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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - The Best Player Performance of 2017-18

  17-10-2018 23:52 via sportspyder.com
  ... ment, matters.  At halftime of a tied game in the season’s defining contest, Jazz head coach Quin Snyder didn’t merely allow Mitchell to claim the moment. He...
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Salt City Hoops’ Team and 2018-19 Utah Jazz Coverage

  17-10-2018 23:52 via sportspyder.com
  ... since. He’s a salary cap guru and possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of the Jazz from the pre-Stockton to Malone days to now. He lives in the Phoenix area, w ...
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - NW Division Foes: The Denver Nuggets

  17-10-2018 23:52 via sportspyder.com
  ... ey were struggling through injuries. Several plus defenders for the Jazz — Gobert and wing defenders Dante Exum and Thabo Sefolosha — missed huge chu ...
  
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• [USA Today] - Kobe Bryant cut from film festival jury after protests over 2003 rape allegation

  17-10-2018 23:19 via sportspyder.com
  ... e Bryant drives the ball up court during second half action against the Utah Jazz. Robert Hanashiro, USAT 2008: Kobe Bryant reacts to Dwight Howard's Superman ...
  
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• You’ve charged through all of our Jazz coverage in the last few days. Now listen to the Weekly Run podcast.

  17-10-2018 22:51
  The NBA regular season is here, and so is the Weekly Run.On this week’s episode, Andy Larsen introduces new Jazz beat writer Eric Walden. How did Eric find himself as a Jazz beat writer, what will he bring to the job, and how can we best make fun of him?Then, we talk about the Utah Jazz, and in particular, Vegas' over-unders for the important Jazz players. Will Ricky Rubio score 13 points per game? Will Rudy Gobert get 12 rebounds per contest? All that and much more is discussed.Here&rsquo
  
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• BYU women’s basketball picked to finish third in WCC preseason poll

  17-10-2018 22:49
  The BYU women’s basketball team faces a rebuilding season after losing three starters to graduation last year, but the coaches in the West Coast Conference are still giving the Cougars plenty of respect.BYU was picked to finish third in the WCC women’s basketball race this upcoming season by the 10 WCC coaches who voted in the preseason poll.BYU junior Brenna Chase, the team’s leading returning scorer, and sophomore Sara Hamson made the preseason team.Gonzaga received seven of
  
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• Outside groups spending north of $1.5 million in the Love-McAdams race

  17-10-2018 22:28
  Washington • Outside groups are pouring more than $1.5 million into television ads in Utah amid a neck-and-neck race between Rep. Mia Love and Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams.The bulk of the money, some $1.14 million, is coming from the Congressional Leadership Fund, a political action committee aligned with House Speaker Paul Ryan who is trying to retain a GOP majority in the chamber against a possible blue wave.The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has reserved $235,000 in co
  
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• Progressive group blasts Utah House candidate for ‘reprehensible’ social media posts

  17-10-2018 22:23
  A progressive group is condemning a Republican state House candidate for offensive social media posts, such as one calling a woman who’d reported sexual assault a “psycho gold digger.”The organization, Alliance for a Better Utah, on Wednesday released a collection of screen grabs taken from the Facebook and Twitter accounts of Fred Johnson, a West Valley City resident who’s running to represent Utah House District 31.In one tweet from January, he compared Women’s Ma
  
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• How excited are you that Jazz Basketball is FINALLY BACK?!?! 😁 Presented by: @Qualtrics | #QualtricsPoll

  17-10-2018 22:22 via twitter.com
  How excited are you that Jazz Basketball is FINALLY BACK?!?! 😁Presented by: @Qualtrics | #QualtricsPoll
  
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• Aaron Herrera’s rise with RSL is a microcosm of his entire soccer career

  17-10-2018 21:59
  As he stepped on to the field for his first Major League Soccer start in July, Real Salt Lake right back Aaron Herrera felt the nerves flow though him. And while he had spent the week leading up to the game making sure he was as mentally sharp as possible, it still took a while for the butterflies to float away.Even now, with almost an entire regular season under his belt, Herrera still can’t comprehend the idea that he is a professional soccer player.“I still don’t think it&rs
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’ podcast — British bishop talks about his duties, shorter Sunday services, the church’s name, youth interviews, General Conference and the faith’s future in Europe

  17-10-2018 21:56
  It’s the toughest assignment a member can get in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — bishop.It’s a lay calling that brings with it no pay but heavy demands. The bishop is responsible for the spiritual and even temporal well-being for hundreds of families and individuals in his area. All of this on top of the needs of his own loved ones and full-time job.Ross Trewhella has been serving in this taxing but rewarding task for nine years, shepherding his Latter-day Sai
  
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• [Uproxx: Dime Magazine] - 2018-2019 Utah Jazz Preview: The Time Is Now

  17-10-2018 21:42 via sportspyder.com
  ... s to be “the guy” but Gobert is the team’s centerpiece at the moment and the Jazz are very good. ...
  
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• Donovan in the Adidas NMD Hu Pharrell Solar Pack 🔥 https://t.co/rpGoptLhFD

  17-10-2018 21:37 via twitter.com
  
  Donovan in the Adidas NMD Hu Pharrell Solar Pack 🔥 https://t.co/rpGoptLhFD
  
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• Checking in after shoot around https://t.co/ziMUy59aHI

  17-10-2018 21:16 via twitter.com
  
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• Cafe Trio Park City closes after just 18 months in business

  17-10-2018 21:09
  Cafe Trio Park City closed its doors recently, about 18 months after opening in Kimball Junction.Owner Mikel Trapp is not sure why the popular restaurant chain — which has two successful locations in the Salt Lake Valley — didn’t work in Park City. But he has a few theories.One is the Park City employee pool, which is more seasonal than Salt Lake City; as a result, it’s more difficult to find long-term employees. Additionally, the Park City market is extremely competitive
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz players reveal their favorite jerseys for 2018-19 season

  17-10-2018 21:08 via sportspyder.com
  ... rple, Ricky, thanks for asking,” Ingles answered Rubio during media day. The Jazz will wear purple Classic, navy Icon, yellow Statement, white Association and ...
  
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• Game day feeling https://t.co/E8N9jAGtNT

  17-10-2018 21:06 via twitter.com
  
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• Utah Jazz players reveal their favorite jerseys for 2018-19 season

  17-10-2018 21:00
  SALT LAKE CITY — Dante Exum likes to joke that the Utah Jazz are the only team in the NBA that has jerseys for every color of the rainbow.The Australian guard may very well be right, too."But it's good," Exum said.The 2018-19 campaign will not only present an opportunity for the close-knit Jazz team to build off last year's playoff run, but the franchise also will be celebrating its 40th season of basketball in Salt Lake City.Utah will bring in the season with style, with six different jer
  
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• Utah’s longest-serving U.S. House member squares off in a debate Wednesday with two challengers

  17-10-2018 20:42
  The stage for the 1st Congressional District debate Wednesday night will be the most crowded of the Utah Debate Commission series, as three candidates square off at Utah State University just three weeks before the midterm election.United Utah Party Eric Eliason was the only third party candidate in any major race to make the commission’s cut for a debate, with the support of 6.6 percent of the district’s voters. He’ll face eight-term incumbent Rep. Rob Bishop and Democrat Lee
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Mystery and missing evidence haunt the decades-old murder of a black, gay Socialist in Salt Lake City

  17-10-2018 20:20
  Over the last 40 years, the brutal murder of Anthony Adams has been described as a hate crime, a political assassination and a robbery gone bad. But one description never applied is “solved.”The cold case is one of many being re-examined by the Salt Lake City Police Department. And Adams’ murder is notable not only for its enduring mystery, but also for the evidence that has allegedly gone missing as the city continues to try to find his killer.On this week’s episode of &
  
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• Lawmakers push for a quick fix to driver license problem that could prevent Utahns from getting through airport security

  17-10-2018 20:16
  When legislators meet in a promised special session next month to address medical marijuana, they may also try to fix a problem that could in the next couple of years prevent Utahns from using their driver licenses to pass through airport security.The Legislature’s Transportation Interim Committee took an initial step Wednesday to make that happen — endorsing a bill to make the fix, and calling for it to be considered in the expected special session.The problem comes because the U.S.
  
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• Cafe Trio in Park City closes after just 18 months in business

  17-10-2018 20:13
  Cafe Trio in Park City closed its doors recently, about 18 months after opening in Kimball Junction.Owner Mikel Trapp is not sure why the popular restaurant chain — which has three other successful locations in the Salt Lake Valley — didn’t work in Park City. But he has a few theories.One is the Park City employee pool, which is more seasonal than Salt Lake City; as a result, it’s more difficult to find long-term employees. Additionally, the Park City market is extremely
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Opening Night: Utah Jazz take on Sacramento Kings

  17-10-2018 20:10 via sportspyder.com
  ... ly didn’t have to do that to win. To use a tired cliché, the Jazz were the Globetrotters and the Kings were the Generals. That was then. The r ...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - A new Jazz season is here. The Weekly Run will get you all caught up and primed for tonight’s opener in Sacramento.

  17-10-2018 19:53 via sportspyder.com
  ... staurateur Gordon McGowan has a trendy cocktail bar there named after former Jazz point guard John Stockton. [ Tribune] ICYMI … THE SEASON PREVIEW SECTION • M ...
  
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• A new Jazz season is here. The Weekly Run will get you all caught up and primed for tonight’s opener in Sacramento.

  17-10-2018 19:46
  The Weekly Run is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter on the Utah Jazz. Subscribe here.While the NBA season officially kicked off Tuesday night with Celtics-Sixers and Warriors-Thunder, most of the rest of the league tips off tonight, including the Jazz, who will face the Sacramento Kings at 8 p.m. MT.There’s more hype surrounding this iteration of the franchise than there has been in years. A 29-6 stretch run, a playoff series victory, and the return of almost everyone from th
  
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• Concerned about housing costs, Salt Lake City loosens rules on ‘mother-in-law’ apartments

  17-10-2018 19:45
  In its push to address affordable housing, the Salt Lake City Council voted Tuesday to loosen zoning rules on so-called mother-in-law apartments with hopes of opening up new, smaller dwellings across the city’s residential neighborhoods.A common feature of the city’s housing stock decades ago, so-called accessory dwelling units — basement apartments, ones inside or above garages and those in separate buildings in yards — have for years been limited in Utah’s capital
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell reaps on-court benefits from change in diet

  17-10-2018 19:28 via sportspyder.com
  ... one, trying to manage your weight and play at a high level. It’s a lot. Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell Mitchell wasn’t the only Jazzman to shed weight this...
  
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• Former Utes football coach Ron McBride’s dog was mauled to death at a Murray kennel. Now he and his family are suing.

  17-10-2018 19:22
  Retired Utah Utes football coach Ron McBride and his family have filed a lawsuit against a Murray dog kennel, accusing the facility of negligence for letting their German shepherd get mauled to death by two aggressive dogs.According to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Third District Court in Salt Lake City, the incident happened May 1, when Ron McBride and his wife, Vicky, along with daughter Kelly Redican and her husband, Mark, were hosting a wedding for friends at their house. The family decided t
  
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• Virgin Islands GOP reports spending big to help Mia Love — but it’s a scam, according to her campaign

  17-10-2018 19:21
  High on the list of groups making outside “independent expenditures” to help re-elect Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, is something unusual: the Virgin Islands Republican Party reports spending $204,000 to support her this election cycle.Why would a group in the faraway Caribbean U.S. territory spend so much to help Love in Utah?“It’s a scam,” says Dave Hansen, campaign manager for Love, an assessment shared by watchdog groups and reporting by some newspapers nationally.Hanse
  
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• Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell reaps on-court benefits from change in diet

  17-10-2018 19:01
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Donovan Mitchell began his days the same way.He had to have at least four pancakes, five scrambled eggs and four pieces of bacon before he could carry on with his daily activities — including practices.Most afternoons would also consist of at least two packs of gummy bears — or sometimes Skittles — before ending with a Ruth's Chris steak at night, but the Utah Jazz star has realized that diet isn't the most impactful for his performance on the hardwoo
  
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• Dana Milbank: Canned crab? Elizabeth Warren is unfit to lead.

  17-10-2018 18:35
  WASHINGTON -- Poor Elizabeth Warren.She took President Trump's bait and submitted to a DNA test to demonstrate her Native American genealogy -- and, in so doing, may have doomed her presidential campaign before it began. Now the Massachusetts senator is not only enduring Trump's "Pocahontas" insults (at least when he's not calling another woman "Horseface") but also being disparaged by Indian tribes."Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage," pr
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Young people, Republicans are afraid of you

  17-10-2018 18:25
  A word for young people, people of color and, in particular, young people of color:The Republicans are scared of you.Maybe you find that hard to believe. Maybe you wonder how the party can be scared of you -- or of anybody -- given that it controls all three branches of the federal government and most of the nation's state houses. You're worried about paying your student loans, putting food on the table, getting home without becoming some cop's mistake, and the GOP is scared of you?In a word: Ye
  
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• The Army Corps is reviving its review of a Washington coal-export project that prompted lawsuits from Utah and other states

  17-10-2018 18:17
  Seattle • The Army Corps of Engineers has revived an environmental review of a controversial coal-export project in Washington a year after state environmental regulators denied the project a key permit.Washington Ecology Director Maia Bellon expressed concerns about the Corps' decision to restart work on the federal permitting process while some U.S. senators in the coal-producing states of Montana and Wyoming have urged the federal agency to push ahead with permitting the $680 million ter
  
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• Mueller said he’s ready to deliver key findings in his Trump probe

  17-10-2018 18:16
  Special Counsel Robert Mueller is expected to issue findings on core aspects of his Russia probe soon after the November midterm elections as he faces intensifying pressure to produce more indictments or shut down his investigation, according to two U.S. officials.Specifically, Mueller is close to rendering judgment on two of the most explosive aspects of his inquiry: whether there were clear incidents of collusion between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, and whether the president took a
  
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• A UVU wrestler has been suspended after being charged with rape

  17-10-2018 18:15
  A Utah Valley University wrestler has been charged with rape and suspended from the team.Dayton Lee Racer, 22, has been charged with first-degree felony rape after a 20-year-old woman reported on June 24 that he sexually assaulted her at the Bonanza Campount Music Festival at River’s Edge Resort in Heber.According to the probable cause statement, the victim told police she was attending the event with friends when entered a tent Racer’s. She told him “multiple times that she wa
  
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• Utah defensive tackle John Penisini goes about his work quietly, but he’s one of the Utes’ top performers

  17-10-2018 18:08
  The West Jordan Jaguars were losing by 35 points late in the game, but defensive lineman John Penisini kept playing so relentlessly that the opposing coach became frustrated enough to order one more touchdown pass.The coach apologized afterward to West Jordan’s Danny DuPaix, using the illogical explanation that Penisini’s unwavering effort “got me fired up.”Label that episode an unintended consequence of Penisini's drive, the trait that has made him a valuable defensive t
  
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• IT. HAS. ARRIVED. 🙌 🏀: #UTAatSAC 📺: @ATTSportsNetRM (Xfinity: 693, DirectTV: 683-1, Dish: 444, Hopper: 412-28) 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-10-2018 18:06 via twitter.com
  IT. HAS. ARRIVED. 🙌 🏀: #UTAatSAC 📺: @ATTSportsNetRM (Xfinity: 693, DirectTV: 683-1, Dish: 444, Hopper: 412-28) 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Take note: Team is everything — make that #teamiseverything — for the Utah Jazz

  17-10-2018 18:01 via sportspyder.com
  ... ote as the Jazz twitter hashtag?" one Boston Celtics fan wrote. "It was literally the perfec ...
  
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• Take note: Team is everything — make that #teamiseverything — for the Utah Jazz

  17-10-2018 18:00
  SALT LAKE CITY — Take note, the Utah Jazz have changed hashtags.If the new phrase sounds familiar, it's because it echoes the sentiment shared so often by Jazz coach Quin Snyder, players and management last season.So long, #takenote.Hello, #teamiseverything.That's "Team is everything" for those who don't read hashtags.The updated hashtag nicely complements Snyder's "The strength of our team is our team" mentality, which he repeated so often last season as the likes of Rudy Gobert, Donovan
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz/Sacramento Kings key match-up: Gobert vs. Cauley-Stein

  17-10-2018 17:28 via sportspyder.com
  ... ss against Gobert in the past. He scored 16 points in 19 minutes against the Jazz last time out. He’s aiming to be more consistent for the Kings as a four-yea ...
  
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• Republican Reps. Bishop and Curtis have clear path to re-election, says new poll

  17-10-2018 17:26
  A new poll shows the incumbent Republican congressmen in Utah’s 1st and 3rd districts appear safe as they head into the final weeks of the election, with what seem to be insurmountable leads over their opponents and strong job approval ratings.A Salt Lake Tribune-Hinckley Institute of Politics poll, conducted Oct. 3-9, shows Rep. Rob Bishop, who serves northern Utah’s 1st District, with a 32-point lead over his opponents. In the 3rd District, Rep. John Curtis is ahead by an even wide
  
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• With help from a Utah classroom, the popular language app Duolingo is adding Navajo courses

  17-10-2018 17:25
  Albuquerque, N.M. • A popular language-learning app is adding Navajo to its portfolio.KOB-TV reports that Duolingo has begun offering Navajo, or Dine, as a language option for learning on the mobile app.Clayton Long, who is the head of the bilingual education for San Juan School District in Utah, tells the station that he and his students collaborated to develop the language lessons on the app.The first of the courses were unveiled last week.Long says a total of nine lessons he and others d
  
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• A UVU wrestler has been suspended after he charged with rape

  17-10-2018 17:25
  A Utah Valley University wrestler has been charged with rape and suspended from the team.Dayton Lee Racer, 22, has been charged with first-degree felony rape after a 20-year-old woman reported on June 24 that he sexually assaulted her at the Bonanza Campount Music Festival at River’s Edge Resort in Heber.According to the probable cause statement, the victim told police she was attending the event with friends when entered a tent Racer’s. She told him “multiple times that she wa
  
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• The puppeteer who played Big Bird on ‘Sesame Street’ for nearly 50 years is retiring

  17-10-2018 17:23
  Woodstock, Conn. • The puppeteer who has played Big Bird on “Sesame Street” is retiring after nearly 50 years on the show.Caroll Spinney tells the New York Times that Thursday will be his last day on the program, which he joined from the start in 1969. In addition to Big Bird, the 84-year-old was also Oscar the Grouch.Spinney says "I always thought, how fortunate for me that I got to play the two best Muppets?"Spinney says the physical requirements of performing the characters h
  
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• The Army Corps reviving its review of a Washington coal-export project that prompted lawsuits from Utah and other states

  17-10-2018 17:20
  Seattle • The Army Corps of Engineers has revived an environmental review of a controversial coal-export project in Washington a year after state environmental regulators denied the project a key permit.Washington Ecology Director Maia Bellon expressed concerns about the Corps' decision to restart work on the federal permitting process while some U.S. senators in the coal-producing states of Montana and Wyoming have urged the federal agency to push ahead with permitting the $680 million ter
  
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• Mueller said ready to deliver key findings in his Trump probe

  17-10-2018 17:13
  Special Counsel Robert Mueller is expected to issue findings on core aspects of his Russia probe soon after the November midterm elections as he faces intensifying pressure to produce more indictments or shut down his investigation, according to two U.S. officials.Specifically, Mueller is close to rendering judgment on two of the most explosive aspects of his inquiry: whether there were clear incidents of collusion between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, and whether the president took a
  
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• America’s most famous pimp, poised for elected office, dies

  17-10-2018 16:45
  Pahrump, Nev. • America’s most famous pimp partied for days with porn stars, political pals and others to celebrate his 72nd birthday, but the revelry ended when Dennis Hof was found dead in one of his Nevada brothels.Hof, a Donald Trump-style Republican who won a GOP primary for a seat in the state Legislature this year, spent his last nights in a series of celebrations across Nevada that drew notables from politics and the sex industry — two worlds he managed to bridge.His fin
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: Utah Jazz players ring in the new year; The Ringer predicts best, worst case scenarios for Jazz

  17-10-2018 16:11 via sportspyder.com
  ... for Jazz The Ringer, brainchild of Bill Simmons, shared what it saw as the best and w ...
  
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• Utah Jazz/Sacramento Kings key match-up: Gobert vs. Cauley-Stein

  17-10-2018 16:00
  The NBA season officially begins on Wednesday night, and the match-up everyone will be watching during the Utah Jazz/Sacramento Kings game is Rudy Gobert and Willie Cauley-Stein. Ladies and gentleman, Utah Jazz basketball is back. Big things are expected out of this year’s squad, and getting off to a good start will be key. Utah’s […]
  Utah Jazz/Sacramento Kings key match-up: Gobert vs. Cauley-Stein - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and M
  
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• Morning links: Utah Jazz players ring in the new year; The Ringer predicts best, worst case scenarios for Jazz

  17-10-2018 16:00
  The Utah Jazz begin the 2018-19 campaign today, traveling to Sacramento to take on the Kings to open a season full of high expectations for the squad. Before the season gets underway, Jazz players took to social media to ring in the new NBA year.NBA IS BACK ???? ????????— Donovan Mitchell (@spidadmitchell) October 16, 2018
  ITS NATIONAL BOSS DAY.!! AND I FEEL IT.!!! ????????????????????— JAE CROWDER (@CJC9BOSS) October 17, 2018 View this post on Instagram Preseason ? Ready to get the
  
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