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• [Yahoo Sports] - Posted Up Podcast: Jazz big man Rudy Gobert talks All-Star chances, not being 'soft' & more

  15-01-2019 23:49 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz big man Rudy Gobert joins Yahoo Sports Senior NBA Insider Chris Haynes on the latest episode of ‘Posted Up.’
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - House rebukes GOP’s Steve King over racist remarks

  15-01-2019 23:46 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • A Democratic measure rebuking Republican Rep. Steve King for his comments about white supremacy won easy approval Tuesday in the House.
  
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• Netflix raises prices to pay for original content

  15-01-2019 23:45
  Netflix is raising monthly subscription prices by as much as 18 percent in the United States, the largest rate hike in its history, as company executives look for more money to pay escalating content bills.Although Netflix has hiked prices in the past, this is the first increase that will be applied to all U.S. subscribers, as well as subscribers in Latin American and the Caribbean, where Netflix bills in U.S. dollars. The most popular subscription plan will now cost $13 a month, up from $11. Th
  
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• Utah Jazz Fans! The @utahjazz and @baileysmoving are teaming up to send one lucky winner and their guest to Califor… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-01-2019 23:40 via twitter.com
  Utah Jazz Fans! The @utahjazz and @baileysmoving are teaming up to send one lucky winner and their guest to Califor… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The Red Rocks are trying to take their floor routines to a higher level, and they’ve hired a choreographer to help them do it

  15-01-2019 23:40
  With all the repetitions performed in practice, Utah’s gymnasts normally don’t go out of their way to see one another’s routines, but that wasn’t the case this preseason when the gymnasts were working on their floor routines with new choreographer BJ Das.“I remember Kari [Lee] was one of the first ones to work with her and we snuck into the Huntsman Center to watch and we were like, ‘Dang this is good,’” junior MyKayla Skinner said.That is probably
  
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• Hogle Zoo sea lion has a near-fatal encounter with a toddler’s sock

  15-01-2019 23:37
  A Hogle Zoo sea lion is recovering from an unfortunate encounter with a sock.The zoo posted on Facebook that their “beautiful male sea lion, Diego, puked up a toddler's sock Monday morning.” And that's a lot more serious than it might sound — it could have been fatal.The animal became ill on Sunday. “His keepers said he lost interest in training and even puked up blood,” according to the zoo, and he didn’t start to recover until Monday when he was able to vomi
  
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• George Pyle: The hero is the one who brings a tourniquet to a gunfight

  15-01-2019 23:22
  Yes. It’s true. There have been, and will be, times when a bad guy with a gun will be stopped by a good guy with a gun.But it is crystal clear that the last thing — the very last thing — that the Shootout at the Fashion Place Mall needed was more armed people.As best we civilians can piece it all together, it seems that there was an unfortunate encounter of members of two rival gangs at the Murray shopping center. (That’s not a sentence many of us ever expected we’d
  
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• House rebukes GOP’s Steve King over racist remarks

  15-01-2019 23:20
  Washington • A Democratic measure rebuking Republican Rep. Steve King for his comments about white supremacy won easy approval Tuesday in the House.In a twist, the nine-term Iowa congressman was among those supporting the measure of disapproval, which was adopted, 416-1.King said he agreed with Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina, the resolution's sponsor, that white supremacy is an evil that cannot be ignored. King's racist comments have been widely condemned by members of both p
  
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• Injuries have forced Jazz players to step out of their comfort zones and embrace unfamiliar roles

  15-01-2019 23:15
  “Next man up” is one of those cliches so trite as to elicit almost universal eye-rolling at its mere utterance, but these Utah Jazz — in the wake of simultaneous injuries to point guards Ricky Rubio, Dante Exum, and Raul Neto, plus forward Thabo Sefolosha — have been embracing it with enthusiasm.Yes, at its most basic, it means it’s incumbent upon the likes of Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert, Joe Ingles, Kyle Korver, Royce O’Neale, et cetera, to do more to fill
  
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• Rank-and-file Democrats reject Trump’s invitation to shutdown talks

  15-01-2019 23:05
  Washington • A group of rank-and-file House Democrats turned down an invitation to have lunch with President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, a snub that underscores the extraordinary divisions that have brought negotiations over the government shutdown to a standstill.The invited Democrats, including centrist-leaning freshman and sophomore members, skipped the meeting amid calls for unity from Democratic leaders and fellow lawmakers who had voiced concerns the meeting would be l
  
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• 📹| "We've really come together. Right now we're at an unfortunate position with guys injured, but we've really rall… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-01-2019 23:04 via twitter.com
  📹| "We've really come together. Right now we're at an unfortunate position with guys injured, but we've really rall… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• ‘We can’t use the r-word’: Opinions are divided about whether a recession in Utah is at hand

  15-01-2019 22:57
  Gov. Gary Herbert is not a fan of speculating about a possible recession — a word he refused to say out loud last week during a legislative preview.“We cannot use the R-word,” he said. “It is not an inevitability that we’re going to have some major downturn in the economy.”But the term isn’t too strong for state Rep. Robert Spendlove, who’s also the economic and public policy officer for Zions Bank and former policy director for Herbert and for for
  
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• Utah’s Sen. Mike Lee leaves Russia probe to others, focuses on criminal justice reform, antitrust and civil asset forfeiture in questioning attorney general nominee

  15-01-2019 22:42
  Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, made no mention of President Donald Trump or the ongoing investigation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Tuesday during questioning of William Barr, Trump’s nominee to replace Jeff Sessions as U.S. attorney general.While other members of the Senate Judiciary Committee pressed Barr on his willingness to protect Mueller’s investigation and his deference to presidential authority, Lee used his time seeking assurances on civil asset forfeiture, antitrust protect
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Lone Peak High star volleyball player wins Gatorade Utah Player of the Year Award

  15-01-2019 22:40 via sportspyder.com
  Tasia Farmer, a senior volleyball player at Lone Peak High, has been named the Gatorade Utah Volleyball Player of the Year, the sports drink company announced Tuesday. She is the second girls volleyball player from Lone Peak to receive the award.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Injuries have forced Jazz players to step out of their comfort zones and embrace unfamiliar roles

  15-01-2019 22:30 via sportspyder.com
  “Next man up” is one of those cliches so trite as to elicit almost universal eye-rolling at its mere utterance, but these Utah Jazz — in the wake of simultaneous injuries to point guards Ricky Rubio, Dante Exum, and Raul Neto, plus forward Thabo...
  
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• Lone Peak High star volleyball player wins Gatorade Utah Player of the Year Award

  15-01-2019 22:07
  Tasia Farmer, a senior volleyball player at Lone Peak High, has been named the Gatorade Utah Volleyball Player of the Year, the sports drink company announced Tuesday. She is the second girls volleyball player from Lone Peak to receive the award.The accolade puts Farmer in the running to win the National Player of the Year award in volleyball.Farmer led Lone Peak to a third consecutive 6A state volleyball championship in November. In her senior season, she amassed 510 kills, 307 digs, 60 aces an
  
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• Happy Birthday to all the January Birthdays! 🎉🎂 To celebrate, we’ve partnered with @chipcookiesco to give FIVE win… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-01-2019 22:03 via twitter.com
  Happy Birthday to all the January Birthdays! 🎉🎂To celebrate, we’ve partnered with @chipcookiesco to give FIVE win… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah’s Sen. Mike Lee leaves Russia probe to others, focuses on criminal justice reform, antitrust and civil asset forfeiture in questioning attorney general nominee

  15-01-2019 21:47 via sportspyder.com
  Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, made no mention of President Donald Trump or the ongoing investigation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Tuesday during questioning of William Barr, Trump’s nominee to replace Jeff Sessions as U.S. Attorney General.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Rank-and-file Democrats reject Trump’s invitation to shutdown talks

  15-01-2019 21:47 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • A group of rank-and-file House Democrats turned down an invitation to have lunch with President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, a snub that underscores the extraordinary divisions that have brought negotiations over the...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Hogle Zoo sea lion has a near-fatal encounter with a toddler’s sock

  15-01-2019 21:47 via sportspyder.com
  A Hogle Zoo sea lion is recovering from an unfortunate encounter with a sock.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Trump’s AG nominee asserts his independence from White House

  15-01-2019 21:45 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general asserted independence from the White House on Tuesday, saying he believed that Russia had tried to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, that the special counsel investigation...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Small plane crashes on New Bingham Highway in West Jordan, but no one is injured

  15-01-2019 21:45 via sportspyder.com
  A Lehi man escaped injury when he crashed his small plan on New Bingham Highway near the West Jordan Soccer Complex on Tuesday morning.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Judge declines to force government to pay federal employees working during shutdown

  15-01-2019 21:45 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • A federal judge in Washington on Tuesday refused to force the government to pay federal employees who have been working without compensation during the partial government shutdown, rejecting arguments from labor unions that unpaid work...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - U.K.’s May faces no-confidence vote after Brexit plan crushed

  15-01-2019 21:44 via sportspyder.com
  London • British lawmakers on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s divorce deal with the European Union, plunging the Brexit process into chaos and leading to a no-confidence vote in her government.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Red Rocks are trying to take their floor routines to a higher level, and they’ve hired a choreographer to help them do it

  15-01-2019 21:44 via sportspyder.com
  With all the repetitions performed in practice, Utah’s gymnasts normally don’t go out of their way to see one another’s routines, but that wasn’t the case this preseason when the gymnasts were working on their floor routines with new choreographer...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - George Pyle: The hero is the one who brings a tourniquet to a gun fight

  15-01-2019 21:44 via sportspyder.com
  Yes. It’s true. There have been, and will be, times when a bad guy with a gun will be stopped by a good guy with a gun.
  
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• Monson: Rudy Gobert is an NBA All-Star. He’s a different kind of All-Star, but deserving nonetheless. Voters should make it official.

  15-01-2019 21:43
  Notice to voters: Rudy Gobert should be an NBA All-Star.Why?Because he is an All-Star, whether he’s selected as one or not.That isn’t a load of hoo-hah or homerism. It’s truth.Gobert doesn’t play like an All-Star, not in the conventional sense. He isn’t going to score 30 points a night. He doesn’t soar smoothly to the basket. He’s still a bit clunky, more of a garbage truck than a Maserati at the offensive end, a plumber not a maestro. He doesn’t b
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz eye quick jump up standings with upcoming visit to Staples Center

  15-01-2019 21:34 via sportspyder.com
  Monday's win over Detroit moved the Utah Jazz into eighth in the West. And a win Wednesday over the Clippers could move them up yet another spot in the sta...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell looks like a star after winning Western Conference Player of the Week

  15-01-2019 21:34 via sportspyder.com
  Donovan Mitchell appears to be blossoming into the star the Utah Jazz need after earning the Western Conference Player of the Week award in impressive fash...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Judge bars citizenship question from 2020 census

  15-01-2019 21:26 via sportspyder.com
  New York • A federal judge blocked the Trump administration Tuesday from asking about citizenship status on the 2020 census, the first major ruling in cases contending that officials ramrodded the question through for Republican political purposes...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - It’s OK to fight, just not in front of kids, Pope Francis tells parents

  15-01-2019 21:26 via sportspyder.com
  Vatican City • Pope Francis offered new parents a bit of advice Sunday, telling them it’s perfectly normal to fight — but just not in front of the children.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - From Catholics to Mormons to Muslims and more, women strive for larger roles in male-dominated religions

  15-01-2019 21:26 via sportspyder.com
  Women have been elected heads of national governments on six continents. They have flown into space, served in elite combat units and won every category of Nobel Prize. The global #MeToo movement, in 15 months, has toppled a multitude of powerful...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Chilean bishops meet Pope Francis year after disastrous papal trip

  15-01-2019 21:26 via sportspyder.com
  Vatican City • A delegation of Chilean bishops met Monday with Pope Francis a year after he threw his papacy into turmoil by defending a Chilean bishop accused of covering for a notorious sexual predator.
  
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• Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell looks like a star after winning Western Conference Player of the Week

  15-01-2019 21:15
  Donovan Mitchell appears to be blossoming into the star the Utah Jazz need after earning the Western Conference Player of the Week award in impressive fashion. After shouldering an enormous load last season to push the Utah Jazz into the playoffs then being Utah’s principal force in the first-round series against the Oklahoma City Thunder, […]
  Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell looks like a star after winning Western Conference Player of the Week - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz F
  
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• U.K.’s May faces no-confidence vote after Brexit plan crushed

  15-01-2019 21:15
  London • British lawmakers on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s divorce deal with the European Union, plunging the Brexit process into chaos and leading to a no-confidence vote in her government.Moments after the vote, May said it was only right to test whether the government still had lawmakers' support to carry on. Lawmakers will vote Wednesday in a no-confidence motion from opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn that could trigger a national election.The House o
  
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• As you swing through your Tuesday, get @spidadmitchell to #NBAAllStar 2019!! 🌟 bit.ly/2GJf7fJ… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-01-2019 21:15 via twitter.com
  As you swing through your Tuesday, get @spidadmitchell to #NBAAllStar 2019!!🌟 bit.ly/2GJf7fJ… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• George Pyle: The hero is the one who brings a tourniquet to a gun fight

  15-01-2019 21:00
  Yes. It’s true. There have been, and will be, times when a bad guy with a gun will be stopped by a good guy with a gun.But it is crystal clear that the last thing -- the very last thing -- that the Shootout at the Fashion Place Mall needed was more armed people.As best we civilians can piece it all together, it seems that there was an unfortunate encounter of members of two rival gangs at the Murray shopping center. (That’s not a sentence many of us ever expected we’d be writin
  
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• Judge declines to force government to pay federal employees working during shutdown

  15-01-2019 20:57
  Washington • A federal judge in Washington on Tuesday refused to force the government to pay federal employees who have been working without compensation during the partial government shutdown, rejecting arguments from labor unions that unpaid work violates labor laws and the Constitution.U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said it would be "profoundly irresponsible" to issue an order that would result in thousands of employees staying home from work.“At best it would create chaos and co
  
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• Small plane crashes on New Bingham Highway in West Jordan, but no one is injured

  15-01-2019 20:49
  A Lehi man escaped injury when he crashed his small plan on New Bingham Highway near the West Jordan Soccer Complex on Tuesday morning.The 42-year-old man, whose name was not released, was practicing take-offs and landings at the South Valley Regional Airport at about 11 a.m. when the plane experienced mechanical problems, according to West Jordan police. The pilot was forced to land on the road near 7265 S. 4450 West.The plane hit the ground hard in the eastbound lane of New Bingham Highway, sp
  
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• Trump’s AG nominee asserts his independence from White House

  15-01-2019 20:46
  Washington • President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general asserted independence from the White House on Tuesday, saying he believed that Russia had tried to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, that the special counsel investigation shadowing Trump is not a witch hunt and that his predecessor was right to recuse himself from the probe.Those comments by William Barr at his Senate confirmation hearing pointedly departed from Trump's own views and underscored Barr's effo
  
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• Coaches and players alike look to @EkpeUdoh for his perspective and wisdom. “I ask him every game, ‘How am I doing… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-01-2019 20:44 via twitter.com
  Coaches and players alike look to @EkpeUdoh for his perspective and wisdom.“I ask him every game, ‘How am I doing… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Judge bars citizenship question from 2020 census

  15-01-2019 20:42
  New York • A federal judge blocked the Trump administration Tuesday from asking about citizenship status on the 2020 census, the first major ruling in cases contending that officials ramrodded the question through for Republican political purposes to intentionally undercount immigrants.In a 277-page decision that won't be the final word on the issue, Judge Jesse M. Furman ruled that while such a question would be constitutional, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had added it arbitrarily and no
  
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• Utah Jazz eye quick jump up standings with upcoming visit to Staples Center

  15-01-2019 20:41
  Monday’s win over Detroit moved the Utah Jazz into eighth in the West. And a win Wednesday over the Clippers could move them up yet another spot in the standings. After a turbulent start to the 2018-19 season, the Utah Jazz are finally beginning to look much more like the squad many thought they would […]
  Utah Jazz eye quick jump up standings with upcoming visit to Staples Center - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• From Catholics to Mormons to Muslims and more, women strive for larger roles in male-dominated religions

  15-01-2019 20:39
  Women have been elected heads of national governments on six continents. They have flown into space, served in elite combat units and won every category of Nobel Prize. The global #MeToo movement, in 15 months, has toppled a multitude of powerful men linked to sexual misconduct.Yet in most of the world’s major religions, women remain relegated to a second-tier status. Women in several faiths are still barred from ordination. Some are banned from praying alongside men and forbidden from ste
  
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• Chilean bishops meet Pope Francis year after disastrous papal trip

  15-01-2019 20:31
  Vatican City • A delegation of Chilean bishops met Monday with Pope Francis a year after he threw his papacy into turmoil by defending a Chilean bishop accused of covering for a notorious sexual predator.The five-member permanent committee of the Chilean bishops’ conference requested Monday’s meeting to brief Francis on its efforts to address the clergy sex abuse crisis in the South American country and chart a future course.“It’s a long process,” the secretary
  
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• It’s OK to fight, just not in front of kids, Pope Francis tells parents

  15-01-2019 20:28
  Vatican City • Pope Francis offered new parents a bit of advice Sunday, telling them it’s perfectly normal to fight — but just not in front of the children.Francis offered this warning of the “anguish” of children who see their parents fight during a ceremony to baptize 27 newborns, an annual tradition that fills the frescoed Sistine Chapel with babies, their parents and godparents.Amid coos and wails, Francis told parents that they had taken on an important new job
  
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• Jae went live on IG during his workout and had a visitor 😂😂😂 @CJC9BOSS | @rickyrubio9 https://t.co/qQhCNFLWmE

  15-01-2019 20:20 via twitter.com
  
  Jae went live on IG during his workout and had a visitor 😂😂😂@CJC9BOSS | @rickyrubio9 https://t.co/qQhCNFLWmE
  
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• ‘I wish I didn’t break their hearts:’ former USU football player Torrey Green says of the six women who have accused him of sexual assault

  15-01-2019 20:04
  Brigham City • After more than a week of emotional testimony from six women who say he sexually assaulted them, former Utah State University football star Torrey Green took the stand Tuesday.Green is on trial for 11 felonies filed in connection with the reports of six women who say Green sexually abused them between 2013 and 2015 when he was a student in Logan.In his testimony Tuesday, the former athlete with NFL potential talked about his interactions with women. He told jurors he wished h
  
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• Monson: Rudy Gobert is an NBA All-Star. He’s a different kind of All-Star, but deserving nonetheless. Voters (or coaches) should make it official.

  15-01-2019 19:47
  Notice to voters: Rudy Gobert should be an NBA All-Star.Why?Because he is an All-Star, whether he’s selected as one or not.That isn’t a load of hoo-hah or homerism. It’s truth.Gobert doesn’t play like an All-Star, not in the conventional sense. He isn’t going to score 30 points a night. He doesn’t soar smoothly to the basket. He’s still a bit clunky, more of a garbage truck than a Maserati at the offensive end, a plumber not a maestro. He doesn’t b
  
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• Dementia and religion: ‘What if I forget about God?’

  15-01-2019 19:47
  Louisville, Ky. • When geropsychologist Benjamin Mast evaluates dementia clients at his University of Louisville clinic, there’s a question some people of faith ask him:“What if I forget about God?”It’s a query that reflects the struggles of people facing diseases like Alzheimer’s.The earliest stages of Alzheimer’s involve the buildup of protein fragments, or plaques, on some brain cells and the growth of twisted fibers, or tangles, within those cells. Th
  
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