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• BYU in review: Cougars get a couple of weeks to sort out their problems; there are plenty of those after the loss to Toledo

  29-09-2019 23:53
  Micah Simon is done losing. That’s what the BYU wide receiver told his team after they suffered their second consecutive loss — he’s tired of that feeling.On Saturday, the Cougars fell to Toledo, 28-21, at the Glass Bowl. The week before, BYU was routed by Washington in Provo, 45-19.Saturday’s loss, in particular, extended one of the more frustrating trends of the Kalani Sitake era in Provo: The Cougars are able rise to the occasion and beat marquee opponents like Wiscons
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Choosing to Believe

  29-09-2019 23:52 via sportspyder.com.sportspyder.com
  I was full of doubts, Ginobili reflected. I wasnt sure that I belonged. Having that support was a big thing. It helped me boost my confidence and play more like I belonged.
  
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• Festival gets Utahns ready to rendezvous with winter

  29-09-2019 23:37
  Outdoor enthusiasts gathered at The Gateway on Saturday for the Rendezvous Mountain Culture Festival. The fall Rendezvous focused on snow sports, and featured a vendor village with the latest winter sports equipment and apparel, as well as panel discussions, film premieres, food trucks, a free raffle of winter products and a Utah Avalanche Center snow safety presentation.
  
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• Team to study historic inscriptions at New Mexico ruins

  29-09-2019 23:32
  Aztec, N.M. • A Colorado historian is leading a team to survey inscriptions left by settlers and others on the ceilings of 900-year-old ruins in northwestern New Mexico.Fred Blackburn and his team will study the lengthy messages, or graffiti, left at the Aztec Ruins National Monument to gain insight on how others saw the engineering marvel, the Farmington Daily Times reports . Some of those who left inscriptions were white settlers who tried to make sense of the structures, Blackburn said.B
  
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• Artist fixes up ghost town near Utah-Colorado line

  29-09-2019 23:27
  Cisco • An artist is trying to revitalize an abandoned old railroad town in eastern Utah by refurbishing dilapidated buildings and converting them into residences for artists.Eileen Muza is the sole resident of Cisco, Utah, a scattering of old buildings in the high desert 30 miles west of the Colorado line, KUTV reports. The town was created in the 1880s as a fill-station for a railroad, but died off when Interstate 70 was built a few miles north.Muza first became fascinated by the town whe
  
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• New monument planned in North Ogden to honor fallen soldiers

  29-09-2019 23:17
  North Ogden • A new monument is planned outside North Ogden City Hall to acknowledge and honor local soldiers who died while serving in the military.The North Ogden City Council has agreed to grant an easement allowing placement of the memorial in the open area between City Hall, the North Ogden Police Department and the Weber County Library System North Branch location.The Standard-Examiner reports that representatives from Follow the Flag North Ogden will help spearhead fundraising effort
  
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• Alexandra Petri: Trump’s getting impeached? I defy you to convince anyone at this cursed truck stop.

  29-09-2019 23:00
  You think you're going to find support for impeachment, do you? You dare suggest that this presidency is embroiled in chaos? Well, I am at a truck stop right now to wait out an electrical storm, and nobody here agrees.I’ve been interviewing for what I figure is at least an hour — the clock on the wall is broken — and everyone I speak to still supports the president just as much as they did the day he was elected. They are happy to say so, even if it means talking to folks like
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Most intriguing individual matchups series – Central Division

  29-09-2019 22:05 via sportspyder.com.sportspyder.com
  The 'most intriguing individual matchups' series moves over to the Eastern Conference as we observe the Utah Jazz's battles against the Central Division. A...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Most intriguing individual matchups series – Central Division

  29-09-2019 21:50
  The ‘most intriguing individual matchups’ series moves over to the Eastern Conference as we observe the Utah Jazz’s battles against the Central Division. After surging through the Western Conference, it’s time to hop over to the other side of the country as our series about the most intriguing individual matchups that will exist for Utah […]
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• Festival brings together tribes to discuss uranium impacts, Bears Ears

  29-09-2019 21:15
  Bluff • Tribal members from around the Colorado Plateau gathered in Bluff on Saturday for a day of music, traditional dances and presentations from activists and academics.The event was organized by Tewa and Hopi artist Ed Kabotie, lead singer of the Arizona-based reggae-rock group Tha 'Yoties, who performed songs throughout the day at the Bluff Community Center.For the past five years, Kabotie has hosted Rumble on the Mountain, a mix of cultural celebration, musical performances and presen
  
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• Utes move up two spots to No. 17 in the polls after beating Washington State

  29-09-2019 20:53
  Utah moved up two spots in the AP Top 25, becoming the Pac-12's No. 3 football team in the rankings Sunday after the Utes beat Washington State and California lost to Arizona State.The Utes (4-1) made a similar move in the Coaches Poll following a 38-13 victory Saturday night at Rice-Eccles Stadium. Pac-12 North members Oregon (No. 13) and Washington (No. 15) remained ahead of Utah in AP poll, with the Ducks having been idle and the Huskies defeating USC 28-14 in Seattle.Arizona State (No. 20) d
  
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  29-09-2019 20:40 via twitter.com
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• Don Gale: Inland port shows the Utah Legislature at its worst

  29-09-2019 20:00
  The inland port is a bad idea. A terrible idea.It will bring additional dangerous air pollution, stir more antagonism between the state and the capital city and add more economic favoritism for a select few. It is yet another one-sided mistake from our dangerously unbalanced Legislature.It follows the pattern of the state prison disaster. That legislative mistake will cost taxpayers $1 billion before it is completed; we will end up with fewer beds than we have at the old prison; and operating co
  
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• Utes in review: Utah helps itself vs. Washington State, getting closer to USC

  29-09-2019 19:30
  Utah’s football team will go into October with a much better outlook than last year, thanks to a performance Saturday night that resembled what everyone pictured for the Utes this season.Well, except for the absences of running back Zack Moss and receiver Britain Covey.Utah’s missing those playmakers made a 526-yard offensive showing more impressive in a 38-13 defeat of Washington State that made Cougar coach Mike Leach label his team “very soft” on both sides of the ball
  
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• 3 takeaways from Utah Royals FC’s loss to Chicago

  29-09-2019 18:56
  Here are three takeaways from the Utah Royals FC’s 2-1 loss to the Chicago Red Stars1. There’s still one more game to playThe Royals won’t make the playoffs for a second straight season. It’s a disappointing result for the coaches, players and the organization at large, for sure.But the regular season still ins’t over. Utah still has to play against Houston in a couple of weeks in a game between two teams that won’t make the playoffs.The Royals have talked all
  
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• BYU in review: Cougars get a couple of weeks to sort out their problems; there are plenty of those after the Toledo loss

  29-09-2019 18:08
  Micah Simon is done losing. That’s what the BYU wide receiver told his team after they suffered their second consecutive loss — he’s tired of that feeling.On Saturday, the Cougars fell to Toledo, 28-21, at the Glass Bowl. The week before, BYU was routed by Washington in Provo, 45-19.Saturday’s loss, in particular, extended one of the more frustrating trends of the Kalani Sitake era in Provo: the Cougars are able rise to the occasion and beat marquee opponents like Wiscons
  
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• Four homicides in one year have Ballpark neighbors calling for action

  29-09-2019 17:31
  Someone was moaning outside Darren Gonzol’s front door. He and his wife froze inside their Fremont Avenue home in Salt Lake City’s Ballpark neighborhood.Two minutes passed. Three.After five or so, they finally worked up the courage to peek out the window into the dark April night and saw a man splayed out just feet from their front porch. They would learn later that he’d been shot during an attempted home invasion on nearby Paxton Avenue and had somehow made it as far as their
  
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• Bill Crim and Lexi Cunningham: No single program will solve the problems of education in Utah

  29-09-2019 17:00
  Robert Gehrke’s Sept. 24 column about after-school programming in Salt Lake City called for a “serious dialogue about how to expand after-school options statewide.” Gehrke correctly recognizes a challenge that goes beyond a single school district. As part of a unique and nationally recognized partnership of business, education, and community leaders committed to transforming the educational environment for Utah students, the Promise Partnership wholeheartedly supports this dial
  
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• Tyler Huntley is ‘one of the best quarterbacks in the country right now,’ Utah coach Kyle Whittingham says

  29-09-2019 16:38
  This was Tyler Huntley, fully realized.On Saturday night against Washington State, the version of Huntley that coach Kyle Whittingham, Utah fans, even Huntley himself imagined appeared in full force, leading the Utes’ offense to a dominating performance and a critical bounceback 38-13 win.The stats tell some of the story. He threw 30 passes, completing 21 of them. Truthfully, there were four or five drops among those nine incompletions, including one that would have counted for a first-qua
  
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• Top Latter-day Saint leaders discuss post-Scouting program in worldwide video

  29-09-2019 16:28
  During the second hour of worship services Sunday, all adult and youth members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints across the globe viewed a video about its new “Children and Youth” curriculum, which was described as “wonderful and exciting.”Gone are goal-setting methods called “Personal Progress” and “Faith in God” for Young women, “Duty to God” and the all-consuming Boy Scouts of America for Young Men.In their place is
  
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• Robert Kirby: Church authority vs. the blessing of being yourself

  29-09-2019 16:23
  I’m not exactly sure when I realized that authority didn’t mean the same thing to me that it did to others. Best guess is probably around the time I started Sunday school.The boredom I experienced there defied description. Some kids found validation in mindless obedience. I much preferred to go my own way, even if it meant disapproval.Kid • “You were ’posed to fold your arms for the prayer.”Me • “Mind your own beeswax, fart head.”Kid • &ld
  
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• Utah and other states try to combat increase of child sex abuse online

  29-09-2019 16:22
  The images are horrific. Children, some just 3 or 4 years old, being sexually abused and in some cases tortured.Pictures of child sexual abuse have long been produced and shared, but it has never been like this: Technology companies reported a record 45 million online photos and videos of the abuse last year.More than a decade ago, when the reported number was less than 1 million, the proliferation of the explicit imagery had already reached a crisis point. Tech companies, law enforcement agenci
  
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• A Murray mobile-home park once facing closure is now expanding

  29-09-2019 16:15
  Murray • The fate of one of Murray’s oldest mobile home parks could have easily gone another way.Winchester Estates is spread over 60 acres in a beautifully green southwest corner of the suburban city, along the Jordan River and across from Murray Parkway Golf Course — the kind of land that Utah’s residential developers are buying up these days and converting to new housing subdivisions and apartment projects.Elderly owners of the nearly 200 manufactured homes in Wincheste
  
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• Ballpark neighbors embrace new homeless resource centers

  29-09-2019 16:12
  Ballpark community residents blame Operation Rio Grande, an all-out attack on homelessness and illegal activity in the Pioneer Park area downtown, for pushing a drug problem into their neighborhoods.Yet many remain open to the arrival earlier this monthof a homeless resource center at 242 West Paramount Avenue, believing the shelter and its services will offer a boost to people who are looking for a way off the streets."All the criminal activity that goes on around here is not done by those peop
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Jazz Rank: Justin Wright-Foreman comes in 16th

  29-09-2019 16:07 via sportspyder.com
  The 2nd round pick has a lot to prove
  
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• Commentary: Investing in early childhood teacher education pays off

  29-09-2019 16:00
  Pat Bagley’s recent cartoon depicting teachers as the driving force of Utah’s economy was brilliant, and an insightful statement on the role of educators in the success of our state’s growth and economic well-being.Research shows that the foundation for a skilled workforce is created in childhood. And that starts with having access to great early childhood educators. With that in mind, Salt Lake Community College, the University of Utah’s Department of Family and Consumer
  
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• These are the best duos in the league, according to NBA 2K20

  29-09-2019 15:54
  Entering the 2019-20 season, there are quite a few NBA teams that have multiple stars on their roster. But which team has the best duo? How many elite tandems are there around the league?
  To help us rank the Association’s top star pairings, we used NBA 2K20’s overall player ratings (all of which can be found here).
  1. LeBron James (97) + Anthony Davis (94)
  LeBron James will turn 35 years old in December, but the folks at NBA 2K20 clearly believe that he’ll continue to dominate.
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: A few racists don’t spoil Provo and BYUtv for new ‘Studio C’ cast member

  29-09-2019 14:00
  When BYUtv was casting new stars for its flagship sketch comedy show “Studio C,” it deliberately looked for diversity. And it succeeded — four of the 11 cast members are people of color; five are women.That’s up from one minority and four women actors (out of 10) in the original cast. The new cast members came from across North America — Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, Quebec, Tennessee and, yes, Utah. And, no, they’re not all members of
  
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• Performance artist will sweep at Temple Square, during General Conference, to spotlight gender issues with domestic labor

  29-09-2019 14:00
  A woman sweeping a rug is a common occurrence in homes around the world.A woman sweeping the same rug for four and a half hours, on the edge of Salt Lake City’s Temple Square during the semi-annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is something else.For Michelle Standley, the performance is art — and the start of a conversation about domestic labor. When she conceived it, she said, “it was an expression of my own experience as a single mom a
  
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• Letter: University of Utah appears to be a callous institution

  29-09-2019 14:00
  Universities are unique institutions. Their populations are students, the majority barely of age, who are on campus to access higher education.The University of Utah maintaining that Lauren McCluskey’s killer was not part of their official community, thereby partially exonerating their campus police force, implies that maybe law enforcement generally can ignore suspected criminality when offenders are not participatory members of a defined community. But university students need and deserv
  
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• Letter: Trump’s unrestrained presidential imperium

  29-09-2019 14:00
  Donald Trump publicly admitted that he pressured the president of Ukraine to find evidence of corruption about Joe Biden during his tenure as vice president. Such a request is clearly illegal, unethical and unpatriotic.Even Richard Nixon did not ask a foreign power to help him with the Watergate burglary. Congressional Republicans fell in line and advised Nixon to resign before he would have been impeached. Trumpian Republicans probably won’t hold him accountable.Trump’s knavish dece
  
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• Letter: Don’t let the Great Salt Lake get smaller

  29-09-2019 14:00
  When my pioneer ancestors arrived here, one of their first impressions of the valley would have been the Great Salt Lake glittering in the middle of a harsh landscape.They might have even participated in the salty Fourth of July swim in 1851 or been among the hundreds that flocked to the lake for healing in the 1870s.With the lake’s importance to our history and lives, I wonder: Why are we still entertaining proposals for river diversions that would further lower lake levels?With Kevin Par
  
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• Letter: Call him the iPOTUS

  29-09-2019 14:00
  Our POTUS seems best defined by “i” words: insensitive, incapable, incompetent, inexplicable, idiotic, inappropriate, illiterate, irresponsible, incomprehensible, irreverent, inept, indescribable, imbecilic, immature, inaccurate, indifferent and irrational. I believe a more apropos acronym would be iPOTUS.Tom Day, Cottonwood HeightsSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: My husband looks at his phone constantly. Is this boorish or am I overreacting?

  29-09-2019 14:00
  Dear Ann Cannon •I may be the only spouse/significant other with this problem: My husband reads phone emails and messages, checks game scores and reads “urgent” news releases constantly. I have accepted his phone connection — except when he is eating a meal or at a social gathering with a small number of people. He also does this at church — but that is between him and his God.I think it is insufferably rude to sit reading his phone while at a restaurant with four ot
  
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• Tyler Huntley is ‘one of the best quarterbacks in the country right now,’ according to Utah coach Kyle Whittingham

  29-09-2019 09:28
  This was Tyler Huntley, fully realized.On Saturday night against Washington State, the version of Huntley that coach Kyle Whittingham, Utah fans, even Huntley himself imagined appeared in full force, leading the Utes’ offense to a dominating performance and a critical bounceback 38-13 win.The stats tell some of the story. He threw 30 passes, completing 21 of them. Truthfully, there were four or five drops among those nine incompletions, including one that would have counted for a first-qua
  
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• Utes bounce back with a dominating effort, beating Washington State 38-13

  29-09-2019 09:18
  Utah righted itself in the rain at Rice-Eccles Stadium and finally beat Washington State.The No. 19 Utes responded to last weekend's frustrating loss at USC with a strong offensive and defensive showing Saturday night in a 38-13 win.Utah posted nearly 500 yards in the first three quarters and held the prolific Cougars scoreless in the second half.The Utes delivered what coach Kyle Whittingham labeled “a complete game” overall and had a remarkable effort by a secondary that “wan
  
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• Quick start helps Weber State beat Northern Iowa 29-17

  29-09-2019 08:06
  Ogden • Kaden Jenks hit Rashid Shaheed for a 73-yard touchdown on Weber State’s first play from scrimmage and the Wildcats led the rest of the way in their 29-17 win over Northern Iowa on Saturday night.Jenks finished 19 of 29 passing for 219 yards and two touchdowns in a battle between two of the top teams in the Football Championship Subdivision.Weber State (2-2), which came in ranked No. 6 in the FCS Coaches poll, scored on its first five drives to open a 27-3 lead midway through t
  
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• Utes without Zack Moss and Britain Covey vs. Washington State; Covey may redshirt, Kyle Whittingham says.

  29-09-2019 08:02
  Questions persisted in August about whether or not Utah running back Zack Moss and receiver Britain Covey would be available for the season opener at BYU. The outcome was favorable to the Utes then, but not so Saturday night in a 38-13 defeat of Washington State at Rice-Eccles Stadium.Moss sat out the homecoming game at Rice-Eccles Stadium after sustaining a shoulder injury in the first half at USC last weekend. Covey was sidelined with an undisclosed injury after absorbing a pounding on multipl
  
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• Live: Utah leads Washington State 31-13 after three quarters at Rice-Eccles Stadium

  29-09-2019 06:45
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• Utah State outlasts Colorado State 34-24 in sloppy homecoming game

  29-09-2019 06:08
  Logan • It was like thunder and lightning. Whenever Colorado State scored Saturday night at Maverik Stadium, Utah State rumbled right back. The call and response was fitting for a homecoming game delayed half an hour by the electricity in the air over Merlin Olsen Field. Yet once the Aggies took the lead late in the second half, the Rams had no answer, and USU survived for a 34-24 Mountain West Conference victory.Both the Aggies’ second-half scores came off Rams turnovers. Dominik Ebe
  
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• Utah Royals FC eliminated from playoffs with 2-1 loss to Chicago

  29-09-2019 06:03
  The Utah Royals FC’s playoffs hopes are officially dead.After conceding a goal and equalizing just two minutes later, the Royals gave up a late goal to the Chicago Red Stars and lost 2-1 on Saturday, officially eliminating them from postseason contention. Since the franchise started last season, it’s missed the playoff each year.The loss against Chicago was Utah’s fourth straight, and the Royals are now guaranteed to finish with fewer points than last season. Utah concluded 201
  
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• Live: Utah leads Washington State 21-13 at the half at Rice-Eccles Stadium

  29-09-2019 05:39
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• Ready to rendezvous with winter

  29-09-2019 05:12
  Outdoor enthusiasts gathered at The Gateway on Saturday for the Rendezvous Mountain Culture Festival. The fall Rendezvous focused on snow sports, including a vendor village with the latest winter sports equipment and apparel, as well as panel discussions, film premieres, food trucks, and a free raffle of winter products and Utah Avalanche Center snow safety presentation.
  
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• LGBTQ+ Mormons: Stories of personal faith should not be ‘trafficked’ to serve an agenda

  29-09-2019 05:11
  When Kevin Randall set out to reboot the “Mormon and Gay” website for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he and his team had papered the walls of their office with 140 photos of LGBTQ+ Mormons: candidates for video stories about their experiences.“These ranged from people who were in same-sex relationships, who had left the church, to people who were temple-worthy, living in celibacy,” Randall said. “I felt it was necessary to find stories from one end
  
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• Utes without Zack Moss and Britain Covey vs. Washington State

  29-09-2019 04:07
  Questions persisted in August about whether or not Utah running back Zack Moss and receiver Britain Covey would be available for the season opener at BYU. The outcome was favorable to the Utes then, but not so Saturday night vs. Washington State. Moss sat out the homecoming game at Rice-Eccles Stadium after sustaining a shoulder injury in the first half at USC last weekend. Covey was sidelined with an undisclosed injury after absorbing a pounding on multiple plays against the Trojans. Ute coach
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Most intriguing individual matchups series – Southwest Division

  29-09-2019 03:48 via sportspyder.com
  Continuing the series of individual Utah Jazz player matchups against every NBA team, we move today to the Southwest Division. So far, we've already taken ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Most intriguing individual matchups series – Southwest Division

  29-09-2019 03:31
  Continuing the series of individual Utah Jazz player matchups against every NBA team, we move today to the Southwest Division. So far, we’ve already taken a close look at two of the three divisions in the Western Conference to see which individual matchups will be the most thrilling when they take on the Utah Jazz. […]
  Utah Jazz: Most intriguing individual matchups series – Southwest Division - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• George F. Will: The best cure for a bad election is a better election

  29-09-2019 02:00
  Washington • If Donald Trump were to tweet that 9 is a prime number, that Minneapolis is in Idaho, and that the sun revolves around the Earth — “Make Earth Great Again!” — would even five Republican senators publicly disagree with even one of the tweets? This matters in assessing the wisdom of beginning an impeachment process against the president. If every senator in the Democratic caucus were to vote to convict Trump in an impeachment trial concerning articles vote
  
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• Toledo gets even, beats BYU 28-21 in Glass Bowl rematch; Cougar QB Zach Wilson injures his throwing hand

  29-09-2019 00:54
  Toledo, Ohio • BYU and Toledo staged a classic in Provo three years ago, with the Cougars prevailing in a high-scoring shootout.Saturday’s rematch at the Glass Bowl played out much the same way, but the Rockets changed the ending this time, converting a late BYU turnover into a touchdown for a 28-21 victory over the Cougars.The loss was crushing for BYU in multiple ways.The Cougars thought they had put themselves in position to win when Chaz Ah You forced and recovered a fumble to giv
  
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• With starting QB Zach Wilson out for the near future, Cougars look to Jaren Hall

  29-09-2019 00:36
  Toledo, Ohio • After Toledo took its final lead of the game in its 28-21 victory over BYU on Saturday, Cougar receiver Micah Simon went back out on the field hoping the offense could stage a comeback or force overtime at the Glass Bowl.Lined up and ready to go, he looked back at the quarterback, but it wasn’t starter Zach Wilson.Instead, redshirt freshman Jaren Hall was in his place.“I didn’t even know [Wilson] was out,” Simon said. “I just ran on the field and
  
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