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• Democrats topping field face tough questions at Ohio debate

  15-10-2019 23:32
  Tuesday night's presidential debate gives the three Democratic front-runners a chance to answer recent doubts about their campaigns, while nine other candidates — the largest political lineup on a single stage — get a new shot at the political spotlight in hopes of rising or at least remaining relevant.Former Vice President Joe Biden has been at the top of the crowded field for months but will have to answer persistent though baseless allegations by Republican President Donald Trump
  
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• Utes at midseason: They are rolling now, but that loss to USC looms large

  15-10-2019 23:15
  Utah coach Kyle Whittingham probably was too forgiving in the midseason grading of his football team, because his A-minus assessment glosses over how the Utes lost to the wrong team.In the second half of the season, the Utes either will have to raise their grade to an “A” by winning their remaining six games or hope that USC fails multiple times.Here’s the problem with No. 13 Utah’s 5-1 record, amid strong performances overall by the offense and defense: If the season end
  
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• [Oregon Live] - Portland Trail Blazers vs. Utah Jazz in preseason: Game preview, TV channel, how to watch live stream - oregonlive.com

  15-10-2019 23:03 via sportspyder.com
  The Blazers play their first road game of the exhibition season Wednesday night in Salt Lake City.
  
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• [KSL] - Is there a cause for concern after the Jazz drop their third straight preseason game? | KSL.com

  15-10-2019 22:47 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz's defense was bad. Is it just a learning curve as the new additions adjust to playing in Snyder’s system? Is it an intensity issue with it just being the preseason? Or is there a real concern that the Jazz have a problem on their hands?
  
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• Utah State basketball are preseason favorites to repeat as Mountain West Conference champs

  15-10-2019 22:44
  The Utah State men’s basketball team already has plenty of buzz surrounding it, and that’s before any games have been played.The media unanimously picked the Aggies to win the Mountain West Conference championship, the team announced Tuesday. USU becomes the first in league history to be a unanimous pick. The team won the title last season by beating San Diego State in the title game.“The Mountain West has a rich tradition of excellence in men’s basketball,” second-
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Utah Jazz are likely to pick one of these three players to fill the last roster spot

  15-10-2019 22:23 via sportspyder.com
  Kyle Collinsworth is a 28-year-old Provo native whose professional basketball career includes a pair of stops in the G League and 32 games with the Dallas Mavericks.
  
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• [NBA] - Purple Mountain Party on Saturday

  15-10-2019 22:20 via sportspyder.com
  This season, the Utah Jazz will be celebrating one of the most successful periods in franchise history by bringing back their iconic purple mountain jerseys, which the team wore from 1996 until 2004.
  
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• BYU continues to get run over by opponents. How do the Cougars fix this?

  15-10-2019 22:13
  South Florida mounted a fourth-quarter comeback to upset BYU last Saturday based largely on a bruising running game — and constantly running the same two plays right up the middle. The Bulls rushed for 243 of their 315 total yards.Seven years ago, the Cougars were third in the nation in both rush defense and total defense. So far this season, BYU is ranked 123rd in rushing defense and 86th in total defense.Opponents have averaged 224.5 rushing yards per game against BYU and have scored nin
  
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• Real estate fraudster Rick Koerber argues prosecutors want him punished more harshly because he’s a Latter-day Saint, gets support from the Bundys

  15-10-2019 22:12
  As they spent the past decade trying to put prominent Utah real estate investor Rick Koerber behind bars, federal prosecutors often pointed to the man’s religion as being instrumental to his scheme.The government has long accused Koerber of gaining his victims' trust because of their mutual belief in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.But now Koerber’s attorneys argue ahead of his Tuesday sentencing for fraud, wire fraud and money laundering that prosecutors’ focus
  
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• Get a free Utah Jazz jersey when you open a new Mountain America Credit Union credit card! To learn more: https://on.nba.com/2oDASW0 pic.twitter.com/7tBeu1N2iB

  15-10-2019 22:11 via twitter.com
  Get a free Utah Jazz jersey when you open a new Mountain America Credit Union credit card!To learn more: https://on.nba.com/2oDASW0 pic.twitter.com/7tBeu1N2iB
  
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• Commentary: Are school debate competitions bad for our political discourse?

  15-10-2019 22:00
  What do conservative political figures like Ted Cruz, Steve Bannon, Karl Rove and Richard Nixon have in common with liberal politicians like Elizabeth Warren, Andrew Yang, Kamala Harris and Bill Clinton? They all honed their skills of rhetoric, reasoning and persuasion on school debate teams.That’s no surprise. Excelling in school debate opens many academic and professional doors, conferring prestige and signaling exceptional verbal and logical aptitude. Some of those skills will no doubt
  
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• The Utah Jazz are likely to pick one of these three players to fill the last roster spot

  15-10-2019 21:59
  Kyle Collinsworth is a 28-year-old Provo native whose professional basketball career includes a pair of stops in the G League and 32 games with the Dallas Mavericks. Stanton Kidd, 27, hails from Baltimore, and has played in Belgium, Germany, and Turkey. And 25-year-old Frenchman William Howard has thus far spent his entire pro career with teams in his home country.In spite of their wildly different backgrounds, they’ve been brought together via their pursuit of a singular goal — maki
  
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• LeBron James no longer King James for Hong Kong protesters

  15-10-2019 21:57
  Hong Kong • When the ball smashed into a photo of LeBron James’ face stuck above the hoop and dropped into the basket, the Hong Kong protesters cheered.They also trampled on jerseys bearing his name and gathered in a semicircle to watch one burn.James' standing among basketball fans in Hong Kong took a hit because of comments the NBA star made about free speech. Fans gathered on courts amid Hong Kong's high-rise buildings Tuesday to vent their anger.The player for the Los Angeles Lake
  
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• 12 Democrats meet for first debate since impeachment inquiry

  15-10-2019 21:54
  Westerville, Ohio • Joe Biden is facing baseless but persistent allegations of wrongdoing overseas that could undermine his argument that he’s best positioned to defeat the president. Bernie Sanders is recovering from a heart attack that raised questions about his ability to withstand the vigor of a presidential campaign. And Elizabeth Warren is fending off new scrutiny of her biography.A dozen Democratic presidential candidates will meet on Tuesday for the most crowded presidential d
  
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• Number of vaping illness cases in Utah rises to 83. No more deaths reported.

  15-10-2019 21:48
  The number of vaping-related lung damage cases in Utah has risen to 83, according to officials.As of Tuesday, that’s an increase of 11 over the previous week, according to the Utah Department of Health. There have been no additional deaths; one fatality was reported in the state last week.Health officials said that vaping THC cartridges “is the likely driver of this outbreak of severe lung injury” and recommend that people “do not vape THC cartridges until we learn more.&
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Rudy Gobert wins MVP of France

  15-10-2019 21:45 via sportspyder.com
  Best French Player of the Year? You betcha
  
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• Utah man steals car with Tooele child still inside

  15-10-2019 21:14
  Police are looking for a man who stole a car with a child in the back seat on Tuesday morning in Tooele.According to the Tooele City Police department, a woman left her young son in the car outside her apartment, near 1900 West and 1900 North, about 7:30 p.m. to go back inside for a moment. That’s when the unidentified man jumped in the vehicle and drove off.The woman’s father, Guy Ashdown, told FOX 13 that his wife went back to see what was keeping their daughter when the car was st
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Gordon Monson: Oddly enough, the Utah Jazz might be better this season on offense than defense

  15-10-2019 20:21 via sportspyder.com
  There are things — namely, stopping the other guys from scoring a bajillion points — to worry about early on with the Utah Jazz, but this — scoring points themselves — isn’t one of them.
  
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• Golf: Utah Championship stays in June and two-time State Amateur winner Preston Summerhays commits to Arizona State

  15-10-2019 20:03
  The Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank will keep its late-June dates on the 2020 Korn Ferry Tour schedule, announced Tuesday.The $725,000 golf tournament will be staged June 25-28 at Oakridge Country Club in Farmington, televised by the Golf Channel. The Utah stop will follow an event in Wichita, Kan., then the tour will take a week off before resuming in Berthoud, Colo., in the second week of July.Patrick Fishburn, an alumnus of Fremont High School and BYU, will be a Korn Ferry Tour memb
  
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• Gordon Monson: Oddly enough, the Utah Jazz might be better this season on offense than defense

  15-10-2019 19:50
  There are things — namely, stopping the other guys from scoring a bajillion points — to worry about early on with the Utah Jazz, but this — scoring points themselves — isn’t one of them.The defense, the core of the Jazz’s identity in recent years, has looked in the preseason like a blind man’s finger-painting.But, at the other end, if you appreciate fine art, or even if you wouldn’t know a Van Gogh from a give-and-go, you’ll enjoy what you&rs
  
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• Commentary: Kanye West and the cult of personality

  15-10-2019 19:08
  When Kanye West’s “Jesus Walks” was released in 2004, the song was praised for boldly bringing discussions of faith into hip-hop. Fifteen years later, Mr. West’s contemporaries continue to speak of its impact. In the first episode of “Hip-Hop: The Songs That Shook America,” an AMC docu-series that premiered Sunday, the singer-songwriter John Legend said, “Kanye made it O.K. to talk about your faith in songs that weren’t Christian songs.”It is
  
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• Utah Championship golf tourney will return to Farmington in June

  15-10-2019 19:07
  The Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank will keep its late-June dates on the 2020 Korn Ferry Tour schedule, announced Tuesday.The $725,000 golf tournament will be staged June 25-28 at Oakridge Country Club in Farmington, televised by the Golf Channel. The Utah stop will follow an event in Wichita, Kan., then the tour will take a week off before resuming in Berthoud, Colo., in the second week of July.Patrick Fishburn, an alumnus of Fremont High School and BYU, will be a Korn Ferry Tour memb
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - The cheapest MVPs in NBA history relative to the league salary cap

  15-10-2019 18:53 via sportspyder.com
  The NBA crowns its Most Valuable Player at the end of each season. Which of these players, though, have been on the most valuable contract?
  
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• Real estate fraudster Rick Koerber argues prosecutors want him punished more harshly because he’s a Latter-day Saint

  15-10-2019 18:48
  As they spent the past decade trying to put prominent Utah real estate investor Rick Koerber behind bars, federal prosecutors often pointed to the man’s religion as being instrumental to his scheme.The government has long accused Koerber of gaining his victims' trust because of their mutual belief in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.But now Koerber’s attorneys argue ahead of his Tuesday sentencing for fraud, wire fraud and money laundering that prosecutors’ focus
  
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• Former WH aide: John Bolton called Giuliani a ‘hand grenade’

  15-10-2019 18:47
  Washington • National security adviser John Bolton was so alarmed by Rudy Giuliani’s back-channel activities in Ukraine that he described President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer as a “hand grenade who is going to blow everybody up,” according to a former White House aide.The aide, Fiona Hill, testified for more than 10 hours on Monday as part of the Democrats' impeachment probe into Trump's dealings with Ukraine. She detailed Bolton's concerns to lawmakers and told
  
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• Utes at midseason: They are rolling now, but that USC loss looms large

  15-10-2019 18:24
  Utah coach Kyle Whittingham probably was too forgiving in the midseason grading of his football team, because his A-minus assessment glosses over how the Utes lost to the wrong team.In the second half of the season, the Utes either will have to raise their grade to an “A” by winning their remaining six games or hope that USC fails multiple times.Here’s the problem with No. 13 Utah’s 5-1 record, amid strong performances overall by the offense and defense: If the season end
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Jazz pairing improved offense with already tough defense

  15-10-2019 17:29 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz are looking to become a bigger postseason threat with a more versatile offense this season
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz coach Quin Snyder speaks out on heated exchange between Dante Exum, Miye Oni

  15-10-2019 17:11 via sportspyder.com
  Sixth-year guard Dante Exum and rookie Miye Oni got into a heated altercation at Utah Jazz practice the other day. Exum reportedly stormed out of the gym after hitting the canvas hard while being guarded by Oni. Jazz head coach Quin Snyder spoke...
  
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• Navajo voters elect new delegate to tribal council

  15-10-2019 16:58
  Window Rock, Ariz. • The Navajo Nation Council has a new delegate.Carl Roessel Slater won a special election for a seat representing five Navajo communities in the Arizona portion of the reservation. He took office Thursday.Slater had served as a spokesman for the tribe's legislative branch before stepping down to run for the council seat. He beat out four others to replace longtime lawmaker Nelson BeGaye, who retired for health reasons.Slater is the grandson of the late Ruth and Robert Roe
  
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• Paul Krugman: Backers have turned God into Trump’s co-conspirator

  15-10-2019 16:41
  Listening to the speech William Barr, the attorney general, gave last week at the University of Notre Dame Law School, I found myself thinking of the title of an old movie: “God Is My Co-Pilot.” What I realized is that Donald Trump’s minions have now gone that title one better: If Barr’s speech is any indication, their strategy is to make God their boss’ co-conspirator.Given where we are right now, you might have expected Barr to respond in some way to the events of
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: Under Trump, U.S. has joined the axis of autocrats

  15-10-2019 16:40
  When Ukrainian autocrat Viktor Yanukovych fled to Russia after a popular uprising in 2014, thousands of citizens poured into Mezhyhirya, his 340-acre estate on the outskirts of Kyiv.Ordinary people, eager to see the lifestyle Yanukovych’s thievery had financed, found an opulent palace filled with chandeliers, exquisite inlaid wood and gilt. It had a private movie theater, bowling alley, golf course, dog kennel and ostrich farm. A tunnel connected the main house to a spa with an oxygen cham
  
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• Luz Escamilla and Erin Mendenhall pledge to work for Salt Lake City’s west side

  15-10-2019 16:22
  Salt Lake City has not had leadership that “intentionally cares about the west side," state Sen. Luz Escamilla argued during a mayoral debate Monday.But if elected mayor next month, the Rose Park resident says she would make west-side equity a hallmark of her administration and would seek to acknowledge inequities and boost property values there by promoting a mix of housing types and bringing “good investment to the area.”“We have to be intentional in addressing disparit
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Evaluating the Western Conference Rotations using 538’s RAPTOR

  15-10-2019 16:11 via sportspyder.com
  Where do the Jazz stack up?
  
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• Woman killed by Texas officer was devoted to family

  15-10-2019 16:08
  Dallas • Atatiana Jefferson was devoted to her family and had moved into her mother’s Fort Worth home earlier this year to help as her mom’s health declined, relatives said.With her mother in the hospital, Jefferson and her 8-year-old nephew were the only two people home early Saturday when a police officer fired a gunshot through a back window, killing Jefferson.The 28-year-old Jefferson, who family members sometimes called "Tay," and her nephew had devoted their night to Call
  
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• Texas officer charged with murder, resigns after shooting

  15-10-2019 16:07
  Fort Worth, Texas • A white Fort Worth police officer who shot and killed a black woman through a back window of her home while responding to a call about an open front door was charged with murder on Monday evening after resigning from the force.Aaron Dean, 34, was jailed on $200,000 bond after the police chief said he acted without justification and would have been fired if he hadn't quit.Police bodycam video showed Dean approaching the door of the home where Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was c
  
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• Latest deadly police shooting raises questions about tactics

  15-10-2019 16:06
  On any given day in the U.S., police respond to thousands of non-emergency calls asking them to check on someone’s home. Most such visits prove uneventful. A few, like one over the weekend in Fort Worth, Texas, end up with someone getting killed by police.Experts in law enforcement training and tactics say there is a multitude of questions raised by the shooting of 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson, who was cut down at her home by a bullet fired through a window by an officer responding to a
  
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• Census Bureau seeks state data, including citizenship info

  15-10-2019 15:53
  The U.S. Census Bureau is asking states for drivers’ license records that typically include citizenship data and has made a new request for information on recipients of government assistance, alarming some civil rights advocates.The two approaches, documented by The Associated Press, come amid President Donald Trump’s efforts to make citizenship a key aspect of federal information-gathering in the run-up to the 2020 Census, despite this year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that a s
  
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• Political Cornflakes: What the Democratic candidates have to do to win tonight’s debate

  15-10-2019 15:27
  Happy Tuesday! Sen. Elizabeth Warren needs to stand out as the unequivocal leader. Former Vice President Joe Biden needs to prove he can handle attacks from President Donald Trump and his Democratic rivals at the same time. Sen. Bernie Sanders, recovering from a recent heart attack, needs to fend off concerns about his health while staying focused on the issues. As Democratic presidential candidate again take the stage to debate, The Washington Post breaks down the ways leading candidates can st
  
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• Kurds in Utah fear a ‘massacre’ after U.S. withdrawal from Syria

  15-10-2019 15:22
  Kamal Bewar has had trouble sleeping the past week.From his home in Utah, Bewar has been watching news coverage of the U.S. withdrawal from northern Syria. He has been thinking about two brothers who joined Kurdish forces to fight the Islamic State (IS) group there, and the family he has throughout the Kurdish regions of the Middle East.“We are facing another genocide,” Bewar, 50, said Monday. “Another massacre.”He feels sadness more than anger. “You feel like you&r
  
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• Most scooter riders using the sidewalk are afraid of cars, new survey shows

  15-10-2019 15:18
  As Salt Lake City officials threaten to crack down on dockless e-scooter companies that don’t do enough to reduce incidents of their users riding on sidewalks, new data suggest solutions to the problem go beyond education efforts.A survey conducted by Lime, one of four e-scooter companies currently operating within the city, found that the primary reason its users say they’re not on the streets isn’t because they don’t know the rules but because they fear for their safety
  
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• Utah ranks No. 1 for growth in gun sales, report says

  15-10-2019 15:17
  Utah’s rate of gun sales has grown more quickly than any other state during the past decade — a time when mass shootings have created hot debate over firearms control and ownership nationally.Utah’s rate of gun sales per adult grew by 80.4% between 2009 and 2018, according to a study using FBI background check data by Security.org, a website that helps consumers choose security and safety systems.Other top states for growth in gun sales rates included New Hampshire, 72.1%; Illi
  
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• Review: ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ puts a thrilling spin on Disney’s dark sorceress

  15-10-2019 15:00
  If giving The Joker a sympathetic backstory was tough, that’s nothing to what Disney has been doing for the past five years with Maleficent, the satanic sorceress who put Sleeping Beauty under.First in “Maleficent” (2014) and now in a daring and sometimes dark sequel, “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil,” the dragon lady with the black horns dances on the line between the light and the dark — and, thanks to star Angelina Jolie, makes each step captivating.As fans of
  
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• Peter Coviello: Struggles of the 19th century persist for Mormons

  15-10-2019 15:00
  For those with their ears pricked for echoes of the adventurous LDS past – the days of discovery, persecution, migration, a fraught peace – the convening of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints offers strange, not always heartening, fare.Some ironies are easy to spot. Ever since the 1995 appearance of “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” LDS speakers have elaborated its claims about gender, domestic life and, above all, the convi
  
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• [Forbes] - Indiana Pacers Season Preview: How Are All The New Players Going To Fit?

  15-10-2019 14:22 via sportspyder.com
  The Indiana Pacers are kicking off a new season with a dramatically re-shaped roster. How it all fits together will define the Pacers' 2019-20 campaign.
  
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• University of Utah announces 6 new professorships in health and clinical research funded by the Huntsman family

  15-10-2019 14:00
  The Huntsman family announced Tuesday that it will fund six additional professorships at the University of Utah in honor of late patriarch Jon M. Huntsman Sr.The contribution is part of ongoing support for chair positions at the school that were announced in 2017 when the initial six positions were named. This latest installment comes now after the family has said goodbye to Huntsman Sr. in February 2018.“Thanks to the tremendous generosity of the Huntsman family, we are thrilled to be abl
  
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• Robert Kirby: Living down a past can keep people from living up to their potential

  15-10-2019 14:00
  On a summer night in the early 1970s, two Salt Lake County sheriff’s deputies questioned me in connection with a reported aggravated assault.The deputies had dealt with me before — vandalism, burglary, possession of alcohol, etc. So when it was reported that I attempted to shoot someone, it seemed credible.Naturally, I told them it didn’t happen. The investigation consisted of a search of my car, efforts to determine my whereabouts at a certain time and several unofficial threa
  
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• The Triple Team: Jazz can’t stop anyone from scoring in third straight preseason game. How worried should you be?

  15-10-2019 07:25
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 128-115 loss to the Sacramento Kings from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Jazz didn’t try defensively in the first half. How concerned should you be?Look, the Jazz didn’t try very hard at all defensively in the first half. They gave up 78 points in the first half, and that’s a large number. It’s now three games in a row where they’ve given up 128 points or more.It’s preseason. How much should you care?I
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Triple Team: Jazz can’t stop anyone from scoring in third straight preseason game. How worried should you be?

  15-10-2019 07:22 via sportspyder.com
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 128-115 loss to the Sacramento Kings from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Joe Ingles ready to embrace full-time Sixth Man role with Jazz

  15-10-2019 07:00 via sportspyder.com
  In their preseason game against the Sacramento Kings on Monday, Joe Ingles came off the bench once again which signifies his full-time transition as the team’s sixth man. However, Ingles has no problem embracing his new role with the team. Per Tim...
  
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• Jazz defense struggles again as Kings roll to 128-115 victory

  15-10-2019 06:55
  All those offseason moves the Jazz pulled off to make their offense far more formidable appear to have done exactly that.Now, maybe the team can turn its attention to bolstering its ineffectual defense.Utah’s counterintuitive preseason extended into Monday night’s penultimate game, as another point-scoring outburst proved unable to counteract the latest gates-open-to-the-fort effort on the other end, as the Sacramento Kings rolled to a 128-115 victory at Vivint Smart Home Arena.Thoug
  
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