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• Letter: Will she vote for these legislators again?

  11-02-2019 23:57
  My heart goes out to Alecia Bales, who wrote a beautiful letter asking Gov. Gary Herbert to please veto the bill replacing Prop 3, detailing the hardship the repeal of Medicaid expansion would cause her family.In it, she mentions that she voted for Herbert. My question to her is this: If he does not do as you ask — if he lets the horrible replacement for Prop 3 become law, hurting her family as she described — will she be voting for him again? Will she continue to vote for the legisl
  
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• ‘Dangerous combination’: Latest Utah snowstorm brought more than a foot of powder to ski resorts and higher risk of avalanches statewide

  11-02-2019 23:57
  A series of winter storms — with the latest dusting much of Utah this weekend — has piled up more snow than the state has seen in years and even more is expected this week.It’s a bounty for conservationists who say the above-average snowpack will mean a good water year. It’s a concern for meteorologists who worry about the risk for avalanches and say the number of fatalities is already higher than normal.“It’s strong snow on weak snow,” said Craig Gordon
  
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• American Fork High athlete wins Gatorade Utah Runner of the Year in boys cross country

  11-02-2019 23:54
  Luke Grundvig, an athlete from American Fork High, was named the Utah Runner of the Year in boys cross country, Gatorade announced Monday.Grundvig, who signed with Brigham Young University for cross country and track and field, led American Fork to a Class 6A state cross country championship and picked up a title of his own with his finishing time of 15:17.7 in the state meet. He also won the Region 4 championships and the Pre-Foot Locker Invitational.Receiving the state award for cross country
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Homeless advocates seek $8 million that may turn into $16 million, thanks to a challenge grant

  11-02-2019 23:49 via sportspyder.com
  Advocates for the homeless are launching a campaign seeking to raise $8 million for new homeless resource centers in Salt Lake County — which could turn into $16 million because of a challenge grant.
  
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• Wasatch Front gas prices dipping below $2 a gallon; last time it averaged that low was 3 years ago

  11-02-2019 23:48
  Residents along the Wasatch Front are welcoming a sight not seen in nearly three years: gasoline cheaper than $2 a gallon.The last time it averaged that low here was in April of 2016, according to GasBuddy.com. That website said gasoline is now averaging about $2.06 in Salt Lake City, but many stations along the Wasatch Front have dropped below $2.For example, on Monday morning a Sam’s Club in West Jordan sold gasoline at $1.92 a gallon. Other Sam’s Clubs and Costcos in Salt Lake Cou
  
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• [NBA] - Ekpe's Book Club gets a shoutout from former First Lady Michelle Obama

  11-02-2019 23:45 via sportspyder.com
  Ekpe Udoh looked at his phone in his disbelief.The Utah Jazz center on Sunday asked his followers on Twitter for some help choosing the next title for his popular book club to read: “The
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Alec Burks and Rodney Hood: From Young Guns to Journeymen

  11-02-2019 23:38 via sportspyder.com
  How have these two former Jazzmen fared since changing teams—again?
  
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• Homeless advocates seek $8 million that may turn into $16 million, thanks to a challenge grant

  11-02-2019 23:31
  Advocates for the homeless are launching a campaign seeking to raise $8 million for new homeless resource centers in Salt Lake County — which could turn into $16 million because of a challenge grant.The Larry H. and Gail Miller Family Foundation issued a dollar-for-dollar challenge grant of up to $10 million 18 months ago. So far, only about $2 million has been raised by Shelter the Homeless toward matching that grant.So the group is launching a radio, TV and digital ad campaign seeking to
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Thad Box: Winner-take-all is no way to run a nation

  11-02-2019 23:30 via sportspyder.com
  Closing and threatening to close our federal government unnecessarily disrupts our lives and our markets. The recent closure was not because of an immediate need for a wall to keep immigrants out of our country, but because somewhere in our partisan...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect pleads not guilty

  11-02-2019 23:30 via sportspyder.com
  Pittsburgh • The man charged in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre pleaded not guilty to hate crimes and dozens of other counts Monday, but his new lawyer — a prominent death penalty litigator who represented one of the Boston Marathon bombers —...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah House unanimously passes bill to strip slavery exemption from state constitution, as former Freedom Rider looks on

  11-02-2019 23:28 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah House of Representatives has unanimously voted to advance a measure aimed at cutting a slavery exemption out of the state constitution.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Henry Olsen: Democrat Amy Klobuchar is Trump’s worst nightmare

  11-02-2019 23:17 via sportspyder.com
  Sen. Amy Klobuchar's campaign kickoff Sunday was far from the dream start to her presidential candidacy, given the blustery weather that coated her with snow over the course of her speech. Still, the event makes the Minnesota Democrat President...
  
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• Call it the Zack Moss effect: Once reliant on transfer running backs, the Utes are now signing prep recruits

  11-02-2019 23:05
  Utah running back Zack Moss is staying in school through the 2019 football season, partly because he wants to obliterate the program’s career rushing record.Beyond the yardage, Moss’ legacy will include altering how the Utes staff his position. In each of the first six seasons of Utah’s Pac-12 membership, a junior college transfer led the team in rushing. Moss changed that as a sophomore in 2017, and now Utah has a long list of running backs who are developing in the program af
  
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• Thad Box: Winner-take-all is no way to run a nation

  11-02-2019 23:00
  Closing and threatening to close our federal government unnecessarily disrupts our lives and our markets. The recent closure was not because of an immediate need for a wall to keep immigrants out of our country, but because somewhere in our partisan politics our leaders have forgotten the art of trading. Winner-take-all may be acceptable in gambling, but it’s not a good way to test different ideas or run a country.In the fall of 1981 I relaxed on the patio of a hotel in Bamako, Mali. I was
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Call it the Zack Moss effect: Once reliant on transfer running backs, the Utes are now signing prep recruits

  11-02-2019 22:58 via sportspyder.com
  Utah running back Zack Moss is staying in school through the 2019 football season, partly because he wants to obliterate the program’s career rushing record.
  
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• Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect pleads not guilty

  11-02-2019 22:58
  Pittsburgh • The man charged in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre pleaded not guilty to hate crimes and dozens of other counts Monday, but his new lawyer — a prominent death penalty litigator who represented one of the Boston Marathon bombers — signaled he might be open to a plea deal.Robert Bowers, a truck driver who authorities say gunned down 11 people at Tree of Life Synagogue, appeared in federal court with attorney Judy Clarke, who expressed hope the case will be resolved
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Wasatch Front gas prices dipping below $2 a gallon; last time it averaged that low was 3 years ago

  11-02-2019 22:56 via sportspyder.com
  Residents along the Wasatch Front are welcoming a sight not seen in nearly three years: gasoline cheaper than $2 a gallon.
  
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• Utah House unanimously passes bill to strip slavery exemption from state constitution, as former Freedom Rider looks on

  11-02-2019 22:51
  The Utah House of Representatives has unanimously voted to advance a measure aimed at cutting a slavery exemption out of the state constitution.Joining the resolution’s sponsor, Rep. Sandra Hollins, on the House floor for the votes was Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, a civil-rights activist and Freedom Rider."The fact that we still have the word slavery in so many constitutions, including the U.S. Constitution, is mind-boggling," Trumpauer Mulholland said following Monday's vote. "To be here wh
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Florida woman sues Lime after scooter accident left her daughter in a vegetative state

  11-02-2019 22:48 via sportspyder.com
  Most days, when Ashanti Jordan’s shift at Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., ended, she got a ride home from co-workers.
  
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• Henry Olsen: Democrat Amy Klobuchar is Trump’s worst nightmare

  11-02-2019 22:42
  Sen. Amy Klobuchar's campaign kickoff Sunday was far from the dream start to her presidential candidacy, given the blustery weather that coated her with snow over the course of her speech. Still, the event makes the Minnesota Democrat President Donald Trump's worst nightmare.Forget all those recent allegations that she may have been mean to her staff. Unless there's something more, such as tolerating or hushing up sexual or racial harassment, all this shows is that Ms. "Minnesota Nice" might jus
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Salt City Seven: Jazz Stick Together, Big Week for Royce, Rudy Dominates & More

  11-02-2019 22:33 via sportspyder.com
  Check in every Monday for the quotes, stats, plays and performances that tell the stories from the last 168 hours in the world of the Jazz. I love our group, I love who weve got.
  
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• Utah Jazz center’s book club catches Michelle Obama’s attention. Ekpe Udoh’s reaction? ‘I started sweating.’

  11-02-2019 22:15
  Utah Jazz center Ekpe Udoh tweeted late Thursday that he was looking for suggestions on what his popular, fan-based book club should read next.One woman suggested a John Grisham novel. A couple of guys jokingly responded with the Book of Mormon. And then Udoh narrowed it down to the three most popular answers: “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” “Becoming” by former first lady Michelle Obama or “The Sun Does Shine” about an inmate living on death row.That’
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Trump tries to turn border debate his way with El Paso rally

  11-02-2019 22:12 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • President Donald Trump is trying to turn the debate over a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border back to his political advantage as his signature pledge to American voters threatens to become a model of unfulfilled promises.
  
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• Florida woman sues Lime after scooter accident left her daughter in a vegetative state

  11-02-2019 22:11
  Most days, when Ashanti Jordan’s shift at Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., ended, she got a ride home from co-workers.But on a sunny day in late December, the outgoing 28-year-old security guard decided she would make the 4-mile journey home on a Lime scooter, one of many littering the city’s streets, according to family members.Jordan, who was not wearing a helmet at the time, was about halfway home when she collided with a Toyota Corolla at an intersection i
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Real Salt Lake’s Corey Baird plans to use his national team experience as a launching pad for his second pro season

  11-02-2019 21:54 via sportspyder.com
  As Corey Baird walked into the locker room of the United States Men’s National Team to prepare for his first-ever international appearance, his eyes fixated on one of the blue jerseys. On it read his last name and the number 7.
  
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• Trump tries to turn border debate his way with El Paso rally

  11-02-2019 21:42
  Washington • President Donald Trump is trying to turn the debate over a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border back to his political advantage as his signature pledge to American voters threatens to become a model of unfulfilled promises.Trump will hold his first campaign rally since November’s midterm elections in El Paso, Texas, on Monday as he faces a defining week for his push on the wall — and for his presidency and his 2020 prospects. Weakened by the disastrous government shutdown
  
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• Utah’s Legislature gives final approval to Prop 3 replacement bill. Limited Medicaid expansion now goes to the governor.

  11-02-2019 21:18
  Utah senators gave the final sign-off Monday to a bill that replaces a voter-approved full Medicaid expansion initiative with one that is more restrictive, initially more costly, and contingent on a series of uncertain federal concessions. And one they say is more economically sound over the long term.Senators voted 22-7 to adopt the House version of SB96, which launches a partial medicaid expansion April 1 and would revert to full expansion only in the event that federal administrators reject m
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah sees a big spike in U-Haul renters ending their one-way trips here, a strong sign of people moving to the state

  11-02-2019 21:16 via sportspyder.com
  U-Haul ranks Utah No. 4 among the states for growth in 2018, measured by how many one-way, do-it-yourself movers arrive in Utah compared to how many leave.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Anne Applebaum: The new censors won’t delete your words; they’ll drown them out

  11-02-2019 21:16 via sportspyder.com
  Winston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth. Each day, the hero of George Orwell’s “1984” “corrects” old newspapers to make sure that the information is in still accord with the current Party line. After rewriting history, he puts each “incorrect”...
  
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• Real Salt Lake’s Corey Baird plans to use his national team experience as a launching pad for his second pro season

  11-02-2019 21:14
  As Corey Baird walked into the locker room of the United States Men’s National Team to prepare for his first-ever international appearance, his eyes fixated on one of the blue jerseys. On it read his last name and the number 7.It was a moment that harkened back to when Baird was a kid, dreaming about playing soccer for his country on the same field as those he idolized. In the months before, he’d been named Major League Soccer’s Rookie of the Year and was integral in Real Salt
  
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• Thanks to a four-game losing streak, the Utah women’s basketball team drops out of the Top 25

  11-02-2019 21:07
  Utah’s two home losses to unranked women’s basketball teams were barely enough to cause voters to move the Utes out of the AP Top 25, announced Monday.The Utes (18-5) fell 84-80 to USC on Friday and 100-90 to UCLA on Sunday at the Huntsman Center, extending their losing streak to four.Losses at now-No. 3 Oregon and No. 9 Oregon State didn’t hurt the Utes much in last week’s rankings, but they fell from No. 17 into the receiving-votes category this week, the equivalent of
  
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• Anne Applebaum: The new censors won’t delete your words; they’ll drown them out

  11-02-2019 20:53
  Winston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth. Each day, the hero of George Orwell’s “1984” “corrects” old newspapers to make sure that the information is in still accord with the current Party line. After rewriting history, he puts each “incorrect” story into a “memory hole” — a slit in the wall — and it is “whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the buil
  
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• Draymond Green’s swipes at Rudy Gobert should boost the intensity Tuesday when the Jazz face the Warriors

  11-02-2019 20:46
  There generally isn’t much extra motivation needed when facing the Golden State Warriors, a team that’s won two straight NBA titles, three of the last four, and is the favorite to win it again this season.The Jazz have perhaps a bit more than other teams, successful as they’ve been against the Warriors the past few years. Last season, Utah won three of the teams’ four meetings. This season, they beat Golden State in December, and played arguably their best all-around game
  
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• Utah sees a big spike in U-Haul renters ending their one-way trips here, a strong sign of people moving to the state

  11-02-2019 20:41
  U-Haul ranks Utah No. 4 among the states for growth in 2018, measured by how many one-way, do-it-yourself movers arrive in Utah compared to how many leave.In contrast, the U.S. Census Bureau ranked Utah No. 3 for population growth last year, and estimated that 40 percent of those new residents came from people moving to the state (and the other 60 percent was from more births than deaths). The Census Bureau also ranked Utah No. 1 in population growth during the past decade.U-Haul said Utah jumpe
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah’s Legislature gives final approval to Prop 3 replacement bill. This limited Medicaid expansion now goes to the governor.

  11-02-2019 20:40 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Senators gave the final sign-off Monday to a bill that replaces a voter-approved full Medicaid expansion initiative with one that is more restrictive, initially more costly, and contingent on a series of uncertain federal concessions. And one...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Draymond Green’s swipes at Rudy Gobert should boost the intensity Tuesday when the Jazz face the Warriors

  11-02-2019 20:40 via sportspyder.com
  There generally isn’t much extra motivation needed when facing the Golden State Warriors, a team that’s won two straight NBA titles, three of the last four, and is the favorite to win it again this season.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Commentary: An ally of the Dutch Donald Trump converted to Islam. It’s not as surprising as it sounds.

  11-02-2019 20:37 via sportspyder.com
  Irony is a cruel prankster. It turned far-right Dutch politician Joram van Klaveren from a virulent Islamophobe, who had made it his political mission to rid his country of Islam, into an unlikely convert to the religion.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Among developed nations, the U.S. has the highest rate of women dying in childbirth and it continues to go up

  11-02-2019 20:37 via sportspyder.com
  Charles Johnson IV took out his cellphone, as he had done many times before, and recorded his wife lying in a hospital bed while she held her newborn. Kira Johnson had just given birth to Langston, the Johnsons’ second child, and she was glowing.
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Kid Picasso: Jazz players guess who's in the drawing ?

  11-02-2019 20:32 via sportspyder.com
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• Among developed nations, the U.S. has the highest rate of women dying in childbirth and it continues to go up

  11-02-2019 20:26
  Charles Johnson IV took out his cellphone, as he had done many times before, and recorded his wife lying in a hospital bed while she held her newborn. Kira Johnson had just given birth to Langston, the Johnsons’ second child, and she was glowing.Charles, then 36, wanted to record every moment. He had also filmed the birth of their firstborn, when they went on their vacations together, in concerts they had attended — this was his way of preserving his family’s happy moments.But
  
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• Utah’s Legislature gives final approval to Prop 3 replacement bill. This limited Medicaid expansion now goes to the governor.

  11-02-2019 20:09
  Utah Senators gave the final sign-off Monday to a bill that replaces a voter-approved full Medicaid expansion initiative with one that is more restrictive, initially more costly, and contingent on a series of uncertain federal concessions. And one they say is more economically sound over the long term.Senators voted 22-7 to adopt the House version of SB96, which launches a partial medicaid expansion April 1 and would revert to full expansion only in the event that federal administrators reject m
  
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• NBA All-Stars break out specialty shoes for weekend

  11-02-2019 20:09
  Charlotte, N.C. • NBA players once again will be sharing personal stories this weekend during All-Star festivities — and using basketball shoes as a platform to get their message out.When Kevin Durant takes the floor on Sunday he'll be wearing pink Nike KD 11 Aunt Pearls shoes bearing the names of 59 cancer survivors with inspiring stories.Golden State Warriors teammate Stephen Curry decided to poke fun at his own mischievous nature with his shoe selection, unveiling the Under Armour
  
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• Commentary: An ally of the Dutch Donald Trump converted to Islam. It’s not as surprising as it sounds.

  11-02-2019 20:09
  Irony is a cruel prankster. It turned far-right Dutch politician Joram van Klaveren from a virulent Islamophobe, who had made it his political mission to rid his country of Islam, into an unlikely convert to the religion.Van Klaveren’s epiphany occurred while he was working on a book that started off as an anti-Islam polemic but morphed into a defense of the faith.Worse or better still (depending on your perspective), van Klaveren had not so long ago been the right-hand man of Geert Wilder
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - NBA All-Stars break out specialty shoes for weekend

  11-02-2019 19:28 via sportspyder.com
  Charlotte, N.C. • NBA players once again will be sharing personal stories this weekend during All-Star festivities — and using basketball shoes as a platform to get their message out.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - A young but talented BYU softball team eyes a possible 15th-straight NCAA Tournament berth

  11-02-2019 19:28 via sportspyder.com
  Provo • BYU softball coach Gordon Eakin is convinced that he has enough talented players for the Cougars to make the NCAA Tournament for the 15th straight year and win a conference title for the 11th year in a row.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah Jazz center’s book club catches the attention of Michelle Obama

  11-02-2019 19:18 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz center Ekpe Udoh tweeted late Thursday that he was looking for suggestions on what his popular, fan-based book club should read next.
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Rock On: Ute recruit has no taste for Cheez-Its; UCLA still recovering from Parker Van ****

  11-02-2019 19:08 via sportspyder.com
  Also, take off your coat. Salt Lake is a warm weather destination...to some people.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Koch-funded group sending ‘DREAMers’ to lobby Congress

  11-02-2019 18:59 via sportspyder.com
  Albuquerque, N.M. • A Koch brothers-funded group is sending young immigrants to lobby Congress to push for immigration reform and money for border security initiatives.
  
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• A young but talented BYU softball team eyes a possible 15th-straight NCAA Tournament berth

  11-02-2019 18:56
  Provo • BYU softball coach Gordon Eakin is convinced that he has enough talented players for the Cougars to make the NCAA Tournament for the 15th straight year and win a conference title for the 11th year in a row.Now it is a matter of getting the Cougars game experience against the best competition possible.“It could take us a while to get our feet under us, getting that experience we need,” he said last week. “But I think we are looking at a team that could finish very w
  
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• Rock On: Ute recruit has no taste for Cheez-Its; UCLA still recovering from Parker Van Dyke

  11-02-2019 18:53
  HOLD THE CHEESEFebruary's National Letter of Intent Day might as well be National Lack of Interest Day now that there's also a December early signing period. Still, Fox Sports West's Connor Morrissette did his due diligence by interviewing four-star Utah signee Jordan Wilmore.Asked what his message is to Ute fans, Wilmore said, "We're gonna get a Rose. Gonna get a Rose."That's a strong take on a couple of counts. First, the Rose Bowl is always a worthy goal. Second, "Gonna get a Cheez-It" just d
  
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