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• John Conyers, longest serving black congressman, dies at 90

  27-10-2019 23:27
  Detroit • Former U.S. Rep. John Conyers, one of the longest-serving members of Congress whose resolutely liberal stance on civil rights made him a political institution in Washington and back home in Detroit despite several scandals, has died. He was 90.Conyers, among the high-profile politicians toppled by sex harassment allegations in 2017, died at his home on Sunday, said Detroit police spokesman Cpl. Dan Donakowski. The death "looks like natural causes," Donakowski added.Known as the de
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Game Thread: Utah Jazz will face road challenge against red-hot Phoenix Suns

  27-10-2019 23:17 via sportspyder.com
  Normally considered a pushover opponent, the Phoenix Suns are off to a red-hot start and could provide a daunting challenge for the Utah Jazz. The Utah Jaz...
  
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• 𝓼𝓹𝓸𝓸𝓴𝔂 𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓮 SZNpic.twitter.com/DgEJU4M3JE

  27-10-2019 23:06 via twitter.com
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Mike Conley got off to a rough start with Jazz, but there are signs things are starting to smooth out

  27-10-2019 23:05 via sportspyder.com
  Each episode of the children’s cartoon “Scooby-Doo” culminated with the Mystery Inc. gang capturing the villain via some elaborate trap, and then removing the perpetrator’s mask to reveal his or her true identity.
  
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• Game Thread: Utah Jazz will face road challenge against red-hot Phoenix Suns

  27-10-2019 22:51
  Normally considered a pushover opponent, the Phoenix Suns are off to a red-hot start and could provide a daunting challenge for the Utah Jazz. The Utah Jazz looked like a completely different team on Saturday night against the Sacramento Kings than they did on Friday in Los Angeles. Their defense remained solid, and this time […]
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• Mike Conley got off to a rough start with Jazz, but there are signs things are starting to smooth out

  27-10-2019 22:40
  Each episode of the children’s cartoon “Scooby-Doo” culminated with the Mystery Inc. gang capturing the villain via some elaborate trap, and then removing the perpetrator’s mask to reveal his or her true identity.After the first two games of the Jazz’s 2019-20 season, there was a popular meme going around social media, showing the Scooby-Doo character Fred having apparently apprehended Utah point guard Mike Conley (who had shot a combined 4 for 27 in those matchups)
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz looked more like the team they’re expected to be in win vs. Kings

  27-10-2019 22:40 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz appeared to have turned a significant corner in their blowout 113-81 win over the Sacramento Kings. Sure, the dismal Sacramento Kings, who ha...
  
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• Utah Jazz looked more like the team they’re expected to be in win vs. Kings

  27-10-2019 22:17
  The Utah Jazz appeared to have turned a significant corner in their blowout 113-81 win over the Sacramento Kings. Sure, the dismal Sacramento Kings, who haven’t qualified for the playoffs since 2006, have a habit of making opposing teams look good. But there’s still no denying that the Utah Jazz appeared as if they were […]
  Utah Jazz looked more like the team they’re expected to be in win vs. Kings - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion
  
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• Trump says U.S. forces cornered Islamic State leader in dead-end tunnel before he blew himself up

  27-10-2019 22:06
  Washington • Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , the shadowy leader of the Islamic State group who presided over its global jihad and became arguably the world’s most wanted man, blew himself up as U.S. special operators cornered him during a raid in Syria, President Donald Trump said Sunday."Last night, the United States brought the world's No. 1 terrorist leader to justice," Trump announced at the White House, providing graphic details of al-Baghdadi's final moments at the helm of the militant o
  
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• Tribune Editorial: As federal workers face violence, rural leaders play politics

  27-10-2019 22:00
  It’s the western version of the American right-wing extremism that has taken off this century.A report from the General Accounting Office found more than 360 different cases in recent years of federal employees being threatened or assaulted by anti-government extremists who baselessly insist they are losing rights to America’s public lands.And, like white supremacist and militia groups that have gotten more brazen during the current president’s term, the rise is fed by a larger
  
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• George F. Will: Weak political parties smooth the way for demagogues

  27-10-2019 22:00
  Washington • There are political moments, and this might be one, in which worse is better. Moments, that is, when a society’s per capita quantity of conspicuous stupidity is so high and public manners are so low that a critical mass of people are jolted into saying “enough, already.” Looking on the bright side, as usually he is sensibly disinclined to do, Jonathan Rauch thinks such a moment might be arriving.Writing in National Affairs (“Rethinking Polarization&rdquo
  
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• Dems in Congress demand update on Interior wild horse plans

  27-10-2019 21:57
  Reno, Nev. • Congressional Democrats are demanding the Interior Department produce an overdue report on plans to manage wild horses roaming federal lands in the West after the head of its public lands agency told reporters it will take $5 billion and 15 years to get overpopulated herds under control.William Perry Pendley, acting director of the Bureau of Land Management, said last week he's increasingly optimistic his agency will eventually be able to reduce the herd sizes through stepped-u
  
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• Utah professor transforms his home’s exterior into elaborate tribute to Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion

  27-10-2019 21:47
  St. George • A Utah college professor has completed a massive project decorating the exterior of his house in an elaborate Halloween tribute to Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion.
  A close up view of decorations created by Dixie State University professor Josh Pedersen with inspiration from Disneyland's Haunted Mansion attraction and the movie "Nightmare Before Christmas" are seen in St. George, Utah.The Spectrum newspaper reports Pedersen studied more than 200 images of the attraction to mo
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Projecting the Utah Jazz Championship Window Part I

  27-10-2019 21:38 via sportspyder.com
  After years of being in the rebuilding phase, the Utah Jazz are poised to be contenders for this year's NBA championship. But how long will they last as a ...
  
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• California governor declares statewide emergency as wind-driven blaze spurs massive evacuations

  27-10-2019 20:23
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a statewide emergency as wildfires and extreme weather conditions forced almost 200,000 people from their homes.He said in a statement Sunday that officials are deploying "every resource available" to respond to the wildfires, including a large blaze in Northern California's wine country driven by powerful winds.Smoke from a second wildfire in the San Francisco Bay Area briefly halted traffic on a bridge. The flames came dangerously close to homes in Val
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Bojan Bogdanovic scores 26 points, Jazz rout Kings 113-81

  27-10-2019 20:03 via sportspyder.com
  SALT LAKE CITY — Bojan Bogdanovic wasn't about to let a sore ankle keep him from making his presence felt on offense
  
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• Utah is back in the top 10 and LSU is the new No. 1 in the AP Top 25

  27-10-2019 19:33
  By winning their last four games, the Utah Utes have more than regained the ground they lost in the AP Top 25 after losing to USC in September. Their challenge now is to hold their position in the top 10, as they failed to do the last time they got there.In the poll released Sunday, Utah moved up three spots to a season-high No. 9 after a 35-0 win over California on Saturday, jumping ahead of Oklahoma, Auburn and Notre Dame. Pac-12 North leader Oregon is No. 7 after beating Washington State 37-3
  
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• *watches for the 10,000th time*pic.twitter.com/WMIgtTjNzH

  27-10-2019 18:55 via twitter.com
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Donovan Mitchell gets hit in the web shooter, Joe Ingles can’t help but laugh

  27-10-2019 18:17 via sportspyder.com
  We are all children when it comes to sophomoric comedy.
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Women are not the ones who need fixing

  27-10-2019 18:00
  Women are not the problem.There has always been something grotesque about the idea that they are. But to embrace that idea in the #MeToo era is not just grotesque, but clueless. It suggests that you slept through a reckoning that has shifted the Zeitgeist.So somebody please tell Ernst & Young to wake up and smell the 2019.The London-based multinational business services firm has been struggling to contain the fallout of a story posted by HuffPost last week about a June 2018 training seminar
  
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• 2 dead, 14 injured after shooting at Texas homecoming party

  27-10-2019 18:00
  Greenville, Texas • A gunman opened fire at an off-campus party for a nearby Texas college, leaving two people dead and 14 injured before he escaped in the ensuing chaos, a sheriff said Sunday.Authorities believe the shooter may have been targeting just one person at the party of about 750 people outside Greenville, 15 miles southwest of a satellite campus for Texas A&M University, and that others may have been shot at random, Hunt County Sheriff Randy Meeks said.The shooting took place
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Bojan Bogdanovic in Jazz’s throwbacks seems to recreate John Stockton’s ‘Shot’

  27-10-2019 17:53 via sportspyder.com
  The more things change, the more they remain the same.
  
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• California’s wind-driven blaze spurs massive evacuations

  27-10-2019 17:08
  San Francisco • Authorities in Northern California ordered 180,000 residents to flee their homes Sunday as historic winds fueled a wildfire in the wine country, while electricity was shut off for millions of people in an effort to prevent more fires.The fear that the winds could blow embers and spread fire across a major highway prompted authorities to expand evacuation orders that covered parts of Santa Rosa, a city of 175,000 that was devastated by a wildfire two years ago. The latest eva
  
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• Utes will need to perform like a genuine top 10 team at Washington

  27-10-2019 16:10
  As the clock approached midnight after his team’s 35-0 rout of California at Rice-Eccles Stadium, Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham offered a final thought Saturday to a media contingent that quickly ran out of questions and critiques about the Utes.“Don't get bored,” Whittingham said, “with winning.”That won’t happen. Utah’s four-game winning streak either will be validated or made less meaningful by 9:30 p.m MDT start next Saturday, just before the
  
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• Utes’ defense celebrates its dwindling numbers

  27-10-2019 15:40
  The numbers are getting smaller and smaller, and that’s making Leki Fotu’s smile wider and wider.Fotu, Utah football’s 6-foot-5, 335-pound slab of a defensive tackle, grinned when he heard the Utes had held Cal to a total of 83 yards of offense Saturday during a 35-0 victory over the Golden Bears at Rice-Eccles Stadium. It was the first shutout Utah has recorded in Pac-12 play since joining the conference in 2011.Fotu’s smile really opened up, though, when he learned that
  
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• Islamic State leader dead after U.S. raid in Syria, Trump says

  27-10-2019 15:40
  Washington • The shadowy leader of the Islamic State group who presided over its global jihad and became arguably the world’s most wanted man, is dead after being targeted by a U.S. military raid in Syria, President Donald Trump said Sunday."Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead," Trump announced at the White House, saying the U.S. had "brought the world's number one terrorist leader to justice."Addressing the nation from the White House on Sunday morning, Trump described a daring airborne rai
  
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• [Amico Hoops] - Could Millsap someday return to Jazz in free agency?

  27-10-2019 15:37 via sportspyder.com
  Veteran forward Paul Millsap is currently a member of the Denver Nuggets but perhaps he could return the place where it all started. That is the focus of a post by Jody Genessy of the Deseret News. "It would have to happen like this, according to ESPN
  
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• Letter: Remember the Primary song about being honest

  27-10-2019 15:09
  To our entire delegation of Utah congressmen, especially Reps. Chris Stewart and Rob Bishop and Sen. Mike Lee:It seems timely to remind you of a song you probably sang in Primary. Surely your children sang it, and your own grandchildren will be singing it as well.“I believe in being honest;“I believe in being true,“That honesty should start with me“In all I say, in all I do.“I’ll form good habits in my youth,“To keep my word, to tell the truth,“To
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Did you know Boise is the heart of surrogacy — thanks in part to Latter-day Saint women?

  27-10-2019 15:08
  Boise, Idaho, is the unofficial surrogacy capital of America — in part because there’s a willing population of Latter-day Saint women there who agree to carry other people’s babies.That’s one of many things I learned watching the “Independent Lens” documentary “Made in Boise,” which airs Monday at 9 p.m. and Tuesday at 11 p.m. on KUED-Ch. 7.“Mormon women, they have to get permission from their bishop,” said Nicole Williamson, the owner
  
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• Robert Kirby: Did converts stick, or was only the LDS missionary stuck?

  27-10-2019 15:07
  A recent study about how many Latter-day Saint converts stay Latter-day Saints after just a year in their newfound faith revealed a few surprises.At least it did to me. The country I served in half a century ago isn’t doing so well.Uruguay is near the bottom of the list — found at ldschurchgrowth.blogspot.com — with a 33% retention rate a year after baptism. Austria and Venezuela finished in the cellar with 25% of converts sticking around longer than a year.I don’t know w
  
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• As San Juan County considers tax hike, a struggling copper mine owes $1.4 million

  27-10-2019 15:06
  A San Juan County copper mine that hasn’t paid property taxes since 2014 asked for a tax deferral last week, citing the Trump administration’s ongoing trade dispute with China and its impact on copper prices.The Lisbon Valley Mining Co., which operates an open-pit mine and heap leach facility southeast of Moab, owes the county a total of $1.4 million in back taxes, fees and interest. Last week, it asked the San Juan County Commission to approve a 36-month payment plan and to waive $2
  
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• Suicides are taking a toll in and out of a Utah polygamous sect, and solutions don’t look easy

  27-10-2019 15:04
  Editor’s note • This story discusses suicide. If you or people you know are at risk of self-harm, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides 24-hour support at 1-800-273-8255.Hildale • Seth Cooke asked to see his son’s right hand.The son, Justin Cooke, had been in a lot of fights through the years. The Cookes were one of the first families here on the Utah-Arizona line to sue the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Other families di
  
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• Letter: Keep the national parks free of ATVs

  27-10-2019 14:00
  Recently, a directive was handed to the U.S. National Park Service from the maliciously ignorant office of the U.S. president. The order opens national park roads to ATVs. It is certainly a culminating insult/injury to a public agency beset by employee shortages, infrastructure breakdowns of all sorts and record visitation numbers. Both the Park Service and the visiting public are given slaps in the face by our president, whose ability to destroy is surpassed only by his willingness to do so. AT
  
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• Letter: Carbon tax won’t destroy capitalism. It will preserve it.

  27-10-2019 14:00
  Proposal: Take sunlight, ocean water and atmospheric nitrogen and make ammonia. Ship ammonia to where it's needed as fertilizer or fuel. Extract hydrogen from the ammonia to power aircraft.All I'm claiming is this proposal deserves study as one possibility for how a capitalistic economy can turn challenge into opportunity. Is there a role for public policy in facilitating capital to flow to where it is urgently needed to meet a big challenge we face?Proposal: Not to destroy capitalism but to pre
  
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• Melissa Schack: Hard of hearing people should be able to enjoy movies like everyone else

  27-10-2019 13:00
  We are behind in offering equal opportunity to those with disabilities. The deaf and hard of hearing population is excluded from enjoying movies in theaters the same way the hearing do. As a hard of hearing person, I have experienced the issues first-hand, and I offer a solution.Currently, local movie theaters offer closed captioning devices that hide captioning from the rest of the audience. The devices are faulty. They provide spotty or no captions, and are often uncharged, or broken. The capt
  
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• U.S. official: IS leader believed dead in U.S. military assault

  27-10-2019 07:21
  Washington • Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy leader of the Islamic State group who presided over its global jihad and became arguably the world’s most wanted man, is believed dead after being targeted by a U.S. military raid in Syria.A U.S. official told The Associated Press late Saturday that al-Baghdadi was targeted in Syria’s Idlib province. The official said confirmation that the IS chief was killed in an explosion is pending. No other details were available. The official
  
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• Utah pounds Cal 35-0 to complete dominating month

  27-10-2019 07:08
  Utah’s defense completed a phenomenal October performance Saturday night, producing the sixth shutout among all of the conference games played in the expanded Pac-12 – covering almost 500 contests in nine seasons. And that was not even the most remarkable part of the No. 12 Utes’ 35-0 defeat of California at Rice-Eccles Stadium. Compiling 28 points and 351 yards in the first half alone, the Ute offense shredded a Cal defense that held No. 11 Oregon to 17 points this month and h
  
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• Air Force hands Utah State its first conference loss of the season, 31-7

  27-10-2019 07:05
  Air Force Academy, Colo. • Timothy Jackson ran for 148 yards and a touchdown, Kadin Remsberg added a pair of scoring runs and Air Force shut down Utah State 31-7 on Saturday night.Jackson reached 100 yards for the third straight game to become the first Air Force running back to accomplish the feat since Cody Getz had three 100-yard rushing games in a row during the 2012 season.Taven Birdow also had a touchdown run for Air Force (6-2, 4-1 Mountain West), which became bowl eligible after it
  
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• Jazz find their shooting range, crush overmatched Kings 113-81

  27-10-2019 06:59
  It’s gotta be the purple mountain jerseys, right?Then again, perhaps the Jazz’s still-evolving roster finally found some of that instinctiveness that coach Quin Snyder referenced pregame. Or maybe the Kings’ defense really is just avert-your-eyes awful.Whatever the reason, the Jazz buried their overmatched visitors with an avalanche of 3-pointers on Saturday night, rolling to a 113-81 victory at Vivint Smart Home Arena in a game that was effectively over by halftime.“It w
  
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• [KSL] - Utah Jazz's offense comes alive in blowout win over Sacramento Kings | KSL.com

  27-10-2019 06:50 via sportspyder.com
  Bojan Bogdanovic scored 26 points to lead a lethal Jazz offensive attack in a blowout win over the Kings.
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Jazz Complete Opening Week Trilogy

  27-10-2019 06:38 via sportspyder.com
  In the first episode, the Jazz played the part of the hometown hero that lost a few skirmishes, but emerged victorious in the end. And he wasnt alone. To say the least.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz-Kings analysis by Andy Larsen

  27-10-2019 06:30 via sportspyder.com
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 113-81 win over the Sacramento Kings from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.
  
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• Urquidy, Bregman lead Astros over Nationals 8-1 to tie Series 2-2

  27-10-2019 06:27
  Washington • Not bad for a TBA.Jose Urquidy outpitched all those big-name aces who preceded him, the unheralded Houston rookie quieting Washington’s bats and the Nationals Park crowd, too.Alex Bregman busted out of his slump with a go-ahead single in the first inning and a grand slam in the seventh, and the resurgent Astros routed the Nationals 8-1 Saturday night for a 2-all tie in a World Series that’s been one big road show.“From the very beginning I thought he was calm
  
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• The Triple Team: Jazz just pass around Kings defenders like they weren’t there in huge win

  27-10-2019 06:25
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 113-81 win over the Sacramento Kings from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. The Jazz will kill teams that play this kind of defenseIf you’ve read the Triple Team for a while, you know that the Jazz, if they have problems offensively, usually have them against drop-big defenses. That’s when, in pick and roll, teams stay home on perimeter shooters and force the team to attack a big in the paint or take mid-range shots.The Kings do
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz debut throwback mountain jerseys and court vs. Sacramento

  27-10-2019 06:02 via sportspyder.com
  2019 welcomed back the 1990s on Saturday night.
  
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• Jazz crush overmatched Kings 113-81 at Vivint Arena

  27-10-2019 06:02
  It’s gotta be the purple mountain jerseys, right?Then again, perhaps the Jazz’s still-evolving roster finally found some of that instinctiveness that coach Quin Snyder referenced pregame. Or maybe the Kings’ defense really is just avert-your-eyes awful.Whatever the reason, the Jazz buried their overmatched visitors with an avalanche of 3-pointers on Saturday night, rolling to a 113-81 victory at Vivint Smart Home Arena in a game that was effectively over by halftime.“It w
  
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• State colleges: No. 12 BYU women’s volleyball team sweeps Pepperdine

  27-10-2019 05:58
  Two strong sets and a gritty effort in the third gave No. 12 BYU women’s volleyball a 3-0 sweep of Pepperdine in a West Coast Conference match Saturday in Malibu, Calif.Senior McKenna Miller had 18 kills on a .452 hitting percentage as the Cougars prevailed 25-21, 25-15, 29-27. Sophomore Madelyn Robinson added 16 kills and seven digs while sophomore Heather Gneiting had 11 kills on a .588 hitting percentage with three blocks for BYU (18-3, 9-1).BYU had a slow start to the match, falling be
  
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• [NBA] - The Roundup—Bogdanović catches fire, leads Jazz past Kings

  27-10-2019 05:56 via sportspyder.com
  Look good, play good. Sporting their purple mountain-themed Classic Edition uniforms, the Utah Jazz sprinted out of the gate and then coasted to a lopsided 113-81 win over the Sacramento
  
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• [NBA] - Bojan Bogdanovic scores 26, gets his first walk-off celebration with the Utah Jazz

  27-10-2019 05:56 via sportspyder.com
  Bojan Bogdanovic’s initiation is complete.The forward joined the Utah Jazz as a free agent back in July but he got his official welcome on Saturday night when Donovan Mitchell drenched the new
  
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