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• Bob Baffert: Justify’s positive test came from contaminated food

  12-09-2019 23:11
  Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert denied giving 2018 Triple Crown winning horse Justify a banned substance that caused a positive test prior to last year’s Kentucky Derby and blamed the result on contaminated food.Baffert said in a statement Thursday that he "unequivocally" rejects the implication he'd give Justify or any other horse Scopolamine, which the colt tested positive for in April 2018. The New York Times reported Justify tested positive for the substance after winning the Santa An
  
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• Salt Lake City mayoral candidate Erin Mendenhall pledges to plant 1,000 new trees on west side every year, if elected

  12-09-2019 22:36
  Salt Lake City Councilwoman Erin Mendenhall shoveled piles of dirt onto a maple tree sapling in a west side neighborhood on Thursday — a visual mark of her campaign pledge to plant at least 1,000 more trees on this side of the city every budget year if elected as mayor.Such a move would improve not only air quality, the candidate said at a news conference announcing the plan, but would also promote walkability, improve equity on the sometimes-neglected west side and improve property values
  
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• Jamelle Bouie: The necessary radicalism of Bernie Sanders

  12-09-2019 22:30
  You may have missed it, but late last month, Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign released the senator’s proposal for revitalizing the American labor movement. If passed into law, his Workplace Democracy Plan would end “at will” employment (employers could no longer dismiss employees for any reason without warning), institute industrywide “sectional” bargaining (versus organizing at individual companies) and curtail “right to work” laws.Those meas
  
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• The Wasatch Front will see 2M more residents by 2050. A new blueprint outlines how to cope with them.

  12-09-2019 22:00
  Officials from Utah’s cities all raised their hands when asked how many of them love living here. But with 2 million more residents expected by 2050, they were again asked how many worry that growth may damage their quality of life. All hands went up again.“Growth is coming. And we have a plan,” Andrew Gruber, executive director of the Wasatch Front Regional Council told the Utah League of Cities and Towns convention on Thursday.He then presented highlights of a blueprint about
  
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• [Deadspin] - Big Boban Engulfs Donovan Mitchell On Jump Ball

  12-09-2019 21:26 via sportspyder.com
  Team USA lost to Serbia, 94-89, in a consolation round matchup at the FIBA World Cup today, ensuring their worst-ever finish at any international tournament. The underperformance of an talent-depleted national team is less interesting to me than the...
  
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• Charles M. Blow: My memories of 9/11

  12-09-2019 21:13
  It was a normal September morning.I dressed my children, my 7-year-old son and his 4-year-old twin brother and sister, for school that had just restarted. Lunches were packed, backpacks stuffed, hair combed and teeth brushed.We walked the two blocks to the school complex under dazzling blue skies, so clear that they looked unreal. Then I came back home to take a nap before heading in to work. It was my normal routine.Then the phone rang. It was my mother. “I think you need to get to work.
  
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• USC freshman QB Kedon Slovis has BYU’s attention, but shoring up run defense will be Cougars’ top priority on Saturday

  12-09-2019 20:59
  Provo • BYU’s defenders know they must stop USC quarterback Kedon Slovis for the Cougars to have a shot at upsetting the Trojans on Saturday when the teams meet at 1:30 p.m. in Provo, but what if Slovis doesn’t even have to bother attacking the Cougars with his passing talent? What if the Trojans just elect to take the ball and run it through the heart of the BYU defense?It’s not a scenario out of the realm of possibility.“If you watched film on us they would say &ls
  
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• To save a ban on gay conversion therapy, New York will repeal it

  12-09-2019 20:48
  New York • Nearly two years ago, the New York City Council celebrated when it passed a far-reaching ban on conversion therapy, a discredited practice to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.On Thursday, Corey Johnson, the gay, HIV-positive speaker of the council, said that the council would act swiftly to repeal the ban.The move is a gambit designed to neutralize a federal lawsuit filed against the city by a conservative Christian legal organization; if the case wer
  
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• Utah’s men’s basketball schedule is done. There’s one Sunday home game, and the Beehive Classic format is changed

  12-09-2019 20:37
  Utah's 2019-20 men's basketball schedule will include one Sunday home game for the second straight season and two Pac-12 trips with two days off between games, also modeling last year's dates.The tipoff times and television selections for all games and the exact dates for Pac-12 contests were announced Thursday, after the framework of the schedule was published earlier this summer.The Utes will begin coach Larry Krystkowiak’s ninth season Nov. 5 at Nevada and have three Friday home games i
  
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• Utah crossing guard hit by car while escorting a child to school

  12-09-2019 20:20
  A Utah school crossing guard was seriously injured Thursday morning when she was struck by a car as she was escorting a child across the street.According to the Roosevelt City Police Department, the 70-year-old crossing guard was hit about 7:50 a.m. by a 16-year-old driver who “failed to yield” at 300 W. 200 North, near Kings Peak Elementary School. The victim suffered “serious head and leg injuries” and was transported to a hospital.The child she was escorting was not in
  
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• Red All Over: Were the ‘04 or ‘08 Utes the better team? ESPN overlooked both.

  12-09-2019 20:20
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering University of Utah athletics. Subscribe here.Observing the 150-year anniversary of college football, ESPN this week published a list of the 150 greatest teams.I was interested to see how the panel compared Utah’s unbeaten 2004 and ’08 teams with each other. The question went unanswered. Neither team made the list.Whether or not that’s an injustice to the Utes, the question remains: Which was the better team? The subject is meaningful
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Good things will come from Donovan Mitchell’s commitment to Team USA, Vol. II

  12-09-2019 20:18 via sportspyder.com
  About two months ago, I wrote a piece titled "Good things will come from Donovan Mitchell’s commitment to Team USA. In this piece, I laid out the reasons that participating in the FIBA World Cup...
  
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• Business leaders call on congress to act on gun violence

  12-09-2019 20:16
  In a direct and urgent call to address gun violence in America, the chief executives of some of the nation’s best-known companies sent a letter to Senate leaders on Thursday, urging an expansion of background checks to all firearms sales and stronger “red flag” laws.“Doing nothing about America’s gun violence crisis is simply unacceptable and it is time to stand with the American public on gun safety,” the heads of 145 companies, including Levi Strauss, Twitte
  
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• Utah and BYU will pay Idaho State a combined $1 million this season. That’s market value for a victory.

  12-09-2019 20:11
  Utah's athletic department is paying Idaho State more than half a million dollars to provide what's expected to be minimal resistance Saturday at Rice-Eccles Stadium.That's market value for a Big Sky Conference football team's visit to a Pac-12 school. Such money was unwisely spent the five times in this decade when the likes of Portland State and Eastern Washington upset their Power Five opponents.PSU in 2015 and EWU in ’16 each beat a Washington State team that went on to have an outstan
  
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• Farhad Manjoo: American universities are addicted to billionaires

  12-09-2019 20:03
  What gets me is the unctuous, oozing chumminess — the unembarrassed, hat-in-hand genuflection toward the pedophile rainmaker.There was Joichi Ito, director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s prestigious Media Lab, with a problem well known to anyone who’s ever labored in academia: He was low on funds. But unlike, say, the thousands of adjunct professors who toil in American universities at poverty wages, Ito was in charge of an institution that had long cultivated a dir
  
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• 32% of our fans attend Jazz games with their spouse or partner to experience the game together. Who do you go to games with? #FanExperience | @Qualtrics

  12-09-2019 20:00 via twitter.com
  32% of our fans attend Jazz games with their spouse or partner to experience the game together.
  Who do you go to games with?#FanExperience | @Qualtrics
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Will the Utah Jazz avoid another slow start in ’19-20?

  12-09-2019 19:52 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz in recent years have struggled early in the regular season. Can Rudy Gobert and the team buck that trend this upcoming year? In the past two ...
  
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• Will the Utah Jazz avoid another slow start in ’19-20?

  12-09-2019 19:29
  The Utah Jazz in recent years have struggled early in the regular season. Can Rudy Gobert and the team buck that trend this upcoming year? In the past two years, the Utah Jazz have played poorly at the beginning of the season, struggling to break .500 by the turn of the year. In January of […]
  Will the Utah Jazz avoid another slow start in ’19-20? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: Our children deserve better

  12-09-2019 19:00
  When a 2-year-old Guatemalan boy had trouble staying silent in an immigration courtroom, the judge pointed his finger at him.“I have a very big dog in my office, and if you don’t be quiet, he will come out and bite you,” the judge, V. Stuart Couch, a former Marine, yelled at the toddler in a 2016 hearing, according to a formal complaint shared by the Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy and first reported this week by Mother Jones.“Do you want him to bite you?” Couch
  
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• Gail Collins: Ten candidates, no weather maps

  12-09-2019 18:53
  OK, concerned citizens, it’s debate time. Come back here and sit down! This is important. Let’s see if you’re prepared.First, name the 10 Democratic presidential candidates who will be sharing the stage Thursday night. Give yourself a big pat on the back if you got them all. Light tap on the shoulder if you got six or seven.If you failed to remember Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, just leave the room. Admit it. You’re not going to watch this thing at all,
  
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• 3 takeaways from RSL’s win over San Jose

  12-09-2019 18:39
  Here are three takeaways from Real Salt Lake’s 1-0 win over the San Jose Earthquakes1. Tactical adjustments that workedThe first 45 minutes were a snoozefest. Disjointed play, not much attacking by either team, misplaced pass after misplaced pass. It was almost as though both RSL and San Jose were missing key players due to international duty (Spoiler alert: They were).But at halftime, the team had a discussion about how San Jose’s man-to-man defense was affecting it. And the scheme
  
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• You guys know what to do >>http://nba.com/jazz/games  #NationalVideoGamesDaypic.twitter.com/9eFI7m2ph7

  12-09-2019 18:38 via twitter.com
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• You guys know what to do http://nba.com/jazz/games/srb  http://nba.com/jazz/games/splashuncles … #NationalVideoGamesDaypic.twitter.com/g7Bli1KxfY

  12-09-2019 18:32 via twitter.com
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• Market Street co-founder Tom Guinney dies, but not before selling restaurants to new Utah owners

  12-09-2019 18:04
  Tom Guinney, one of the three co-founders of Utah’s Market Street Grill and Oyster Bar restaurants — and the man responsible for its signature clam chowder — died last week of natural causes.He was 71.Before his death, Guinney had sold all of the restaurants’ assets to an experienced — but unnamed —local restaurateur, spokesman John Becker told The Salt Lake Tribune. “Tom’s hope was that the Market Street Grill and Oyster Bar restaurants would cont
  
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• YWCA Utah to recognize five community leaders for their work supporting women, girls

  12-09-2019 18:00
  YWCA Utah will recognize five community leaders for their work supporting women and girls at the organization’s 31st annual Leader Luncheon Friday in Salt Lake City.More than 1,000 people are expected to attend the event honoring Rosie Rivera, Deanna Kepka, Amy Rees Anderson, Mara Rabin and Kendra Tomsic.The goal is “to honor women in our community who have achieved amazing things in their fields while also being advocates and champions of" women, girls and racial justice, said Amber
  
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• Team USA falls to Serbia in consolation round, assures its worst-ever finish at major tournament

  12-09-2019 17:59
  Dongguan, China • The U.S. will leave the World Cup with its worst finish in a major international tournament, assured of finishing no better than seventh after falling to Serbia 94-89 in a consolation playoff game Thursday night.The previous worst finish for a U.S. men's team in 45 tournament appearances was sixth at the 2002 world championships. The Americans — the top-ranked team in the world — will be either seventh or eighth in China, depending on the outcome of their conso
  
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• ‘Out of Liberty’ director and actor talk about bringing piece of LDS history to life

  12-09-2019 17:51
  Garrett Batty wanted to approach a landmark moment in the early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saintsin a way that wasn’t like the average Sunday school lesson.“I wanted to tell a story about the events of Liberty Jail, but through the eyes of somebody that wasn’t one of the prisoners,” Batty said in an interview this week.Those prisoners were Joseph Smith, the prophet and founder of the church, and five of the church’s top leaders. They were ac
  
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• [CBS Sports] - FIBA World Cup 2019: Team USA eliminated by France; what went wrong, and how it can be fixed before 2020 Olympics - CBSSports.com

  12-09-2019 17:50 via sportspyder.com
  Team USA was hurt by multiple issues in the FIBA World Cup, specifically size and shooting
  
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• Utah man charged with raping 16-year-old he met through number-neighbor challenge

  12-09-2019 17:08
  A 19-year-old Utah man has been charged with raping a 16-year-old girl he met after randomly contacting her father as part of the online text-your-number-neighbor challenge.Issac Francisco Alonso of Gunnison was charged in Sixth District Court with rape, a first-degree felony; and obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony.The challenge, which trended on Twitter this summer, involves texting your “number neighbor” — texting the first nine digits of your cell phone number, a
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Predicting the next temples, releasing new Book of Mormon videos, reaching out to doubters

  12-09-2019 16:39
  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 free newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.Temple predictions
  (Rick Bowmer, AP file photo) In this April 6, 2019, file photo, the Angel Moroni sits atop the Salt Lake Temple. Many Latter-day Saint temple include this iconic statue. (Rick Bowmer/)President Russel
  
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• House committee approves guidelines for impeachment hearings

  12-09-2019 16:31
  Washington • House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler says there’s no confusion about what his committee is doing: It’s an impeachment investigation, no matter how you want to phrase it.Nadler tried to clear up any misconceptions Thursday as the committee approved guidelines for impeachment hearings on President Donald Trump . Some of Nadler's fellow Democrats — including House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer — have stumbled over how to explain what they're doin
  
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• Taxpayers are the big losers in the way feds lease lands in Utah for oil and gas, watchdog group says

  12-09-2019 16:28
  The Bureau of Land Management raised $1.8 billion from its oil and gas program in Utah over the past decade, including $1.5 million this week at an auction in which it offered drilling rights on 182,000 acres.But a nonpartisan budget watchdog group contends the agency can reap far more if it charged energy developers market rates for the privilege of extracting oil and gas from public lands.Between 2009 and 2018, the agency would have received $1.4 billion more on its Utah holdings had it charge
  
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• Energy development in Utah could grow by 280 square miles after federal lease auction nets $1.5M in bids

  12-09-2019 16:26
  The share of Utah under lease for oil and gas development could grow by nearly 280 square miles this week after the Bureau of Land Management completed its latest quarterly auction of drilling rights on public lands.The 144-parcel online auction wrapped up Wednesday after three days of bidding, netting $1.5 million in bids, including $869,000 for 19 controversial parcels in San Juan County. These 32,000 acres overlap tribal cultural sites around Alkali Ridge and Montezuma Canyon east of Blanding
  
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• Trump calls for Fed’s ‘boneheads’ to slash interest rates below zero

  12-09-2019 16:18
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged that the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to zero or even usher in negative rates, suggesting a last-ditch monetary policy tactic tested abroad but never in America.His comments came just one day before European policymakers are widely expected to cut a key rate further into negative territory.In a series of tweets, Trump said that “The Federal Reserve should get our interest rates down to ZERO, or less, and we should then start
  
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• Review: ‘Out of Liberty’ mines LDS history for solid morality tale

  12-09-2019 16:16
  It takes some skill to find a new angle to one of the most well-known lessons in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — but director/co-writer Garrett Batty exercises that ability well in the compelling Western drama “Out of Liberty.”Those who remember their church talks know about Liberty Jail, where church founder Joseph Smith (played here by Brandon Ray Olive) and five other leaders were imprisoned from Dec. 1, 1938, to April 6, 1839, facing charges
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: Why do my daughters take my husband’s advice and ignore mine?

  12-09-2019 16:11
  Dear Ann Cannon • My teenage daughters seem to reject my advice much more than my husband’s. Is that a general thing or just a “me” thing? Is there something about teenagerhood that makes them reject their same-gender parent’s advice more than their different-gender parent?— BaffledDear Baffled • I can only answer this question based on my own experiences and observations. But yeah. Sometimes it feels like friction between parents and teenagers of the same
  
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• Utah lawmaker calls for banning vape flavors, testing for illegal substances in e-cigarette products

  12-09-2019 15:47
  Amid national reports of vaping-related illnesses, a Utah lawmaker is looking to crack down on the industry by banning flavored e-cigarette products, requiring additional inspections and testing for the presence of illicit drugs.Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield, said he’ll also encourage the state’s attorney general to explore legal action against the vaping industry and ask state and local health officials to ramp up enforcement of the rules already on the books. Ray, a crusader against
  
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• The fugitive murder suspects who escaped custody in Utah have been captured, officials say

  12-09-2019 15:47
  Phoenix • Authorities say husband and wife fugitives on the run for over two weeks in the killing of an Arizona man have been captured.The U.S. Marshals Service announced Wednesday night that 56-year-old Blane Barksdale and 59-year-old Susan Barksdale are in custody.The Barksdales escaped Aug. 26 while being transported from upstate New York to Tucson, Arizona, to face charges in the April death of a 72-year-old man.Authorities have said the couple overpowered two private security guards wh
  
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• Letter: Reyes should go after robo calls

  12-09-2019 15:44
  That was a nice grandstanding picture in The Salt Lake Tribune of Attorney General Sean Reyes.Do you really want to do some good and not waste taxpayers time and money? Please bring litigation against all of the robo calls that we all get in the state Of Utah. I can't answer my landline anymore for the 15 to 20 calls per day we get. I have to answer my cell phone because it may be a customer. Four of 5 phone calls I receive on my cell phone are robo calls. Both are on the do not call list.Do us
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Team USA falls to Serbia in consolation round, assures its worst-ever finish at major tournament

  12-09-2019 15:37 via sportspyder.com
  Dongguan, China • The U.S. will leave the World Cup with its worst finish in a major international tournament, assured of finishing no better than seventh after falling to Serbia 94-89 in a consolation playoff game Thursday night.
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Businessman Jeff Burningham is the 2nd Republican to enter Utah’s race for governor — here’s how to beat him

  12-09-2019 15:25
  Utah County businessman Jeff Burningham became the second Republican to jump into what ultimately could be a crowded scramble to replace Gov. Gary Herbert.It’s not exactly a surprise. Burningham started raising money back in February and has been lining up staff, traveling the state and laying the groundwork to run as an outsider who will shake up government.And did I mention he’s raising money? He has racked up nearly $600,000 so far (which includes a $107,000 loan from his own pock
  
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• [KSL] - The Jazz at the World Cup: Gobert blocks Mitchell and Team USA's run to world championship | KSL.com

  12-09-2019 15:24 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert led France to a shocking win over the United States — and overshadowed Donovan Mitchell's best performance of the tournament.
  
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• Thomas L. Friedman: Huawei has a plan to help end its war with Trump

  12-09-2019 15:00
  After a week of interviews in Beijing, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, I’ve come away with some strong feelings about the United States-China trade dispute. There are two battlefronts: One is the negotiation to eliminate the barriers to American companies competing in China, and the other is what to do about Huawei, China’s enormous telecom networking company that Beijing sees as a crown jewel of national innovation and the Trump team sees as a giant global espionage device.Get to know that
  
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• Letter: Eagle Forum’s values are not everyone’s values

  12-09-2019 15:00
  Once again, the Utah Eagle Forum assumes that their values should be everyone's values. A pompous assumption that tries to usurp untold decisions made by informed citizens (Proposition 2) and various boards that regulate state-wide rules and procedures (e.g. Utah State Board of Education's move to allow teachers to answer spontaneous questions by students regarding sex.) Conservative political activist and leader in the Utah Eagle Forum, Gayle Ruzicka, is emphatic in her use of "I” message
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell set to make a lot of people eat crow

  12-09-2019 14:29 via sportspyder.com
  Editorial -- Utah Jazz and Team USA star Donovan Mitchell has curiously become a punching bag for some, but he's about to flip the script. Following their ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell set to make a lot of people eat crow

  12-09-2019 14:15
  Editorial — Utah Jazz and Team USA star Donovan Mitchell has curiously become a punching bag for some, but he’s about to flip the script. Following their loss to Utah Jazz big man Rudy Gobert and France, Donovan Mitchell and USA Basketball find themselves in the consolation bracket at the FIBA World Cup. Now, instead […]
  Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell set to make a lot of people eat crow - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Another Democratic debate. Another last chance for O’Rourke, Castro and other single-digit contenders to break through

  12-09-2019 13:41
  Happy Thursday! Democrats will take the stage again tonight for another debate, this time in Houston where two Texas natives are still struggling to break through the crowded field. While Beto O’Rourke and Julian Castro are stars of the Democratic Party in the state, that appeal isn’t working out for them nationwide. Can tonight’s debate change that? [Politico]Topping the news: The Utah Supreme Court ruled that partisan elections for Utah Board of Education are constitutional,
  
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• RSL beats San Jose 1-0 behind Damir Kreilach’s game-winning header

  12-09-2019 06:44
  Sandy • Damir Kreilach was plenty frustrated.In the span of just a few minutes, he’d had two increasingly solid chances at a goal in a game that was scoreless. First was a shot that went wide, followed by a shot that was deflected at the last second. After the second attempt, the Real Salt Lake midfielder kicked his right foot through the air in disgust.But after a ball squirted away from the penalty box and to the feet of forward Brooks Lennon in the 75th minute, Kreilach’s nex
  
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• Utah Supreme Court rules partisan elections for State School Board constitutional

  12-09-2019 06:03
  Elections for the Utah Board of Education can be partisan, the Utah Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, overturning a lower court’s decision and reinstating a 2016 law that will see education candidates vying for the nominations of political parties beginning next year.Lawmakers had intended for school board elections to become partisan in 2018. But a group of former board members and education advocacy organizations challenged the law in court, arguing that it violated a prohibition on “
  
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