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• [USA Today: For The Win] - Kobe Bryant breaks down 2 things Donovan Mitchell must do better

  02-05-2018 23:59 via sportspyder.com
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• University of Utah is selling a parking lot for a center that will honor Sen. Orrin Hatch — while fighting political division

  02-05-2018 23:57
  These are troubled times in American politics, the director of the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation said Wednesday, with innovation silenced by partisanship and the nation’s ability to solve problems arrested by divisions.But Utah’s senior U.S. senator is offering hope, in the form of a planned academic and policy center in Salt Lake City to be named in honor of the seven-term Republican, who has announced he will retire in January.“There is a dangerous force at play bringing America
  
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• Utah Jazz notes: Donovan Mitchell update, Bryon Russell jersey retirement?

  02-05-2018 23:48
  From Donovan Mitchell, to Bryon Russell, to the debut of Utah Jazz Gaming, there was plenty of news making the rounds prior to Wednesday’s Game 2 showdown. With Game 2 of the Western Conference Semifinals between the Utah Jazz and Houston Rockets set to take place Wednesday evening at 6:00 PM MT, all eyes within […]
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• Aggies to play Alabama in 2022, earning nearly $2 million for trip to Tuscaloosa

  02-05-2018 23:45
  Utah State announced Wednesday that the Aggies will play at Alabama on Sept. 3, 2022.Alabama will pay USU $1,910,000, which is the third-largest dollar amount ever paid to a visiting football team.This will be the third time that Utah State has traveled to Tuscaloosa, Ala., to play the Crimson Tide. The Aggies previously played there in 2004 and 2005. “We look forward to the opportunity for our student-athletes to compete against Alabama, as well as the opportunity for our fans to enjoy on
  
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• Salt Lake’s Nathan Chen to attend Yale, train nearby

  02-05-2018 23:44
  New York • Nathan Chen is a world champion, Olympic medalist and, soon, an Ivy Leaguer.The two-time U.S. figure skating champ who helped the Americans to a team bronze medal at the Pyeongchang Olympics, then won worlds a month later, is headed to Yale. He was accepted by the university and finished his paperwork to become a Bulldog.Chen plans to train in Connecticut while attending school as he continues pursuing his skating career. Chen, 18, has become the king of the quads, landing six in
  
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• Sandy council members reject proposal to set their own term limits

  02-05-2018 23:43
  “It’s hard to get people to vote their own term limits,” Sandy City Councilwoman Maren Barker said at Tuesday’s council meeting. Her remark proved prophetic: Moments later, the council declined to do just that, voting 4-3 to kill a plan limiting local officeholders to two terms.“We have term limitations — they’re called elections,” said Councilman Steve Fairbanks, who has served since 2003 and acknowledged he would be affected by the proposal. &ldq
  
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• Commentary: Complaining about ‘appropriation’ doesn’t get to the heart of systemic racism

  02-05-2018 23:39
  In three days you’re going to see some outrage. Saturday is Cinco de Mayo. While I would argue that most people don’t know why it’s a holiday, people are going to get together, drink, theme it up and ultimately have a good time.You’ll see posts that will call out cultural appropriation, thinly veiled racism masquerading as thematic parties with ponchos, fake mustaches, sombreros and of course drinking. Heavy drinking. In years past I’ve seen the argument change from
  
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• [ESPN] - Jazz's Mitchell taking analysis of Kobe to heart

  02-05-2018 23:38 via sportspyder.com
  ... biid-Horford and more matchups that matter Zach Lowe breaks down the Rockets-Jazz and Sixers-Celtics series to their key elements. Which rookie postseason sta ...
  
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• Passengers heard Southwest plane window pop before it cracked, forcing an emergency landing

  02-05-2018 23:33
  Cleveland • Passengers on a Southwest Airlines plane first heard a loud pop and then scurried away when they saw a jagged crack in a window that forced the jet to land in Cleveland on Wednesday.Some on board immediately thought back to just two weeks ago when a jet engine blew apart and broke a window in a deadly accident aboard another Southwest flight.“It made you nervous because something like this just happened,” said passenger Paul Upshaw of Chicago, who was about two seats
  
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• Tiny, affordable homes could help dire housing shortage in Utah

  02-05-2018 23:32
  What is 432 square feet, sleeps two and costs $36,000? A tiny home.Wednesday, small home architect Jeff White, in conjunction with the Utah Housing Coalition, showed off a prototype of an energy-efficient house that is made partially of a shipping container. The container is loaded up with a kit that contains the materials for the rest of the dwelling and can be easily transported to just about anywhere.A do-it-yourselfer can put the thing together in a few days, White said, like building with L
  
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• Commentary: My imaginary speech at the White House Correspondents’ dinner

  02-05-2018 23:29
  The following are the remarks I would like to have given at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner last weekend in Washington, D.C.:It is a tremendous honor to be invited to address this group, which of course includes the White House press corps, but which tonight also includes the president of the United States, Donald Trump.This is the first time President Trump has attended this event during his administration and, although I disagree with him about virtually everything, I
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Want to make Utah great again? Clean up the air.

  02-05-2018 23:23
  As red states go, support for the election of President Donald Trump was fairly lukewarm in Utah. That could be because his slogan, Make America Great Again, had less resonance in a state that, its inhabitants rightly feel, is pretty great already.There is one big problem here, though, that Utahns could use a little federal help in overcoming. And that’s the horrid state of our air quality.Recently, there have been some hopeful happenings to suggest that such help might be on the way. But
  
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• Planned Parenthood of Utah sues against Trump’s family-planning policy

  02-05-2018 23:17
  Salt Lake City • The Planned Parenthood Association of Utah is part of a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to stress abstinence and other methods aside from contraceptives in national family planning policy.The Utah affiliate joined counterparts from Wisconsin and Ohio in filing the suit in Washington Wednesday. Planned Parenthood says those three affiliates serve a large majority of patients in the federal Title X grant program.The Planned Parenthood Association
  
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• Commentary: Teen in Chinese dress can learn to see things differently

  02-05-2018 23:14
  Instead of simplifying the argument by saying either “it’s OK” or “it’s not OK” to wear a Chinese-style dress called a qipao to prom, could we please look at the article “’It’s just a dress’: Utah teen’s Chinese prom attire starts cultural appropriation debate” with a broader and more comprehensive perspective?I’m going to share a very personal and difficult experience that really taught me a life lesson. While a junio
  
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• The Eagles postpone their Salt Lake City concert

  02-05-2018 23:10
  The Eagles’ concert in Salt Lake City, originally scheduled for Thursday evening at Vivint Smart Home Arena, has been postponed due to singer/drummer Don Henley’s illness.
  The classic-rock group’s show has been rescheduled for Sunday, May 20.
  All tickets for the May 3 show will be honored on the new date. Should ticketholders seek a refund, they will be available at point of purchase.The Eagles’ tour began March 12 in Indianapolis and is currently scheduled to wrap Oct. 2
  
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• George Pyle: I cannot confirm the existence of Praxis, er, Punggye-ri

  02-05-2018 22:56
  Before President Trump goes to the Korean DMZ, or wherever it turns out to be, to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, someone might give up on the hope that he will read a complicated briefing book or even absorb a security briefing.Instead, they might get him to watch a movie.“Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.”In which the Klingon Empire is moved to sue for peace with the Federation because its primary energy production facility, the moon called Praxis, has done blow
  
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• First death reported from E. coli-contaminated romaine lettuce as outbreak spreads to Utah, 24 other states

  02-05-2018 22:42
  The nationwide food poisoning outbreak from E. coli-contaminated romaine lettuce has claimed its first fatality, an unidentified person in California, and the contagion has sickened a total of 121 people in 25 states, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday.That’s an increase of 23 people and three states — Kentucky, Massachusetts and Utah — since the most recent CDC update on Friday. With the numbers ratcheting up every week, this outbreak is ap
  
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• National Guard cargo plane heading to Arizona crashes in Georgia, killing 5

  02-05-2018 22:33
  Port Wentworth, Ga. • An Air National Guard C-130 cargo plane crashed Wednesday onto a busy highway after taking off from a Georgia airport, killing at least five National Guard members from Puerto Rico, authorities said.Black smoke rose into the sky from a section of the plane that appeared to have crashed into a median on the road outside Savannah, Georgia. Firefighters later put out the blaze.Capt. Jeff Bezore, a spokesman for the Georgia Air National Guard’s 165th Air Wing, said t
  
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• Utah man yelled ‘shoot me’ at Salt Lake City police before they killed him, body camera video shows

  02-05-2018 22:18
  Before Salt Lake City police shot and killed 32-year-old Delorean Pikyavit two weeks ago, the man stood on the porch of his girlfriend’s home with a knife in one hand and half pair of scissors in the other, yelling, “Shoot me.”Salt Lake City police released the body camera footage of the fatal April 18 shooting at a news conference Wednesday morning.Police were originally called to the home in Sugar House, near 1100 East and Princeton Avenue, by Pikyavit’s girlfriend.In a
  
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• Black men arrested at Starbucks settle for $1 each — and a $200K entrepreneur program they hope will spur change

  02-05-2018 22:13
  Philadelphia • Two black men arrested for sitting at a Philadelphia Starbucks without ordering anything settled with the city Wednesday for a symbolic $1 each and a promise from officials to set up a $200,000 program for young entrepreneurs.The men and their lawyer told The Associated Press the settlement was an effort to make sure something positive came out of the incident.“We thought long and hard about it and we feel like this is the best way to see that change that we want to see
  
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• While honoring Utah’s senior U.S. senator, the new Orrin G. Hatch center in Salt Lake City will also counter hyper-partisanship and incivility, supporters say

  02-05-2018 22:11
  These are troubled times in American politics, the director of the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation said Wednesday, with innovation silenced by partisanship and the nation’s ability to solve problems arrested by divisions.But Utah’s senior U.S. senator is offering hope, in the form of a planned academic and policy center in Salt Lake City to be named in honor of the seven-term Republican, who has announced he would retire in January.“There is a dangerous force at play bringing America
  
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• A Utah teen says she was sexually assaulted near softball diamonds at a Murray school

  02-05-2018 22:07
  Murray • Police are investigating a report of a sexual assault of a teen that allegedly occurred a week ago in a restroom near Murray softball fields behind Riverview Junior High.Kenny Bass, a Murray police officer, confirmed Wednesday that the department was investigating a report of such an attack, but because it was still “early” in the investigation, details were slim.A public post on Taylorsville Fast-pitch Softball’s Facebook page says that the assault occurred April
  
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• [KSL] - Kobe Bryant's watching film of Donovan Mitchell, giving him tips for Game 2

  02-05-2018 21:51 via sportspyder.com
  ... ust gifting one of those teams a Steph Curry or a James Harden. So while the Jazz outscored the Rockets by 11 in the second half, that's not as meaningful as...
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Hoops Rumors’ 2018 NBA Award Picks: Coach Of The Year

  02-05-2018 21:39 via sportspyder.com
  ... d Alvin Gentry, among others, before eventually circling back to Snyder. The Jazz head coach got career-best performances from and , found a way to make the R ...
  
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• Utah co-captain Filipo Mokofisi didn’t get drafted, but he’s still determined to chase his NFL dream

  02-05-2018 21:38
  The well-deserved night of celebration has passed. That “surreal” feeling has been shaken off. The dream now a reality, and it’s time for former Utah football co-captain Filipo Mokofisi to get down to work.Shortly after the NFL Draft concluded on Saturday, Mokofisi agreed to a free-agent deal with the Green Bay Packers. Thursday morning, the 6-foot-4, 295-pound defensive lineman set out for Wisconsin and have his physical before spending the following two days in the team&rsquo
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Nova's Wright fetes hoops title with pope-pourri of events

  02-05-2018 21:32 via sportspyder.com
  ... il Print Save Top Comments Most Popular Harden's 41 points lead Rockets over Jazz in Game 1 Utah's top defense looks to slow down powerful Rockets Mitchell sc ...
  
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• Ogden woman allegedly started apartment fire that critically injured her boyfriend and damaged five other units

  02-05-2018 21:24
  A 56-year-old Ogden woman has been arrested for starting a fire at an apartment complex on Tuesday that critically injured her live-in boyfriend and damaged a handful of other apartments.The woman started the fire after her boyfriend apparently locked her out of the apartment, according to a probable cause statement filed in 2nd District Court.Witnesses told police they saw the woman kick in a window of the apartment from the outside, and then the fire started.The woman later told police she lig
  
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• Weekly Run newsletter: Could the Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell benefit from Kobe Bryant’s critiques?

  02-05-2018 21:21
  Houston • Maybe it won’t thrill Jazz fans to hear that Donovan Mitchell is attempting to develop “Mamba mentality.”But at the same time, if the Utah rookie guard can learn on-court lessons from Kobe Bryant, is it a bad thing?The retired Lakers star (fresh off an Oscar win) is doing even more work in the film room lately, which has taken the shape of “Details,” a basketball film analysis show on ESPN Plus, a subscription streaming service. In the 23-minute video
  
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• Officer in Distress: As police close in on masked teens, one reaches out for help

  02-05-2018 21:18
  Part 1 headlines (Wednesday, 7am-1pm; 7pm onward)Officer in Distress: Saddled with overwhelming grief and guilt, a West Jordan detective wonders if seeking help could cost him his jobFear kept a West Jordan detective from seeking help until his life almost unraveledGrief mixed with guilt left a Utah detective with no option but the one he feared the most — seeing a therapistPart 2 headlines (Wednesday, 1pm-7pm)Officer in Distress: As police close in on masked teens, one reaches out for hel
  
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• Data firm Cambridge Analytica says Facebook privacy scandal is forcing it to close

  02-05-2018 21:15
  New York • The data firm at the center of Facebook’s privacy scandal is declaring bankruptcy and shutting down.In a statement, Cambridge Analytica says it has been “vilified” for actions it says are legal and widely accepted as part of online advertising. The firm says the media furor stripped it of its customers and suppliers, forcing it to close.Cambridge Analytica has been linked to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The British firm suspended CEO Alexande
  
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• [NBC Sports: Pro Basketball Talk] - Busy playing for Real Madrid, Luka Doncic won’t work out for NBA teams pre-draft

  02-05-2018 21:02 via sportspyder.com
  ... ded Rockets expect to see a different team than they did in Game 1 after the Jazz had only about 36 hours between the end of Game 6 against the Thunder and th ...
  
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• Leonard Pitts: An open letter to Sen. Marco Rubio

  02-05-2018 21:01
  Dear Sen. Marco Rubio:You didn’t answer the question.Questions, plural, actually. As a result, I find myself addressing you for the second column in a row via open letter — and feeling not unlike Glenn Close in “Fatal Attraction.” That is to say, “I’m not going to be ignored, Mario.”But first, let me offer some context for those who are arriving late. Last week, I wrote that “I don’t want to have anything to do” with supporters of Donal
  
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• Dominion Energy halts Utah marketing campaign for HomeServe insurance

  02-05-2018 20:59
  Dominion Energy Utah has suspended a marketing campaign after complaints prompted the Utah Division of Public Utilities to issue a consumer alert about “misleading mailers offering insurance services on gas company letterhead.”Division Director Chris Parker issued the alert Monday after receiving complaints about envelopes bearing Dominion Energy logos, containing paperwork with a gas company letterheard, promoting insurance services offered by HomeServe.“Consumers have contact
  
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• Utah offered nearly $13 million in federal cash to address stubborn wood smoke problem

  02-05-2018 20:56
  Utahns who still burn wood at home may soon get paid to stop.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Wednesday that Utah is one of three states that will receive grants to address long-standing air quality concerns. Utah will receive a total of nearly $13 million; the remainder of the $30 million in grants will go to California and Alaska.Utah’s share of the money will be divided between Provo, Salt Lake City and Logan, according to the EPA’s announcement. Provo and Sal
  
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• More salary wars? Granite School District follows Jordan in raising teacher salaries for a second year

  02-05-2018 20:54
  Members of the Granite School Board voted Tuesday to raise teachers’ salaries by 2.5 percent and grant them a one-time 1 percent bonus for the 2018-19 school year. Granite’s pay hike, which follows Jordan School District’s announcement last Thursday that it was boosting teacher compensation, echoes last summer’s “salary wars,” which saw some of Utah’s largest districts racing to raise oay to stay competitive amid statewide difficulties in hiring and reta
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Thunder GM Presti: Billy Donovan is returning as coach

  02-05-2018 20:47 via sportspyder.com
  ... ews.com OAKLAND — After Oklahoma City’s 91-96 series-ending loss to the Utah Jazz last Friday, Thunder guard Russell Westbrook criticized the fan interactions ...
  
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• Dana Milbank: President Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech

  02-05-2018 20:13
  “President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize.”— South Korean President Moon Jae-in“No-bel! No-bel! No-bel!”— Audience at Trump’s Michigan rally SaturdayNOBEL PEACE PRIZE ACCEPTANCE SPEECH OF PRESIDENT TRUMPOSLO, DEC. 10, 2018Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee:I have received a lot of honors — like, a lot. I was on the cover of Time more than anybody else. I went to the best schools. I
  
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• BYU ‘comfortable’ at men’s volleyball Final Four but must beat UCLA on its home floor to advance to third straight championship match

  02-05-2018 19:57
  BYU’s men’s volleyball team was swept at home by UC Santa Barbara exactly three months ago. The Cougars’ record dropped to a mediocre 5-4, and their chances of getting back to the NCAA Tournament looked bleak. Coach Shawn Olmstead turned to his seniors — setter Leo Durkin, middle blocker Price Jarman and outside hitter Brenden Sander — and asked them to pull the talented but inconsistent team out of its malaise. They delivered. The Cougars swept the Gauchos the foll
  
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• FULL 🎥 | Coach Snyder Shootaround before Game 2 https://t.co/pXxeDWQnnu

  02-05-2018 19:49 via twitter.com
  
  FULL 🎥 | Coach Snyder Shootaround before Game 2 https://t.co/pXxeDWQnnu
  
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• FULL 🎥 | Rudy Gobert Shootaround before Game 2 at HOU https://t.co/KZ6JoimdsH

  02-05-2018 19:44 via twitter.com
  
  FULL 🎥 | Rudy Gobert Shootaround before Game 2 at HOU https://t.co/KZ6JoimdsH
  
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• Trump’s lawyer in Russia probe is retiring

  02-05-2018 19:40
  Washington • White House lawyer Ty Cobb will retire at the end of the month, the White House said Wednesday, further shaking up President Donald Trump’s legal team as the president intensifies his attacks on the special counsel’s Russia investigation.Cobb, the White House point person on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, informed White House chief of staff John Kelly last week that he would retire at the end of May. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee
  
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• FULL 🎥 | Derrick Favors Shootaround before Game 2 at HOU https://t.co/DRoLYnWv8M

  02-05-2018 19:40 via twitter.com
  
  FULL 🎥 | Derrick Favors Shootaround before Game 2 at HOU https://t.co/DRoLYnWv8M
  
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• Man yelled ‘shoot me’ at Salt Lake City police before they killed him, body camera video shows

  02-05-2018 19:39
  Before Salt Lake City police shot and killed 32-year-old Delorean Pikyavit two weeks ago, the man stood on the porch of his girlfriend’s home with a knife in one hand and half pair of scissors in the other, yelling, “Shoot me.”Salt Lake City police released the body camera footage of the fatal April 18 shooting at a news conference Wednesday morning.Police were originally called to the home in Sugar House, near 1100 East and Princeton Avenue, by Pikyavit’s girlfriend.In a
  
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• [NBC Sports: Pro Basketball Talk] - Andre Iguodala got a lucky bounce to finish his dunk (VIDEO)

  02-05-2018 19:08 via sportspyder.com
  ... ded Rockets expect to see a different team than they did in Game 1 after the Jazz had only about 36 hours between the end of Game 6 against the Thunder and th ...
  
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• Runner on second, nobody out, but how did he get there? No, you haven’t gone crazy. Welcome to extra innings with the Bees.

  02-05-2018 19:01
  This might not make any sense. It still doesn’t to some of those who’ve now gone through a new alternate timeline in the exhaustive history of baseball. Ask around and you get shrugged shoulders, guys shaking their heads, trying to find the right words to describe how their game — and potentially path to the Major Leagues — suddenly can be so different. Change and baseball aren’t a comfortable pairing and never have been. So when a series of new rules were announced
  
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• Pence praises pardoned former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio as a champion of ‘the rule of law’

  02-05-2018 19:00
  Vice President Mike Pence called former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of contempt of court last year, a champion of “the rule of law” and said he was honored by his attendance at an event with him Tuesday in Arizona.President Donald Trump pardoned Arpaio last year after his conviction on a misdemeanor contempt of court charge for ignoring a federal judge’s order to stop detaining people because he merely suspected them of being undocumented immigrants. A
  
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• We're going live on Facebook with @Lockedonsports, @kristenkenney & @1041straight. Send us your questions ahead of… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-05-2018 18:57 via twitter.com
  We're going live on Facebook with @Lockedonsports, @kristenkenney & @1041straight.Send us your questions ahead of… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• .@dfavors14 on the 🎙⤵️ facebook.com/utahjazz/video…

  02-05-2018 18:42 via twitter.com
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• .@rudygobert27 is up next! ⤵️ facebook.com/utahjazz/video…

  02-05-2018 18:38 via twitter.com
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• We're live with Coach Quin Snyder after today's shootaround. Listen in ⤵️ facebook.com/utahjazz/video…

  02-05-2018 18:29 via twitter.com
  We're live with Coach Quin Snyder after today's shootaround.Listen in ⤵️facebook.com/utahjazz/video…
  
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