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• [The Daily Herald] - Grizzlies' Kyle Anderson to miss at least 2-4 weeks

  13-01-2019 23:47 via sportspyder.com
  Memphis Grizzlies center Joakim Noah, left, and Memphis Grizzlies forward Justin Holiday, right, carry off Memphis Grizzlies forward Kyle Anderson, center, in the first half of an NBA basketball game
  
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• Don’t look now, but the Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell may have just turned the corner on his second NBA season

  13-01-2019 23:33
  As the clock was about to strike midnight in Toronto, Donovan Mitchell made a new year’s resolution of sorts.“New year, new me,” he tweeted.That’s not to say Mitchell had a bad 2018, by any standard: He burst onto the scene with a dunk contest win, a playoff series win against Oklahoma City, and a signature shoe deal that put him in rarefied air among the NBA’s elite.But as he’s rounded the corner into 2019, Mitchell has regained that elite form that eluded hi
  
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• [Deadspin] - Bobby Portis Accuses Kevin Durant Of Injuring Him On Purpose

  13-01-2019 23:32 via sportspyder.com
  In the third quarter of Friday’s game between the Bulls and the Warriors, Bobby Portis attempted to set a screen on Kevin Durant so that Kris Dunn could get to the basket. Durant tried to get past Portis using a swim move—not unlike what a defensive...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Tribune editorial: Close a school over test scores? Seems childish

  13-01-2019 23:28 via sportspyder.com
  The children of Oquirrh Hills Elementary didn’t raise their test scores enough, so their school has to close.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Leonid Bershidsky: France and Germany need to do more than renew their vows

  13-01-2019 23:28 via sportspyder.com
  Amid much fanfare, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are about to sign a new treaty outlining a closer relationship between their two countries.
  
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• Utah Jazz Week 14 Outlook: Can the Jazz keep on rolling?

  13-01-2019 23:26
  The Utah Jazz have a great opportunity to keep their current win streak alive with a quite manageable three-game stint in Week 14. After weeks of struggling to get to .500, the Utah Jazz are finally two games above that mark at 23-21 on the year. Now winners of three straight and five of their […]
  Utah Jazz Week 14 Outlook: Can the Jazz keep on rolling? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Ibaka's 3-pointer helps Raptors survive Wizards in double OT

  13-01-2019 23:12 via sportspyder.com
  Toronto Raptors forward Pascal Siakam (43) dunks past Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal (3) during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019, in Washington. (AP
  
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• Tribune editorial: Close a school over test scores? Seems childish

  13-01-2019 23:00
  The children of Oquirrh Hills Elementary didn’t raise their test scores enough, so their school has to close.Maybe if they had just foregone a few hours of video games each week. Or maybe they should have spent less time kicking balls and daydreaming instead of sharpening their critical thinking skills.Or maybe they were too hungry because rent took all the money. Maybe their parents can’t help them with their homework because their English and math skills are not very strong.Or perh
  
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• Leonid Bershidsky: France and Germany need to do more than renew their vows

  13-01-2019 23:00
  Amid much fanfare, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are about to sign a new treaty outlining a closer relationship between their two countries.But the differences between the European Union's mightiest powers are at least as pronounced as they were when Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer signed their declaration of the two countries' friendship almost 56 years ago.Macron and Merkel have scheduled the signing of the Aachen treaty for Jan. 22, the anniversary
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Durr, No. 2 Louisville beat Georgia Tech 61-44

  13-01-2019 22:51 via sportspyder.com
  Georgia Tech forward Lorela Cubaj (13) attempts to shoot over the defense of Louisville forward Sam Fuehring (3) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Louisville,
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Commentary: Physicians need mental health support for themselves

  13-01-2019 22:51 via sportspyder.com
  Many people are surprised when I tell them that I have clinical depression and anxiety.
  
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• The ‘Redmen’ mascot at a Utah high school honors Native Americans, supporters say. Others see it as a painful slur that needs to end.

  13-01-2019 22:50
  Cason Deschine started his freshman year at Cedar High School with a long family tradition of school spirit.His mother and uncles all played sports there. His older brother Braden was on the football team and once appeared at a basketball game in buckskin and a war bonnet — not his own Paiute regalia, but the costume of the school’s controversial mascot: The Redmen.“That rubbed off on me, watching my older brother and his buddies going to basketball games and showing their prid
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - 76ers escape with 108-105 win over Knicks; Embiid scores 26

  13-01-2019 22:33 via sportspyder.com
  New York Knicks' Kevin Knox, bottom, tries to push past Philadelphia 76ers' Joel Embiid during the second half of the NBA basketball game, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019, in New York.
  
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• Gunman at large after shooting at Fashion Place mall in Murray

  13-01-2019 22:32
  Police are hunting for a gunman after a shooting Sunday afternoon at Fashion Place mall, 6191 S. State St., in Murray. Police say two people have been inured and their statuses are unknown. People are being asked to avoid the area. People can gather near the Red Lobster to reunite with those who were in the mall.A pic just shared with me of the police response inside the Fashion Place Mall where a shooting has been reported. @fox13 #Utah pic.twitter.com/FDwcMT6gCa— Ben Winslow (@BenWinslow
  
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• Commentary: Physicians need mental health support for themselves

  13-01-2019 22:24
  Many people are surprised when I tell them that I have clinical depression and anxiety.“But you’re a successful doctor!”Yep, that’s actually a big part of it.Physicians have a higher incidence of mental illness than the general population, and also take their own lives at a higher rate. As many as one-third of medical students and residents screen positive for clinical depression, and approximately one-third of practicing physicians have received an official diagnosis. On
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Police: Gunman at large after shooting at Fashion Place mall in Murray

  13-01-2019 22:16 via sportspyder.com
  There was a shooting Sunday afternoon at Fashion Place mall, 6191 S. State St., in Murray. The shooter is still at large, but the shooting is no longer active, police have confirmed. People are being asked to avoid the area.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Iceland’s Northern Lights: Beautiful sight, risky drives

  13-01-2019 22:16 via sportspyder.com
  Akureyri, Iceland • Police in Iceland have a warning for visitors: Beware our roads in the winter.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - BYU in review: Cougars overcame some adversity and distractions to win a pair of games at home. Can they keep the momentum going on the road this week?

  13-01-2019 22:16 via sportspyder.com
  Provo • Perhaps senior forward Luke Worthington said it best after BYU walloped Portland 79-56 on Thursday and edged past Santa Clara 80-74 on Saturday at the Marriott Center to right itself after a week of turmoil.
  
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• 📓| “I probably wouldn’t have found them otherwise. They were tucked away. He hid them well.” » on.nba.com/2TNHgEh

  13-01-2019 22:14 via twitter.com
  📓| “I probably wouldn’t have found them otherwise. They were tucked away. He hid them well.”» on.nba.com/2TNHgEh
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - An industry wary of alternatives tries to protect a word: ‘meat’

  13-01-2019 22:13 via sportspyder.com
  Lincoln, Neb. • More than four months after Missouri became the first U.S. state to regulate the term “meat” on product labels, Nebraska’s powerful farm groups are pushing for similar protection from veggie burgers, tofu dogs and other items that...
  
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• BYU in review: Cougars overcame some adversity and distractions to win a pair of games at home. Can they keep the momentum going on the road this week?

  13-01-2019 21:48
  Provo • Perhaps senior forward Luke Worthington said it best after BYU walloped Portland 79-56 on Thursday and edged past Santa Clara 80-74 on Saturday at the Marriott Center to right itself after a week of turmoil.“It seems like every week is a dramatic week with this team,” Worthington said after scoring a season-high 13 points in the difficult win over the Broncos. “Everybody has got stuff going on at all times. You know, with life, there are a lot of ups and downs.&rdq
  
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• Iceland’s Northern Lights: Beautiful sight, risky drives

  13-01-2019 21:45
  Akureyri, Iceland • Police in Iceland have a warning for visitors: Beware our roads in the winter.Spending a clear winter night under an Arctic sky lit up by spectacular streaks of color from the Northern Lights is an often-cited "bucket-list" experience among the reasons more people are visiting Iceland, especially its northern region.The remote region on the edge of the Arctic Circle is one of the best places in the world to spot the colorful phenomenon.But police say many foreign visitor
  
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• An industry wary of alternatives tries to protect a word: ‘meat’

  13-01-2019 21:36
  Lincoln, Neb. • More than four months after Missouri became the first U.S. state to regulate the term “meat” on product labels, Nebraska’s powerful farm groups are pushing for similar protection from veggie burgers, tofu dogs and other items that look and taste like real meat.Nebraska lawmakers will consider a bill this year defining meat as "any edible portion of any livestock or poultry, carcass, or part thereof" and excluding "lab-grown or insect or plant-based food pro
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Mabrey scores 18, No. 1 Notre Dame routs Wake Forest 78-48

  13-01-2019 21:28 via sportspyder.com
  Wake Forest's Raegyn Branch (21) has the ball knocked away by Notre Dame's Arike Ogunbowale (24) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019,
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - TOP 25 REWIND: Teams in 2nd half of AP poll have rough week

  13-01-2019 21:27 via sportspyder.com
  Kansas head coach Bill Self calls a play to team against Baylor in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019, in Waco, Texas. (AP
  
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  13-01-2019 21:25 via twitter.com
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Spence Checketts' reality check: Rebuilding his life and career while helping others affected by addiction after DUI

  13-01-2019 21:17 via sportspyder.com
  It's been nearly 11 months since Spence Checketts was arrested for DUI. Checketts reflects on what went wrong, his stint in jail, how he's giving back and a launch of a podcast.
  
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• reading the tweet above this 🙄 https://t.co/Uabtf7FT4K

  13-01-2019 20:41 via twitter.com
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - LeBron James congratulates former teammate Kyle Korver on moving back into 4th on all-time 3-pointers list

  13-01-2019 20:37 via sportspyder.com
  LeBron James and Kyle Korver were recently teammates on the Cleveland Cavaliers, and LeBron took to Twitter to congratulate the Utah Jazz sharpshooter for moving back into fourth place on the all-time 3-pointers list by passing Jason Terry: YesSir!!!
  
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• Want to be entered to win a signed Ricky Rubio jersey? Sign up to become a Jazz Insider ⤵️ 🎽:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-01-2019 19:36 via twitter.com
  Want to be entered to win a signed Ricky Rubio jersey? Sign up to become a Jazz Insider ⤵️🎽:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Walls are a failed technology, and not who we are

  13-01-2019 19:24 via sportspyder.com
  The wall, whether concrete or steel or styrofoam, is the failed technology of history gone by (the Great Wall is the best example).
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Commentary: Church completes Mile One of a long journey for women

  13-01-2019 19:24 via sportspyder.com
  The recent changes to the temple by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have brought joy and rejoicing to many. These are steps forward. As one Mormon feminist once shared with me, “Small changes that help address any existing inequality...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Commentary: A push for more electric cars in Utah is an air pollution win-win-win solution

  13-01-2019 19:24 via sportspyder.com
  The Jan. 6 Salt Lake Tribune editorial indicates that air pollution is still a serious problem and Gov. Gary Herbert has even proposed $100 million to help reduce the problem.
  
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• Even BYUtv is looking at filming elsewhere, as Utah’s $8M budget for film incentives can’t keep up with demand

  13-01-2019 19:12
  Disney wants to produce more TV series and movies in Utah — but it’s looking elsewhere. Oscar nominee Taylor Sheridan would like to film his upcoming movie in Utah — but production will take place in New Mexico. BYUtv is exploring options for producing TV series in Georgia or Canada.Why? Because Utah’s tax incentive program for film and television is limited to $8.29 million a year. And compared with the demand — and the additional millions some other states provide
  
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• Letter: Walls are a failed technology, and not who we are

  13-01-2019 19:07
  The wall, whether concrete or steel or styrofoam, is the failed technology of history gone by (the Great Wall is the best example).Our president has taken to tying it to our national opiate crisis. He talks about heroin flowing in from our southern border even though our own government says it is mostly smuggled in through ports of entry.I’m told heroin can have a street value of $300,000 a pound. I’m 63, but I’m pretty sure I can still throw a pound over his 30-foot wall, no m
  
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• Commentary: Church completes Mile One of a long journey for women

  13-01-2019 19:07
  The recent changes to the temple by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have brought joy and rejoicing to many. These are steps forward. As one Mormon feminist once shared with me, “Small changes that help address any existing inequality are like completing Mile One of a never-ending marathon. But we have to start somewhere.”I rejoice that we are completing Mile One. But there are miles left to go.I am a survivor, as many women are, of insidious and horrific spiritual abu
  
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• Commentary: A push for more electric cars in Utah is an air pollution win-win-win solution

  13-01-2019 19:06
  The Jan. 6 Salt Lake Tribune editorial indicates that air pollution is still a serious problem and Gov. Gary Herbert has even proposed $100 million to help reduce the problem.Small incremental steps such as replacing wood-burning stoves and requiring ultra-low NOX water heaters will help, but do not adequately address the major source of pollution from our cars. The current trend, nationally and in Utah, to buy gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs (75 percent in Utah), encouraged by relatively low gasol
  
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• Spence Checketts' reality check: Rebuilding his life and career while helping others affected by addiction after DUI

  13-01-2019 18:43
  SALT LAKE CITY — Early on the morning of Monday, February 26, 2018, Spence Checketts was pulled over by a Utah Highway Patrol trooper. He'd been clocked driving 120 mph on the I-15 freeway in the middle of Salt Lake County. The officer spotted an empty beer can on the floorboard in the back seat, smelled alcohol in the vehicle and noticed during a field sobriety test that Checketts had "relaxed facial features" and a "lack of smooth pursuit in both eyes."Checketts — a popular sports
  
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• The ‘Redmen’ mascot at a Utah high school honors Native Americans, supporters say. But others see it as a painful slur that needs to end.

  13-01-2019 18:35
  Cason Deschine started his freshman year at Cedar High School with a long family tradition of school spirit.His mother and uncles all played sports there. His older brother Braden was on the football team and once appeared at a basketball game in buckskin and a war bonnet — not his own Paiute regalia, but the costume of the school’s controversial mascot: The Redmen.“That rubbed off on me, watching my older brother and his buddies going to basketball games and showing their prid
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Commentary: There is no known cure for addiction

  13-01-2019 18:01 via sportspyder.com
  I know that in previous letters to the editor of The Salt Lake Tribune, I have stressed the need for more treatment and rehab facilities to be made available to drug addicts as opposed to the law enforcement approach of arrests and jail sentences....
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Trump’s manufactured crisis a ruse to take control

  13-01-2019 18:00 via sportspyder.com
  President Donald Trump's manufactured and fake immigrant crisis, along with the closing of the U.S. government to create a real emergency and falsely blaming that emergency on immigrants and the opposition — the Democrats — is just Putin/Trump/filthy-
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Commentary: Mormon women have a new heaven

  13-01-2019 18:00 via sportspyder.com
  Mormon women have just gotten a new heaven. Or, rather, have gotten a new temple ceremony that proclaims a different heaven.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utes in review: Three freshman totaled 40 points vs. Washington State. How will their growth frame this season?

  13-01-2019 17:49 via sportspyder.com
  Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak never wanted his team's youth to remain the dominant story line of this basketball season. At some point, that theme may be all the program has in its favor.
  
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• Utes in review: Three freshman totaled 40 points vs. Washington State. How will their growth frame this season?

  13-01-2019 17:32
  Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak never wanted his team's youth to remain the dominant story line of this basketball season. At some point, that theme may be all the program has in its favor.Ute freshmen Timmy Allen, Both Gach and Riley Battin produced 40 points Saturday in an 88-70 defeat of Washington State, Utah’s 10th-straight win over the Cougars. The question going forward is how much those three have to keep improving for the season to viewed as satisfactory. Krystkowiak hoped inexperien
  
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• Commentary: Mormon women have a new heaven

  13-01-2019 17:30
  Mormon women have just gotten a new heaven. Or, rather, have gotten a new temple ceremony that proclaims a different heaven.And while church leadership has asked that members not talk about it, they haven’t asked nonmembers not to talk about it, so I will.The old temple ceremony set women beneath their husbands, positioning the latter as mediators between their wives and God. I understand that some Latter-day Saint women never felt that way about their experiences in the temple. But equali
  
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• Letter: Trump’s manufactured crisis a ruse to take control

  13-01-2019 17:29
  President Donald Trump's manufactured and fake immigrant crisis, along with the closing of the U.S. government to create a real emergency and falsely blaming that emergency on immigrants and the opposition — the Democrats — is just Putin/Trump/filthy-rich/GOP's version of Hitler's Reichstag fire.This would require the traitorous Nazi-Mafia GOP majority on the U.S. Supreme Court to falsely uphold Trump's declaration of an emergency as fact-based and legal, as well as Trump's subsequen
  
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• Commentary: There is no known cure for addiction

  13-01-2019 17:28
  I know that in previous letters to the editor of The Salt Lake Tribune, I have stressed the need for more treatment and rehab facilities to be made available to drug addicts as opposed to the law enforcement approach of arrests and jail sentences. While I still believe that to be true, I am now going to present the other side that many people don’t want to hear: There is no known cure for drug addiction.The most discouraging thing is that very few, maybe only 2 percent of addicts or alcoho
  
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• 📓| "We've got toughness. We've got chemistry." » on.nba.com/2VN5m3Q https://t.co/6jVvMfvq7c

  13-01-2019 17:26 via twitter.com
  
  📓| "We've got toughness. We've got chemistry."» on.nba.com/2VN5m3Q https://t.co/6jVvMfvq7c
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Ask Ann Cannon: I wish my spouse would check in with me during the workday

  13-01-2019 17:16 via sportspyder.com
  Dear Ann Cannon • Are my expectations for communicating with my spouse each day off target?
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Utah’s new BAC law will save lives

  13-01-2019 17:09 via sportspyder.com
  I was disappointed by The Salt Lake Tribune’s Jan. 7 editorial, “Utah’s BAC experiment commences,” which seems to cast doubt on the lifesaving 0.05 blood alcohol content law.
  
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