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• ‘Utah is different’ — Amid harsh words and suspicion elsewhere, celebration of World Refugee Day showcases the Beehive State’s open, welcoming approach

  23-06-2018 23:55
  Utah’s open-hearted and welcoming attitude toward refugees was on full display Saturday as hundreds gathered in a Salt Lake City park to celebrate World Refugee Day.In sharp contrast to President Donald Trump’s harsh rhetoric toward immigrants, refugee bans and controversy over his “zero tolerance” policy at the U.S.-Mexico border, some of the 65,000 refugees who have settled in the Beehive State happily spread their stories, music, dancing, food and mutual support across
  
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• Like 300-game winners, members of 3,000-hit club the last of a dying MLB breed

  23-06-2018 23:54
  On May 4, in the fifth inning of a game at Safeco Field against the Seattle Mariners, Albert Pujols flared a single into right field, a common act freighted with uncommon meaning. Teammates streamed from the visitors dugout and mobbed him in the infield, a celebration of his 3,000th hit. The game stopped, in a visiting park, to recognize Pujols.The milestone continued a relative spate of 3,000th hits. Each of the past four seasons — starting with Alex Rodriguez in 2015, followed Ichiro Suz
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - ‘Utah is different’ — Amid harsh words and suspicion elsewhere, celebration of World Refugee Day showcases the Beehive State’s open, welcoming approach

  23-06-2018 23:46 via sportspyder.com
  ... parents, would be Utah’s new ambassador for refugees, replacing retired Utah Jazz player Thurl Bailey in the role. Boyé then led new citizens and his audience ...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: The Jazz are about to become one of the most despised teams in the NBA

  23-06-2018 23:46 via sportspyder.com
  ... it has come from internal growth, some from additions, but, no question, the Jazz’s Era of Rough Edges To Irritate has arrived. Article continues below Relate ...
  
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• NASCAR drivers relishing chance to conquer 3 road courses

  23-06-2018 23:44
  Sonoma, Calif. • As a born-and-bred Northern Californian, Kyle Larson is quite familiar with the numerous twists and 11 turns on the vaunted Sonoma Raceway road course.That doesn’t make him much better at navigating them in a stock car.“Turn 1 up through the hill, all the way basically through Turn 4, I’m really good,” the Chip Ganassi Racing driver said Friday. “Off of Turn 4, I struggle. (Turn) 7, I struggle. (Turn) 11, I struggle. Clint (Bowyer) is trying to
  
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• Monson: The Jazz are about to become one of the most despised teams in the NBA

  23-06-2018 23:41
  Not so long ago, after a Jazz win, Rudy Gobert gave away the team’s blueprint for the future. If we’d paid closer attention to his words, we might have known all along who Utah was going to draft with its first-round pick on Thursday night.“We just tried to come out with toughness and attitude,” he said. “We really wanted to win this game.”Toughness and attitude. The Jazz have redefined their own version of T&A, and they’ve seen a connection to winni
  
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• Kragthorpe: Shaped by a tumultuous BYU experience, Jamaal Williams is becoming an NFL success with the Green Bay Packers

  23-06-2018 23:24
  ProvoWhen his Green Bay Packers teammates ask Jamaal Williams about his college years, he starts by saying, “Yeah, there’s an honor code ...”That’s how Williams addressed his BYU experience Friday, appearing as part of a BYUtv show about ex-Cougars in pro football. The unspoken element of the discussion about how the school is perceived in the NFL was Williams’ having deferred his senior season for a year, withdrawing from BYU — he would later say he was &ldqu
  
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• Toni Kroos scores to give Germany dramatic 2-1 win over Sweden, avoid World Cup elimination

  23-06-2018 23:17
  Sochi, Russia • The desperate world champions from Germany were seconds from losing control of their World Cup fate when Toni Kroos whispered to Marco Reus just outside Sweden’s penalty area.With the score tied in the fifth minute of stoppage time, Kroos seemed to remind Reus of a trick play from training that will live in World Cup lore.The Germans, down to 10 men after Jerome Boateng was given a second yellow card, rallied for a 2-1 victory Saturday and their title defense was sudde
  
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• A giant wave of plastic garbage could flood the U.S., a study says

  23-06-2018 22:37
  A tidal wave of plastic trash will flood the world over the next decade, a new study says, and warnings are already blaring like sirens in the United States.In the wake of China’s decision to stop importing nearly half of the world’s scrap starting Jan. 1, particularly from the wealthiest nations, waste management operations across the country are struggling to process heavy volumes of paper and plastic that they can no longer unload on the Chinese. States such as Massachusetts and O
  
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• Thirteen bald eagles were found dead in a field. This is what killed them.

  23-06-2018 22:30
  The 13 bald eagles were found lifeless on a Maryland farm more than two years ago, many with wings splayed, bodies intact, and talons clenched. Several were too young to have their species’ distinctive white heads. And at least six, according to a federal lab report, had ingested a highly toxic pesticide that has been essentially banned from the U.S. market, in part because it is lethal to birds.The report, which was obtained by the Annapolis, Maryland, radio station WNAV and shared with T
  
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• Why a small-town restaurant owner asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave — and would do it again

  23-06-2018 22:11
  Stephanie Wilkinson was at home Friday evening — nearly 200 miles from the White House — when the choice presented itself.Her phone rang about 8 p.m. It was the chef at the Red Hen, the tiny farm-to-table restaurant that she co-owned just off Main Street in Lexington, Virginia.Sarah Huckabee Sanders had just walked in and sat down, the chef informed her.“He said the staff is a little concerned. What should we do?” Wilkinson told The Washington Post. “I said I’
  
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• Why didn’t someone stop Melania from wearing that jacket? That’s not how this White House works.

  23-06-2018 21:40
  A day after first lady Melania Trump stirred controversy by wearing a jacket that read “I really don’t care, do u?” on a trip to visit a children’s shelter on the U.S.-Mexico border, people are still scratching their heads.What did it mean? And how did something like this happen?On his late-night show, comedian Stephen Colbert asked a version of the question reverberating around political Washington: “How many people would get fired for this at a normal White House?
  
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• A jogger accidentally crossed into the U.S. from Canada and was detained for two weeks

  23-06-2018 21:35
  The coast of White Rock, British Columbia, in western Canada looks to be an ideal place for a run, with its sweeping views of the Semiahmoo Bay to the west and scores of waterfront homes and seafood restaurants to the east. That’s what 19-year-old Cedella Roman thought when she went jogging along the area’s smooth beaches — in a southbound direction, notably — on May 21.Roman, who lives in France, had been visiting her mother in nearby North Delta, British Columbia. Durin
  
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• You got game? Prove it. Only a few days left to register. >> hoop-it-up-r9388.sportngin.com/register/form/… https://t.co/uEuTEuEbxH

  23-06-2018 20:21 via twitter.com
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Five free agent options at small forward

  23-06-2018 20:21 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz summer league roster beginning to take shape by Ryan Aston ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Five free agent options at small forward

  23-06-2018 20:14
  As part three of a five-part series, we’ll take a look at five free agent small forwards that the Utah Jazz could consider this summer. With the 2018 NBA Draft behind us, the Utah Jazz will now be looking forward anxiously towards the next big event on the calendar – the start of free agency. […]
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz news: Donovan Mitchell’s message to fan who yelled at his mom

  23-06-2018 20:07 via sportspyder.com
  ... s ClutchPoints Jazz news: Donovan Mitchell’s message to fan who yelled at his mom by June 23, 20 ...
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - Donovan Mitchell Says Mother Racially Profiled at Her Apartment

  23-06-2018 20:07 via sportspyder.com
  ... 23, 2018 Comments Comment Bubble Icon Rich Pedroncelli/Associated Press Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell's mother was allegedly the victim of racial profiling...
  
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• Kragthorpe: Shaped by his tumultuous BYU experience, Jamaal Williams is becoming an NFL success story.

  23-06-2018 19:53
  ProvoWhen his Green Bay Packers teammates ask Jamaal Williams about his college years, he starts by saying, “Yeah, there’s an honor code ...”That’s how Williams addressed his BYU experience Friday, appearing as part of a BYUtv show about ex-Cougars in pro football. The unspoken element of the discussion about how the school is perceived in the NFL was Williams’ having deferred his senior season for a year, withdrawing from BYU — he would later say he was &ldqu
  
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• More than a dozen men couldn’t afford to post bond on Father’s Day and Juneteenth. So these Denver community activists paid to bail them out.

  23-06-2018 18:02
  Denver • For more than four hours on a weekday, three Denver activists sat in the lobby of the city’s downtown jail waiting for seven men — all strangers — to walk out from behind bars.The activists, who are members of The Denver Justice Project and Black Lives Matter 5280, had paid the men’s bonds as part of their Juneteenth/Father’s Day Bail Out. The bail money was posted as a gift with no questions asked and with the trust that the men would return to court
  
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• It’s not just happening in Utah. Across the U.S., global warming is driving the spread of toxic algae in reservoirs, lakes and ponds, researchers say.

  23-06-2018 18:01
  Salem, Ore. • The words blasted to cellphones around Oregon’s capital city were ominous: “Civil emergency . prepare for action.”Within half an hour, a second official alert clarified the subject wasn’t impending violence but toxins from an algal bloom, detected in Salem’s water supply.Across the U.S., reservoirs that supply drinking water and lakes used for recreation are experiencing similar events with growing frequency. The trend represents another impact of
  
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• This bird population is declining in Idaho, and researchers say poachers are to blame

  23-06-2018 18:00
  Boise, Idaho • The long-billed curlew bird population is declining in southwestern Idaho because of poachers, researchers said.One of the birds was poached in the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area southwest of Boise on June 1, Boise State University researchers said.Of the 16 birds fitted with transmitters, it’s the seventh that has been killed by suspected poachers since 2013, the Idaho Statesman reported.None of the 50 birds fitted with transmitters
  
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• Letter: Choir of congressional eunuchs is silent amid chaos

  23-06-2018 17:58
  The choir of eunuchs, aka the House and the Senate, are putting on a display the likes of which I never hope to see again.What a disgraceful, inhumane unbelievable situation. What an abject filthy policy that targets innocent children whose little souls will forever be traumatized. Now we have “tender age care centers.”All this chaos only serves one purpose: It creates another distraction from Trump’s criminal activities. Welcome to the new America. We have a 2-year-old on ster
  
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• Letter: The Supreme Court lit this immigration fuse

  23-06-2018 17:57
  In its recent ruling on Jennings v. Rodriguez, the Supreme Court ruled that “immigrants can be detained without bond hearings, and with no restriction on the length of time they are detained.” Couple the ruling with the vague laws on how to best deal with children of immigrants, and what you have is a separation of children from parents for an indeterminate period of time.The Trump administration’s disdain for immigrants (legal or otherwise) has been well documented and may be
  
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• Letter: Hatchet job on Rocky reveals Tribune’s decline

  23-06-2018 17:56
  I have watched with some sadness the decline of The Salt Lake Tribune over the past few years, but in last Sunday’s hatchet job on Rocky Anderson, The Tribune reached a new low. I was aware the article was to be published — and even gave the author my perspective concerning the inaccuracy of the allegations a few days leading up to its publication, which was ignored (along with, evidently, information from a number of other sources) — but it never occurred to me that the articl
  
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• Letter: How do Utahns keep electing these buffoons?

  23-06-2018 17:54
  I read with wonder the political going-ons in Utah and other places. I am not just amazed by the things our “public servants” do, and get away with, but the most puzzling thing to me is, how in the world did these — pick your descriptor — buffoons, crooks, scam artists, thieves, incompetents, etc., get elected in the first place, and the more puzzling question: How did they get re-elected?Greg Hughes appoints himself to be our savior by being the “Inland Port Tsar&r
  
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• Letter: Trump isn’t just a bigot, he’s an evil despot

  23-06-2018 17:53
  My view of Donald Trump has changed.During the campaign, I thought of him as a narcissistic, misogynistic, xenophobic bigot.Now I consider him a lying evil despot whose separation of families is a crime against humanity.Multiple medical groups, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, have stated that separating children from their families causes negative health impacts that can last a lifetime.Even though he signed an executive order keeping families t
  
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• Letter: Utah teens who care about gun reform are compassionate leaders

  23-06-2018 17:52
  This week I attended a Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Interim Committee meeting. It was scheduled for 8:30 a.m., but the room was packed by 7:45 a.m. Gun reform is a hot topic — one of the most divisive in the country. Utah is no exception. Both the original and overflow room were full by 8:45 a.m. In the original room, the students of March For Our Lives SLC had managed to get about 10 seats in a room of over 50. At one point, a video producer from Utah Gun Exchange asked to use the
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz summer league roster beginning to take shape

  23-06-2018 17:44 via sportspyder.com
  ... dth at 10.5 inches and a wingspan of 7-foot-5. Kelan Martin to Play for Utah Jazz in NBA Summer League –> https://t.co/mk2z6Mp1BK pic.twitter.com/wO1vF4hJzZ — ...
  
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• Utah Jazz summer league roster beginning to take shape

  23-06-2018 17:35
  With summer league play tipping off on July 2 in Salt Lake City, the Utah Jazz’s summer roster is starting to come together. It’s a good time of year to be a fan of the Utah Jazz. The 2018 NBA Draft is in the rearview mirror (welcome to Utah, Grayson Allen) and free agency is […]
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• Salt Lake City auto recycling yard opts to keep its trees, providing an ‘Airbnb’ for hawks and owls

  23-06-2018 17:26
  The nest sits high in the branches of a gnarly, old cottonwood tree and contains young red-tailed hawks not fully ready to fly.Visitors who stand beneath the tree are awed — and a bit confused. The nest’s urban location defies logic.It sits just yards from railroad tracks, where screeching trains pass through several times a day. From above comes the regular roar of jetliners, making their descents into Salt Lake City International Airport a few miles away.Surrounded by boxy warehous
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Next Steps: Utah Jazz

  23-06-2018 16:08 via sportspyder.com
  ... Next Steps: Utah Jazz [Video] Search Search Next Steps: Utah Jazz • June 23, 2018 How will Grayson Allen help the Utah Jazz take the next step ...
  
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• Tribune editorial: Court decision shows sales tax needs an overhaul

  23-06-2018 15:00
  This week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding sales tax collection on internet purchases sure feels like government finally catching up with the reality of modern commerce. The aftermath of the decision may show how far government still has to go. The decision erases the existing law wherein only stores with actual physical locations in a state had to collect sales tax on internet purchases. If the seller had no physical presence in a state, the thinking went, it shouldn’t be obl
  
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• Scientists warned 30 years ago that global warming ‘is in our living room.’ Data show they were right.

  23-06-2018 15:00
  Salida, Colo. • We were warned.On June 23, 1988, a sultry day in Washington, James Hansen told Congress and the world that global warming wasn’t approaching — it had already arrived. The testimony of the top NASA scientist, said Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley, was “the opening salvo of the age of climate change.”Thirty years later, it’s clear that Hansen and other doomsayers were right. But the change has been so sweeping that it is easy to lose sig
  
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• Rich Lowry: Enforcement, not separation, is the issue

  23-06-2018 15:00
  President Donald Trump climbed down on separating families at the border, but the underlying argument is not going away.The central question isn’t whether we should separate families — even most immigration hawks would prefer to hold families together — but whether migrants should stay in the United States or not.Trump hopes to salvage his “zero tolerance” policy by holding parents and children together, although the practical and legal obstacles will be formidable.
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: America is strong. Trump, meanwhile, is looking more and more pathetic.

  23-06-2018 15:00
  The great falsehood that was at the root of President Donald Trump’s candidacy was that he was very strong and America was very weak.We were losing, having our jobs stolen, getting ripped off by allies, etc. We were supposedly awash in crime and illegal immigration, and the latter, we were told, contributed to the former. It was all untrue. We got a welcome reminder this week that both halves of that equation are false — Trump is weak and getting weaker by the day, while the United S
  
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• Hugh Hewitt: Trump is sabotaging a successful presidency

  23-06-2018 15:00
  Call it the “electric fence presidency.”President Donald Trump — always confident, always exuberant, always selling — crashes forward with the policies and people he embraces until he hits a shocking obstacle and falls back, at first stunned and disbelieving, but resolving quickly not to get scorched that way again. He adjusts his trajectory and takes off again, pursuing the same goals on an altered path.In an interview with Attorney General Jeff Sessions this month, I wa
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Why Grayson Allen will win over the hearts of Jazz fans

  23-06-2018 07:33 via sportspyder.com
  ...to overcome his failures in the past, while also winning over the hearts of Jazz fans. I’ll provide you with two reasons why Jazz fans will quickly be swooni ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Why Grayson Allen will win over the hearts of Jazz fans

  23-06-2018 07:28
  The Utah Jazz knew there would be backlash when selecting a player with the background of Grayson Allen, but they also know he will win over fans quickly. We knew the 2018 NBA Draft was going to be one of the most fascinating to watch in recent years, simply because anything could happen with picks […]
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• Kragthorpe: In a four-QB battle, BYU’s Tanner Mangum hopes to maximize ‘my last chance’

  23-06-2018 06:35
  ProvoNothing about Tanner Mangum’s trajectory as a BYU quarterback has followed a standard career arc. From the spectacular start of freshman season to a four-way fight for the starting job as a senior, he figures his college football experience qualifies as “a little bit unpredictable.”Yeah, you could say that.Mangum’s location varies only slightly every June, during the BYU Football Media Day in the school’s modern Broadcast Building. He sat in a corner of the roo
  
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• Kyle Larson, who loves NASCAR, isn’t headed to dirt tracks soon

  23-06-2018 06:01
  Sonoma, Calif. • Kyle Larson isn’t jumping from NASCAR into full-time dirt track racing any time soon.Larson said Friday that he didn’t mean to minimize his commitment to NASCAR this week when he expressed his plans to race full-time in the World of Outlaws sprint car series “before I’m 40.”Larson made the comment on Twitter while responding to a question from the World of Outlaws’ account, but it sparked immediate online criticism from NASCAR fans. While
  
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• Utah Democrat misses campaign finance filing in House race

  23-06-2018 04:57
  A Utah Democrat running to replace eight-term U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop is being cited for failing to file financial disclosure forms.The Federal Election Commission said Friday that Kurt Weiland had not filed campaign finance paperwork for the two months ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic primary.The FEC said it could take additional action, such as imposing a fine on the campaign.The campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Weiland is a 72-year-old businessman running against
  
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• The Jazz gamble Grayson Allen is ready to drop his antics but keep his toughness

  23-06-2018 04:37
  Personnel evaluators aren’t big fans of Pro Days: One-on-none drills don’t say much about whether a prospect is ready for the NBA.But as Utah Jazz officials Dennis Lindsey and David Morway sat in the stands in Thousand Oaks, Calif., watching a number of these workouts, they got a text that actually mattered.“Grayson at 21?”It came from Donovan Mitchell, their star acquisition in last year’s draft who was also on hand for the workouts — Grayson Allen and Mitche
  
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• How Carlos Salcedo went from Real Salt Lake to a World Cup star for Mexico

  23-06-2018 04:36
  Prior to Mexico’s history-making 1-0 upset of reigning World Cup champion Germany a week ago, Carlos Salcedo sat at a dais, the backdrop splattered with national-team sponsors which signifies both the stakes and the stage. Salcedo proclaimed what many wouldn’t, where many wouldn’t dare go. That’s who Salcedo has always been. And to those who’ve monitored his meteoric rise, they caution to view it not as arrogance, but in belief.“Nobody,” he said with a s
  
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• Deron Williams visits Jazz practice facility, further evidence of a narrowing divide

  23-06-2018 04:36
  It’s not unusual for pictures of the Utah Jazz practice facility to show up on Instagram. What was intriguing when one showed up Tuesday was the photographer.Deron Williams.The 33-year-old former Jazzman was slow to cop to it, joking that his Instagram was hacked.DWill at the @utahjazz practice facility today just makes me happy.Via @DeronWilliams Instagram pic.twitter.com/YOAIr6b6RW— Matt Sanchez (@_MattSanchez) June 19, 2018But it was true: That day, Williams — who was traded
  
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• How Park City’s Sebastian Saucedo went from RSL ball boy to budding star

  23-06-2018 04:28
  Sebastian Saucedo was on the sideline when Kyle Beckerman, Nick Rimando and the rest of Real Salt Lake played at Rice Eccles Stadium, just another starry-eyed elementary schooler serving as a ball boy and dreaming of a professional soccer career.“Growing up in Utah, who would have known a young kid [from Park City] would have been able to just play in general?” Saucedo said after he scored his first MLS goal for RSL at Seattle on May 26.Saucedo is on track to have a breakout year, no
  
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• Dirk to Doncic: Mavs tap brakes on inevitable comparisons

  23-06-2018 04:28
  Dallas • Luka Doncic didn’t get compared to Larry Bird when he was introduced a day after the Dallas Mavericks traded up to get the third overall pick in the NBA draft.For president of basketball operations Donnie Nelson, that’s progress based on his last experience of getting a tender-aged European in hopes of lifting the Mavericks out of the doldrums.Twenty years later, Dirk Nowitzki is the highest-scoring foreign-born player in league history. Back then, the big German wasn&r
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - The good, bad and ugly of Grayson Allen's controversial college career

  23-06-2018 02:42 via sportspyder.com
  ... Seattle named Quin Snyder was the other smart baller from Duke. Now that the Jazz made him their 21st pick of the NBA Draft this week, the 6-foot-5 shooting g ...
  
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• The good, bad and ugly of Grayson Allen's controversial college career

  23-06-2018 02:33
  SALT LAKE CITY — Trivia-loving Utah Jazz fans will get a kick out of one particular tidbit regarding newly drafted Grayson Allen's bio from his playing days at Duke.This past season, Allen became one of just three players in Blue Devils history to earn All-ACC Academic honors. That's only part of the fun fact. Amile Jefferson was one of the others. Oh yeah, some neatly coiffed guy from Seattle named Quin Snyder was the other smart baller from Duke.Now that the Jazz made him their 21st pick
  
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