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• Behind the Headlines: Utah primary elections, campus safety and Overstock CEO’s Russia involvement

  15-08-2019 23:58
  Erin Mendenhall and Luz Escamilla advance to the next round in the Salt Lake City mayor’s race. The University of Utah implements changes to its campus safety policies. And Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne claims he played a key role in the Russia investigation. At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune government and politics editor Dan Harrie, and reporters Taylor Stevens and Courtney Tanner join KCPW’s Roger McDonough to talk about the week’s top stories. Every Friday at 9 a.m.,
  
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• Sister: Earnhardt Jr. ‘safe’ after plane crash in Tennessee

  15-08-2019 23:37
  Elizabethton, Tenn. • Dale Earnhardt Jr. was taken to a hospital after his plane crashed in east Tennessee.The NASCAR television analyst and former driver's sister, Kelley Earnhardt Miller, tweeted that "everyone is safe and has been taken to the hospital for further evaluation."Federal Aviation Administration officials said a Cessna Citation rolled off the end of a runway and caught fire after landing at Elizabethton Municipal Airport at 3:40 p.m. Thursday. FAA officials said the prelimina
  
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• Hickenlooper ends White House bid, mulls Senate run in 2020

  15-08-2019 23:37
  Denver • Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Thursday ended his longshot bid for the Democratic presidential nomination and said he may instead challenge one of the most vulnerable Senate Republicans in 2020.In a video message, Hickenlooper said he had heard from many in his state urging him to enter the Senate race."They remind me how much is at stake for our country. And our state," he said. "I intend to give that some serious thought."Colorado's shift to the left could put Sen. Cor
  
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• Salt Lake City GREENbike now rents electric-assist cycles at no extra cost

  15-08-2019 23:36
  Salt Lakers may now rent new electric-motor, pedal-assist GREENbike bicycles at no extra cost.The bike-share system has added 50 of those e-bikes, which may be checked out and returned to any of GREENbike’s 34 stations in the city.“Adding e-bikes to our fleet makes our system accessible to new types of users,” GREENbike Vice Chairwoman Amanda Smith said in a news release. “Now people can ride longer distances or go up hills without breaking a sweat. But riders will still
  
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• Lakers center DeMarcus Cousins injures knee; could be torn ACL

  15-08-2019 23:11
  El Segundo, Calif. • Los Angeles Lakers center DeMarcus Cousins was scheduled for tests on Thursday amid fears that he has a torn ACL, which would be a third major injury in less than two years for the once-perennial All-Star.Cousins got hurt in a workout in Las Vegas earlier this week, a person with knowledge of the matter told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because no official diagnosis has been released publicly.ESPN first reported that Cousins was injured.If the fears ar
  
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• Did anyone love a fancy pass more than AK? #NBAAssistWeek | #TakeNotepic.twitter.com/hGp2DzEfJz

  15-08-2019 23:09 via twitter.com
  Did anyone love a fancy pass more than AK?#NBAAssistWeek | #TakeNotepic.twitter.com/hGp2DzEfJz
  
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• Utah has new unusual ‘bike boxes’ for its unusual intersections

  15-08-2019 22:31
  Saratoga Springs • Bicyclist Kai Tohinaka had never tried cycling through the complicated “continuous-flow” intersection at Redwood Road and Pioneer Crossing.But he found that an equally unusual new set of specially painted bike lanes — including a painted “bike box” for left turns — made it easy and safer.“It gives clear guidance on how you navigate such a non-traditional intersection,” he said. Without it, “there’s a danger of go
  
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• The reinvented Shakey Graves 2.0 seemed more comfortable in his own skin in Red Butte return

  15-08-2019 22:22
  Folks who showed up to see Shakey Graves on Tuesday and expected to see the cowboy-hat-and-t-shirt-wearing folky songwriter on stage at Red Butte might have been a little confused.They got an entirely different guy. This version wore cuffed black hipster overalls, was more chatty and seemed to be more comfortable in his own skin. More his real self, Alejandro Rose-Garcia, and less the Texas cowboy persona he has relied on.“Well, hello, everyone,” he greeted the sold-out crowd like he
  
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• [NBA] - Rudy Gobert & Joe Ingles talk about playing for their country in the FIBA World Cup

  15-08-2019 22:09 via sportspyder.com
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• Man confronts people delivering newspapers, fires gunshots

  15-08-2019 22:00
  Ogden, Utah • Utah authorities are trying to identify a gunman who fired several gunshots after confronting two people delivering newspapers in the Ogden area.The Standard-Examiner reports that neither delivery person was were wounded by gunfire in the incident early Wednesday but that one had scratches likely resulting from gunshot damage to a side mirror of their car.According to one of the delivery people, Tyson Halverson, the man fired several shots after asking what Halverson and his c
  
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• Three former Utes have emigrated to Logan to play for Gary Andersen; here’s how they’ll help the Aggies

  15-08-2019 21:59
  Logan • Sioasi Mariner understood that switching schools at this stage of his college career would require some adjusting. He just never imagined football would feel like an entirely different sport.Utah huddles. Utah State just keeps playing.“I've never been a part of something this fast,” Mariner said. “The first day of practice was like a track meet for me.”That’s life in Logan, where Mariner, tight end Caleb Repp and defensive lineman Nick Heninger have joi
  
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• Alexandra Petri: We hold these truths to be self-evident. Terms and conditions apply.

  15-08-2019 21:24
  “Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge.”-- Acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli, on NPRWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, among these life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.**Some terms and conditions apply.Please read the fine print on the "American Dream." Thos
  
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• Million-dollar opioid drug ring started small, No. 2 says

  15-08-2019 21:04
  A Utah man who prosecutors call the second-in-command of a multimillion-dollar online opioid drug ring says it started with selling Adderall to pay for student loans.Drew Crandall testified Thursday that he packaged and mailed drugs as he and his roommate, alleged ringleader Aaron Shamo, expanded to selling date-rape drugs, ecstasy, Xanax and more.Crandall says online customers would later report that fake oxycodone laced with the powerful opioid fentanyl was making users get sick and overdose.S
  
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• Republican podcaster from Richfield kicks off campaign against Rep. Chris Stewart

  15-08-2019 21:02
  A Richfield political podcaster has his eye on the congressional seat occupied by U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart, pledging to fight for term limits and curbed federal spending if he's elected.Ty Jensen said he’s never held political office, although he did run an unsuccessful write-in campaign against Sen. Mitt Romney last year. But the Republican says his life experiences have equipped him to “represent the forgotten and voiceless people here in the state of Utah.”He’s lived in
  
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• [NBA] - Donovan Mitchell learning from Kemba Walker and the other NBA stars at Team USA training camp

  15-08-2019 20:54 via sportspyder.com
  EL SEGUNDO, CALIF. — Donovan Mitchell is eager to learn. The Utah Jazz guard has regularly sought out advice from NBA superstars, from Chris Paul to Paul George to James Harden, during the first two
  
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• A staffer at Liahona Academy, a school for troubled boys, charged with child abuse

  15-08-2019 20:36
  A staffer at a Washington County school for troubled boys is facing a charge of felony child abuse after authorities say he assaulted a teen boy at the facility.The 16-year-old boy needed 11 staples in the back of his head after police say Antonio Montav Ross-Jones threw him to the ground during an Aug. 3 altercation at Liahona Treatment Center in Virgin.Ross-Jones, 23, was charged Wednesday with a second-degree felony, which carries a potential penalty of up to 15 years in prison if he is convi
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Donovan Mitchell “dominating” and “best player” so far at Team USA camp

  15-08-2019 20:23 via sportspyder.com
  Per ESPN’s Brian Windhorst, no one has looked better than Donovan Mitchell
  
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• Monson: Jazz owner Gail Miller wants a title, and she ‘absolutely’ sees her team winning an NBA Championship — soon

  15-08-2019 20:15
  Donovan Mitchell has said it. Rudy Gobert has said it. Now, in a most specific way, Gail Miller has said it, too.The Utah Jazz intend to win an NBA championship.“Absolutely,” the Jazz owner said.Not a decade from now, but … now. Not now, as in right this second, not the here and now, but now, as in while we’re young; now, as in the next few seasons; now, as in, as George Allen once put it, the future is now.And there are few sweeter words uttered by a professional sports
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: Jazz owner Gail Miller wants a title, and she ‘absolutely’ sees her team winning an NBA Championship — soon

  15-08-2019 19:59 via sportspyder.com
  Donovan Mitchell has said it. Rudy Gobert has said it. Now, in a most specific way, Gail Miller has said it, too.
  
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• John Stockton leaving Game 5 of the 1997 NBA finals in absolute John Stockton style #TBT | #NBAAssistWeekpic.twitter.com/H6LzImxgMr

  15-08-2019 19:36 via twitter.com
  John Stockton leaving Game 5 of the 1997 NBA finals in absolute John Stockton style
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• Red All Over: Buildup to the Utah-BYU game reminds Britain Covey of Utah-Michigan

  15-08-2019 19:15
  Red All Over is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter on all things Utah athletics. Subscribe here.Britain Covey sensed something different about Utah’s preseason football camp this month when he unwittingly wore a blue shirt in the Eccles Football Center.The junior receiver's color choice didn't go unnoticed in the building, with the Utes' visit to BYU scheduled Aug. 29. Having the rivalry game as the season opener reminds Covey of his freshman year of 2015, when Michigan visite
  
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• Scientists confirm July set new global heat record

  15-08-2019 19:12
  Berlin • July was the hottest month measured on Earth since records began in 1880, the latest in a long line of peaks that scientists say backs up predictions for man-made climate change.The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday that July was 1.71 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the 20th century average for the month.Because July is generally the warmest month on the calendar, meteorologists say this means it also set a new all-time monthly record for the past 14
  
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• U.S. makes new push for graphic warning labels on cigarettes

  15-08-2019 19:02
  Washington • U.S. health officials are making a new attempt at adding graphic images to cigarette packets to discourage and Americans from lighting up. If successful, it would be the first change to U.S. cigarette warnings in 35 years.The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday proposed 13 new warnings that would appear on all cigarettes, including images of cancerous neck tumors, diseased lungs and feet with amputated toes.Other color illustrations would warn smokers that cigarettes can c
  
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• [Last Word On Sports: Last Word On Pro Basketball] - Countdown to NBA Tip-Off: Houston Rockets Season Preview

  15-08-2019 18:58 via sportspyder.com
  The Houston Rockets will feature another star alongside James Harden in Russell Westbrook next season. Let's take a look at the Rockets season preview.
  
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• 3 takeaways from Real Salt Lake’s win over the Seattle Sounders

  15-08-2019 18:57
  Here are three takeaways from Real Salt Lake’s 3-0 blowout win over the Seattle Sounders1. Sam Johnson and Nedum Onuoha have productive returnsJohnson and Onuoha both started Wednesday after recently returning from injuries — a quad for the striker and an adductor for the center back. And both made the most out of it in significant minutes.Johnson got himself a goal midway through the first half, putting him at nine on the season with nine games remaining. He played 66 minutes after
  
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• A few @mconley11 dimes throughout the years. More to come. #NBAAssistWeek | #TakeNotepic.twitter.com/DgVFzPgEyO

  15-08-2019 18:51 via twitter.com
  A few @mconley11 dimes throughout the years.
  More to come.
  #NBAAssistWeek | #TakeNotepic.twitter.com/DgVFzPgEyO
  
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• Tell The Tribune: Are you a ride-share driver?

  15-08-2019 18:12
  The Salt Lake Tribune is working on a story about how ride-hailing services have changed ground transportation in Utah, and we want to talk to some drivers about their experiences.Your responses won’t be published without your permission. A reporter from The Salt Lake Tribune might reach out for further comment.window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.3.min.js"><\/script>')This form requires JavaScript to complete.
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• Ex-Jazzman Deron Williams is part a strong field in the Utah Open

  15-08-2019 17:56
  The Siegfried & Jensen Utah Open exists mainly to support Special Olympics Utah and give Utah Section PGA members a high-level playing opportunity, amid their regular jobs of teaching golf and operating courses in the state.Thanks to the annual presence of mini-tour players from the West, though, the competition is tough at Riverside Country Club. The latest evidence of the quality of play in this tournament came in July, when Nate Lashley won a PGA Tour event only four years after winning i
  
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• Tell The Tribune: Are you a rideshare driver?

  15-08-2019 17:39
  The Salt Lake Tribune is working on a story about how ride-hailing services have changed ground transportation in Utah, and we want to talk to some drivers about their experiences.Your responses won’t be published without your permission. A reporter from The Salt Lake Tribune might reach out for further comment.window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.3.min.js"><\/script>')This form requires JavaScript to complete.
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Team USA is polishing Donovan Mitchell into a superstar

  15-08-2019 17:34 via sportspyder.com
  When Donovan Mitchell’s game takes a leap this upcoming season, we’ll think back to this August.
  
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• Paul Krugman: Useful idiots and Trumpist billionaires

  15-08-2019 17:34
  Whoever came up with the phrase “useful idiots” — it’s often credited to Lenin, but there’s no evidence he ever said it — was on to something. There are times when dangerous political movements derive important support from people who will, if these movements achieve and hold power, be among their biggest victims.Certainly I found myself thinking of the phrase when I read about the Trump fundraiser held at the Hamptons home of Stephen Ross, chairman of a compa
  
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• Wet winter doesn’t end climate change risk to Colorado River

  15-08-2019 17:28
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • Snow swamped mountains across the U.S. West last winter, leaving enough to thrill skiers into the summer, swelling rivers and streams when it melted, and largely making wildfire restrictions unnecessary. But the wet weather can be misleading.Climate change means the region is still getting drier and hotter."It only demonstrates the wide swings we have to manage going forward," James Eklund, former director of the Upper Colorado River Commission, an interstate agency that
  
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• Utah Beer Festival will have more than 200 brews to sample

  15-08-2019 17:16
  The two-day Utah Beer Festival will celebrate its 10th anniversary this weekend, with samples of more than 200 brews and ciders.The 21-and-older event takes place Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 17 and 18, from 2 to 8 p.m. at the Utah State Fairpark, 155 N. 1000 West, in Salt Lake City."It is a time for all Utahns to come together and enjoy the final days of summer with a ton of beer and quality entertainment.” said Pete Saltas, director of operations at Salt Lake City Weekly, which sponsors the
  
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• Polygamy Porter is still off-limits in North Carolina, but the Utah beer may now tap free speech arguments

  15-08-2019 17:15
  The makers of Utah’s Polygamy Porter lost a bid Wednesday to sell their beer in North Carolina, but they may have found an ally that trumps Tar Heel State statutes: the U.S. Constitution.Jon Lee, brewmaster and co-chief operating officer of Squatters and Wasatch beers, said he has been contacted by several lawyers who argue that North Carolina’s ban on their product infringes on free speech and the First Amendment.“They say it’s a winnable case,” Lee said Wednesday,
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Nigeria’s milestone, BYU’s queer evolution, and a warning about unholy smokes

  15-08-2019 17:10
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.Unholy smokes
  (Steve Helber | AP file photo)
  In this Jan. 18, 2019, photo, a customer blows a cloud of smoke from a vape shop in Richmond, Va. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has declared that vaping is again
  
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• Ski resort loses bid to be dismissed from Gwyneth Paltrow lawsuit

  15-08-2019 16:28
  A Utah ski resort where actress Gwyneth Paltrow is accused of smashing into a skier was denied its request Wednesday to be dismissed from a lawsuit that it argued should be settled between the actress and the alleged victim.The alleged behavior of a Deer Valley Resort ski instructor who the victim says berated him and didn’t call ski patrol for help “doesn’t qualify as an inherent risk of skiing,” Judge Kent Holmberg said in a written decision.Attorney Adam Strachan, repr
  
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• NBA Daily: Grading The Offseason – Utah Jazz

  15-08-2019 16:06 via basketballinsiders.com
  Jordan Hicks dives into the significant upgrades the Utah Jazz made to continue Basketball Insiders' "Grading The Offseason" series.
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - Antawn Jamison interview and other NBA podcasts of the day

  15-08-2019 15:53 via sportspyder.com
  All the top NBA podcasts compiled here on a daily basis so you don’t have to look for them. Enjoy! Antawn Jamison Interview August 15 05:00 AM Wizards fans will be quite familiar with the org…
  
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• Robert Gehrke: This proposed Utah law may give dating apps the tools they need to warn against catfishing

  15-08-2019 15:30
  Last year, a Kaysville woman went to the FBI alleging a man she had met through an online dating app claimed to be an FBI security expert and had asked her to order him cellphones he needed for his job.She had let him order the phones through her account and, before she knew it, he allegedly had ordered between $200,000 and $500,000 in phones that he didn’t pay for, having them shipped outside the country, according to KSL.It’s just one example of a problem not uncommon on online dat
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: Teenagers are pulling my marriage apart

  15-08-2019 15:29
  Dear Ann Cannon • I don’t know if my marriage will survive the children’s teenage years. My husband and I do not agree on parenting strategies. Will we survive?— Adrift in a Sea of TeensDear Adrift • The answer is yes — that is, if you both want the marriage to survive in spite of your differences. Use your voice and ask your husband where he stands on this issue. Does he want an intact marriage, in spite of the pressures your teenagers are bringing to bear on y
  
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• Political Cornflakes: President Donald Trump finally speaks out for Hong Kong protesters

  15-08-2019 15:27
  Happy Thursday!After remaining remarkably silent over an impending Chinese crackdown on Hong Kong protesters, President Donald Trump has finally called for humane treatment of dissidents. In tweets that continued to heap praise on Chinese President Xi JinPing (“a good man” and “great leader”), Trump expressed confidence Xi can resolve the conflict “quickly and humanely.” [Politico]Topping the news: Police arrested one and ejected others from an inland port wor
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: You can find out ‘Why Women Kill’ by streaming just 10 episodes

  15-08-2019 15:00
  The man behind “Desperate Housewives” returns to TV this week with a new series that’s just as delightful and just as deadly as that 2004-12 hit.Creator/executive producer/writer Marc Cherry’s “Why Women Kill” starts streaming Thursday on CBS All Access, and it is delicious. It’s not one, not two, but three parallel stories about three couples who all live in the same posh Pasadena home — one couple in the 1960s, one in the 1980s and one in the pre
  
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• Letter: Weapons of war should be banned

  15-08-2019 15:00
  When I was young, my dad owned a bolt action 30-06 rifle and a lever action 30-30 rifle, which he used only for hunting, as we were poor and needed the food, and ammunition was expensive. Both rifles required manually operating the bolt or the lever to eject a spent cartridge and load the next bullet, then pull the trigger. They held just a few bullets in their internal magazines. I suppose they were semi-manual. And guess what? The government didn’t try to take his guns, the Russians neve
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Donovan Mitchell says Jazz are fully supportive of his Team USA participation

  15-08-2019 14:26 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz shooting guard Donovan Mitchell claims his franchise has offered its full support upon choosing to partake in Team USA’s quest for a gold medal in the upcoming FIBA 2019 World Cup. USA Basketball saw a slew of players — more than half of...
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz star Donovan Mitchell relishing ‘special’ opportunity to play with De’Aaron Fox, Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum

  15-08-2019 08:14 via sportspyder.com
  For Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell, having a chance to represent the country is an honor. However, apart from vying for a spot on the final 12-man roster, he’s also taking this opportunity to foster his relationship with De’Aaron Fox, Jaylen Brown...
  
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• Here are 6 big changes the University of Utah is making to improve campus safety after Lauren McCluskey’s murder

  15-08-2019 08:01
  The University of Utah has set aside nearly $1 million to make its campus safer — upgrades that were spurred by the murder of student-athlete Lauren McCluskey.The changes, announced this week, were recommended by a task force convened in December to broadly examine security and look for gaps revealed by the case. Most of the fixes will be in place before students return for classes Monday.“We want to make this campus as safe as we possibly can,” said Michele Ballantyne, co-chai
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz star Donovan Mitchell praises Lakers’ Kyle Kuzma for improved defense

  15-08-2019 07:39 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell praises Los Angeles Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma for the improved defense he has shown in the Team USA training camp. Per Allen Sliwa of ESPN, Mitchell gave Lakers fans something to be excited about. He pointed out that...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell, Team USA get lit up in scrimmage

  15-08-2019 07:28 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz's Donovan Mitchell and the rest of the USA men's senior national team struggled in scrimmages against G-Leaguers and fringe NBA players. As t...
  
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• Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell, Team USA get lit up in scrimmage

  15-08-2019 07:05
  The Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell and the rest of the USA men’s senior national team struggled in scrimmages against G-Leaguers and fringe NBA players. As the 2019 FIBA World Cup of Basketball draws near, Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell is making a name for himself as a cornerstone piece for the squad that will compete […]
  Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell, Team USA get lit up in scrimmage - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Real Salt Lake moves into top four in Western Conference with 3-0 rout of Seattle Sounders

  15-08-2019 06:55
  Sandy • Interim coach Freddy Juarez has his first official Major League Soccer game under his belt, and it looks much like the last two results while he served as acting coach before Mike Petke’s firing over the weekend.Juarez led Real Salt Lake to a 3-0 victory over the Seattle Sounders on Wednesday at Rio Tinto Stadium in front of 17,825 fans. Juarez’s record is now 1-0-0 in MLS play.RSL won its third straight game under Juarez, the first two of which were comebacks against Ne
  
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