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• Gay Navajo activist to face off against incumbent in Salt Lake City’s District 2 race

  10-06-2019 23:23
  Sitting Salt Lake City Councilman Andrew Johnston will run for a second term against Moroni Benally, a gay activist who ran unsuccessfully for president of the Navajo Nation in 2014 and now hopes to serve Salt Lake City’s diverse District 2.Johnston, 44, is a social worker with Volunteers for America and the former chairman of the Poplar Grove Community Council who points to his experience serving the council as a boon for residents in the district moving forward.If elected to a second ter
  
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• Daniel W. Drezner: A very modest defense of the GOP Senate caucus

  10-06-2019 23:00
  It is ridiculously easy to mock the GOP Senate caucus for its fecklessness in 2019. This was on display over the weekend. Bloomberg's Mark Niquette wrote a story headlined "GOP Senators Exhale After Considering Crossing Trump on Tariffs," which is about as 2019 as one can get. The story itself quotes lots of GOP senators praising President Trump for not imposing tariffs on Mexico and reaching a deal that, by reputable media accounts, contained no new concessions from that country. Niquette corre
  
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• Helicopter crashes on roof of NYC skyscraper; pilot killed

  10-06-2019 22:34
  New York • A helicopter crash-landed on the roof of a rain-shrouded midtown Manhattan skyscraper Monday, killing the pilot and briefly triggering memories of 9/11, even though it appeared to be an accident unrelated to terrorism.The crash near Times Square and Trump Tower shook the 750-foot-tall AXA Equitable building and forced office workers to flee on elevators and down stairs.Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who spoke to reporters at the scene, said the impact caused a fire, but it was under control.
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jerry Colangelo says Jazz star Donovan Mitchell could earn World Cup roster spot by playing ‘incredible defense’

  10-06-2019 22:28 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz wing Donovan Mitchell is not known for his defense, but it could be his play on that side of the ball that determines whether or not he makes Team USA’s World Cup roster. Team USA director Jerry Colangelo says that Mitchell can make an...
  
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• Lovingly, a Utah family raises an intersex child — again — and speaks out after violent attack

  10-06-2019 22:03
  Ogden • When doctors said her youngest child would be a girl, Amie Schofield chose the name Victoria. Then they said the child would be a boy, so she switched to Victor.It turned out neither was exactly right. The blue-eyed baby was intersex, with both male and female traits.And so she and her husband decided to call the infant Victory. The name is a hope for triumph over the secrecy and shame, the pain and discrimination suffered by intersex people.Amie Schofield knows those sufferings bet
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Kyle Korver Highlights 2018-19

  10-06-2019 21:39 via sportspyder.com
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• Salt Lake City District 6 race offers rematch between incumbent Charlie Luke and an old rival

  10-06-2019 21:25
  It’s déjà vu all over again in the race to represent Salt Lake City Council District 6, which encompasses the East Bench, Wasatch Hollow and Foothill/Sunnyside neighborhoods.Salt Lake City Councilman Charlie Luke, who is running for a third term, will face off against former Councilman J.T. Martin, after beating him for the seat in 2011. And as in that race, Luke is again fielding criticisms from an opponent about his work as a lobbyist — this time from political newcom
  
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• Crash leads to Summit County bus driver’s DUI arrest

  10-06-2019 21:16
  Summit Park, Utah • A bus driver has been arrested for driving under the influence after his bus veered off a road in Summit Park.KUTV in Salt Lake City reported Monday that the Summit County Sheriff's Office booked 43-year-old Jason Parker on charges including having a blood alcohol level above the legal limit.According to court documents, a Park City Transit bus picked up on passenger Saturday morning and then went off the road after leaving.The bus became stuck on a creek culvert.Deputie
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell's defense could be best way to make Team USA roster for 2019 FIBA World Cup

  10-06-2019 21:05 via sportspyder.com
  Donovan Mitchell, Damian Lillard and Kyle Kuzma are among the 20 names that USA Basketball officially announced for World Cup camp on Monday.
  
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• Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell's defense could be best way to make Team USA roster for 2019 FIBA World Cup

  10-06-2019 20:57
  Utah's Donovan Mitchell acknowledges Jazz fans before taking on the Houston Rockets in Game 5 of a first-round NBA basketball playoff series in Houston on Wednesday, April 24, 2019.Laura Seitz, Deseret NewsUtah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell talks to members of the media at the Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 25, 2019. The Utah Jazz season ended with Wednesday's loss to Houston in the playoffs.Kristin Murphy, Deseret NewsUtah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) works
  
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• Trump and Macron planted a friendship tree. Now it’s dead.

  10-06-2019 20:51
  Paris • The symbolic tree that President Donald Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron planted at the White House last year has died, according to French media reports.The small oak, which came from the historic Belleau Wood to the east of Paris, where American forces halted a German counteroffensive in the waning months of World War I, was a gift from Macron to Trump during his April 2018 state visit.As Macron wrote on Twitter at the time, the tree “will be a reminder at th
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Tony Parker says he's retiring from NBA after 18 seasons

  10-06-2019 20:50 via sportspyder.com
  Four-time NBA champion Tony Parker's impressive career is over.
  
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• Tony Parker says he's retiring from NBA after 18 seasons

  10-06-2019 20:41
  FILE - In this June 14, 2007, file photo, San Antonio Spurs' Tim Duncan, left and Tony Parker, from France, celebrate with the championship trophy and the MVP trophy after winning the championship against the Cleveland Cavaliers after Game 4 of the NBA basketball finals in Cleveland.Four-time NBA champion Tony Parker has announced he's retiring after 18 seasons.
  The 37-year-old guard played 17 said on Twitter Monday, June 10, 2019, that it was an emotional decision and that it has been an "incre
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Donovan Mitchell selected for Team USA training camp, has a shot to make the World Cup team

  10-06-2019 20:13 via sportspyder.com
  It’s been rumored since last week that Jazz star Donovan Mitchell would be selected for Team USA’s training camp. On Monday, it happened.
  
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• A grocery clerk, a local business owner and a longtime former community council chair are competing to lead Salt Lake City’s District 4

  10-06-2019 20:08
  The race to lead Salt Lake City’s District 4 pits the council’s newest member, Ana Valdemoros, against Michael Iverson, a longtime neighborhood council chairman, and Leo Rodgers, a 22-year-old grocery clerk.It’s not the first time the three have faced off.Valdemoros, a local business owner, was appointed to the council in January after beating a slate of 17 other candidates — including Iverson and Rodgers — with unanimous support from the council. She filled the sea
  
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• Donovan Mitchell selected for Team USA training camp, has a shot to make the World Cup team

  10-06-2019 19:48
  It’s been rumored since last week that Jazz star Donovan Mitchell would be selected for Team USA’s training camp. On Monday, it happened. Mitchell is among the 20 NBA stars who have the chance to impressive USA Basketball executives from Aug 5-9 at the training camp in Las Vegas. The team will be coached by Gregg Popovich, San Antonio Spurs head coach, while former NBA executive Jerry Colangelo is managing director of the squad.The 22-year-old guard was one of six players added to th
  
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• Margaret Sullivan: Crumbling democratic norms make it harder for journalists to repeat heroics of Watergate

  10-06-2019 19:34
  The question from an audience member made the three network chiefs bristle:Why aren't the news media holding the White House accountable like they did during the Nixon/Watergate era?One of the TV honchos, Susan Zirinsky, had the perfect background to answer.Just minutes before, she had described how — as a college student working part time at CBS — she was briefly in charge of the empty Washington bureau on Oct. 20, 1973, when news of the “Saturday Night Massacre” began t
  
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• Report criticizes ‘slush funds’ used by Congress, including spending by Utah’s Orrin Hatch and Jason Chaffetz

  10-06-2019 19:23
  Washington • Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz spent $1,279 at Costco for supplies and $2,881 at the Trump International Hotel in Washington.Then-Sen. Orrin Hatch spent more than $11,000 on gifts and memorabilia, including over $7,000 at L.L. Bean and nearly $4,500 at the U.S. Senate Gift Shop.But those payments didn’t come from their own pockets or even from their campaign accounts. They came from their official leadership political action committees, little-known groups that allow members
  
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• Supreme Court rejects challenge to regulation of gun silencers

  10-06-2019 19:16
  Washington • The Supreme Court is rejecting a challenge to federal regulation of gun silencers, just days after a gunman used one in a shooting rampage that killed 12 people in Virginia.The justices did not comment Monday in turning away appeals from two Kansas men who were convicted of violating federal law regulating silencers. The men argued that the constitutional right "to keep and bear arms" includes silencers.Kansas and seven other states joined in a court filing urging the justices
  
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• [NBA] - Donovan Mitchell to attend 2019 USA Basketball Men’s National Team training camp

  10-06-2019 18:32 via sportspyder.com
  USA Basketball today announced that Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell is among 20 players chosen for the 2019 USA Basketball Men’s National Team Training Camp that will run from Aug. 5-9 in Las Vegas,
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Should the Utah Jazz get in on the Anthony Davis one-year rental train?

  10-06-2019 18:29 via sportspyder.com
  After seeing the success with one-year rentals that the OKC Thunder and Toronto Raptors have experienced, should the Utah Jazz take a stab at Anthony Davis...
  
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• Should the Utah Jazz get in on the Anthony Davis one-year rental train?

  10-06-2019 18:11
  After seeing the success with one-year rentals that the OKC Thunder and Toronto Raptors have experienced, should the Utah Jazz take a stab at Anthony Davis this summer? Paul George and Kawhi Leonard have created fascinating situations in the NBA. Both found themselves disgruntled with the situation on their current team (the Indiana Pacers and […]
  Should the Utah Jazz get in on the Anthony Davis one-year rental train? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opini
  
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• [KSL] - Jazz bring in more 1st-round prospects as draft draws closer | KSL.com

  10-06-2019 18:08 via sportspyder.com
  It was a busy day for the Utah Jazz on Saturday as they hosted two pre-draft workouts highlighted by Croatian Luka Samanic and Arkansas' Daniel Gafford.
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Donovan Mitchell, Damian Lillard, Kyle Kuzma among 20 names USA Basketball officially announces for World Cup camp

  10-06-2019 17:51 via sportspyder.com
  USA Basketball has announced the 20 names for the national team training camp to be held this summer in advance of the FIBA World Cup in China.
  
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• USA Basketball announces roster, defines Jeff Van Gundy role

  10-06-2019 17:49
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell talks to members of the media at the Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 25, 2019. The Utah Jazz season ended with Wednesday's loss to Houston in the playoffs.Kristin MurphyJeff Van Gundy got USA Basketball into this summer's FIBA World Cup.And now he'll try to beat them as well.USA Basketball on Monday announced the 20 names of players for the national team training camp to be held this summer in advance of the World Cup in China &m
  
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• Donovan Mitchell, Damian Lillard, Kyle Kuzma among 20 names USA Basketball officially announces for World Cup camp

  10-06-2019 17:49
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell talks to members of the media at the Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 25, 2019. The Utah Jazz season ended with Wednesday's loss to Houston in the playoffs.Kristin MurphyCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — USA Basketball has announced the 20 names for the national team training camp to be held this summer in advance of the FIBA World Cup in China.Most of the 35 players selected last year for the pool are no longer in the mix for
  
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• Karl Malone, an NRA supporter, says members should be ‘damn concerned’ about money flowing to board

  10-06-2019 17:11
  A former pro football player who serves on the National Rifle Association board was paid $400,000 by the group in recent years for public outreach and firearms training. Another board member, a writer in New Mexico, collected more than $28,000 for articles in NRA publications. Yet another board member sold ammunition from his private company to the NRA for an undisclosed sum.The NRA, which has been rocked by allegations of exorbitant spending by top executives, also directed money in recent year
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: 3 ways to build on playoff appearance in 2019-20

  10-06-2019 16:07 via sportspyder.com
  With the Utah Jazz reaching the postseason once again in 2018-19, here are three keys to how they can build on that in 2019-20. The Utah Jazz were able to ...
  
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• Utah mother jailed after she tried to smother and strangle her young daughters

  10-06-2019 16:05
  A Utah woman is in jail and accused of trying to smother and strangle her 2- and 4-year-old daughters.According to police record filed with the Davis County jail, the 27-year-old Layton woman’s husband recorded her threatening to kill herself and their daughters on Saturday. He witnessed his wife “attempt to smother both girls with a pillow”; after he stopped her, the woman locked herself in a room with the girls and tried to strangle them, “causing visible injury to thei
  
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• Democrats push ahead with hearings on Mueller’s Russia probe

  10-06-2019 15:56
  Washington • Top Democratic leaders may be in no rush to launch an impeachment inquiry, but the party is launching a series of hearings this week on special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.The slate of televised sessions on Mueller’s report means a new, intensified focus on the Russia probe and puts it on an investigative “path” — in the words of anti-impeachment Speaker Nancy Pelosi — that some Democrats hope leads to impeachment of President Donald Trum
  
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• Salt Lake City will stay cooler than normal and then get summer temperatures again

  10-06-2019 15:42
  Search the National Weather Service website for Salt Lake City’s average temperature in the month of June, and you’ll find the city is suppose to hit a high of 83 degrees.That hasn’t held true much so far this month. Monday and Tuesday, too, are predicted to be cooler than normal. The highs are like to reach the upper 70s and then 80 degrees, respectively, the weather service says.The higher temperatures and the law of averages return Wednesday. Salt Lake City is predicted to r
  
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• Gehrke: Here’s why adding a lane to Little Cottonwood is an idea worth studying

  10-06-2019 15:30
  When my son flew home from a trip to visit his grandparents last weekend, he met a guy who was coming to Salt Lake City so he could get one more day of skiing in at Snowbird.Since it’s June, he shouldn’t have too many headaches getting up and down the canyon. The same obviously isn’t true in, say, January.On a busy powder weekend, as many as 21,000 people a day are trying to cram themselves into the narrow canyon. Most drive, snarling traffic and clogging parking.It is a proble
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Many Central Americans now look for refuge in Europe instead of the United States

  10-06-2019 15:25
  Happy Monday!Many Central Americans fleeing violence and economic crisis are looking toward countries like Belgium, Italy and Spain for refuge instead of the United States. The distance may be greater, but many find the journey is safer and cheaper than paying smugglers to travel through Mexico. They also believe European authorities are more tolerant. [NYTimes]Topping the news: In what could spark yet another abortion law battle, state Rep. Jennifer Dailey-Provost seeks to change part of a new
  
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• Utah law requires sexual assault victims to report the crime before seeking a post-viability abortion. Should they have to?

  10-06-2019 14:00
  Utah Rep. Jennifer Dailey-Provost was a vocal opponent of this year’s 18-week abortion ban legislation, arguing that tightened restrictions can lead women to risk their lives in dangerous, black-market procedures.The bill passed with near-unanimous support from the Legislature’s Republican majority, and Dailey-Provost said she holds out little hope that lawmakers would agree to repeal it next session. So instead, she plans to suggest a smaller amendment, aimed at making a difference
  
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• NBC’s ‘Dateline’ reports on Lauren McCluskey’s murder and the University of Utah’s shortcomings

  10-06-2019 14:00
  The story of the University of Utah’s failure to appropriately respond to Lauren McCluskey’s concerns will play out for a national television audience on Monday, when the events surrounding her murder are the subject of NBC’s “Dateline.”The hour, titled “She Did Everything Right,” is “not a typical 'Dateline' story,” said correspondent Josh Mankiewicz, NBC's reporter on the story. “There’s no mystery about who committed murder. Th
  
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• Letter: Trump’s nonsense is not funny

  10-06-2019 14:00
  A nonsensical verse we recited and laughed about as children said, “Ladies and Jellybeans, I stand before you to stand behind you to tell you something I know nothing about. Last night about 8 this morning a truckload of empty bricks ran over my dead cat and killed it. I rushed it to the horsepital just in time to see Abraham Washington floating down the Missisloppy River with the star-spangled banana in his mouth.”Now, as I listen to Donald Trump and try to make sense of what he say
  
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• Letter: Trump is simply a con man

  10-06-2019 14:00
  Throughout history, men have risen to prominence, power and riches through charisma and promising a better future. President Donald Trump is the latest in a long line that includes Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Sadam Hussein.Trump dominates American daily life through his tweets, television coverage and using derogatory labels for his opponents — “Sleepy” Joe Biden, “Crooked” Hilary, “Crazy” Bernie, “Pocahontas,” “Rocket Man” — wh
  
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• Letter: Refreshing diversity at West High

  10-06-2019 14:00
  In these days of media reports about building a border wall, separating immigrant families, caravans of immigrants invading and tariffs to punish Mexico for allowing immigrants into the United States, it was refreshing to attend the Salt Lake City West High School graduation at the Huntsman Center.Diversity was shown through speeches from many students from many ethnic groups and countries. To a person, they expressed love of this country after overcoming many hardships to settle in the United S
  
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• Letter: All-of-the-above energy solutions

  10-06-2019 14:00
  Big news from the Governor’s Office of Energy Development, which recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Wyoming, the Ouray and Uintah Utes and four Colorado counties to open natural gas access across Western states. That, coupled with the news that the world’s largest clean energy storage project is coming to Utah, is an example of what a balanced approach to energy looks like.The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects liquefied natural gas export capacity will m
  
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• Census officials view some Utah neighborhoods as among the nation’s toughest to count

  10-06-2019 14:00
  Its bureaucratic name is Census Tract 1027.02, part of Poplar Grove in west Salt Lake City. Census Bureau officials and academics also have a different description for the neighborhood: one of the toughest in the nation to count in next year’s census.It is full of traditionally hard-to-count groups: undocumented immigrants who fear responding might lead to deportation; refugees who don’t speak English well; and low-income folk too busy trying to survive to bother with the once-every-
  
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• LDS leader Nelson discusses ‘lasting happiness,’ meets with Pulse nightclub owner during Orlando visit

  10-06-2019 07:39
  While many tourists at the Magic Kingdom find temporary happiness in thrill rides, President Russell M. Nelson told more than 15,000 Latter-day Saints on Sunday in Orlando, residents of God’s kingdom discover lasting joy by heeding divine decrees.“The happiest place on earth? It could be Orlando, or Osaka or Odessa,” the 94-year-old leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said, according to a news release. “It is wherever the Spirit of the Lord dwells in
  
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• Police: David Ortiz shot in ambush at Santo Domingo bar

  10-06-2019 07:14
  Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic • Former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was ambushed by a man who got off a motorcycle and shot him in the back at nearly point-blank range Sunday night in his native Dominican Republic, authorities said.Dominican National Police Director Ney Aldrin Bautista Almonte said Ortiz was at the Dial Bar and Lounge in Santo Domingo around 8:50 p.m. when the gunman approached from behind and shot him. Ortiz was taken to a medical facility where he underwent sur
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Luka Samanic a playmaking four man for No. 23?

  10-06-2019 06:58 via sportspyder.com
  Croation baller and potential first-round pick Luka Samanic was in Salt Lake City over the weekend for a pre-draft workout with the Utah Jazz. On Saturday,...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Luka Samanic a playmaking four man for No. 23?

  10-06-2019 06:51
  Croation baller and potential first-round pick Luka Samanic was in Salt Lake City over the weekend for a pre-draft workout with the Utah Jazz. On Saturday, the Utah Jazz resumed their intensive pre-draft process with another group of prospects looking to take their games to the next level. This particular group was headlined by a […]
  Utah Jazz: Luka Samanic a playmaking four man for No. 23? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• McIlroy wins Canadian Open with scorching final-round 61

  10-06-2019 06:43
  Ancaster, Ontario • Call it the zone, call it the flow. Rory McIlroy is familiar with the feeling that golf is easy, that he can swing freely and nothing bad will happen.He first felt it at age 16 when he shot 61 at Royal Portrush in his native Northern Ireland, which will host this year’s British Open. He experienced it during runaway victories at the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship. And he savored it again on Sunday en route to another 61, this one giving him a seven-shot victory
  
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• ‘Hadestown’ captures 8 Tony Awards, including best musical

  10-06-2019 06:02
  New York • "Hadestown," the brooding musical about the underworld, has reason to smile broadly: It's the best new musical Tony Award winner and nabbed eight trophies Sunday, including a rare win for a woman director of a musical.Playwright Jez Butterworth's "The Ferryman" was crowned best play. Bryan Cranston, Elaine May, Santino Fontana and Stephanie J. Block all won leading actor and actress awards.The crowd at Radio City Music Hall erupted when Ali Stroker made history as the first actor
  
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