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• USOC must face its failures before looking ahead to better sex abuse prevention

  11-05-2018 23:57
  Presumably, the leaders of the U.S. Olympic Committee don’t wake up in the morning saying, “I want to enable child molesters.” They don’t go to work every day intending to help peddle young women to sexual abusers. Yet somehow, the USOC became a victimizer of athletes instead of their protector.It’s hard to say what’s more sickening to read, the graphic descriptions of coaches rubbing up against their young charges or the chronology of years-long inaction by U
  
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• Mormon church compiles list of ‘legal issues’ with Utah’s medical marijuana initiative

  11-05-2018 23:53
  The LDS Church on Friday released a memo describing what it views as “legal issues” surrounding a ballot initiative in support of medical marijuana in Utah. Compiled by the Salt Lake City law firm Kirton McConkie, the seven-page document raises a variety of legal issues, with claims that the initiative would allow some people to grow as many as six marijuana plants; create “significant challenges for law enforcement”; and see large numbers of Utahns qualifying for medical
  
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• Heather Bowen stepped up in final season with Utes

  11-05-2018 23:50
  Utah senior third baseman Heather Bowen had flown under the radar relative to her classmates — the pitching tandem of Katie Donovan and Miranda Viramontes — up until this season.Bowen, one of the program’s best offensive players and versatile defenders, moved to the forefront in her final softball season as a Ute. She led the team on and off the field, embraced a leadership role and actually fed off that to produce her best statistical season.Bowen went into her final series th
  
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• Utah restaurant chains like Arctic Circle and Costa Vida now have to tell customers how many calories are in their food. Will that change what customers order?

  11-05-2018 23:45
  Would you still order that smothered pork burrito if you knew it contained more than 1,300 calories? What about that 1,500-calorie shake with peanut butter candies? A federal rule that went into effect this week requires all restaurant, grocery and convenience store chains with 20 or more locations to post the number of calories contained in standard items. The calories must be visible on printed menus as well as menu boards.Most of the large food chains began displaying calorie counts after Con
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - On Basketball: Casey's firing means good isn't good enough

  11-05-2018 23:42 via sportspyder.com
  ... tter Email Print Save Top Comments Most Popular Quiz: Do you know these Utah Jazz players? Rockets blast Jazz 113-92 to take series lead Paul scores 27 and Ha ...
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Feat to repeat: Lynx set sights on back-to-back titles

  11-05-2018 23:42 via sportspyder.com
  ... tter Email Print Save Top Comments Most Popular Quiz: Do you know these Utah Jazz players? Rockets blast Jazz 113-92 to take series lead Paul scores 27 and Ha ...
  
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• Donovan Mitchell earned Rudy Gobert’s respect in one season — and that has optimism soaring for the Jazz

  11-05-2018 23:27
  Conventional wisdom suggests there’s two kinds of hosts: Those who tell guests to make themselves at home and those who fret about visitors making a mess.Donovan Mitchell, one of the privileged few who has been invited to Rudy Gobert’s sprawling home in the Salt Lake Valley, said his 7-foot-1 teammate is a little bit of both. When he visited back to watch the NCAA national championship game in April, he tried to respect the decorum but also had times to feel at ease.“You have t
  
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• Commentary: What mothers really want is help

  11-05-2018 23:00
  For years, I’ve dreaded Mothers’ Day, not because I disdain mothers, and certainly not because I regret becoming one but, rather, because I sincerely believe the adulation to be superficial and misdirected.Every year, mothers are the subjects of sermons and symphonies, the recipients of flowers, verses, vases and adoration.As heartfelt as these gifts are, I wonder, “Did anyone ask mothers what they want?” Having spent the better part of my life experiencing the wonder of
  
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• "Gobert!! Sacré bleu!!" | Instant Rewind ⏪ @AFCU https://t.co/GryV9LZU8N

  11-05-2018 22:20 via twitter.com
  
  "Gobert!! Sacré bleu!!" | Instant Rewind ⏪@AFCU https://t.co/GryV9LZU8N
  
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• Commentary: What early Christians knew that too many modern Christians don’t: Women are great leaders

  11-05-2018 22:00
  The Southern Baptist Convention is having a reckoning with the #MeToo movement this week. More than 2,000 Southern Baptist women signed an open letter Sunday condemning comments made by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Paige Patterson, in which he described a young man’s lewd comments toward a teenage girl as “biblical,” and said the proper response to abuse within marriage “depends on the level of abuse to some degree.”The letter comes just after
  
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• "This is bigger than basketball." -@rickyrubio9 @5forthefight_ | #5forthefight https://t.co/yUq4OsFmz7

  11-05-2018 21:51 via twitter.com
  
  "This is bigger than basketball." -@rickyrubio9 @5forthefight_ | #5forthefight https://t.co/yUq4OsFmz7
  
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• [The Athletic] - NBA Offseason Series: The Jazz are in position to set themselves up long term, but some questions need to be answered first – The Athletic

  11-05-2018 21:33 via sportspyder.com
  ...Danny Leroux breaks down the major options, opportunities and risks for the Jazz in The Athletic’s 2018 NBA Offseason Series. After losing star Gordon Haywar ...
  
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• Letter: Russia collusion deniers and Holocaust deniers have something in common

  11-05-2018 21:30
  When I was growing up, we lived down the street from a German woman who denied the Holocaust had ever happened. I couldn’t understand her denial, in the face of photographs and testimony from concentration camp victims, the soldiers who liberated them, and the existence of thousands of mass graves in Germany.I now understand the phenomenon after reading similar denials by Trump followers of contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia. Case in point: Tom Kurilich claims that Robert Mulle
  
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• Trump unveils plan to reduce drug prices

  11-05-2018 21:25
  Washington • President Donald Trump’s long-awaited plan to bring down drug prices, unveiled Friday, will mostly spare the pharmaceutical industry he previously accused of “getting away with murder” and instead focus on increasing private competition and requiring more openness about costs.In Rose Garden remarks at the White House, Trump called his plan the “most sweeping action in history to lower the price of prescription drugs for the American people.” But it
  
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• Violent crime in Utah spiked in 2016, an upward trend deemed ‘concerning’ by the state’s public safety boss

  11-05-2018 21:15
  From 2015 to 2016, violent crime in Utah jumped 17.6 percent. Homicides were up 42.6 percent and rape was up by more than 10 percent.“The upward trend of crime in our state is concerning,” Utah Department of Public Safety Commissioner Keith Squires said this week in a news release.
  The numbers come from a Department of Public Safety report that is comprised of data from 130 agencies. Eleven agencies, representing 1.19 percent of the state, did not participate.Due to a software change
  
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• ‘It’s hearsay’: Navajo Democrat responds after San Juan County kicks him off the special election ballot

  11-05-2018 21:11
  Republican-controlled San Juan County will boot Democrat and Navajo Willie Grayeyes from the November ballot in the race for an open commission seat.The conclusion comes after a weekslong investigation by the county accusing Grayeyes of not being a Utah resident — and therefore not qualified to run for office in the state. In a letter to Grayeyes dated May 4, though not released until Friday, the clerk writes, in part, that “there is evidence that your absences from your property are
  
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• Holly Richardson: Happy Mother’s Day, to all imperfect mothers

  11-05-2018 21:00
  All of my growing up years, as far back as I can remember, I was fascinated by babies. I loved them. I couldn’t get enough of them and, like many little girls, I dreamed of the day I would be a mother.As the oldest of six kids, I got in lots of practice and really honed my skills. Heck, I even washed out poopy diapers in the toilet. I was doing overnight babysitting from the time I was 15. Mothering was going to be a breeze.I was 22 years old when my oldest was born (31 years ago, but who&
  
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• Commentary: How a red state activist fights the gun lobby

  11-05-2018 21:00
  Perhaps the greatest attribute of Megan Jones is that she is so unreservedly, unequivocally unreasonable. It seems to be working.Since 2015 Jones, 25, has driven regularly from her home in Lawrence, Kansas, to Topeka, the state capital. On most days, it must seem an absurd trek. Her self-appointed, unpaid task is to persuade Kansas’s Republican legislators to sidestep the conservative craze of guns-anywhere-for-anybody-for-any-reason-or-actually-no-reason-whatsoever.Kansas is acquainted wi
  
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• Letter: It should be much harder to challenge initiative campaigns

  11-05-2018 20:56
  The process for citizens to put an initiative to vote is onerous. It involves an application, certification, a fiscal impact statement, public hearings, petition packets and then the monster of all projects: legal signatures by what represents 10 percent of the voting public, spread throughout counties across the state. It is not easy or inexpensive to engage citizens and is funded by donations. Those who successfully do so, engaging over 100,000 voters, should be commended for their commitment
  
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• Letter: Intentions, prejudice and seeing when a dress is just a dress

  11-05-2018 20:30
  Two of my son’s children, and soon-to-be three, attend the Chinese immersion public school in Cottonwood Heights; we love this school. Our first grader speaks more Chinese words and writes more Chinese characters than I ever did. At the school’s recent Chinese New Year program, several white girls wore Chinese outfits. Whew — sure glad no one accused them of “cultural appropriation.”Frankly, every culture is guilty of cultural appropriation. For instance, the White
  
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• Gabrielle Union fights for her family in ‘Breaking In’

  11-05-2018 20:27
  There is one perfect moment in ”Breaking In ” that one goes to see a movie like “Breaking In” for and it comes relatively early on. Gabrielle Union’s character, Shaun, has found herself under attack in the driveway where she’d been attempting to order pizza for her two kids. She’s unaware that her son and daughter have already been grabbed by the home invaders. She’s shoeless, surprised and on interminable hold with the pizza place when the attack
  
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• One of the men from polygamous, doomsday cult Knights of the Crystal Blade has tentative deal to plead guilty again

  11-05-2018 20:23
  Samuel Shaffer, who with a second man is accused of marrying young girls and preparing for a Muslim invasion, has a tentative agreement to plead guilty to more charges, a prosecutor said Friday. Sanpete County Attorney Kevin Daniels declined to provide details of the agreement. Daniels said the deal is tentative and partially contingent on what sentence Shaffer receives in Iron County. There, Shaffer has already pleaded guilty to rape of a child, a first-degree felony, and a lesser count of chil
  
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• Changes coming to Cottonwood canyons as they win biggest share of $100 million jackpot to reduce traffic congestion

  11-05-2018 20:23
  After a fierce statewide battle for $100 million that the Legislature earmarked to reduce traffic congestion at crowded recreational areas, Little and Big cottonwood canyons won the lion’s share of the jackpot on Friday.The Utah Transportation Commission voted to give them $66 million of the total, or $2 of every $3 available.Other smaller winners were: Zion National Park, $15 million; Moab, $10 million; and Bear Lake, $8.3 million.Areas that had lobbied hard for funding but finished out o
  
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• The iconic image of America’s first transcontinental railroad ‘erased’ the Chinese workers key to building it. 149 years later, their descendants are in the picture.

  11-05-2018 20:22
  Golden Spike National Historical Site • The strains of taps drifted over the sagebrush of Box Elder County, honoring the workers who laid more than 1,700 backbreaking miles of track before fancy-looking white men in top hats put a hammer to a ceremonial golden spike in America’s first transcontinental railroad.Ava Chin started to cry. “I really felt like for the first time I’m included in something … so incredibly American,” Chin said of Thursday’s celeb
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: The Utah Jazz season was everything the presidency isn’t

  11-05-2018 20:04 via sportspyder.com
  ... k we’re open to the notion that the building blocks are firmly in place. The Jazz are a young team — hungry, poised and ready for the future. Coach Quin is a...
  
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• Letter: The Utah Jazz season was everything the presidency isn’t

  11-05-2018 20:00
  In these seemingly endless chaotic, bizarre, deceptive (over 3,000 lies at last count), characterless days of 45’s “presidency,” it was certainly fitting and even refreshing to take refuge and pride in our local NBA franchise. The Utah Jazz, with its run into the playoff landscape, has been a key distraction for many of us weary of the toxic political sludge the good old boys and girls in D.C. and our own backyard wallow through daily. Exhausting.What isn’t exhausting? Th
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Where’s the ceiling on this Utah Jazz core?

  11-05-2018 19:55 via sportspyder.com
  ... rs so far as I could tell. But in case you just want to look at it for where Jazz players might show up, I’ll summarize. #7 — Pete Maravich Hoops Hype put Tin ...
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Mother’s Day

  11-05-2018 19:52
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, May 13, 2018.<br>You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.<br>Takers<br>Be Prepared <br> Keep on Truckin’ Trump <br>We Care About Memories <br> The Liar’s Club <br>Utah Jazz and Hamilton <br>Sucking Newspapers Dry<br>The Mudslinging Begins<br>Butchering the Truth <br>Road to the Peace Prize <br> Want more Bagley? Become a fan
  
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• Woman who investigated discrimination at UVU says she was fired after looking into male administrators

  11-05-2018 19:31
  Utah Valley University’s former Title IX director is suing the Orem school, saying her firing was in retaliation for voicing concerns about the university’s response to allegations of discrimination and harassment.In a civil lawsuit filed Tuesday in Utah’s Third District Court, Melissa Frost alleges that UVU police gave less attention to sexual assault allegations made by gay men; that school personnel prolonged a disciplinary case against a student athlete; and that campus off
  
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• Prisons are allowing mothers to raise their babies behind bars. But is the radical experiment in parenting and punishment a good idea?

  11-05-2018 19:30
  Decatur, Ill. • Destiny Doud thought she had just 48 hours to be a mother.Like most of the hundreds of pregnant women who give birth while serving time each year, Doud was slated to give up her newborn to a relative just days after the baby was born last May.Doud recalled hugging Jaelynn close at the hospital, waiving off nurses’ offers to take the girl to the nursery. She wanted every minute to hold her daughter ahead of that wrenching separation.But just before handing off the baby
  
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• Letter: It should be much harder for the anti-medical marijuana forces to challenge the initiative

  11-05-2018 19:30
  The process for citizens to put an initiative to vote is onerous. It involves an application, certification, a fiscal impact statement, public hearings, petition packets and then the monster of all projects: legal signatures by what represents 10 percent of the voting public, spread throughout counties across the state. It is not easy or inexpensive to engage citizens and is funded by donations. Those who successfully do so, engaging over 100,000 voters, should be commended for their commitment
  
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• Ogden elementary school vulnerable to earthquake, firms find

  11-05-2018 19:19
  Ogden • Two engineering firms say an Ogden elementary school building is so deteriorated it could not withstand a significant earthquake.The Standard-Examiner reported Friday the Ogden School District is deciding whether to tear down and rebuild Polk Elementary School or upgrade it to meet current seismic standards.Engineers say the weaknesses include unreinforced masonry walls that are not properly braced to the floor or roof.They estimate it would cost about $18 million to renovate the sc
  
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• Letter: Gehrke is a Trump-hater

  11-05-2018 19:13
  The article by Robert Gehrke about questions Robert Mueller should ask President Trump was shallow, amateurish and discreditable. Like many of the people who work for The Salt Lake Tribune, Gehrke is a Trump-hater and he along with the others should disclose this before they write any negative articles about our president.Mr. Gehrke, your article was not at all funny but it was shameful. Your incompetence is pathetic, and you and your paper are again stooping to a new low.If you want questions a
  
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• White student calls police after a black Yale student fell asleep in her dorm’s common room

  11-05-2018 19:05
  Lolade Siyonbola’s exasperated message to the campus police officers— and to the Yale graduate student who’d summoned them to her dorm — was simple and consistent:She didn’t have to do anything to prove that she was justified in being there, just because she happened to be black.“I deserve to be here. I pay tuition like everybody else,” an annoyed Siyonbola told responding officers after they repeatedly asked her to hand over identification. “I&rsq
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Doug Robinson: Houston Rockets guard James Harden's flopping and flailing bad for the game

  11-05-2018 18:46 via sportspyder.com
  ... defenders as he jumps — all to get to the free-throw line. Following Game 4, Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell dared to complain about the Bearded One’s antics. “I ...
  
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• Toronto Raptors fire coach Dwane Casey after another sweep by Cavs

  11-05-2018 18:23
  TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Raptors have fired Dwane Casey after the team was swept in the playoffs by the Cleveland Cavaliers for second straight season.Toronto President Masai Ujiri on Friday called the move a "very difficult but necessary step."He added: "As a team, we are constantly trying to grow and improve in order to get to the next level."The move comes two days after Casey was honored as coach of the year by the National Basketball Coaches Association.Casey led the Raptors to a fr
  
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• Letter: Instead of speaking ‘out of turn,’ Sen. Hatch, please just go quietly into the night

  11-05-2018 18:23
  Why? Why do you say such things, Sen. Orrin Hatch? If I keep shaking my head over such statements, my head just might come unhinged. Sen. John McCain has every right to request that President Trump stay away from his funeral.Trump, otherwise known as that “fine man,” as you put it, has said some rather nasty things about McCain. Trump is, actually, a rather nasty man.You, Sen. Hatch, would best be served to go quietly into the night. You carpetbagged your way into representing us in
  
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• Raptors fire coach Dwane Casey after another sweep by Cavaliers

  11-05-2018 18:20
  Toronto • The Toronto Raptors have fired Dwane Casey after the team was swept in the playoffs by the Cleveland Cavaliers for the second straight season.Toronto President Masai Ujiri on Friday called the move a "very difficult but necessary step."He added: "As a team, we are constantly trying to grow and improve in order to get to the next level."The move comes two days after Casey was honored as coach of the year by the National Basketball Coaches Association.Casey led the Raptors to a fran
  
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• Rimando, Petke navigate changes in relationship from MLS Cup-winning teammates to coach, player

  11-05-2018 18:15
  Confetti swirled around the 2004 MLS Cup champions, sticking to Nick Rimando’s forehead, still damp from the the exertion of the match. Behind him stood Mike Petke, championship hat already on his head.Packed in among their D.C. United teammates on the platform, they threw their hands in the air and cheered as MLS commissioner Don Garber handed over the trophy.Petke became Rimando’s coach at Real Salt Lake 12 1/2 years later.Thus started a process both were familiar with: renegotiati
  
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• ‘Liam’ is No. 1 for the first time, as America’s top 2017 baby names are revealed

  11-05-2018 18:13
  Liam has unseated Noah as the most popular boys name for babies born in 2017, topping the list for the first time, according to Social Security data released Friday.Emma continued its reign as most popular girl’s name for the fourth year in a row. Meanwhile, Michael — which was the No. 1 boy’s name from 1961 to 1998 — dropped out of the top 10 for the first time since World War II. Emily dropped out of the top 10 for the first time since 1990.Liam, a derivative of William
  
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• Can Melissa McCarthy make a good movie anymore? ‘Life of the Party’ argues no

  11-05-2018 18:13
  When Melissa McCarthy, as the newly divorced, 40-something mom Deanna in “Life of the Party,” decides to re-enroll in college, my seatmate at a recent screening turned to me with a question about McCarthy’s choice of major: “What the heck is she going to do with a degree in archaeology?”But I’m troubled by a deeper, and more existential, mystery: Why can’t McCarthy seem to make a decent movie?Since her 2011 breakout performance in “Bridesmaids&rdqu
  
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• Eating out on Mother’s Day is popular everywhere in the country — except in parts of Utah. Blame it on the Sabbath.

  11-05-2018 18:12
  Mother’s Day is one of the top dining days of the year nationally, with most locally owned restaurants collecting top sales dollars.
  Utah is the exception.
  The second Sunday in May is only the 298th best sales day of the year in the Beehive State, according to Womply, a national software company that tracks small-business sales. ‘We are upside down here,” Brad Plothow, Womply’s vice president of marketing and communications, said — borrowing a line from the Netflix
  
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• AT&T chief lobbyist out after hiring Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen

  11-05-2018 18:11
  New York • The chief lobbyist for AT&T is leaving the company after overseeing the hiring of President Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen as a political consultant.In a memo to employees, AT&T’s CEO Randall Stephenson said that Bob Quinn, senior executive vice president of the external and legislative affairs group, will retire.Stephenson said that the company made a “big mistake” in hiring Cohen as a political consultant. While everything the company did
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Doug Robinson: Houston Rocket guard James Harden's flopping and flailing bad for the game

  11-05-2018 18:10 via sportspyder.com
  ... defenders as he jumps — all to get to the free-throw line. Following Game 4, Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell dared to complain about the Bearded One’s antics. “I ...
  
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• Doug Robinson: Houston Rockets guard James Harden's flopping and flailing bad for the game

  11-05-2018 18:05
  SALT LAKE CITY — Now that he and his teammates have dispatched the Jazz and sent them packing from the playoffs, James Harden is no longer the Jazz’s problem.But he is still a problem for the NBA.Harden is the Flop King, the league scoring leader who gets nearly one-third of his points at the foul line, which he accomplishes by faking fouls and fooling clueless referees who somehow still haven’t figured out his tricks.He flails, he flops, he leaps into defenders (whatever happe
  
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• Rolly: Romney gets an introduction into the wild and wacky world of rural Utah politics

  11-05-2018 17:51
  Former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney got a taste of Utah’s unique politics when he attended the Iron County Republicans’ Lincoln Day Dinner shortly after announcing his candidacy for the U.S. Senate race.To make those folks happy, he would have to be Grizzly Adams.To say the experience in Cedar City was bizarre would be an understatement — at least when one hears how Romney reportedly described the encounter to several friends and acquaintances.“He’s got to
  
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• “I never give myself enough credit, and I won’t. That’s kind of what keeps me going.” Full video:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-05-2018 17:37 via twitter.com
  “I never give myself enough credit, and I won’t. That’s kind of what keeps me going.” Full video:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Utah’s Falls Event Center expanded by lying to investors about its value and profitability, lawsuit states

  11-05-2018 17:34
  A Utah businessman built his eight event venues by bilking people at dental conferences out of their money with lies and a PowerPoint presentation, a federal lawsuit states.Steven Down, the man behind The Falls Event Center LLC, was sued in federal court in Utah on Thursday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).According to the lawsuit, Downs built and operated event centers in five states through high-interest loans from private investors.In a consent agreement dated Dec. 12 but
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - What should the Utah Jazz do at Power Forward?

  11-05-2018 17:29 via sportspyder.com
  ...in free agency this summer,” KSL’s wrote in late January. “As a result, the Jazz are looking to get the best value they can for the remaining few months on F ...
  
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• Commentary: Love leads the way in rescuing DACA

  11-05-2018 17:21
  In September of 2017, President Trump rescinded DACA, the program that protected nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from being deported. Then he put the ball in Congress’s court and gave them a March 5 deadline to pass some kind of permanent legislative solution for DACA recipients. Six whole months. Surely Congress could get something of this import passed in six months.They didn’t. Even though a 2017 poll shows that 78 percent of all Ameri
  
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