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• Beer spills all over parking lot of Latter-day Saint meetinghouse after truck crashes

  10-10-2019 23:37
  Cans of beer have littered the parking lot of a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sandy after a semitrailer crashed that was carrying cases of the brew.Sandy Police Sgt. Jason Nielsen said the semitrailer veered and fell from a road and into the church’s parking lot after it was hit by a pickup truck that ran a red light early Thursday morning. Beer cans were strewn across the empty church parking lot.The Utah-based faith teaches its members to abstain from
  
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• Jazz Injury Report: Danté Exum - OUT (right knee rehab) Juwan Morgan - QUESTIONABLE (left ankle sprain) Emmanuel Mudiay - OUT (left hamstring soreness)

  10-10-2019 23:33 via twitter.com
  Jazz Injury Report:Danté Exum - OUT (right knee rehab)Juwan Morgan - QUESTIONABLE (left ankle sprain)Emmanuel Mudiay - OUT (left hamstring soreness)
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - With Derrick Favors and Jae Crowder gone, who will the Jazz play at the four? Actually, who won’t they play there?

  10-10-2019 23:26 via sportspyder.com
  The term “power forward” still holds a certain sentimental sway with Jazz fans, owing to its historical association with a certain No. 32.
  
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• With Derrick Favors and Jae Crowder gone, who will the Jazz play at the four? Actually, who won’t they play there?

  10-10-2019 23:25
  The term “power forward” still holds a certain sentimental sway with Jazz fans, owing to its historical association with a certain No. 32.These days, the guy who mans that spot is more generally simply referred to as a “four,” owing to the fact that there is increasingly a devaluation of the “power” component of that forward position.Furthermore, in this era of “positionless basketball,” does it even really matter who’s labeled what? Beyond a
  
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• Behind the Headlines: Salt Lake City mayoral race heats up

  10-10-2019 23:06
  With less than a month to Election Day, the race for Salt Lake City mayor intensifies with debates, endorsements and deeper dives into the issues. Rep. Ben McAdams throws his support behind the Trump impeachment inquiry, accompanied by competing rallies outside his office. And Sen. Mitt Romney and the president clash in a war of words that has included “appalling” and “pompous ass.”At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporter Taylor Stevens, government and politics edi
  
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• Jaren Hall will make history Saturday as BYU’s first black starting quarterback. He’s embracing the moment.

  10-10-2019 22:59
  Provo • Jaren Hall still remembers the first time he played football.He was 7 years old and had joined the Nevada Youth Football League. Hall played in a jamboree in Orem with teams from Nevada and California. That moment stuck with him — it was fun and exciting.And it was the exact moment he fell in love with the game.Saturday will be another moment Hall won’t forget about anytime soon. The freshman quarterback is set to get his first career start at Tampa, when BYU takes on So
  
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• Here’s how the state, service providers plan to address homelessness in Utah

  10-10-2019 22:59
  After an audit slammed the state late last year for a lack of meaningful data to gauge the success of efforts to address homelessness, Utah leaders have created a strategic plan they hope will help make a person’s time on the streets “rare, brief and nonrecurring.”They’ll measure success based on a reduction in a number of factors, including days spent in emergency beds or shelters, the number of people returning to homelessness and the number of individuals experiencing
  
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• Mitt Romney says he hasn’t discussed Trump’s impeachment inquiry with fellow Republican senators

  10-10-2019 22:58
  Sen. Mitt Romney declined to comment Thursday on whether the House’s launch of an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is appropriate or on how he might vote if an impeachment trial is ultimately convened in the Senate.The Utah Republican and two-time presidential candidate also stated unequivocally that he would not challenge Trump for the Republican presidential nomination in 2020, and he denied having conversations with his Senate colleagues on the topic of Trump’s pote
  
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• Public’s views on Utah’s inland port will help ‘shape’ the project, officials say

  10-10-2019 22:44
  Months of listening to Utahns about their views on a controversial international trading hub planned for 16,000 acres in northwestern Salt Lake County reveal “widespread confusion” about the agency overseeing it, fears about the project’s possible impacts on air quality and wildlife and concerns over transparency.Jack Hedge, the newly appointed executive director of the Utah Inland Port Authority Board, said these findings will help “shape” the board’s policy
  
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• Utah will honor volleyball coach Beth Launiere, who makes sure a player will share the spotlight

  10-10-2019 22:13
  Utah women’s volleyball coach Beth Launiere stood on the sideline of Oregon’s Matthew Knight Arena, losing her voice as she strained to be heard amid a noisy crowd. She kept from overreacting in a match that appeared headed toward a sweep for the hometown Ducks.“I knew we'd get it turned around,” she said the next day, “and sure enough ...”The Utes ended losing to Oregon in five sets, though. So that snapshot is somewhat unfair as a summary of her career, amon
  
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• Review: Animated ‘Addams Family’ isn’t kooky, spooky or ooky enough

  10-10-2019 22:09
  Considering how often it’s been done — including a TV series in the 1960s and two movies in the early ′90s — making another version of “The Addams Family” shouldn’t be that hard.Somehow, though, directors Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan miss the mark, with a rendition of Charles Addams’ macabre characters that’s the movie equivalent of safe-and-sane fireworks: harmless for the kiddies, but with no sizzle.The story starts with Gomez (voiced by
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: When China comes for Pooh Bear

  10-10-2019 22:00
  What happens when China’s enforcers come after Winnie-the-Pooh?Will we reluctantly hand over Pooh Bear? Really sorry about this, Winnie, but China’s an important market!Winnie-the-Pooh has been banned in China online and at movie theaters because snarky commentators have suggested that he resembles the portly President Xi Jinping. But these days Xi doesn’t want to censor information just in his own country; he also wants to censor our own discussions in the West.That’s th
  
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• Eye on the Y: Cougar men’s basketball team gets a boost. TJ Haws is ready to come back.

  10-10-2019 20:20
  Eye on the Y is the Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter on BYU athletics. Subscribe here.The BYU men’s basketball team has been through a lot over the last few months of the offseason, but there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. And that light is shining on senior TJ Haws.During media day, head coach Mark Pope told us Haws had returned to practice this week, albeit only part time. He expects the senior to come back at full capacity next week.The news was a bit of relief for
  
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• A Utah photographer devoted to preserving dark skies just established a star-saving foundation

  10-10-2019 20:20
  Christine Kenyon remembers the first time she photographed a nightscape. It was July 4, 2016, and it took nine months of planning to iron out every detail before she snapped the shutter.First, she picked the perfect location: Metate Arch, in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Then, she used an app called PhotoPills to determine when the Milky Way would align over the arch in exactly the way she wanted. She researched the proper equipment and the tips and tricks of shooting photos at ni
  
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• Red All Over: Ute QB Tyler Huntley ‘has made us look good,’ line coach Jim Harding says.

  10-10-2019 20:17
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering University of Utah athletics. Subscribe here. Utah’s offensive line ranks in the top 10 nationally in preventing sacks of its quarterback. Tyler Huntley himself has something to do with that statistic.Huntley has been sacked only four times in five games. The downside is that all four have come in the last two games, vs. Pac-12 opponents USC and Washington State. And that number might be much higher, if not for Huntley's escapes.Huntley “d
  
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• Overlooked No More: Mitsuye Endo, a name linked to justice for Japanese Americans and who was interned in Utah

  10-10-2019 19:59
  Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The New York Times.It was January 1942, and Japanese American civil servants in California were alarmed. Within weeks of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, the state government had sent an invasive questionnaire to its employees of Japanese descent.Did they speak Japanese? Had they ever visited Japan? Were they members of any Japanese organizations?Anti-Japanese sentiment was high,
  
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• Behind Amazon’s abrupt change in its film strategy

  10-10-2019 19:41
  Los Angeles • “The Aeronauts,” an adventure film about swashbuckling 19th-century hot-air balloonists, was built for the big screen. Led by an Oscar winner, Eddie Redmayne, and a “Star Wars” star, Felicity Jones, it has real cinematic sweep, with sequences that take place miles above sea level. In May, Amazon Studios announced that the movie would play exclusively on IMAX screens for a one-week engagement before “a full theatrical run.”“We look forw
  
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• 2 Giuliani associates arrested on campaign finance charges

  10-10-2019 19:33
  Washington • Two associates of the president’s private lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who helped fund efforts to investigate one of President Donald Trump’s political rivals, were charged in a separate case with violating campaign finance laws, according to court documents.The two men, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, believed to be important witnesses in the House’s impeachment inquiry of Trump, were arrested on campaign finance charges. The arrests and charges were first reported by
  
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• Salt Lake Design Week showcases Utah’s best architects, designers

  10-10-2019 19:27
  What can an architect do with a doghouse? Quite a lot.The best-in-show entry of the inaugural Barkitecture Doghouse Competition “actually harvested rainwater off the roof,” said Jeff Tuft, a Salt Lake City architect and one of the contest organizers. “It also had a wall that opened up, to make it an indoor/outdoor space. And the wall was made from beer cans, so it had kind of a passive heating element.”This year’s entries will be on display Saturday in Salt Lake Cit
  
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• Original Osmond Brothers will perform together for 'the last time’ Monday on ‘The Talk’

  10-10-2019 19:26
  The original Osmond Brothers — Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Jay — will perform together for “the last time” on Monday's episode of “The Talk,” according to their sister, Marie.Marie Osmond joined the CBS series (weekdays, 2 p.m., Ch. 2) in September, and she's got a big birthday coming up. She turns 60 on Sunday. And on Tuesday, she told viewers she asked her brothers “if they would come to 'The Talk,' and the four original brothers will perform for the last ti
  
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• [KSL] - Jazz get blown out by the Bucks — does it mean anything? | KSL.com

  10-10-2019 19:12 via sportspyder.com
  The Bucks beat the Jazz 133-99 on Wednesday in a game where Mike Conley and Bojan Bogdanovic didn't make a field goal. So is it time to panic? Not quite.
  
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• Grizzlies’ partnership with the NHL Avalanche beginning to bear fruit as they open season Friday

  10-10-2019 18:57
  West Valley City • When the Utah Grizzlies were affiliated with the Anaheim Ducks, there wasn’t much movement of players between the parent club’s two minor league teams.The Ducks mainly brought players up from their American Hockey League affiliate, the San Diego Gulls, or sent them down. The Ducks’ Utah players, meanwhile, largely stayed with the Grizzlies and didn’t have much of opportunity to play themselves up to a higher level.But since the NHL’s Colorado
  
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• ‘Utah Booze News’ podcast: Speak up if you want better wine in the liquor store; and high-alcohol beer is coming soon

  10-10-2019 18:56
  How do foreign wines end up in Utah’s state-run liquor stores?In the latest episode of the “Utah Booze News” podcast, Stephanie Cuadra, owner of Terrestoria Wine Imports, explains the process and tells consumers that it’s time to speak up if they want the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to put more wine on the shelves.Salt Lake Tribune reporter Kathy Stephenson and FOX 13′s Ben Winslow also talk about the latest beer awards and recap the first meeting
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Utah Jazz’s battle with high expectations will last all season long

  10-10-2019 18:54 via sportspyder.com
  It’s just what happens to good teams.
  
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• George F. Will: The spiraling president adds self-impeachment to his repertoire

  10-10-2019 18:52
  Washington • Donald Trump, an ongoing eruption of self-refuting statements (“I’m a very stable genius” with “a very good brain”), is adding self-impeachment to his repertoire. Spiraling downward in a tightening gyre, his increasingly unhinged public performances (Google the one with Finland’s dumbfounded president looking on) are as alarming as they are embarrassing. His decision regarding Syria and the Kurds was made so flippantly that it has stirred fai
  
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• Charges: Utah man admits he gave ‘harmless’ pot brownies to unwitting co-workers

  10-10-2019 17:46
  A South Ogden man is accused of giving pot brownies to his unwitting co-workers because, prosecutors wrote, he believed they were “harmless.”The man, 28, was working alongside two women at a Clearfield business July 9, when he offered each of them a brownie, prosecutors wrote in charges filed Wednesday. Surveillance footage shows the man giving the brownies to the two women, prosecutors wrote.The man did not tell his co-workers there was pot in the brownies, and after they ate the br
  
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• Salt Lake police are giving away free gun locks

  10-10-2019 17:35
  The Salt Lake City Police Department wants to help gun owners be safe — and they’ve got the free cable locks to prove it.The department has hundreds of the safety devices, which prevent a gun from being fired by blocking the barrel and the use of ammunition. They’re available at both the Public Safety Building at 475 S. 300 East and the Pioneer Precinct at 1040 W. 700 South during regular business hours. All you have to do is go in and ask for one.The SLCPD encourages gun owner
  
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• Salt Lake airport TSA intercepts seven guns in seven days. Six of them were loaded.

  10-10-2019 17:34
  Security intercepted seven guns in seven days at the Salt Lake City International Airport — and six of them were loaded.According to a news release from the Transportation Security Administration, all of the weapons were discovered during routine screening of carry-on bags. Salt Lake City police were called, the guns were confiscated, and the seven passengers were interviewed. There is no indication the incidents are related, according to TSA, and no indication of any threat. However, that
  
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• Lehi official fired as county investigates possible embezzlement of nearly $800,000

  10-10-2019 17:34
  A Lehi city streets supervisor has been fired amid an investigation of up to $791,000 that was paid to a business owned by the supervisor’s cousin for road salt and other materials that apparently were never delivered.According to court documents unsealed this week, Lehi city officials told Utah County sheriff’s deputies that they had found unitemized invoices for some suspicious purchases of road salting sand and other materials from a Cedar City business called Vinco Enterprises.Th
  
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• Farhad Manjoo: Dealing with China isn’t worth the moral cost

  10-10-2019 16:00
  The People’s Republic of China is the largest, most powerful and arguably most brutal totalitarian state in the world. It denies basic human rights to all of its nearly 1.4 billion citizens. There is no freedom of speech, thought, assembly, religion, movement or any semblance of political liberty in China.Under Xi Jinping, “president for life,” the Communist Party of China has built the most technologically sophisticated repression machine the world has ever seen. In Xinjiang,
  
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• Letter: Republicans must stand up for the republic

  10-10-2019 15:12
  Dear Republican representatives and senators,Your time has come. This is your moment to go down in history for putting your own egos and agendas aside, in order to save your country.We hear that, behind closed doors, you acknowledge that this president is corrupt, lawless and unhinged. He is. Those of us with eyes to see and ears to hear, know this as well.But we also hear that you are afraid to lose votes and lose your powerful positions. Well, you know that your first obligation is to the Cons
  
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• Letter: Stewart should stand up to Trump as he did Obama

  10-10-2019 15:10
  On July 27, 2016, my U.S. representative, Chris Stewart, referring to President Barack Obama, wrote:“Our Founding Fathers got it right. They gave us a president and not a king. Knowing this, I have objected vigorously as this President pulls more and more unconstitutional powers to himself. If a future Republican president were to do the same thing, I will condemn him just as vigorously.”Utah’s 2nd Congressional District, which includes Salt Lake City and much of Utah’s m
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Billboard company’s dominance in SLC mayoral elections is more than a sign of the times

  10-10-2019 15:09
  Think about the big special interests in Salt Lake City — you know, the Zions Banks or Larry H. Miller Group, the labor unions or any of the prospective inland port developers.None of them spends anywhere near the money or exerts the kind of influence on the city’s mayoral race as one that you might not expect: the big billboard companies and, more specifically, Reagan Outdoor Advertising.So far this year, Reagan has reported contributing $162,452 of free billboard space to candidate
  
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• Letter: From Satan to savior?

  10-10-2019 15:07
  Us progressives thought that Mitt Romney was Satan in 2012. But could he possibly be our savior in 2020? Anyone have a white horse they can spare?Alex Mitkus, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• From pho to garlic noodles, the Vietnamese menu at SAOLA, in Cottonwood Heights, is perfect in every way

  10-10-2019 15:02
  Cottonwood Heights • At SAOLA New Asian, it’s nearly impossible to miss the contrast between East and West, and past and present — from the brassy rickshaw from Vietnam and 1960s album cover with the image of the owner’s mother to the sleek gray sectionals and neon pink lights.Yet overall, there’s harmony inside this Cottonwood Heights restaurant.Owners Diem Nguyen and Tuan Vu translate that vision just as flawlessly into the menu — a love letter to their Vietn
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: My not-so-good dad wants to be a better grandfather, but I worry about my kids

  10-10-2019 15:01
  Dear Ann Cannon • My dad was not there for my sister and me while we were growing up because of addiction and divorce. He has now been sober for years and wants to be in his grandchildren’s lives, but we don’t know how to navigate this situation. He has never expressed remorse for what we went through. His personality is still the same (he is rude to his girlfriend just like he was rude to our mom), he doesn’t always follow through when he says he’ll do things, he&rs
  
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• Letter: Trump should at least stop digging

  10-10-2019 15:00
  On Oct. 3, President Trump announced he has asked China to aid his campaign by investigating Joe Biden to provide political dirt. Trump seems to have forgotten Molly Ivins’ First Rule of Holes:” When you find yourself in one, stop digging.”Trump rejects advice and ignores advisors, preferring to rely on his gut. The problem with that is that his gut, as with all guts, is that it is full of s***.John G. Kepros, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: So much is at stake

  10-10-2019 15:00
  As many contributors to this forum have eloquently, unequivocally and strongly presented the president’s violations of Oath of Office, a change must happen either by the 25th Amendment or in November 2020.The largely sanctimonious hypocrisy of supporting Republicans belies, you would think, their true convictions and certainly damages their party’s historical integrity.While we are forced to confront these obvious obstruction violations, we are losing international positioning for co
  
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• Letter: Romney and Lee have sold out Utahns

  10-10-2019 15:00
  As a former Utah Republican, I am appalled that the people of Utah have elected to the senate a duplicitous snake in the form of Mitt Romney. I am ashamed that I supported him in 2012.Romney goes to President Trump and solicits his support to fill the Senate seat being vacated by Orrin Hatch. Romney gets that support, accepts that support and, as soon as he has the seat sewed up, turns around and stabs the president in the back. That is the hallmark of a man devoid of integrity. That is a man as
  
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• Letter: Places for the homeless

  10-10-2019 15:00
  Every morning, Utahns creep out of gullies and out from under bushes, trees and doorways where they have spent the night. They roll up their blankets/bedrolls/sleeping bags and place them in a cart/walker/backpack before they go off in search of a place to clean up and something to eat. You don’t have to go far to see them. Every morning they move around in the city centers as well as on the thoroughfares like Redwood Road. Their numbers are increasing due to the economy.At the same time,
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Evangelical leader’s book says Christians have duty to defend Trump

  10-10-2019 14:26
  Happy Thursday!In a soon-to-be released book, Faith and Freedom Coalition founder Ralph Reed says evangelical Christians have a duty to defend President Donald Trump against “the stridently anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and pro-abortion agenda of the progressive left,” according to the publisher’s description. It was initially to be titled, “Render to God and Trump,” but now is “For God and Country: The Christian case for Trump.” [Politico]Topping the ne
  
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• Utah’s youth obesity rate among lowest in nation

  10-10-2019 14:00
  Utah’s children have the lowest obesity rates in the nation in nearly every age group, according to a report released Thursday.Just 8.7% of Utah children ages 10 to 17 are obese, compared to a national average of 15.3%, according to “State of Childhood Obesity,” a report released Thursday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. No other state had a lower obesity rate for that age group. Mississippi had the highest overall youth obesity rate, at 25.4%.The report defines obesity a
  
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• George F. Will: College diversity tinkering: What a tangled web

  10-10-2019 14:00
  Washington • The judge took 130 pages to explain that Harvard’s “holistic review” admissions policies — which include ascribing particular attributes to certain ethnicities, such as Asian Americans, and assessing the value to Harvard of those attributes — are, considering 41 years of Supreme Court precedents, permissibly race-conscious. She said the policies do not discriminate against Asian Americans.However, the suit some Asian Americans filed against Harvard
  
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• Kendrick slam in 10th lifts Nationals over Dodgers 7-3, into NLCS

  10-10-2019 07:39
  Los Angeles • Howie Kendrick hit a tiebreaking grand slam off Joe Kelly in the 10th inning, and the Washington Nationals overcame a three-run deficit with a late rally to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-3 Wednesday night and advance to the NL Championship Series against St. Louis.Three-time Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw blew a 3-1 lead by allowing homers to Anthony Rendon and Juan Soto on consecutive pitches in the eighth.The wild-card Nationals open the NLCS at St. Louis on Friday n
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Mitchell-Conley duo make inauspicious debut vs Bucks

  10-10-2019 06:57 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz faced their first NBA competition of the preseason, the Milwaukee Bucks, in a game that saw the debut of the Donovan Mitchell-Mike Conley bac...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz look out of sorts as they fall to Milwaukee Bucks on the road

  10-10-2019 06:53 via sportspyder.com
  Relax. It’s preseason.
  
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• "We've got a lot to improve on and that's okay."pic.twitter.com/0mgLU2tHjh

  10-10-2019 06:18 via twitter.com
  "We've got a lot to improve on and that's okay."pic.twitter.com/0mgLU2tHjh
  
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• "We have to continue to learn how to compete collectively."pic.twitter.com/9A37tbOoIk

  10-10-2019 06:11 via twitter.com
  "We have to continue to learn how to compete collectively."pic.twitter.com/9A37tbOoIk
  
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• Missing some key pieces, the Jazz fall behind early in preseason game at Milwaukee and lose 133-99

  10-10-2019 05:59
  Milwaukee • With several pieces missing, it’s hard to put a new puzzle together.With Rudy Gobert and Joe Ingles being rested, and Mike Conley and Donovan Mitchell playing together for the first time, the Jazz never established a rhythm at either end of the court in a 133-99 preseason loss to Milwaukee on Wednesday night. The Bucks, on the other hand, looked very much like a team that returned four starters — including MPV Giannis Antetokounmpo — from the outfit that lost t
  
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