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• That will do it for Summer League here in Vegas!!pic.twitter.com/P67TGZIq6n

  13-07-2019 23:39 via twitter.com
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• Chipping away pic.twitter.com/KuAIU8YvL2

  13-07-2019 23:20 via twitter.com
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• Tribune Editorial: Doctors, not politicians, should diagnose our health care needs

  13-07-2019 23:00
  “Somewhere out there is the world’s worst doctor. The scariest part is that someone has an appointment with him tomorrow.”— George CarlinIf you are seeing a skilled and experienced doctor who is all but certain what is wrong with you and what ought to be done about it, but he doesn’t tell you what you have and what treatment you need, then he’s not really a very good doctor.Several members of the Utah Medical Care Advisory Committee, speaking out as individual
  
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• Police find missing Utah man they believed was in danger

  13-07-2019 22:59
  Update: Unified police said Bryan Royal was found safe Saturday morning. They did not release any additional information.---Unified police are asking for help in finding a 46-year-old man who went missing Friday in Salt Lake City.Bryan C. Royal was last seen around 5:30 p.m. walking away from Liberty Dialysis, 3701 S. State St., according to a news release from the state Department of Public Safety. Royal left the facility when his ride — someone with Wasatch Rehab — was more than an
  
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• "That's gonna be a no from me, dog"pic.twitter.com/6XerXBZF3I

  13-07-2019 22:16 via twitter.com
  "That's gonna be a no from me, dog"pic.twitter.com/6XerXBZF3I
  
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• Juuuust beat the pic.twitter.com/DV5AZ6I1ak

  13-07-2019 22:07 via twitter.com
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• Alleged hoaxter behind fake Kamala Harris Utah appearance charged with operating a stolen vehicle in Wyoming

  13-07-2019 21:51
  A man accused of orchestrating a fraudulent fundraiser that advertised Sen. Kamala Harris’ presence in Utah was officially charged in Carbon County, Wyo., on Friday after being pulled over in a stolen car.Adrain Swensen, who was operating under the alias Adrian Hebdon while in Utah, had been working with The Wave co-working space in Salt Lake City to bring in Harris for two ticketed events, a luncheon and a fundraiser dinner. The July 17 event was promoted on the Wave’s website and F
  
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• Utahns gather in vigil to end immigrant camps

  13-07-2019 21:07
  A vigil was held at Washington Square Park in Salt Lake City to call for the end of immigrant camps at the border. Called Lights for Liberty, the vigil was one of thousands of gatherings held across the nation to protest the inhumane conditions faced by refugees coming to America through the southern border. Speakers at the vigil included members of the Latinx community.Vigils in Texas, Florida, New York and Washington D.C. were held outside of the detention centers themselves. Those in attendan
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Jazz remade themselves this offseason, but look back and you’ll see echoes of earlier Magic, Pistons and Nuggets teams in their new roster

  13-07-2019 20:51 via sportspyder.com
  How do you get your arms around what the Jazz have done this offseason?
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Chinese NBA fans and netizens, you’re dragging the most down-to-earth guy in the NBA, Donovan Mitchell

  13-07-2019 20:47 via sportspyder.com
  A bump in cross-cultural communication has Donovan Mitchell caught in the crossfire of some NBA fans in China.
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Report: Utah signing Nigel Williams-Goss to three-year deal

  13-07-2019 20:44 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz signed guard Nigel Williams-Goss to a three-year deal after he originally agreed to a deal with Greek team Olympiacos, according to Eurohoops’ Varlas Nikos. Process is almost done. Nigel Goss is paying today his NBA out to @olympiacosbc
  
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• Half a million people signed up to storm Area 51. What happens if they actually show up?

  13-07-2019 20:15
  Should everything go according to plan, more than half a million strangers will gather in a remote Nevada town in mid-September, united by a common goal: raid Area 51 in the wee hours of the morning — using a strength-in-numbers approach to reveal any extraterrestrial treasures stashed within the notoriously clandestine government base.Or, put more simply, "Lets see them aliens."By Friday evening, more than 540,000 people from around the world had signed up to attend the joke Facebook even
  
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• Harry Litman: We just dodged constitutional crisis with the census

  13-07-2019 20:07
  The executive order that President Donald Trump issued on Thursday was a face-saving attempt to repackage a political loss. Much more important, however, it reflects the administration's stepping back from the brink of a truly historic rejection of the principle that the courts decide the law under our constitutional scheme.The administration for several days had suggested it was busy concocting a workaround to the Supreme Court's determination in late June that the rationale for placing a citiz
  
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• BYU will open against UCLA at the Maui Invitational; Lee Cummard to join BYU women’s coaching staff

  13-07-2019 19:56
  Provo • New BYU basketball coach Mark Pope promised a more difficult non-conference schedule when he replaced Dave Rose a few months ago.Facing UCLA and then, possibly, Kansas in the Maui Jim Maui Invitational in November certainly fits that description, although Rose set up the Cougars’ entrance into one of the country’s most prestigious early season tournaments years ago.Pope’s Cougars will face UCLA and new Bruins coach Mick Cronin on Nov. 25 at 9:30 p.m. MST on ESPN2 i
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Nigel Williams-Goss agrees to return to Utah Jazz

  13-07-2019 19:48 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz have come to a three-year agreement with Nigel Williams-Goss on the former Gonzaga’s point guard return to Utah, the Salt Lake Tribune has confirmed.
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Jazz To Sign Nigel Williams-Goss

  13-07-2019 19:45 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz have decided to bring guard Nigel Williams-Goss back to the U.S.
  
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• “I thought getting him some of Donovan’s Amazing Spider-Man shoes would motivate him. And it sure did.” https://www.nba.com/jazz/news/donovan-mitchells-spider-man-sneakers-helped-one-young-fan-get-through-surgery-and-take-his &helli

  13-07-2019 19:30 via twitter.com
  “I thought getting him some of Donovan’s Amazing Spider-Man shoes would motivate him. And it sure did.”
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Where do Conley and Mitchell rank among best backcourts in the West?

  13-07-2019 19:23 via sportspyder.com
  The new Utah Jazz backcourt of Donovan Mitchell and Mike Conley looks to be one of the best in the West. But just how do they measure up to the other elite...
  
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• Nigel Williams-Goss agrees to return to Utah Jazz

  13-07-2019 19:18
  The Utah Jazz have come to a three-year agreement with Nigel Williams-Goss on the former Gonzaga’s point guard return to Utah, the Salt Lake Tribune has confirmed.The 24-year-old Williams-Goss was drafted No. 55 by the Jazz in the 2017 NBA Draft after helping Gonzaga reach the national title game for the first time, albeit in defeat to North Carolina. But he disappointed in his first summer league performance with the Jazz: over the course of seven games, he averaged just 4.4 points and 3.
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Get to Know Utah’s Four Free Agent Additions

  13-07-2019 19:08 via sportspyder.com
  That is why the Mike Conley trade was such a major win for the team. Pulling off the Mike Conley trade immediately vaulted the Jazz into title contention. Literally. If thats...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Where do Conley and Mitchell rank among best backcourts in the West?

  13-07-2019 19:07
  The new Utah Jazz backcourt of Donovan Mitchell and Mike Conley looks to be one of the best in the West. But just how do they measure up to the other elite guard duos? To put it bluntly, there have been a whole lot of changes this NBA offseason. An unprecedented number of stars have […]
  Utah Jazz: Where do Conley and Mitchell rank among best backcourts in the West? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [KSL] - Moving on: The Jazz remember the players that helped make the last 2 years special | KSL.com

  13-07-2019 19:06 via sportspyder.com
  Gordon Hayward leaving looked like it would leave a hole in the Jazz and a lasting wound in the fan base — it didn’t.
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Nigel Williams-Goss returns to Utah Jazz on three year contract

  13-07-2019 19:01 via sportspyder.com
  The former second round pick out of Gonzaga fills out the 2019-2020 roster.
  
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• Signs of new life unfolding a year after Utah wildfire

  13-07-2019 17:54
  Heber City, Utah • Signs of new life are appearing in part of northeastern Utah where a wildfire that torched more than 100 square miles a year ago.Grasses and flowers are returning to the area, with blue and yellow wildflowers blooming around the trunks of trees charred by the blaze, the Daily Herald reported . Aspens with gradient burns along their trunks grew on dark, charred mountainsides speckled with patches of new green growth."It's night and day difference," said Miles Hanberg, the
  
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• Trump says nationwide immigration arrests to begin Sunday

  13-07-2019 17:50
  Washington • The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said efforts to deport families with orders to leave the country will continue after an upcoming national sweep that President Donald Trump said would start Sunday.Matthew Albence, the agency's acting director, said targets were on an "accelerated docket" of immigration court cases for predominantly Central Americans who recently arrived at the U.S. border in unprecedented numbers. Similar operations occurred in 2016 under Preside
  
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• Meet some of the farmers seeking to be among Utah’s first to get a license to grow cannabis

  13-07-2019 17:12
  For security and public relations reasons, Troy Young will not identify the location of the out-of-the-way field where he’s constructing a greenhouse the size of a Walmart.It is possible that within a few months, this building will be filled with the leaves, stems and buds of one of the first legal cannabis crops in Utah. His chances are roughly 1 in 8 — as his business, Moon Lake Farms, competes with 80 others for a handful of marijuana cultivation licenses.“I’ve always
  
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• Simona Halep wins Wimbledon, stops Serena Williams’ bid for 24th Slam

  13-07-2019 16:28
  Wimbledon, England • Simona Halep was not focused on trying to prevent Serena Williams from winning a 24th Grand Slam title. All Halep cared about was winning Wimbledon for the first time.Pretty much perfect from start to finish, Halep beat Williams 6-2, 6-2 in stunning fashion in the final at the All England Club on Saturday.The whole thing took only 56 minutes.Halep made only three unforced errors, a remarkably low total and 23 fewer than Williams.This is the third consecutive Grand Slam
  
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• Happy birthday, @daanteee pic.twitter.com/4ghiJXAZMT

  13-07-2019 16:02 via twitter.com
  Happy birthday, @daanteee pic.twitter.com/4ghiJXAZMT
  
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• [NBA] - Donovan Mitchell's Spider-Man sneakers helped one young fan get through surgery and take his first steps

  13-07-2019 15:44 via sportspyder.com
  When Donovan Mitchell found out he was getting his own shoe, he imagined kids from all walks of life being able to hoop in them, mimicking their favorite player on a basketball court. And with the
  
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• In ‘Power Couples’ exhibit, Utah Museum of Fine Arts showcases artwork that comes in pairs, from the 1500s to now

  13-07-2019 15:00
  Every picture tells a story — and, sometimes, two pictures put together tell a different story.That’s the idea behind a new exhibition at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, “Power Couples: The Pendant Format in Art,” which looks at paired artworks from the 1500s to today.An artist might create two separate works, and pair them up as “a storytelling device,” said Leslie Anderson, curator of European, American and regional art for UMFA. “What couldn’t be
  
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• Here’s the new proposal for the Cottonwood Mall site. It includes a theater, hotel and $2.5 million penthouse condo.

  13-07-2019 15:00
  After Holladay voters torpedoed a high-density development on the old Cottonwood Mall site last year, a new luxury proposal is beginning to advance through the city’s approval process.It is billed as a top-of-the line commercial and residential development that may include some very expensive housing — such as $2.5 million penthouse condos that would be only 2,500 square feet in size.That latest proposal, now called Holladay Hills, seeks to abide by old-but-still-existing terms appro
  
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• Letter: Where is Congress?

  13-07-2019 14:00
  Ol’ Bone Spurs, that lying, puffed-up buffoon who wishes to emulate those he admires most (Putin and Kim Jong Un) has now usurped our nation’s celebration by having a military parade in his honor, a la his idols.So where’s Congress? The spineless ones have gone missing, but not without their unearned paychecks.Glen V. Ruff, SpringvilleSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: They are concentration camps

  13-07-2019 14:00
  Letters in the July 2 Tribune from Phil Neelands and Marci Esparza prompt me to respond.First, Marci, a “concentration camp” is defined as “a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities.” That definitely seems to describe those holding areas at the southern border.As for Donald Trump’s performance, his approval rating stands
  
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• Letter: Herbert puts lobbyists ahead of public health

  13-07-2019 14:00
  As Erik Neumann wrote in his article for KUER, titled “New Emails Show Link Between Utah Governor’s Office and Lobbyist on EPA Air Quality Rule,” the emails demonstrate how the lobbyists for fossil fuel companies are a prioritized source of direction over the public by Gov. Gary Herbert, which is an endangerment and dishonor of public trust.Utah’s public opinion on the written policies is being withheld from them by the lobbyists. Pollution, environmental harm and human h
  
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• Letter: Help our children by throwing the bum politicians out

  13-07-2019 14:00
  I watch with increasing dismay the suffering of immigrant children in U.S. custody. They are given poor food and live in overcrowded squalor without education or play. Even the smallest children are not cared for. Their parents are held in similar situations. Prison inmates in our country have better sanitation, food and water, education and recreation.The immigration and asylum system in place for the past 50 years wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t abusive and rarely resulted in family
  
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• Letter: Betsy Ross flag is flown by white supremacists

  13-07-2019 14:00
  Colonial Flag’s Paul Swenson thinks that those people who don’t buy his company’s “Betsy Ross” flag are “losers.” This is typical language from a Trump far-right extremist.If Swenson did some research, he would have found that this version of the American flag is used by such white supremacist groups as the American Identity Movement and the Patriot Front, to name just a couple. Or maybe Swenson has done his research and supports these hate groups. Sad.T
  
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• Gregory A. Clark: The apology the U. owes the McCluskey familiy

  13-07-2019 14:00
  To Jill and Matt McCluskey and others,Please allow me to say publicly what I expect many of us feel, but what the University of Utah administration too often has been too slow or unwilling to say clearly and unambiguously: I’m sorry.I’m sorry most of all for the loss of your daughter, Lauren McCluskey. At least the U. now expresses sorrow, too, as evident in the comments of then-Vice President of Student Affairs Barbara Snyder on NBC’s “Dateline.”No parent should ha
  
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• George Chapman: Time to evaluate candidates for Salt Lake City mayor

  13-07-2019 14:00
  In the next two weeks, ballots should be mailed out to vote for the Salt Lake City mayoral candidates. There are a wide range of candidates and, based on my experience of politics in the city, these are my takes on the candidates.Utah state Sen. Luz Escamilla is a long-time legislator with around 50 bills that she has helped pass into law. She is endorsed by Democrats, Republicans and business professionals. She has also, from the start, agreed with the mayor that the state’s inland port i
  
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• Commentary: When you are not what society thinks you are

  13-07-2019 14:00
  Let me paint a picture. You’ve thought and worked long and hard to understand who you are and what you’ll pursue. Finally able to articulate what makes you tick, they say “Really? I pegged you as a [insert stereotypical phrase here] person.”(Drags self on floor back to drawing board.)When who we are is not what society sees in us, do we give up or proceed? This was my dilemma for the past year.I became a local titleholder in the Miss America program the weekend college fi
  
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• Commentary: Utah ‘philanthropists’ getting rich by locking up immigrants

  13-07-2019 14:00
  Earlier this year my partner and I drove to the remote desert town of Calexico, Calif., to visit a detained Honduran migrant (who I will call “Pedro” here).Pedro had just turned 18, a boy really, and he hadn’t had a single visitor since he’d turned himself in at the border seeking asylum several months before. We’d been asked to visit by his boyfriend, another Honduran migrant living in Salt Lake City, who was working tirelessly to get him released.The Imperial Regi
  
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• Commentary: Higher minimum wage will help workers and the economy

  13-07-2019 14:00
  In the next week or so, Congress will have the opportunity to give 488,000 working Utahns a substantial raise.The Raise the Wage Act will increase the wage to $15 an hour over the next six years to alleviate the rising economic stress workers are facing. With rising costs of living and flatlining wages, this congressional legislation on behalf of the working class is long overdue.It’s been nearly 10 years since the minimum wage was last increased. Today the minimum wage is worth 15% less t
  
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• Andi Zeisler: Don’t use Epstein as a partisan cudgle

  13-07-2019 14:00
  There are some things that should go without saying. Pizza is delicious. We really do not deserve dogs. There was absolutely, positively room for Jack on that door at the end of “Titanic.” Until fairly recently, “Men who sexually exploit and abuse children are bad, regardless of their political affiliations” seemed like it sat firmly among such self-evident statements.But last weekend brought the news that Jeffrey Epstein, a longtime fixture of the moneyed New York and Pa
  
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• Angels honor former teammate and Bees pitcher Tyler Skaggs and throw combined no-hitter in 13-0 rout of Mariners

  13-07-2019 08:59
  ANAHEIM, Calif. — Taylor Cole and Felix Pena of the Los Angeles Angels pitched the second combined no-hitter in franchise history, beating the Seattle Mariners 13-0 Friday night in the team’s first home game since the death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs.It is the second no-hitter in the majors this season. Oakland's Mike Fiers no-hit Cincinnati on May 7. It is the 13th combined no-hitter in MLB history and the first since the Dodgers did it against San Diego on May 4, 2018, in Monterrey, M
  
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• Detonations of rocket motors, missile fuel set at Utah range

  13-07-2019 08:00
  Hill Air Force Base • The Air Force is about to start a series of detonations of surplus rocket motors and sold fuel for ballistic missiles on the Utah Test and Training Range in western Utah.The sprawling range is located between Great Salt Lake and the Nevada line.An announcement says the detonations will start Monday and continue through August as part of an effort to comply with international treaty limits on the number of ballistic missiles.The announcement said detonations will be con
  
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• Climate study predicts in 30 years, Salt Lake City weather will be like the Nevada desert’s is today

  13-07-2019 07:45
  Imagine Vegas heat — but without the casinos and showgirls. That could be Salt Lake City’s future, according to a new climate study that shows Salt Lake City’s summers could feel more like Las Vegas in a little more than 30 years.The average highs of Salt Lake City’s warmest month — July — are likely to rise about 10 degrees by 2050, according to the global analysis by the Crowther Lab in Switzerland. The lab produced a data map that pairs one city’s fut
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz’s Bojan Bogdanovic admits choosing between Pacers and Utah ‘was close’

  13-07-2019 06:51 via sportspyder.com
  Bojan Bogdanovic thoroughly enjoyed his tenure with the Indiana Pacers. In fact, the sweet-shooting forward seriously considered re-signing with the Pacers, and the fact his last contract offer from Indiana included a non-guarantee in the final year...
  
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• Police believe missing Utah man who has ‘extensive medical history’ is in danger

  13-07-2019 06:12
  Unified police are asking for help in finding a 46-year-old man who went missing Friday in Salt Lake City.Bryan C. Royal was last seen around 5:30 p.m. walking away from Liberty Dialysis, 3701 S. State St., according to a news release from the state Department of Public Safety. Royal left the facility when his ride — someone with Wasatch Rehab — was more than an hour late picking him up. He hasn’t been seen since, and his cellphone is off.Royal has an “extensive medical h
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Three lineups that will be a ton of fun in 2019-20

  13-07-2019 05:40 via sportspyder.com
  The new-look Utah Jazz will have the versatility to roll out several exciting and effective lineups in the 2019-20 season. With all of the Utah Jazz's offs...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Three lineups that will be a ton of fun in 2019-20

  13-07-2019 05:28
  The new-look Utah Jazz will have the versatility to roll out several exciting and effective lineups in the 2019-20 season. With all of the Utah Jazz’s offseason moves, there’s no questioning that they’re going to have a much different squad in 2019-20. While the team indisputably got better by undergoing a massive upgrade at the […]
  Utah Jazz: Three lineups that will be a ton of fun in 2019-20 - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and
  
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• 3 takeaways from the Utah Royals FC’s 1-0 loss to Sky Blue

  13-07-2019 04:11
  Here are three thoughts on the Utah Royals FC losing 1-0 against Sky Blue FC in stoppage time.1. Long balls over the defenseThe Royals found an effective way to create goal-scoring opportunities with Vero Boquete, the team’s most creative playmaker, still sidelined due to an ankle injury. Utah’s midfielders picked their spots to send long balls over Sky Blue’s defense to their forwards.Amy Rodriguez was the main recipient of those sequences. In the play below, Amanda Laddish pa
  
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