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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz getting some help with injuries to Steph, Kyrie

  24-03-2018 23:26 via sportspyder.com
  ... : Donovan Mitchell docu-series set to drop in April Utah Jazz vs Spurs: Can the Jazz continue their climb up the standings? Utah Jazz-Spur ...
  
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• East final matches experienced Villanova vs Elite 8 newcomer Texas Tech

  24-03-2018 23:20
  Boston • When Villanova coach Jay Wright talks to his players about the Wildcats’ 2016 national championship, he wants them to remember what it felt like before they took the court, not after they cut down the nets.“There’s a certain hunger when you’ve never been there that can elevate you, too, that you just want it so bad,” he said on Saturday as he prepared to play Elite Eight newcomer Texas Tech for a spot in the NCAA Final Four.“When you’re in
  
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• .@UofUHealth report for #UTAatGSW: Raul Neto (left wrist fracture) is out. Thabo Sefolosha (right knee surgery) is out.

  24-03-2018 23:08 via twitter.com
  .@UofUHealth report for #UTAatGSW: Raul Neto (left wrist fracture) is out.Thabo Sefolosha (right knee surgery) is out.
  
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• Utah Jazz getting some help with injuries to Steph, Kyrie

  24-03-2018 22:52
  Stephen Curry has incurred another injury and Kyrie Irving is already out, which could help the Utah Jazz in upcoming games. In the playoff race, every loss feels like a gut punch and the Utah Jazz took a doozy from the San Antonio Spurs on Friday. After falling to the Spurs in dramatic fashion, the […]
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• [Sports Illustrated] - Stephen Curry's Health Will Define 2018 NBA Postseason | SI.com

  24-03-2018 22:41 via sportspyder.com
  ... zers followed by a favorable second-round match-up against the inexperienced Jazz. This year, the Warriors have already ceded the top seed to the Rockets, and ...
  
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• Donovan Mitchell has learned the value of education from his mom — that’s why he’s going to finish his degree

  24-03-2018 22:37
  The story has been etched into Donovan Mitchell’s mythos: After a workout with then-Clippers guard Chris Paul, the nine-time All-Star told the Louisville star that he should declare for the NBA draft.Nicole Mitchell, Donovan’s mother, was less easily swayed.Even though she’s watched her son play in hundreds of games by now, she doesn’t claim to be an expert on the NBA draft. But she is an expert on education, and she did research as Donovan weighed his decision. Even when
  
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• Chalk time: Blue bloods Kansas, ’Nova, Duke interrupt upsets

  24-03-2018 22:31
  We interrupt this March for underdogs with a reality check from some of college basketball’s blue bloods.Kansas, Villanova and Duke are still alive in the NCAA Tournament, ready to tilt the bracket back toward the favorites.Call Friday the exception to what has been an extraordinarily-maddening, upset-laden March. One that showcased three powerhouse teams, each good enough to be deemed the favorite if they reach the national title game.In the East, top-seeded Villanova held up to fifth-see
  
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• NRA host taunts Parkland teens: 'No one would know your names' if classmates were still alive

  24-03-2018 22:11
  As they’ve stepped out of the hallways of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and into the national spotlight, the Parkland, Florida, teenagers have become Twitter influencers, TV news show mainstays and the stoic-faced subjects of a Time magazine cover.But they’ve also increasingly become targets: Their most prominent critics are people who see them less as survivors of a tragedy and more as pawns in a larger effort to influence gun policy.The latest attack came from Colion Noir, a
  
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• A boy was decapitated on a waterslide. The park knew the ride could kill people, officials say.

  24-03-2018 22:07
  In a quest to be the record holder for the world’s tallest waterslide, investigators say Schlitterbahn Waterpark of Kansas City rushed to build a dangerous and structurally complicated ride, ignored glaring safety red flags and replaced mathematical calculations with “crude trial-and-error methods.”The string of negligence, according to a recently unsealed indictment, resulted in the 2016 death of a 10-year-old boy and more than a dozen injuries. Caleb Schwab, son of Kansas sta
  
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• Commentary: How to build resilience in children

  24-03-2018 21:54
  Bill Gates’ first enterprise failed miserably. Nonetheless he became a multi-billionaire and a celebrated philanthropist. Ben Franklin’s formal education ended at age ten due to family poverty. Yet he harnessed electricity, invented the lightning rod and bifocal lenses and is counted as one of our founding fathers. Stephen King’s first novel was rejected by 30 publishers. Currently his success is measured by the sale of 350 million copies of his books. Thomas Edison persisted a
  
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• Commentary: White privilege fights ‘Black Panther’

  24-03-2018 21:51
  The Marvel movie “Black Panther” has paved the way for young black children in the United States and around the globe. It has made over $1 billion in less than a month and has created controversy between blacks and whites. Peggy Mclntosh once said, “I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.”As an individual with a refugee background who was relocated to Salt Lake City with my family, this mov
  
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• Mia Love: The opioid addiction crisis should not be underestimated

  24-03-2018 21:50
  I recently met with Harry and Jean Childs from Utah. They are raising two of their grandchildren after a heroin overdose killed their daughter.They personally shared with me their struggles with keeping the youngsters away from the drugs that killed their mother, keeping them in school and getting resources to cope with the trauma and chaos that accompanies addiction: arrests, abuse and other negative effects of the drug abuse lifestyle. They feel they’re losing the battle.Just minutes fro
  
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• Knee woes: Steph, Kyrie not expected back until playoffs

  24-03-2018 21:45
  The NBA playoffs start in three weeks. Whether Boston’s Kyrie Irving and Golden State’s Stephen Curry will be ready when the postseason starts seems doubtful, at best.The Celtics said that Irving will need at least three and possibly as many as six weeks to recover from a procedure performed to relieve irritation on his left knee Saturday, that news coming almost simultaneously with the word that Curry has a Grade 2 sprain of the medial collateral ligament in his left knee.The Warrio
  
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• Woman accusing former MTC president of attempted rape in 1984 says she now appreciates MormonLeaks’ release of her explosive recording

  24-03-2018 21:44
  The Colorado woman who has accused a former LDS Missionary Training Center president of attempting to rape her in 1984 said Saturday that while she didn’t approve the release of a recording of her explosive conversation with him, she’s glad it’s been made public.On Monday, the website MormonLeaks posted the audio recording and a transcript of her nearly three-hour conversation with Joseph L. Bishop, now 85. Also Monday, she told The Salt Lake Tribune it was released to the site
  
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• New father, Utes senior David Collette has a week to remember

  24-03-2018 21:02
  Utes senior forward David Collette’s back tightening up against Saint Mary’s might be the thing he remembers least from the past week.The Murray native had been anticipating becoming a father for about a week, and on the verge of leaving with his Utah teammates to play in the semifinals of the NIT, Collette and his wife McElle welcomed their first child into the world. Rowan William Collette, a 8-pound, 13-ounce-pound baby boy, arrived around 1:30 p.m. Friday afternoon.Collette, who
  
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• Tony Jones: Kings owner shows the NBA’s strength of social consciousness (cough, NFL, cough)

  24-03-2018 20:52
  Vivek Ranadive became my favorite NBA team owner by taking five minutes to recognize the plight of others, by showing compassion and simply listening.This holds a bit of irony because I never previously have been a fan. Strictly in basketball terms, I’ve always thought the Sacramento Kings have been one of the most poorly run franchises in the NBA. They’ve made bad decisions in the draft, haven’t developed players and free agency often has been a joke for them.But Ranadive chan
  
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• Salt Lake’s Nathan Chen wins world championship with record-breaking performance

  24-03-2018 20:44
  Assago, Italy • .Nathan Chen’s redemption is complete.While all of his top competitors fell, the 18-year-old Chen completed six quadruple jumps in the free program on Saturday to become the first U.S. winner of the men’s world figure skating title since 2009.For the rest, it was a fall-a-thon: 14 sprawls, splats, and tumbles among five competitors as they attempted the all-mighty quad. There were three falls by silver medalist Shoma Uno of Japan, who matched his Olympic silver,
  
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• NBA players still chasing a degree now can do so with help from league’s players association

  24-03-2018 20:44
  The missing links of education aren’t just an issue for youths. Even the men who make millions in the NBA hit walls in their post-playing careers.At the Rookie Transition Program last August, which is sponsored by the National Basketball Players Association, Donovan Mitchell sat through seminars on managing money and going into business ventures. Among those seminars were stories of players who had regrets. They had jumped into something too fast they hadn’t understood; they spent mo
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - By the Stats: Jazz fall short in overtime to the Spurs

  24-03-2018 20:33 via sportspyder.com
  ... s team pass Randy Foye, who held the Jazz 3-point record until broke it a week ago. The Jazz bench attempted zero free ...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - NBA players still chasing a degree now can do so with help from league’s players association

  24-03-2018 20:15 via sportspyder.com
  ... ch Gregg Popovich wins duel with former understudy — Utah’s Quin Snyder Utah Jazz fall to San Antonio Spurs, 124-120 in overtime, despite Donovan Mitchell’s h ...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell has learned the value of a good education from his mom — and that’s why he’s going to finish his degree

  24-03-2018 20:15 via sportspyder.com
  ... ht he nailed his workouts and interviews with their teams, it’s possible the Jazz simply valued some of those traits more. As a franchise that stakes its repu ...
  
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• Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell has learned the value of a good education from his mom — and that’s why he’s going to finish his degree

  24-03-2018 20:07
  The story has been etched into Donovan Mitchell’s mythos: After a workout with then-Clippers guard Chris Paul, the nine-time All-Star told the young Louisville star that he should declare for the NBA Draft — he didn’t need to go back to school.Nicole Mitchell, Donovan mother, was less easily swayed.Even though she’s watched her son play in hundreds, if not thousands, of basketball games by now, she doesn’t claim to be an expert on the NBA Draft. But she is an expert
  
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• Commentary: For-profit immigrant detention centers are an echo of a sad past

  24-03-2018 20:01
  Although federal statistics show fewer undocumented immigrants are trying to cross U.S. borders, the Trump administration remains committed to its aggressive policy of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids across the country.Many of its targets, who have admittedly entered the country outside the legal procedure in their desperation to leave behind violence and abuse in their homelands, have violated no laws since being here.All too often, these newly detained immigrants are shunted of
  
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• Don Gale: Build the stupid wall ... to stimulate America’s true greatness

  24-03-2018 19:58
  Build the wall! Maybe that’s the only way a few stubborn folks will see the futility of the idea, see the waste of money, and see the conflict between walls and American ideals. Perhaps some good will come of it over the long run.Any sensible observer knows the wall will not work. And it will be paid for by taxpayers, not by Mexico, despite misleading comments by the president. However, it will certainly be built by Mexican laborers and other immigrant workers — thousands of them.Wal
  
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• Commentary: Time to realize how our news sources are driving us apart

  24-03-2018 19:57
  Lately, the unreasonable and biased Facebook posts being shared by friends and family have made me deeply concerned. Most recently, my cousin shared a video from “Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children” showing a man threatening a high school student with a pocketknife at a PTA meeting in Long Island, N.Y. The headline read, “Liberals Panic at a PTA Meeting.” My first response was, “Wouldn’t anyone panic if someone was being threatened with a knife?” It ce
  
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• Kragthorpe: Kalani Sitake’s ‘urgency’ summarizes the fast-paced vibe of BYU’s spring football practice

  24-03-2018 19:48
  ProvoThe turnover of BYU’s offensive coaching staff is jarring to the returning players. They’re all learning an unfamiliar scheme, adjusting to new styles and conforming to new expectations.And there’s center James Empey. The way he endorses the Cougars’ offensive line coaches, you never would know that his father lost his job in the process.Offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes and line coach Ryan Pugh are “really detailed in their coaching; they know their stuff,&rdq
  
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• ‘Thoughts and prayers are not enough’: Student-led gun-control rally on Utah Capitol Hill after pro-gun demonstrators kicked off day of dueling rallies

  24-03-2018 19:26
  Students demanding gun control and counterprotesters defending Second Amendment rights were staging separate marches on Utah’s Capitol Hill Saturday, continuing a national discussion sparked by the fatal February shooting at a Florida high school. The Utah demonstrations are a part of what the Washington Post said was among the biggest youth protests since the Vietnam era, with nearly 1 million people expected to turn out Saturday in the nation’s capital, and more than 800 sister mar
  
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• Hundreds of thousands march for gun control in the U.S.

  24-03-2018 19:20
  Washington • Summoned to action by student survivors of the Florida school shooting, hundreds of thousands of teenagers and their supporters rallied in the nation’s capital and cities across America on Saturday to press for gun control in one of the biggest youth protests since the Vietnam era.“If you listen real close, you can hear the people in power shaking,” David Hogg, a survivor who has emerged as one of the student leaders of the movement, told the roaring crowd of
  
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• Bacon-wrapped mushrooms make an earthy treat at Ombu Grill

  24-03-2018 19:00
  Many people would say that bacon makes everything better, and Ombu Grill is proving them right. Six bundles of firm, slender enoki mushrooms are wrapped with bacon strips, which diners can cook to perfection on their personal grills. The longer the bacon and mushrooms warm, the more flavor is imparted. Remove the toothpicks once cooked for an earthy, bacon-flavored treat shared around the table. Ombu Grill • 1438 S. State St., Salt Lake City; 801-484-4888 or utahombugrill.com. Open Monday-T
  
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• Film coming to PBS examines Dolores Huerta from jazz to ‘Sí, Se Puede’

  24-03-2018 18:04
  Dolores Huerta formed the first farmworkers union with Cesar Chavez, stood next to Sen. Robert Kennedy minutes before he was assassinated, inspired Barack Obama’s 2008 “Yes We Can” presidential campaign slogan with her “Sí, Se Puede” rallying cry and has continued her social activism as she approaches her 90th birthday.Yet she remains unknown to most Americans.Among Mexican-Americans, however, she’s a civil-rights icon. She draws excitement at rallies f
  
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• Tony Jones: Kings owner addresses Sacramento shooting tragedy with perfect speech

  24-03-2018 17:06
  Vivek Ranadive became my favorite NBA team owner by taking five minutes to recognize the plight of others, by showing compassion and simply listening.This holds a bit of irony because I never previously have been a fan. Strictly in basketball terms, I’ve always thought the Sacramento Kings have been one of the most poorly run franchises in the NBA. They’ve made bad decisions in the draft, haven’t developed players and free agency often has been a joke for them.But Ranadive chan
  
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• Man shoots at suspect after being stabbed in the neck in alleged random attack in West Valley City

  24-03-2018 17:01
  After being stabbed in the neck in what appears to be a random act of violence, a man pulled a gun and shot his fleeing attacker in West Valley City on Friday.Both men were taken to the hospital but have since been released.The incident happened outside of a convenience store at 3500 South 4400 West a little after 11 p.m., Lt. Jeff Conger said. One man was renting a Redbox movie when a 21-year-old man walked by him and went into the store to buy some beer.When the man left the store, he allegedl
  
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• March for Our Lives SLC, counterprotesters to rally Saturday at Utah Capitol

  24-03-2018 16:56
  Students demanding gun control and counterprotesters defending Second Amendment rights are expected to march on Utah’s Capitol Hill Saturday, continuing a national discussion sparked by the fatal February shooting at a Florida high school. The Utah demonstrations will be part of what could become one of the largest marches in U.S. history, with nearly 1 million people expected to turn out Saturday in Washington, D.C., and more than 800 sister marches from California to Japan.Participants i
  
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• Monson: In New York, Utah's Utes cannot be kings of the world, but they can be kings of themselves

  24-03-2018 16:47
  Utah’s Utes will play a game against Western Kentucky at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night and try to feel better about their failings earlier this season.That sounds more critical than it’s meant to be.There is inspiration to be found here, it just requires some shoveling.The reason being that the NIT is a tournament for the disappointed.It’s a tournament for the second cut.It’s a tournament for teams that could not or, at least, did not meet their goals when the re
  
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• Some Mormons say their church needs a culture change, after watching the sex abuse scandal at the Missionary Training Center unfold

  24-03-2018 16:40
  On a recording and in a police report both released this week, Joseph L. Bishop agreed that he had molested a young female missionary, said he asked another missionary to bare her breasts and described himself as a predator during his tenure in the 1980s as president of the Missionary Training Center — triggering emotional distress for many LDS victims of sexual abuse. Some read an initial statement from the LDS Church as undermining the alleged victim who recorded Bishop and of showing di
  
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• Letter: Conservatives don’t know what the word evidence means

  24-03-2018 16:27
  Conservatives say there isn’t evidence that after school programs work.They say there isn’t evidence that sex education works.They say there isn’t evidence that climate change is real.They say there isn’t evidence that gun control works.And yet, most of them say there is evidence for the god they believe in.I don’t think they know what the word evidence means, they are wrong on every aforementioned topic. Here, I’ll help you out...ev·i·dence - no
  
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• Biochemistry pioneer visits Utah to explain CRISPR, the gene-editing technology set to change the world

  24-03-2018 16:26
  It is a new technology that could allow us to cure genetic diseases. Or grow more tomatoes. Or engineer pigs with organs that could be transplanted into humans. We’re talking about CRISPR, the scientific tool discovered in 2012 that gave scientists the ability to edit the genes of organisms, including ours. Studies using CRISPR — described by some as among the most important discoveries in the history of biology — have exploded in recent years, with researchers trying it out on
  
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• Salt Lake’s Nathan Chen wins world figure skating title

  24-03-2018 16:24
  Assago, Italy • Nathan Chen completed six quadruples and bettered his Olympic free skate score to win the world figure skating title on Saturday.The 18-year-old American was the only competitor in the last group not to fall.Japan’s Shoma Uno won silver despite three spectacular falls, matching his silver at the Pyeongchang Olympics.Russian Mikhail Kolyada fell twice but still won the bronze.Chen, the first U.S. world men’s champion since Evan Lysacek in 2009, did a fist pump whe
  
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• Man flees vehicle after driving onto UTA tracks and getting hit by train Saturday morning

  24-03-2018 16:19
  Police are looking for a man who fled the scene after driving into train tracks and getting hit by a Utah Transit Authority TRAX train.The collision occurred at about 8 a.m. Saturday at 400 South and Main Street, said UTA spokesman Carl Arky.Arky said it doesn’t appear the man was injured, and he had not received word that the man had been caught. He is described as a slim white male in his 20s wearing a dark jacket.After getting out of the vehicle, the man ran east down 400 South, Arky sa
  
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• Letter: Opioid lawsuit targets good physicians

  24-03-2018 14:01
  I was appalled to read in yesterday’s Salt Lake Tribune that Summit County Attorney Margaret Olson is suing Perry Fine and Lynn Webster. She could not have picked two more inappropriate targets. Dr. Fine and Dr. Webster are recognized authorities in the management of difficult pain problems and as such are part of the solution to the opiate epidemic not part of the problem.There is no doubt that our state and nation are in the midst of a severe opiate crisis and that forceful action is nee
  
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• Letter: Relationship stereotypes hurt lesbians

  24-03-2018 14:00
  When people started to talk openly about lesbian couples, they sold the image that this couple was formed by women who lived heterosexual roles. This stereotype determines that in a lesbian couple there “must be” a dominant side and a dominated side. This idea is deeply inculcated and assumed in society. People assume roles based on participation from each woman in the housework or in interests of each of them regarding hobbies and preferences. For example, my ex-girlfriend’s f
  
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• Letter: Democrats’ hope is great, but reality of Utah politics is more important

  24-03-2018 14:00
  I attended Tuesday’s Democratic caucus meetings in Salt Lake City. I was thrilled with the optimism and hope that I saw there from my fellow Utahns, particularly the young people who were actively participating in the process. I was, however, disappointed with many of the candidates running for office. Not because they didn’t have lofty goals; as a progressive, Medicare for all sounds wonderful, as does mandatory gun licensing. But they seemed completely disconnected from the reality
  
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• Letter: Be more strict on service animals

  24-03-2018 14:00
  The ADA law is frequently misused by owners of fake service animals to take their pets into public places. The ADA law does not allow employees of public places to ask for identification for service animals. Regulation requires identification for a vehicle to park in a handicapped parking stall. Why not require identification for a service animal?The ADA law must be changed. Allow store employees to ask for identification for service animals. Require government-issued identification for service
  
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• Letter:

  24-03-2018 14:00
  Conservatives say there isn’t evidence that after school programs work.They say there isn’t evidence that sex education works.They say there isn’t evidence that climate change is real.They say there isn’t evidence that gun control works.And yet, most of them say there is evidence for the god they believe in.I don’t think they know what the word evidence means, they are wrong on every aforementioned topic. Here, I’ll help you out...ev·i·dence - no
  
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• As YouTube bans firearms demonstrations, Utah firm launching its own pro-gun video platform

  24-03-2018 14:00
  With YouTube working to remove firearms demonstrations from its platform, a Utah company is gearing up to make an online haven for videos about all things related to guns.“The pro-gun community has had enough of this crap,” said Bryan Melchior, co-owner of Utah Gun Exchange, a website that hooks up gun buyers with individual sellers and manufacturers — and, in the near future, will host a video platform for gun enthusiasts.“What they’re doing at YouTube is censorshi
  
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• After watching Missionary Training Center sex abuse scandal unfold, some Mormons say their church needs a culture change

  24-03-2018 14:00
  On a recording and in a police report both released this week, Joseph L. Bishop agreed he had molested a young female missionary, said he asked another missionary to bare her breasts and described himself as a predator during his tenure in the 1980s as president of the Missionary Training Center — triggering emotional distress for many LDS victims of sexual abuse. Some read an initial statement from the LDS Church as undermining the alleged victim who recorded Bishop and showing disintere
  
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• March for Our Lives SLC, counter protesters to rally Saturday at Utah capitol

  24-03-2018 13:05
  Students demanding gun control and counter-protesters defending Second Amendment rights are both expected to march on Utah’s Capitol Hill Saturday, continuing a national discussion sparked by the fatal February shooting at a Florida high school. The Utah demonstrations will be part of what could become one of the largest marches in U.S. history, with nearly 1 million people expected to turn out Saturday in Washington, D.C., and more than 800 sister marches from California to Japan.Particip
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz-San Antonio Spurs react: Aldridge and Mitchell duel in OT thriller

  24-03-2018 08:11 via sportspyder.com
  ... IuMsVCk8S0 — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) March 24, 2018 Unquestionably, the Jazz had an opportunity to steal this game. They fought hard on a back-to-back an ...
  
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• Utah Jazz-San Antonio Spurs react: Aldridge and Mitchell duel in OT thriller

  24-03-2018 07:32
  Despite some late-game heroics from Donovan Mitchell, the Utah Jazz fell to the San Antonio Spurs in an overtime thriller and lost ground in the playoff race. The Utah Jazz suffered a heartbreaking loss in San Antonio on Friday night and in more ways than one. By falling to the Spurs 124-120 in overtime, Utah […]
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• Who we are ❤️🧡💛 #TakeNote https://t.co/psAo7GczjR

  24-03-2018 07:29 via twitter.com
  
  Who we are ❤️🧡💛#TakeNote https://t.co/psAo7GczjR
  
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