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• [Clutchpoints] - NBA exec says Jazz had ‘one of the best’ offseasons

  29-07-2019 23:39 via sportspyder.com
  An anonymous NBA executive believes the Utah Jazz had “one of the best” offseasons this summer. The Jazz acquired Mike Conley from the Memphis Grizzlies and signed Bojan Bogdanovic, Jeff Green, Ed Davis and Emmanuel Mudiay in free agency. Now, many...
  
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• Ute forward Donnie Tillman is transferring to UNLV, will be close to his ailing mom and a former Ute assistant

  29-07-2019 23:38
  Donnie Tillman's college basketball career will continue in Las Vegas, where his Utah tenure ended.Tillman will transfer into a UNLV program that includes former Ute assistant coach DeMarlo Slocum, Tillman confirmed Monday via Twitter. The move completes an offseason story that began nearly two months ago when Utah announced he was taking a “leave of absence” from the school in 2019-20, enabling him to be near his ailing mother, before he visited schools in New Jersey and Illinois.Th
  
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• Jason Chaffetz on the Donald Trump-Elijah Cummings spat: ‘Let them duke it out’

  29-07-2019 23:26
  Washington • Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz said he has “great respect” for Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the Democratic chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee whom President Donald Trump has slammed over the weekend in tweets calling his district rat-infested.Chaffetz, a Utah Republican and Fox News contributor, worked alongside Cummings when Chaffetz was chairman of the oversight committee and says he still has a good relationship with the Maryland Democr
  
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• Wasatch Front sees home prices jump by at least $25,000 in the past year, and home sales are up too

  29-07-2019 23:20
  Homes sales along the Wasatch Front bounced back slightly in early spring, even as housing prices across the five-county area continued to climb.Nearly 8,526 homes changed hands during April, May and June, nearly 2.2% more than the 8,340 that sold during the same busy homebuying months the previous year, according to data released Monday by the Salt Lake Board of Realtors.The report comes as U.S. home sales showed signs of picking up nationally amid wage increases and falling mortgage rates.The
  
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• Environmental groups raise alarm over mislabeled nuclear waste shipments through Utah

  29-07-2019 23:20
  Environmental activists say Utahns living near freeways and railroads may have been endangered by recent shipments of incorrectly labeled radioactive waste headed to Nevada.They are calling on Gov. Gary Herbert to protest such action by the U.S. Department of Energy, and also to say whether Utah and its first responders were warned about the shipments.“Communities along the interstate highways and railroads in Utah were likely at risk from all of these shipments,” says a letter to th
  
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• Sara Patenaude: Trump’s Baltimore tweets were racist. But he also fails to grasp what ails our cities

  29-07-2019 22:25
  President Donald Trump's caustic tweets about Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and his home city of Baltimore were not only factually incorrect and racist, but they also ignore a glaring reality: even if African American neighborhoods in Baltimore were in the horrific condition that Trump described, the cause would be more than a century of racist policies, not a lack of focus from the local black congressman. Nowhere is this clearer than in housing policies that have left our cities deeply segregat
  
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• | "It's my dream to win a championship and I felt like this was the best opportunity to do that with this franchise." #TakeNotepic.twitter.com/Q8unNJ3ApR

  29-07-2019 22:11 via twitter.com
  | "It's my dream to win a championship and I felt like this was the best opportunity to do that with this franchise."#TakeNotepic.twitter.com/Q8unNJ3ApR
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Best Starting Five Alive: Utah Jazz can follow 2004 Pistons blueprint

  29-07-2019 21:40 via sportspyder.com
  Becoming like the 2004 Detroit Pistons is not what you think it is.
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Jazz, Juwan Morgan Agree To Exhibit 10 Deal

  29-07-2019 21:40 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz have reached an agreement to sign undrafted forward Juwan Morgan to an Exhibit 10 contract, league sources tell …
  
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• [Deseret News] - Former Jazzman DeShawn Stevenson feels Jerry Sloan worthy of statue with health deteriorating

  29-07-2019 21:34 via sportspyder.com
  “For sure. Come on, man. Yeah, that’s not even a question,” Stevenson said during his return to Utah with the Big 3 basketball league. “Jerry Sloan deserves all that for what he did for...
  
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• Jonathan Capehart: The ‘basket of deplorables’ is overflowing

  29-07-2019 21:19
  When you’re a person of color — whether in politics, journalism or regular life — you’re accustomed to folks demanding that you criticize or denounce people, especially if they look like you. Some of them deserve criticism for what they’ve said. (See Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.) Some of them aren’t worth the oxygen required of denunciation because they are marginal characters who don’t have any power. (See Louis Farrakhan.) But we do it beca
  
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• Two Utah cities name street after boxing champ Gene Fullmer and his family

  29-07-2019 21:15
  South Jordan and West Jordan are renaming a five-block stretch of 9400 South after champion boxer Gene Fuller and his pugilist brothers."The Fullmers were a big part of West Jordan and we are happy to join South Jordan in renaming 9400 South to honor their family name,” West Jordan Mayor Jim Riding said in a prepared statement.9400 South serves as a border between the two cities, where many of the family members lived and trained. The renamed Fullmer Lane section will be between 1700 West
  
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• Commentary: When the sexual prosperity gospel doesn’t pan out

  29-07-2019 20:46
  All over the world — and among 1 in 3 U.S. Protestant churchgoers — Christians believe that God rewards good behavior with health and wealth.“Prosperity theology” says that God matches faith with financial blessing and physical well-being. Common in Pentecostal and charismatic circles and at the heart of popular ministries such as Joel Osteen’s and Kenneth Copeland’s, the teaching has made many pastors and circuit speakers quite rich.It also implies that if yo
  
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• Jana Riess: Paul’s letter to the Romans, says Bible scholar, is a must-read in Trump era — backward

  29-07-2019 20:26
  Paul’s letter to the Romans is the pinnacle of the apostle’s theology — a dense, rich text that biblical studies experts have been poring over for centuries.But I’m willing to bet that few of those scholars tried reading Romans from the end to the beginning, which is what evangelical scholar and popular author Scot McKnight does in his new book, “Reading Romans Backwards: A Gospel of Peace in the Midst of Empire.”“Backmasking” Romans (the term refe
  
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• Robert De Niro: Mueller didn’t play me playing him on ‘SNL.’ That’s good.

  29-07-2019 20:04
  After Robert Mueller testified before Congress last week, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said of the Democrats’ approach to the hearing: “We weren’t trying to entertain the American people. ... We didn’t invite Robert De Niro to testify; we invited Robert Mueller.”Really, Chairman Jeffries? For the last year, I've had more experience playing Mueller publicly than Mueller has. Two months ago, I openly urged him to speak out
  
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• BYU opens camp Wednesday with focus on Zach Wilson’s health, another rugged early season schedule

  29-07-2019 19:28
  Provo • For the first time in several years, BYU will begin preparations for football season with relatively few questions regarding its offense.Preseason training camp kicks off Wednesday at the renovated practice field behind the Student Athlete Building.For openers, there is no starting quarterback derby. All eyes will be on studious sophomore Zach Wilson, who will be the offense’s undisputed leader, provided his surgically repaired right throwing shoulder has healed after surgery
  
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• Family gives details on Utah man and wife killed in Mexico

  29-07-2019 18:58
  Services will be held this week for Paul Nielsen, the Utah man killed in Mexico earlier this month with his wife.The family released a statement to FOX 13 discussing the death of Nielsen and his wife, Janet Vazquez.“Our family is absolutely devastated over the loss of our dad," the statement said. "We were very close to him. His family was his world, and he wasn’t just our father,” the family wrote. “He was one of our best friends. It’s been a very difficult week fo
  
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• Tickets for Kurt Bestor’s Christmas concerts go on sale Tuesday

  29-07-2019 18:42
  What better time than late July, when the temperatures are flirting with triple digits, to think about your Christmas plans?Utah musician-composer Kurt Bestor is banking on that, as tickets for his 32nd annual holiday concert extravaganza go on sale Tuesday at 10 a.m. on arttix.artsaltake.org.Bestor’s 2019 Christmas concerts will be staged at the Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main St., Salt Lake City. Shows are scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 12, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 13, at 8 p.m., and Saturda
  
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• Norma Matheson, the ‘godmother’ of the Utah Democratic Party, dies at 89

  29-07-2019 18:31
  Norma Matheson, a former first lady, the matriarch of the state’s most prominent Democratic family, and “the godmother of the party,” died late Sunday after battling leukemia. She was 89.Friends remembered Matheson as a gracious, thoughtful friend, an astute political strategist and a trailblazer for women in politics at a time when there were few role models.“Our dear and amazing mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, Norma Matheson, passed away last night, having l
  
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• Shakespeare Festival play that is a funny, engaging look at life in the shadow of suicide will be shown to all Utah high schoolers

  29-07-2019 18:29
  Cedar City • Sitting in the audience at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Brenda Jeppson suddenly found herself taking off her sock (with help from her husband), putting it on her hand and pretending it was a puppet.The retired English teacher from Taylorsville wasn’t having some sort of breakdown. She was an impromptu part of the one-man — plus the audience — play, “Every Brilliant Thing,” acting opposite star Michael Doherty. And she was loving every minute of i
  
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• Bodies of 2 brothers found 11 days after they disappeared at Strawberry Reservoir

  29-07-2019 18:02
  The bodies of two brothers who disappeared while fishing on Strawberry Reservoir on July 18 were recovered Sunday.“We finally have the news that we’ve been working for 11 days,” Wasatch County Sheriff Jared Rigby said at a news conference recorded by FOX 13.A boat belonging to James “Jim” Gardiner, 70, of Salem, and Mark Gardiner, 61, of Pleasant Grove was found empty with the motor still running about 2:30 p.m. on July 18 in the Ladders Day Use Area by a state empl
  
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• Visitor from Mexico killed by falling debris at Bridal Veil Falls

  29-07-2019 17:58
  A 23-year-old man visiting from Mexico was killed Sunday when he was hit by falling debris at Bridal Veil Falls.The man, whose name has not been released, was hit by what is believed to be a falling log, according to the Utah County Sheriff's Office. Authorities said that it did not appear that there were any other hikers in the area who dislodged the debris.The man was hiking in the area, near the mouth of Provo Canyon along State Road 189, with family members when the accident occurred. Member
  
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• Arizona senator apologizes for saying ‘we’re going to look like South American countries’ at LDS political event

  29-07-2019 17:55
  A Republican state senator from Arizona apologized Friday for her remarks on research relating to the “browning” of America and for saying that “we’re going to look like South American countries very quickly.”Sen. Sylvia Allen faced backlash after the Phoenix New Times published an audio recording of her speech during an event commemorating “Mormon Political Pioneers” at the Arizona Republican Party headquarters in Phoenix on July 15.The comments come as
  
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• Ekpe Udoh China bound

  29-07-2019 17:40
  Emiliano Carchia: Former Fenerbahce and Jazz big man Ekpe Udoh has signed the contract with Beijing Ducks, a source told @Emiliano Carchia. Udoh has been in the NBA the past two years
  
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• National Women’s Soccer League enjoying a World Cup bump, but sustainability is next step

  29-07-2019 17:39
  The National Women’s Soccer League is enjoying a healthy bump in interest, thanks to the U.S. national team’s rock-star popularity and World Cup glory.It is a small sample size: The tournament in France ended three weeks ago and the 23 triumphant players returned to league play last weekend.But consider: The Portland Thorns, the league's runaway attendance leaders in each of seven seasons, set a club record with 22,329, achieved on a weeknight. The Chicago Red Stars opened additional
  
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• Alexandra Petri: We’re having fun, right? Do we really need to label this ‘impeachment’?

  29-07-2019 17:00
  “Impeachment isn’t a binary thing that you either are or you aren’t. What we’ve been saying and what we’ve been doing is starting a process where we’re engaging in an investigation to see if we should recommend articles of impeachment.”— Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., on July 26, 2019, regarding President TrumpIs this an impeachment proceeding?I mean. Call it a — mmm, do we need to define what this is, at such an early stage?We're having fun,
  
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• NBA Daily: Has Retooling Usurped Rebuilding?

  29-07-2019 16:13 via basketballinsiders.com
  The new craze of successful teams retooling their rosters instead of rebuilding them may cause others to do the same, writes Matt John.
  
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• Three dead, at least 15 injured in shooting at California food festival

  29-07-2019 15:50
  Gilroy, Calif. • The late afternoon sun beat down on Julissa Contreras as she browsed the offerings from a barbecue food tent on Sunday at the Gilroy Garlic Festival with her father and her boyfriend.Then, Contreras said she noticed a man emerging from behind a row of tents at the popular summertime event in Gilroy, California. He was dressed in a military-style outfit and appeared to be holding an assault rifle, she told The Washington Post. Four loud cracks rang out in quick succession. T
  
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• Political Cornflakes: President Donald Trump continues his attacks against Rep. Elijah Cummings

  29-07-2019 15:35
  Happy Monday! President Donald Trump is continuing his tirade against Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Baltimore congressman who is black and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. It’s a move that has given more ammunition to those who have denounced the way Trump condemns political foes of color, and led to new debate over his use of discordant rhetoric for political gain, whatever the consequences. [Politico]Topping the news: San Juan County paid $485,600 to a Louisiana
  
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• Fred Hiatt: Things really are that bad under Trump

  29-07-2019 15:20
  The economy is humming. We're not at war (much). So he can't be that bad, right?Steadfast Never Trumpers may find it hard to believe, but I'm hearing that argument more and more lately, as people try to come to terms with the possibility of a second Trump term. It's the "normalization" we've been warned about since Donald Trump's ascension, but in a different form than we might have expected.After all, many of the people telling themselves that things aren't "that bad" insist they are as offende
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Newest players have championship on the mind

  29-07-2019 14:12 via sportspyder.com
  Ed Davis and Jeff Green have made it clear - the Utah Jazz are set to compete for a championship during the upcoming 2019-20 season. When two of the newest...
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - Ranking the Top 100 players of the century (100-81)

  29-07-2019 14:02 via sportspyder.com
  HoopsHype ranks the Top-100 players of the 21st century, starting with spots 100 through 81.
  
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• Utah Jazz: Newest players have championship on the mind

  29-07-2019 14:00
  Ed Davis and Jeff Green have made it clear – the Utah Jazz are set to compete for a championship during the upcoming 2019-20 season. When two of the newest Utah Jazz players, Ed Davis and Jeff Green, were officially introduced, they made their reasons for joining up with the squad extremely clear. One, as […]
  Utah Jazz: Newest players have championship on the mind - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Utah cities ask residents: Are you willing to pay more to recycle?

  29-07-2019 14:00
  Utahns across the Wasatch Front soon may shoulder an increase in the monthly fees they pay for recycling — a reality prompted by changing global conditions that mean it now costs many cities more money to recycle waste than to send it to a landfill.The Wasatch Front Waste and Recycling District, one of the largest residential waste and recycling collectors in Salt Lake County, is asking its customers whether they would support continuing recycling services with a cost increase of $1.50 a m
  
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• Robert Gehrke: South Salt Lake’s homeless shelter demands would undermine homeless services

  29-07-2019 14:00
  You’ll have to forgive South Salt Lake Mayor Cherie Wood if she isn’t in a very accommodating mood. After all, her city was on the receiving end of a ham-fisted process that ended up plopping a homeless center in her boundaries.That was, of course, after backlash from neighbors in Sugar House got one that was planned there, scrapped and relocated to South Salt Lake, the Salt Lake Valley’s perennial stepchild which lacked the political muscle to stop it.So now the mayor is doing
  
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• Letter: The freeway interchange at Parleys Canyon needs work

  29-07-2019 14:00
  In the works by your trusted UDOT is an extensive reconstruction of the interchange of I-215/I-80 at the mouth of Parleys Canyon.Why the need? As always with improvements, solving tragically slow commuter traffic. Maintaining vehicle speed and volume are at the core of reducing congestion. What UDOT doesn’t acknowledge as a huge reason is “through” vehicles of westbound I-80 to southbound I-15. And the reverse northbound I-15 to eastbound I-80.This burdensome traffic, trucks mo
  
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• Letter: President Nelson, bring that message of healing to San Juan County

  29-07-2019 14:00
  It’s wonderful that Mormons now have a mission to the NAACP.But what’s preventing LDS President Russell M. Nelson from preaching this in San Juan County some fine morning? Racial divisions at home need attention, too.Tom Horton, Park CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Our nation’s values include a diversity of opinion

  29-07-2019 14:00
  It was suggested in a recent letter to The Public Forum that “conservatives” know diversity is not our (the U.S.’s) strength. It was then suggested that our strength is in our shared values.Too often, what a person talks about shared values, they mean “their” values. Our shared values are enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence.The very essence of our constitutional rights of protected speech, right to peacefully assemble and petitioning g
  
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• Letter: Gehrke’s defense of artificial turf is all wet

  29-07-2019 14:00
  Robert Gehrke’s column on July 10 (“Not in my front yard”) downplays legitimate environmental issues with artificial turf. It also demonstrates the trap of simplistic thinking about complex urban socio-ecological systems.Yes, residential water conservation is important and lawns are often a culprit due to over watering. But the lion’s share of water use statewide is for commercial agriculture. Our mountain valley ecosystems have been highly modified over the past 150 year
  
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• Fallout from Washakie fraud could cost polygamous Kingston Group members their businesses and homes

  29-07-2019 14:00
  In early 2013, Carla Peterson was a 62-year-old widow who was tired of renting but had no credit.Like a lot of Utahns, she sought the advice of someone in her church. That elder, Peterson said in a recent interview, directed her to a lender called Alliance Investments. In May 2013, according to public records, Alliance lent Peterson $164,050 toward a home in West Valley City.Federal prosecutors this month filed a notice the government may seize Peterson’s home. Peterson says she is a membe
  
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• Ranking the Top 100 players of the century (100-81)

  29-07-2019 13:48
  With the 2019 offseason pretty much wrapped up and the doldrums of the summer settling in, HoopsHype has decided to kick off a fun offseason project.
  Our entire team voted and ranked each of our Top 100 players of the 21st century – which, for our purposes, begins with the 2000-01 season – and present the results over a series of eight articles.
  From multiple-time MVP winners, to All-NBA-level players, to defensive stalwarts, the NBA has seen an incredible amount of talent come
  
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• Lisa Rampton Halverson: Migration is all about memory, and its consequences

  29-07-2019 13:00
  Turned away from Cuba, the United States and Canada, more than 900 Jewish refugees aboard the ship St. Louis were finally and tragically returned to World War II Europe, where many died in Nazi death camps.Barred in three lands, desperate German Jews attempted suicide rather than return to the land of their birth. Prepared to flee their homeland — particularly after the destruction of thousands of Jewish businesses and synagogues and the incarceration of 30,000 Jewish men in concentration
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: The return of Iso Joe and Big Al was glorious

  29-07-2019 06:20 via sportspyder.com
  Former Utah Jazz players Joe Johnson, Al Jefferson and DeShawn Stevenson were all in Salt Lake City over the weekend, balling out for the BIG3. There's no ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: The return of Iso Joe and Big Al was glorious

  29-07-2019 05:59
  Former Utah Jazz players Joe Johnson, Al Jefferson and DeShawn Stevenson were all in Salt Lake City over the weekend, balling out for the BIG3. There’s no doubting it: we’ve officially reached the dog days of the NBA calendar; the mid-summer doldrums where there’s no basketball to watch and nothing is happening across the Association. […]
  Utah Jazz: The return of Iso Joe and Big Al was glorious - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and
  
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• Director of national intelligence to resign

  29-07-2019 04:53
  Washington • Dan Coats, director of national intelligence, will leave his job next month, President Trump announced Sunday, after a turbulent two years in which Coats and the president were often at odds over Russian interference in the 2016 election.Trump announced Coats’ departure as Aug. 15 in a tweet that thanked Coats for his service. He said he will nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, to the post and that he will name an acting official in the coming days. Ratcliffe is a freq
  
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• [KSL] - 'It’s very disrespecting:' Jeff Green looks to use yet another minimum contract as extra motivation | KSL.com

  29-07-2019 04:28 via sportspyder.com
  Jeff Green was once probably overrated. Now, it seems the pendulum has swung the other way.
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Ex-Jazz DeShawn Stevenson, Al Jefferson show appreciation for Jerry Sloan

  29-07-2019 03:38 via sportspyder.com
  Former NBA players DeShawn Stevenson and Al Jefferson expressed their gratitude to former Utah Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan. The two players showed their appreciation to Sloan after recent reports revealed that the Hall of Fame head coach is “dying”...
  
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• [Deseret News] - Former Jazzman DeShawn Stevenson feels Jerry Sloan is worthy of statue with health deteriorating

  29-07-2019 02:58 via sportspyder.com
  “For sure. Come on, man. Yeah, that’s not even a question,” Stevenson said during his return to Utah with the Big 3 basketball league. “Jerry Sloan deserves all that for what he did for...
  
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• Former Jazzman DeShawn Stevenson feels Jerry Sloan worthy of statue with health deteriorating

  29-07-2019 02:54
  Jazz members David Benoit (L) and DeShawn Stevenson goof around during shoot around before training camp practice Oct. 4th, 2001.Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — For the past few months, legendary Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan's health has been declining while battling dementia and Parkinson's disease."He has good days and some that are not good," his wife Tammy recently told the Deseret News via text message. "It's a strange disease and every now and then he reappears as Jerr
  
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• Former Jazzman DeShawn Stevenson feels Jerry Sloan is worthy of statue with health deteriorating

  29-07-2019 02:54
  Jazz members David Benoit (L) and DeShawn Stevenson goof around during shoot around before training camp practice Oct. 4th, 2001. Allred/photoSALT LAKE CITY — For the past few months, legendary Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan's health has been declining while battling dementia and Parkinson's disease."He has good days and some that are not good," his wife Tammy recently told the Deseret News via text message. "It's a strange disease and every now and then he reappears as Jerry."If he gets a g
  
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