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• | Get behind-the-scenes access at Media Day & Meet the Team where we mic'd up Rudy, Danté & Georges 𝙎𝙋𝙊𝙄𝙇𝙀𝙍 𝘼𝙇𝙀𝙍𝙏: Georges does an Australian

  07-10-2019 23:34 via twitter.com
  | Get behind-the-scenes access at Media Day & Meet the Team where we mic'd up Rudy, Danté & Georges
  𝙎𝙋𝙊𝙄𝙇𝙀𝙍 𝘼𝙇𝙀𝙍𝙏: Georges does an Australian accent and it is *somethin'.*#LookinLive | @ticketmasterpic.twitter.com/Seu3hi0iQH
  
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• Jana Riess: A progressive Latter-day Saint’s top 10 highlights of General Conference

  07-10-2019 23:26
  For me, there were far more ups than downs this weekend at the 189th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I feel like the church is making a full-throttle effort to update many of its programs and particularly to help stem the tide of youth attrition.My take:1. There was a strong focus on Jesus Christ from beginning to end. That’s not to say there weren’t some difficult moments, especially from <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2
  
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• Jansen Davis: Celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month in October

  07-10-2019 23:00
  October is National Arts and Humanities Month. The arts and humanities are vital to human experience: We don’t just survive — we share feelings and ideas, build upon previous experiences, make observations, invent, explore and create possibilities that become reality.Our cultural evolution is fueled by our creativity and founded on the vast experience and experimentation of our ancestors. They expressed themselves in words, pictures, stories, images, structures, sounds and movement,
  
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• BYU uses bye week to regroup, get a jump on South Florida

  07-10-2019 22:51
  Provo • Twenty-four hours.That’s all the time BYU coach Kalani Sitake gives his players to celebrate a win or mourn a loss. Then it’s on to the next opponent.After the Toledo loss, BYU didn’t even need a full 24 hours. By Sunday, the Cougars had South Florida’s film on their tablets.Even though they had a bye week between games, BYU was already looking to their next opponents. The Cougars will play USF for the first time Saturday in Tampa.The bye couldn’t have
  
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• Corner Canyon quarterback Cole Hagen receives offers from Ivy League schools

  07-10-2019 22:29
  Draper • Cole Hagen has never had an A-minus grade in his life.Even since his elementary school days, the Corner Canyon High quarterback has been a 4.0 student. Now a senior, Hagen takes advance placement classes in calculus and English. He makes sure he’s prepared for classes and gets enough sleep. He’s constantly studying and doing homework.He even scored a 35 on his ACT. A perfect score is 36.“It’s definitely something that I care a lot about,” Hagen said in
  
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• Commenary: Pope Francis urges synod to embrace ‘daring prudence,’ not status quo

  07-10-2019 22:20
  Vatican City • At the Mass opening the Synod on the Pan-Amazon Region, Pope Francis urged the assembled bishops to embrace “daring prudence,” rather than settle for the status quo.He was responding to critics, including some bishops, who feel that he is imprudently leading the church away from traditional church teaching and practice.The Mass, celebrated Sundayin St. Peter’s Basilica, was the official beginning of the three-week Amazon synod, which will discuss and propose
  
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• Making sense of the Vatican’s looming financial scandal

  07-10-2019 22:10
  Vatican City • Last week, the Vatican released a mysterious statement acknowledging a raid by Vatican police on the offices of its Secretariat of State and of its financial watchdog agency, saying it was carried out by judicial order by the Vatican tribunal and with permission from unspecified “superiors.”The Secretariat of State is the most powerful department in the Vatican bureaucracy. The Financial Information Authority, or AIF, was created in 2010 by then-Pope Benedict XVI
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell claims slowing down will help him take a leap

  07-10-2019 22:10 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz shooting guard Donovan Mitchell believes playing at a slower pace will help him take the next leap in his development this season. Mitchell says he wants to play more under control and not reckless. The high-flyer thinks that will help his...
  
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  07-10-2019 22:06 via twitter.com
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• Salt Lake mayoral candidate Erin Mendenhall outlines plans for creating a tech ecosystem in the capital city

  07-10-2019 22:04
  If elected to office next month, Salt Lake City mayoral candidate Erin Mendenhall said Monday that she would begin working “on Day One” to cultivate a sustainable ecosystem for tech companies to grow in the state’s capital.The city has fertile soil to bring in the economic benefits of the state’s booming technology industry, the Salt Lake City Councilwoman argued, pointing to its urban and socially progressive community, a growing international airport critical for doing
  
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• Commentary: Good news, bad news on churchgoers’ views of Trump

  07-10-2019 21:58
  The other day, Gallup released new survey data showing that more Americans approve of Donald Trump’s job performance than approve of him as a person.Surprised? OK, not so much.And it’s not as if the approval rate is high in either case. It’s 40% for the job, 34% for the person.Nevertheless, for those of you who worry that the most religious among us are giving the commander in chief a pass in the personal behavior department, the good news is that the biggest gap between the tw
  
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• Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski officially endorses Luz Escamilla ahead of next month’s election

  07-10-2019 21:52
  After hedging for months, Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski offered her public endorsement Monday for state Sen. Luz Escamilla, one of two candidates seeking to replace her.Biskupski, the city’s first openly gay mayor, pointed to Escamilla’s legislative record of advocating for underserved communities and argued that the candidate, a Latina immigrant who lives on the west side, will “bring a fresh and different perspective to City Hall.”“I want young people to s
  
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• "That's the most fans I've ever played in front of for a preseason game."pic.twitter.com/gLE3phhD2p

  07-10-2019 21:31 via twitter.com
  "That's the most fans I've ever played in front of for a preseason game."pic.twitter.com/gLE3phhD2p
  
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• Utah cases of vaping-related illness rise again

  07-10-2019 21:30
  Cases of vaping-related illness in Utah rose again last week, from 71 to 76. And 14 potential cases remain under investigation, health officials reported on Monday.Utah has had an abnormally high rate of the mysterious illness, though state officials confirmed fewer new cases last week than in the previous week.Health officials have said more than 90 percent of the patients reported vaping unregulated THC products, which are illegal in Utah. Sixty percent of patients reported vaping nicotine pro
  
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• Coach reppin' pic.twitter.com/oNYfcrhbeM

  07-10-2019 21:19 via twitter.com
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• Without oversight, scores of accused priests commit crimes

  07-10-2019 21:03
  Nearly 1,700 priests and other clergy members that the Roman Catholic Church considers credibly accused of child sexual abuse are living under the radar with little to no oversight from religious authorities or law enforcement, decades after the first wave of the church abuse scandal roiled U.S. dioceses, an Associated Press investigation has found.These priests, deacons, monks and lay people now teach middle-school math. They counsel survivors of sexual assault. They work as nurses and voluntee
  
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• New Provo-Orem bus rapid now rivals the ridership of TRAX Green Line

  07-10-2019 20:36
  One Utah Transit Authority bus route now is carrying about as many people — or more on some days — as the Green Line TRAX trains.The Utah Valley Express (UVX), a bus rapid transit line in Orem and Provo that serves both Utah Valley and Brigham Young universities, now averages about 14,600 boardings daily. On some days, like the football game between BYU and the University of Utah, it had more than 16,000.In comparison, ridership on the Green Line TRAX averaged about 15,400 boardings
  
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• Powered parachute crash kills man in Utah’s San Rafael Swell

  07-10-2019 20:27
  Police have identified the man killed in a powered parachute accident on Saturday at the San Rafael Swell.Rodney Pridmore, 68, of Idaho, died when his aircraft — which consists of a frame, small engine, wheels and a parachute — crashed at the Sid and Charley pinnacles shortly before noon, according to the Emery County Sheriff’s Office.Pridmore and four other men flew from the Huntington Airport to Sid and Charley earlier Saturday morning, police said. He was among the first to
  
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• David Leonhardt: The rich really do pay less taxes than you do

  07-10-2019 20:27
  Almost a decade ago, Warren Buffett made a claim that would become famous. He said that he paid a lower tax rate than his secretary, thanks to loopholes and deductions that benefit the wealthy.His claim sparked a debate about the fairness of the tax system. In the end, the expert consensus was that, whatever Buffett’s specific situation, most wealthy Americans did not actually pay a lower tax rate than the middle class. “Is it the norm?” the fact-checking outfit Politifact aske
  
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• Utah secondary gears up for Oregon State’s star receiver, after locking down Washington State’s offense.

  07-10-2019 20:19
  In Utah's last two football games, the Ute secondary faced USC's outstanding trio of receivers and then went against Washington State's group of pass-catchers, spread all over the field.Now comes a matchup with the Pac-12′s most productive offensive player, Oregon State receiver Isaiah Hodgins. That’s the unrelenting nature of life in this league, although the No. 15 Utes had a week off to regroup after their excellent performance against WSU.“Big-time receiver, and the quarter
  
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• ‘Traveling While Black’ virtual reality exhibit is coming to Utah

  07-10-2019 19:55
  A person could watch Roger Ross Williams’ “Traveling While Black” on The New York Times’ website, where it was first posted in January.But if you haven’t seen it through a virtual reality headset, as viewers can at Salt Lake City’s Broadway Centre Cinemas starting this week, “you basically haven’t seen it,” Williams said.“The beauty of VR, especially with a subject like this, is that you can’t escape it,” Williams said in a
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz’s Royce O’Neale looks like a starting caliber NBA player

  07-10-2019 19:30 via sportspyder.com
  We’re only one game into the preseason and Royce O’Neale is already standing out.
  
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• Mitt Romney says Trump’s troops withdrawal from Syria a ‘betrayal’

  07-10-2019 19:16
  Washington • President Donald Trump vowed Monday to pull back from military involvement in the Middle East and leave it to others “to figure the situation out,” even as some of his Republican allies condemned him for abandoning allies and emboldening regional enemies.In a series of Twitter messages, the president defended his decision to clear the way for a Turkish military operation that would sweep away the United States’ Kurdish allies near the Syrian border, arguing th
  
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• Snow in October? It’s in the Utah forecast.

  07-10-2019 18:12
  Enjoy the sun and mild temperatures on Monday and Tuesday, because colder temperatures and maybe even snow are headed our way on Wednesday and Thursday.Yes, we're still 2½ months away from the official start of winter.According to the National Weather Service, it will be sunny in the Salt Lake area with temperatures in the mid-60s on Monday and mid-70s on Tuesday,On Wednesday, the forecast high is just 49, and there's a 30% chance of rain showers — along with a slight possibility of
  
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• Oregon picked first again in Pac-12 women’s media day poll; Utah is voted 7th — its highest pick in five years

  07-10-2019 17:54
  San Francisco • Oregon has been voted first in the Pac-12 women’s basketball poll for the third straight year.The two-time defending regular-season champion rolled up 121 points and 11 out of 12 first-place votes, as chosen by the league’s coaches. Stanford (111) received the other first-place vote. Rounding out the top three was Oregon State (99).Utah (58 points) was picked to finish seventh. It’s the highest the Utes have been picked since the 2013-14 season.Coming off t
  
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• Corner Canyon quarterback Cole Hagen is a hot college prospect — in the Ivy League

  07-10-2019 17:54
  Draper • Cole Hagen has never had an A-minus grade in his life.Even since his elementary school days, the Corner Canyon High quarterback has been a 4.0 student. Now a senior, Hagen takes advance placement classes in calculus and English. He makes sure he’s prepared for classes and gets enough sleep. He’s constantly studying and doing homework.He even scored a 35 on his ACT. A perfect score is 36.“It’s definitely something that I care a lot about,” Hagen said in
  
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• Mini-Disney Store opens inside South Jordan Target

  07-10-2019 17:45
  Mini-Disney Stores have opened inside 25 Targets across the country — including one location in Utah.The Target at 11525 Parkway Plaza Drive in South Jordan — in The District shopping center — now features everything from Mickey Mouse to “Frozen” to “Star Wars.”“Guests will be able to connect with the Disney characters and stories they love in a meaningful way, while accessing the latest and greatest Disney products, including items previously only
  
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• NBA Daily: Five Breakout Players To Watch – Northwest Division

  07-10-2019 17:20 via basketballinsiders.com
  Someone unexpected may shift the balance of power in the Northwest Division, but who? Douglas Farmer takes a look at the top possibilities.
  
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• Judge rejects Trump challenge to release of his tax returns

  07-10-2019 16:59
  New York • A federal judge Monday emphatically rejected President Donald Trump’s challenge to the release of his tax returns to New York prosecutors, saying the president’s broad claim of immunity from all criminal investigations is at odds with the Constitution. But an appeals court blocked the handover of the documents for now.At issue is a request from Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. that Trump's accounting firm turn over eight years' worth of his business and
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Here’s what Utah’s move to renewables means for our future

  07-10-2019 16:14
  Utah energy users got a glimpse of the future last week and it shouldn’t come as a surprise — it’s greener, powered increasingly by the wind and sun and less by coal and natural gas.Over the next 20 years, PacifiCorp — the electricity provider for 1.9 million customers in Utah and in five other states — plans to build 7,000 megawatts of new wind and solar power. In Utah alone, it is planning 3,000 megawatts of new solar power.At the same time, it is moving away from
  
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• Baiting big game is legal in Utah — for now. But is it right?

  07-10-2019 16:13
  Imagine ambling through Utah’s national forests and coming across piles of apples inexplicably scattered on the ground.That is becoming an increasingly common sight during big-game hunting seasons as the practice of baiting becomes more popular, especially among bowhunters in southern Utah, where apples have proved effective in luring mule deer to places where concealed hunters can get off a clean shot.Most Western states, including all of Utah’s immediate neighbors, ban or restrict
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: World leaders can again make miracles

  07-10-2019 16:12
  We need a little uplift, a reminder that although world leaders today from Washington to London to Beijing may be dishonest vandals, it doesn’t have to be that way.Even flawed presidents and prime ministers can act in noble ways, and we saw that in the 2000s when George W. Bush, Tony Blair and others made a heroic effort to tackle AIDS and malaria and save children’s lives around the world.European and American leaders backed the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, w
  
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• Utah’s $150,000 tax reform pitch isn’t convincing the public, lawmakers say

  07-10-2019 16:11
  The Legislature pitched its recent series of town halls as a listening tour, a chance for everyday Utahns to weigh in on a potentially big shift in tax laws.Yet, state records show only a fraction of the roughly $177,000 allotted to the summertime tour was for staging these eight events. Most of this money, up to $150,000, is going to a public relations firm hired to craft a clarion message that Utah’s tax system is crumbling and changes are needed now.The action plan for the task force &m
  
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• 3 takeaways from RSL’s win over Vancouver

  07-10-2019 15:42
  Here are three takeaways from Real Salt Lake’s 1-0 win over the Vancouver Whitecaps.1. RSL would have lost or drawn if not for Nick RimandoMake no mistake about it: RSL deserved to beat the Whitecaps and finish third in the Western Conference. After the past few weeks of overcoming front office turmoil and emotional tributes to retiring players, the team buckled down and did what it needed to do.But boy did Real get lucky. That game should have been 2-1 in favor of Vancouver. Or at least 2
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Colin Powell says the GOP needs ‘to get a grip on itself’

  07-10-2019 14:32
  Happy Monday!Colin Powell, who was both secretary of state and chairman of the military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, says, “The Republican Party has got to get a grip on itself.” He told The Jefferson Series that “Republican leaders and members of the Congress, both Senate and the House, are holding back because they’re terrified of what will happen to any one of them if they speak out.” He added that the country’s foreign policy is “in shambles right
  
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• Utah’s tax reform pitch could cost up to $150K, but lawmakers say the public still seems skeptical

  07-10-2019 14:00
  The Legislature pitched its recent series of town halls as a listening tour, a chance for everyday Utahns to weigh in on a potentially big shift in tax laws.Yet, state records show only a fraction of the roughly $177,000 allotted to the summertime tour was for staging these eight events. Most of this money, up to $150,000, is going to a public relations firm hired to craft a clarion message that Utah’s tax system is crumbling and changes are needed now.The action plan for the task force &m
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Utah’s power provider is making a big move to renewables. Here’s why and what it means for our future.

  07-10-2019 14:00
  Utah energy users got a glimpse of the future last week and it shouldn’t come as a surprise — it’s greener, powered increasingly by the wind and sun and less by coal and natural gas.Over the next 20 years, PacifiCorp — the electricity provider for 1.9 million customers in Utah and in five other states — plans to build 7,000 megawatts of new wind and solar power. In Utah alone, it is planning 3,000 megawatts of new solar power.At the same time, it is moving away from
  
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• Put out some apples. Lure a deer to them. Then fire an arrow. Yes, baiting big game is legal in Utah, but is it right?

  07-10-2019 14:00
  Imagine ambling through Utah’s national forests and coming across piles of apples inexplicably scattered on the ground.That is becoming an increasingly common sight during big-game hunting seasons as the practice of baiting becomes more popular, especially among bowhunters in southern Utah, where apples have proved effective in luring mule deer to places where concealed hunters can get off a clean shot.Most Western states, including all of Utah’s immediate neighbors, ban or restrict
  
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• Letter: We need more money for education

  07-10-2019 14:00
  Thanks to Envision Utah for the legwork that shouldn’t have been necessary but turned out to be in the minds of legislators long used to kicking the K-12 funding can down the road.Yes, getting the very best of our young to go into careers in K-12 and stay put happily for 30 or more highly successful years as teachers in Utah’s schools will require much better remuneration. It will also require money for far better classroom support and, in at least some subjects, manageable class siz
  
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• Letter: Trump has blown the whistle on himself

  07-10-2019 14:00
  The identity or credence of the whistleblower is totally irrelevant, as Donald Trump himself produced the partial evidence of the crime.It’s like being mad at the detective who discovers a murder.Read “The Art of the Deal,” the con man’s bible, to understand this diversionary tactic.Bill Miller, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Jon Huntsman should run against Sen. Mike Lee

  07-10-2019 14:00
  Please, Jon Huntsman, come back to Utah and run for U.S. Senate against Mike Lee.In this state, a Democrat will never defeat him, but maybe you, as a good “old fashioned” Republican, the kind we can live with, will be able to defeat him. He is an embarrassment to all of us.So leave Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox alone. He is another Republican who won't do too much damage, and focus on Lee.Barbara Taylor, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Execute the law, not the whistleblower

  07-10-2019 14:00
  The Constitution (Article II, Section 3) says that the president “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”If Donald Trump had half the desire to fulfill his constitutional duties that he has to execute a whistleblower, we would have a much better country.Rick Edwin Jones, West Haven Submit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Doubling down on our existence

  07-10-2019 14:00
  On Aug. 27, Northrop Grumman broke ground in Roy on a new facility with initial federal funding of $125 billion. On site were Sens. Mitt Romney and Mike Lee, Reps. Rob Bishop and Chris Stewart, celebrating the creation of 2,500 jobs.The mission of the new facility? “Deterrence,” via ground-based strategic deterrence, meaning 700 refurbished Minuteman ICBMs carrying hydrogen bomb warheads, targeted at Russia. (The U.S. has 14 stealth nuclear submarines, able to devastate entire contin
  
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• Letter: Being transgender doesn’t mean being confused

  07-10-2019 14:00
  I am transgender. But I am not confused about my gender identity.I am eternal. I was created intentionally the way that I am, and I was created this way for a wise and glorious purpose. Christ has carried me through the agony of not knowing who I was, and He rejoices that I have that clarity of my being now.He rejoices that since having top surgery 82 days ago, I have suffered from depression for only three of those days.President Oaks, I’ve had suicidal ideation and major depressive disor
  
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• Letter: A vote for Trump is a vote for groping

  07-10-2019 14:00
  The unusual spike in gropings in Utah should be no surprise. The gropers are just following their beloved leader who instructed them to “grab ’em by the p---- and if they squeal just buy them off.”A vote for Trump was a vote for groping — and lying, and racism, and sexism, and crudeness and rudeness — and Sen. Lee, in pursuit of a seat on the Supreme Court, has bought in whole hog.Senator, a seat on the Supreme Court isn’t worth selling your character. In fact
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz star Rudy Gobert takes on the eSports world

  07-10-2019 07:03 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert is the latest Utah Jazz alum to take a vested interest in the world of eSports, joining the ownership group of a major competitive gaming organ...
  
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