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• Ross Douthat: Real disagreements over foreign policy are buried in Trump’s misconduct

  17-11-2019 23:07
  
  According to Donald Trump’s Republican defenders, the impeachment spectacle unfolding in Washington, D.C., is all about policy differences rather than presidential misconduct, with career foreign policy bureaucrats cooking up excuses to remove a president whose worldview they disdain.As is so often the case with defenses of our chief executive’s conduct, this argument fails completely as a defense of Trump’s own behavior, while nonetheless getting at something important about t
  
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• Tribune Editorial: When charter schools fail, children go down with them

  17-11-2019 23:00
  
  As another charter school hits the cash-flow rocks, the people who oversee charters are asking for more power.History doesn’t argue for that.Treeside Charter School in Provo is deep in debt, including $180,000 owed to the state of Utah, and it has filed for bankruptcy protection. School officials hope to reorganize. For now, its 433 students still have a place to go. But with more than 20 creditors and a debt that could run more than $1 million, survival is hardly a sure thing.It comes thr
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: Shame on us for getting used to Trump

  17-11-2019 23:00
  
  There was a bleak symmetry to the momentous events of this week.On Wednesday, during the first day of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump, Bill Taylor and George Kent, two State Department officials of impeccable credentials, explained how the president used foreign aid and the promise of a White House meeting to try to extort a vulnerable ally for help with his reelection.Withholding security assistance from Ukraine “for no good reason other than help with a polit
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Dante Exum has been cleared to play for the Jazz, but has yet to get off the bench. When will it happen?

  17-11-2019 22:49 via sportspyder.com
  
  At the end of practice Sunday, assistant coach Jeff Watkinson was armed with a padded shield and a foam rod, looking like a participant in a live-action role-play scene that you might see in Liberty Park on a nice Saturday afternoon.
  
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• Dante Exum has been cleared to play for the Jazz, but has yet to get off the bench. When will it happen?

  17-11-2019 22:48
  
  At the end of practice Sunday, assistant coach Jeff Watkinson was armed with a padded shield and a foam rod, looking like a participant in a live-action role-play scene that you might see in Liberty Park on a nice Saturday afternoon.Newly healthy attacker Dante Exum would come off a practice screen with the ball in his hands and attack Watkinson at the rim, trying to finish over the additional strength and length provided by the coach’s tools used to mimic the league’s best rim prote
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Game thread: Utah Jazz look to bounce back against rejuvenated Timberwolves

  17-11-2019 22:23 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz will look to bounce back from a disappointing loss to the Memphis Grizzlies, but will face a tough task against an improved Minnesota Timberw...
  
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• LDS Church President Russell Nelson pays first visit to Vietnam, urges members to boost their gospel knowledge

  17-11-2019 22:07
  
  In his first visit to Vietnam and only the second by an LDS Church president, Russell M. Nelson met Sunday with members in a Hanoi hotel ballroom in an assembly made possible by the Communist government’s official recognition of the Utah-based faith in 2016 and a more recent declaration ensuring the church’s continued ability to conduct religious activities in the Southeast Asian nation.“I express to the leaders of the government and to all the leaders of Vietnam our heartfelt
  
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• Game thread: Utah Jazz look to bounce back against rejuvenated Timberwolves

  17-11-2019 21:40
  
  The Utah Jazz will look to bounce back from a disappointing loss to the Memphis Grizzlies, but will face a tough task against an improved Minnesota Timberwolves squad. Just when it looked like the Utah Jazz were primed to go on a big run and surge up the standings due to a friendly stretch against […]
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Five issues from Utah Jazz loss to Grizzlies perfectly encapsulate season’s woes

  17-11-2019 21:21 via sportspyder.com
  
  A lot went wrong for the Utah Jazz in their disheartening loss to the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday. Many of their issues in that game have been prevalent al...
  
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• Student whose parents died of heart attacks has idea for CPR-assistance device

  17-11-2019 21:18
  
  Eagle Mountain • A Utah high school student who lost both her parents to heart attacks has been nominated for a prestigious scholarship on the strength of her idea for a CPR-assistance device.Kennedy Hall’s idea is to create a device that fits over a person’s nose and mouth and do artificial breaths for a person, the Daily Herald in Provo reports.Hall said a machine like she’s envisioning might have helped her parents, who died after a lack of oxygen caused brain damage.&l
  
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• Five issues from Utah Jazz loss to Grizzlies perfectly encapsulate season’s woes

  17-11-2019 20:34
  
  A lot went wrong for the Utah Jazz in their disheartening loss to the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday. Many of their issues in that game have been prevalent all season. It’s hard to be too dissatisfied with the Utah Jazz’s start considering that they sit at 8-4, good for sole possession of fourth place in […]
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• Utah moves ahead of Minnesota to No. 7 in the AP Top 25

  17-11-2019 20:33
  
  Utah's football team moved up one spot to No. 7 in Sunday's AP Top 25, thanks to Minnesota's 23-19 loss Saturday at Iowa.The ranking is another high mark in November for the Utes (9-1) in the program's Pac-12 era. As a Mountain West member, an unbeaten Utah team was No. 7 on Nov. 30, 2008.Pac-12 North champion Oregon (9-1) remained No. 6. The only change in the top five was Georgia switching places with Alabama, as the Bulldogs moved to No. 4 after a 21-14 victory over Auburn. Alabama beat Missi
  
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• BYU in review: Cougars notch another bowl berth under Kalani Sitake; a contract extension may be forthcoming

  17-11-2019 20:13
  
  Provo • The goal is always the same — to extend the season with a bowl invitation. The Cougars achieved that goal Saturday when they defeated Idaho State 42-10, but the objective went into question more than once throughout the season.Before the Cougars even played their first game, BYU was expected to start the season 0-4 due to one of the nation's strongest schedules that included playing four Power Five schools in the first four weeks. It would have been a strong blow to start on t
  
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• Michael Bloomberg apologizes for ‘stop-and-frisk’ police practice that disproportionately impacted people of color

  17-11-2019 19:34
  
  Washington • Michael Bloomberg on Sunday reversed his longstanding support of the controversial “stop-and-frisk” police strategy ahead of a potential Democratic presidential run, a policy he embraced as New York’s mayor even though it disproportionately impacted people of color.Addressing a black church in Brooklyn, Bloomberg said the practice often led to the disproportionate detaining of blacks and Latinos. He added that he “can’t change history” but no
  
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• Utah is not messing around, ransacking inferior opponents like UCLA

  17-11-2019 17:39
  
  Other than Utah’s frustrating loss to USC and an agonizing three-plus quarters in the win over Washington, cheering for the Utes this season is about as stress-free of an experience as fan could want from a college football team.The Utes have won five Pac-12 games by 18-plus points each, and they also outperformed the odds in the five-point victory at Washington. Utah coach Kyle Whittingham’s critics point to games he shouldn’t have lost over the years or other times when the U
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Who’s available on the NBA Trade Market if the Utah Jazz must upgrade its bench?

  17-11-2019 16:30 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah’s bench ranks among the worst in this young season. Here’s some possible targets for a quick upgrade.
  
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• Maureen Dowd: Republicans are the real chickens of Kiev

  17-11-2019 16:10
  
  Washington • When he was running in 2016, Donald Trump told me that he reminded himself of another presidential candidate — someone, Trump said, who was also tremendously good-looking, a former entertainer and a Democrat-turned-Republican.The vainglorious Trump felt he was the second coming of Ronald Reagan.It is true that, like Reagan, Trump has reshaped his party in his own image, fully inhabiting it. But Reagan’s great mission was to thwart the Evil Empire, taunting that he w
  
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• Ross Dothat: Real disagreements over foreign policy are buried in Trump’s misconduct

  17-11-2019 16:09
  
  According to Donald Trump’s Republican defenders, the impeachment spectacle unfolding in Washington, D.C., is all about policy differences rather than presidential misconduct, with career foreign policy bureaucrats cooking up excuses to remove a president whose worldview they disdain.As is so often the case with defenses of our chief executive’s conduct, this argument fails completely as a defense of Trump’s own behavior, while nonetheless getting at something important about t
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: Fox News is Trump’s shield against impeachment

  17-11-2019 16:09
  
  When President Richard Nixon’s Watergate misconduct was being dissected before congressional committees in 1973 and 1974, Republican support for him collapsed because most Americans shared news sources and inhabited a similar political reality.In short, facts mattered.Aides to Nixon did propose to him a plan to create sympathetic television news coverage; Roger Ailes backed the idea; and it eventually evolved into Fox News. And today Fox gives President Donald Trump an important defense sy
  
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• Robert Kirby: What part about miracles do you not understand?

  17-11-2019 16:08
  
  For true believers in [insert a major religion here], miracles actually happen. You hear about them all the time.Example: Bill gets drunk one evening and falls off the roof of a six-story building. He should be dead, right? Well, he’s not.See, for some reason that can be attributed only to divine intervention, God arranged for a pile of discarded mattresses to be stacked in the alley precisely where Bill lands.Yes, the mattresses had been there for the better part of a year. The building m
  
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• Maternal anxiety is reaching ‘crazy high rates’ in Utah, and experts aren’t sure why

  17-11-2019 16:06
  
  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.The second Evi Figgat heard her son starting to stir from a nap, her body would freeze. “I’d just close my eyes," she said, “tear up with dread, like, ‘OK, here it comes.'”She’d have to calm herself down before picking him up. “I didn’t know what was happenin
  
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• A Utah woman pulled the trigger. A boy died. And now, she’s a public speaker with a simple message — ‘No backstop, no shot.’

  17-11-2019 16:05
  
  Cedar City • It’s a story she’s told over and over.Looking at round-faced kids who gathered in a Cedar City home for a hunter safety course, Kayleen Richins tells them how she fired a bullet that whizzed through the trees, pierced the window of a passing Jeep and hit a 14-year-old boy in the head.She killed someone.And that boy who died last September was not much older than those who had gathered there Saturday morning.“There was no excuse for being in my shoes,” Ri
  
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• Paula Smith: Utah’s mental health needs include more for prevention

  17-11-2019 16:00
  
  The Huntsman Family Foundation has blessed the University of Utah with a phenomenal gift of $150 million to establish a mental health institute. This institute will be the first of its kind in the state with the laudable goals of, “advancing knowledge and relieving suffering through research-informed treatment of mental illness with a strong focus on improving mental health services for college-age adults, increasing access to mental health services in rural communities across Utah and ide
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - If Tony Bradley’s struggles continue, what options do the Utah Jazz have?

  17-11-2019 15:23 via sportspyder.com
  
  The pool of possible backup center candidates is not plentiful.
  
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• Commentary: How The Tribune traveled to Mexico to cover the story of 9 U.S. citizens killed there

  17-11-2019 15:00
  
  Editor’s note • Salt Lake Tribune polygamy reporter Nate Carlisle is co-teaching an investigative reporting course at the University of Utah this semester. Earlier this month, he and photographer Trent Nelson traveled to La Mora, Mexico, to report on the killings of nine U.S. citizens with family and religious ties to Utah. Carlisle wrote this guide for his students, but it can be instructive for Tribune readers as well. • Why go to Mexico? The Salt Lake Tribune subscribes to wir
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Disney+ shouldn’t stream racist ‘Song of the South.’ And it needs stronger warnings on other films.

  17-11-2019 14:00
  
  Disney is being criticized for failing to include its racist 1946 movie “Song of the South” on its new streaming service. It’s also being criticized for deciding to include other animated films that have racist content, with a warning that is certainly insufficient.And you thought connection errors were the biggest problem with Disney+.“Song of the South” has no place on a streaming service that is aimed squarely at families, that children are accessing, that parent
  
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• Letter: Vote for the Earth

  17-11-2019 14:00
  
  The clock is ticking for the health of our planet. Nov. 4 marked one year before the current federal administration can pull us out of the Paris climate agreement. Every indication is that this will happen as shown by continued policy decisions to relax environmental regulations. However, we may have a reprieve, as this decision could be reversed by a new administration.The majority of Americans now acknowledge the reality of climate change. No matter what our political persuasion, the future of
  
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• Letter: Rep. Chris Stewart doesn’t understand what a coup is

  17-11-2019 14:00
  
  Rep. Chris Stewart’s claim that the ongoing impeachment hearings constitute a coup d’état by the Democrats reflects a poor understanding and hyperbolic use of the term.A coup d’état is an unlawful seizure of power by a dictator, the military or other faction. Congress is conducting lawful hearings envisioned by the Constitution. Impeachment would require a vote by the full House of Representatives. Removal of President Trump from office would require a trial befor
  
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• Letter: Gifts for the homeless are truly appreciated

  17-11-2019 14:00
  
  After reading the Nov. 13 letter “What not to give” from Kip Yost, I want to give a positive approach to caring donors instead of patronizing them. I wish Kip would have put it in a more encouraging way so the community would feel appreciated for their donations and not belittled.I volunteer at a church food pantry as a lead. I cannot express to you how many thank yous, God bless yous, etc., we hear from the homeless population. I have dear friends in this community whom I have grown
  
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• Letter: BYU whines about ideological diversity

  17-11-2019 14:00
  
  I was pleased to read that the American Geophysical Union and the Geological Society of America removed Brigham Young University’s job postings from their websites.The folks in Provo can whine all they like about ideological diversity — a fake name for discrimination and prejudice so opaque that only a group of academics could come up with it — but remember that this is an organization that, according to its leaders, does not apologize.The fact remains that, since the days of W
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Barriers zigzag across America like a scar

  17-11-2019 14:00
  
  A few words about walls.Unsurprisingly, the one Donald Trump is trying to build on the southern border — the one he swore Mexico would pay for — has proven, like most things he touches, an embarrassing failure. First came news early this month that smugglers have been able to cut through the barrier with a simple reciprocating saw, available at Home Depot for prices starting at less than $100. Then, TBS’ “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” aired a segment demonstrating
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: All I want for Christmas is ... to make the holidays special for my grandkids without overdoing it

  17-11-2019 14:00
  
  Dear Ann Cannon • I am a new grandmother to boys (I raised daughters only). I realize that I’m going to be setting up traditions or expectations for Christmas, so do you have any advice? I tend to overdo, but when I pull back, I pull back too much. How do I find balance? But, really, my problem is doing too much. Any ideas or suggestions for fun Christmas activities with very little grandchildren?— No Reindeer Be Running Over THIS GrandmotherDear Grandmother • I applaud you
  
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• Gordon Monson: Utah football, all dressed out for success, is on a brutal, dominating, devastating run

  17-11-2019 05:55
  
  Dressed out like Ohio State in their scarlet-and-gray throwback uniforms, the Utes went ahead on Saturday night and played like the Buckeyes, too, thumping UCLA, 49-3. En route, in whatever garb they wear, Utah’s own run to greatness — six straight wins, nine overall — barrels on.It’s to the point now where the Utes could show up in fuchsia pumps, dusty-violet culottes, pink crop tops and purple feather boas and they’d beat the living hell out of whoever stood in th
  
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• Zion National Park’s Angels Landing trail closed after rockslide

  17-11-2019 05:14
  
  Officials at Zion National Park closed the Angels Landing trail from the Scouts Lookout waypoint after a rockslide Saturday.Park staff learned of the rockslide, which occurred in a steep section of the trail where chains are adhered to the rocks for hand holds, Saturday afternoon, according to a news release.No one was hurt or trapped in the slide.Officials will assess the damage Sunday morning to make a determination on when it can reopen.
  
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• No. 8 Utes win their sixth straight game, crushing UCLA 49-3

  17-11-2019 05:11
  
  Utah's football team modeled uniforms from the 1960s for Saturday night's game against UCLA, but the Utes' performance was simply more of the usual stuff in 2019.Whenever the No. 8 Utes have been solidly favored against a Pac-12 team this season, they've overwhelmed that opponent. It happened to UCLA in a 49-3 rout at Rice-Eccles Stadium.The Utes took a 28-3 halftime lead, while gaining 269 yards on 27 offensive plays. Defensive end Mika Tafua’s 68-yard fumble return produced one touchdown
  
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• Driver arrested on suspicion of DUI after hitting, killing 5-year-old boy in SLC crosswalk

  17-11-2019 05:11
  
  The driver who struck a mother and her 5-year-old son in a Salt Lake City crosswalk Saturday, killing the boy, was arrested on suspicion of DUI.Carl Wayne Johnson, 56, told police he’d had “two beers” that morning before he hit the mother and son near 900 West and California Avenue, according to a probable cause statement.
  (Photo courtesy of Salt Lake County jail) Carl JohnsonThe mother was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.A photo taken from the scene by
  
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• Provo police reopen Marla Scharp homicide case after evidence casts doubt on confessor Henry Lee Lucas

  17-11-2019 03:56
  
  Provo • For the last 41 years, Leah Scharp thought her older sister Marla had been killed by notorious serial killer Henry Lee Lucas.That belief, like her sister’s untimely death, was a hard truth to swallow, but knowing the person responsible for the slaying had been caught gave her some sense of justice.That all changed last month, when Karra Porter with the Utah Cold Case Coalition presented the Scharps with a thick stack of investigative files and a PowerPoint presentation that co
  
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• Live: No. 8 Utah leading UCLA 28-3 at the half at Rice-Eccles Stadium

  17-11-2019 03:31
  
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• Kaepernick throws passes for 40 minutes at odd NFL workout

  17-11-2019 02:21
  
  Riverdale, Ga. • Colin Kaepernick threw passes for about 40 minutes on a high school field, then signed autographs for hundreds of fans who gathered in an end zone to watch his NFL workout that was suddenly moved Saturday, the latest strange twist in the saga of the exiled quarterback.Eight team representatives made it to the new location, including Philadelphia Eagles vice president of football operations Andrew Berry. It appeared the Jets, Washington and Chiefs also had scouts in attendan
  
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• How might Alabama QB’s injury affect Utah in the CFP rankings?

  17-11-2019 02:13
  
  Utah’s football team took the field Saturday night vs. UCLA at Rice-Eccles Stadium, knowing that three more wins in November would send the Utes to the Pac-12 championship game.Other aspects of Utah's future are more difficult to gauge, including the possibility of qualifying for the College Football Playoff.In that sense, this year is beginning to resemble Utah's 2004 and '08 seasons, when the Utes had more to play for than merely a Mountain West championship. Utah fans continually were m
  
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• Robert Weiner and August Clarke: Russia should be banned from 2020 Tokyo Olympics

  17-11-2019 02:00
  
  The Russian Federation wants to play by its own rules in the 2020 Olympic Games. However, Russia has had a long and shameful history of doping its Olympic athletes and has been banned since 2016.New reports from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) prove that Russia must be banned from competing in the Tokyo games. The Agency revealed in September that they’ve found “inconsistencies” in data given by Russia’s anti-doping agency, according to The Associated Press. An invest
  
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• Montana beats Weber State 35-16 in battle between top teams in FCS

  17-11-2019 01:54
  
  Missoula, Mont. • Senior quarterback Dalton Sneed threw three touchdowns passes, all to Samori Toure, to lead Montana over Weber State 35-16 Saturday.Toure, a junior, had a career-high 193 receiving yards as the Grizzlies (9-2, 6-1 in the Big Sky Conference) handled the showdown between two top teams in the Football Championship Subdivision.Toure’s first touchdown, covering 10 yards, gave Montana the lead for good at 7-0 at 11:24 of the first quarter. The Grizzlies, ranked No. 5 in th
  
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• Dominik Eberle’s four field goals set Mountain West record, lift Utah State to a 26-21 victory over Wyoming

  17-11-2019 01:39
  
  Logan • For all the talk of hard-nose, physical, push-you-down--in-the-dirt-and-keep-you-there football prior to Utah State’s game against Wyoming, it was the kicker who saved the day for the Aggies.Dominik Eberle made consecutive field goal attempts of 47, 44 and 26 yards and another of 23 yards look easy in securing USU a 26-21 win over the Cowboys on Saturday afternoon at Maverik Stadium. The kicks gave Eberle the all-time Mountain West Conference record for field goals made with 6
  
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• No. 17 USU thumps North Carolina A&T 81-54

  17-11-2019 01:23
  
  Logan • Alphonso Anderson had 21 points, six rebounds and three assists and Justin Bean added 18 points, 10 rebounds and three assists to help No. 17 Utah State beat North Carolina A&T 81-54 on Friday night.Ronald Jackson led North Carolina A&T with 15 points.With North Carolina A&T (1-3) rallying in the second half, Utah State (4-0) made a key run to pull away.After trailing by as much as 15 points, North Carolina A&T cut it to six points on Fred Cleveland’s 3-pointer
  
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• Live: No. 8 Utah takes on UCLA at Rice-Eccles Stadium

  17-11-2019 01:00
  
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• Zach Wilson returns, BYU routs Idaho State 42-10 and Cougars accept an invite to the Hawaii Bowl

  17-11-2019 00:31
  
  Provo • Seven weeks after fracturing his right (throwing) thumb, Zach Wilson was back as BYU’s starting quarterback. But it seemed he needed a little while to ease back in.Actually, the entire team looked to be shaking off some cobwebs throughout the first quarter, but the Cougars eventually settled down enough to blow out Idaho State, 42-10, Saturday at LaVell Edwards Stadium in BYU’s final home game of the season.In earning their sixth victory of the season, the Cougars also b
  
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• Citizen scientists played key role in building Utah museum’s vast collections

  17-11-2019 00:31
  
  Before citizen science was a thing, there were people like Ezra Day, a guy who lived in what used to be called Hunter, Utah, and indulged an insatiable curiosity about the world around him.He came home from fighting a bloody war in Europe a century ago, and made his living as a postal worker, but made a life as an insect collector insects and nature observer. By the time of his death in 1980, his collection included 5,000 specimens and numerous notebooks that took up an entire room of his family
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Kenny Atkinson says Kyrie Irving was playing through pain since Nets-Jazz game

  17-11-2019 00:08 via sportspyder.com
  
  In the age of load management in the NBA, players and coaching staffs handling injuries have become subjective. Some teams and players don’t believe in resting players and some players don’t believe in sitting for an injury. However, teams are all-in
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Jazz Come Up Short in Conley’s Emotional Return

  17-11-2019 00:05 via sportspyder.com
  
  After 12 great seasons in Memphis, he finally had the opportunity to return to the city, court and fans that he knew so well. Luckily that wasnt the case for Conley. The bad news?
  
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