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• Houston City Council short circuits proposed robot brothel

  03-10-2018 23:45
  Houston • A Canadian company’s plan to open a so-called robot brothel in Houston has been short circuited by city leaders.Houston's City Council on Wednesday updated one local ordinance to specifically ban individuals from having sex with an "anthropomorphic device," a device that resembles a human being, at a sexually-oriented business. But the change wouldn't ban the company from selling the dolls for use elsewhere.The company, KinkySdollS, had previously said it wants to open a "lo
  
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• Chemistry Nobel for using evolution to create new proteins

  03-10-2018 23:43
  Stockholm • Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for using a sped-up version of evolution to create new proteins that have led to a best-selling drug and other products.The Royal Swedish Academy of Science said their work has led to the development of medications, biofuels and a reduced environmental impact from some industrial processes.Frances Arnold of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena was awarded half of the 9-million-kronor ($1.01 million) prize,
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: After roller-coaster hearings, Utah’s Sens. Hatch and Lee appear locked in for embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh

  03-10-2018 23:27
  Last week, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee heard dramatic testimony from Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, and Christine Blasey Ford, a psychology professor who says Kavanaugh assaulted her when they were both teenagers.The narrowly divided Senate is expected to vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation this week, after a supplemental investigation into Kavanaugh’s background by the FBI. And there is little doubt that Utah’s senators will ultimately s
  
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• Ricky talks about being a flashy passer, newest signee—Isaiah Cousins—addresses the media & head coach Quin Snyder… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  03-10-2018 23:26 via twitter.com
  Ricky talks about being a flashy passer, newest signee—Isaiah Cousins—addresses the media & head coach Quin Snyder… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - 6 things that went wrong for the Utah Jazz during the second quarter against the Toronto Raptors

  03-10-2018 23:01 via sportspyder.com
  ... or Utah to be successful as the season goes on. Turnovers on bad passes: The Jazz committed a whopping eight turnovers in the second quarter Tuesday night. Ag ...
  
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• 6 things that went wrong for the Utah Jazz during the second quarter against the Toronto Raptors

  03-10-2018 23:00
  Although it was still just a preseason game, Tuesday night's contest at Vivint Arena between the Utah Jazz and Toronto Raptors provided the Jazz a much better measuring stick to assess their progress than the preseason opener against the Perth Wildcats.While the Jazz wound up winning 105-90 thanks to a wonky second half that saw the Raptors play their starters very little, a prevailing thought after the game was how poorly Utah performed in the second quarter when both teams' coaches played a mo
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Jazz Sign Isaiah Cousins

  03-10-2018 22:55 via sportspyder.com
  ... ding 13.2 PPG, 4.2 APG, and 3.6 RPG with a .431/.408/.741 shooting line. The Jazz don’t project to have any openings on their 15-man NBA roster heading into t ...
  
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• What’s this? Mormon girls passing the sacrament? And not just to the members sitting next to them? And with the church’s blessing? Yep.

  03-10-2018 22:50
  It was practicality, not activism, that gave Mormon girls a chance to carry a sacrament tray, a task universally handed to the church’s all-male priesthood.In July, Liesl Shurtliff told her husband, Scott Shurtliff, a lay bishop for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that she was missing the sacrament — the weekly Communion ritual with bread and water representing the body and blood of Christ — to nurse her baby in the mother’s lounge, typically inside a wom
  
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• Nooses found in California immigration detention center

  03-10-2018 22:31
  Adelanto, Calif. • Federal inspectors found nooses made from bedsheets hanging in more than a dozen cells at an immigration detention facility in Southern California, according to a government report.The Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General issued a scathing report after visiting the privately-run detention facility in the remote, desert city of Adelanto in May, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.Inspectors found nooses in 15 of 20 cells they visited at the cent
  
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• Cristiano Ronaldo denies rape accusations on social media

  03-10-2018 22:29
  Cristiano Ronaldo denied the accusations of rape against him, saying Wednesday that he had a "clear conscience" as he awaits the conclusions of an investigation.The 33-year-old Ronaldo has been accused of rape by Kathryn Mayorga. She has said the soccer great raped her in Las Vegas in 2009."I firmly deny the accusations being issued against me. Rape is an abominable crime that goes against everything that I am and believe in. Keen as I may be to clear my name, I refuse to feed the media spectacl
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz waive Trey Lewis, bring in Isaiah Cousins

  03-10-2018 22:17 via sportspyder.com
  ... ts per game. We have signed Isaiah Cousins >> https://t.co/y7HHqcssfo — Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) October 3, 2018 More from The J-Notes 2018-19 NBA GM Survey is d ...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - 2018-19 NBA GM Survey is definitely a mixed bag for the Utah Jazz

  03-10-2018 22:17 via sportspyder.com
  ... ve Utah slated to be the third-seeded team come playoff time. Meanwhile, the Jazz were the top pick for having the league’s best defense and second to just th ...
  
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• Logan man arrested during investigation into ricin mailed to Trump and the Pentagon

  03-10-2018 22:15
  The FBI and Logan police are investigating an incident involving “potentially hazardous chemicals,” according to an FBI spokesman. According to Logan police, one man is in custody and the arrest is related to envelopes reportedly filled with ricin that were mailed to President Donald Trump and the Pentagon.A spokesman for the FBI said he could not confirm that.“We can confirm that the FBI and law enforcement partners are conducting an operation” at 380 N. 200 West in Loga
  
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• Commentary: I have seen judges up close. Kavanaugh shouldn’t be one.

  03-10-2018 22:13
  I watched the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Judge Brett Kavanaugh nomination for a seat on the United States Supreme Court. I watched as a man who has served in the courts for many years. I have a masters degree in court administration and have served as a regional court executive in the state of Maine, court executive officer of the Akron Municipal Court, assistant court administrator for the District Courts of Massachusetts, as well as positions with the Alaska State Courts and int
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Utah signs Isaiah Cousins, waives Trey Lewis

  03-10-2018 21:49 via sportspyder.com
  ...assists in 18.6 minutes per outing. He earned a preseason contract with the Jazz, but missed the first two games due to a sprained left ankle. Cousins is a 2 ...
  
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• [The Score] - NBA Western Conference betting preview: Predicting win totals for every team

  03-10-2018 21:43 via sportspyder.com
  ... uin Snyder coached what should have been a 55-win (!) team a season ago. The Jazz are the outlier of sexy basketball in the West but this team is collectively ...
  
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• Buck Showalter fired by Orioles after nightmare 115-loss season

  03-10-2018 21:37
  Baltimore • Buck Showalter has been fired as manager of the Orioles, who made three playoff appearances under his guidance but this year staggered through the worst season since the team moved to Baltimore in 1954.Showalter confirmed the dismissal Wednesday in a text message to The Associated Press.A three-time AL Manager of the Year, Showalter ranks second on the Orioles' career list with 669 victories, trailing Earl Weaver. He took over in August 2010 and orchestrated the resurgence of a
  
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• In Utah visit, Attorney General Jeff Sessions promotes a national effort to crack down on violent crime by seeking long sentences

  03-10-2018 21:32
  U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke to a crowd of Utah police officers Wednesday to mark the one-year anniversary of a redoubled effort to crack down on violent crime through local and federal law enforcement partnerships. Standing under Utah’s Capitol Rotunda, Sessions cited declining violent crime figures and high-profile arrests as evidence that Project Safe Neighborhoods 2.0 is working in this state and across the nation.“We’re targeting the most dangerous people in t
  
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• Trump dismisses New York Times story on ‘dubious tax schemes’ as both a ‘hit piece’ and ‘boring’

  03-10-2018 21:17
  Washington • President Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at the New York Times, dismissing a lengthy story about the vast extent to which his father had fueled his wealth with tax avoidance schemes that at times amounted to fraud as both a “hit piece” and “boring.”He also accused the paper of holding a grudge from the 2016 election.The Times story, which published online Tuesday afternoon, reported that Trump had participated in "dubious tax schemes" that allowed his
  
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• New Salt Lake City campaign reminds scooter riders to stay off the sidewalk

  03-10-2018 21:13
  Salt Lake City launched a new campaign Wednesday with the dockless e-scooter companies Lime and Bird in an effort to help residents and visitors understand the rules of the sidewalk.Jon Larsen, the city’s transportation director, told the Transportation Advisory Committee at its meeting last month that sidewalk ridership remains “by far the biggest concern” with the new technology.The “Walk Your Wheels” safety campaign looks to mitigate that issue, encouraging scoot
  
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• A year after Weinstein, Hollywood is still soul-searching

  03-10-2018 21:11
  New York • After Rashida Jones exited Pixar’s “Toy Story 4” in 2017 she noted that the studio, after 25 years in business, had not made a single feature film directed by a woman, calling it “a culture where women and people of color do not have an equal creative voice.”So when Pixar co-founder and CEO John Lasseter stepped down earlier this year after acknowledging "missteps" in his behavior with employees, he was more than another casualty in the long list of
  
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• Utah Jazz waive Trey Lewis, bring in Isaiah Cousins

  03-10-2018 21:10
  The Utah Jazz have announced that they have waived Trey Lewis and signed former Oklahoma guard Isaiah Cousins. Dennis Lindsey and the Utah Jazz know what roster they will be bringing into the regular season, but they aren’t done making moves. The team has waived Trey Lewis and signed Isaiah Cousins, but these are moves […]
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• Mormons Britain Covey and Chase Hansen find a football and spiritual home at BYU’s rival school, Utah, a campus they once disdained

  03-10-2018 21:09
  His grandfather is listed in the University of Utah football media guide among the school's distinguished alumni, but Britain Covey once believed anyone who enrolled there was “a bad person.” Chase Hansen attended a Ute football game as a high school player, looked around the rowdy Rice-Eccles Stadium and thought to himself, “No way I'm coming here.”Yet here they are, two of the Utes' most prominent players, former high school quarterbacks and returned missionaries of The
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - How Jazz guard Dante Exum drew inspiration from summer trip to Call of Duty studios

  03-10-2018 21:06 via sportspyder.com
  ... or what they do. “It kind of correlates for me with basketball just with the Jazz and it’s something that a lot of people don’t know is how many people behind ...
  
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• Utah Jazz guard Dante Exum inspired by trip to Treyarch Studios

  03-10-2018 21:00
  A huge Treyarch logo stamped in the center of the building was one of the first things Dante Exum noticed as he strolled through the studio doors on Wednesday, Aug. 29 in Santa Monica, California.For more than two hours, the Utah Jazz guard received a personal tour of the facility where the upcoming Call of Duty: Back Ops 4 game was created.The zombies, replica guns and other game memorabilia being housed in the site wowed him as he also received a rundown on the history of the game.Call of Duty
  
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• How Jazz guard Dante Exum drew inspiration from summer trip to Call of Duty studios

  03-10-2018 21:00
  A huge Treyarch logo stamped in the center of the building was one of the first things Dante Exum noticed as he strolled through the studio doors on Wednesday, Aug. 29 in Santa Monica, California.For more than two hours, the Utah Jazz guard received a personal tour of the facility where the upcoming Call of Duty: Back Ops 4 game was created.The zombies, replica guns and other game memorabilia being housed in the site wowed him as he also received a rundown on the history of the game.Call of Duty
  
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• On Wednesdays, we wear pink 💕 (and carry big trophies) #MeanGirlsDay https://t.co/DTjplFRu7U

  03-10-2018 20:56 via twitter.com
  
  On Wednesdays, we wear pink 💕(and carry big trophies) #MeanGirlsDay https://t.co/DTjplFRu7U
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Jazz Release Trey Lewis

  03-10-2018 20:43 via sportspyder.com
  ... in Germany and France since beginning his professional career. He joined the Jazz for the Utah and Las Vegas Summer Leagues in July and made a strong enough i ...
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz waive Trey Lewis

  03-10-2018 20:35 via sportspyder.com
  ... Louisville), who signed with Utah on Aug. 28, competed for the Jazz entry squads at the 2018 Utah Jazz Summer League and 2018 NBA Summer League...
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz sign Isaiah Cousins

  03-10-2018 20:35 via sportspyder.com
  ... agreement were not disclosed.   Cousins (6-4, 191, Oklahoma) played with the Jazz’s G League affiliate, the Salt Lake City Stars, last season and averaged 13. ...
  
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• Dana Milbank: Like Kavanaugh, I majored in beer at Yale

  03-10-2018 20:23
  Washington - My roommates and I got a low draw in the dorm-room lottery sophomore year at Yale and wound up in a suite on York Street overlooking Demery’s, a dive frequented by motorcycle gang members because of its cheap beer and huge triangles of the world’s worst pizza.Often on weeknights we would be kept awake by what we dubbed "fight night," when the bar's patrons spilled onto the street at closing time, shouting and throwing punches until the police came.Little did we know that
  
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• 2018-19 NBA GM Survey is definitely a mixed bag for the Utah Jazz

  03-10-2018 20:14
  The latest NBA GM Survey is out and the Utah Jazz were name-checked as a team and individually with Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell and Quin Snyder. ‘Tis the season for polls and prognostication in the basketball world and, as such, the 2018-19 NBA GM Survey dropped amid much fanfare on Wednesday. The Utah Jazz were […]
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• ‘Nothing is finalized’: Rumors abound on a medical marijuana compromise, but neither side is backing down from the Prop 2 fight

  03-10-2018 20:00
  The Utah Patients Coalition continues to advocate for passage of Proposition 2 in November, while the Drug Safe Utah coalition maintains its opposition to the ballot initiative that would legalize medical marijuana in the state.That status quo remains in effect heading into the final weeks of the election season, despite ongoing and previously reported negotiations between the various parties on potential legislative adjustments that could be made to Proposition 2 following the election.“N
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz waive former Louisville guard Trey Lewis after 2nd preseason game, sign Stars guard Isaiah Cousins

  03-10-2018 20:00 via sportspyder.com
  ... ard Isaiah Cousins, who played last season for the Salt Lake City Stars, the Jazz G League affiliate. Lewis, 25, earned a training camp contract in August, bu ...
  
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• Pope Francis urges hope for future as confidence dips over abuse

  03-10-2018 19:55
  Vatican City • Pope Francis urged Catholic bishops on Wednesday to dream of a future free of the mistakes and sins of the past as he opened a global gathering of the church leadership amid renewed outrage over the priestly sex abuse and cover-up scandal.Francis celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Square with some of the more than 200 priests, bishops and cardinals summoned to Rome for a monthlong meeting on proposing new ways to minister to today’s young Catholics.Francis prayed for
  
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• Why is Britain Covey so open all the time? Utah wideout proving himself indispensable once more

  03-10-2018 19:53
  If it seems like he’s open, he is. Not always, but a lot. Like, quite often.That’s the job description for this job title, of course. Burst off the line with enough power and resolve to find a way to confuse the man lined up across from you to create enough time and enough space to become an option for your quarterback. Nobody does that like Britain Covey, at least no one else at Utah.Not only is he always an option, he is so often the option. At all of his 5-foot-8, 170-pound frame,
  
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• Family matters: Four Kaufusi cousins at BYU are relishing 2018, and proud of continuing a football legacy

  03-10-2018 19:52
  Provo • One summer night, Michelle Kaufusi arrived home and could barely make it inside her front door. She was forced to maneuver around over 20 pairs of shoes and sandals, bunched up into a mound on the porch. Yes, she says, looking back more than a decade later, it really was that full. This is how it was every summer, for a couple of weeks, when as many as two dozen cousins descended on the Kaufusi home in Provo.If you were a boy among the 47 grandchildren, you went to Steve and Michell
  
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• Utah Jazz waive former Louisville guard Trey Lewis after 2nd preseason game, sign Stars guard Isaiah Cousins

  03-10-2018 19:51
  SALT LAKE CITY — After the Utah Jazz's second preseason victory against Toronto, the team announced Wednesday morning that former Louisville guard Trey Lewis has been waived.The team also announced it has signed guard Isaiah Cousins, who played last season for the Salt Lake City Stars, the Jazz G League affiliate.Lewis, 25, earned a training camp contract in August, but missed both preseason games with a sprained left ankle.He was a college teammate of Jazz star Donovan Mitchell and played
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Raptors’ Kawhi Leonard, Jazz’ Rudy Gobert tie for best defensive player in annual GM survey

  03-10-2018 19:46 via sportspyder.com
  ... e’s annual awards. Amid their polling, the GM’s selected Raptors forward and Jazz center as their favorites to earn several defensive awards in the 2018-19 se ...
  
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• Utah election official going county in Navajo voting suits

  03-10-2018 19:34
  The state of Utah will send an election official to a county dogged by allegations of discrimination against Navajo voters.Elections Director Justin Lee said Tuesday it's a major step to ensure everything goes smoothly in the politically charged situation in San Juan County, which borders Arizona and New Mexico and overlaps with the Navajo Nation.The county has redrawn its voting districts after a federal judge found they were illegally drawn based on race and been ordered to put a Navajo candid
  
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• At 34, Utah native Nevada Berg is now a Norwegian food expert, a cookbook author and an award-winning blogger

  03-10-2018 19:34
  More than a decade ago — before she launched her award-winning food blog or became a Norwegian food expert— Nevada Berg was a student at the University of Utah and the hostess at Salt Lake City’s Paris Bistro.The 34-year-old will return to the 1500 East and 1500 South neighborhood Saturday, this time stopping at The King’s English Bookshop to promote her first cookbook, “North Wild Kitchen: Home Cooking From the Heart of Norway.”“It’s surreal that
  
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• Vatican worries the Catholic Church is losing the young — and abuse is just one factor

  03-10-2018 19:32
  Vatican City • By age 9 or 10, she had her first doubts about the faith, and not long after, she felt confident telling her parents: The Catholic Church, Agata Leoniddi said, seemed “outdated and backwards.”The language at Mass was archaic. The teaching was rigid and unwelcoming. And some of the issues most important to her — including gender equality — were not discussed in church, where the leaders were entirely male. Leoniddi had spent her childhood within the chu
  
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• We have signed Isaiah Cousins >> on.nba.com/2xVKFIJ

  03-10-2018 19:30 via twitter.com
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• Finders keepers? Man refuses to return bag of drugs, then stabs the guy who dropped it.

  03-10-2018 19:22
  A man was stabbed after he dropped a bag of drugs and another man refused to return it.According to Salt Lake City police, the victim was in the area of 1700 South and Main Street about 7 a.m. on Tuesday, when he “accidentally dropped his bag of drugs.” The suspect picked the bag up and “took a finders-keepers approach to the situation.”The victim, unhappy about the suspect's attitude, threatened to hold the suspect's bike hostage until he returned the drugs — at wh
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz waive former Louisville guard Trey Lewis after 2nd preseason game

  03-10-2018 19:21 via sportspyder.com
  ... oth preseason games with a sprained left ankle. He was a college teammate of Jazz star Donovan Mitchell and played with Utah during the Jazz Summer League and ...
  
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• "I had somewhere to sleep. I had my mom with me. I wouldn't trade it." Jazz center Rudy Gobert goes back to his ho… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  03-10-2018 19:19 via twitter.com
  "I had somewhere to sleep. I had my mom with me. I wouldn't trade it."Jazz center Rudy Gobert goes back to his ho… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz waive former Louisville guard Trey Lewis after second preseason game

  03-10-2018 19:08 via sportspyder.com
  ... oth preseason games with a sprained left ankle. He was a college teammate of Jazz star Donovan Mitchell and played with Utah during the Jazz Summer League and ...
  
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• We’ve waived Trey Lewis. » on.nba.com/2zPtYQr

  03-10-2018 18:50 via twitter.com
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• Navajo high court to hear appeal on presidential term limits

  03-10-2018 18:43
  Window Rock • The Navajo Nation’s high court is set to hear an appeal on presidential term limits.Vincent Yazzie contends Joe Shirley Jr. should be removed from the ballot because he already has served two terms as tribal president.Yazzie's election grievance was dismissed as untimely and for failure to state an election code violation. The former presidential hopeful appealed.Shirley sought re-election to a third term in 2010 but was disqualified. The high court said Navajos can serv
  
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• Ute sophomore Donnie Tillman is taking a big step forward as a shooter

  03-10-2018 18:34
  Utah forward Donnie Tillman eagerly discussed his volume of shooting and how much he improved this past summer. So it was logical to ask him to do some math: How many shots would he take in a day or a week?Right subject, wrong phrasing. The better question, as Tillman suggested: “How many makes a day?”As he explained, “I just don't do shots.”How many makes in a day, then? Hundreds, occasionally even 1,000.Those numbers develop confidence, and Tillman has it. The Utes offi
  
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