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• Tokyo Olympic CEO promises clean games for Japan

  28-03-2018 23:59
  Tokyo • A Tokyo Olympic official promised a clean games on Wednesday, pledging to improve water quality in the venue for marathon swimming and triathlon, and to ban four large Japanese construction companies that have been charged with colluding on bids.Toshiro Muto, the CEO of the organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, spoke following a meeting of the organization’s executive board.Last year, E.coli concentrations were found to be 21 times above the accepted limit in the O
  
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• Trump fires Veterans Affairs Secretary Shulkin

  28-03-2018 23:55
  Washington • President Donald Trump fired Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin on Wednesday in the wake of a bruising ethics scandal and a mounting rebellion within the agency.Shulkin is the second Cabinet secretary to depart over controversies involving expensive travel, following former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price’s resignation last September.....In the interim, Hon. Robert Wilkie of DOD will serve as Acting Secretary. I am thankful for Dr. David Shulkin’
  
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• Rio Tinto continues work to lessen the visibility of Bingham Canyon Mine waste rock piles

  28-03-2018 23:54
  Rio Tinto Kennecott continued to chip away last year at one of the mining company’s long-term goals — making the giant waste-rock piles from its Bingham Canyon Mine less visible from throughout the Salt Lake Valley.But it’s going to take time, Rio Tinto Kennecott officials Steve Schnoor and Trevor Heaton said Wednesday in the company’s annual report to the state Board of Oil, Gas and Mining.“They’re steep and they’re tall,” reclamation engineer Hea
  
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• "Every game is a challenge. Tonight we play another very good team and we have to come out ready and try to get ano… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-03-2018 23:50 via twitter.com
  "Every game is a challenge. Tonight we play another very good team and we have to come out ready and try to get ano… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• "Every game you move up or down in the standings so quickly that we have to be ready and not think about that knowi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-03-2018 23:23 via twitter.com
  "Every game you move up or down in the standings so quickly that we have to be ready and not think about that knowi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Author Krakauer wins order for release of rape case records

  28-03-2018 23:18
  Helena, Mont. • A judge has ordered the conditional release of records about a University of Montana rape case to author Jon Krakauer after a four-year dispute that pitted student privacy against the public’s right to know the decisions their government agencies make.But the legal wrangling likely isn’t over yet, and the records’ release to the public will be delayed beyond the judge’s May 23 deadline if Montana Commissioner of Higher Education Clayton Christian appe
  
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• Head Coach Quin Snyder Shootaround Interview before we face-off against the @celtics. 🎙️: on.nba.com/2E3e2sD https://t.co/M50cJUjy9x

  28-03-2018 23:16 via twitter.com
  
  Head Coach Quin Snyder Shootaround Interview before we face-off against the @celtics. 🎙️: on.nba.com/2E3e2sD https://t.co/M50cJUjy9x
  
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• Mormon Women for Ethical Government: An open letter to Mitt Romney

  28-03-2018 23:04
  Dear Mitt Romney,We represent the Mormon Women for Ethical Government, a large and growing nonpartisan nonprofit organization dedicated to the ideals of decency, honor, accountability, transparency and justice in governing.A large percentage of our members live in Utah and would be your constituents if you were elected to replace Orrin Hatch in the United States Senate. Many of our members have supported you in the past and believe you to be a man of high moral integrity, wise judgment and firm
  
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• Police find two bodies, believed to be missing teenagers Breezy and Riley, in abandoned mine near Eureka

  28-03-2018 23:00
  Eureka • Law enforcement crews on Wednesday recovered two bodies from an abandoned mine Utah’s west desert. Police believe the bodies are those of two teenagers who have been missing for nearly three months.Utah County Undersheriff Darin Durfey said an autopsy would be needed to confirm that the deceased are Brelynn “Breezy” Otteson and her boyfriend, Riley Powell.Officials also said they had identified persons of interest in the case and would be following up. Police have
  
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• West Jordan man accused of attacking a teen driver in 2015 was acquitted of assault, but sentenced to jail on lesser counts

  28-03-2018 22:50
  A West Jordan man — who two years ago was accused of attacking a teen after he crashed a car into a fence — was acquitted of assault charges, but sentenced to jail time on other lesser counts last week.Malcolm Wayne Mcelyea, 53, went on trial in January, where a 3rd District Court jury found him not guilty of the four counts of third-degree felony aggravated assault with which he’d been originally charged.But the jury convicted Mcelyea of reckless driving and giving false infor
  
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• Romney’s public immigration stand calls for a new ‘merit-based’ system favoring those with skills and money

  28-03-2018 22:25
  GOP Senate candidate Mitt Romney fleshed out his public stand on U.S. immigration policy Wednesday — this time suggesting a “merit-based” system to favor those who have the skills and resources most likely to help build the country.He told a group of state Republican delegates that he supports President Donald Trump’s proposals for that. Romney said would-be immigrants would earn points for such things as speaking English, having needed job skills, or building up savings
  
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• Utah senator applauds Walmart’s decision to remove Cosmopolitan magazine from checkout aisles

  28-03-2018 22:22
  “This is not your grandma’s Cosmo.” That’s the message Utah Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, says he got loud and clear when he met last year with Victoria Hurst, the creator of an advertising campaign that claims the long-established and widely known magazine has gotten more explicit over the years to the point it contains pornographic material.“She pulled out some examples [of the magazine] and started showing me recent articles and pictures from the past 18 month
  
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• Judge ‘beyond angry’ after Corrections workers withheld evidence, allowing Utah killer to avoid death penalty

  28-03-2018 22:19
  Manti • A Utah prisoner — who was weeks away from a trial where jurors would have decided whether he should be executed for killing his cellmate — was instead sentenced on Wednesday to spend the rest of his life in prison.Steven Douglas Crutcher, 36, admitted last May that he killed 62-year-old Roland Cardona-Gueton inside their shared cell at the Gunnison prison in 2013.A weekslong sentencing hearing was expected to begin on April 9 — but prosecutors on Wednesday suddenly
  
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• ‘A woman could be an apostle’ — Bible scholar examines the Apostle Paul’s writings and sudden popularity

  28-03-2018 22:16
  “Paul: A Biography” isn’t the first book Bible scholar N.T. Wright has written about Paul, the apostle responsible for so many of the letters in the New Testament.He also penned “Paul,” “Paul and the Faithfulness of God,” “Paul and his Recent Interpreters,” “The Paul Debate: Critical Questions for Understanding the Apostle,” “What St. Paul Really Said” and a number of Bible study guides for Paul’s letters, just t
  
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• Mitch Daniels: Big Data is always watching

  28-03-2018 22:00
  Isn’t technology wonderful? At Purdue University, the same IT infrastructure that enables us to manage student assignments and grades, operate residential and dining facilities, and support a leading community of scientific researchers produces as a byproduct a massive amount of fascinating information.We know where each student is anytime — which is virtually all the time — their mobile devices are connected to our WiFi network. When they enter their dorm, or dining court, or
  
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• .@rickyrubio9 game-worn items are being auctioned off today with all proceeds going to #5ForTheFight & the battle a… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-03-2018 21:55 via twitter.com
  .@rickyrubio9 game-worn items are being auctioned off today with all proceeds going to #5ForTheFight & the battle a… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Utah solar industry hopes new government regulations will bring order to the sector’s frenzied growth

  28-03-2018 21:52
  Utah is one of the fastest-growing markets in the U.S. for rooftop solar, which is why industry advocates say they’re glad the state Legislature has begun to impose regulations on their businesses.According to a recent trade-association report by The Solar Foundation, Utah’s solar companies grew by 40 percent in 2017 — the largest jump of any state in the U.S. More than 6,000 Utahns now work in the industry, which is expected to continue growing in coming years.Solar advocates
  
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• 🗝️: Mitchell vs. Brown ⏰: 7:30PM MT https://t.co/M7bREDrmiu

  28-03-2018 21:52 via twitter.com
  
  🗝️: Mitchell vs. Brown⏰: 7:30PM MT https://t.co/M7bREDrmiu
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Utah Jazz host the Gordon Hayward-less Boston Celtics

  28-03-2018 21:38 via sportspyder.com
  ... e to their coach, Brad Stevens. The battle of minds between Stevens and Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder may be the most important matchup of the game. Look, the C ...
  
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• Playing Penn State for NIT title Thursday ‘means the world to us’ Utah’s Justin Bibbins says

  28-03-2018 21:16
  New York • Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak didn’t just leave it at his team had “plenty” to play for when the Utes gathered for breakfast here Tuesday morning. He started listing people, ideas, reasons to want to get to the NIT championship game as part of his theme “play for more.”Krystkowiak mentioned an email exchange with former Utah All-American Arnie Ferrin, who’s name just happens to be outside the office Krystkowiak currently occupies. Ferrin played
  
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• ICMYI from @espn_macmahon: The case for Gobert as DPOY is simple: No defender has been more dominant or made a bi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-03-2018 21:15 via twitter.com
  ICMYI from @espn_macmahon: The case for Gobert as DPOY is simple: No defender has been more dominant or made a bi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• [Sporting News] - In eyes of NBA execs, Dante Exum could be worthwhile 'gamble' as restricted free agent

  28-03-2018 21:04 via sportspyder.com
  ... mself. At worst, he figures to accept the one-year qualifying offer from the Jazz, who will presumably tender that to him rather than allowing him to head int ...
  
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• Letter: The solution is to just arm everyone

  28-03-2018 21:00
  Both the anti-gun and the pro-gun factions are looking at this societal violence problem all wrong.The answer is not to surreptitiously arm a few school employees. Arm everybody. All the students. All the teachers. Everybody. If someone cannot afford a gun, let the government buy them one.Have shooting classes instead of, or in addition to, physical education. You won’t have any more incidents of “mass shootings” with this plan in place.James G. Clark, Provo
  
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• Letter: The Second Amendment does not protect weapons of mass destruction

  28-03-2018 21:00
  After every mass shooting, the discussion is deflected from the issue of the guns themselves: It’s too soon, it’s about mental health, only a good guy with a gun will stop a bad guy, and the newest distraction is we just need to arm the teachers and all will be fine.Try to deflect us all you want from talking about the guns, but tell us why any Joe Blow can buy all the weapons of war he wants, why anybody can go to a “gun show” and buy semi-automatic weapons, kits to make
  
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• Letter: Electoral College makes our elections vulnerable

  28-03-2018 21:00
  An Associated Press article published in The Tribune (March 22) covered the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing dealing with the need to protect the 2018 elections from foreign interference.NPR covered the same hearing but emphasized the 2020 general election, citing current Homeland Security Secretary Kirsten Nielsen, a Republican, and former Secretary Jeh C. Johnson, a Democrat.“Swing states, and even individual precincts within those states, present a significant point of vulnerabilit
  
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• Seems good. #TakeNote twitter.com/nbastats/statu…

  28-03-2018 20:46 via twitter.com
  Seems good.#TakeNote twitter.com/nbastats/statu…
  
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• Celtics coach Brad Stevens weighs in on Gordon Hayward, Jae Crowder, Jonas Jerebko and Rudy Gobert

  28-03-2018 20:24
  The game has been circled since the schedule came out last summer, and even though Gordon Hayward won’t be making his return to Vivint Smart Home Arena on Wednesday night, it’s not sapping the ESPN-televised matchup of much interest.Subplots abound for tonight’s game pitting the Jazz (42-32) and Boston Celtics (51-23) at Vivint Smart Home Arena: two potential candidates for defensive player of the year in Rudy Gobert and Al Horford sharing the floor; two potential coaches of th
  
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• Orem residents hope a referendum vote will stop a planned student-housing development

  28-03-2018 20:15
  Orem • With more than 37,000 students, Utah Valley University is Utah’s largest institution of higher education.Despite its size, the Orem campus has no university-owned dormitories or on-campus apartments, which administrators say has created a growing need for housing with relatively little supply.“It’s a huge unmet demand,” said Cameron Martin, UVU’s vice president for university relations. “We have a lot of students who can’t find the housing th
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: LDS therapist discusses the MTC scandal, new church interview guidelines and what more her faith should do to prevent sexual abuse and protect victims

  28-03-2018 20:03
  The LDS Church finds itself in the headlines with recent revelations that a former president of the Missionary Training Center has been accused of sexual misconduct with female missionaries in the 1980s. The faith’s governing First Presidency also has issued revised guidelines for lay leaders when interviewing members and counseling abuse victims.In the latest edition of “Mormon Land,” Jennifer Finlayson-Fife, a Latter-day Saint and a licensed therapist who specializes in worki
  
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• Utah’s Chase Hansen is adapting to a new position many felt was always destined to be his

  28-03-2018 20:02
  It has definitely been a minute, but Chase Hansen can still tap into the memory bank recalling those in-house visits with optimistic recruiters and conversations with friends with ease. Even eight years later.“Everyone would say I was going to end up as a linebacker,” Hansen said. So here he is, a soon-to-be 25-year-old senior at the University of Utah, fulfilling the forecast so many willfully shared with him during his recruiting process as a one-time star quarterback at Lone Peak
  
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• Noah Feldman: Repealing the Second Amendment would hurt the Constitution

  28-03-2018 20:00
  It’s understandable that Justice John Paul Stevens would call for repeal of the Second Amendment, as he did Tuesday in an op-ed article in the New York Times, in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s misinterpretation of it to protect some gun sales. I have great respect for Justice Stevens, and what’s more I agree with him that the Heller case was wrongly decided by the court in 2008. But it would actually be a terrible idea to attempt a repeal of the Second Amendment just
  
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• Weekly Run newsletter: The rookie of the year debate pitting the Sixers’ Ben Simmons and Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell is getting furious. But could they tie?

  28-03-2018 19:38
  If you just listen to the noise, you’ll hear two things: Ben Simmons can’t shoot, and Donovan Mitchell shoots too much.The Rookie of the Year race has become mean-spirited, at least between the Jazz and 76ers fan bases on social media. As Mitchell and Simmons become more even adversaries in the final vote, there’s been a lot of stone-throwing.Most Utah fans know the case for Mitchell: He’s leading all rookies (and the Jazz) in scoring by quite a long shot, averaging 20.3
  
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• Utes’ Mykayla Skinner, MaKenna Merrell-Giles honored as gymnastics All-Americans

  28-03-2018 19:34
  Utah’s gymnastics stars are being recognized among the nation’s elite. Sophomore MyKayla Skinner and junior MaKenna Merrell-Giles were both named regular season All-Americans by the National Association of College Gymnastics Coaches (NAGC) on Tuesday. Skinner joins rare air as one of three gymnasts to be named a 2018 All-American in all four events as well as the all-round. Oklahoma’s Maggie Nichols and LSU’s Myia Hambrick were also designated with the honors. Regular-sea
  
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• Trump says Second Amendment won't be repealed

  28-03-2018 19:30
  Washington • President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that the Second Amendment “WILL NEVER BE REPEALED” and called on voters to elect more Republicans in this fall’s congressional elections because the GOP “must ALWAYS hold the Supreme Court.”THE SECOND AMENDMENT WILL NEVER BE REPEALED! As much as Democrats would like to see this happen, and despite the words yesterday of former Supreme Court Justice Stevens, NO WAY. We need more Republicans in 2018 and must A
  
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• Monson: How would you act if Jesus sat next to you at the game?

  28-03-2018 19:26
  The collision of sports and scripture, of competition and communion with God, has always been something of a county two-lane pileup. The complication is how the two can favorably, literally coexist.We all know religious people — Peter Priesthoods and Molly Mormons and Chris Christians — who normally are the calmest, nicest, sweetest, humblest, meekest folks on the planet, all ready to entreat their fellow men and women, to inherit the Earth and all, who play in or show up to watch a
  
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• [KSL] - The Stockton jersey returns to Utah

  28-03-2018 19:15 via sportspyder.com
  ... J7ZZLB2— Jake Lee (@jacobrexlee) March 26, 2018 Joining the Jazz is more than just reaching the NBA for Stockton, it’s returning home and bac ...
  
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• [CBS Sports] - NBA Coach of the Year Rankings: Stevens, Casey, D'Antoni lead incredibly deep field - CBSSports.com

  28-03-2018 19:15 via sportspyder.com
  ... l into one of the most promising young players in the NBA. It seems like the Jazz haven't lost a game since January, and they could enter the playoffs as a lo ...
  
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• Video: Unified police searching for suspects in armed robbery of Taylorsville convenience store

  28-03-2018 19:14
  Police are asking for help from the public to identify two men suspected of an armed robbery at a Taylorsville convenience store.About 1:15 a.m. Saturday, the two men — who both weigh about 200 pounds and stand somewhere between 5-foot-10 and 6 feet tall — walked into the 7-Eleven at 3180 W. 5400 South, according to Unified police.Surveillance video of the incident shows a patron at the register notice the suspects as they enter the store. One of them, whose is wearing a blue bandana
  
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• Letter: What would Trump’s lie detector test look like?

  28-03-2018 19:00
  Now that Stormy Daniels has passed her polygraph test with flying colors, I have a strong suspicion that if President Donald Trump consented to take a polygraph, all the peaks and valleys on the polygraph would match his signature when he signs “official” documents.Pat Fox-Jacobson, Ogden
  
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• Letter: Medicine to cure overdoses may enable addiction

  28-03-2018 19:00
  Every day people die after overdosing on opioids, either it being opioid abuse or a prescription overdose. According to Luke Ramseth’s news article, “Utah pharmacies gave out thousands of opioid-combating naloxone doses without prescriptions last year. Health officials say it’s saving lives.”A Utah order has allowed pharmacies to dispense the overdose treatment drug naloxone without needing a prescription. Having Narcan available without needing a prescription does save l
  
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• Letter: Daylight saving is not a government plot

  28-03-2018 19:00
  Usually at this time of year when people become frustrated at having to change their clocks to adjust to daylight saving time, there is a spate of letters to the editor bemoaning the practice and demanding that the Legislature follow the lead of Arizona and do away with DST. I for one do not want to see a change unless the entire country changes also. I have children living in various time zones, and my aging brain has a hard enough time figuring what time it is there when I call them. The thoug
  
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• Walmart removes Cosmopolitan magazine from checkout aisles

  28-03-2018 18:55
  Bentonville, Ark. • Walmart says it was a business decision to remove Cosmopolitan magazine from its checkout aisles, but some groups have raised concerns about the sexual content of the publication marketed to women.The National Center on Sexual Exploitation says Walmart’s decision makes it a “leader and trailblazer in corporate responsibility.” The group says Cosmo “places women’s value primarily on their ability to sexually satisfy a man and therefore plays
  
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• In honor of #5ForTheFight Night, here's today's #WallpaperWednesday 💙 https://t.co/CccKwGhE9V

  28-03-2018 18:54 via twitter.com
  
  In honor of #5ForTheFight Night, here's today's #WallpaperWednesday 💙 https://t.co/CccKwGhE9V
  
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• 🏀: 🎷🆚🍀 📺: @ATTSportsNetRM (Xfinity: 693, DirectTV: 683-1, Dish: 444, Hopper: 412-32), @espn 📲:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-03-2018 18:23 via twitter.com
  🏀: 🎷🆚🍀📺: @ATTSportsNetRM (Xfinity: 693, DirectTV: 683-1, Dish: 444, Hopper: 412-32), @espn📲:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Gomberg: My new plan is to stop saying you look nice, even when you look nice

  28-03-2018 18:17
  There was a time when I was exercising two to three hours each day while subsisting on only three Tootsie Pop suckers and a single meal. All 90 pounds of me was a high school soccer player with anorexia who happened to like Tootsie Pops. I’d eat dinner at home to keep my parents from asking too many questions and to give myself just enough fuel to do it all again the next day.Gentlemen callers? I had them. Scholarships? I got them. But, even then, I felt big. So big that I’d weigh my
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - Rudy Gobert on DPOY Race: 'I've Been the Most Impactful Player This Year'

  28-03-2018 18:13 via sportspyder.com
  ... le the Sixers have already locked up an Eastern Conference playoff spot, the Jazz are fighting for their postseason lives out West.  They've gone 20-4 since F ...
  
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• Attorney for porn star seeks to depose Trump on payment

  28-03-2018 18:07
  Washington • An attorney for adult film star Stormy Daniels filed a motion Wednesday seeking to depose President Donald Trump and his attorney, dialing up pressure on the president over his alleged sexual encounter with her years ago.If successful, it would be the first deposition of a sitting president since President Bill Clinton in 1998 had to answer questions about his encounter with Paula Jones.Attorney Michael Avenatti is seeking sworn testimony from Trump and Trump’s personal l
  
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• Coach of the Year Race Highlights Different Styles

  28-03-2018 18:00 via basketballinsiders.com
  What makes this year's Coach of the Year race particularly intriguing is how different each candidates' situations have been, writes Matt John.
  
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• Utah man sentenced to prison for drunken driving death

  28-03-2018 17:54
  An 18-year-old Millard County man has been sentenced to prison for causing the death of his 15-year-old female passenger while driving drunk last December.George Jakob Schafer, of Delta, was sentenced to prison last month for up to five years for the Dec. 1 death of Noelia Orona.Schafer had pleaded guilty in 4th District Court to third-degree felony counts of automobile homicide and failure to remain at the scene of an accident involving serious injury. In exchange for his pleas, counts of DUI w
  
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• Happy birthday to the Hall of Fame head coach of the Utah Jazz from 1988-2011, who won 1,223 games with one club an… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-03-2018 17:52 via twitter.com
  Happy birthday to the Hall of Fame head coach of the Utah Jazz from 1988-2011, who won 1,223 games with one club an… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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