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• Balanced Cougars rout Northern Colorado, 70-50

  21-12-2018 23:54
  Five BYU players scored in double figures for the first time this season as the cougars defeated Northern Colorado 70-50 Friday afternoon at the Marriott Center.“I thought that tonight we defended very well,” BYU head coach Jeff Judkins said. “I’ve got to give Brenna Chase a lot of credit, she guarded their best player and she got her points, but she earned them. I thought our bigs did a really good job both offensively and defensively. It was just a great team effort and
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz travel to face Portland Trail Blazers in preview of Christmas game

  21-12-2018 23:49 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz will face the Blazers twice in a three-game span
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Longtime Utah State assistant equipment manager Steve Wiley dies at 67

  21-12-2018 23:31 via sportspyder.com
  Longtime Utah State football assistant equipment manager Steve Wiley died Friday, the university announced. He was 67.
  
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• Trump signs sweeping criminal justice bill co-written by Sen. Mike Lee

  21-12-2018 23:21
  Washington • With a government shutdown just hours away, President Donald Trump on Friday signed rare bipartisan legislation addressing concerns with the criminal justice system.Trump called the bill "an incredible success for our country" and "beyond bipartisan" during an Oval Office signing ceremony.Lawmakers and advocates also hailed it as a hugely influential package and thanked the president for supporting the issue.The legislation will give judges more discretion when sentencing some
  
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• Trump signs sweeping criminal justice bill sweeping prison reform measure co-written by Sen. Mike Lee

  21-12-2018 22:52
  Washington • With a government shutdown just hours away, President Donald Trump on Friday signed rare bipartisan legislation addressing concerns with the criminal justice system.Trump called the bill "an incredible success for our country" and "beyond bipartisan" during an Oval Office signing ceremony.Lawmakers and advocates also hailed it as a hugely influential package and thanked the president for supporting the issue.The legislation will give judges more discretion when sentencing some
  
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• Longtime Utah State assistant equipment manager Steve Wiley dies at 67

  21-12-2018 22:38
  Longtime Utah State football assistant equipment manager Steve Wiley died Friday, the university announced. He was 67.“The Utah State Athletics Family is shocked and saddened at the passing of Steve Wiley,” USU athletic director John Hartwell said in a news release. “He has been a positive fixture of Aggie football and Aggie athletics for many years. Steve’s legacy and influence will forever be etched in Aggie Athletics. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family.&rdqu
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Trump signs sweeping criminal justice bill

  21-12-2018 22:33 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • With a government shutdown just hours away, President Donald Trump on Friday signed rare bipartisan legislation addressing concerns with the criminal justice system.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Deal inked involving small nuclear reactors in Idaho

  21-12-2018 22:33 via sportspyder.com
  Boise, Idaho • The U.S. Department of Energy, a Utah-based utility and a contractor that operates an eastern Idaho nuclear research facility have reached an agreement involving plans to build a dozen small modular nuclear reactors in eastern Idaho.
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz's Joe Ingles not worried about Donovan Mitchell shooting woes

  21-12-2018 22:29 via sportspyder.com
  Donovan Mitchell ranks near the bottom of the NBA in shooting percentage, but the second-year player says he's not worried about it and neither are his teammates as the Jazz get ready to play...
  
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• Deal inked involving small nuclear reactors in Idaho

  21-12-2018 22:21
  Boise, Idaho • The U.S. Department of Energy, a Utah-based utility and a contractor that operates an eastern Idaho nuclear research facility have reached an agreement involving plans to build a dozen small modular nuclear reactors in eastern Idaho.The Energy Department's Office of Nuclear Energy on Friday announced the agreement with Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems and Battelle Energy Alliance, the Energy Department contractor that operates the Idaho National Laboratory.The utility
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Max Boot: Jim Mattis didn’t believe in betraying allies. That’s why he had to resign.

  21-12-2018 22:18 via sportspyder.com
  When I think of Jim Mattis, I will always remember the peppery two-star general I met for the first time in Iraq. It was the summer of 2003, and he had just led the 1st Marine Division on the "march up" to Baghdad. He showed his steely will to win...
  
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• Utah Jazz's Joe Ingles not worried about Donovan Mitchell shooting woes

  21-12-2018 22:16
  PORTLAND, Ore. — Donovan Mitchell isn't worried, even if he is one of the poorest shooters in the NBA right now.Mitchell is shooting just 36.9 percent from the field during the month of December and is coming off a 5-for-26 game against Golden State Wednesday night, including 2 for 11 from 3-point range. Mitchell ranks 116th in the NBA out of 128 qualified players in overall field goal shooting percentage and is 141st out of 143 qualified players in 3-point shooting."I say it all the time,
  
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• [Fadeaway World] - NBA Trade Rumors: Top 3 Best Destinations For Jabari Parker

  21-12-2018 22:12 via sportspyder.com
  Jabari Parker is one of the most confounding players in all of the NBA. A former number 2 overall pick who was
  
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• Rubio vs. Lillard 🗝 Tipoff: 8PM MT #KeyMatchup | @USFcorp https://t.co/fnjBy1ZZH1

  21-12-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
  
  Rubio vs. Lillard 🗝 Tipoff: 8PM MT #KeyMatchup | @USFcorp https://t.co/fnjBy1ZZH1
  
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• Live: BYU takes on Western Michigan in the Famous Potato Bowl

  21-12-2018 21:56
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Supreme Court rejects Trump plea to enforce asylum ban

  21-12-2018 21:47 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • The Supreme Court won’t let the Trump administration begin enforcing a ban on asylum for any immigrants who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Live: BYU takes on Western Michigan in the Famous Potato Bowl

  21-12-2018 21:47 via sportspyder.com
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jennifer Rubin: Americans have had enough of Trump’s mayhem

  21-12-2018 21:47 via sportspyder.com
  President Donald Trump may have misread — if was reading at all — the vast majority of Americans' patience for an hysterical, chaos-creating and non-functioning president.
  
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• Supreme Court rejects Trump plea to enforce asylum ban

  21-12-2018 21:33
  Washington • The Supreme Court won’t let the Trump administration begin enforcing a ban on asylum for any immigrants who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border.Chief Justice John Roberts joined his four more liberal colleagues Friday in ruling against the administration in the very case in which President Donald Trump had derided the "Obama judge" who first blocked the asylum policy.New Justice Brett Kavanaugh and three other conservative justices sided with the administration.There w
  
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• Max Boot: Jim Mattis didn’t believe in betraying allies. That’s why he had to resign.

  21-12-2018 21:31
  When I think of Jim Mattis, I will always remember the peppery two-star general I met for the first time in Iraq. It was the summer of 2003, and he had just led the 1st Marine Division on the "march up" to Baghdad. He showed his steely will to win by cashiering on the spot a regimental commander who wasn't moving fast enough for his liking.Now he was supervising the occupation of southern Iraq from a makeshift headquarters in Babil near the site of the legendary Tower of Babel. While more perman
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Trump says a shutdown could ‘last for a very long time’

  21-12-2018 21:26 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • Facing a midnight deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown, President Donald Trump said Friday a closure could drag on “for a very long time” and he tried to lay blame on congressional Democrats if there’s no deal over his demand...
  
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• Come to @VivintArena for our @JazzYouth coaches clinic on December 28! Details below ⤵️ » bit.ly/jazzcoachescli… https://t.co/YqJpc9u4A2

  21-12-2018 21:03 via twitter.com
  
  Come to @VivintArena for our @JazzYouth coaches clinic on December 28!Details below ⤵️» bit.ly/jazzcoachescli… https://t.co/YqJpc9u4A2
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Men’s basketball preview: BYU at San Diego State

  21-12-2018 20:52 via sportspyder.com
  BYU AT SAN DIEGO STATE At Viejas Arena, San Diego TipoffSaturday, 5 p.m. They will return the game in Provo next year. Comments0facebook twitter email
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Flights suspended again at London Gatwick after drone report

  21-12-2018 20:52 via sportspyder.com
  London • In a new nightmare for holiday travel, flights were suspended again at London’s Gatwick Airport after reports that another drone had been spotted over the airport late Friday afternoon, the airport and British police said.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Home in the Holiday Bowl: Ute coach Kyle Whittingham will relive his college days in San Diego

  21-12-2018 20:51 via sportspyder.com
  Forty years later, Kyle Whittingham wants to see the film.
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Americans have had enough of Trump’s mayhem

  21-12-2018 20:49
  President Donald Trump may have misread — if was reading at all — the vast majority of Americans' patience for an hysterical, chaos-creating and non-functioning president. What in the past worked to delight his audience and throw mainstream media off balance (e.g., a new scandal to replace an old one, vicious personal attacks on opponents and the press, new stock market highs) no longer works to keep his leaky ship of state afloat. Shutting down the government, rewarding Russia and I
  
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• Trump says a shutdown could ‘last for a very long time’

  21-12-2018 20:35
  Washington • Facing a midnight deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown, President Donald Trump said Friday a closure could drag on “for a very long time” and he tried to lay blame on congressional Democrats if there’s no deal over his demand for U.S.-Mexico border wall money.Trump's tweet came ahead of a meeting with Senate Republicans to discuss the budget deal and border security. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declined to answer questions as he left the
  
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• Home in the Holiday Bowl: Ute coach Kyle Whittingham will relive his college days in San Diego

  21-12-2018 20:16
  Forty years later, Kyle Whittingham wants to see the film.Utah's football coach, preparing his team to play Northwestern in the 41st Holiday Bowl on New Year's Eve, is convinced that his biggest moment of the inaugural game in San Diego is inaccurately recorded. Whittingham's 3-yard run for BYU on a fake punt? Exaggerated, he believes: “I would bet my life that I didn't get 3 yards.”His version of the play vs. Navy in 1978 is he “needed a yard, got six inches,” Whittingha
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Donovan Mitchell’s front row fall leaves Utah Jazz fan with 'bad' sprain but lasting memory

  21-12-2018 20:14 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell appeared to risk life and limb as he soared toward the front row, swatting Golden State’s Klay Thompson before crashing into the stands Wednesday. Ilana Anderson...
  
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• Flights suspended again at London Gatwick after drone report

  21-12-2018 20:10
  London • In a new nightmare for holiday travel, flights were suspended again at London’s Gatwick Airport after reports that another drone had been spotted over the airport late Friday afternoon, the airport and British police said.A new drone was reportedly seen around 5:10 p.m. at Britain's second-busiest airport, which operates 30 miles (45 kilometers) south of London.Incoming planes circled over Gatwick because they could not land and outgoing planes were kept on the tarmac while t
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Jazz Dancers read to elementary school kids during the holidays

  21-12-2018 20:02 via sportspyder.com
  As part of their 12 Days of Giving, the Utah Jazz Dancers read to local elementary school students.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - George Pyle: The wonderful nothingness of marriage equality

  21-12-2018 20:01 via sportspyder.com
  Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013. We were driving back from a quick pre-Christmas vacation in Arizona, where we had failed to perceive any of the healing vibrations supposedly present in Sedona, were properly impressed seeing the Grand Canyon for the first...
  
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• APPROVED 💜 twitter.com/Madshaggy21/st…

  21-12-2018 20:01 via twitter.com
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• Donovan Mitchell’s front row fall leaves Utah Jazz fan with 'bad' sprain but lasting memory

  21-12-2018 19:58
  SALT LAKE CITY — It was a play that got the crowd at Vivint Smart Home Arena roaring.Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell appeared to risk life and limb as he soared toward the front row, swatting away a shot by Golden State's Klay Thompson before crashing into the stands in the Jazz' 108-103 win over the Warriors Wednesday night."He went over us and landed in the second row, so I jumped up and helped him up, which is kind of cool," Shawn Anderson said. "I just stood there all fat, dumb and hap
  
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• [KSL] - Ekpe Udoh giving advice to 'young hoopers' — and anyone else who'll listen

  21-12-2018 19:57 via sportspyder.com
  Ekpe Udoh has continually shown that he wants to be more than just a basketball player. He's doing so again by sending messages to young ballers — and everyone else.
  
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• Santa found a few pairs of tickets to our game against Portland on Christmas Day and we want to give them to you!… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-12-2018 19:46 via twitter.com
  Santa found a few pairs of tickets to our game against Portland on Christmas Day and we want to give them to you!… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Weekly Run podcast: Talking Rudy Gobert’s defense and Donovan Mitchell’s offense, with special guest Tony Jones

  21-12-2018 19:39 via sportspyder.com
  On this week’s episode of the Weekly Run, former Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer and current The Athletic beat writer Tony Jones joins Andy Larsen and Eric Walden to break down what’s happening with the Jazz lately.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has surgery to remove cancerous growths

  21-12-2018 19:10 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery to remove two malignant growths from her left lung.
  
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• George Pyle: The wonderful nothingness of marriage equality

  21-12-2018 19:04
  Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013. We were driving back from a quick pre-Christmas vacation in Arizona, where we had failed to perceive any of the healing vibrations supposedly present in Sedona, were properly impressed seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time, and didn’t buy the time-share. And hadn’t been paying any attention to any news from anywhere.Somewhere in southern Utah, we stopped for gas and beef jerky. Stomping through the dirty, slushy snow in the convenience store parking lot,
  
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• Weekly Run podcast: Talking Rudy Gobert’s defense and Donovan Mitchell’s offense, with special guest Tony Jones

  21-12-2018 18:53
  On this week’s episode of the Weekly Run, former Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer and current The Athletic beat writer Tony Jones joins Andy Larsen and Eric Walden to break down what’s happening with the Jazz lately.In particular, what has the Jazz defense (especially Rudy Gobert) done right recently, after four straight games of holding opponents under 100 points per 100 possessions? That, plus discussion of Donovan Mitchell’s 5-26 performance: what he did right, what Mitche
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Part of BYU grad’s glitter bomb video was faked. He’s apologized and removed offending footage.

  21-12-2018 18:49 via sportspyder.com
  Turns out that part of the incredibly popular glitter-bomb-with-fart spray video was faked, and the BYU grad who invented it has apologized and removed about 90 seconds of the footage.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Catherine Rampell: Has the GOP tax cut delivered? Yes. And the tooth fairy was here just last night!

  21-12-2018 18:49 via sportspyder.com
  Happy first birthday, GOP tax cuts.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - American Fork concept artist has helped guide the look of big movies, including the new ‘Aquaman’

  21-12-2018 18:49 via sportspyder.com
  James Carson helps create cities, worlds and sometimes universes.
  
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• Part of BYU grad’s glitter bomb video was faked. He’s apologized and removed offending footage.

  21-12-2018 18:47
  Turns out that part of the incredibly popular glitter-bomb-with-fart spray video was faked, and the BYU grad who invented it has apologized and removed about 90 seconds of the footage.Mark Rober, who came up with the device he placed inside a fake package left to tempt thieves, said he was unaware that two of the five reaction shots were not genuine. In a statement posted on Twitter, he said that he had offered money to people who were willing to put the package in front of their homes and retri
  
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• Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has surgery to remove cancerous growths

  21-12-2018 18:43
  Washington • The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery to remove two malignant growths from her left lung.It’s Ginsburg’s third bout with cancer since she joined the court in 1993.The court says the 85-year-old Ginsburg had the surgery Friday in New York and will remain in the hospital for a few days.The court says doctors found "no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body." The court says no additional treatment is planned currently.The growths were found
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Christmas gift only Rudy Gobert could give

  21-12-2018 18:29 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert helped 15-year-old Nick in a very unique way
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah drops to No. 4 nationally for job creation — but that’s not bad

  21-12-2018 18:18 via sportspyder.com
  For much of 2018, Utah led the nation in the rate of new jobs created. Then in September it dropped to No. 2. Now, new data for the year-long period ending in November shows it dropped to No. 4 nationally.
  
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