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• Danilo Acosta began the year with a USMNT call-up, but now he’s riding RSL’s bench

  14-03-2018 23:58
  Five months ago, Danilo Acosta would have been among the players tricking off the practice field in ones and twos, instructed to make it a light training session after starting two days before.Not this week. Not so far this season. Acosta, instead, stayed behind with the other non-starters Monday for a longer session after sitting on the bench for the entirety of Real Salt Lake’s 5-1 loss to LAFC on Saturday. Acosta, who won a regular starting spot at the end of last season and received hi
  
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• He’s back. @daanteee is officially available for tomorrow’s game. https://t.co/t8zgYCH2x7

  14-03-2018 23:50 via twitter.com
  
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• Former Maple Mountain star Liz Eaton is transferring after two seasons at BYU

  14-03-2018 23:45
  Provo • Former Maple Mountain High star Liz Eaton was hoping to continue her family’s legacy of excelling for the BYU women’s basketball team. But after two disappointing seasons in the program, the highly recruited sophomore guard has decided to transfer.Eaton, the younger sister of former BYU great Lexi Eaton Rydalch, has asked for and received a release from head coach Jeff Judkins, she said Wednesday. “One reason is that I figured out my playing style just doesn’
  
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• Utah’s Larry Krystkowiak has some thoughts on scheduling in the wake of Pac-12’s NCAA snub

  14-03-2018 23:43
  Utes coach Larry Krystkowiak’s approach in scheduling has been geared toward getting prepared for Pac-12 play and based largely on the makeup of the team he expects to have going into the season.Utah also annually counted on the competition in a Power 5 conference beefing up the schedule. Well, the NCAA Selection Committee will force that approach to be re-examined this offseason. Just three Pac-12 teams were selected for the year’s tournament, and two of those were relegated to pla
  
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• Utah pharmacies gave out thousands of opioid-combating naloxone doses without prescriptions last year. Health officials say it’s saving lives.

  14-03-2018 23:35
  Thousands more doses of the overdose treatment drug naloxone are in the hands of opioid users and their family members, thanks to a Utah order that let pharmacies dispense the life-saving drug without a prescription. The Utah Department of Health (DOH) issued the standing order in late 2016, giving pharmacists legal authority to provide naloxone to anyone with a higher risk of an overdose. The drug — delivered via a nasal spray or syringe — reverses overdoses from opiates or heroin m
  
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• Commentary: Stephen Hawking taught us it was right to be wrong

  14-03-2018 23:30
  In 2002, the future Nobel Prize winner Peter Higgs joined several fellow physicists at a dinner in Edinburgh, Scotland. Drinks flowed, and professional invective followed. The physicists were frustrated by, and perhaps a little jealous of, Stephen Hawking, the newspaper The Scotsman reported the next morning.“It is very difficult to engage [Hawking] in discussion, and so he has got away with pronouncements in a way that other people would not,” Higgs is quoted as saying. “His c
  
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• 'I went to Dennis' rescue': Phil Jackson revisits comments about Mormons from '98 NBA Finals

  14-03-2018 23:29
  SALT LAKE CITY — On Wednesday, legendary NBA coach Phil Jackson revisited the comments he and Dennis Rodman made about Mormons during the 1998 NBA Finals, with Jackson saying that he tried to "rescue" his controversial player.Jackson, whose Chicago Bulls faced the Utah Jazz in two straight NBA Finals, was in town on Wednesday speaking at Domopalooza, the annual conference hosted by Utah-based software as a service company Domo, at the Salt Palace Convention Center. Jackson was one of sever
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - 'I went to Dennis' rescue': Phil Jackson revisits comments about Mormons from '98 NBA Finals

  14-03-2018 23:09 via sportspyder.com
  ... s ears, he said, rang like he was at a rock concert. Jackson referred to the Jazz's Bear mascot, who rode a motorcycle on the floor before the game. “I always ...
  
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• Favorite TV show? Food? NCAA Tournament team? There’s a bracket for that

  14-03-2018 22:48
  Miami • There is a bracket where even Gator haters not only can pick Florida, but probably will.Florida Evans, that is.Yes, the mom from "Good Times" is in the running for a title right now.You think brackets are just for basketball and that they only get filled out at this time of year, in the days leading up to the start of the NCAA Tournament? If so, think again. Of course, the NCAAs and the billions of dollars spent in bracket pools move the needle more than anything else. But these day
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz finally in playoff position, hope to rise in standings thanks to favorable schedule

  14-03-2018 22:44 via sportspyder.com
  ... oma City for No. 4 and three-and-a-half behind Portland for No. 3. While the Jazz would be thrilled just to make the playoffs, a move up to at least No. 6 wou ...
  
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• Utah Jazz finally in playoff position, hope to rise in standings thanks to favorable schedule

  14-03-2018 22:32
  SALT LAKE CITY — It’s taken a couple of months, but the Utah Jazz are finally in the playoffs.Well, not actually in the playoffs, but after a steep and steady climb they are in a playoff position in the standings for the first time since early in the season.If the season ended today, the Jazz would be in the postseason as the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference with their 38-30 record.After winning Tuesday night — along with five of the six teams bunched together in the middle
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Northwest Notes: Exum, Blazers, Grant, Butler

  14-03-2018 22:12 via sportspyder.com
  ...100% ready to run the team’s offense. However, all indications are that the Jazz have confidence in the fourth-year guard and view him as a piece of their fu ...
  
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  14-03-2018 22:11 via twitter.com
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• Spurs in a new spot: Fighting for their playoff lives

  14-03-2018 22:08
  This is the worst season for the San Antonio Spurs in the past 21 years.They're on pace for only 46 wins.ONLY 46 wins.That's a season fans in other many cities would celebrate wildly. Philadelphia hasn't won 46 games since 2002-03, Minnesota not since 2003-04, Sacramento not since 2004-05. Detroit hasn't had a 46-win season in the last decade. The Knicks have one in the last 17 seasons. Milwaukee reached it once in the last 16 seasons entering this year. Charlotte, once in the last 15 seasons. T
  
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• E.J. Dionne: A revolt in Trump country

  14-03-2018 22:00
  Washington • President Trump put his political standing on the line in western Pennsylvania’s special congressional election on Tuesday. He lost.Republicans and their allies threw every attack in their political arsenal at Democrat Conor Lamb. They apparently fell short. The GOP found that its big corporate tax cut had scant appeal in a district that had voted for Trump by nearly 20 points. They pulled ads on their major achievement.Many blue-collar voters seemed interested in coming
  
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• Utah Senate President Wayne Niederhauser decides not to seek re-election

  14-03-2018 21:58
  Senate President Wayne Niederhauser announced Wednesday he will not seek re-election.“It’s time for a new face with fresh energy and ideas,” the Sandy Republican said in a written statement.He was elected to the Senate in 2006 and served as its president for the past six years.“Serving the people of District 9 and as the Utah Senate president has been the honor of a lifetime,” he said. “I will forever cherish the relationships, the policy, the process and bein
  
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• Former Springville star Liz Eaton is transferring after two seasons at BYU

  14-03-2018 21:54
  Provo • Former Springville High star Liz Eaton was hoping to continue her family’s legacy of excelling for the BYU women’s basketball team. But after two disappointing seasons in the program the highly recruited sophomore guard has decided to transfer.Eaton, the younger sister of former BYU great Lexi Eaton Rydalch, has asked for and received a release from head coach Jeff Judkins, she said Wednesday. “One reason is that I figured out my playing style just doesn’t fi
  
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• On day of school gun protests, the House passes bill backed by the White House, NRA and Utah’s members of Congress

  14-03-2018 21:52
  Washington • Utah’s four House members voted Wednesday with nearly all their colleagues to pass a bill seeking to halt school shootings on the same day as students across the country walked out of classes to call on Congress to take action to keep them safe.The House voted 407-10 to pass the Students, Teachers and Officers Preventing School Violence Act (the STOP Act), with five Democrats and five Republicans opposing the measure.The bill authorizes $50 million to boost school securit
  
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• New running backs coach AJ Steward brings discipline, attention to detail to BYU’s offense

  14-03-2018 21:49
  Provo • After a grueling two-hour spring football practice Monday that didn’t go as well as BYU’s offensive coaches would have liked, new running backs coach AJ Steward put more than a half-dozen players that he coaches through some additional conditioning drills. “Just a disciplinary thing,” he said later. “We have to set a good foundation for our future right now. That’s a big thing. … It is never to make people’s lives miserable. There&rsq
  
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• UDOT decides to convert U.S. 89 in Davis County into a freeway — but citizen group plans to sue to block it

  14-03-2018 21:41
  The Utah Department of Transportation has made a final decision to convert U.S. 89 into a full freeway in Davis and Weber counties to connect Interstates 15 and 84 — but an upset citizens group says it is planning to sue to block it.UDOT approved and released late Tuesday a final state environmental study, making its decision for the new freeway final. On Wednesday, a citizens group name Residents’ Voice United on 89 (ReVU89) said it plans legal action against that.
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• Former CIA director criticizes Intel Committee and Trump during visit to Salt Lake City

  14-03-2018 21:19
  Former CIA Director John Brennan on Wednesday criticized Republican Rep. Devin Nunes and the House Intelligence Committee’s report on the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election as partisan and inaccurate.That report, also criticized by Democrats on that committee, said there was no evidence of collusion between Russia and Trump campaign in the run-up to the presidential election.
  Before a capacity audience at the University of Utah, Brennan said, that if asked, he would n
  
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• Greg Sargent: Three big takeaways from Trump's humiliating Pennsylvania failure

  14-03-2018 21:00
  Democrat Conor Lamb is clinging to a lead of around 600 votes in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District, but most news organizations have refrained from calling the race. Still, it looks likely Lamb will hang on, and win or lose, we now know that this district — which President Donald Trump won by 20 points — swung in a huge way toward Democrats, making this a major rebuke of Trump and Republicans, deep in the heart of Trump country.Three key takeaways:• The House map
  
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  14-03-2018 20:31 via twitter.com
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• You guys, you're talented. Stop it (but don't). twitter.com/tville73/statu…

  14-03-2018 20:24 via twitter.com
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• Armand Shyne finally is healthy again, and that is very good news for Utah’s running game

  14-03-2018 20:22
  That grin of his widens as he says, “I ain’t played in a minute.”No, unfortunately for Armand Shyne, it’s been a series of bad breaks since he first burst onto the scene in 2016, a one-time backup who made a name for himself when called upon. So it makes sense that he can’t stop smiling because he’s back in pads, his helmet’s on, waiting to bowl over a defender. Or get bowled over himself. It doesn’t matter. Shyne missed the contact. A running back
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz fans will love this new Donovan Mitchell t-shirt

  14-03-2018 20:14 via sportspyder.com
  ... ng. So every fan needs this new t-shirt. Really, is there anything Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell can’t do? Need acrobatic layups, sure he’s got it. Wh ...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Dante Exum’s return will add excitement, intrigue to season’s stretch run

  14-03-2018 20:14 via sportspyder.com
  ... that he’s set to make his return while the stakes are at their highest for a Jazz team that will be aiming to keep their win streak alive and jockey for playo ...
  
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• Teacher accidentally discharges firearm in Calif. classroom. He was trained in gun use.

  14-03-2018 20:01
  A teacher who is also a reserve police officer trained in firearm use accidentally discharged a gun Tuesday at Seaside High School in Monterey County, California, during a class devoted to public safety. A male student was reported to have sustained non-life-threatening injuries.The weapon, which was not described, was pointed at the ceiling, according to a statement from the school, and debris fell from the ceiling.Seaside Police Chief Abdul Pridgen told the Monterey County Weekly that a male s
  
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• Holly Richardson: Fighting through ‘The Resistance’ will make you strong

  14-03-2018 20:00
  Sun Tzu wrote “The Art of War” more than 2,500 years ago. It contains such well-known gems as “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting” and “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.”Steven Pressfield wrote a book over 15 years ago titled “The War of Art.” Clever title for a book about “The Resistance” — something we face whenever we try to do something significant.Pressfield describes The Resistance
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: How Rudy Gobert has helped save the season

  14-03-2018 20:00 via sportspyder.com
  ... h includes Tuesday’s win over the Detroit Pistons — that has resulted is the Jazz going 20-4, including winning seven straight,  to turn the season around. Mo ...
  
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• Back at the Huntsman Center again, Utah women draw UNLV in their WNIT opener

  14-03-2018 19:55
  Utah senior forward Emily Potter forced herself to come to grips with the fact that she had played her final game in the Huntsman Center.Now, Potter and the rest of the Utah women’s basketball team will attempt to rewrite the ending to its season starting with the opening round of the WNIT against UNLV on Thursday night at ... wait for it ... the Huntsman Center.“I definitely said goodbye to the Huntsman already, so it’s going to interesting going back there again,” Pott
  
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• [KSL] - Wisconsin teen granted wish to hug Jazz Bear

  14-03-2018 19:41 via sportspyder.com
  ... of the game is spotting out the bear. But Tuesday, she got to experience the Jazz in a whole new way with her favorite bear by her side. Her neurologist back...
  
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• After running Brighton ski area for years, Boyne will own it again

  14-03-2018 19:39
  Not that the average skier or snowboarder will notice the difference, but the sale of venerable Brighton Resort was announced Tuesday.Boyne Resorts, the Michigan-based company that has operated Brighton for more than two decades, is buying the Big Cottonwood Canyon resort and five others from Ski Resort Holdings, an affiliate of Oz Real Estate. The sales price was not disclosed.Oz bought these six ski resorts — and seven others — last April from CNL Lifestyle Properties, a real estat
  
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• Utah Jazz fans will love this new Donovan Mitchell t-shirt

  14-03-2018 19:18
  Utah Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell has been terrorizing opposing defenses all season long. So every fan needs this new t-shirt. Really, is there anything Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell can’t do? Need acrobatic layups, sure he’s got it. What about 3-pointers? He has you covered. Step in as a replacement and win the NBA Dunk […]
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• Utah Jazz: Dante Exum’s return will add excitement, intrigue to season’s stretch run

  14-03-2018 19:15
  The impending return of Dante Exum is set to be one of the most exciting and intriguing aspects of an already thrilling 2017-18 season for the Utah Jazz. During some of the low points earlier in the 2017-18 season for the Utah Jazz when the team found themselves well below .500 and struggling through a […]
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• Utah Senate President Wayne Niederahuser decides not to seek re-election

  14-03-2018 19:09
  Senate President Wayne Niederhauser, R-Sandy, announced Wednesday he will not seek re-election.“It’s time for a new face with fresh energy and ideas,” Niederhauser said in a written statement.He was elected to the Senate in 2006 and served as its president for the past six years.“Serving the people of District 9 and as the Utah Senate president has been the honor of a lifetime. I will forever cherish the relationships, the policy, the process and being so intimately invol
  
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• What can the Jazz expect from Dante Exum in his impending return?

  14-03-2018 19:04
  The Utah Jazz don’t want to place undue expectations on Dante Exum. And that’s understandable. Their young point guard, a lottery pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, has yet to play a game this season, thanks to surgery for a separated shoulder suffered in Utah’s third preseason game. He’s still a relative unknown four years into his NBA life.But when talking about Exum, it’s been difficult for Jazz brass to hide their excitement for a return that’s almost imminent. H
  
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• Police identify wanted man who was shot and killed by federal agents in Sandy

  14-03-2018 19:03
  Police have identified a wanted Utah man who was shot and killed by federal agents near a TRAX station in Sandy on Tuesday night.Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives tracked 31-year-old Bryan Keith Liles to a vehicle that was across the street from the Historic Sandy station, 9000 S. 165 East in Sandy, Sandy police Lt. Dean Carriger said.Police officials have not said what sparked the 5 p.m. shooting, but Carriger confirmed that agents fired “during their con
  
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• ‘We are these kids’ — Hundreds of Utah students walk out of school in somber, tearful tribute to Florida shooting victims

  14-03-2018 19:00
  Saratoga Springs • Droves of Utah students statewide joined their national peers Wednesday in a 10 a.m. walkout from school and a brief tribute to the victims of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting one month ago in Parkland, Fla.
  Students at more than 30 schools along the Wasatch Front, nearly all of them high schools, participated in the 17-minute walkout — one minute for each of the Florida students killed.
  Nationally, organizers say nearly 3,000 walkouts are planned or underw
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump's presidency is becoming ‘The Purge’

  14-03-2018 19:00
  Washington • It’s official: President Trump’s 2020 re-election slogan will be lifted from a dystopian thriller in which a white-nationalist U.S. government suspends the rule of law. Variety described the film, “The Purge: Election Year,” as “a squalid B-movie political horror film that plays to our most reptile-brained basic instincts.”Could there be any better description of the Trump presidency?Trump, at his Saturday night rally, announced his re-electi
  
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• Britain boots 23 Russian diplomats over spy poisoning

  14-03-2018 19:00
  LONDON (AP) — Relations between Britain and Russia plunged Wednesday to a chill not seen since the Cold War as Prime Minister Theresa May expelled 23 diplomats, severed high-level contacts and vowed both open and covert action against Kremlin meddling after the poisoning of a former spy.Russia said it would respond soon to what it called Britain’s “crude” and “hostile” actions.While May pledged to disrupt Russian espionage and “hostile state activity,&rd
  
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• Play that almost got Utah theater company kicked out of its community center venue was worth the battle

  14-03-2018 18:37
  There’s a squeal actor John Valdez makes in “Straight,” an “eeee” that’s beautifully rich in the way it captures the trap his character, Ben, has created for himself. It’s a scene in Utah Repertory Theater Company’s new production where Ben is forced to introduce Chris (Dallon D. Thorup), his secret gay hookup, to Emily (Andrea Peterson), his longtime girlfriend. The sound escapes as Ben sees the pair are hitting it off and realizes his secrets mig
  
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• UDOT decides to convert U.S. 89 in Davis County into freeway — but citizen group plans lawsuit seeking to block it

  14-03-2018 18:25
  The Utah Department of Transportation has made a final decision to convert U.S. 89 into a full freeway in Davis and Weber counties to connect Interstates 15 and 84 — but an upset citizens group says it is planning to sue to block it.UDOT approved and released late Tuesday a final state environmental study, making its decision for the new freeway final. On Wednesday, a citizens group name Residents’ Voice United on 89 (ReVU89) said it plans legal action against that.
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• Weekly Run newsletter: Jazz’s Ricky Rubio and Rudy Gobert are establishing a stronger on-court connection

  14-03-2018 18:19
  Four of Ricky Rubio’s nine assists Tuesday night were to Rudy Gobert. They all were dunks.Raise your hand if you gave up a little early on that pairing. And be honest.After an initial awkward dance between the Jazz’s star center and their new point guard, there seems to be a rhythm finally developing. On no play was it more clear than a second-quarter assist that Rubio threw from across the lane to a waiting Gobert. Something’s changed for the better there.The latest sign that
  
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