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• Which Instagram face filter is your favorite? @Qualtrics | #QualtricsPoll

  08-09-2019 23:42 via twitter.com
  Which Instagram face filter is your favorite?@Qualtrics | #QualtricsPoll
  
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• Wildfire ignites in Millard County

  08-09-2019 23:37
  The Fillmore Volunteer Fire Department has posted video on its Facebook page of the Goat Fire burning east of Meadow in Millard County. The blaze has scorched about 1,000 acres and is growing. Officials ask that people stay out of the area.The Salt Lake Tribune will update this story as more information becomes available.
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz alumni: Ricky Rubio goes off, Spain humbles Serbia in FIBA play

  08-09-2019 23:23 via sportspyder.com
  Former Utah Jazz player Ricky Rubio had an incredible game as he lead his Spain team to a statement victory over Serbia in their final contest of FIBA grou...
  
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• Utah Jazz alumni: Ricky Rubio goes off, Spain humbles Serbia in FIBA play

  08-09-2019 23:20
  Former Utah Jazz player Ricky Rubio had an incredible game as he lead his Spain team to a statement victory over Serbia in their final contest of FIBA group play. Just last week, I found myself throwing out the idea that Serbia could very well be building a case as the new favorite in the […]
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• Exec left Polaris to teach at University of Utah after calling attention to fire dangers of off-road RZRs

  08-09-2019 23:02
  For almost two years, James Bingham’s off-road vehicle had provided endless fun on camping and hunting trips in Idaho. The vehicle, a four-seat Polaris RZR, could zip across the sand hills at up to 80 mph.He expected the same kind of thrill on a weekend outing with friends in May. But minutes into the first ride, with Steven Groves, 23, in the passenger seat, chaos erupted.“Steven yelled, ‘Fire!’” Bingham said. “All I saw was orange.”After struggling to
  
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• After a severe beating, a transgender woman who left Utah for a new life in Pacific Northwest is healing

  08-09-2019 23:00
  Portland, Ore. • The attack broke Lauren Jackson’s bones, but not her spirit."Thankfully, I'm still alive. Thankfully, the injuries weren't worse," she told The Oregonian/OregonLive.Jackson, a transgender woman, was severely beaten by a man she didn't know after using a woman's bathroom at an Oregon coast park near Newport late last month, police and prosecutors allege. Jackson was visiting Oregon for the first time.The assailant's blows shattered her jaw in multiple places and fractu
  
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• Utah street performer finds joy after battling homelessness

  08-09-2019 22:51
  Orem • A chorus of honking, braking and speeding vehicles in Orem is often supplanted by the sound of a drum echoing through downtown.The source of the noise is a 6-foot-9 man wearing a "Free Hugs" shirt, drumming on a single construction bucket while riding his bike.Scott Schwarz, 35, has become a local celebrity known as "The Road Drummer" for his energetic street performances, the Daily Herald reports.Before his rise to fame, Schwarz battled alcoholism and homelessness.The turning point
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: Newborns crying for drugs, not milk

  08-09-2019 21:50
  Charleston, W. Va. — His body dependent on opioids, he writhes, trembles and cries. He is exhausted but cannot sleep. He vomits, barely eats and has lost weight.He is also a baby. Just 1 month old, he wails in the nursery of the CAMC Women and Children’s Hospital here. A volunteer “cuddler” holds him while walking around, murmuring sweetly, hour after hour, but he is inconsolable. What his body craves is heroin.Every 15 minutes in America, a child is born after a prenatal
  
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• Utes move up two spots to No. 11 in the AP Top 25

  08-09-2019 20:49
  Utah’s 35-17 victory over Northern Illinois earned the Utes their highest-ever September ranking for the second week in a row.Thanks to Texas A&M’s loss to Clemson and Texas’ loss to LSU, Utah moved to No. 11 in the AP Top 25, announced Sunday. The Utes jumped three spots to No. 12 in the Coaches Poll, with Texas A&M, Texas and Washington falling below them.The Utes will host Idaho State on Saturday at Rice-Eccles Stadium, then open Pac-12 play against two Top 25 teams.
  
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• [Last Word On Sports: Last Word On Pro Basketball] - The Memphis Grizzlies All-Time Team

  08-09-2019 20:01 via sportspyder.com
  Over the course of the team's twenty five year history, these ten players have made up the Memphis Grizzlies All-Time team.
  
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• Dorian still slamming eastern Canada at hurricane force

  08-09-2019 19:59
  Toronto • The storm that has already walloped the Virgin Islands, Bahamas and North Carolina brought hurricane-force winds to far-eastern Canada on Sunday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people.Dorian hit near the city of Halifax Saturday afternoon, ripping roofs off apartment buildings, toppling a huge construction crane and uprooting trees. There were no reported deaths in Canada, though the storm was blamed for at least 49 elsewhere along its path.The U.S. National Hurric
  
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• 4 missing after cargo ship overturns near Georgia port

  08-09-2019 19:45
  St. Simons Sound, Ga. • Rescuers were searching Sunday for four crew members of a cargo ship that overturned and caught fire near a port on the Georgia coast, the U.S. Coast Guard said.The Golden Ray cargo ship ran into trouble in the early morning when it listed heavily in St. Simon Sound.Of the 23 crew members and one pilot on board, the Coast Guard said 20 were safely evacuated from the ship, a 656-foot vehicle carrier. Search and rescue operations were ongoing for the remaining four cre
  
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• Trump faces third primary challenger: former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford

  08-09-2019 19:38
  Columbia, S.C. • Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor and congressman, has decided to launch a longshot Republican challenge to President Donald Trump, saying Sunday that he aims to put his Appalachian trail travails behind him for good as he tries to navigate a path to the presidency."I am here to tell you now that I am going to get in," Sanford said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday." ''This is the beginning of a long walk."When asked why he was taking on an incumbent who&rs
  
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• Meg & Dia, Utah-raised sister music duo, reunite after eight years: ‘We’re a lot about second chances’

  08-09-2019 18:51
  They promoted their pop-rock sound on MySpace, which helped them land the first of their repeated gigs on the Warped Tour. They recorded an album, signed with a major label, released two more albums, toured the country over and over and Europe once, and had a song on the soundtrack of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” They put out a fourth album independently.Then, Meg & Dia broke up.After nearly eight years apart, Utah-raised sisters Meg and Dia Frampton got back together to recor
  
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• BYU in review: With USC and Washington up next, the Cougars’ win at Tennessee was absolutely needed

  08-09-2019 18:44
  With a big surge of his legs and lots of help from his offensive line, BYU running back Ty’Son Williams completed BYU’s unlikely comeback against Tennessee on Saturday.He might have just changed the complexion of the Cougars’ season too.The Cougars, who stunned Tennessee 29-26 in double overtime, avoided their first 0-2 start since 1995 with the win, but more importantly, head into a series of big games with more confidence and a more well-rounded offense than they showed in th
  
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• Utes in review: Tyler Huntley’s downfield passing will be vital in Utah’s Pac-12 games

  08-09-2019 17:17
  During another 18-point victory for Utah, quarterback Tyler Huntley reached a statistical point against Northern Illinois that matched his final passing numbers from the season opener vs. BYU: 13 completions in 16 attempts.The difference? Huntley's arm had accounted for 200 yards at that stage of Saturday's 35-17 win at Rice-Eccles Stadium, compared with 106 yards in Provo.Ute coach Kyle Whittingham had talked about the need for more downfield passing, and Huntley delivered against the Huskies.
  
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• What the LDS Church, other Western faiths are up against in Russia: a dominant Orthodox Church and a wary government

  08-09-2019 16:56
  Moscow • Russia’s campaign against Mormonism and other “new religions” is not unlike the devastating blockade of Leningrad during World War II, which killed 800,000 people trapped in that port city.At least that’s how Latter-day Saint general authority Seventy James B. Martino described it this spring to a band of believers during worship services in St. Petersburg (known as Leningrad during the Soviet era).The Texas native, who served as the church’s area auth
  
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• Considering a sabbatical? The national parks want you.

  08-09-2019 16:47
  Two-thirds of all full-time employees in the United States are currently experiencing job burnout, according to a recent Gallup study. While we aren’t great at taking advantage of earned time off — a whopping 768 million vacation days go to waste every year — a survey by the American Psychological Association last year found that even a two-week getaway is merely a stopgap as work-related stress returns before our tans have faded.Yet a growing number of people are finding new w
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Good heart and syndication turned ‘The Brady Bunch’ into a pop-culture icon

  08-09-2019 16:21
  Mike Lookinland was 8 years old when “The Brady Bunch” premiered and he became famous as Bobby, the youngest of the Brady boys. Today, he’s 58, and the longtime Utahn has long since made peace with the fact that he’ll forever be best known as part of an American pop culture phenomenon.For something he did when he was a kid.“It doesn’t bother me at all when I’m recognized” as Bobby, Lookinland told The Salt Lake Tribune. “So many people have g
  
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• Brodi Ashton: A bear charged in my direction. Here’s how I responded.

  08-09-2019 16:17
  I went camping the other day, only to find out — after I’d returned home — that a black bear and her cub were spotted in the campground. We were lucky not to have crossed paths, but believe it or not, that would not have been my first close encounter with a black bear.This brings us to a segment I like to call “That one time my mom thought I was mauled by a bear, and why I will owe her for the rest of my life.”It all started when I was in Steamboat Springs, Colo., f
  
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• Robert Kirby: Jesus, Lavina and me

  08-09-2019 16:11
  Excommunicated Latter-day Saint writer Lavina Fielding Anderson made the news last week after her request to rejoin the Mormon fold was summarily turned down by the governing First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Lavina — I’m going to use her first name here because she’s a friend — was exed in 1993 for writing an article about the ecclesiastical abuse of Latter-Day Sai — meh, the hell with it — Mormon intellectuals.Despite gettin
  
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• This Bountiful family is sustained by prayer after their home was destroyed in a wildfire sparked by an unattended campfire

  08-09-2019 16:10
  Even days after Cherilyn Fisher and her husband Daniel fled their home in the foothills of Bountiful, alongside the hundreds of others trying to outrun red-orange flames descending from the mountain, it doesn’t seem real.Sometimes she has to sit right in front of the carnage for it to really sink in.That’s where Cherilyn Fisher was Friday. Resting in a lawn chair, feet from the railroad tie steps that led to her home for the last 17 years. Now the stairs ascend to nearly nothing.Just
  
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• Utah state budget chief is sold on management theory. Critics say she stands to profit from it.

  08-09-2019 16:07
  Over the past seven years, a niche management philosophy has been injected into every corner of Utah government, championed by one of the governor’s most powerful Cabinet members.Gov. Gary Herbert has credited principles of the Theory of Constraints (TOC) and its chief evangelist, Kristen Cox, head of his management and budget office, with empowering his administration to achieve one of his major goals — to improve the overall performance of state government by more than a quarter.So
  
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• David Ross Scheer: The good and bad sides of high-density construction

  08-09-2019 16:00
  With gantry cranes sprouting like spring dandelions, it’s hard to miss: There’s a lot of construction going on downtown. An estimated $3.5 billion in downtown construction projects are now under construction or in design.Many of these new buildings are tall by local standards. At least four new buildings over 20 stories are being planned. And, thanks to the Wasatch Front’s rapidly growing population, this trend will continue and intensify. Like a teenager’s downy mustache
  
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• Leonard Pitts: We are living the fable of the emperor’s new clothes

  08-09-2019 15:30
  If you’re going to lie, make it a good one.Meaning, put some effort into it. Make it convincing. Make sure the truth is not easily discoverable. Don't just draw on a weather map with a Sharpie.That's apparently what Donald Trump or someone in his employ did last week to prove he was right all along in claiming that the state of Alabama lay in the path of Hurricane Dorian. He made this claim via Twitter Sunday morning, and it was so alarmingly wrong that the Birmingham office of the Nationa
  
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• Deborah Gatrell: Veterans have a home in Utah’s Democratic Party

  08-09-2019 15:00
  “Democrats believe America must continue to have the strongest military in the world … Our country has a sacred, moral responsibility to … our veterans and wounded warriors. We must take care of those who have put their lives on the line to defend us.”— National Democratic Party PlatformOur military leaders rightly avoid partisan bickering. Those in military service focus on defending our great country knowing politics has no place in that business. Fortunately, p
  
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• Utahn who was a ‘Brady Bunch’ star helps HGTV remodel the famous Brady house

  08-09-2019 14:00
  Utahn Mike Lookinland starred as Bobby on “The Brady Bunch,” but he never went near the house familiar to fans as the Brady abode.He and the rest of the cast never filmed a second of footage at the real house, which was used only in exterior shots. Lookinland didn’t see it in person until long after the original “Brady Bunch” series ended its five-year run in 1974.In 1990, CBS was producing a short-lived, hourlong drama called “The Bradys” in which Looki
  
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• Letter: Things about guns that don’t make sense

  08-09-2019 14:00
  Once again I hear all the old points about guns, and there’s a lot I don’t understand. Let me explain.Regarding open carry, which is legal in Utah, I can only state that when I have seen anyone “openly” carrying, I am afraid of that individual. Is that another crazy? How do I know?And then it seems to me that anyone carrying any gun in any situation where a “crazy” starts shooting is in immediate danger of being shot by the police or others “carrying&rdq
  
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• Letter: South Weber is under siege

  08-09-2019 14:00
  Done deal! That’s the South Weber answer to the building of the 74-unit apartment complex on the frontage road by U.S. 89. If you say something enough times, true or not, it’s thought that people will eventually believe it.I’d guess the city officials are playing their cards by asserting their authority with the now-infamous use of their “done deal" comment and denounce all other claims as fake news.This whole charade will only continue as long as the city officials respo
  
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• Letter: Kremlin Chris Stewart has sold us down the Volga

  08-09-2019 14:00
  Kremlin Chris Stewart should be joining Moscow Mike Lee on the upcoming trip to Russia.During an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Feb. 5, Cuomo asked, “You don't believe that there’s any proof of any coordination or collusion by those around the president with people who had involvement with Russian interference?”Kremlin Chris answered, “Well, absolutely not.”Here’s some news, congressman: Before Vladimir Putin was an opportunist, he was a communist,
  
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• Letter: Kevlar is not a normal school supply

  08-09-2019 14:00
  No. Just, no. I refuse to live in a world where Kevlar is considered a normal school supply. I refuse to be patronized by nonsense like “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” (If easy access to assault rifles isn’t a problem, why not make hand grenades and bombs readily available too?)The problem of gun violence is on us, and we hold the power to fix it. Vote out every politician who has failed to sponsor or vote for meaningful gun reform. Vote in representatives w
  
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• Brodi Ashton: A bear charged in my direction and here’s how I responded

  08-09-2019 14:00
  I went camping the other day, only to find out — after I’d returned home — that a black bear and her cub were spotted in the campground. We were lucky not to have crossed paths, but believe it or not, that would not have been my first close encounter with a black bear.This brings us to a segment I like to call “That one time my mom thought I was mauled by a bear, and why I will owe her for the rest of my life.”It all started when I was in Steamboat Springs, Colo., f
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: I don’t trust my elderly father’s neighbor

  08-09-2019 14:00
  Dear Ann Cannon • My elderly father lives alone. His next door neighbor has been very helpful, checking on him every day and taking him to appointments and grocery shopping. I really appreciate this as I live more than an hour away. I visit my dad twice a week, but it would be difficult to get up there daily.Recently, however, this neighbor has been crossing boundaries and making us uncomfortable. He opens my dad’s mail and has been asking my dad inappropriate questions about his fina
  
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• State colleges: Utah volleyball sweeps UVU, improves to 7-0

  08-09-2019 07:33
  The No. 19 University of Utah volleyball team remained unbeaten on the season after defeating tournament host Utah Valley University 25-21, 25-20, 25-18 in the Wolverine Classic on Saturday in Orem.The Utes’ Saige Ka’aha’aina-Torres and Kenzie Koerber were named to the all-tournament team, while Dani Drews was named tournament MVP.Utah improved to 7-0 on the season — the Utes’ best start since they went 10-0 to open the 2014 campaign.“We’re getting bette
  
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• BYU rallies to beat Tennessee 29-26 in double overtime

  08-09-2019 06:57
  Knoxville, Tenn. • Zach Wilson hit Micah Simon with a 64-yard pass to set up Jake Oldroyd’s 33-yard field goal to tie the score at the end of regulation, and Simon’s roommate Ty’Son Williams’ strong-willed 5-yard score gave Brigham Young a 29-26 victory against Tennessee in double overtime Saturday.Playing more like a schoolyard scrum than with any set plays, Wilson scrambled and hit Simon in single coverage for the big play that allowed the Cougars to pull out a vic
  
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• Utah State wallops Stony Brook 62-7 in home opener

  08-09-2019 06:18
  Logan • In 34 seconds at the beginning of the third quarter, junior running back Jaylen Warren’s two plays served as a microcosm of the entire Utah State Aggies offense.The opening play of the drive saw Warren catch a 25-yard pass from junior quarterback Jordan Love. On the next play, he rushed 54 yards for his second touchdown of the game.“He’s a dynamic playmaker,” Aggies coach Gary Andersen said. “He was a dynamic playmaker last week and he was the same thin
  
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• Trump says he called off secret meeting with Taliban, Afghan leaders

  08-09-2019 05:00
  Washington • President Donald Trump said Saturday he canceled a secret weekend meeting at Camp David with Taliban and Afghanistan leaders after a bombing in the past week in Kabul that killed 12 people, including an American soldier, and has called off peace negotiations with the insurgent group.Trump’s tweet was surprising because it would mean that the president was ready to host members of the Taliban at the presidential retreat in Maryland just days before the anniversary of the S
  
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• Michael Norman: Opioid crisis provides a stark example of what happens when capitalism remains unregulated

  08-09-2019 04:00
  The tragedy of the opioid epidemic provides a textbook example of what happens when a country allows unfettered access to 76 billion legally prescribed narcotic pain pills over seven years. The drugs in question are Oxycodone and Hydrocodone.To put this tragedy into a local context, let’s focus on how Utah fits into this picture. Of the aforementioned 76 billion pills, Utah received 696,125,020. Not surprisingly, the four largest counties along the Wasatch Front received the largest number
  
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• Royals investigate claim fan yelled racist comments at Thorns goalkeeper

  08-09-2019 03:02
  The Utah Royals FC and the Portland Thorns are investigating allegations of a fan yelling racist comments at Thorns goalkeeper Adrianna Franch during Utah’s 1-0 victory Friday.The allegations surfaced on social media after a Twitter user claimed hearing a fan in Section 15 call Franch, who is black, “the N word” and “ugly.” The initial Tweet containing that specific allegation has since been deleted.The user did not respond to a request for comment or clarification
  
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• Dana Milbank: Donald and the Black Sharpie

  08-09-2019 02:00
  With profuse apologies to the late Crockett Johnson, author of “Harold and the Purple Crayon.”One evening, after thinking it over for some time, Donald decided he wanted to be president.He drew a picture that made his hands look very big.He drew another picture that made dark people look scary and another that made the president into a mean Muslim from Africa.He made a picture of a swamp with frightening alligators, a picture of terrible monsters in Chicago and a picture of dangerous
  
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• Arizona hiker dies after Yosemite’s Half Dome trail fall

  08-09-2019 01:56
  Yosemite National Park, Calif. • A hiker in Yosemite National Park fell to her death while climbing to the top of the iconic granite cliffs of Half Dome, where cables are installed each summer.Park spokesman Scott Gediman said Danielle Burnett, 29, of Lake Havasu City, Ariz., was scaling the steepest part of the trail Thursday when she fell more than 500 feet down the rocky terrain.Gediman says Burnett was dead when Park Rangers arrived on the scene.Rangers install the cables to assist the
  
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• Live: BYU takes on Tennessee at Neyland Stadium

  08-09-2019 01:10
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• Skateboarding fans get entertaining Olympic preview at world championships at State Fairpark

  08-09-2019 01:09
  The money was certainly pretty good for the winners when the 2019 Vans Park skateboarding world championships wrapped up on Saturday. Thirty thousand dollars for the victors, in both men's and women's divisions, and $20,000 for second meant that the trip to Utah was well worth the while for some.For others, well, money wasn't the main thing.In a sport with one step striding into the future, as skateboarding will become an official Olympic sport in Tokyo next year, the main draw for many competit
  
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• Cut by the Raiders, Antonio Brown becomes a Patriot on eve of season opener

  08-09-2019 00:45
  Alameda, Calif. • Antonio Brown agreed to terms with the New England Patriots hours after the Oakland Raiders cut him, going from the NFL’s cellar to the defending Super Bowl champions on Saturday despite wearing out his welcome with two teams in one offseason.Brown's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, confirmed the agreement to The Associated Press. Brown had been scheduled to earn up to $50 million from Oakland over the three-year deal. Instead, the Patriots guaranteed him $9 million this seaso
  
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• Hallandale Trio produces Utah’s first three touchdowns on the ground vs. Northern Illinois

  08-09-2019 00:36
  Utah running back Zack Moss didn’t defer his NFL opportunity for a year merely to join former Florida high school teammates Tyler Huntley and Demari Simpkins in victories against the likes of Northern Illinois.Even so, the Hallandale Trio created another memory of their Ute tenures by each rushing for a touchdown Saturday in a 35-17 defeat of their Mid-American Conference opponent at Rice-Eccles Stadium. The scoring order made the achievement even more noteworthy. Utah's second-quarter tou
  
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