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• RSL visits Toronto FC Friday, as the defending MLS champs struggle to balance Champions League and MLS play

  29-03-2018 23:56
  Real Salt Lake hasn’t faced Toronto FC in over a year. In that time, the Canadian side has set a new MLS all-time points record, become the first team to win a domestic treble in MLS history and clinched a berth to the CONCACAF Champions League semifinals.Toronto also began the MLS season with two straight losses“A lot of it has to do with the champions league,” RSL coach Mike Petke said. “They put a lot into that, which they should. It’s early in the season, they&r
  
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• U.S. Attorney for Utah Huber probing GOP-raised concerns about the FBI surveilling Trump aide, ignoring Clinton uranium ties

  29-03-2018 23:49
  U.S. Attorney for Utah John Huber has been investigating whether the FBI abused its authority in surveilling a former top aide to then-GOP nominee Donald Trump and whether federal officials should have probed more into allegations of Hillary Clinton’s ties to the sale of U.S. uranium rights to a Russian-controlled company.Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a letter to some congressional leaders Thursday that he appointed senior federal prosecutors — specifically Huber — to
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - McGraw wins AP women's college hoops coach of the year

  29-03-2018 23:44 via sportspyder.com
  ...in OT classic for Final 4 Brown's 3-pointer lifts Celtics to 97-94 win over Jazz NCAA Latest: Texas Tech beats Purdue for last Elite 8 spot Syracuse could lo ...
  
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• Half season options available for next season! >> on.nba.com/2utmSk1 https://t.co/ZMqw7Gp8Cr

  29-03-2018 23:33 via twitter.com
  
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• Faculty members of this University of Utah department don’t speak to one another and students graduate years late, according to report

  29-03-2018 23:31
  A University of Utah report, commissioned after the apparent suicide of a graduate student, describes significant dysfunction within the school’s physics and astronomy department.Overworked students are left aimless and their degree completion delayed, while “factionalized” faculty members prone to “temper flares” avoid contact with one another to mitigate disputes, according to a March 8 memorandum by outside attorneys Larry Perlman and Julie Lee. “Currently,
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - UConn, Notre Dame ready to resume rivalry in Final Four

  29-03-2018 23:17 via sportspyder.com
  ...in OT classic for Final 4 Brown's 3-pointer lifts Celtics to 97-94 win over Jazz NCAA Latest: Texas Tech beats Purdue for last Elite 8 spot Syracuse could lo ...
  
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• Commentary: Adults should behave like adults while discussing school safety

  29-03-2018 23:00
  We’re talking about the Cold War in my U.S. history classes. Invariably, someone will casually comment that we should, “Just nuke ’em,” as a solution to a difficult international problem when we discuss proxy wars from that era. It looks and sounds like how some adults are responding to student protesters calling for moderately tightened gun control. Hold that thought.Years ago I listened in on a workshop with lawyers discussing negotiation tactics. They identified two ba
  
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• Utah Pro Day is latest installment of the lengthy football friendship between Troy Williams and Darren Carrington II

  29-03-2018 22:55
  On a day dissected down to inches and seconds by dozens of strangers, the loudest roar — the kind that echoed throughout the hushed Eccles Football Complex — came on a simple football play. And it was fitting that it came on the last drill Thursday morning, the last huck of a football from one longtime friend to another. In customized cleats given to him to honor his late family members, former Utah quarterback Troy Williams backpedaled one final time, seeing the receiver he’s
  
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• Negotiations continue in teen’s southern Utah murder case as trial nears

  29-03-2018 22:45
  Panguitch • Attorneys on both sides of the aggravated murder case against a teen accused of killing a staffer at a southern Utah youth rehabilitation facility are opting to continue plea negotiations leading up to a scheduled June trial.
  A pretrial conference was held Thursday before 6th District Judge Wallace Lee.Defendant Clay Brewer, 18, of Snowflake, Ariz., wasn’t required to attend, and his attorney Ronald Yengich participated via phone.Attorneys said they have been working well
  
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• Tribe sues over death of Navajo woman shot by police officer

  29-03-2018 22:30
  Flagstaff, Ariz. •The Navajo Nation has sued the federal government and Winslow over the death of a tribal member who was holding a pair of medical scissors when she was shot by a police officer for the northern Arizona city.The tribe filed its lawsuit this week in U.S. District Court in Arizona on behalf of Loreal Tsingine’s daughter, alleging violations of Tsingine’s civil and constitutional rights.The tribe contends Austin Shipley, who subsequently resigned his position as an
  
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• Win a pair of 🎟🎟 to tomorrow night’s game against the Memphis Grizzlies & two all-you-can-eat passes to the Ford Fa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-03-2018 22:27 via twitter.com
  Win a pair of 🎟🎟 to tomorrow night’s game against the Memphis Grizzlies & two all-you-can-eat passes to the Ford Fa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Doug Wright is semi-retiring from KSL

  29-03-2018 22:06
  Longtime KSL radio talk-show host Doug Wright has announced he’s stepping down from his Monday-Friday show, although he’s not altogether signing off from the station.The last edition of “The Doug Wright Show” will air June 1, which is also Wright’s 40th anniversary at the radio station. According to a release from KSL, Wright will continue as a “special news consultant and correspondent, providing insight and commentary on top news stories for both KSL-TV and
  
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• UTA board members suggest delaying its Legislature-ordered $50M name change

  29-03-2018 22:01
  The Utah Transit Authority Board wondered Wednesday if squishy wording in a new law might allow wiggle room to put off changing the agency’s name, as ordered by the Legislature.
  Senate Bill 136 requires UTA to adopt the name Transit District of Utah, or TDU, “over time and as resources permit.” Some board members suggested that language could be used to delay action until after next year’s Legislature meets, perhaps avoiding what some argue is a waste of up to $50 million
  
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• The Jazz have been statistically dominant in the fourth quarter, but just average in close finishes

  29-03-2018 22:00
  At times, they seemed to figure it out. When they needed to, it still had them stumped.While Jaylen Brown hit the shot that beat the Jazz on Wednesday night, the 97-94 loss was just as much due to Utah’s frustration with the zone defense.Rudy Gobert said he used to see a lot of zone in Europe, but hadn’t even really practiced against it at the NBA level. Brad Stevens admitted that the Celtics probably played more zone in the game than “we have in two years.” But whether i
  
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• Ramesh Ponnuru: Mitt Romney out-Trumps Trump on immigration

  29-03-2018 22:00
  A lot of people have short memories when it comes to politics. Politicians often exploit this fact, but sometimes it works against them. That’s what happened to Mitt Romney earlier this week.As part of his campaign for the Senate, he told a Republican group in Provo, Utah, that he was “more of a hawk on immigration than even the president.” As McKay Coppins notes in The Atlantic, the remark came as a rude shock to people who dislike President Donald Trump in important part beca
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - NCAA Latest: Virginia's Bennett says players past UMBC loss

  29-03-2018 21:59 via sportspyder.com
  ...in OT classic for Final 4 Brown's 3-pointer lifts Celtics to 97-94 win over Jazz NCAA Latest: Texas Tech beats Purdue for last Elite 8 spot Syracuse could lo ...
  
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• Looks delicious. twitter.com/trudys_cakes/s…

  29-03-2018 21:43 via twitter.com
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• E.J. Dionne: Our big political cheating scandals

  29-03-2018 21:34
  Washington • Cheating isn’t winning. We try to teach this to our children, but politics provides the opposite lesson.Political cheating allows those who engage in it to amass far more power than they have a right to in a constitutional democracy. Its most sophisticated form isn’t ballot-box stuffing but the use of indirect means by those in authority to perpetuate themselves in office.Within 48 hours, Americans were offered two fast courses in the politics of cheating.Late Monda
  
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• Faculty of this University of Utah department don’t speak to one another and students graduate years late, according to report

  29-03-2018 21:32
  A University of Utah report, commissioned after the apparent suicide of a graduate student, describes significant dysfunction within the school’s physics and astronomy department.Overworked students are left aimless and their degree completion delayed, while a “factionalized” faculty prone to “temper flares” avoid contact with one another to mitigate disputes, according to a March 8 memorandum by outside attorneys Larry Perlman and Julie Lee. “Currently, a num
  
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• Letter: I support Utah’s Count My Vote initiative

  29-03-2018 21:30
  On March 21, at our Community Council meeting, a just-elected Republican Caucus Delegate made a case for the caucus system of electing candidates. He said that as a committed delegate, he can speak to Gov. Gary Herbert, and to all the potential candidates, and he felt that caucus delegates had the best information and judgment to select a candidate for office.It occurred to me that our Utah Republican Party had not informed the voters as to the hazards of electing Donald Trump as president. Now
  
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• Utah Pro Day the latest installment of a lengthy football friendship between Troy Williams and Darren Carrington II

  29-03-2018 21:26
  On a day dissected down to inches and seconds by dozens of strangers, the loudest roar — the kind that echoed throughout the hushed Eccles Football Complex — came on a simple football play. And it was fitting that it came on the last drill Thursday morning, the last huck of a football from one longtime friend to another. In customized cleats given to him to honor his late family members, former Utah quarterback Troy Williams backpedaled one final time, seeing the receiver he’s
  
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• Trial will be held in Box Elder County for former USU athlete Torrey Green, who is accused of sexually assaulting seven women

  29-03-2018 21:17
  Logan • A Utah judge has ruled that a trial will be held in Box Elder County for a former Utah State University football star accused of sexually assaulting seven women.Citing a concern about the “interrelationship” of USU and the Logan community, 1st District Judge Brian Cannell granted Torrey Green’s request that his upcoming trial be held somewhere other than Cache County.“The court is concerned about the thumbprint of Utah State University,” the judge said
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz to have throwback purple uniform next season

  29-03-2018 21:11 via sportspyder.com
  ... ity uniforms. Although he isn’t exactly certain about all the details of the Jazz uniform, he has confirmed that they will be purple. You can see his predicti ...
  
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• The Iceland international who scored the first goal in Utah Royals history is making an immediate impact in the NWSL

  29-03-2018 21:10
  Utah Royals midfielder Gunnhildur Jonsdottir flew in the air, her right leg swept out from under her as her calf took the force of Orlando forward Sydney Leroux’s attempted shot.Unlike the last hard hit she took, just two minutes prior, Jonsdottir didn’t get up right away. Royals athletic trainer Emily Fortunato rushed onto the field, and as she examined Jonsdottir’s leg she asked if she wanted to leave the game.“I said, ‘No, that ain’t happening,‘&rdquo
  
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• Russia to expel 60 US diplomats, close St. Petersburg consulate

  29-03-2018 21:10
  Moscow • Russia will close the American consulate in St. Petersburg and kick out 60 U.S. diplomats in response to Monday’s coordinated expulsion of Russian diplomats from the United States and a number of European countries, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday.The move continues an ongoing escalation of tit-for-tat between Moscow and the West that began in early March with the alleged poisoning of a former Russian double agent on British soil with a Soviet-designed nerve agen
  
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• Seven months later, promising BYU TE Moroni Laulu-Pututau still trying to overcome ‘curse of the Lisfranc’ foot injury

  29-03-2018 21:09
  Provo • When he felt a pop in his left foot during practice a few days before BYU’s opener against Portland State last August, football star Moroni Laulu-Pututau initially figured it was no big deal. Maybe just a cramp, he thought, or perhaps just a defect in his cleats. That was seven months ago. The receiver-turned-tight end who was supposed to be a key cog in Ty Detmer’s pro style offense in 2017 has not played a down of football since. “There was sharp pain, but I thou
  
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• The first Broadway musical to feature a lesbian lead finds a Utah stage

  29-03-2018 21:05
  Everything about the Tony Award-winning musical “Fun Home” — playing April 6 through May 13 in a regional premiere at Salt Lake Acting Company — sets it apart from the usual Broadway theatrical spectacle.The musical is a memory play inspired by an unlikely source: Alison Bechdel’s best-selling, pioneering 2006 graphic memoir, “Fun Home,” with its revealing subtitle: “A Family Tragicomic.”It’s thought to be the first Broadway musical to
  
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• Mormon church announces closure of missionary training centers in Chile and Spain

  29-03-2018 21:04
  The Mormon church announced Thursday that it plans to close two missionary training centers — one in Santiago, Chile, and the other in Madrid, Spain — in January.A news release from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said ecclesiastical leaders “continue to seek the best use of resources worldwide according to the needs and demands of each area.”Starting in January, missionaries who would have attended either of these centers will be trained at one of the rem
  
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• Utah Jazz to have throwback purple uniform next season

  29-03-2018 20:37
  The Utah Jazz will reportedly be receiving a new classic jersey next season that will feature a unique but familiar color scheme. When it was announced that Nike would be producing “Statement” and “City” edition jerseys for all teams in the NBA, many Utah Jazz fans had high hopes that one of those two uniforms […]
  Utah Jazz to have throwback purple uniform next season - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Letter: Here are the Utah laws we'll get in 2019

  29-03-2018 20:30
  In the next legislative session, I expect we will see the following bills:1 • A 0.5 alcohol limit while throwing axes.2 • A new law similar to the one allowing cars to go through red lights as long as one feels it’s safe. The new law will state it’s OK to drive any speed on the freeway as long as one feels it’s safe (of course, the elimination of the safety inspection will stay in place).3 • We will refuse federal education tax dollars that would have paid for th
  
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• Laurence Tribe: Repealing the Second Amendment is a stupid way to fight our gun problem

  29-03-2018 20:16
  Sometimes the young are wiser than their elders. Days after the survivors of the Stoneman Douglas slaughter stunned the world with the 800-city #MarchForOurLives and their brilliantly effective call for laws to stem the tide of gun violence, retired Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens handed the gun lobby a rhetorical howitzer.For years, that lobby’s most effective way to shoot down proposed firearms regulations has been to insist, falsely, that any new prohibition would lead to the ev
  
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• The virtual reality of ‘Ready Player One’ is coming, and the University of Utah is where some of it is being created.

  29-03-2018 20:13
  The reality of virtual reality is a lot closer to the fictional world of “Ready Player One” than most people realize — and much of VR’s future is being imagined and created at the University of Utah.It’s not just about games, like the immersive environment imagined in Steven Spielberg’s new movie (opening in theaters nationwide Thursday) or in the 2011 Ernest Cline novel on which it’s based. The programmers, developers and artists in the U.’s Enter
  
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• Dante Exum is a twin! 👫His sister, Teirra, is a track star in Australia. Also, Joe Ingles and Derrick Favors both… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-03-2018 20:08 via twitter.com
  Dante Exum is a twin! 👫His sister, Teirra, is a track star in Australia.Also, Joe Ingles and Derrick Favors both… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Utah man allegedly bound two teens and killed them with a knife before dumping their bodies in mine shaft, court document alleges

  29-03-2018 20:04
  A Juab County man told his girlfriend she wasn’t supposed to be friends with guys before he allegedly killed two Juab County teens that had been at her house in late December.Jerrod William Baum, 41, was booked into the Utah County jail Wednesday on suspicion of two counts of aggravated murder, two counts of aggravated kidnapping and two counts of abuse or desecration of a human body.That same day, Utah County officials recovered two bodies from inside an abandoned mine shaft, believed to
  
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• University of Utah revamping its physics and astronomy department in the wake of a student’s suicide

  29-03-2018 19:32
  A University of Utah report, commissioned after the apparent suicide of a graduate student, describes significant dysfunction within the school’s physics and astronomy department.Overworked student are left aimless and their degree completion delayed, while a “factionalized” faculty prone to “temper flares” avoid contact with one another to mitigate disputes, according to a March 8 memorandum by outside attorneys Larry Perlman and Julie Lee. “Currently, a numb
  
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• Letter: When a hot ticket at the Eccles Theater isn’t a good thing

  29-03-2018 19:30
  When the Eccles opened, we signed up for season tickets. At that time, I wrote a similar letter expressing my dismay with the “state of the art“ HVAC system.The heating and cooling system is just as bad now as it was then.When you look around the theater, there are many people fanning themselves with their playbills. A friend of ours had to leave a show at the intermission for fear of passing out. The terrible HVAC system makes the whole experience miserable. When I sent a letter to
  
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• Utah man arrested on suspicion of murdering two missing teens the same day two bodies — believed to be the teens — were pulled from mine shaft

  29-03-2018 19:25
  A Eureka man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of kidnapping and murdering two teenagers — the same day that Utah County officials recovered two bodies from inside an abandoned mine shaft.Jerrod William Baum, 41, was booked into the Utah County jail on suspicion of two counts of aggravated murder, two counts of aggravated kidnapping and two counts of abuse or desecration of a human body.No other arrests have been made yet, confirmed Utah County Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon on Thur
  
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• Album that John Lennon autographed for Salt Lake City radio station hours before his death goes up for auction

  29-03-2018 19:09
  In the hours before John Lennon was murdered on Dec. 8, 1980, he and wife Yoko Ono posed for a Rolling Stone photo shoot with famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, sat for a radio interview with RKO’s Dave Sholin, went off to a recording session at the Hit Factory studio, and autographed a couple of copies of their joint album “Double Fantasy,” which featured Lennon’s first new music in five years.One of those autographs was famously for Mark David Chapman, the man who, a f
  
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• Now the first Broadway musical to feature a lesbian lead finds a Utah stage

  29-03-2018 19:08
  Everything about the Tony Award-winning musical “Fun Home” — playing April 6 through May 13 in a regional premiere at Salt Lake Acting Company — sets it apart from the usual contemporary Broadway spectacle.The musical is a memory play inspired by an unlikely source: Alison Bechdel’s best-selling, pioneering 2006 graphic memoir, “Fun Home,” with its revealing subtitle: “A Family Tragicomic.” And the musical has deep Utah roots, as it was devel
  
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• Letter: So where do you stand on DACA, Mitt Romney?

  29-03-2018 18:30
  Thomas Burr reported several of Mitt Romney’s statements and positions on DACA and the Dreamers. As I understand it, he originally opposed legal protection for these people; then that was “water under the bridge” because Obama’s “representations” changed the circumstances (whatever that means) and those commitments should be honored. More recently, Mitt says Dreamers should only gain legal status (but not citizenship) if they meet certain conditions. He has al
  
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• Airlines post better on-time record in latest U.S. report

  29-03-2018 18:26
  U.S. airlines started the year showing a slight improvement in keeping flights on time.The Transportation Department said Thursday that 79.6 percent of flights in January arrived within 14 minutes of schedule, compared with 76 percent in the same month last year.But January's performance was worse than December, when 80.3 percent of flights arrived on time.Alaska Airlines posted the best on-time rating at 88.9 percent, while JetBlue Airways was last at 65.8 percent.Airlines canceled 3 percent of
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - We know nothing about the Western Conference playoff race

  29-03-2018 18:19 via sportspyder.com
  ... oring all affected by it. Ricky Rubio honors late mother on Utah Jazz’s 5 for the Fight Night to support cancer research By : by — Deseret News Sp ...
  
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• Mormon Tabernacle Choir bids farewell to one key player — a longtime organist — while welcoming a new one

  29-03-2018 17:45
  Clay Christiansen and Brian Mathias — the oldest and newest Mormon Tabernacle Choir organists, respectively — were sitting in a conference room in the Tabernacle basement, chatting amiably about how they came to be where they are, literally and metaphorically.Christiansen recalled with distinct clarity that he was appointed to his position Sept. 15, 1982. Mathias, the man hired just weeks before to take over Christiansen’s spot when he retires in April, shook his head in disbel
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Depleted Celtics somehow stun Jazz: Five most ridiculous moments in wild fourth-quarter comeback - CBSSports.com

  29-03-2018 17:33 via sportspyder.com
  ... l moment of a game in the year 2018 and scored a bucketL The Celtics stifled Jazz with zone At various points in the night, the Celtics would switch into a zo ...
  
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• NBA sneakers of the night: Karl-Anthony Towns breaks franchise record in Hyperdunk and more

  29-03-2018 17:31
  March 29, 2018 will be a date that Karl-Anthony Towns and Kemba Walker will never forget. Towns scored a franchise-record 56 points in the Nike Hyperdunk as the Wolves defeated the Hawks, 126-114, and Walker’s 21 points put him ahead of Dell Curry as the Hornets’ new all-time leading scorer.
  Ricky Rubio debuted a cancer awareness custom that paid homage to his mother and former coach Flip Saunders, while teammate Rudy Gobert had a custom of his own, honoring one of his favorite video
  
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• Letter: There’s a reality to guns in America, and we need to face it

  29-03-2018 17:30
  So, Rich Lowry thinks that students involved in student gun-control advocacy are making the debate on gun control more poisonous and less civil! And of course they are doing so because they are teenagers and certainly not as wise as their parents, other adults and Lowry!What Lowry neglects to mention is the undeniable reality that since the assault weapons ban expired on Sept. 13, 2004, there has been a marked increase in mass shooting, using assault weapons to kill Americans — mostly kids
  
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• Kirby: I had another painful, and I do mean painful, lesson about just how precious life is and why we shouldn’t waste it

  29-03-2018 17:29
  On a bookshelf nearby is my Skyline High School yearbook, the ’71 Aquilian. I pulled it out a few days ago when I heard about the death of classmate Melanie Wagstaff. High school was nearly 50 years ago, and my class had more than 1,000 graduates, but I remember Melanie. Not only were we in the same Mormon ward, but she also occasionally went out of her way to talk to me.In particular was the time I was plotting evil retaliation against someone whose picture is also in the yearbook. Melani
  
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• Fired VA secretary says privatization advocates doomed him

  29-03-2018 16:52
  Washington • Former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is blaming his sudden ouster from the Trump administration on “political forces” that he says are bent on privatizing the agency and putting “companies with profits” over the care of veterans.Shulkin, the lone Obama administration holdover serving in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, blasted a “toxic” and “subversive” environment in Washington that made it impossible for him to
  
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• [Give Me Sport] - Watch: Donovan Mitchell floors Greg Monroe with slick crossover dribble | GiveMeSport

  29-03-2018 16:37 via sportspyder.com
  ... ning to give the visiting Celtics a narrow 97-94 win in Salt Lake City.  The Jazz went cold down the stretch as they failed to score in the final 2:25 of the...
  
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• Letter: So you’re a conservative? You should help do away with primaries in Utah.

  29-03-2018 16:30
  The primaries the progressives favor gave us, in 2016, the two most flawed major party presidential candidates in living memory, if not the history of the republic. The Utah caucuses, by overwhelming margins, rejected both of them. The Iowa caucuses rejected Trump by a large margin and gave Hillary Clinton the narrowest majority possible; and caucuses or conventions elsewhere were substantially less kind than primaries to these two candidates.There is no need for primary elections, partisan or n
  
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