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• South Salt Lake dedicates police headquarters for David Romrell, who died in the line of duty

  24-11-2019 23:53
  
  South Salt Lake on Sunday named its public safety building in honor of David Romrell, who died on duty on the same day a year earlier.The building at 2835 S. Main St. will be known as the David P. Romrell Public Safety Building.Romrell died Nov. 24, 2018, when he was struck by a car in a confrontation with two burglary suspects near 3300 South and 300 West in South Salt Lake.
  
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• [Sports Keeda] - Oklahoma City Thunder vs Golden State Warriors: Match Preview and Prediction - 25th November 2019

  24-11-2019 22:52 via sportspyder.com
  
  Both the Warriors and OKC come into this match on the back of losses in their previous outings.
  
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• Utes lose to Tulane in their Myrtle Beach basketball wrap-up, thanks to a late fade

  24-11-2019 21:06
  
  Utah’s basketball team positioned itself for a strong ending of the Myrtle Beach Invitational, only to crumble in the last 4½ minutes Sunday at Conway, S.C.The Utes' 65-61 loss to Tulane was a big disappointment to them, after they led by eight points midway through the second half and were ahead 61-55 after guard Rylan Jones' consecutive 3-pointers answered Tulane threats. But both the Utes' offense and defense let them down the rest of the way, as they posted a 1-2 record in an ei
  
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• Utes move to No. 6 in the AP Top 25; Oregon falls sharply to No. 14

  24-11-2019 21:02
  
  Utah made another move in the AP Top 25 football rankings Sunday, climbing one spot to No. 6.The Utes’ improvement to another November high point in the program’s Pac-12 era stemmed from their 35-7 win at Arizona and Oregon’s 31-28 loss at Arizona State. The Ducks (9-2) fell eight spots to No. 14, in what may foreshadow their treatment in this week’s College Football Playoff Top 25, to be released Tuesday.That ranking will be significant, with the Ducks ticketed for the P
  
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• Larry David: Imagining what keeps the president awake at night

  24-11-2019 21:00
  
  July 2019. The White House — 3 a.m. Donald Trump tosses and turns.MELANIA: What’s wrong, Donald?TRUMP: I can’t sleep.MELANIA: (Turns the lamp on.) Why, what’s bothering you? You can tell me.TRUMP: No, no. I don’t want to bother you with my problems.MELANIA: Donald, I’m your wife. You can tell me anything.TRUMP: OK … The truth is, I just can’t stop thinking about corruption in Ukraine.MELANIA: Oh, honey.TRUMP: It’s killing me. I can’t e
  
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• BYU will kick off the Maui Invitational with UCLA

  24-11-2019 21:00
  
  Amherst, Mass. • Five years after last playing on the island, BYU men’s basketball makes its return to the Maui Invitational and will start Monday against UCLA.After taking on the Bruins, the Cougars will face either Chaminade or Kansas on Tuesday and a third opponent (to be determined) on Wednesday. The invitational also includes Dayton, Georgia, Michigan State and Virginia Tech.“What a great field,” BYU coach Mark Pope said. “It doesn’t get any better than wh
  
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• Secret documents reveal how China mass detention camps work

  24-11-2019 20:59
  
  The Chinese government has detained more than a million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other ethnic minorities for what it calls voluntary job training. But a newly revealed classified blueprint shows that the camps Beijing runs in China’s far west are instead secret centers for forced ideological and behavioral re-education.The confidential documents, leaked to a consortium of international journalists, lay out the Chinese government’s deliberate strategy to lock up minorities, most of whom a
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - The Jazz Make Plays to Fend Off Pelicans’ Surge

  24-11-2019 20:10 via sportspyder.com
  
  For the second night in a row, the Jazz saw a commanding lead evaporate quickly. And for the second consecutive evening, they managed to eke out another victory. Enter Bradley.
  
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• BYU in review: Cougar defense had a knockout performance against Minutemen, but younger players have room to grow

  24-11-2019 19:54
  
  Amherst, Mass. • Although BYU went on to finish the game against UMass with a 56-24 win, the Cougars really needed only one half to decide the game.BYU’s offense outscored the Minutemen 49-0 in two quarters, but the defense had an even bigger knockout performance.UMass managed two first downs on nine first-half drives and gained yardage on just two of them. The Minutemen made 1 of 8 third-down conversions and crossed into BYU territory once, but barely.By halftime, the Minutemen had 3
  
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• Utes lose to Tulane in their Myrtle Beach tournament wrap-up

  24-11-2019 18:46
  
  Utah’s basketball team positioned itself for a strong ending of the Myrtle Beach Invitational, only to crumble in the last 4½ minutes Sunday at Conway, S.C.The Utes’ 65-61 loss to Tulane was a big disappointment to them, after they led by eight points midway through the second half and were ahead 61-55 as Rylan Jones’ consecutive 3-pointers answered Tulane threats. But the Utes’ offense and defense let them down the rest of the way, as they posted a 1-2 record in a
  
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• A 10-year-old Utah boy has been shot, deputies blame a negligent target shooter

  24-11-2019 18:22
  
  It appears to have happened again.Target shooters in a rural spot in Utah failed to follow an important rule — know where your bullet will go before pulling the trigger.And as a result, one round hit a car traveling on a highway and struck a kid. Though this time, the boy will live.That’s according to the Sanpete County Sheriff’s Office. Dispatchers received a call shortly after 1 p.m. Saturday that a 10-year-old boy was hit in the shoulder after a bullet struck the windshield
  
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• BYU in review: Cougar defense had a knock-out performance against Minutemen, but younger players have room to grow

  24-11-2019 18:07
  
  Amherst, Mass. • Although BYU went on to finish the game against UMass with a 56-24 win, the Cougars really needed only one half to decide the game.BYU's offense outscored the Minutemen 49-0 in two quarters, but the defense had an even bigger knock-out performance.UMass managed two first downs on nine first-half drives and gained yardage on just two of them. The Minutemen made 1 of 8 third-down conversions and crossed into BYU territory once, but barely.By halftime, the Minutemen had 31 tot
  
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• Utes in review: Utah helps itself, but Oregon’s loss may hurt the Utes’ playoff chances

  24-11-2019 17:08
  
  Tucson, Ariz. • Utah’s football team needed Oregon to keep winning, so that nobody would mention the Utes’ undistinguished group of nonconference opponents: BYU, Northern Illinois and Idaho State.In addition to their own winning streak that now numbers seven games, the Utes had the potential of a big-time matchup with Oregon in the Pac-12 championship game on Dec. 6. Beating another highly ranked team would have added more strength-of-schedule value to that trophy in a College F
  
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• Leonard Pitts: ‘This is America. ... And here, right matters’

  24-11-2019 17:00
  
  In her diary entry for July 15, 1944, Anne Frank wrote words that would harrow and challenge generations not yet born: "I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."Less than a month later, "people" would discover Anne and seven other Jews hiding in a secret room. "People" would pack her in a crowded cattle car with only a barrel for a toilet and send her on a three-day journey to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The following February at Bergen-Belsen, "people" would watch h
  
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• Michael Bloomberg launches Democratic presidential bid

  24-11-2019 16:30
  
  New York • Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the world’s richest men, has formally launched a Democratic bid for president.Ending weeks of speculation, the 77-year-old former Republican announced his candidacy Sunday in a written statement posted on a campaign website describing himself as uniquely positioned to defeat President Donald Trump. He will quickly follow with a massive advertising campaign blanketing airways in key primary states across th
  
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• Kathleen Cahill: A Thanksgiving letter to the president

  24-11-2019 15:00
  
  Dear President DJT,As we enter the Thanksgiving season, I wanted to write to say thank you. You are amazing. You have opened my eyes.Until there was you, I believed, in my naivete, that we are a government of checks and balances in a nation of laws, laws that our elected representatives are sworn to uphold. And that we have core values in our American hearts. I know the term “core values” is not very specific, but I know they involve concepts like truth and justice. And about how the
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: All the ‘Friendsgiving’ episodes, from best to worst

  24-11-2019 14:00
  
  I don’t want to get into an argument with the people at Merriam Webster, but when it comes to Friendsgiving — they’re wrong.According to their website, the word Friendsgiving “first appeared around 2007 as an informal replacement for the holiday typically spent with family.” But they’re off by 13 years.The first Friendsgiving was Nov. 17, 1994: “Friends” Season 1, Episode 9 — “The One Where Underdog Gets Away.” Sure, the definitio
  
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• Robert Kirby: Paying my way to glory. Yep, it’s tithing settlement season for Latter-day Saints.

  24-11-2019 14:00
  
  The bishop of my Latter-day Saint ward wants to see me next week. It’s that time of year when all of Mormonism is taxed — otherwise known as tithing settlement.Note: It’s not really a tax, though some phrase it that way. For those of us unwilling/incapable of feeling social pressure, tithing is a voluntary contribution of 10% of our annual income.Ideally, tithing is paid directly to the church, which in turn uses it to ... well, I have no idea. It could be anything really &mdas
  
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• Polygamy lives on in LDS temples, spurring agony, angst and a key question: Who will be married to whom in heaven?

  24-11-2019 14:00
  
  The agonized question came from a concerned Latter-day Saint woman considering eternal marriage to a widower: Would she have her own house in the hereafter or would she have to live with her husband and his first wife?Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the LDS Church’s governing First Presidency, used the query during last month’s General Conference to set up a speech about trusting in God.In response to the heavenly hypothetical, the audience in the faith’s giant Conference Ce
  
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• Paul Huntsman: Candidate endorsements are ending, but fair political coverage will remain

  24-11-2019 14:00
  
  As the saying goes, you cannot choose your family, but you can choose your friends. Fortunately for me, my family members are my best friends.When I purchased The Salt Lake Tribune three years ago, I was aware my stewardship would create the appearance of a conflict of interest when the Huntsman family and its enterprises were the subject of stories.I know those stories presented concerns of journalistic integrity for our reporters and editors. (That’s why we flag those stories with a remi
  
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• NYC comic and West Valley City native Xazmin Garza brings her sharp tongue and foul mouth to her first-ever show in Utah

  24-11-2019 14:00
  
  Xazmin Garza understands, better than most, both the intoxicating allure and the potential consequences of just coming right out and saying whatever’s on your mind.After working for 11 years as a newspaper journalist, including most recently as a general-interest columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the West Valley City native and her employer suddenly “parted ways” — the fallout of a reader complaint over her use of the unforgivably crass word “freakin&rsquo
  
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• Letter: Trump’s deep-seated personal corruption

  24-11-2019 14:00
  
  Recently, a New York judge found the president misused money raised by the Donald J. Trump Foundation to promote his presidential bid, pay off business debts and purchase a portrait of himself for one of his hotels.Trump admitted the foundation gave his campaign $2.8 million from a fundraiser for veterans in Iowa in 2016, only days before the state’s presidential nominating caucuses. Trump was ordered to pay $2 million to nonprofit groups.Reporting in 2018 revealed the foundation donated h
  
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• Letter: Political divide is tearing families asunder

  24-11-2019 14:00
  
  I have one surviving sibling (also a boomer) whom I can barely talk to because of the nature of today's divisive politics. The rank essence of political posturing makes it difficult for us to communicate in a meaningful and graceful manner.Because of my expressed distaste for the current occupant, he has accused me of being sick with Trump Derangement Syndrome and needing to get well. That just about did it for me.I'm sure that the existing ideological divide has torn many families asunder and m
  
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• Letter: Jabs comparing men to women are hurtful

  24-11-2019 14:00
  
  Gordon Monson’s coverage of the Utah-UCLA blowout begins with a comment about the Utes’ Buckeye-esque uniforms, then reads they “could show up in fuchsia pumps, dusty-violet culottes, pink crop tops and purple feather boas” and still dominate.Really what Monson is saying is that the Utes could have been athletic and successful even if they had been dressed like women. I understand his use of exaggeration to make a point, but the undercurrent of using women as a way to ins
  
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• Letter: House members must need hearing exams

  24-11-2019 14:00
  
  As evidenced during this past week’s congressional hearings, Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee most likely suffer from cerumen impaction.I recommend that committee members be required to submit to an audiologist’s bilateral external ear canal examination prior to entering the capital’s “hearing chambers.”A small portable examination room can be set up outside the chamber in the hallway. An audiologist can examine a representative’s ear can
  
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• Letter: Don’t deny shelter to homeless youth

  24-11-2019 14:00
  
  Unfortunately, in many states a minor experiencing homelessness cannot access shelter or services without the consent of a guardian. Utah has passed HB371, which allows minors ages 15, 16 and 17 to access shelter and resources without consent of a guardian.Currently, shelters are required to contact parents or authorities within 48 hours but often there can be a delay in this process. By allowing shelters to provide services to unaccompanied minors they reduce victimization of youth experiencing
  
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• Build your own Salt Lake City theater adventure — and eat chocolate — during ‘Thank you Theobromine’

  24-11-2019 14:00
  
  A new Salt Lake City theater experience takes the audience inside a chocolate factory, where they meet the chocolatier, learn his passion and eat samples of his work.While “Thank you Theobromine” sounds similar, it is not a “Willy Wonka” remake, said Utah choreographer Graham Brown.“It’s not Wonka at all,” he said. “A tour of a chocolate shop is the premise, but it quickly becomes the life of the chocolatier and expresses these very complicated iss
  
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• Brodi Ashton: The day an internal organ turned on me

  24-11-2019 14:00
  
  Recently, I spent six days in the hospital. It all started with stomach pain in the emergency room and quickly turned into pancreatitis. (This is a condition where your pancreas packs its bags, waves goodbye, turns cannibal and uses its own enzymes to devour itself.) If you’ve never experienced pancreatitis, my advice is… don’t. And if you want to know what it feels like, have a baby. And if you want to know what that feels like, well, go impale yourself, all the while breathi
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: Should absent biological mom or involved stepmom get central role in daughter’s wedding?

  24-11-2019 14:00
  
  Dear Ann Cannon • My stepdaughter Sadie (not her real name) is getting married, and her biological mother, who has been absent for most of Sadie’s life, insists on being the mother of the bride. “Mom” thinks that she gets to help Sadie pick out a dress, choose flowers, food, walk her daughter down the aisle, sit in the front pew, do the toast, sit at the main table, etc. You get my drift.My heart is breaking and Sadie is in a really terrible place. I would like my husband
  
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• After hours and hours of impeachment hearings, both sides dig in

  24-11-2019 14:00
  
  Washington • If you’re a Democrat, last week’s impeachment hearings provided damning testimony that President Donald Trump withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in aid and leveraged a White House meeting with the new leader of Ukraine to get a public announcement of investigations into a Trump political rival.If you’re a Republican, you saw a circus staged by Trump opponents in a desperate but failed bid to prove wrongdoing by an unorthodox president who revels in shaki
  
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• Utah’s Zack Moss earns another school record with his third 1,000-yard season

  24-11-2019 09:17
  
  Tucson, Ariz. • Utah running back Zack Moss wishes he could have gained one more yard in the first half Saturday night, but his 203-yard rushing night in three quarters was more than sufficient in a 35-7 win over Arizona.Moss was denied on a play that started at the Arizona 1-yard line as the first half ended with the Utes feeling as though they should have led by much more than 14-0. And the goal-line stand gave the Wildcats some hope.“I thought it gave us some momentum coming out of
  
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• [KSL] - 'I don't know what sport that was': Donovan Mitchell's highlight passes are becoming just as common as his dunks | KSL.com

  24-11-2019 08:32 via sportspyder.com
  
  Donovan Mitchell made Joe Ingles turn around in near disbelief. But as good as that dunk was, it paled in comparison to one of his passes.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Triple Team: Jazz offense gets aggressive, takes shots early for quality win vs. Pelicans

  24-11-2019 08:25 via sportspyder.com
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 128-120 win over the New Orleans Pelicans from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.
  
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• Seventh-ranked Utah dominates from start to finish, crushes Arizona 35-7

  24-11-2019 08:15
  
  Tucson, Ariz. • Utah punter Ben Lennon never set foot on the field until midway through the fourth quarter Saturday night and the Ute defense made sure Arizona’s place-kicker was needed only in the last two minutes.That personnel report illustrates Utah 35-7 victory as much as any numbers could do, even while the Utes produced another set of phenomenal statistics in barely missing their third shutout of the season. Utah's offense posted 500-plus total yards for the fifth time.The Utes
  
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• No. 20 Boise State hammers defenseless Utah State 56-21 in Mountain West Conference mismatch

  24-11-2019 08:14
  
  Logan • Any hopes that Gary Andersen’s first season back at Utah State would have a fairytale finish came crashing down on the Aggies and their fans Saturday night.The No. 20 Boise State Broncos, playing like a team chasing a conference championship, not to mention a New Years 6 Bowl, crushed defenseless USU 56-21 before a chilled-to-the-bone audience at Maverik Stadium.Utah State, which gained bowl eligibility last week, had hoped its modest late-season turnaround — back-to-bac
  
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• The Triple Team: Jazz offense gets aggressive, takes shots early for quality win vs. Pelicans

  24-11-2019 08:01
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 128-120 win over the New Orleans Pelicans from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Jazz’s shooting early gets offensive resultsLast night’s Triple Team, and the pregame sidebar, looked at the Jazz’s reluctance to shoot costing them some open shots. But tonight, the Jazz came out and really looked eager to get the ball up if they could, and they were rewarded for it.Like, this is the second possession of the game. Mitchell co
  
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• Gordon Monson: Utah’s Utes are rocking and rolling, and will get their proper reward

  24-11-2019 07:34
  
  Everybody expected … what else? … the inevitable on Saturday night when Utah faced Arizona in a game that ended up looking like college football’s version of a Freightliner blowing past a Fiat 500 on a lonely stretch of dark-dusty desert highway. With all 18 Ute wheels thundering by, the Wildcats’ cartoon car shook and shuddered, ultimately skidding and spinning in the wind sheer.The big rig had 517 total yards. The subcompact 196.Through that one-sided whirl, two thing
  
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• The seventh-ranked Utah Utes crush Arizona 35-7

  24-11-2019 07:32
  
  Tucson, Ariz. • Utah punter Ben Lennon never set foot on the field until midway through the fourth quarter Saturday night and the Ute defense made sure Arizona’s place-kicker was needed only in the last two minutes.That personnel report illustrates No. 7 Utah 35-7 victory as much as any numbers could do, even while the Utes produced another set of phenomenal statistics in barely missing their third shutout of the season. Utah’s offense posted 500-plus total yards for the fifth t
  
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• [NBA] - The Roundup—Mitchell scores 37 as Jazz hold off Pelicans in SLC

  24-11-2019 07:13 via sportspyder.com
  
  For the second straight night, the Utah Jazz built a big lead only to hold on for a closer-than-expected victory, this time a 128-120 shootout over the visiting New Orleans Pelicans. Donovan
  
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• Utah Court of Appeals upholds stop-and-frisk policing practice

  24-11-2019 06:53
  
  The Utah Court of Appeals sided with the police in a ruling handed down Friday that upholds the controversial practice known as stop and frisk.Bryant Robert Mitchell brought the case to the appeals court saying he was wrongfully searched in an Ogden traffic stop last year, FOX 13 reported. Police said Mitchell was acting “upset” and “aggressive," like he was trying to get into a fight.Mitchell said he gave no indication he was going to be violent.While the court said it was &ld
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Mitchell’s 37 boosts Gobert-less Jazz over shorthanded Pelicans

  24-11-2019 06:51 via sportspyder.com
  
  In a game more notable for who didn’t play
  
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• Live: No. 7 Utah leads Arizona 28-0 after three quarters in Tucson

  24-11-2019 06:42
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Highlights: Donovan Mitchell—37 points, 6 3pm

  24-11-2019 06:24 via sportspyder.com
  
  Donovan Mitchell had a mammoth dunk and six triples on the way to a combined 67 points in just over 24 hours after last night's 30-point outting against the ...
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Highlights: Jazz 128 | Pelicans 120

  24-11-2019 06:07 via sportspyder.com
  
  Despite being without big man and defensive anchor Rudy Gobert for the second half of their back-to-back, the Jazz got 65 points from Bojan Bogdanović & Dono...
  
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• Live: No. 7 Utah leads Arizona 14-0 after at the half in Tucson

  24-11-2019 05:47
  
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• [KSL] - Utah Jazz vs New Orleans Pelicans box score

  24-11-2019 05:47 via sportspyder.com
  
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• Donovan Mitchell scores 37 as tired Jazz hold off Pelicans 128-120

  24-11-2019 05:38
  
  The start of Saturday’s game between the Jazz and Pelicans was delayed about five minutes because the shot clock on the basket by the New Orleans bench was not functioning. To make matters worse, apparently the guy responsible for fixing it couldn’t find his toolbox anywhere.Too soon?Once the game got underway, Utah’s offense functioned as smoothly as it has all season in the first half, ground nearly to a halt for much of the second, then sputtered back to life in the final mi
  
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• BYU women’s soccer team beats North Carolina State 3-0 to reach NCAA quarterfinals

  24-11-2019 05:16
  
  The BYU women’s soccer team defeated North Carolina State 3-0 on Saturday in Provo to reach the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament.Goalkeeper Sabrina Davis made seven saves to earn the shutout for BYU (21-0-1).Cameron Tucker scored two goals for BYU, and Josie Guinn scored one.In the quarterfinals, BYU will take on the winner of Sunday’s game between Stanford and Penn State.
  
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• Utah Courts of Appeals upholds stop-and-frisk policing practice

  24-11-2019 05:06
  
  The Utah Court of Appeals sided with the police in a ruling handed down Friday that upholds the controversial practice known as stop and frisk.Bryant Robert Mitchell brought the case to the appeals court saying he was wrongfully searched in an Ogden traffic stop last year, FOX 13 reported. Police said Mitchell was acting “upset” and “aggressive," like he was trying to get into a fight. Mitchell said he gave no indication he was going to be violent.While the court said it was &l
  
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• Live: No. 7 Utah leads Arizona 14-0 after first quarter in Tucson

  24-11-2019 04:56
  
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