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• Orem woman gives birth in the middle of an intersection

  29-10-2018 23:14
  American Fork • A Utah woman is crediting twin sisters for helping deliver her baby as she was stopped at an intersection.Emily Acor told Salt Lake City’s KSL-TV that she was resting at home in Orem with her new daughter, Sophia, Monday after the delivery.Acor said she was heading to the hospital with her mother Friday evening when her water broke.They stopped the car in the middle of an intersection and Acor's mother flagged down two women for help.Sisters Ashley Haws and Adrienne Br
  
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• Never mind how it happened. Real Salt Lake is in the MLS playoffs and determined to take advantage of the opportunity

  29-10-2018 22:31
  Herriman • In a Major League Soccer minute, everything can change.After Real Salt Lake lost its final game of the regular season, hopes were slim and expectations were low. Moments after the loss, coach Mike Petke said the team had a “one-in-a-million chance” of making the playoffs. The website FiveThirtyEight gave RSL a 44 percent chance.And when the Houston Dynamo fell behind by two goals in the first half Sunday against the L.A. Galaxy, it felt like RSL’s season was jus
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz 2018-19 Week Three Outlook: Jazz aim to continue win streak

  29-10-2018 22:30 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz beat Dallas for third straight win: What went right/wrong? by Jared Woodcox ...
  
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• Rudy Gobert is on pace for the most dunks in recorded NBA history. Here’s why.

  29-10-2018 22:16
  Do you like dunks? If so, just watch Utah Jazz games.It’s early yet, but the Jazz are leading the league in terms of the percentage of shots that get hammered down. Nearly one in 10 — 9.9 percent — of the Jazz’s shots have been dunks this season.The team’s most prolific dunker, of course, is Rudy Gobert, who has 28 already. If you stretch that out to a full 82-game season, it would result in 382 dunks. That’d be, by some distance, the greatest dunking season e
  
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• Utah Jazz 2018-19 Week Three Outlook: Jazz aim to continue win streak

  29-10-2018 22:12
  The Utah Jazz will have their hands full against three formidable Western Conference foes in Week Three of the 2018-19 campaign. Minus a minor (and surprising) setback against the Memphis Grizzlies last Monday, it was smooth sailing for the Utah Jazz in their second week of action. Following the home loss against Memphis, Utah remained […]
  Utah Jazz 2018-19 Week Three Outlook: Jazz aim to continue win streak - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and Mor
  
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• Letter: Stop attacking fellow Americans in the name of nationalism

  29-10-2018 21:49
  I was born in Boston and raised in Utah. I like apple pie and cold Pabst beer. I employ 20-25 people depending on the day. I am as American as they come. But according to what I am hearing from the president, I am now the enemy of America.Just because I feel we shouldn’t permanently separate children from their parents and I’m not going into hysterics over migrants approaching the border doesn’t mean I want open borders. Just because I want to elect representatives who will ack
  
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• No. 16 Utes will meet a tough Arizona State running back they really sought in recruiting

  29-10-2018 21:37
  In a one-back offensive scheme, Utah would not be able to maximize both Zack Moss and Eno Benjamin.If the Utes had succeeded in signing Benjamin, though, they wouldn’t have to face him Saturday, when they visit Arizona State. Two of the country’s top rushers will meet at Sun Devil Stadium, where the No. 16 Utes will try to extend their four-game winning streak and move closer to a Pac-12 South title.Moss, a junior, ranks No. 6 nationally with 964 yards in eight games and is on track
  
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• Anti-Semitic incidents were on the rise even before the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, according to FBI data

  29-10-2018 21:30
  New York • Swastikas scrawled into Jewish students' notebooks. Headstones toppled and desecrated by vandals at Jewish cemeteries. Jews falsely blamed for challenges facing the nation.The shooting rampage that killed 11 people at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue on Saturday is being decried as the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history, allegedly carried out by a virulently anti-Semitic gunman. The carnage, however unprecedented, is not an aberration.Year after year, decade after
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz’s Georges Niang winning trust of teammates, coaching staff by playing at own pace

  29-10-2018 21:06 via sportspyder.com
  ... ing loss to Golden State on Oct. 19. “We’ve got confidence in Georges,” said Jazz coach Quin Snyder. “We’ve got a deep team that we believe in and that doesn’ ...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Jazz’s Georges Niang winning trust of teammates, coaching staff by playing at own pace

  29-10-2018 20:41 via sportspyder.com
  ... ing loss to Golden State on Oct. 19. “We’ve got confidence in Georges,” said Jazz coach Quin Snyder. “We’ve got a deep team that we believe in and that doesn’ ...
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Georges Niang winning trust of teammates, coaching staff by playing at own pace

  29-10-2018 20:40
  DALLAS — A 6-foot-8, 230-pound guy raided the Utah Jazz's post-practice media scrum two days after the home opener against Golden State.As Jazz guard Dante Exum was wrapping up an interview, teammate Georges Niang shot in one last question."So Dante, I just want to ask about your lightning speed, if you could give some of that to Georges Niang?" Niang playfully asked."No chance," Exum responded after letting out a huge laugh.It's true that Niang will never beat Exum in a footrace. He's cer
  
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• Jazz’s Georges Niang winning trust of teammates, coaching staff by playing at own pace

  29-10-2018 20:39
  DALLAS — A 6-foot-8, 230-pound guy raided the Utah Jazz's post-practice media scrum two days after the home opener against Golden State.As Jazz guard Dante Exum was wrapping up his interview, his teammate Georges Niang shot in one last question."So Dante, I just want to ask about your lightning speed, if you could give some of that to Georges Niang?" Niang playfully asked."No chance," Exum responded after letting out a huge laugh.It's true that Niang will never beat Exum in a footrace. He'
  
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• Trump escalates threats against migrant caravan as Pentagon prepares to deploy military to support border patrol

  29-10-2018 20:35
  Washington • Eager to focus voters on immigration in the lead-up to the midterm elections, President Donald Trump on Monday escalated his threats against a migrant caravan trudging slowly toward the U.S. border as the Pentagon prepared to deploy thousands of U.S. troops to support the border patrol.Trump tweeted: “This is an invasion of our Country and our Military is waiting for you!”His warning came as the Pentagon began executing a support mission dubbed Operation Faithful Pa
  
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• BYU seeks more consistency as 4-4 Cougars put troubling loss to NIU behind them

  29-10-2018 20:26
  Provo • How can BYU turn its football season around after losing three of its last four games?“We need to be more consistent as a team,” BYU coach Kalani Sitake said Monday in his weekly news conference, two days after the Cougars fell to 4-4 overall with a disappointing 7-6 loss to Northern Illinois. “That’s my job as head coach — to find ways to be more consistent.”Sitake repeated that theme a dozen or so times in a 12-minute question-and-answer session
  
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• Man who killed Utah student Lauren McCluskey had been investigated for burglary in Salt Lake City

  29-10-2018 20:06
  Twice in 2015, Salt Lake City police suspected Melvin Shawn Rowland — who last week fatally shot student Lauren McCluskey on the University of Utah campus — of burglarizing the apartment of another woman he had dated, according to documents released Monday.Rowland was not charged with a crime in either of those two burglary reports. In a third case in 2015, a woman reported she was afraid of Rowland, but it was that woman who was then arrested on suspicion of theft.The four reports p
  
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• The Jazz have turned games into dunk fests on this 3-0 road trip and it is by design

  29-10-2018 19:23
  Do you like dunks? If so, just watch Utah Jazz games.It’s early yet, but the Jazz are leading the league in terms of the percentage of shots that get hammered down. Nearly one in 10 — 9.9 percent — of the Jazz’s shots have been dunks this season.The team’s most prolific dunker, of course, is Rudy Gobert, who has 28 already. If you stretch that out to a full 82-game season, it would result in 382 dunks. That’d be, by some distance, the greatest dunking season e
  
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• Utah Valley University settles lawsuit with former Title IX director who says she was fired after looking into male administrators

  29-10-2018 19:05
  Utah Valley University has settled a whistleblower lawsuit filed earlier this year by the school’s former Title IX director, who had said her firing was in retaliation for voicing concerns about the university’s response to allegations of discrimination and harassment.Melissa Frost claimed her firing came shortly after she began looking into allegations that three women were harassed and discriminated against by “white males” in UVU’s upper management, according to
  
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• Rud-y-lantern flexin’ #JazzOLantern twitter.com/iBenBrown/stat…

  29-10-2018 18:32 via twitter.com
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• New high-tech airline may place its technology hub and customer service operations in Salt Lake City

  29-10-2018 18:22
  A new high-tech international airline may place its technology hub and most of its customer service agents in Salt Lake City.David Neeleman — founder of JetBlue Airways, Morris Air (which was bought by Southwest Airlines, Canada’s West Jet and Brazil’s Azul — revealed such plans for the new airline he is aiming to start in 2021, which has the working name of Moxy, according to Skift, a news site that covers the airline and travel industries.If the new airline bases such o
  
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• Clementine, a baby zebra, will make her debut this week at Utah’s Hogle Zoo

  29-10-2018 18:00
  A baby zebra born last week at Utah’s Hogle Zoo will make her first public appearance at the zoo on Tuesday.Clementine was born Tuesday, Oct. 23, weighing in at 85 pounds, zoo officials said Monday.It’s the third Hartmann’s Mountain zebra born at Hogle Zoo, and the second born to Zoe, who gave birth to Poppy last year. Both were sired by Ziggy, who also was the father of Zibby, who was born to a different mother in June.“Clementine has no fear,” Melissa Farr, lead k
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump’s America is not a safe place for Jews

  29-10-2018 17:23
  Video: Eleven people were killed and six were wounded on Oct. 27, when Robert Bowers allegedly attacked Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. (The Washington Post)
  Washington - George Washington, in his 1790 letter to the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, told Jews they would be safe in the new nation."The government of the United States … gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance," he wrote. "May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continu
  
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• Will big numbers in NBA continue? Stephen Curry says wait and see

  29-10-2018 17:18
  Blake Griffin had this season's highest-scoring game for all of about 24 hours before Stephen Curry bettered it — in just three quarters.Then, in Golden State's next game, after Curry poured in 51 points in a rout of Washington, Kevin Durant scored 25 in the fourth quarter, the best total of his career, and finished with 41 in a victory at New York.With the Warriors teammates' big nights and Griffin's 50-point outburst for Detroit coming in just a four-night span, it continued a torrid sta
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Salt City Seven: Mitchell Gets Going, Gobert Piles Up Double-Doubles & More

  29-10-2018 16:30 via sportspyder.com
  ... es Niang and Dante Exum, extended Utah’s cushion, too.   A quick look at the Jazz’s next seven nights of action. After completing their first back-to-back of...
  
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• Ute guard Charles Jones Jr. is adjusting to D-1 basketball, learning that not all shots are good shots

  29-10-2018 15:58
  Charles Jones Jr. became the national player of the year in junior college basketball because of his scoring ability, and his defense has proven to be more than adequate in Utah's practices over the past month.There’s more for him to learn, though. “I’m just trying to figure out where I’m going to get my shots — what’s a good shot, what’s a bad shot, and just playing my game,” Jones said.Wait. There’s such thing as a bad shot? Jones laughed,
  
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• ICYMI: Rudy’s dunk fest continues in Dallas » on.nba.com/2Ax4FTC https://t.co/wLCIePzCDg

  29-10-2018 15:37 via twitter.com
  
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• Letter: Why keep an exotic animal at an amusement park?

  29-10-2018 15:30
  I am 12 years old. I went to Lagoon yesterday, and something that I saw there made me very sad. I saw a zoo with a Siberian tiger inside it. I tried to continue having fun for the rest of the day, but all I wanted to do was to contact someone and try to free this animal or, better yet, to prevent other animals from having to live such a sad life.Another thing that bothered me was that I saw no one stop and even look at this exotic animal. So I asked myself what the point of putting this animal i
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Rudy Gobert: Offensive Star

  29-10-2018 15:27 via sportspyder.com
  ... las, especially on Sunday evening games. I was proud to see the Jazz rise about the refs, rise above the dirty plays of the Mavericks and grind o ...
  
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• Letter: Nonprofits, churches and cults should pay their share of property tax

  29-10-2018 15:27
  There are many not paying property taxes. Nonprofits do not pay property taxes, and many nonprofits pay their executives huge salaries. Take, for example, the president and CEO of the American Red Cross, Gail McGovern, who gets $500,000 a year. Maybe these executives could live on a little less, so their organization could pay its share of property tax.Then there are religious organizations that are exempt from property tax on their churches, temples and synagogues.Most religions and cults could
  
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• Political Cornflakes: If Democrats retake the House they’ll have a powerful weapon to investigate Trump thanks to Republicans

  29-10-2018 15:02
  Congressional investigations in store for Trump Administration if Democrats retake House. Closed-door negotiations continue on a medical marijuana bill. President Trump, a critic of the Antiquities Act, decides it’s pretty handy after all.Happy Monday. House Republicans three years ago changed rules — over the protests of Democrats — to give committee chairs unilateral power to subpoena witnesses. (Remember then-Rep. Jason Chaffetz going after Hillary Clinton’s emails, th
  
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• One dead in Moab shooting; police searching for last of five suspects

  29-10-2018 15:01
  Police in Moab are trying to find a person suspected in a weekend homicide.The victim was found with multiple gunshot wounds. Police have not yet disclosed his name.Detectives are trying to find a man who uses the name Martin Armenta Verduzco Lopez, or the alias Omar. He is described as a Latino, about 30 years old. A news release says he may be on his way to Grand Junction, Colo.“We believe that Omar," Moab police Chief Jim Winder said in a phone interview Monday, "or Martin, as his name
  
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• Letter: We must do more to track sexual predators like Lauren McCluskey’s killer

  29-10-2018 14:50
  I am a student at the University of Utah. In the aftermath of the tragic events that happened on Monday night, I am heartbroken and still in shock — even more so because I was in close proximity to the killer and the victim while the events unfolded in the parking lot outside my dorm, not 30 feet away from where I sleep. I am devastated for the victim’s family, and for the University of Utah community as a whole.After the shooting, I have learned that the victim had reported her kill
  
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• Letter: Could one call to law enforcement have saved Lauren McCluskey life?

  29-10-2018 14:48
  The loss of University of Utah student Lauren McCluskey is devastating. And the response by University of Utah police is disheartening.It was reported in The Salt Lake Tribune that Dale Brophy, U. of U. police chief, said that his officers did not believe they had enough evidence to share with other law enforcement officers. But what would have been the harm in sharing the evidence they did have? Is it possible that one call to Salt Lake City police or other law enforcement officers could have s
  
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• Indonesian plane crashes into the sea with more than 180 on board

  29-10-2018 14:46
  Jakarta, Indonesia • A Lion Air passenger plane that took off Monday from Jakarta crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff with 189 people on board, all of whom are feared dead in Indonesia's worst air disaster in recent years.The aircraft's pilot had asked to return to Jakarta's airport shortly after takeoff, a request cleared by air traffic controllers. The plane then lost contact with controllers and plunged into the sea from 3,000 feet. Authorities quickly launched a search-and-rescue
  
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• Letter: Vote no on Prop 3 because nothing is free

  29-10-2018 14:45
  One of the arguments in the voter information pamphlet in favor of Proposition 3 is that it “brings nearly $800 million in federal funding back to our state every year from Washington, D.C. — money that is already set aside for Utah.”Set aside? In reality all the money that Utah taxpayers send to the federal government is already spent. In addition, the federal government has to borrow roughly a trillion dollars annually to cover all the expenses in excess of what it has alread
  
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• Letter: Prop 3, on Medicaid, is a prudent investment in Utah’s workforce

  29-10-2018 14:44
  If you were offered $9 in exchange for $1, would you take the deal? The vast majority of us would say yes. That is the offer on the table in Proposition 3 — and better yet, the investment in Proposition 3 pays dividends, too.Proposition 3, the initiative to expand Medicaid, is a prudent, long-term investment in Utah. It represents an investment in our state’s greatest asset: our people, our workforce. For too long, thousands of our friends, family and neighbors have gone without heal
  
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• Battling the ‘visual blight’ of billboards, former Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker launches Scenic Utah

  29-10-2018 14:26
  Former Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker, who sees billboards as a scourge on Utah’s natural landscapes and urban skylines, has launched a group dedicated to fighting their proliferation and providing a counterbalance to an industry that has amassed political clout in the state.The fledgling Scenic Utah, an affiliate of Scenic America, is led by Becker and his wife, Kate Kopischke.“I’ve been a really strong admirer of what Scenic America has done around the country to promote t
  
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• Utah seeks to loosen road rules in forests to help protect against fires, but some fear it’s a ploy to bolster logging that would make blazes worse

  29-10-2018 14:21
  For years, county commissioners in rural Utah have complained the U.S. Forest Service’s Roadless Area Conservation Rule has thwarted sound forest management by unnecessarily complicating and even blocking projects that would promote forest health and sustain a timber industry.Crafted during the Clinton administration, the rule shields inventoried unroaded lands in national forests from some activities that would require new roads, although exemptions are available. It covers 4.2 million ac
  
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• Angry taxpayers can be scary: 1 of every 4 Utah governments seeking property tax hikes backed down, at least partially

  29-10-2018 14:14
  Want to scare a politician for Halloween? Try dressing up as an upset taxpayer, perhaps carrying a pitchfork or torch.After required Truth in Taxation hearings this year that allowed protests by angry taxpayers, about one of every four cities, counties or other local governments that had proposed property tax hikes reduced them or scrapped them all together.It is further evidence — according even to supporters of the Truth in Taxation law — that it works maybe too well to keep taxes
  
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• Tribune editorial: Lauren McCluskey didn’t have to die, and Utah must do better

  29-10-2018 14:12
  It is not a question of whether Utah failed Lauren McCluskey. The question is whether we can avoid that failure the next time.Multiple investigations have been launched after the University of Utah student was shot in a car outside her dorm, but what is already known paints a devastating picture of missed opportunities — any of which may have been enough to keep her alive.McCluskey’s killer, Melvin Rowland, was convicted 14 years ago of sexually assaulting a teen. In a state parole b
  
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• Here’s where Utah’s 1st Congressional District candidates stand on climate change, abortion and Trump

  29-10-2018 14:00
  In what he says would be his final term, Republican incumbent Rep. Rob Bishop wants to serve as a leader on the “team” of Utah’s congressional delegation.“I want to be back there on that team so we can support the Second Amendment, so we can support Hill Air Force Base … so we can push through initiatives that are pro-life,” he said at the 1st District debate earlier this month, as he asked for voters’ support one last time.The strong proponent of small
  
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• Boston tee party: Red Sox hit four HRs and beat Dodgers 5-1 in Game 5 to win World Series

  29-10-2018 06:48
  Los Angeles • Chris Sale’s final pitch for this Boston juggernaut triggered a celebration on the Dodger Stadium infield, among thousands of fans who made their way to California — and even outside Fenway Park back home.The quest is complete. Yes, these 2018 Red Sox really are that great.A team to remember from top to bottom. A season to savor from start to finish.David Price proved his postseason mettle, Steve Pearce homered twice and Boston beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 on S
  
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• Bench comes up big as Utah Jazz beat Dallas Mavericks 113-104 for third straight road win

  29-10-2018 05:43
  Dallas • Second night of a back-to-back … no Derrick Favors in the starting lineup … no Alec Burks coming off the bench …All the ingredients were there for the Jazz to slow down, fade away, and accept that sometimes it’s just not your night and, well, as the postgame music blared over the loudspeakers, “On to the Next One.”Except that Georges Niang was hitting 3s and bodying people up. And Jae Crowder was ruthlessly efficient offensively. And Dante Exu
  
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• A few excellent #JazzOLantern entries from Instagram. Contest ends November 1! https://t.co/7yu4fglaqi

  29-10-2018 05:27 via twitter.com
  
  A few excellent #JazzOLantern entries from Instagram. Contest ends November 1! https://t.co/7yu4fglaqi
  
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• Red Sox beat Dodgers 5-1 in Game 5 to win World Series title

  29-10-2018 04:51
  Los Angeles • The Boston Red Sox really are that great.David Price proved his postseason mettle, Steve Pearce homered twice and Boston beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 on Sunday to finish off a one-sided World Series in five games.Long downtrodden during decades of despair before ending an 86-year championship drought in 2004, the Red Sox have become baseball’s team of the century with four titles in 15 seasons.Alex Cora’s team romped to a 17-2 start and a club-record 108 wins,
  
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• [NBA] - The Roundup—Gobert leads Jazz to third straight win

  29-10-2018 04:29 via sportspyder.com
  ... ick move.— Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) After a back-and-forth third quarter (which featured four ties a ...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz get valuable minutes from Georges Niang on career night vs. Dallas in 3rd straight win

  29-10-2018 04:27 via sportspyder.com
  ... n guys play together and play the right way, we’re a better team.” While the Jazz’s bench was spectacular, so were the starters on the second night of a back- ...
  
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• Utah Jazz get valuable minutes from Georges Niang on career night vs. Dallas in 3rd straight win

  29-10-2018 04:19
  DALLAS — With the return of Thabo Sefolosha after serving a five-game suspension, some suspected Georges Niang's minutes might take a hit.Niang wasn't concerned, though."I'm not worried at all," Niang said, ahead the Utah Jazz's third consecutive road win against the Dallas Mavericks Sunday night, 113-104."If I'm called upon, I'm going to be ready, and if I'm not I'm still going to be a great teammate," he predicted. "That's not my job, that's the coach's job to figure out who's going to p
  
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• The Triple Team: Andy Larsen’s analysis of the Utah Jazz pick and rolling the Mavericks aside for third consecutive win

  29-10-2018 04:19
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 113-104 win over the Dallas Mavericks from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Jazz pick and roll the Mavericks to deathAh, good old pick and roll. The play perfected by John Stockton and Karl Malone was almost synonymous with Jazz basketball until the league really adopted it wholesale in this millennium. Now, everyone runs pick and roll, and while it’s certainly not the only component of a good offense, it might be the biggest. While
  
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