17:24
  What if Donald Trump were smart?It is likely not a question you’ve given a lot of thought. After all, the urgency of our ongoing disaster leaves little time for speculation. One is too busy tallying up the damage that’s happening to worry about the damage that could.But maybe it’s time we did.Tyrannies, we tend to think, are things that happen in other places at other times to other people. We like to believe the strength of our institutions, of our character as a people, ensur
  
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• Trump’s State of the Union address is a chance for the president to hit reset

  28-01-2018 16:00
  Washington • President Donald Trump will deliver his first State of the Union address Tuesday at a juncture of opportunity and peril for his presidency, and his anxious allies hope he will show he has the ability to do something he has not done before: bring the country together.White House officials have offered few details of what Trump will say other than that he will take credit for a healthier economy and tie its continued growth to the Republicans' new tax plan, as well as argue his c
  
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• Watch out, Donald Trump! Murphy Brown is coming after you.

  28-01-2018 15:00
  As if Donald Trump doesn’t have enough problems these days, what with the expanding Russia investigation, payoffs to silence porn stars and low poll numbers, he’ll soon be facing another challenge.Murphy Brown is coming after him.OK, that wasn’t part of the official CBS announcement that it is bringing “Murphy Brown” back next season. The only reference to the current occupant of the White House is oblique — that Murphy will return “to a world of cable n
  
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• Utah spent $33 million on a pipeline application it never finished. The feds approved it anyway.

  28-01-2018 15:00
  If you’re hoping to understand Utah’s drive to build the massive Lake Powell pipeline and what it might cost you, don’t start with the state’s explanation of it all to the U.S. government.The thousands of pages Utah produced to justify the 140-mile, multibillion-dollar pipeline from Lake Powell to water districts in two southwestern Utah counties are inscrutable to most involved — the project’s opponents, government regulators, and even some of the people who
  
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• Utah leaders never disclosed an $860M estimate to build a new prison and now costs for the project are rising

  28-01-2018 15:00
  Lots of numbers were thrown around publicly about the potential cost to move the state prison from the Point of the Mountain, and allow lucrative development on its 700 acres in the heart of the hottest growth area in the state.But $860 million was not one of them. Yet, that was the original estimate, state leaders are revealing now, well after they made the controversial prison relocation decision and five months after breaking ground on the new site near the Salt Lake City International Airpor
  
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• Two-thirds of Salt Lake City's roads are rated poor or worse. Here are the worst, and what it would cost to fix them all.

  28-01-2018 15:00
  Name the worst stretch of road in Salt Lake City:A. 100 South between 1300 East and University Street.B. 700 West between 1700 South and Layton Avenue.C. 1100 East between Ramona Avenue and 2100 South.D. The street where you live.The answer is (D) – that is, if you happen to live on (A). That one-block stretch of 100 South is in the worst condition of 4,100 road segments analyzed in a new citywide survey of pavement conditions, but the other two are also in the Top (or Bottom) 5.And that&r
  
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• [ESPN] - Pelton mail: How can Cavs make playoffs with such a bad defense?

  28-01-2018 14:46 via sportspyder.com
  ... s yet to play, Parker's WARP is based on his preseason projection.) The Utah Jazz rank ninth by this measure, having lost 4.0 WARP to injury, mostly from Rudy ...
  
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• Letter from the Publisher: A policy change

  28-01-2018 14:00
  During the last week of 1993, The Salt Lake Tribune unveiled the first digitally-delivered daily “newspaper” in the Intermountain West, a creation only four months in the making. Johannes Gutenberg would have been proud. Utah Online, as it was then called, was a free electronic bulletin board primitive by today’s standards. Two years later, this digital platform morphed into sltrib.com, joining the World Wide Web and becoming available to anyone with a computer and internet acc
  
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• Kirby: I don’t feel oppressed in the Mormon church — hell, it’s my choice to attend or not

  28-01-2018 14:00
  Lots of commentary about the changes in the Mormon church’s leadership. New president. New counselor. Same praises/laments from friends regarding the change.No. 1 • “It’s the Lord’s will. Anyone who protests that decision needs to repent.”No. 2 • “I don’t like that guy, but I really can’t stand the other one.”Me? I lost interest in the change within 24 hours. It’s like the weather, an approaching meteor or a decision my wife h
  
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• A trove of sexually charged messages is at the core of Weber State University’s investigation into a former professor — but the prof says they were fabricated

  28-01-2018 07:12
  A former professor at Weber State University is suing the Ogden school for how it handled an allegation of sexual harassment from a student in his class. Although pages of emails and other electronic messages were used as evidence in the case, Jason Fritzler, who taught microbiology before resigning last year, maintains he didn’t and couldn’t have sent the messages to the student, his attorney Brian Jackson told The Salt Lake Tribune this week.Fritzler alleges the sexually charged me
  
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• Dynamic duo of Yoeli Childs and Elijah Bryant lead BYU past Pacific 80-65

  28-01-2018 06:59
  Provo • Sophomore Yoeli Childs didn’t start in Saturday’s game against Pacific, but he certainly finished it.Having missed Friday’s practice due to illness, Childs entered the game about six minutes in and then scored 20 of his 26 points in the second half to lead BYU to an 80-65 win over the Tigers in front of an announced crowd of 16,456 at the Marriott Center.Hip-hop artists Ayo & Teo weren’t the only dynamic duo in the building, as Elijah Bryant scored 28 poi
  
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• Get ready for Tuesday's debut of the City Edition court and jersey by picking up some gear of your own at the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-01-2018 06:53 via twitter.com
  Get ready for Tuesday's debut of the City Edition court and jersey by picking up some gear of your own at the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Stories of strong women and global activists dominate at 2018 Sundance Film Festival awards

  28-01-2018 06:30
  A teen lesbian sent to “pray away the gay,” a reformed member of the Ku Klux Klan, a crusader against child slavery and a family struggling against an unfair prison sentence were front and center in the winners at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.“The Miseducation of Cameron Post,” director Desiree Akhavan’s drama about a girl sent to a Christian “gay conversion” camp, took the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic competition.Chloë Grace Moretz, the
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Report: Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell to compete in All-Star Skills Challenge

  28-01-2018 06:24 via sportspyder.com
  ...14th Jazzman to play in a Rising Stars or rookie challenge. In 2017, former Jazz star Gordon Hayward finished second in the Skills Challenge in New Orleans....
  
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• Report: Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell to compete in All-Star Skills Challenge

  28-01-2018 06:15
  SALT LAKE CITY — In the National Basketball Association, skills pay the bills.There’s no denying that Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell has a lot of those.The NBA’s top-scoring rookie hasn’t received an invite to participate in the slam dunk contest but will compete in the Skills Challenge on All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles on Saturday, Feb. 17, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.Mitchell appeared to confirmed the news by retweeting Wojnarowski with three praying
  
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• No. 2 Virginia takes down No. 4 Duke, 65-63

  28-01-2018 05:49
  Durham, N.C. • Kyle Guy scored 17 points and hit two free throws with 6.1 seconds left, and No. 2 Virginia beat No. 4 Duke 65-63 on Saturday.Ty Jerome had 13 points and a critical 3-pointer with 37.6 seconds to play, and Devon Hall finished with 14 points to help the Cavaliers (20-1, 9-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) win their 12th straight and their first at Cameron Indoor Stadium since 1995.The nation's stingiest defense held the top offense in Division I to more than 28 points below its ave
  
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• Richmond's Kyle Lauletta goes from FCS to Senior Bowl star

  28-01-2018 05:48
  Mobile, Ala. • Kyle Lauletta more than held his own in elite quarterback company.A standout at FCS Richmond, Lauletta threw three second-half touchdown passes and Texas-San Antonio's Marcus Davenport scored on a 19-yard fumble recovery to lead the South team to a 45-16 victory over the North in the Senior Bowl on Saturday.Lauletta capped the weeklong audition for NFL teams in strong fashion, thriving amid more heralded passers from the North team. That group included Oklahoma Heisman Trophy
  
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• NBA roundup: Curry scores 49 points, Warriors beat Celtics 109-105

  28-01-2018 05:47
  Oakland, Calif. • Stephen Curry scored 49 points with 13 of those over the final 1:42 and hit eight 3-pointers, lifting the Golden State Warriors past the Boston Celtics 109-105 on Saturday night in what is already being hyped as a potential NBA Finals matchup come June.Curry made a go-ahead 3 with 1:42 to play, scored on a driving layup the next time down before eight late free throws. He also made three of his 3s over the final 4:20 of the third quarter for the Warriors, who had lost the
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Derrick Favors refutes notion that he’s unwilling to re-sign with Utah Jazz

  28-01-2018 05:45 via sportspyder.com
  ...redundant as Derrick has proven more suited for the center position and the Jazz likely wouldn’t want to extend him the hefty salary raise he’s going to dema ...
  
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• Yoeli Childs and Elijah Bryant lead BYU past Pacific, 80-65, in men’s basketball

  28-01-2018 05:43
  Provo • BYU’s Yoeli Childs and Elijah Bryant were at it again on Saturday night.They combined for 43 of their team’s 80 points as the Cougars knocked off Pacific 80-65 in front of a sellout crowd at the Marriott Center. Battling an illness, Childs had 26 points and seven rebounds and Bryant added 28 points and seven boards.The Cougars (18-5, 7-3) got revenge for a 67-66 loss to Pacific in Stockton, Calif., on Jan. 6, but it wasn’t easy.Pacific led 33-30 at halftime and by
  
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• Derrick Favors refutes notion that he’s unwilling to re-sign with Utah Jazz

  28-01-2018 05:27
  Derrick Favors, who reportedly informed the Utah Jazz that he didn’t intend to re-sign for next season, took to Twitter Saturday night to refute that notion. With the NBA trade deadline quickly approaching, there’s been a number of Utah Jazz players that have been announced as thoroughly on the trade block. Although any sort of […]
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• Harding, Braxton lead Weber State past Idaho State

  28-01-2018 05:22
  Pocatello, Idaho • Jerrick Harding scored 22 points, Zach Braxton got his fourth double-double of the season and Weber State held off Idaho State for a 77-70 win Saturday night.Braxton finished with 16 points on 7-for-11 shooting and hauled in 12 rebounds. Ryan Richardson added 15 points, all from long range to help Weber State (13-7, 6-2 Big Sky Conference) pick up its third-straight win.Idaho State (9-10, 4-4) trailed by as many as 13 points late in the first half but kept chipping away,
  
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  28-01-2018 05:21 via twitter.com
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• Henson hits 3 with 0.2 left; Utah St. beats Fresno St. 65-62

  28-01-2018 05:10
  Fresno, Calif. • Redshirt freshman Daron Henson scored a season-high 18 points, including an NBA-range 3-pointer with 0.2 seconds to play, and Utah State beat Fresno State 65-62 on Saturday night.Henson finished 6-of-7 shooting, all from 3-point range. Dwayne Brown Jr. had 13 points and Sam Merrill scored 11 for Utah State (12-11, 5-5 Mountain West). Koby McEwen added nine points, six rebounds, seven assists and two steals.Fresno State's Terrell Carter II made a layup with 4:48 to play and
  
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• .@rickyrubio9 catching the game on a day off 🏀 #ballislife #takenote twitter.com/byubasketball/…

  28-01-2018 04:58 via twitter.com
  .@rickyrubio9 catching the game on a day off 🏀 #ballislife #takenote twitter.com/byubasketball/…
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Suddenly hot Lakers visit Raptors (Jan 28, 2018)

  28-01-2018 04:35 via sportspyder.com
  ... ors coach Dwane Casey said the team was “down” during practice Saturday. The Jazz scored 12 of the final 14 points of the game and held the Raptors to 38.9 pe ...
  
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• Attendance at BYU basketball game gets boost from hip-hop duo Ayo & Teo

  28-01-2018 04:32
  Provo • Trailing Arizona in the battle to have the best college basketball attendance in the West, BYU turned to an unlikely source on Saturday night at the Marriott Center.Ayo & Teo, a hip-hop duo from South Africa, performed at halftime.Ayleo and Mateo Bowles, brothers, had a meet-and-greet before the game and entertained the sellout crowd for about three minutes at halftime.Their hit song, “Rolex,” is the tune that the BYU Cougarettes and mascot Cosmo performed to at half
  
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• Trump sought release of classified Russia memo, putting him at odds with Justice Department

  28-01-2018 04:14
  On Wednesday, as Republicans were clamoring to make public a secret document they think will undercut the investigation into Russian meddling, President Donald Trump made clear his desire: Release the memo.Trump's directive was at odds with his own Justice Department, which had warned that releasing the classified memo written by congressional Republicans would be "extraordinarily reckless" without an official review. Nevertheless, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly relayed the president's vi
  
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