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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Predicting the final landing spot for Jazz free agents

  30-06-2018 23:57 via sportspyder.com
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• LeBron James returns to L.A. to plot next move as free agency nears

  30-06-2018 23:52
  Cleveland • LeBron James flew back to Los Angeles from a family vacation in the Caribbean. He could be there longer than usual.Hours before NBA free agency opened with the three-time champion as its most coveted prize, James returned Saturday to Southern California, where he has two homes and a film production company. The Lakers are hoping they can persuade him to sign with them and return them to glory.Los Angeles is among the teams in the mix to land James after his agent told the Clevel
  
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• A white woman called police on a black 12-year-old who was mowing grass

  30-06-2018 23:52
  It’s a business that has existed for as long as there have been summer vacations and borrowed lawn mowers: A pint-size entrepreneur offers to endure the rage of a summer sun on a neighbor’s behalf, pushing a lawn mower across high grass for a small fee.Last week, in Maple Heights, Ohio, that entrepreneur was Reggie Fields, a 12-year-old middle schooler who is the owner and mower-in-chief of Mr. Reggie’s Lawn Service. His sister and two cousins also provided manual labor in thei
  
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• Utah Jazz: Predicting the final landing spot for Jazz free agents

  30-06-2018 23:45
  With free agency just around the corner, we’ll make some final predictions for where current Utah Jazz players will end up. The NBA offseason is in full swing, and things are beginning to get interesting. Where will LeBron James land? Will Paul George stay in OKC, or will he and LeBron partner to create another […]
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• Trump asserts he didn’t push House GOP on immigration

  30-06-2018 23:43
  Berkley Heights, N.J. • President Donald Trump is claiming he never pushed House Republicans to vote for immigration bills that failed last week, his latest display of whiplash on the legislation.Trump tweets from his New Jersey golf club he didn’t press GOP lawmakers to support the plans because it wouldn’t have cleared the Senate. He writes he released many House Republicans “prior to the vote knowing we need more Republicans to win in Nov.”That contradicts a tweet
  
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• Analysis: One hot summer looms around the NBA

  30-06-2018 23:16
  NBA free agency opens at 10:01 p.m. MDT Saturday. Here’s a look at the most important story lines to follow.Summer of LeBronEven at 33, James remains the dominant force in the game, and his free agency will again be the league’s No. 1 topic of conversation. The difference this time around is that his options aren’t great. After opting out of the final year of his deal Friday, he’ll likely either stay with the Cleveland Cavaliers or join the Los Angeles Lakers. As constitu
  
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• Hundreds rallied in Salt Lake City, protesting Trump’s immigration policies that have separated families

  30-06-2018 22:29
  With prayers, banners, signs, songs, chants and angry speeches, protesters rallied by the hundreds Saturday at the Utah State Capitol against the treatment of immigrants at the hands of the Trump administration.“I never thought I was going to be protesting for children’s rights inside this country,” said Deyvid Morales, an activist and “Dreamer” who moved to the United States when he was 9. “Am I in a different country? Did I get deported to a different countr
  
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• Monson: C’mon, LeBron. You can win a title by signing with the Utah Jazz

  30-06-2018 22:16
  This isn’t one of those weak open letters to some Joe Blow, helping him out, giving him unsolicited advice, telling him what to do and what not to do.It’s a weak open letter to LeBron James, helping him out, giving him unsolicited advice, telling him to sign with … the Utah Jazz.And it goes like this:LeBron,Don’t do it, man. Do not. I repeat, do not sign with the L.A. Lakers. That’s so predictable. It’s a cliche. It’s been done time and time again. Sign
  
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• Analysis: The Jazz’s conservative approach this summer won’t turn heads, but it lays the framework for a potential splash in 2019

  30-06-2018 22:16
  As the world waits to hear where LeBron James will be taking his talents, free agency in Utah is likely to be a good deal less buzzy.The Jazz, it is widely understood, are looking to lock up the players they had last season, including Derrick Favors, Dante Exum, Raul Neto and Georges Niang. It’s not a strategy that appeals to the imagination that so often accompanies free agency — then again, that has never really been Dennis Lindsey’s style.“The exit interviews went real
  
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• Stars, begone: Messi loses in World Cup Round of 16, Ronaldo follows suit

  30-06-2018 22:12
  Kazan, Russia • What Lionel Messi has never done, 19-year-old Kylian Mbappe did twice.The quick-footed French teenager scored two goals in a five-minute span of the second half to help his team rally for a 4-3 victory over Argentina. Saturday’s victory gave France a spot in the World Cup quarterfinals.Messi, who turned 31 during his fourth and possibly final World Cup, set up a pair of goals but again failed to score in a knockout match at the biggest event in soccer.Mbappe got his tw
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Analysis: The Jazz’s conservative approach this summer won’t turn heads, but it lays the framework for a potential splash in 2019

  30-06-2018 22:06 via sportspyder.com
  ... e, or something which the franchise can build a long-term vision around? The Jazz won’t know the answer to that question without giving the core of the 2017-1 ...
  
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• Want to get cash for killing a coyote? Utah’s bounty program now requires more info to fight fraud.

  30-06-2018 21:06
  A West Jordan couple provided Utah wildlife officials with 237 coyote scalps over the past couple of years, cashing in each one for $50 under a bounty program targeting the pesky predator.The couple’s hauls were among the biggest submitted in the five years since the Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) implemented the program in the name of protecting mule deer, but Jared Don Gasser and Stacey Lyne DeMille’s productivity was hardly unique. Several Utah bounty participants turn in do
  
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• ‘We care’: Protesters of family separations flood U.S. cities

  30-06-2018 20:48
  Washington • They wore white. They shook their fists in the air. They carried signs reading: “No more children in cages,” and “What’s next? Concentration Camps?”In major cities and tiny towns, marchers gathered across America, moved by accounts of children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, in the latest act of mass resistance against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.“I’m hoping that decent human beings come t
  
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• New Mexico falls to last place in child well-being, report says

  30-06-2018 20:00
  Albuquerque, N.M. • As the number of children living in poverty and without health insurance increased in New Mexico, the state fell to last place nationwide in child well-being, a new report released Wednesday showed.The state’s standing in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual Kids Count report marked a five-year low for New Mexico, which has struggled for years in the rankings and historically has had one of the nation’s highest poverty rates. The state slipped from 49
  
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• Firefighters gain on blazes burning across Utah, but July 4 weather will be favorable to wildfires

  30-06-2018 19:50
  Cooler temperatures and higher humidity helped firefighters in Utah make progress on wildfires Friday, including one that has been burning for 3 1/2 weeks and has scorched 27 square miles. The time for progress is expiring. The National Weather Service says temperatures in Salt Lake City are to return to the mid-90s on Monday and remain there through Independence Day.In St. George and the surrounding valleys, currently the epicenter of Utah’s wildfire season, the thermometer will go back t
  
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• Harlan Ellison, prolific and pugnacious writer of science fiction, dies at 84

  30-06-2018 19:48
  Harlan Ellison, a prolific writer who was lauded for his science fiction, fantasy, crime fiction, horror and television scripts, but who had such a penchant for pugnacity that his own book jackets called him “possibly the most contentious person on Earth,” died June 27 at his home in Sherman Oaks, California. He was 84.His death was announced by his agent, Susan Shapiro. The cause was not disclosed.Ellison began publishing stories in the 1950s, writing in part to spite a college prof
  
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• Monson: In making his smartest move, LeBron James would shock the world — and win it, too — by signing with the Utah Jazz

  30-06-2018 19:45
  This isn’t one of those weak open letters to some Joe Blow, helping him out, giving him unsolicited advice, telling him what to do and what not to do.It’s a weak open letter to LeBron James, helping him out, giving him unsolicited advice, telling him to sign with … the Utah Jazz.And it goes like this:LeBron,Don’t do it, man. Do not. I repeat, do not sign with the L.A. Lakers. That’s so predictable. It’s a cliche. It’s been done time and time again. Sign
  
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• Mbappe, not Messi, stars as France knocks out Argentina 4-3 at World Cup

  30-06-2018 19:38
  Kazan, Russia • With Lionel Messi out of the tournament, the World Cup has a new star.Kylian Mbappe, only 19 and one of the youngest players at the tournament, scored two goals in a five-minute span of the second half to lead France over Argentina 4-3 Saturday and into the World Cup quarterfinals.Messi, at 31 and playing in his fourth and possibly final World Cup, set up a pair of goals but again failed to score in a knockout match at the biggest event in soccer.Mbappe was a constant threat
  
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• Grief in small town: March honors victims of newsroom attack

  30-06-2018 19:30
  Annapolis, Md. • Quietly clutching candles or hoisting #AnnapolisStrong signs, more than 1,000 people streamed through Maryland’s capital, remembering five people slain in a newspaper office not just as gatekeepers of the news but as a crucial piece of their tight-knit community.Friends, former co-workers and people who felt connected to the victims took part in a strikingly silent candlelit march Friday night to honor the employees of The Capital newspaper who were killed a day earli
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Five free agent options at the center spot

  30-06-2018 19:27 via sportspyder.com
  ... Report: Utah Jazz ‘in the mix’ for RFA Davis Bertans by Zachary Padmore ...
  
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• Utah Jazz alumni Chris Morris will make a visit this week! https://t.co/gE5DzJ0azY

  30-06-2018 19:26 via twitter.com
  
  Utah Jazz alumni Chris Morris will make a visit this week! https://t.co/gE5DzJ0azY
  
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• Former Aggie running back Robert Turbin suspended for first 4 games of NFL season

  30-06-2018 19:23
  Indianapolis • Indianapolis Colts running back Robert Turbin has been suspended without pay for the first four games of the season for violating the NFL policy on performance-enhancers.The NFL announced the suspension Friday. Turbin is eligible to participate in offseason and preseason practices and games.Turbin, who played at Utah State, tweeted that a urine sample he provided to the league resulted in a positive test. Turbin said he was “truly sorry” for “a mistake that
  
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• LIVE: Hundreds are rallying in Salt Lake City, protesting Trump’s immigration policies that have separated families

  30-06-2018 19:21
  Shirley, from militant group Brown Berets, leads chant “Abolish ICE!” #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch #SLC pic.twitter.com/mtxJ0wHqob— Sean P. Means (@SeanPMeans) June 30, 2018At least 1,000 Utahns are rallying at the Utah State Capitol on Saturday, one of hundreds of events nationwide to protest President Donald Trump’s immigration policies that have put thousands of migrants in detention — some still separated from their children.The Families Belong Together rallies
  
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• Lower bowl tickets are almost sold out! Don't miss your chance to sit close to the action for only $8. >>… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-06-2018 19:18 via twitter.com
  Lower bowl tickets are almost sold out! Don't miss your chance to sit close to the action for only $8.>>… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Utah Jazz: Five free agent options at the center spot

  30-06-2018 19:15
  To conclude our five-part free agency series, here’s a look at five free agent centers who the Utah Jazz could consider as options to back-up Rudy Gobert. There’s a growing belief that the Utah Jazz may not have many big moves in them this summer. Barring a trade, their big offseason plan is likely to […]
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• Margaret Sullivan: Trump’s attitude toward the press has infected the whole nation

  30-06-2018 19:00
  Some people get it.Some people never will.One of those who gets it was the security guard in Denver who stopped Denver Post reporter Noelle Phillips on her way out of the building Thursday to say how upset he was about the massacre of journalists at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland.“If you attack the press,” he told her, “you attack our democracy.”One of those who never will is the president of the United States, who reacted to the journalistic disaste
  
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• Amid public triumph, private turmoil for Marvel’s Stan Lee

  30-06-2018 18:30
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — It has been another epic year for characters Stan Lee helped create, with “Black Panther” and “Avengers: Infinity War” earning more than $3 billion combined globally and “Ant-Man and the Wasp” still to open next week, all three featuring the clever cameos beloved by devoted fans of the Marvel Comics mastermind.But for Lee himself, the past year has been tough and tumultuous. After the death last July of Joan, his wife of 69 years and p
  
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• Facebook offers detail about its ties to device makers in new data turned over to Congress

  30-06-2018 18:22
  Facebook shared user information with 52 hardware and software makers, including some based in China, under agreements designed to make its social media platform work more effectively on mobile devices, the company said in information furnished to Congress late Friday night.The acknowledgment, which came in more than 700 pages of replies to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is the fullest to date regarding reports that Facebook shared user data with some companies for years after it stopp
  
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• You’ll want to scrape the dish clean with Dolce Sicilia’s luscious spaghetti alla carbonara

  30-06-2018 18:15
  Dish of the Week • Spaghetti alla Carbonara$23.95 • This luscious, artery-clogging dish is partly prepared table side. Watch as the waiter dots your plate with flourishes of reduced balsamic vinegar, squeezes alcohol into a wheel of Grana Padano and ignites the cheese. Staff brings the cooked house-made spaghetti, glossy with eggs and mixed with pancetta, which is then tossed into the melting vessel. The waiter scrapes the cheese from the edge of the wheel, just like you’ll be sc
  
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• U.S. ambassador to Estonia resigns over Trump comments

  30-06-2018 17:25
  Helsinki • The U.S. ambassador to Estonia has resigned over frustrations with President Donald Trump’s comments about the European Union and his treatment of Washington’s European allies.In a private Facebook message posted Friday, James D. Melville wrote: “For the President to say EU was ‘set up to take advantage of the United States, to attack our piggy bank,’ or that ‘NATO is as bad as NAFTA’ is not only factually wrong, but proves to me that it&
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - 2018 NBA Free Agency: Would Jabari Parker make sense for Utah?

  30-06-2018 17:16 via sportspyder.com
  ... fenders around him could make up for his natural deficiencies. How Would the Jazz Sign Parker? Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images This is probably the biggest s ...
  
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• Rich Lowry: The tawdry and dumb Nazi charge

  30-06-2018 17:14
  The Nazi analogy has long been recognized as the crudest and dumbest form of argument, but it is enjoying a renaissance.Former CIA Director Michael Hayden notoriously tweeted a photo of Auschwitz-Birkenau as a response to family separations at the border. Upon a report that parents at the border were being told that their children were being taken to get bathed and disappearing, Chris Hayes of MSNBC tweeted, “What does this remind you of?” Soledad O’Brien chimed in, “Welp
  
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• Holly Richardson: Topaz has a lesson for today's internment camps

  30-06-2018 17:12
  After the attacks on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, fear and suspicion were at a fever pitch. In February 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the War Department to create “military zones” which would prevent people of certain ethnic descent from entering “sensitive” areas. In March, Congress passed a law codifying the Executive Order and in May, people of Japanese descent were being put in concentration (or more nicely called, reloc
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Trump is losing the country on immigration

  30-06-2018 17:11
  The latest Pew Research Center poll of 2,002 adults finds that “that 38% say legal immigration into the United States should be kept at its present level, while 32% say it should be increased and 24% say it should be decreased.”Since 2001, according to the poll, “the share of Americans who favor increased legal immigration into the U.S. has risen 22 percentage points, while the share who support a decrease has declined 29 points.”That’s bad news for the anti-immigra
  
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• U.S. senator to join perhaps 1,000 protesting Trump’s immigration policies today in Salt Lake City

  30-06-2018 17:03
  At least 1,000 Utahns are expected to rally at the Utah State Captiol on Saturday, one of hundreds of events nationwide to protest President Donald Trump’s immigration policies that have put thousands of migrants in detention — some still separated from their children.The Families Belong Together rallies will be “calling out the rhetoric seeking to demonize people seeking asylum,” said Cristóbal Villegas, secretary of the Utah Democratic Party and one of the Salt L
  
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• The Supreme Court will review Crow elk hunting rights in Wyoming. It could determine the definition of ‘unoccupied lands.’

  30-06-2018 17:00
  Billings, Mont. • The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a case in which a Crow tribal member and former tribal game warden from Montana is asserting his right under a 150-year-old treaty with the U.S. government to hunt elk in the Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming, The Billings Gazette reports.A ruling could resolve disagreements among lower courts with regard to tribal treaty rights, U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco wrote last month in recommending the high court take up the ca
  
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• Letters: Baby boomers must fight against tyranny

  30-06-2018 15:00
  I am 70 years old, part of the baby boom generation. I received a note from my sister, who is of the same generation, worrying about the future direction of this country. She sees the possibility of the end of democracy, and the establishment of a totalitarian state.Here is my answer to her.I disagree. As long as people like you and me and our friends stand to power and call bull----, this country will never become a totalitarian state. If we collapse, retreat and do nothing, what will inspire t
  
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• Letter: Why should I have to fear for my life and home because of neighbors’ fireworks?

  30-06-2018 15:00
  My house was set on fire by an aerial firework on July 4, 2016. A rocket hit my home and landed on the cable box. It kept burning and set my house on fire. The people who set off the fireworks used my water hose to put out the fire. But did not tell me what happened. I asked the neighbors, but never found out who did it. I filed a police report, too.I am lucky my house did not burn down. I hate aerial fireworks. They should be illegal. The cost and risk to homeowners and other property is too gr
  
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• Letter: Stop the attacks on Utah’s irreplaceable landscape

  30-06-2018 15:00
  I wasn’t born in Utah. I didn’t take my first steps here; Utah wasn’t where I learned how to ride a bike. I didn’t live here through profound teenage years and I didn’t start a family here. In fact, in one month I won’t even be a resident of this great state.What I have found here, what I have felt here, is something that should be available for generations to come: Utah offers an unparalleled access to wild lands, lands that awaken our most primitive selves.
  
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• Letter: Shireen Ghorbani cares about Utahns’ health care and deserves your vote

  30-06-2018 15:00
  Access to quality, affordable health care is essential for all of us. In this regard, there’s a stark difference between Shireen Ghorbani, the Democratic challenger for Utah’s 2nd District, and our current representative, Chris Stewart.As stated in her recent op-ed articles in the Deseret News and the St. George Spectrum, Ghorbani supports care-driven, people-centered, affordable health care, available for everyone without exclusions for pre-existing conditions. She has proposals for
  
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• Letter: Romney has compromised his ideals

  30-06-2018 15:00
  Now that it is pretty much a foregone conclusion Mitt Romney will win Orrin Hatch’s Senate seat for life, it is a sad commentary it only took him four years’ residence in Utah to manage a move right back to his home turf of the eastern United States. I suppose, like Hatch, he will make an occasional foray beck to Utah.It is a shame that Romney, who is basically a decent guy and one who recently called the president a phony and a fraud, found the lure of politics so great he compromis
  
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• Letter: Enough suspense, now get Mexico to fund your wall

  30-06-2018 15:00
  President Trump is such a fun person. He told us again and again that Mexico would pay for “The Wall.” Now we all know he is just messing with Congress to see if they really listened to him.Yes, Mr. Trump, we all listened, and I guess those who voted for you believed you. So, please quit keeping us in suspense, and keep your promise, and get the money from Mexico to build the wall. Bob Gilchrist, Millcreek
  
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• A Utah historian is building a database of every black person who joined the Mormon church before 1930

  30-06-2018 15:00
  Some Mormons know the stories of Elijah Able, the faith’s first black elder, or Jane Manning James, an early black pioneer, but few, if any, have heard of hundreds of other African American Latter-day Saints — members like Freda Lucretia Magee Beaulieu, Elijah Banks or Julia Miller Lamb.Their devotion and courage in the church’s founding and growth years have largely been lost to Mormonism’s collective memory, making them all but invisible in the mostly white church.That,
  
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• It looks Utah Lake’s Lincoln Beach won’t be open for July Fourth. You can blame the toxic algae.

  30-06-2018 06:15
  Stewing under last week’s hot sun, the waters off Utah Lake’s east shore are recording increasing concentrations of dangerous cyanobacteria, prompting closures and stern health warnings to those who enjoy swimming, paddling and sailing.Lincoln Beach has become so toxic that Utah County authorities ordered its closure Friday leading into the Independence Day holiday.“Water with these levels of concentration in the algal bloom pose serious health risks,” said Eric Edwards,
  
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• Tavares and who else? Top names to watch in NHL free agency

  30-06-2018 06:09
  The NHL’s best rarely make it to free agency.Teams tend to re-sign their top players, keeping them off the market and on their rosters. That leaves a slew of solid veterans and journeymen available to the highest bidders trying to find a forward to play on a second or third line, a defenseman to be in a second pairing or perhaps a backup goaltender.John Tavares this year is considered a top target, assuming the New York Islanders and their new leaders can’t persuade the 27-year-old c
  
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• Here’s how the World Cup round of 16 shapes up

  30-06-2018 05:42
  Moscow • Whew. Catch your breath yet? Because here we go again.A 42-hour pause at the World Cup has allowed hundreds of thousands visitors and the billions watching around the soccer-engorged planet to reflect on 15 consecutive days of 48-match mayhem, of a dethroned champion, VAR, Fair Play tiebreakers, late game-winners, own goals, Senegal’s dance step, the Viking Clap and Harry Kane.The hangover will need to subside by Saturday because the best tournament in recent memory will resu
  
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• AP source: Mavs chasing DeAndre Jordan again, 3 years later

  30-06-2018 04:46
  DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Mavericks are making another run at DeAndre Jordan, three years after the center jilted them in free agency to stay with the Los Angeles Clippers.Jordan has opted out of the final year of that contract he signed with LA in 2015, and the Mavericks intend to pursue him as an unrestricted free agent, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Friday.Dallas also intends to decline the $5 million club option on Dirk Nowitzki's contract and re-s
  
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• Saying medical marijuana would do irreparable harm, opponents again try to block initiative from November ballot

  30-06-2018 04:42
  A group suing Utah’s lieutenant governor to stop him from adding to the November ballot a measure that could legalize medical marijuana filed additional court documents Friday, which they hope will halt the process.Attorneys for Drug Safe Utah on Friday filed a motion for an emergency injunction, arguing the court should block Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox from approving the cannabis measure and placing it on the ballot, because the plant is illegal and because doing so would cause irreparable harm
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Donovan Mitchell calls Ricky Rubio ‘Jesus’

  30-06-2018 04:38 via sportspyder.com
  ... n a Jesus look-alike contest, Mitchell is playing the role of savior for the Jazz on the court. Mitchell and Rubio appear to have as much chemistry off the co ...
  
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