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• Saudi Arabia says it will retaliate if Trump imposes sanctions

  14-10-2018 23:47
  Dubai, United Arab Emirates • Saudi Arabia on Sunday threatened to retaliate for any sanctions imposed against it after President Donald Trump said the oil-rich kingdom deserves “severe punishment” if it is responsible for the disappearance and suspected murder of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi.The warning from the world's top oil exporter came after a turbulent day on the Saudi stock exchange, which plunged as much as 7 percent at one point.The statement was issued
  
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• USC’s strong showing vs. Colorado has the Trojans primed for their visit to Utah

  14-10-2018 22:19
  While the Utah Utes rested Saturday, the rest of their schedule became more demanding.That's especially true in the case of their next opponent. USC statistically dominated Colorado in a 31-20 victory, leading into the Trojans' visit to Rice-Eccles Stadium for Utah's homecoming game Saturday.Of the remaining teams on Utah’s schedule, only Colorado lost this past weekend. USC, UCLA, Oregon and BYU won, and Arizona State was idle.The Utes (4-2, 2-2 Pac-12) enjoyed an extra day’s break
  
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• Nazareth Jersey “Naz” Mitrou-Long—SG out of Mississauga, Canada—is entering his second NBA season and is one of our… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-10-2018 22:19 via twitter.com
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Here's why you'll see the Utah Jazz on national TV a lot more this season

  14-10-2018 21:39 via sportspyder.com
  ... ESPN), marking the first time since 1997 that Utah will play on Dec. 25. The Jazz’s 1997 Christmas Day game against the Houston Rockets came after the club ma ...
  
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• Gehrke: Mike Lee’s opioid summit may save lives, but the senator has missed opportunities to do more to solve the crisis

  14-10-2018 21:33
  Thousands of students from across the state were bused to downtown Salt Lake City on Friday to hear a unified message — opioids kill.The event, Sen. Mike Lee’s annual Utah Solutions Summit, brought together top law enforcement officials, addiction survivors and celebrities to help steer them away from an epidemic that killed 360 Utahns last year.Good for the senator for doing it. Undoubtedly those in attendance came away with a new appreciation for the dangers of the drug and hopeful
  
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• Here's why you'll see the Utah Jazz on national TV a lot more this season

  14-10-2018 21:30
  The photo on the home page of NBA League Pass tells the story of how the perception of the Utah Jazz is changing around the league.When one visits the site that allows subscribers to watch any NBA game, the first image that pops up is of Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell defending Oklahoma City Thunder All-Star and MVP Russell Westbrook, with Mitchell's face toward the camera. Utah center Rudy Gobert is seen in the same line of vision as Mitchell.The Jazz are being used as a selling point for League P
  
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• The Salt Lake City Stars didn’t win many games last year, but they are proving adept at developing NBA players

  14-10-2018 21:23
  Were the Salt Lake City Stars a success last year?On the down side, there’s this: They tied for the worst record in the NBA G-League again, at 16-34.On the up side, though, there’s this: They discovered and cultivated Georges Niang. Niang earned himself a guaranteed contract for the Jazz this season thanks to his sensational play with the Stars.Niang’s impact by the numbers is staggering: In the 15 games he played with the Stars last year, they had an 11-4 record. In the 35 gam
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz add Stephaun Branch, then trim roster to 17

  14-10-2018 20:56 via sportspyder.com
  ... guards Jairus Lyles and Isaiah Cousins. So why would the Jazz sign Branch only to release him hours later? As with Utah’s previous camp si ...
  
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• Jazz forward Thabo Sefolosha will start the season under suspension. That creates a big opportunity for Georges Niang.

  14-10-2018 20:44
  Just as the Utah Jazz were getting used to having Thabo Sefolosha back in the rotation again, they’ll be forced to play without him.That’s because in April, while he was recovering from knee surgery, Sefolosha was suspended five games for violating the NBA’s anti-drug program. A five-game suspension is the penalty in the league’s collective bargaining agreement for the third positive test for marijuana. But because Sefolosha was hurt, he couldn’t serve the suspensio
  
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• 20 years ago: Black day for the NBA as labor dispute cancels regular season games

  14-10-2018 20:30
  Editor's note: Every Sunday, the Deseret News sports staff takes a look back into our archives.John Stockton did not start the NBA regular season on time for the second year in a row, only this time his left knee is feeling just fine.Stockton, like all NBA players, has been told to take some extra time off from work. The first two weeks of the NBA season were officially scrapped."I'm just very disappointed it's come to this,'' said Stockton. "It's a black eye for the game of basketball."It was t
  
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• BYU in review: Everybody chipped in to help freshman Zach Wilson win his first start at quarterback

  14-10-2018 19:56
  Provo • Freshman quarterback Zach Wilson rightfully received the bulk of the attention and praise after leading BYU to a 49-23 win over Hawaii late Saturday night at LaVell Edwards Stadium.But he got a lot of help, including some much-needed support from the senior he replaced in the starting lineup, Tanner Mangum, who also happens to be his roommate.“Luckily, I had a lot of help from my teammates. Everyone knows a quarterback can’t be successful without a good line or good rece
  
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• The 10 biggest X-Factors in the NBA entering the 2018-19 season

  14-10-2018 19:48
  On this episode of The HoopsHype Podcast, Alex Kennedy and Frank Urbina share their biggest X-Factors to watch throughout the 2018-19 NBA season. These are key contributors who have the ability to take their squad to the next level if they play well.This episode is brought to you by Hims. If you’re starting to lose your hair, the doctors at ForHims.com are here to help. They’ll send you a prescription medication to fight hair loss. They have a special deal for our
  
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• Utah Jazz add Stephaun Branch, then trim roster to 17

  14-10-2018 19:38
  The Utah Jazz signed Stephaun Branch to a deal, then quickly waived him along with a host of other players over the weekend. Opening night in the NBA is just days away now and, as such, teams are finalizing their rosters for tip-off. The Utah Jazz are no different, and while the 17-man crew for […]
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• Nazareth Jersey "Naz" Mitrou-Long—SG out of Mississauga, Canada—is entering his second NBA season and is one of our… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-10-2018 19:38 via twitter.com
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  14-10-2018 17:26 via twitter.com
  
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• Playwright tries to reconcile being gay and a Latter-day Saint in ‘Good Standing’

  14-10-2018 17:09
  As a gay man raised as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, playwright Matthew Greene thought coming out would resolve some of his internal struggles.“That ended up not being the case,” Greene said. "A lot of things got much, much better, but life got a lot more complicated.”Those complications — of reconciling a gay identity with an upbringing as a Latter-day Saint, of finding love in a way a church says is wrong — are the basis of Greene&rs
  
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• Commentary: Proposition 3 could provide new resources for Utahns with diabetes

  14-10-2018 16:57
  An overlooked factor in the debate over Proposition 3 is the impact that an expansion of Utah’s Medicaid program would have on the state’s diabetes epidemic.Over 10 percent of adult Utahans have diabetes, which can lead to kidney disease, heart disease, blindness and death. Additionally, about one-third have prediabetes, which means they have higher than normal blood glucose levels and higher risk for developing diabetes unless they alter their diet or lifestyle or address this risk
  
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• Warriors should win it all again, LeBron will reclaim the MVP as a Laker, and more fearless NBA predictions

  14-10-2018 16:46
  MOST VALUABLE PLAYERLeBron James, LakersSome define “most valuable” as the best player on the best team. Sometimes, it’s an athlete who puts up statistically superior numbers for a pretty good team. Others look for a player, without whom, his team would theoretically achieve far less than it actually did.James has, at various points throughout his career, checked all those boxes.However, after a career spent dominating the Eastern Conference landscape, he now finds himself with
  
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• How younger Latter-day Saints and ‘fundamentalist Mormons’ are building bridges, looking past their differences

  14-10-2018 16:45
  Moroni Jessop and his daughters recently attended Young Women programs for teenage girls at the local branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.That would be unexceptional except for this fact: Jessop is a polygamist with so-called “fundamentalist Mormon” beliefs.“I realized almost every young woman standing up were fundamentalists,” Jessop said. “There were only two or three young women who weren’t.”The Salt Lake City-based LDS Church of
  
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• Hikers moaned when Zion Narrows was closed. Here are five other popular Utah destinations where private property questions could threaten access.

  14-10-2018 16:45
  Zion National Park stunned visitors recently when it stopped issuing permits for one of its bucket-list hikes, the 16-mile slot-canyon journey through the Zion Narrows, after the family that owns land the route crosses posted signs indicating access was subject to “trespassing fees.”The closure soon was lifted when Washington County reached an agreement with the landowners, but this issue could spring up again and again across Utah where trails cross private property en route to popu
  
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• ‘Book Thief’ author Markus Zusak had the idea for his new book, ‘Bridge of Clay,’ 23 years ago. He’ll share the backstory this week in Salt Lake City.

  14-10-2018 16:44
  (Courtesy of Random House Children’s Books) Cover of "Bridge of Clay" by Markus Zusak.Five brothers raising themselves in a tough Australian neighborhood.A father who is MIA.A mother who has died.A mule named Achilles who takes up residence in the kitchen whenever possible.An old-fashioned typewriter buried in a backyard next to the bones of a snake and a dog.An upright piano.Each of these plays a part in Markus Zusak’s stunning and gorgeously written new saga, “Bridge of Clay
  
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• Gehrke: Sen. Mike Lee’s opioid summit may save lives, but the senator has missed opportunities to do more to solve the crisis

  14-10-2018 16:43
  Thousands of students from across the state were bused to downtown Salt Lake City on Friday to hear a unified message — opioids kill.The event, Sen. Mike Lee’s annual Utah Solutions Summit, brought together top law enforcement officials, addiction survivors and celebrities to help steer them away from an epidemic that killed 360 Utahns last year.Good for the senator for doing it. Undoubtedly those in attendance came away with a new appreciation for the dangers of the drug and hopeful
  
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• Commentary: Our hard work to reform the Juvenile Justice System in Utah is not yet complete

  14-10-2018 16:43
  “Do you know what a defense attorney does?”This question is often asked by juvenile court judges to determine whether a youth appearing in their courtroom is knowingly and voluntarily waiving their right to counsel. Youth often respond in the affirmative, but when asked to explain the function of a defense attorney, they have nothing to say. We are concerned that, in these cases, youth are giving up an important right they do not fully understand.Defense attorneys play a crucial role
  
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• Tribune editorial: Vote yes on Utah Propositions 2, 3 and 4

  14-10-2018 16:41
  “The Legislative power of the State shall be vested in: (a)a Senate and House of Representatives which shall be designated the Legislature of the State of Utah; and (b)the people of the State of Utah...”— Article VI, Section 1, Constitution of the State of UtahThere are innumerable examples of how the Utah Legislature goes out of its way to be non-responsive to the will, wishes and needs of the people of Utah. Groups of our neighbors have become so frustrated with the unwilling
  
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• George Pyle: Lies can be hazardous to other people’s health

  14-10-2018 16:40
  First, an apology.The other day a group of serious-minded men came in to see The Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Board, of which I am a member and Keeper of the Calendar. They had asked very politely if they could drop by and explain to us their opposition to Proposition 3. That’s the Utah ballot question that, if passed, would finally put Utah into the column of states that have accepted the expansion of the Medicaid program to cover maybe 150,000 people who now lack that minimal feature of l
  
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• Commentary: Utah’s Question 1 is just kicking the can down the road

  14-10-2018 16:40
  Like a bad bruise that just doesn’t seem to go away, the debate over funding for public education continues this year in the form of Question 1 on your voting ballot.Question 1 calls for increasing the gas tax by 10 cents to raise about $100 million for K-12 public education, $55 million for local roads, and $25 million for higher education. Question 1 would increase the gas tax rate by 33%, to about 40 cents per gallon (that’s about 59 cents if you include the federal tax).For the s
  
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• Commentary: In war, people marry in haste, leave behind in haste

  14-10-2018 16:40
  The 1918 century-old newspaper headline ─ “Marry in Haste in War”─ jolted me out of the daze of a late night online genealogy research session. The article was about my great uncle Charles Alphonsus Duffy, a forgotten Irish-American hero from a forgotten American war.The headline captured the tumultuous last year of his life. Charles was born in 1890 in New York City. His Catholic family was large, with nine siblings, including his sister (my grandmother) Florence Duffy O
  
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• Commentary: Utah needs champions for the public’s health

  14-10-2018 16:39
  Our state needs public health champions now more than ever. Utah communities are burdened by the opioid epidemic, affordable housing issues, air pollution and traffic congestion. All of these issues have an impact on health, and the argument has long been made that health should be considered in all policies.As Utah prepares to elect four representatives and a senator to represent us in Washington D.C., 14 state senators and 75 members of the Utah House of Representatives, it’s time for us
  
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• Commentary: For the sake of all women, we must be better than this

  14-10-2018 16:39
  In early 2016, my then-7-year-old daughter approached me and asked, “Daddy, what sports are girls allowed to play?”This question shook me to my very core. It was a question that never crossed my mind as a young boy and never could have. But not only had it crossed my daughter’s mind, she appeared to have already accepted that there would be restrictions placed on her participation in society only because of her sex.Over the next few months, my wife and I watched in horror as a
  
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• Commentary: Voters should reject this legislative power grab

  14-10-2018 16:38
  Utah legislators want to change the state Constitution so that they can call themselves into special session whenever they like. The only thing standing in the way of this power grab is Utah voters who, on Nov. 6, will vote on Constitutional Amendment C. The ballot will be crowded, but voters should be very wary indeed of this Trojan Horse.Legislators would like voters to understand that this sweeping power would only be used in the event of war, natural disaster, “fiscal crisis,” or
  
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• Commentary: Approving Prop 2 will ease human suffering

  14-10-2018 16:38
  My son’s voice on the other end of the phone was emotional.“I need to come home from Orcas Island. The doctor here thinks I have cancer.”Those are the words a parent never wants to hear. My experience at his side makes the passage of Proposition 2 the medical marijuana initiative, an issue I approach with passion.The day after the phone call my son was lying in a hospital bed at Huntsman Cancer Institute awaiting tests to determine exactly what was wrong. He got the diagnosis o
  
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• Christine Durham: Why I’m voting yes on Proposition 4

  14-10-2018 16:38
  Christine M. Durham,d is a former chief justice of the Utah Supreme Court.n 4, a citizen ballot initiative designed to strengthen our representative democracy by curtailing the practice of gerrymandering. Proposition 4 will bring impartiality and transparency to the creation of electoral maps.For too long, politicians in this country and in Utah have been allowed to draw their own legislative districts, essentially choosing their own constituents and insulating themselves from election challenge
  
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• Commentary: Access to affordable health care is a human right

  14-10-2018 16:37
  As Salt Lake City leaders focus on the health and well-being of residents, we believe access to quality, affordable health care is a human right. As such, we support Proposition 3, Utah Decides, which will implement the Medicaid expansion provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in Utah. We encourage Utah voters to join us in voting yes for Proposition 3.Health care as a human right has been a point of ethical, philosophical and moral debate in our country dating back as far as President Frank
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Progressives need more than a majority

  14-10-2018 16:36
  Here's what gets me about progressives.They never seem to realize that they are the majority. Yet on issue after issue, the polling consistently shows that they are.Abortion? Sixty-four percent of Americans support Roe v. Wade.Guns? Sixty-seven percent want stricter laws.Taxes? Sixty-one percent say the rich need to pay more.Health care? Fifty-six percent want government to ensure coverage to all Americans.But it's not just opinion polls. It's also presidential polls. Republicans have won the po
  
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• Brodi Ashton: How to measure the success of a relationship using single-ply toilet paper

  14-10-2018 16:32
  I’ve been in a relationship that’s lasted through 12 rolls of single-ply toilet paper.That may not seem like a huge landmark, and it is clearly not a typical milestone one would judge a relationship by. But it sums up my relationship perfectly.Because like single-ply toilet paper, when I first got together with Jack, I thought this would probably disintegrate soon. It was my first-ever Tinder date. He’s never been married. He has no children. He is as single as they come. I hav
  
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• The murder of Anthony Adams: A four-decade-old mystery that Salt Lake City police are still investigating

  14-10-2018 16:29
  The following is the first in a two-part series written and researched by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune.“Who Killed Anthony Adams?”The question spray-painted as graffiti across Salt Lake City 40 years ago still begs an answer.Adams’ body was discovered nude, soaked in blood and crumpled against the radiator in his Avenues apartment on Nov. 6, 1978. The 25-year-old city bus driver had been stabbed five times in the neck and t
  
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• There’s evidence missing from Salt Lake City’s cold case files. But police have never done an audit to know how much.

  14-10-2018 16:28
  The following is the second in a two-part series that was written and researched by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Read Part 1 here.Anthony Adams, a gay, black Socialist activist was found brutally stabbed to death in his Salt lake City Avenues apartment on Nov. 6, 1978. Forty years later his murder is still one of Utah’s most perplexing cold cases.Not only has it remained unsolved but the investigation itself has been subject to anothe
  
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• Letter: Where have honesty and integrity gone?

  14-10-2018 15:00
  As I have listened to KUER and read The Salt Lake Tribune the past two weeks, it reminded me what a disturbing and dysfunctional world and American culture we currently live in. It isn’t about learning what is “true” or how I can better serve my fellow men/women in my life. It is about having to be “right,” no matter what the price and no matter how dishonest I must be in order to obtain that. We live in a disgusting time when the only thing that matters is for me t
  
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• Letter: We are all a ‘who,’ not a ‘that’

  14-10-2018 15:00
  Responding to the Oct. 8 headlines "Nicknames 'offend' Jesus" and "Male, female … X," I recommend that we all consider a fine point of writing to say "people who" rather than "people that."In that front-page story, Christopher Wharton, attorney and Salt Lake City councilman, is quoted as saying, "Mel wasn't the first person that had come to me about [the vagueness of the portion of Utah law that seems to allow for gender marker changes].” In this time of gut-wrenching division among
  
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• Letter: The worst that could happen to Kavanaugh

  14-10-2018 15:00
  To say that “false” allegations could ruin Brett Kavanaugh’s life or career is ludicrous. The worst that would have happened to him is that he wouldn’t get promoted. Jessica Jakupcak, West Valley CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: The future is female. Vote for all the women on the ballot

  14-10-2018 15:00
  I am a Democrat voting a straight ticket this year — 100 percent female.Now, that is not entirely true because there are four races on my ballot where all the candidates are male. That is precisely the situation I am looking to change. This year, if there is a woman in the race, I’m with her! This means that in the Salt Lake County Council At Large 3 seat, I’m voting for Republican Sophia DiCaro over “Democratic permanent” Jim Bradley.DiCaro works tirelessly to reac
  
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• Letter: I want no part of Trump’s apology to Kavanaugh

  14-10-2018 15:00
  Said President Donald Trump to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh “On behalf of our nation, I want to apologize to Brett, etc. etc.” Do not add me to that apology. I am a citizen of the United States and no way do I want to be included in that apology.Trump has done a great disservice to all women in America by saying those words. Especially to the women (and men) who have been sexually abused in one way or another.I truly believe that Kavanaugh was so intoxicated at the time that
  
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• Letter: GOP has become the Gang of Predators

  14-10-2018 15:00
  Where has the Republican party gone? The party that claimed to be one of family values has disappeared into a dark and perverted place where leaders of the party defend many on a long list of “accused” sex offenders. Those who once spoke the truth about Trump before his election, as Mitt Romney and Ted Cruz did, now want his approval. Even some women ignore multiple sexual misconduct claims and laugh it off as “locker room talk” or “boys will be boys” and triv
  
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• BYU defeats Hawaii 49-23 in freshman quarterback Zach Wilson’s first start

  14-10-2018 08:16
  Provo • Struggling and offensively challenged BYU turned to Zach Wilson on Saturday night hoping for a spark of some sort from the quarterback who was busy getting Draper’s Corner Canyon High ready for the state playoffs at this time last season.Aided by some willing teammates who just seemed to play better with Wilson in the lineup, the seventh true freshman to start at quarterback for BYU engineered an offensive outburst not seen in Provo since 2016.Replacing senior Tanner Mangum in
  
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• Monson: Zach Wilson soars and Tanner Mangum powers on

  14-10-2018 08:15
  Provo • Zach Wilson stood on the field in the aftermath of BYU’s 49-23 win over Hawaii, sweating and beaming, as his teammates walked by, patting him on the head, acknowledging his first start, his first victory as a college quarterback.Off in the distance, Tanner Mangum, the senior quarterback Wilson replaced, sighed, took it all in, accepted some salutations, and walked into the BYU locker room. He was happy for the Cougars’ win, happy for Wilson, but, personally, deep within,
  
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• Man who allegedly abandoned 64-year-old woman while camping in Juab County accused of murder

  14-10-2018 07:01
  Family members looking for a 64-year-old woman who was reportedly abandoned while camping last week in rural Juab County discovered a woman’s body while searching near the Silver City-area on Saturday.Undersheriff Brent Pulver said it’s too early to confirm if the body found is Jan Pearson-Jenkins, but circumstances indicate it likely is her. Pearson-Jenkins' family believes it is her, according to a post on her brother Jace Pearson’s Facebook page.The man she was camping with,
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Jazz, Snyder have a dilemma in deciding which wing players should get most minutes

  14-10-2018 06:59 via sportspyder.com
  ... nters in his five-year NBA career and missed them all. Comment on this story JAZZ NOTES: The Jazz open the regular season at Sacramento Wednesday night for an ...
  
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• Live: Hawaii scores early in third quarter to trim BYU’s lead to 28-10

  14-10-2018 06:30
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• Pac-12 football roundup: No. 17 Oregon knocks off No. 7 Washington, 30-27 in overtime

  14-10-2018 06:05
  Eugene, Ore. • Mario Cristobal sprinted down the sideline beginning for a timeout. If Oregon was going to announce it was back among the elite of the Pac-12 Conference after a couple of down years, the coach wasn’t about to risk a pass when it was obvious for the Ducks to do just that.The Ducks were going to run. And they were going to give it to their young star running back seeking a bit of redemption for the mistake he made the last time Oregon was in a big game.“It was a mat
  
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