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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell says seemingly out-of-nowhere success of Hornets’ Devonte’ Graham ‘doesn’t surprise me’

  21-12-2019 23:53 via sportspyder.com
  
  Charlotte • As a former second-round pick who spent as much time with the G League’s Greensboro Swarm last year as he did with the Hornets as a rookie, the success this season of now-second-year guard Devonte’ Graham (19.1 points, 7.5 assists, 40.3%...
  
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• Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell says seemingly out-of-nowhere success of Hornets’ Devonte’ Graham ‘doesn’t surprise me’

  21-12-2019 23:38
  
  Charlotte • As a former second-round pick who spent as much time with the G League’s Greensboro Swarm last year as he did with the Hornets as a rookie, the success this season of now-second-year guard Devonte’ Graham (19.1 points, 7.5 assists, 40.3% 3-point shooting on 9.1 attempts per game) has caught a lot of people off-guard.Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell, however, says he absolutely saw this coming.As former prep teammates at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, N.H., Mitchell said h
  
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• Sam Merrill’s 21 points help Utah State beat Florida 65-62, but Neemias Queta re-injured

  21-12-2019 23:07
  
  Sunrise, Fla. • Sam Merrill scored 21 points Saturday and Utah State held Florida without a field goal for six minutes down the stretch to win 65-62 in the Orange Bowl Classic.Merrill went 5 for 10 from 3-point range and added nine rebounds and five assists. Utah State won despite losing hard-luck center Neemias Queta to an injury in the first half.The Aggies (12-2) improved to 3-0 in games decided by a one-possession margin. Florida (7-4) continued to struggle after being ranked sixth in t
  
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• The Hawaii Bowl may be a lower-tier postseason game, but for BYU, it’s paradise

  21-12-2019 23:01
  
  Provo • BYU locked in its postseason destination in mid-November — a berth in the Hawaii Bowl — then found out its opponent would be the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors a couple weeks ago.It’s not a College Football Playoff berth. It’s not a New Year’s Six game. BYU is once again playing in a lower-tier bowl. But those caveats aside, it might just be the perfect postseason landing spot for the Cougars.After all, BYU and Hawaii have a long, storied history. And it&rsquo
  
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• Police: 2 missing Idaho kids may be tied to suspicious death

  21-12-2019 23:01
  
  Rexburg, Idaho • Authorities are searching for two children tied to a suspicious death case in Idaho.Joshua Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 17, have not been seen since September 2019, according to a Rexburg police department news release. Their mother, Lori Vallow, is the second wife of Chad Daybell.Rexburg police said the parents never reported the kids missing, have repeatedly lied about where their children are and aren't cooperating with the investigation.The search began in November when p
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Preserving Utah, one piece at a time

  21-12-2019 23:00
  
  A strong argument could be made that with all the federal and state taxes we pay — supporting all those federal and state agencies that at least on paper have the responsibility of preserving public lands for future generations — there should be no need for private organizations to cobble together deals to fulfill that very function.But the need does exist. So Utahns, and all Americans, are fortunate that outfits such as The Trust for Public Land are there.Last week, that group annou
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - It’s time to play Dante Exum

  21-12-2019 22:48 via sportspyder.com
  
  Something has to change and the answer is right in front of us
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Live: Jazz take on Hornets in Charlotte Saturday afternoon

  21-12-2019 22:26 via sportspyder.com
  
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• Live: Jazz take on Hornets in Charlotte Saturday afternoon

  21-12-2019 22:00
  
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• The Hawaii Bowl is a lower-tier game in the postseason landscape, but for BYU, it’s paradise

  21-12-2019 21:45
  
  Provo • BYU locked in its postseason destination in mid-November — a berth in the Hawaii Bowl — then found out its opponent would be the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors a couple weeks ago.It’s not a College Football Playoff berth. It’s not a New Year’s Six game. BYU is once again playing in a lower-tier bowl. But those caveats aside, it might just be the perfect postseason landing spot for the Cougars.After all, BYU and Hawaii have a long, storied history. And it&rsquo
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Game thread: Utah Jazz looking for 5th straight win

  21-12-2019 21:34 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz take on the Charlotte Hornets in Queen City in an early game this afternoon The Utah Jazz are looking to build their longest win streak of th...
  
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• Arizona hitchhiker charged with stabbing woman near Fillmore

  21-12-2019 21:29
  
  A hitchhiker who is a person of interest in an Arizona homicide has been arrested near Fillmore, Utah, accused of stabbing a woman who gave him a ride.Fernando Ray White, 38, of Sacaton, Ariz., was charged Friday with one count of attempted murder, a first-degree felony — which carries a possible sentence of five years to life in prison.White also was charged with: possession or use of a firearm by a restricted person, a second-degree felony; two counts of possession of a controlled substa
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Gordon Monson: Four things the Jazz must do to be who they should be

  21-12-2019 21:26 via sportspyder.com
  
  Donovan Mitchell talked about it, so did Rudy Gobert and assorted other Jazz players. They’re the ones who spoke of contending for — and winning — a championship. It was coming from them, not just from outsiders.
  
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• Game thread: Utah Jazz looking for 5th straight win

  21-12-2019 21:23
  
  The Utah Jazz take on the Charlotte Hornets in Queen City in an early game this afternoon The Utah Jazz are looking to build their longest win streak of the season this afternoon in Charlotte. Their play on the season so far, specifically the bench, has raised red flags that the Jazz need some sort […]
  Game thread: Utah Jazz looking for 5th straight win - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Gordon Monson: Four things the Jazz must do to be who they should be

  21-12-2019 21:12
  
  Donovan Mitchell talked about it, so did Rudy Gobert and assorted other Jazz players. They’re the ones who spoke of contending for — and winning — a championship. It was coming from them, not just from outsiders.Then the season started.And reality set in. That reality has taught the Jazz a few lessons, foremost among them that the climb to the top is an arduous one, something along the lines of summiting Annapurna, or maybe the Eiger. Beating the Pacers, the Kings, the Thunder
  
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• Colleges agree to allow increased competition for applicants

  21-12-2019 21:04
  
  Washington • The financial aid stranglehold on students who commit to colleges may be broken.In a proposed agreement announced this month to answer Justice Department antitrust accusations, the National Association for College Admission Counseling said it would allow its member college and university counselors to recruit students even after they have committed to another school and would permit members to encourage students to transfer after they have already enrolled.Colleges and universi
  
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• Clayton Parr: We will look back and say, ‘What were we thinking?’

  21-12-2019 21:00
  
  If I were a political cartoonist, I would create a scene showing Uncle Sam with his head in his hands looking down at a sheet on his lap showing “2060 Climate Change Crisis,” and Donald Trump in a hazy background under a 2019 sign reading “I don’t believe it!” In large letters underneath would be the phrase “What were we thinking?"Take out all the partisan bickering on important current issues and there remains looming, apart from nuclear holocaust, the most s
  
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• Frisco Bowl loss cements Utah State’s football season as ‘good,’ but not ‘great’

  21-12-2019 20:30
  
  Frisco, Texas • Gary Andersen all but scoffed when asked this past week if winning a bowl game defines the entire season for a college football team. Yes, he said, getting a victory would mean a trophy and a championship to end a year — every team strives for that. But does that one game make or break the dozen or so a team plays throughout a season? No, he said unequivocally. Friday’s 51-41 loss to Kent State at the Frisco Bowl, however, may have actually defined 2019 for the U
  
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• Impeachment vote becomes the top issue in 2020 Congressional races

  21-12-2019 20:00
  
  Washington • The day after nearly every House Democrat voted to impeach President Donald Trump, the chief of the House Republican campaign committee said the political fallout was clear."Last night their obsession with impeachment finally came to a head, and they basically ended their majority," Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer said Thursday. "Max Rose is done," he continued, listing him among freshmen Democrats from districts Trump captured in 2016 who he said won't survive next November's electio
  
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• Utah’s seniors will play in the Alamo Bowl, and Kyle Whittingham is thankful

  21-12-2019 19:40
  
  Without being critical of junior cornerback Jaylon Johnson’s choice to skip the Alamo Bowl and prepare for the NFL draft, Utah coach Kyle Whittingham appreciates how all of the team’s healthy seniors intend to play against Texas on New Year’s Eve in San Antonio.The Utes’ falling below the New Year’s Six level by losing to Oregon in the Pac-12 championship game created the possibility that multiple players would follow a college football trend by shutting down their
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Utah Jazz look to keep buzzing against the Charlotte Hornets

  21-12-2019 19:31 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Jazz look for five wins in a row
  
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• United Utah Party drops term limits initiative to join fight against tax overhaul

  21-12-2019 18:53
  
  The United Utah Party is joining the effort to overturn recent changes to the state’s tax code, setting aside for now a ballot initiative campaign that sought to impose term limits on state lawmakers and officeholders.The party announced in July that it would seek public support to impose a limit of three terms on state senators, six terms on state representatives and two terms each for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, treasurer and auditor.But on Friday, the United Utah Pa
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Jazz vs. Hornets odds, line, spread: 2019 NBA picks, Dec. 21 predictions from proven computer model - CBSSports.com

  21-12-2019 18:47 via sportspyder.com
  
  The SportsLine projection model has a pick for the clash between Jazz and Hornets. Here are the results:
  
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• [Fadeaway World] - 10 NBA Players You Forgot Were Top 5 Picks

  21-12-2019 18:40 via sportspyder.com
  
  Drafting is one of the toughest tasks any general manager and front office must go through, as you can never tell exactly
  
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• Historic structure to get modern new life in Utah town

  21-12-2019 18:30
  
  Hyrum • A northern Utah bank is dismantling and rebuilding a historic small-town grain elevator for its new “Scandinavian-modern” building in Hyrum.The tall wood structure, now weathered with age, was first built in 1918 by the Holley-Globe and Milling Company, the Herald Journal reported.It's been a fixture in the small town for a century, but soon it will get a new life: front and center into Cache Valley Bank's new location. Workers began lifting sections of the structure wit
  
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• Utah’s 2020 QB race just got very interesting with Jason Shelley’s move to defense and the arrival of transfer Jake Bentley

  21-12-2019 18:19
  
  At one point in the not-so-distant past, the quarterback situation at Utah seemed clear once Tyler Huntley plays his final game in the Alamo Bowl on New Year’s Eve.Spring practice was going to be billed as Cameron Rising vs. Jason Shelley for that vacant quarterback spot, with Drew Lisk potentially factoring in.Things have changed radically in the last few weeks.Kyle Whittingham scored a commitment from South Carolina graduate transfer Jake Bentley, who has 33 games and 1,002 pass attempts
  
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• Stronger beer and stricter DUI threshold make 2019 Utah’s ‘Year for Beer’

  21-12-2019 18:17
  
  When future historians look back at Utah’s peculiar liquor legacy, 2019 may go down as the “Year for Beer.”Allowing stronger brews in grocery and convenience stores marked a momentous end to a law that had endured since the demise of Prohibition 86 years ago. It also put the Beehive State’s beer selection on par with other states and could, in time, douse Utah’s weak-brew reputation.“Yes, it’s been quite a year,” said Jeremy Ragonese, president of
  
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• George Pyle: Senate has the look of a very bad jury

  21-12-2019 18:00
  
  “The jury, passing on the prisoner’s life, may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.”— William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”Not much happened in that little town. So just about every serious crime that was committed or alleged got all the in-depth coverage a rookie reporter such as myself could muster.I would sit, sometimes for most of a day, watching local prosecutors and defense attorneys, often not much older than I was, q
  
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• To get to Alta and Snowbird, Utah transport officials take a look at aerial transit

  21-12-2019 17:47
  
  Back in 1965, when Snowbird was still a dream coming together in Ted Johnson’s mind, an architect — designing the ski resort secretly taking shape in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains — pondered how to get thousands of skiers up Little Cottonwood Canyon, whose steep and narrow walls were lined with avalanche paths.Jack Smith figured, presciently it turns out, the winding road would prove inadequate and proposed a tramway from the canyon’s mouth. But Johnson and the resort&rs
  
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• Eric Walden: Chris Webber is still not in the Basketball Hall of Fame. Why? The Michigan scandal. Which is ridiculous.

  21-12-2019 17:00
  
  This past week saw the release of the candidate list for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2020, and there were plenty of notable names on it.Kobe Bryant, as one of the top scorers in league history and a five-time NBA champion, will have zero trouble getting in. Same goes for fellow five-time champ Tim Duncan. Kevin Garnett only got told the Larry O’Brien Trophy aloft once, but as a 15-time NBA All-Star, he’s also a first-ballot lock.There were a few names of lo
  
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• NBA sends teams proposal for 78-game season, other changes

  21-12-2019 16:20
  
  Miami • The NBA has sent a proposal to teams calling for a 78-game regular season, along with an in-season tournament for all teams and a reseeding of the playoffs when the field is cut to the final four clubs.A copy of the proposal was obtained by The Associated Press on Friday. The plan laid out for teams calls for a play-in tournament to decide the seventh and eighth seeds in both conferences — the top 10 finishers in both the East and West would therefore have a chance at the play
  
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• Navajo students painted ornaments that represent their culture for Utah’s tree across from White House

  21-12-2019 16:07
  
  On one side of the delicate ornament, Leyonah Endischee painted swirling white sweeps of snow blanketing the redrock landscape of southern Utah.Each swipe of her brush coated the clear glass globe in color, creating a scene she has witnessed many times while growing up in Aneth on reservation land. In the center, Endischee added a Navajo woman wearing a traditional dress and gathering wood.“I was trying to show how beautiful Utah is and how we always go back home,” the 15-year-old sa
  
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• 2019 was Utah’s ‘Year for Beer’

  21-12-2019 16:00
  
  When future historians look back at Utah’s peculiar liquor legacy, 2019 may go down as the “Year for Beer.”Allowing stronger brews in grocery and convenience stores marked a momentous end to a law that had endured since the demise of Prohibition 86 years ago. It also put the Beehive State’s beer selection on par with other states and could, in time, douse Utah’s weak-brew reputation.“Yes, it’s been quite a year,” said Jeremy Ragonese, president of
  
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• With Jason Shelley’s move to defense and the arrival of transfer Jake Bentley, Utah’s 2020 QB race just got very interesting

  21-12-2019 15:41
  
  At one point in the not-so-distant past, the quarterback situation at Utah seemed clear once Tyler Huntley plays his final game in the Alamo Bowl on New Year’s Eve.Spring practice was going to be billed as Cameron Rising vs. Jason Shelley for that vacant quarterback spot, with Drew Lisk potentially factoring in.Things have changed radically in the last few weeks.Kyle Whittingham scored a commitment from South Carolina graduate transfer Jake Bentley, who has 33 games and 1,002 pass attempts
  
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• [CBS Sports] - How to watch Hornets vs. Jazz: NBA live stream info, TV channel, time, game odds - CBSSports.com

  21-12-2019 15:36 via sportspyder.com
  
  How to watch Hornets vs. Jazz basketball game
  
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• With Jason Shelley’s move to defense and the arrival of South Carolina transfer Jake Bentley, Utah’s 2020 QB race just got very interesting

  21-12-2019 15:00
  
  At one point in the not-so-distant past, the quarterback situation at Utah seemed clear once Tyler Huntley plays his final game in the Alamo Bowl on New Year’s Eve. . Spring practice was going to be billed as Cameron Rising vs. Jason Shelley for that vacant quarterback spot, with Drew Lisk potentially factoring in. Things have changed radically in the last few weeks. Kyle Whittingham scored a commitment from South Carolina graduate transfer Jake Bentley, who has 33 games and 1,002 pass att
  
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• Holly Richardson: When Christmas is a tender time

  21-12-2019 15:00
  
  Christmas of 2005 was not our regular bustling Christmas. It was somber and tender, as we grieved the loss of our daughter, Elizabeth, who we buried eight days before Christmas (and one day before my birthday).That year, the focus was not on buying gifts, or big noisy meals or even on decorating. In fact, if an army of Secret Santas had not jumped in, it’s likely our living children would have only gotten a single stocking of snacks. Maybe.And forget about cooking a big meal. I literally c
  
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• 2019′s top books to enjoy or give, chosen by Salt Lake City’s devoted booksellers for RadioWest

  21-12-2019 15:00
  
  As 2019 comes to an end, readers are looking for stories and writing that can help them understand a fracturing world, experts from three Salt Lake City bookshops agree.For its annual Holiday Books show, RadioWest gathered Betsy Burton, owner of The King’s English Bookshop; Catherine Weller, the new book buyer for Weller Book Works; and Ken Sanders, owner of Ken Sanders Rare Books, to discuss their favorites from the year and for gifting.Host Doug Fabrizio began by asking what’s on t
  
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• Letter: You saved the Olympics. Now save the country.

  21-12-2019 14:00
  
  Sen. Romney,If you will, some words of wisdom for you to consider.You are a man with considerable talents, power and position.The 13th Article of Faith states in part, “We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men indeed, We believe all things, we hope all things.”Also, “If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.”My question: Is there anything virtuous, lovely or of
  
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• Letter: We must express our disapproval at the ballot box

  21-12-2019 14:00
  
  As a lifelong conscientious moderate who despises strict partisanship, I am sickened by the partisan impeachment. The only reason it was partisan is because the current Republicans, in a state of mass denial, defended the indefensible.Our only recourse is to demonstrate our disappointment and disapproval with our vote.Reps. Stewart, Curtis and Bishop would be howling for impeachment if a Democratic president had committed a fraction of our current president’s misdeeds. All three of these m
  
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• Letter: Generations of damage

  21-12-2019 14:00
  
  There is no place for facism in a constitutional republic. We learned that lesson from Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.We must rid ourselves of Donald Trump and his sycophants as soon as possible, or we will be living with his damage for generations.Bruce Bicksler, Park CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Expanding the rail service is a good idea — but not for oil

  21-12-2019 14:00
  
  If you are going to support expanding rail service in Utah, it should be for passengers, not oil.The people behind the proposed Uinta Basin Railway oil train are right about the need for rail, but wrong about whom it should serve and by which means rural economies can best plan for sustainable growth.The Utah Rail Passengers Association has feasible, straightforward and desirable plans for expanding public transportation to Moab, St. George and beyond.Getting people where they need to go and get
  
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• Letter: Could you live on $30,000 a year?

  21-12-2019 14:00
  
  Dear Utah Legislators:I respectfully recommend that each of you be required to take part in a workshop where you are presented with a yearly income of $30,000 for a family of four and then asked to create a budget (at current Utah prices), dividing it up by twelve months, and determine how you would allocate the money each month for rent, electricity, heat, water, transportation, clothing, school fees, health insurance/doctor bills, child care and groceries.This is a real task for many people in
  
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• If a gondola someday carries skiers to Alta and Snowbird, what might it look like?

  21-12-2019 14:00
  
  Back in 1965, when Snowbird was still a dream coming together in Ted Johnson’s mind, an architect — designing the ski resort secretly taking shape in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains — pondered how to get thousands of skiers up Little Cottonwood Canyon, whose steep and narrow walls were lined with avalanche paths.Jack Smith figured, presciently it turns out, the winding road would prove inadequate and proposed a tramway from the canyon’s mouth. But Johnson and the resort&rs
  
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• Timothy Egan: There is light in this dark season

  21-12-2019 13:00
  
  The bipolar days are here, half the planet at its farthest remove from sunlight and warmth, the other half engulfed by fires and some of the hottest days ever recorded.We live by laws that have no control over the great certainty of the earth: that it spins on a tilted axis, and this week cast one sphere mostly in darkness and the other in light. The great uncertainty, the fragile construct of civilization, had a solstice of sorts in the nation’s capital Wednesday. It was a fine day for th
  
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• [Give Me Sport] - NBA Exclusives: Utah Jazz’s Bojan Bogdanovic and Rudy Gobert Talk European Basketball | GiveMeSport

  21-12-2019 12:16 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz’s Bojan Bogdanovic and Rudy Gobert Talk European Basketball
  
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• Paul Krugman: The Democrats may save us yet

  21-12-2019 07:59
  
  Wednesday’s impeachment of Donald Trump was neither a surprise nor a turning point. We’ve known for weeks that the House would vote to impeach. We also know, as surely as we can know anything in politics, that a Republican-controlled Senate won’t convict Trump and remove him from office; it may not even pretend to consider the evidence. So it would be easy to be cynical about the whole thing.But that’s not how it felt. For me, and no doubt for millions of my fellow citize
  
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• Jamelle Bouie: Impeachment hurts, and Trump knows it

  21-12-2019 07:59
  
  President Donald Trump’s almost inevitable acquittal doesn’t mean impeachment wasn’t worthwhile.Trump, and Trump alone, will be the central issue of the coming election — the core concern for most voters. He’s the reason pollsters are predicting high turnout; he’s the reason voters on both sides are deeply engaged and ready to take action. In that environment, impeachment is the loudest, clearest message Democrats could send to the electorate. They don’t
  
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• LDS Church releases videos on how tithing is managed; whistleblower says he didn’t authorize leaks

  21-12-2019 07:23
  
  Days after a blistering report showing it was sitting on a $100 billion investment fund, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released three short videos late Friday assuring insiders and outsiders that it is carefully handling member offerings.“At the end of the day, the decisions, the main decisions, are made by a presiding council according to the spirit of revelation,” Presiding Bishop Gérald Caussé says in one video.Caussé, who oversees the Utah-b
  
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• Kent State outscores Utah State 51-41 in Frisco Bowl

  21-12-2019 05:09
  
  Frisco, Texas • The Utah State Aggies kept the game close for 3 1/2 quarters, but couldn’t quite get it done down the stretch. The Aggies lost 51-41 to the Kent State Golden Flashes on Friday in the Frisco Bowl at Toyota Stadium. It was Kent State’s first bowl victory in school history. Utah State, meanwhile, has lost three of its past four bowl games. The only win was last season in the New Mexico Bowl against North Texas. For the 16 Aggies who played their final game in a Utah
  
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