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• 🗣Head to UtahJazz.com now. We will be going LIVE with Grayson momentarily! https://t.co/BzEk3kkScg

  27-06-2018 23:56 via twitter.com
  
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• Cavaliers to make qualifying offer to former Jazzman Rodney Hood

  27-06-2018 23:38
  Cleveland • The Cavaliers have some clarity with one of their free agent forwards.No, not that one.While waiting to see if they’re in LeBron James’ plans, the Cavaliers intend to extend a $3.4 million qualifying offer to Rodney Hood, making him a restricted free agent and protecting the club if he receives any offers.The team will make the offer to Hood before Friday’s deadline, said a person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Wednesday because the
  
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• Becky Hammon moves up, gets promoted by San Antonio Spurs on coaching staff

  27-06-2018 23:38
  San Antonio • Becky Hammon is moving up San Antonio’s coaching ladder.The Spurs announced Wednesday that they have promoted Hammon, and that she will fill the spot vacated by James Borrego on the team’s roster of assistant coaches.Borrego left the Spurs to become the new coach of the Charlotte Hornets.Hammon has been a member of the San Antonio coaching staff since 2014, and was one of six assistants under Gregg Popovich last season. Hammon has been among the assistants who sit
  
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• Defending champion Germany eliminated in massive World Cup shocker, while Brazil advances

  27-06-2018 23:36
  Kazan, Russia • Everyone was waiting for Germany to score another late World Cup-saving goal.It never came.Instead, the Germans have become the fourth defending champions in the last five tournaments to be eliminated in the group stage following a 2-0 loss to South Korea on Wednesday.The four-time champions allowed a pair of injury-time goals while knowing a 1-0 victory would have been enough to advance because of the result in the other group match.“It’s very, very hard to put
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - NCAA Tournament hero Jairus Lyles to play summer league for Jazz

  27-06-2018 23:26 via sportspyder.com
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• “Our work place, is now your work place and we’re all in.” Welcome to Utah @GraysonJAllen 🎷 https://t.co/pFrwUxu0cW

  27-06-2018 23:19 via twitter.com
  
  “Our work place, is now your work place and we’re all in.”Welcome to Utah @GraysonJAllen 🎷 https://t.co/pFrwUxu0cW
  
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• NCAA Tournament hero Jairus Lyles to play summer league for Jazz

  27-06-2018 23:10
  Former UMBC star Jairus Lyles will play for the Utah Jazz during the 2018 NBA Summer League.
  Lyles, who helped his school make history as the first No. 16 seed to beat a No. 1 seed, scored 28 points while shooting 9-for-11 from the field. Lyles averaged 20.2 points, 5.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 2.1 steals per game this season. Lyles made 2.4 three-pointers per game and shot 39 percent from long distance.
  He also led the American East Conference in defensive win shares last season. Overall, his
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - AP source: Cavs to make qualifying offer to Rodney Hood

  27-06-2018 22:37 via sportspyder.com
  ... ts Most Popular Spurs draft Miami guard Lonnie Walker, USC big man Metu Utah Jazz select Grayson Allen with 21st pick Rudy Gobert named Defensive Player of th ...
  
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• Ramesh Ponnuru: Beware of what you wish for, court conservatives

  27-06-2018 22:14
  Because the Supreme Court ruling last week that gave states more power to tax internet sales was quite technical, its momentousness was easy to miss. Reporters treated it, accurately, as a case about whether a company had to have a physical presence in a jurisdiction for it to have a duty to collect taxes there. But the case, South Dakota v. Wayfair, came out the way it did because two justices used it to reconsider a crucial legal doctrine that goes back almost as far as the U.S.Clarence Thomas
  
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• Dana Milbank: John Roberts just validated religious discrimination

  27-06-2018 22:12
  Washington • On the penultimate page of their 39-page majority ruling in the Trump travel-ban case Tuesday, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices overturned a 74-year-old decision they weren’t asked to consider.Renouncing the 1944 Korematsu v. United States decision, which upheld internment camps for U.S. citizens and noncitizens of Japanese descent during World War II, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote: “Korematsu was gravely wrong the day it was decided, has be
  
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• Noah Feldman: Conservatives get to say what free speech means

  27-06-2018 22:08
  In a blow to public-sector unions, the U.S. Supreme Court has used the First Amendment to reverse a 40-year-old precedent that allows the collection of fees from nonunion members who benefit from collective bargaining.The decision, six years in the making, shows how a conservative court can take a core constitutional value like freedom of speech and wield it as a tool to advance business interests. The outcome fits into a pattern with the Citizens United case — a pattern likely to be expan
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: A weekend of artistic expression — with an LDS twist

  27-06-2018 22:04
  Art expresses and evokes deep human emotions, which makes it intimately connected to spirituality. It makes sense, then, for LDS artists to explore their faith through their creativity. In 2017, such links prompted a group of Latter-day Saints in New York City to launch the Mormon Arts Center Festival, which LDS author Terryl Givens called “a seminal event in Mormonism’s coming of age artistically.”A year later, the festival has grown larger and even more international, says on
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz set to introduce rookie Grayson Allen today

  27-06-2018 22:00 via sportspyder.com
  ...to contribute more than the last two guys who have worn that number for the Jazz, Taylor Braun and Jeff Withey. Utah Jazz draft pick Grayson Allen will offic ...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Dante Exum, Raul Neto get qualifying offers

  27-06-2018 22:00 via sportspyder.com
  ...contest in just 14 regular season appearances last season. So, Exum and the Jazz now find themselves with an incomplete knowledge of one another despite bein ...
  
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• Utah Jazz set to introduce rookie Grayson Allen today

  27-06-2018 21:58
  Utah Jazz fans have been eager to see the newest member of the team, Grayson Allen, introduced to the media. Well, today is the day, as Allen will be introduced at 4:00 MT. The NBA Draft is always an exciting time for all hoops fans. For the Utah Jazz faithful, the Grayson Allen selection seems […]
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• Utah Jazz: Dante Exum, Raul Neto get qualifying offers

  27-06-2018 21:47
  Utah Jazz guards Dante Exum and Raul Neto have received qualifying offers and are now set to hit the market as restricted free agents. Following their selection of Grayson Allen in the 2018 NBA Draft, the Utah Jazz have shifted their attention to free agency. As expected, Utah’s first moves will be in-house — according to […]
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• [The Daily Herald] - Becky Hammon moves up, gets promoted by San Antonio Spurs

  27-06-2018 21:39 via sportspyder.com
  ... ts Most Popular Spurs draft Miami guard Lonnie Walker, USC big man Metu Utah Jazz select Grayson Allen with 21st pick Rudy Gobert named Defensive Player of th ...
  
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• Rep. Mia Love leads Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams by 6 percentage points — a too-close-to-call margin

  27-06-2018 21:17
  In arm wrestling terms, a new poll shows that GOP Rep. Mia Love and Democratic Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams are grunting and pulling with all their might — but remain in a so-far unmovable deadlock that tilts slightly in Love’s favor.Similar to margins in many surveys over the past eight months, the pair is still 6 percentage points apart in a new Salt Lake Tribune-Hinckley Institute of Politics poll — which has a margin of error of 5 points, plus or minus. It is essentia
  
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  27-06-2018 21:02 via twitter.com
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz to host Australian teams in preseason

  27-06-2018 20:57 via sportspyder.com
  ... vs. Philadelphia 76ers, Wells Fargo Center Sept. 29: Perth Wildcats vs, Utah Jazz, Vivint Arena Sept. 30: Sydney Kings vs. L.A. Clippers, Stan Sheriff Centre, ...
  
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• Justice Kennedy retiring; Trump gets 2nd Supreme Court pick

  27-06-2018 20:56
  Washington • Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement Wednesday, giving President Donald Trump a golden chance to cement conservative control of the high court.The 81-year-old Kennedy said in a statement he is stepping down after more than 30 years on the court. A Republican appointee, he has held the key vote on such high-profile issues as abortion, affirmative action, gay rights, guns, campaign finance and voting rights.Kennedy said he had informed his colleagues and
  
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• Utah Jazz to host Australian teams in preseason

  27-06-2018 20:55
  SALT LAKE CITY — Joe Ingles — and Dante Exum, if he remains in Utah — won't be the only one with an Aussie accent playing on the Vivint Arena court this preseason.The Jazz will play two Australian teams this preseason, including the Perth Wildcats (Sept. 28) and the Adelaide 36ers (Oct. 5) at Vivint Arena. This will be the Sixers' first-ever game against an NBA opponent, the team announced on its website.Adelaide has a couple of familiar faces on it — and not just for the
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Donovan Mitchell’s ‘Spida’ nickname becomes official entry on Dictionary.com

  27-06-2018 20:33 via sportspyder.com
  ... e “nickname of Donovan Mitchell, record-breaking shooting guard for the Utah Jazz and contender for NBA’s 2018 Rookie of the Year.” Mitchell’s Rookie and Spid ...
  
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• Donovan Mitchell’s ‘Spida’ nickname becomes official entry on Dictionary.com

  27-06-2018 20:30
  Donovan Mitchell arrived at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California on Monday in style. The Utah Jazz guard sported a red suit, but his transportation to the event is what made the most noise.Mitchell arrived in a massive Adidas-sponsored black van that read "Rookie?" which has been used in a campaign to troll Philadelphia's Ben Simmons in the Rookie of the Year race.Simmons would take home the trophy that night, but Adidas still decided to celebrate Mitchell's record-breaking rookie season Tu
  
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• Utah man who fatally shot woman in his garage won’t face criminal charges

  27-06-2018 20:22
  A West Jordan man who shot and killed a woman he discovered in his garage one morning in early June will not be charged in her death, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said Wednesday.Gill told The Salt Lake Tribune that attorneys screened the investigation Tuesday, and that the homeowner won’t face charges because he shot the woman, 23-year-old Makayla Yeaman, in self-defense.Gill declined to elaborate on his decision making until he had informed West Jordan police of his office&
  
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• Ex-Baylor athletic director: Black athletes made scapegoats in football scandal

  27-06-2018 20:13
  Austin, Texas • The former athletic director at Baylor University has claimed regents schemed to make black football players scapegoats for a decades-long problem of sexual assault at the nation’s largest Baptist school.Excerpts taken from Ian McCaw’s June 19 deposition are quoted in a federal lawsuit against Baylor filed Wednesday. Ten women are suing the school over how it handled their allegations of sexual assault.Baylor was engulfed in a sexual assault scandal surrounding i
  
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• Back in Utah for his first NFL offseason, former Ute Garett Bolles is excited for the future

  27-06-2018 20:12
  Lehi • He lifts his mammoth right arm — the one he springs forward to keep the game’s top pass-rushers from invading his personal space on every snap — and he points. As dozens of young players warm up, all with the No. 72 on their back and all with “Bolles” across their shoulders, Garett Bolles motions toward the new school on the other side of the parking lot and keeps moving his hand to emphasize what is new and what used to be. None of this existed when Bol
  
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• Shocker: Defending champion Germany eliminated from World Cup

  27-06-2018 20:11
  Kazan, Russia • Everyone was waiting for Germany to score another late World Cup-saving goal.It never came.Instead, the Germans have become the fourth defending champions in the last five tournaments to be eliminated in the group stage following a 2-0 loss to South Korea on Wednesday.The four-time champions allowed a pair of injury-time goals while knowing a 1-0 victory would have been enough to advance because of the result in the other group match.“It’s very, very hard to put
  
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• Join us on UtahJazz.com at 4PM today for a LIVE look at @GraysonJAllen's introductory press conference… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-06-2018 20:06 via twitter.com
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• House defeats GOP immigration bill

  27-06-2018 20:04
  The Republican-led House has killed a broad, GOP-written immigration bill. The rejection was expected because of Republican divisions and solid Democratic opposition.The defeat reflects GOP worries over alienating conservatives, whom they’ll need in this fall’s elections. The bill would give some immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children a chance for citizenship, and that’s anathema to hard-right voters.The 301-121 vote came despite President Donald Trump tweeting hi
  
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• ‘The cults won,’ anti-polygamist says as even some supporters of Winston Blackmore mock his sentence

  27-06-2018 19:51
  Arthur Palmer reacted on Facebook minutes after a judge in British Columbia sentenced polygamists Winston Blackmore and James Oler.I find you guilty of polygamy, so I’m gonna punish you by sentencing you to your home to live polygamy 24 hours a day! 😂Posted by Arthur Palmer on Tuesday, June 26, 2018“I find you guilty of polygamy, so I’m gonna punish you by sentencing you to your home to live polygamy 24 hours a day!” Palmer wrote. Palmer is part of Blackmore&
  
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• U. Study: Smartphone firms better than car manufacturers at making ‘infotainment’ systems less distracting to drivers

  27-06-2018 19:49
  Google and Apple are better at building less-distracting vehicle “infotainment” systems than are car manufacturers, according to a study released Wednesday by the University of Utah and the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.So the smartphone companies may be showing the way to eventually make safe the wide array of distracting electronic wizardry in new cars from touch screens to videos and gesture controls to programs-while-you-drive navigation tools.“It does show that there&r
  
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• Joseph Jackson, patriarch of musical Jackson family, dies at 89

  27-06-2018 19:16
  New York • Joseph Jackson, the strong, fearsome patriarch of the musical Jackson family, has died, according to a person close to the family.The person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person was not allowed to discuss the topic publicly, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Jackson died but had no additional information. He was 89.Jackson was a guitarist who put his own musical ambitions aside to work in the steel mills to support his wife and nine children in Ga
  
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• Utah family opens Italian restaurant number 3, bringing pasta, seafood and other ‘sweet Sicily’ flavors to Sugar House

  27-06-2018 19:00
  Mamma mia! Utah can’t seem to get enough of the Mirenda family and their Sicilian cooking.The father-son duo, Francesco and Giuseppe, behind the popular eateries Sicilia Mia and Antica Sicilia have opened a third in Sugar House, called Dolce Sicilia (with a fourth planned for downtown Salt Lake City later this year).The name of the newest spot means sweet Sicily, and many of the dishes — some imported from the other spots and a few unique to Sugar House — are a treat .If you go
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Q&A: Keeping Exum & Favors, Star Targets and More

  27-06-2018 18:44 via sportspyder.com
  ... s to improve on that end. Who are your top 5 free agent targets for the Utah Jazz? Realistic preferred not feel free to go all Fantasy Island. @StewieStoney I ...
  
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• Defending champion Germany eliminated from World Cup

  27-06-2018 18:40
  Kazan, Russia • Germany is out of the World Cup, the fourth defending champion in the last five tournaments to be eliminated in the group stage.The four-time champions lost to South Korea 2-0 Wednesday, allowing a pair of injury-time goals while knowing a 1-0 victory would have been enough to advance because of the result in the other group match.Germany ended up last in Group F while Sweden and Mexico advanced to the round of 16. South Korea was also eliminated despite the victory.It was t
  
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• Endangered species listing considered for rare Nevada toad

  27-06-2018 18:31
  Reno, Nev. • U.S. wildlife officials have agreed to consider Endangered Species Act protection for a rare toad in northern Nevada’s high desert where one of the biggest producers of geothermal energy in the nation wants to build another power plant.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday that conservationists presented “substantial scientific” information suggesting the Dixie Valley toad could be at risk of extinction.It concluded the Center for Biological Diversit
  
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• Utah developer quits Vermont plans inspired by Mormon leader

  27-06-2018 18:28
  Tunbridge, Vt. • A Utah businessman is abandoning plans for a massive development in four rural Vermont towns based on the papers of Mormon founder Joseph Smith.David Hall’s family foundation had been buying land near Smith’s birthplace in Sharon, Vermont, for what he described as an economically, ecologically and socially sustainable development with housing for 20,000 people many years in the future.A local group has been formed to fight the plans. The towns and the legislatur
  
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• Elizabeth Smart says she’s pregnant with third baby

  27-06-2018 18:28
  Kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart says she’s pregnant with her third child.Smart made the announcement in an Instagram post Monday with a picture of an ultrasound and the words: “Pretty HUGE news!!! We’re expecting baby #3 in November!!!!”Smart was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City bedroom by street preacher Brian David Mitchell in 2002 at age 14 and held captive for nine months before she was found. Mitchell was convicted of kidnapping and raping Smart and sentenced to
  
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• A spoiler-free review of ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp,’ the most playful Marvel movie yet

  27-06-2018 18:00
  The movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe contain multitudes, and can cover any genre: war movie (“Captain America: The First Avenger”), political thriller (“Captain America: The Winter Soldier”), planet-hopping science fiction (the “Guardians of the Galaxy” movies), fantasy (“Thor: The Dark World”) and even action comedy (“Thor: Ragnarok”).What the newest entry in the franchise, “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” does is even more d
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Winners and losers of Utah’s 2018 primary election

  27-06-2018 17:57
  On today’s episode of “Trib Talk,” Tribune reporters Benjamin Wood, Taylor Anderson and Taylor Stevens and columnist Robert Gehrke discuss the results of Tuesday’s primary election.A lightly edited transcription of their discussion is included below.Benjamin Wood: Hey “Trib Talk” listeners, this is Benjamin Wood.It is 10:47 p.m. on Tuesday, June 26. Utah’s primary election was today and the polls closed a little less than three hours ago. We still don&rs
  
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• The story of Donald Trump’s grandfather, who came to the US as an unaccompanied minor

  27-06-2018 17:47
  The packed steamship S.S. Eider arrived in New York City’s Castle Garden, the country’s first immigration center, on Oct. 17, 1885. Hundreds of would-be Americans from Germany had traveled for 10 days across the North Atlantic to their new home. Among them was a skinny, light-haired 16-year-old who had left his home town, a small winemaking village where working hard meant just getting by.Friedrich Trump stood on the deck, “waiting for his first glimpse of the New York Harbor,&
  
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• Supreme Court deals big setback to labor unions

  27-06-2018 17:29
  Washington • The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that government workers can’t be forced to contribute to labor unions that represent them in collective bargaining, dealing a serious financial blow to organized labor.The justices are scrapping a 41-year-old decision that had allowed states to require that public employees pay some fees to unions that represent them, even if the workers choose not to join.The 5-4 decision fulfills a longtime wish of conservatives to get rid of the so-cal
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - There’s nobody in the NBA like Rudy Gobert

  27-06-2018 17:28 via sportspyder.com
  ... ut two knee injuries that sidelined him for a large chunk of games. When the Jazz dropped to the gutters of the NBA standings earlier this year in January, Go ...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Rock On: A Utah Jazz player who beat Doncic to the 'friend' invite

  27-06-2018 17:12 via sportspyder.com
  ...Doncic isn’t the first Euro to have a crush on the “Friends” star. In 2009, Jazz reserve Kyrylo Fesenko said he avoided staring at celebrities during Lakers...
  
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• W A L L P A P E R W E D N E S D A Y 🎷 https://t.co/W48Yk06F8n

  27-06-2018 17:09 via twitter.com
  
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• Rock On: A Utah Jazz player who beat Doncic to the 'friend' invite

  27-06-2018 17:00
  THE DATING GAMENewly acquired Dallas Maverick Luka Doncic has high aspirations — and not just in basketball.Doncic told Bleacher Report he wouldn't mind dating Jennifer Aniston."I hear she's single now," he said. "I mean, she's nice. I just like her."Wrong number, dude. Please hang up and try again.Basketball players looking for dates should call 1-800-KARDASHIAN. Operators are standing by.
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• Back home in Utah for his first NFL offseason, former Ute Garett Bolles is excited about what lies ahead

  27-06-2018 16:52
  Lehi • He lifts his mammoth right arm — the one he springs forward to keep the game’s top pass-rushers from invading his personal space on every snap — and he points. As dozens of young players warm up, all with the No. 72 on their back and all with “Bolles” across their shoulders, Garett Bolles motions toward the new school on the other side of the parking lot, and keeps moving his hand to emphasize both what is new and what used to be. None of this existed wh
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz editorial: Yes, Ben Simmons won ROY, and it’s time to move on

  27-06-2018 16:47 via sportspyder.com
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• Utah Jazz editorial: Yes, Ben Simmons won ROY, and it’s time to move on

  27-06-2018 16:38
  Ben Simmons officially won the 2017-18 Rookie of the Year Award and it’s time for Utah Jazz fans, and everyone else, to simply move on. One of the most heated arguments across the NBA this season, particularly for the two franchises with the most skin in the game, the Utah Jazz and Philadelphia 76ers, was […]
  Utah Jazz editorial: Yes, Ben Simmons won ROY, and it’s time to move on - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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