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• Vault performance a pleasant early-season surprise for Utah gymnastics team

  20-01-2020 23:55
  
  For an event that Utah’s gymnastics team was supposed to be weaker in this season, the vault is turning out to be an early surprise in 2020.The fifth-ranked Utes, who host Arizona State on Friday at 7 p.m., are ranked fifth nationally in the vault, averaging 49.15.Oklahoma is ranked No. 1 with a 49.392 average.That the Utes are doing well so far in the event is exciting for coach Tom Farden.“That all of our captains are in the lineup makes a difference,” he said of Kim Tessen,
  
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• Mayor Mendenhall, volunteers work in service on MLK Day by assembling donations for food bank

  20-01-2020 23:36
  
  Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and the YouthCity Government celebrate the 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service volunteering at Utah Food Bank. This was the 18th year the city and the Utah Food Bank partnered in observance of the holiday that honors the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Mendenhall and more than 75 volunteers, including city government employees, parents and their children, spent the morning sorting donations, building boxes for delivery to homebound seniors, and arrang
  
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• Even under the weather, Nathan Chen is the skater to beat at this week’s national championships

  20-01-2020 23:01
  
  Pushing the threshold of men’s figure skating can take a toll on a person. The same can be said for the rigors of second-year studies at an Ivy League university. The one-two combo caught up to Nathan Chen earlier this month.Chen’s skating has been on the ascent since the 20-year-old landed a record six quadruple jumps in a single program in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. He followed that up at the 2018 World Championships, when he became the first skater to la
  
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• Debra Oaks Coe: True leadership includes courage and integrity

  20-01-2020 23:00
  
  The summer of 1972, before my junior year of high school, we were living in Alexandria, Va., just two miles from George Washington’s Mount Vernon. In the shadow of this historic place, my classmates and I were unusually interested politics and the current presidential election. The voting age had recently changed from 21 to 18, the Vietnam War and the draft were still on.With great excitement I took a bus to downtown Washington, D.C., and volunteered at the national headquarters for the Re
  
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• Utah Utes’ Zack Moss withdraws from Senior Bowl but has received NFL Combine invite

  20-01-2020 22:55
  
  Zack Moss will not play in the Senior Bowl on Saturday, but he will participate in the NFL Scouting Combine, which will begin Feb. 24 in Indianapolis.Moss, who closed out an all-time career as a running back for the University of Utah last month, told the Salt Lake Tribune Monday afternoon that he has indeed withdrawn from the Senior Bowl, and that he has received a Combine invite.“It was really about sitting down and evaluating what is the right move now so he can get himself prepared for
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Pacers vs. Jazz odds, line, spread: 2020 NBA picks, Jan. 20 predictions from advanced computer model - CBSSports.com

  20-01-2020 22:49 via sportspyder.com
  
  The SportsLine Projection Model has a pick for the clash between the Pacers and Jazz.
  
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• Letter: Freedom of license plate speech

  20-01-2020 22:30
  
  I want to write in support of the car owner who has a vanity license plate "DEPORTM.”I support this car owner because a vanity plate is really little different than a bumper sticker. This person ordered it to make a statement. A statement that comes under the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech and opinion.I agree with the statement, and about one in three people in this country do. If it offends you, grow up and mind your own business.I hope the Department of Motor Vehicles all
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz revving up for the Indiana Pacers

  20-01-2020 22:23 via sportspyder.com
  
  Can Utah finally get a win over Indy?
  
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• Police ID victims of homicides in Grantsville; community plans vigil

  20-01-2020 22:06
  
  Grantsville Police Department has identified the four victims of a homicide that took place in that small town Friday night.The victims shot and killed have been identified as Conseulo Alejandra Haynie, 52, and her children, Alexis Haynie, 15; Matthew Haynie, 14; and Maylan Haynie, 12. A fifth victim and father of the family, Colin Haynie, 50, was also shot, but he survived and has been released from the hospital.Police say a juvenile suspect who is a teenage member of the family is in custody.
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Threes of the Week - 1.20.20

  20-01-2020 21:51 via sportspyder.com
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - SC7: Healthy Conley Could Shake Up Lineup, Tough Road Ahead, Royce & More

  20-01-2020 21:45 via sportspyder.com
  
  Check in every week for the quotes, stats, plays and performances that tell the stories from the last 168 hours in the world of the Jazz. Like, do I think Im a starter in the NBA?
  
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• Teen snowmobiler who died in Farmington Canyon avalanche identified

  20-01-2020 21:02
  
  Ogden • Authorities have identified a teenager killed by an avalanche while snowmobiling north of Salt Lake City.Chase Adams, 18, was killed Saturday afternoon while snowmobiling with his father in Farmington Canyon north of Salt Lake City, the Davis County Sheriff’s Office said Monday.It took search and rescue crews about half an hour to find and dig out the teen, who died at a hospital in Salt Lake City. The teen had an avalanche beacon and an inflatable backpack that’s meant
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - The Utah Jazz don’t have a top defense anymore, and that’s okay!

  20-01-2020 20:41 via sportspyder.com
  
  Initially in the Quin Snyder era the Utah Jazz were built to be a defensive powerhouse. That may no longer be true this season, but the Jazz are winning mo...
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - What's in the Box? with Bojan, Donovan & Mike 😂

  20-01-2020 20:40 via sportspyder.com
  
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• [Deseret News] - ‘They were the more aggressive team on the floor’: Utah Jazz look to flip script in MLK Day rematch with Indiana Pacers

  20-01-2020 20:36 via sportspyder.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz have been playing so well lately, going 17-3 in the last 20 games, that it can be a little hard to remember how up and down things were to start out the season. On...
  
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• [NBA] - Roundball Roundup: TrueHoop's David Thorpe on Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert, and Joe Ingles

  20-01-2020 20:14 via sportspyder.com
  
  Count the passes. Thurl counts the passes pic.twitter.com/YRmq0fTvL9— Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) January 19, 2020
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz star Donovan Mitchell reacts to Royce O’Neale’s extension

  20-01-2020 19:55 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell was happy to learn that his friend and teammate, Royce O’Neale, was awarded with a four-year, $36 million contract extension over the weekend. While speaking to members of the media at Monday morning’s shootaround,...
  
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• The Utah Jazz don’t have a top defense anymore, and that’s okay!

  20-01-2020 19:54
  
  Initially in the Quin Snyder era the Utah Jazz were built to be a defensive powerhouse. That may no longer be true this season, but the Jazz are winning more games with a new identity. When Quin Snyder initially took over as Utah Jazz head coach back in 2014, I thought his main calling card […]
  The Utah Jazz don’t have a top defense anymore, and that’s okay! - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Grantsville community raises $70,000 for family whose members were killed; vigil planned

  20-01-2020 19:00
  
  A fundraising effort to help family members whose relatives were killed Friday night has almost reached its goal of $90,000. The money, according to the fundraising post on Facebook, will be used to help pay for funeral and medical expenses.Patty Deakin-Daley, who started the fundraiser two days ago, told FOX13 news she is overwhelmed with support. Four members of a Grantsville family, including three children, were killed and a fifth is in the hospital after a family member opened fire Friday e
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Watch Jazz vs. Pacers: How to live stream, TV channel, start time for Monday's NBA game - CBSSports.com

  20-01-2020 18:41 via sportspyder.com
  
  How to watch Jazz vs. Pacers basketball game
  
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• Real Salt Lake signs Kyle Beckerman to new contract for 2020 season

  20-01-2020 18:26
  
  The Real Salt Lake legend is back.RSL signed Kyle Beckerman to a new contract, the club announced Monday, retaining the last remaining player from the 2009 MLS Cup championship season. It appears the contract is for only one year, but details of the deal were not disclosed.“Over the last 13 seasons, Utah has been home for me and I’m proud of Real Salt Lake’s role on and off the field in building the soccer community here,” Beckerman said in a statement. “The fans ha
  
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• As trial nears, Trump lawyers call impeachment case ‘flimsy’

  20-01-2020 18:10
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump’s legal team asserted Monday that he did “absolutely nothing wrong,” calling the impeachment case against him “flimsy” and a “dangerous perversion of the Constitution.”The brief from Trump's lawyers, filed before arguments expected this week in the Senate impeachment trial, offered the most detailed glimpse of the lines of defense they intend to use against Democratic efforts to convict the president and oust him
  
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• Chiefs, 49ers roll to Super Bowl berths

  20-01-2020 17:42
  
  Kansas City, Mo. • Patrick Mahomes tip-toed down the sideline for a game-turning touchdown, added three TD passes, and the Kansas City Chiefs made their first Super Bowl in a half-century by beating the Tennessee Titans 35-24 Sunday for the AFC championship.In two weeks in Miami, the Chiefs will play San Francisco for the title.Mahomes did his usual superb job passing, but it was his 27-yard tap dance down the left sideline late in the first half that gave the Chiefs their first lead. From
  
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• Prohibition began 100 years ago, and its legacy remains

  20-01-2020 17:00
  
  New York • In this era of bottomless mimosas, craft beers and ever-present happy hours, it’s striking to recall that 100 years ago the United States imposed a nationwide ban on the production and sale of all types of alcohol.The Prohibition Era, which lasted from Jan. 17, 1920, until December 1933, is now viewed as a failed experiment that glamorized illegal drinking, but there are several intriguing parallels in current times.Americans are consuming more alcohol per capita now than i
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Jazz get hot start, never let off the gas to beat Kings 123-101

  20-01-2020 15:57 via sportspyder.com
  
  After returning to Salt Lake CIty following a tough overtime loss in New Orleans, the Jazz bounced back quickly and early. Check the ORtg by quarter, tracked by Ken Clayton here.
  
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• [Forbes] - The Utah Jazz Got A Good Deal On Royce O’Neale, An Elite ‘3 And D’ Player

  20-01-2020 15:17 via sportspyder.com
  
  Royce O'Neale's four-year, $36 million extension with the Utah Jazz will be well worth it, as O'Neale is one of the best "3 and D" players in the NBA.
  
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• Utah’s Independent American Party is seeing explosive growth, but it’s unclear what’s driving it

  20-01-2020 14:00
  
  Orem • A quaint house sits in a quiet neighborhood that looks like any other family residence. Inside, however, the home acts as a meeting place for an inexplicable political phenomenon that has gone largely unnoticed.Owned by Greg Duerden, the home is a campaign hub for Utah’s third largest political party: the Utah Independent American Party, which has seen a dramatic influx of new voters in recent years.The party’s membership has more than quadrupled in the past four years, j
  
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• Utah women’s views on their status, biggest challenges differ by age, poll shows

  20-01-2020 14:00
  
  Camille Price waited until she was 27 to get married and had worked without having children in the mid-1980s, going against the norm in Utah. But “cultural expectations” eventually led her to give up her career and stay home, said her daughter, Kelsey.But when Kelsey Price was growing up, “I was told, ‘You’re going to school. You should have a career. School was to get a career to work.‘” These generational differences, the 29-year-old Price said, are re
  
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• Special interests provided 93.5% of donations to Utah legislators last year

  20-01-2020 14:00
  
  Utah’s legislators didn’t need to raise much campaign money in 2019, since it was not an election year for them. They still amassed plenty — and special interest groups supplied 93.5% of it, about $14 of every $15.Academics say that is unusual because in most states, studies say lawmakers raise about half of their money from individual voters and half from special interests.Utah’s big disparity raises questions about what those special interests — including realtors
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Utah is afraid to take a risk when it comes to promoting safe sex

  20-01-2020 14:00
  
  It might have been the most effective HIV awareness campaign ever.Need proof? You already know what I’m talking about and I haven’t even had to mention the hilariously risque slogans on 130,000 condom packages prepared by the Utah Department of Health — slogans like “Explore Utah’s Caves,” “Fillmore, Beaver,” “This is The Place” over a picture of a bed, and, my personal favorite, “Uintah Sex?”However, in Utah the only thing
  
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• Letter: When’s the sale on pitchforks?

  20-01-2020 14:00
  
  I read, with some bemusement, the recent full-page ad placed by the Sutherland Institute. I guess what’s good for the goose is proper gander. After such a public service as that one, let me make just one more request: Please let us know when Sutherland Lumber is having a sale on pitchforks.Jay Hansen, ProvoSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• [Sports Keeda] - Indiana Pacers vs Utah Jazz: Match Preview and Predictions - 20th January 2020

  20-01-2020 13:15 via sportspyder.com
  
  Preview and prediction as the Utah Jazz host the Indiana Pacers.
  
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• Letter: It was a mistake for Utah to end auto-safety inspections

  20-01-2020 13:00
  
  As winter proceeds this month, I am amazed to see how many cars are having difficulty maneuvering the streets in the snow.Closer inspection of those who I assisted revealed that most that were stuck were there because of bald tires. In addition to this observation, I had to reflect on my night driving, wherein I could observe many automobiles with headlights, tail lights, broken windshields and other driving safety features broken or missing.As a student of psychology, I know some will not maint
  
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• [Sports Keeda] - Sacramento Kings vs Miami Heat: Match Preview and Predictions - 20th January 2020

  20-01-2020 12:08 via sportspyder.com
  
  Preview and prediction as the Heat host the Kings
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Indiana puts road win streak on the line against Utah

  20-01-2020 09:55 via sportspyder.com
  
  Indiana will try to keep its four-game road win streak alive when the Pacers take on Utah
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Royce O’Neale reacts to signing 4-year extension with Jazz

  20-01-2020 07:41 via sportspyder.com
  
  Royce O’Neale is now ‘at ease’ after inking a hefty four-year extension with the Utah Jazz. Per Eric Woodyard of ESPN, O’Neale is thankful for the four-year, $36 million contract extension he recently signed. Jazz’s Royce O’Neale to ESPN on signing...
  
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• 49ers run past Packers 37-20 as Raheem Mostert rushes for 220 yards, four TDs

  20-01-2020 06:54
  
  Santa Clara, Calif. • Coach Kyle Shanahan received the NFC championship trophy from his Super Bowl-winning father, Mike, and raised it to the sky.The San Francisco 49ers have gone on a surprising journey from No. 2 pick in the draft to one of the last two teams standing. They have one of the most unlikely playoff heroes to thank for it.Journeyman Raheem Mostert rushed for 220 yards and four touchdowns to make quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo mostly a spectator, Nick Bosa harassed Aaron Rodgers f
  
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• [Basketball Insiders] - Sources: Trail Blazers, Kings Complete Five-Player Trade

  20-01-2020 06:52 via sportspyder.com
  
  Portland has traded Kent Bazemore and Anthony Tolliver and two second- round picks to Sacramento for Trevor Ariza, Wendell Gabriel and Caleb Swanigan, source tells ESPN. Portland has traded Kent Bazemore and Anthony Tolliver and two second- round...
  
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• [Basketball Insiders] - Sources: Kings Still Hoping to Trade Dewayne Dedmon

  20-01-2020 06:52 via sportspyder.com
  
  Kings continue to search for an avenue to unload center Dewayne Dedmon, who’s in the first season of a three-year, $40M contract. Dedmon, fined for publicly requesting a trade, is averaging 13.8 minutes in 26 games. Kings continue to search for an...
  
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• [Basketball Insiders] - Report: Royce O’Neale, Jazz Agree to Extension

  20-01-2020 06:52 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz forward Royce O’Neale has agreed to a four-year, $36 million contract extension, agents Ty Sullivan and Steven Heumann of CAA Sports told ESPN. The Jazz announced the extension Sunday, but did not provide any contract details. “Re-signing...
  
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• Report: Royce O’Neale, Jazz Agree to Extension

  20-01-2020 06:40 via basketballinsiders.com
  
  Utah Jazz forward Royce O’Neale has agreed to a four-year, $36 million contract extension, agents Ty Sullivan and Steven Heumann of CAA Sports told ESPN. The Jazz announced the extension Sunday, but did not provide any contract details. “Re-signing Royce to a long-term extension was a priority for our organization,” Jazz executive vice president of […]
  
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• Letter: Listen to Sen. Mike Lee about Iran

  20-01-2020 06:00
  
  If low-key but very opinionated Sen. Mike Lee has a snit on television, we have an event worth pondering, especially when musing over an event possibly leading to war and death of American soldiers.If Lee says the closed Senate briefing by White House officials was inadequate and vague and insulting, treating senators like “good little boys and girls,” a White House “cover-up” is suggested.The assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the second most popular Iranian, a star
  
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• Trump thanks farmers for backing him through China trade war

  20-01-2020 05:05
  
  Austin, Texas • President Donald Trump thanked farmers Sunday for supporting him through a trade war with China as he promoted a new North American trade agreement and a separate one with China that he said will massively benefit farmers.“We did it,” Trump said, recalling his campaign promises to improve America’s trading relationships with other countries.At one point during his address to the American Farm Bureau Federation’s convention, Trump said he has strong su
  
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• Illegal crossings plunge as U.S. extends policy across border

  20-01-2020 04:36
  
  Yuma, Ariz. • Adolfo Cardenas smiles faintly at the memory of traveling with his 14-year-old son from Honduras to the U.S.-Mexico border in only nine days, riding buses and paying a smuggler $6,000 to ensure passage through highway checkpoints.Father and son walked about 10 minutes in Arizona's stifling June heat before surrendering to border agents. Instead of being released with paperwork to appear in immigration court in Dallas, where Cardenas hopes to live with a cousin, they were bused
  
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• Letter: Extra hybrid car fees discourage social responsibility

  20-01-2020 04:00
  
  Recently we received a bill from UDOT to charge us a fee for owning a hybrid-electric vehicle (we don’t buy as much gas as we used to).I put it on the desk right next to the bill from Rocky Mountain Power charging a fee for using solar panels (we don’t use as much of their electricity as we used to). That sits next to the bill from Salt Lake City for using a recycle bin, which is next to yet another bill for a glass-recycling bin. All of that is on top of this year’s tax docume
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Kyrie Irving badgers Nets teammates with weird theory connecting himself to Julius Erving

  20-01-2020 03:00 via sportspyder.com
  
  Kyrie Irving said "it's not like I'm an a—hole yelling at everybody in the freaking locker room all the time." So, how is he in the Nets locker room?
  
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• Kansas City Chiefs beat Tennessee Titans 35-24 for their first trip to Super Bowl in 50 years

  20-01-2020 02:25
  
  Kansas City, Mo. • Arrowhead Stadium rocked to Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.” Kansas City fans’ half-century wait to boogie in the Super Bowl is over — in great part due to their quarterback’s magical feet, not to mention his majestic arm.With his best imitation of a tightrope walker, Patrick Mahomes high-wired the Chiefs into their first Super Bowl since 1970.Oh sure, Mahomes did his usual superb job passing, but it was his 27-yard tap
  
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• Chiefs beat Titans 35-24 for their first trip to Super Bowl in 50 years

  20-01-2020 02:20
  
  Kansas City, Mo. • Arrowhead Stadium rocked to Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.” Kansas City fans’ half-century wait to boogie in the Super Bowl is over — in great part due to their quarterback’s magical feet, not to mention his majestic arm.With his best imitation of a tightrope walker, Patrick Mahomes high-wired the Chiefs into their first Super Bowl since 1970.Oh sure, Mahomes did his usual superb job passing, but it was his 27-yard tap
  
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• U.S. marks Martin Luther King holiday amid fears of deep racial divisions

  20-01-2020 02:00
  
  Detroit • To commemorate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Nicholas Thomas and more than 100 other volunteers will board up vacant houses, install school safety signs and make other improvements to a Detroit neighborhood. Their mission is to celebrate King’s legacy by being good neighbors and helping lift up a primarily black school in one of the poorer areas of the city.As Thomas fans out across the neighborhood with hammer and nails, King's legacy of peace and racial and social justi
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Game thread: Utah Jazz will attempt to defeat matchup demons against Indiana Pacers

  20-01-2020 01:53 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz kick off a tough stretch of games between now and the All-Star break when they host the Indiana Pacers, who have been a tough matchup for the...
  
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