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• Greg Van Avermaet extends Tour de France lead as Chris Froome’s Sky team bides its time

  17-07-2018 23:59
  Le Grand-Bornand, France • Facing the climbing prowess of Chris Froome’s Team Sky, Greg Van Avermaet expected to lose his lead of the Tour de France on the first day in the mountains.Instead, the Olympic champion managed to strengthen his hold on the yellow jersey when an anticipated attack never came on Tuesday’s Stage 10.Van Avermaet escaped in an early breakaway and held on when he was left all alone to struggle up the final of four Alpine passes. Once over the Col de la Colo
  
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• Wilderness activist Rose Chilcoat won’t be tried in southern Utah corral dispute; state decides not to fight move to drop charges

  17-07-2018 23:51
  San Juan County’s felony prosecution of a wilderness advocate is coming to an end without a trial or conviction after state lawyers filed papers announcing they will not oppose the Utah Court of Appeals' motion to dismiss the case.During a hearing last week, a three-judge panel voiced strong doubts that available evidence warranted charging Rose Chilcoat with attempting to kill livestock and other crimes when her husband, Mark Franklin, closed a corral gate on state trust land west of Bluf
  
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• MGM sues Vegas mass shooting victims, argues it isn’t liable

  17-07-2018 23:41
  Las Vegas • MGM Resorts International has sued hundreds of victims of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in a bid to avoid liability for the gunfire that rained down from its Mandalay Bay casino-resort in Las Vegas.The company argues in lawsuits filed Friday in Nevada and California that it has "no liability of any kind" to survivors or families of slain victims under a federal law enacted after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.The lawsuits target victims who have sued the com
  
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• An ‘outsider’ accused of starting the devastating Brian Head Fire says he can’t get a fair trial in Iron County

  17-07-2018 23:20
  Attorneys for the man charged with starting the Brian Head Fire last year — which burned through more than 71,000 acres, destroyed 13 homes and cost $40 million to fight — are asking a judge to move the trial to a different county.Robert Lyman will not receive a fair trial in Iron County, his attorneys argued in court papers, because of “hatred” the rural community has expressed in online comments and social media posts for the Taylorsville man accused of accidentally sta
  
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• Senate confirms Utahn to the Federal Reserve board

  17-07-2018 22:16
  Washington • The Senate on Tuesday confirmed a Salt Lake City investor to the board of governors of the Federal Reserve for a 14-year term.Randal Quarles, the founder and managing director of Salt Lake City-based The Cynosure Group, has been serving on the Federal Reserve board, though his term officially expired in January.The Senate on Tuesday voted 66-33 to confirm Quarles as a member of the Federal Reserve board through 2032, ending any concern that he was still serving in a role while
  
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• Former Utah assistant Velaida Harris is named the new women’s basketball coach at Weber State

  17-07-2018 22:16
  Onetime Utah assistant Velaida Harris has been named the new women’s basketball coach at Weber State, the school announced Tuesday.Harris is the sixth head coach in Weber State women’s basketball history, and the first African-American woman to be named a Division I head coach of any sport in the state of Utah.“I’m so grateful and thankful for the opportunity to lead the Weber State women’s basketball program,” Harris said in a news release. “I’m e
  
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• Trump corrects his quote, says misspoke on Russian meddling

  17-07-2018 22:04
  Washington • Blistered by bipartisan condemnation of his embrace of a longtime U.S. enemy, President Donald Trump sought Tuesday to “clarify” his public undermining of American intelligence agencies, saying he had misspoken when he said he saw no reason to believe Russia had interfered in the 2016 U.S. election."The sentence should have been, 'I don't see any reason why I wouldn't, or why it wouldn't be Russia" instead of "why it would," Trump said, in a rare admission of error
  
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• Can an ‘outsider’ accused of starting the Brian Head Fire get a fair trial in Iron County? His attorneys want his trial moved out of the rural area.

  17-07-2018 21:03
  Attorneys for the man charged with starting the Brian Head Fire last year — which burned through more than 71,000 acres, destroyed 13 homes and cost $40 million to fight — are asking a judge to move the trial to a different county.Robert Lyman will not receive a fair trial in Iron County, his attorneys argued in court papers, because of “hatred” the rural community has expressed in online comments and social media posts for the Taylorsville man accused of accidentally sta
  
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• Dana Milbank: We are a deeply stupid country

  17-07-2018 21:00
  Washington • My fellow Americans, we are a deeply stupid nation.I know this must be the case because President Trump has repeatedly informed us that we are a "stupid country" — he offered this opinion on at least nine occasions since he launched his campaign for the presidency — and he should know. As he reminded us after his NATO meeting last week, he is a "very stable genius."It is furthermore the president's highly intelligent opinion we have been led by "stupid people" and "
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Why do Republicans hate consumers?

  17-07-2018 21:00
  Why do Republicans hate consumers so much?Seriously. It's bizarre. Whenever they get the chance, Republican officials seem intent on bleeding consumers dry. Or at least celebrating others' bloodletting.Such consumers might be 9/11 first responders and brain-injured National Football League players alleged to have been bilked out of millions of dollars from legal settlements. Or a student who took out thousands of dollars in loans for a degree that turned out to be worthless, from a for-profit sc
  
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• UTA suggests possible sale of naming rights for its TRAX lines or stations as a way to raise money

  17-07-2018 20:31
  The Utah Transit Authority is floating a novel way to help avoid or reduce future tax hikes: selling rights to name its TRAX stations, or even entire transit lines.San Diego did that last year in a deal with Sycuan Casinos. For $25.5 million over 30 years, it renamed what is now called the Sycuan Green Line. Cleveland and Philadelphia have made some similar deals with companies.It’s akin to the Utah Jazz renaming its indoor stadium the Vivint Smart Home Arena for the revenue. Formerly, it
  
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• George F. Will: Our ‘America first’ president put America last in Helsinki

  17-07-2018 20:17
  Washington - America’s child president had a playdate with a KGB alumnus, who surely enjoyed providing daycare. It was a useful, because illuminating, event: Now we shall see how many Republicans retain a capacity for embarrassment.Jeane Kirkpatrick, a Democrat closely associated with such Democratic national security stalwarts as Sen. Henry Jackson and former Sen. and former Vice President Hubert Humphrey, was Ronald Reagan's ambassador to the United Nations. In her speech to the 1984 Rep
  
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• Police: Deaths of 2 whose bodies found in Ogden not linked

  17-07-2018 20:10
  Ogden, Utah • Police say they do not believe the deaths of two people whose bodies were found in Ogden in less than 24 hours are connected.Ogden police Lt. Tim Scott tells the Standard-Examiner the death of a man found Monday near 26th Street and Monroe Boulevard is being investigated as a homicide, and police are pursuing "active leads." Scott did not provide details.Scott says police also are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found Sunday afternoon in a canal near the Busi
  
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• With nearly 125,000 attending in 2018, Sundance Film Festival is a major economic draw, study says

  17-07-2018 20:00
  The Sundance Film Festival is reclaiming its title as Utah’s most popular arts happening, with a new economic study that estimates nearly 125,000 people attended this January’s event.The number of attendees — 124,985 — is more than the estimated 100,000 that attend the FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention every year. FanX, formerly called Salt Lake Comic-Con, had surpassed Sundance as the state’s most-attended cultural event when the convention debuted in 2013.Only the D
  
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• Thanks to new redshirt rule, BYU can now ease its returned Mormon missionaries back into play without burning their eligibility

  17-07-2018 19:59
  Provo • Kalani Sitake has seen it time and again in a football coaching career that has taken him from Eastern Arizona to Southern Utah, Utah, Oregon State and now BYU.Mormon missionaries return from two years of service and just aren’t able to fully participate the first half of the season, then don’t want to the second half because playing even a down of football would burn their redshirt year.Thanks to the new redshirt rule passed by the NCAA Division I Council last month, th
  
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• Wilderness activist Rose Chilcoat likely to avoid trial as state decides not to fight Utah court’s move to drop the case in corral dispute

  17-07-2018 19:40
  San Juan County’s felony prosecution of a wilderness advocate appears to be coming to an end without a trial or conviction after state lawyers filed papers announcing they will not oppose the Utah Court of Appeals' motion to dismiss the case.During a hearing last week, a three-judge panel voiced skepticism that available evidence warranted charging Rose Chilcoat with attempting to kill livestock and other crimes when her husband, Mark Franklin, closed a corral gate on state trust land west
  
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• Lakers, Trail Blazers to meet for Summer League title again

  17-07-2018 19:20
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Wash. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.The Los Angeles Lakers and Portland Trail Blazers will meet in the NBA Summer League championship for a second straight season.Last year Kyle Kuzma dropped a game-high 30 points to lead the Lakers to a 110-98 victory over Portland.This year it'll be MVP-candidate Josh Hart — one of two returning players from last year's team — looking to earn a second straight title for the Lakers (6-0). Alex Caruso is also back for Los Angeles.But f
  
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• Annual horse ride honors past Navajo Nation leaders

  17-07-2018 18:54
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation lawmakers gathering for the start of their weeklong summer session were greeted by a small group of horseback riders.The annual tradition honors past tribal leaders who traveled by horse or wagon to gather input from their communities on the way to the tribal capital. Several people rode in Sunday and Monday.Council delegate Walter Phelps led a group from Cameron. Delegate Steven Begay led another group from Tohatchi, New Mexico.The legislative session in
  
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• Complaint seeks $34K from former Navajo Nation legal counsel

  17-07-2018 18:48
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Investigators with the Navajo Nation are seeking more than $34,000 from the tribe’s former legal counsel after she crashed a tribal vehicle and was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.The Gallup Independent reports that investigators have filed a complaint with the Navajo Nation Office of Hearings and Appeals. The complaint was made public Friday.Karis Begaye, the daughter of Navajo President Russell Begaye, resigned last month.The Arizona Department of Publi
  
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• Tribe begins negotiations with possible new coal plant owner

  17-07-2018 18:45
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Leaders from the Navajo Nation say they’ve begun negotiations with a potential new owner of a coal-fired power plant on their land.The Navajo Generating Station near Page is scheduled to shut down in December 2019.The plant's coal supplier has been leading an effort to find a new owner.Navajo President Russell Begaye says the tribe is negotiating with New York-based Avenue Capital for ownership and one of its subsidiaries, Middle River Power, as an operator.Begaye
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Derrick Favors: 8 years in Salt Lake City

  17-07-2018 18:19 via sportspyder.com
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• Mike Petke does, in fact, give a s---. Why Real Salt Lake’s coach goes viral more than anyone else in American soccer.

  17-07-2018 17:57
  Herriman • Mike Petke does give a s---.Contrary to the concluding sentence delivered in yet another Petke postgame rant gone viral, he gives immensely, and without measure. He has to. In order to circle back to the Real Salt Lake postgame show on KMYU in the hallways beneath a college football stadium, to get back on live TV for two minutes and 25 seconds, to air the seething frustrations that boiled over and became a worldwide talking point, you have to give plenty.Preach, @petkemike! pic.
  
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• A week before his 16th birthday, Preston Summerhays shoots a 60 in U.S. Amateur qualifying

  17-07-2018 17:57
  Preston Summerhays will turn 16 next week, but 60 is the number that really will make this month memorable for him.The Utah State Amateur champion came within inches of shooting a 59 on Monday, posting a 12-under-par 60 at Soldier Hollow Golf Course in Midway in the second round of a U.S. Amateur qualifying event. Both rounds were played on the Silver Course. Summerhays opened with a 65 and then made 10 birdies and an eagle (on the par-4 No. 14) to break the course record. His third shot from 52
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - With Summer League over, the Utah Jazz summer is now in full force

  17-07-2018 17:28 via sportspyder.com
  ...together a summer league team. That price is certainly worth it to the Utah Jazz, especially in recent years. found his way onto not just the roster but the...
  
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• Her 3-year-old was locked in a washing machine filling with water. Now she’s warning parents.

  17-07-2018 17:10
  It’s not unusual for Lindsey and Alan McIver’s children to get up before them.Most mornings, the kids entertain themselves for about 10 to 15 minutes, coloring and playing, before going to wake their parents, Lindsey McIver told The Washington Post.But on Tuesday last week, the Colorado couple were awakened by their panicked 4-year-old son Jace, crying so hard he could barely speak.Lindsey and Alan were only able to make out three of Jace's words: Kloe. Inside. Washer.In a Facebook
  
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• Ogden police make an arrest in death of 74-year-old man

  17-07-2018 16:38
  Ogden police have made an arrest in connection with the death of a 74-year-old man whose body was found Monday morning. Jose Robert Zamora has been booked into the Weber County Jail on suspicion of murder and obstruction of justice.According to jail documents, Zamora, 23, was identified by witnesses who saw multiple altercations between him and the still-unidentified victim. Zamora told police that the man had been following his daughter and looking into her bedroom window. He admitted punching
  
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• West Nile virus found in three Utah counties

  17-07-2018 16:37
  The West Nile virus has been detected in mosquitoes in three Utah counties — Box Elder Davis and Uintah — the first time that's been confirmed in Utah this year.There have been no reports of human infections, but the Utah Department of Health urged Utahns to take precautions.One in five people who contract West Nile develop symptoms such as fever, headaches, vomiting, diarrhea and a rash, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most people recover quickly, but ab
  
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• Trump hands Putin a diplomatic triumph by casting doubt on U.S. intelligence agencies

  17-07-2018 16:34
  Helsinki • President Donald Trump handed Russian President Vladimir Putin an unalloyed diplomatic triumph during their summit here Monday as he refused to support the collective conclusion of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia had interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.Trump's warm rhetorical embrace of Putin, who he said had given him an "extremely strong and powerful" denial that Russia assaulted America's democracy, marked an extraordinary capstone to the first formal mee
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Tired of ‘so much winning,’ President Trump goes for a change of pace in Helsinki

  17-07-2018 16:18
  President Donald Trump apparently was tired of “so much winning," so he went to Helsinki, Finland, for a change of scenery. A Tribune columnist draws attention for his call for Ambassador Huntsman to resign. And Rep. Chris Stewart stands out from the crowd in the Utah congressional delegation.Happy Tuesday. The headlines are in on Trump’s summit with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin -- and they’re all bad. “Disgraceful,” The Arizona Republic; “Trump embraces P
  
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• Morning links: Surprise! Joe Ingles is hilarious on Twitter; Kyle Kuzma reflects on career at Utah

  17-07-2018 16:12
  Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles is always funny on Twitter like he is on camera, but he's been particularly hilarious over the past few days.Here are the top five jokes Ingles, who is spending the summer in Australia (winter there), cracked on the social media site in the last week, presented without commentary. Just go ahead and laugh.Me: Renae, do you look at me & realise how lucky you are?@RenaeIngles: Yeah, lucky you can shoot.
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• Rich Lowry: Donald Trump’s Helsinki Discord

  17-07-2018 15:41
  Donald Trump is not, and never will be, the Moscow correspondent for The Nation magazine, and he shouldn't sound like it.The left-wing publication is prone to extend sympathetic understanding to adversaries of the United States and find some reason, any reason, to blame ourselves for their external aggression and internal suppression. Especially to the regime of Vladimir Putin, which is supposedly forced into its brute-force cynicism by its "encirclement" by the West.This is an old trope going b
  
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• Tribune editorial: On school testing, Utah must make up its mind

  17-07-2018 15:39
  Utah's love-hate relationship with standardized testing took another sharp turn last week with news that students who opt out of testing will be counted as failing the tests.That decision from the Utah Board of Education comes after the U.S. Department of Education refused Utah’s request to, in essence, pretend the students who opted out didn’t exist. The federal Every Student Succeeds Act requires that at least 95 percent of students participate in testing, but more than 5 percent o
  
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• Max Boot: We just watched a U.S. president acting on behalf of a hostile power

  17-07-2018 15:37
  President Donald Trump habitually calls the press “the enemy of the people” — a loathsome calumny, redolent of dictatorships, that he repeated on Sunday. In fact, by asking tough questions at Trump’s joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, reporters once again showed that they are the sentinels of America democracy. If anyone is “the enemy of the people,” it is Trump himself.Those are words I never thought I would write about an
  
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• Paul Waldman: For Republicans, Russian sabotage of our elections is no big deal

  17-07-2018 15:00
  Asked directly Monday at a press conference with Vladimir Putin whether he believes all the American intelligence agencies or the Russian president about Russian manipulation of the 2016 election, President Donald Trump gave an extraordinary answer. After some barely comprehensible words passing on a conspiracy theory about the FBI not confiscating servers at the DNC after they were hacked by Russia, Trump said this:"All I can do is ask the question. My people came to me, [Director of National I
  
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• Letter: What happened to the statesman like Orrin Hatch?

  17-07-2018 15:00
  Sen. Orrin Hatch has decided that the immediate Democratic resistance to Brett Kavanaugh is another example of Democratic efforts to attack Republicans, and more generally the political dogma that surrounds our nation’s capital. I, too, dislike the partisanship that has made collaboration and compromise so rare in Congress today. However, I also find it sad to see that Sen. Hatch, in this and other comments, has decided to spend his last term participating in the partisanship instead of fi
  
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• Letter: Stop breeding coyotes for target practice

  17-07-2018 15:00
  The last I looked, mule deer were not an endangered species. Where I live in Wayne County, we are up to our ears in mule deer, as well as rabbits, but woe unto the unwily coyote that shows his/her face around here. It is accepted science that when hunted excessively, coyotes will increase their reproduction to make up for it. Hence, it would appear that Utah, by paying $50 per coyote scalp, is in the business of breeding coyotes for target practice, using my taxpayer dollars. It's time for this
  
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• Letter: Service workers are being priced out of scenic Utah

  17-07-2018 15:00
  From Jacques Hadler’s commentary (“Utah’s newest congressman wants to fast-track oil drilling — putting Moab at risk,” July 1), it’s difficult to determine whether Rep. John Curtis’ proposed “SPEED Act” would actually allow drilling “right next to Dead Horse State Park.” He offers nothing to back up his claim. Curtis says the bill only relates to approval of drilling permits that would have “no significant effects on the env
  
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• Letter: Let wolves return for the sake of Utah’s ecology and true hunting

  17-07-2018 15:00
  Utah’s “mule deer protection act” is absurd. Of course, mule deer don’t need protection from their natural predators. They coevolved with predators long before humans migrated to North America. Ironically, those who value authentic hunting need to be protected from those who seek to turn wilderness areas into farms that manufacture what Aldo Leopold called “artificialized trophies.”The first stage in creating docile deer was the eradication of apex predators s
  
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• Letter: Killing the coyotes only makes matters worse

  17-07-2018 15:00
  In regards to The Tribune’s editorial on coyotes:Yes, “taxpayers should be howling” if this program continues. Apparently, in Utah and other states, there is a misunderstanding of how nature works. Removing carnivores increases the population of rabbits, which are competing with cattle and sheep for the same forage. If you refer to a study conducted in Utah regarding whether bison released in 1941 were grazing away most of the forage, you’ll see the results demonstrated r
  
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• Letter: City Weekly provides information The Tribune no longer does

  17-07-2018 15:00
  We readers are well aware that our beloved Tribune is in a fight for its life. I for one will hang in as long as there is a paper. I appreciate the excellent reporting Tribune staff is known for concerning local issues. National news is another story. Skimpy Tribune coverage is troubling, but that is available through many in-depth printed sources like The New York Times and Washington Post, reliable to get informed of the “breaking news.” Focusing on local news must continue to be T
  
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• Greg Sargent: Trump is repaying Vladimir Putin for helping him win the presidency

  17-07-2018 15:00
  The events of the past few days — culminating in President Donald Trump’s meeting Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin — have rendered this interpretation inescapable: Trump is currently in the process of repaying Putin for helping to deliver him the presidency.Whatever comes of this meeting — even if Trump does, in fact, gain some concessions from Putin, and even if Putin does not get what he wants out of Trump — that storyline will remain operative. The kn
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Building my ultimate Jazz BIG3 3-on-3 squad

  17-07-2018 07:37 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz: Four moments to look forward to in 2018-19 by Jared Woodcox ...
  
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• Lakers headed to second straight Las Vegas Summer League title game

  17-07-2018 07:24
  Las Vegas • Josh Hart scored 37 points and grabbed nine rebounds to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 112-109 double-overtime victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday in the semifinals of the NBA Summer League.Los Angeles advanced to the championship game for a second straight year after winning the 2017 title behind game MVP Kyle Kuzma and league MVP Lonzo Ball.The Lakers will play Portland in the championship game. Led by 21 points and 16 rebounds from former Utah resident Caleb Swan
  
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• Utah Jazz: Building my ultimate Jazz BIG3 3-on-3 squad

  17-07-2018 07:23
  If I were fielding a team of Utah Jazz alums in an effort to win the next BIG3 season, here’s how I would round out the crew. Without question, the summer season is the wasteland of the professional basketball calendar. Sure, we have the NBA Finals in June, after which the Draft and free agency […]
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Four moments to look forward to in 2018-19

  17-07-2018 06:04 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz: Let’s not forget about Thabo Sefolosha’s impact by Zachary Padmore ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Four moments to look forward to in 2018-19

  17-07-2018 05:51
  By building off the success of the 2017-18 season, there are bound to be plenty of exhilarating moments on the horizon for the Utah Jazz this upcoming season. The Utah Jazz gave us one of the most memorable seasons imaginable in 2017-18. From the rise of Donovan Mitchell to the mid-season turnaround to the Defensive […]
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• Hometown hero Bryce Harper wins thrilling HR Derby over Kyle Schwarber

  17-07-2018 05:17
  Washington • Bryce Harper thrilled the home crowd and surely made his father proud, winning the All-Star Home Run Derby on Monday night with an exceptional display of power that carried him past Kyle Schwarber of the Chicago Cubs 19-18.Harper hit the contest-winning blast in extra time, the reward for hitting two homers at least 440 feet during the 4 minutes of regulation. After he connected with the game winner, the Washington Nationals slugger threw his bat in the air and pointed both ind
  
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• France, Croatia celebrate teams’ World Cup performances

  17-07-2018 04:52
  The welcome was grand, the emotion visceral as France’s victorious World Cup team rolled down Paris’ Champs-Elysees Avenue in an open-top bus Monday while tens of thousands of people cheered with unrestrained pride and jets streamed the national colors — blue, white, red — overhead.The crowd that waited for hours to greet the soccer team, under a hot sun and amid celebratory smoke bombs that choked the air, got its moment hours after the team returned from Russia to hoist
  
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