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• A big donation boosts East High’s pantry; for many districts, food help has become ‘something that our schools can’t do without’

  20-11-2018 23:28
  The East High School food pantry is committed to feeding the hungry — which includes the majority of its students.“People are surprised that a lot of East High students don’t have the things that they need to basically just survive from day to day,” said Mya Johnson, an East student body officer.“They think that, just because we’re on the east side [of Salt Lake City], we have a higher income,” said Brooklyn Franco, the student senate president. “B
  
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• Utah’s pass protection has improved since Lo Falemaka got healthy and Jason Shelley became the quarterback

  20-11-2018 23:25
  Utah's defensive performance last weekend at Colorado evoked images of one of the Utes' September games, and not in a good way.The way Utah tormented Colorado with six sacks (seven, by the Utes' in-house statistics) and 16 tackles for loss resembled Northern Illinois' treatment of Utah’s offense. The Huskies lost 17-6, but held the Utes to 10 offensive points, while recording six sacks and 14 tackles for loss.Utah’s offensive line has improved considerably since then. That’s es
  
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• “I ask him, ‘Why are you always so angry on the court?’ He said, ‘Dad, I think you used to play like that too.’” » on.nba.com/2OWUSud

  20-11-2018 23:10 via twitter.com
  “I ask him, ‘Why are you always so angry on the court?’ He said, ‘Dad, I think you used to play like that too.’”» on.nba.com/2OWUSud
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - FBI: Elderly man arrested in bank robbery fled halfway house

  20-11-2018 23:04 via sportspyder.com
  Goodyear, Ariz. • The FBI says an 82-year-old man arrested on suspicion of robbing a bank in Goodyear was wanted by federal authorities for leaving a halfway house.
  
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• FBI: Elderly man arrested in bank robbery fled halfway house

  20-11-2018 23:00
  Goodyear, Ariz. • The FBI says an 82-year-old man arrested on suspicion of robbing a bank in Goodyear was wanted by federal authorities for leaving a halfway house.Charles Manrow was ordered held behind bars Monday while he awaits trial.According to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Arizona, Manrow was armed with a BB gun when he obtained about $1,270 from a bank teller.Goodyear police arrested him in a traffic stop.Manrow told authorities a former drug associate funded his escape
  
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• U.S. officials say don’t eat romaine, citing E. coli outbreak that has sickened more than 30 people

  20-11-2018 22:57
  New York • U.S. health officials are telling people to avoid eating romaine lettuce because of an E. coli outbreak that has sickened 32 people in 11 states.The Food and Drug Administration says it's working with officials in Canada, where people are also being warned to stay away from romaine lettuce. The strain identified is different than the one linked to romaine earlier this year, but it appears similar to one linked to leafy greens last year.FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb says the age
  
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• Student loan lender appears to have pushed high-cost plans without providing other options, report finds

  20-11-2018 22:47
  New York • One of the nation’s largest student loan servicing companies may have driven tens of thousands of borrowers struggling with their debts into higher-cost repayment plans.That's the finding of a Department of Education audit of practices at Navient Corp., the nation's third-largest student loan servicing company.The conclusions of the 2017 audit, which until now have been kept from the public and were obtained by The Associated Press, appear to support federal and state lawsu
  
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• Letter: When will Romney stand up to Trump?

  20-11-2018 22:33
  Finally and hopefully we will soon get to know our newly elected Sen. Mitt Romney. How many years have we wanted to know the real Mitt Romney?Is he strong, is he weak? Will we get to know him outside his “Mr. Nice Guy” persona?Romney states, “There will be few occasions where I will be compelled, by conscience, to criticize Trump.” Romney states, “I will call them as I see them” (Salt Lake Tribune, Nov. 6).Surely, there will be many Donald Trump opportunities
  
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• Oakland poised to cancel Bay Area port project that would ship Utah coal

  20-11-2018 22:20
  City leaders in Oakland, Calif., are poised to yank the plug on a marine port project that Utah’s coal country hoped would connect its mining output with Asian markets.In a correspondence exchange last month, the city notified project developer Phil Tagami it was in the process of terminating his firm’s lease for failure to meet construction milestones specified in the contract. Tagami responded with a 51-page notice of claim threatening to sue the city for allegedly sabotaging the p
  
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• Utah paragliders soar on HBO’s ‘Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel’ on Tuesday

  20-11-2018 22:07
  Utah takes center stage in Tuesday's edition of HBO's award-winning series “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” — in a segment that just might bring a tear to your eye.The report, titled “Flight Club,” looks at the paragliders those of us who live here have become accustomed to seeing at the Point of the Mountain. But what's happening in Draper there is anything but common.The segment focuses on Chris Santacroce and Project Airtime, which allows people who are paralyzed
  
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• Anti-vaccination stronghold in North Carolina hit with state’s worst chickenpox outbreak in 2 decades

  20-11-2018 22:00
  Chickenpox has taken hold of a school in North Carolina where many families claim religious exemption from vaccines.Cases of chickenpox have been multiplying at the Asheville Waldorf School, which serves children from nursery school to sixth grade in Asheville, North Carolina. About a dozen infections grew to 28 at the beginning of the month. By Friday, there were 36, the Asheville Citizen-Times reported.The outbreak ranks as the state's worst since the chickenpox vaccine became available more t
  
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• It took Joe Ingles 332 games to hit 500 3-pointers—89 games faster than it took the next Jazzman (421). He did it… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-11-2018 21:42 via twitter.com
  It took Joe Ingles 332 games to hit 500 3-pointers—89 games faster than it took the next Jazzman (421).He did it… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• [KSL] - A long road: Jazz trying to navigate a travel-heavy first couple months

  20-11-2018 21:37 via sportspyder.com
  The schedule makers didn't do the Jazz any favors with a heavy road schedule to start the season.
  
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• What the Utah Jazz learned from their recent five-game road trip

  20-11-2018 21:33
  INDIANAPOLIS — Utah Jazz players needed a moment to gather themselves in the visitors locker room of Bankers Life Fieldhouse before life emerged in there.After suffering a 121-94 loss to the Indiana Pacers on the last stop of a five-game road trip, they needed to ponder on what just happened, as the room was silent."I'm ready," Jazz star Donovan Mitchell finally signaled media, after soaking his feet in a bucket of ice.Mitchell ended with a season-low seven points on 3-for-8 shooting with
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - What the Utah Jazz learned from their recent five-game road trip

  20-11-2018 21:32 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz have already played more road games than any other NBA team so far this season, going 6-5 away from home and 8-9 overall.
  
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• Tribune editorial: Hatch’s effort for cancer patients will go on

  20-11-2018 21:24
  In the fight to cure cancer, the heavyweight is the United States government. No entity has invested more in research to identify, treat and avoid it.And so it is for the University of Utah’s Huntsman Cancer Institute. Donations from the Huntsman family and others were combined with the university’s braintrust of medical researchers to establish an institute that would be a premier facility in the nation for both research and clinical care.That, in turn, brought in more top scientist
  
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• Utah and BYU are scheduled to meet annually through 2022, but after that it gets a little hazy

  20-11-2018 21:08
  New University of Utah athletic director Mark Harlan says that the two biggest topics people have asked him about since he took the job last June are the expansion of Utah’s stadium and the future of the football series with rival BYU.That’s not a promise that the Cougars and Utes — who meet Saturday at 8 p.m. at Rice-Eccles Stadium in the annual instate rivalry game — will continue to play after this series’ contract expires in 2022, but it at least shows Utahns ha
  
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• After a wildly inconsistent 2-3 road trip, Jazz acknowledge they need to bring it every night

  20-11-2018 21:01
  In the minutes after Monday night’s road-trip-closing blowout loss in Indiana, Jazz center Rudy Gobert expressed disappointment about the team’s lack of toughness in the defeat. As for the bigger picture, in terms of the team going 2-3 on the trip and falling to 8-9 overall this season, the Frenchman was typically stoic.“It’s about us. I feel like there’s no game that we couldn’t have won on this trip,” he said. “We can beat everyone, and we can al
  
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• Parking near popular Horseshoe Bend is expanding

  20-11-2018 21:00
  Page, Ariz. • Parking for a popular tourist attraction where the Colorado River bends in the shape of a horseshoe is being expanded.The National Park Service says visitation at Horseshoe Bend near the Arizona-Utah border has increased dramatically over the years.The agency and the City of Page, Arizona, are creating more parking spaces. But they've had to close the north parking lot for construction and implement restrictions until the project is complete in March.For now, tour buses with m
  
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• "Some guys may come in and not play and it may go south. Their mentality, they may lose it. He stays locked in. He’… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-11-2018 20:58 via twitter.com
  "Some guys may come in and not play and it may go south. Their mentality, they may lose it. He stays locked in. He’… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Unified Fire Authority won’t sue to recover money misused by its former chief and other leaders

  20-11-2018 20:32
  The Unified Fire Authority determined Tuesday that it won’t seek to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars in public funds that state auditors last year concluded were misused by top administrators.The state audit and a 196-page investigative report from the Attorney General’s Office found that former Chief Michael Jensen and his Deputy Chief Gaylord Scott had received exorbitant bonuses, been reimbursed for personal vacations attached to official travel, purchased electronic equip
  
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• In blow to Trump’s immigration agenda, federal judge blocks asylum ban for migrants who enter illegally from Mexico

  20-11-2018 20:00
  A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from denying asylum to migrants who illegally cross the southern border into the United States, saying the policy likely violated federal law on asylum eligibility.In a ruling late Monday, Jon S. Tigar of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco issued a temporary nationwide restraining order barring enforcement of the policy. President Trump’s action was announced on Nov. 9, though the White House had as early as last month floa
  
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• University of Nebraska hires Utah college administrator as its diversity vice chancellor

  20-11-2018 19:22
  Lincoln, Neb. • The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has hired a Utah college administrator as its first vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion.The university said Monday that Marco Barker will begin his work in Lincoln on April 1.Barker's hiring creates a new Office of Diversity and Inclusion. He'll lead the university's planning and efforts toward ensuring an inclusive and equitable campus in areas such as faculty recruitment and retention, education and research.Barker is chief divers
  
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• Happy Thanksgiving week, Jazz fans! 🍁🍂 Tell us what you’re thankful for using the hashtag #Jazzgiving to be entere… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-11-2018 18:55 via twitter.com
  Happy Thanksgiving week, Jazz fans! 🍁🍂Tell us what you’re thankful for using the hashtag #Jazzgiving to be entere… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• [NBA] - Returning to the site of 2015 NCAA title game provides valuable lesson for Jazz rookie Grayson Allen

  20-11-2018 18:18 via sportspyder.com
  Indianapolis — On the bus ride to the hotel, Grayson Allen glanced out the window and saw the football stadium where he became a basketball star. Lucas Oil Stadium is the home of the Indianapolis Colts, but in the spring of 2015 the massive arena was...
  
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• Rock On: Utes deserve an apology from Old Man Winter

  20-11-2018 18:05
  Several Utah football players said facing Colorado in freezing temperatures last Saturday was no big deal for a team from snow country.Linebacker Francis Bernard, from Herriman, said, "It was nothing to us."On behalf of the 40-something Ute players from warm-weather places, Rock On would like to respond: "Speak for yourself, Snow Show."
  TEAM TERRIFICDallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle called the Jazz "a ridiculously difficult team to play" after beating them by 50 points last week.That would ma
  
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• It was just a nosebleed, caused by desert air. Or was it?

  20-11-2018 18:00
  The night the nosebleed started, Zina Martinez, seven months pregnant with her second child, was sitting in the living room of her Las Vegas home, eating a bowl of ice cream.Martinez, 22, was used to nosebleeds. She’d had them nearly every day since she was 10, an annoying occurrence doctors repeatedly dismissed as insignificant — a probable result of the bone-dry desert air.This one was different.When Martinez pinched her nose closed to stop what was usually little more than a trick
  
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• Police officer injured while on ride-along with Utah trooper

  20-11-2018 17:00
  Murray • The Utah Highway Patrol says a Kaysville police officer was injured Tuesday morning while on a ride-along with a trooper on a freeway in the Salt Lake City area.The Highway Patrol says the Kaysville officer suffered a leg injury that isn't life-threatening and reportedly is "doing well ... and able to walk around."According to the Highway Patrol, the officer was injured when hit by a passing vehicle while observing an investigation of a wrong-way vehicle crash on Interstate 15.The
  
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• Salt Lake City is No. 2 on list of places where Christmas packages are most likely to be stolen off the front porch

  20-11-2018 16:58
  Salt Lake City is No. 2 on the list of places where your holiday package is likely to be stolen off your front porch — which probably shouldn’t surprise anyone, given that Utah’s capitol is No. 1 in the nation in overall theft rate.That’s according to the website SafeWise.com, which reports that Salt Lake City’s overall rate is 32.6 thefts per 1,000 people in a year. That’s almost twice the national average of 17.By the way, the safest place for holiday packag
  
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• South Jordan man charged after offering teenage girls $70k to have his baby

  20-11-2018 16:55
  A South Jordan man who left a note offering $70,000 for a teenage girl to bear his child has been charged with multiple felonies.Steven Eric Graham, 28, has been charged with three counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of enticing a minor by internet or text — all second-degree felonies — as well as one count of sexual battery of a minor, a Class A misdemeanor.According to a probable cause statement, in early September Graham left a note on a car that had been occupi
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: What you may have missed from the second Utah Jazz-Boston Celtics matchup

  20-11-2018 16:30 via sportspyder.com
  Some things you may have missed from last weekend's game, as well as a few other NBA-related items.
  
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• Morning links: What you may have missed from the second Utah Jazz-Boston Celtics matchup

  20-11-2018 16:25
  The Utah Jazz left their fans feeling pretty good last Saturday as they beat the Boston Celtics for the second time this season, 98-86.While the atmosphere was certainly less emotionally charged at TD Garden in Boston than it was at Vivint Arena when the teams first met on Nov. 9, there were still some funny things that happened both on the court as well as on Twitter as it relates to the little rivalry that has formed between the two teams.A look back at some of them:Joe Ingles vs. Gordon Haywa
  
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• Ivanka Trump used personal email account to send emails about government business

  20-11-2018 15:51
  Washington • Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails last year to White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules, according to people familiar with a White House examination of her correspondence.White House ethics officials learned of Trump's repeated use of personal email when reviewing emails gathered last fall by five Cabinet agencies to respond to a public records lawsuit. That review revealed that throu
  
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• Sunday ‘Sunny’ Stephen says he is parting ways with Real Salt Lake

  20-11-2018 15:42
  After three seasons with Real Salt Lake, midfielder Sunday “Sunny” Stephen is leaving the team.Stephen was told by management that his option would not be picked up for the upcoming 2019 season, he told The Salt Lake Tribune late Monday.“They don’t want me,” he said. “I cannot play where they don’t want me.”RSL will officially announce all of its contract options Monday.The players had their exit physicals and interviews last week in the office of
  
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• Letter: Be more sympathetic to church’s request

  20-11-2018 15:34
  Recently Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has asked members and media to use the full name of the church, rather than “Mormon” or “LDS.” He said, “We will want to be courteous and patient in our efforts to correct these errors. Responsible media will be sympathetic in responding to our request.”I question if The Salt Lake Tribune is “sympathetic” to this request. In your headlines and articles, I stil
  
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• Paul Waldman: How Marco Rubio’s sad decline explains the Republican Party

  20-11-2018 15:33
  One of the most revealing sidelights to the recent Florida recounts was to see Sen. Marco Rubio tossing off conspiracy-mongering tweets about missing ballots and stolen votes, a positively Trumpian display that more than a few people who once admired Rubio found disheartening. The Washington Post’s Sean Sullivan reports:"Just four years ago, Marco Rubio was gearing up to run for president with an inclusive and sunny message designed to capture the imagination of a modernizing Republican Pa
  
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• Megan McArdle: This one little trick will make Thanksgiving perfect

  20-11-2018 15:26
  Thanksgiving comes early this year, which means there was barely time to empty the Halloween candy bowl before the barrage of advice began about the fabulous new things you can do to liven up Thanksgiving.Toss out boring potatoes in favor of mashed cauliflower! Substitute julienned bok choy for Aunt Irma’s green bean casserole! And as for the turkey — if you must have such a hackneyed entree, then at least spatchcock it, glaze the result with a sriracha-molasses reduction and festoon
  
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• 7-year-old girl and her grandmother die in Murray house fire

  20-11-2018 15:24
  Authorities have identified the two people who died in a house fire in Murray early Monday morning as girl and her grandmother.Cassidy Jackson, 7, and Lisa Wiley, 53, died in the fire that destroyed the home at 700 W. Anderson Ave.Firefighters responded to the blaze shortly after 7 a.m., arriving to find the home was fully engulfed in flames, according to tweets from the Murray Fire Department.Because of items in the house, crews had trouble getting upstairs. When they did, they found the two vi
  
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• Letter: Protective orders could prevent many suicides

  20-11-2018 15:23
  In The Salt Lake Tribune Editorial, “Time to take firearms seriously”, the editorial board points out the important common-sense solution of Red Flag laws to reduce gun deaths and injuries.A Red Flag law, also called Extreme Risk Protective Orders (or ERPO), is being proposed currently in Utah by Rep. Steve Handy, R-Layton, as a critical part of the solution to address our state’s high rate of suicide.As a recent Harvard study on suicide in Utah shows, half of all suicides are
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Kyle Lowry the Jazzman?

  20-11-2018 15:19 via sportspyder.com
  Plus Royce O’Neale’s inspiring story
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Ivanka Trump used personal account to send 100s of emails discussing government business

  20-11-2018 15:10
  Trump White House has its own email problems. Ben McAdams declares victory (though Love hasn’t conceded.) And a state Senator doubles down on his assault accusations against a fellow lawmaker.Happy Tuesday. Will Democrats take up the “Lock her up!” chant? The Washington Post reports that presidential daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails last year to top government officials on her personal email account in violation of federal records rules. A review reveal
  
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• Expect 20-minute delays on I-15 Wednesday, thanks to early Thanksgiving traffic

  20-11-2018 14:30
  Well, it could be worse if you were a turkey: Officials expect Thanksgiving holiday traffic to cause extra delays of 20 minutes on Interstate 15 on Wednesday for trips through Salt Lake and Utah counties.They also project that return trips will create delays of 25 minutes on Monday afternoon.UDOT engineers expect increased southbound traffic on I-15 on Wednesday between 2 p.m. and 9 p.m., and northbound traffic will be heavier between 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.Extra “Black Friday” traffic als
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz give uninspired effort against Oladipo-less Pacers

  20-11-2018 08:11 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz's road trip ended with a whimper as the team fell flat against the Indiana Pacers sans Victor Oladipo. Well, it wasn't as bad as that game in...
  
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• Utah Jazz give uninspired effort against Oladipo-less Pacers

  20-11-2018 08:00
  The Utah Jazz’s road trip ended with a whimper as the team fell flat against the Indiana Pacers sans Victor Oladipo. Well, it wasn’t as bad as that game in Dallas. That’s about the best thing fans can say about the Utah Jazz’s performance on Monday against the Indiana Pacers. In the finale of a five-game […]
  Utah Jazz give uninspired effort against Oladipo-less Pacers - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - The Latest: Maui honors former AP writer O'Connell

  20-11-2018 06:57 via sportspyder.com
  Xavier forward Zach Hankins (35) fights for a loose ball against Auburn forward Horace Spencer (0) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game at the Maui Invitational,
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Davis, Randle lead Pelicans past Spurs, 140-126

  20-11-2018 06:57 via sportspyder.com
  New Orleans Pelicans forward Julius Randle (30) shoots against San Antonio Spurs center Jakob Poeltl (25) in the first half of an NBA basketball game in New Orleans, Monday, Nov.
  
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• Conservation plan for Cottonwood Canyons moves forward — but does not address Alta ski resort

  20-11-2018 06:50
  Cottonwood Heights • A conservation plan that would expand wilderness by thousands of acres and limit ski resort growth in Salt Lake County may finally make its way to Congress, with draft legislation passed unanimously Monday by the Central Wasatch Commission.But Alta Ski Area is still free to develop commercial skiing in Grizzly Gulch — and seek permission to expand to Patsy Marley Ridge — after the Little Cottonwood Canyon resort’s managers rebuffed conservationists&rsq
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - The Latest: Evans, VCU beat Temple 57-51 in Legends Classic

  20-11-2018 06:41 via sportspyder.com
  Temple's Quinton Rose (1) shoots over Virginia Commonwealth's Marcus Evans (2) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in the Legends Classic tournament Monday, Nov. 19, 2018,
  
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• [NBA] - The Roundup—Rubio shines, Jazz still fall to Pacers

  20-11-2018 06:34 via sportspyder.com
  Playing their fifth road game in a week, the Jazz fell behind early and weren't quite able to get back in the game, eventually falling to the Indiana Pacers 121-94 Monday night. "They were the more aggressive team," Jazz head coach Quin Snyder said. "It..
  
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• [KSL] - 'They had more': How the Jazz lost to Oladipo-less Pacers

  20-11-2018 06:05 via sportspyder.com
  From the very first play to really the final whistle, the Pacers controlled the game. They did it despite Victor Oladipo, their All-Star guard, sitting out with right knee soreness. And they did it despite a great offensive night from Ricky Rubio.
  
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