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• Nathan Chen soars to personal best and U.S. short program victory

  25-01-2020 23:55
  
  Greensboro, N.C. • Coming off illness and spending much of his days as a full-time college student, Nathan Chen shouldn’t have been capable of setting a personal best Saturday at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.Then again, maybe it’s wise to expect only greatness from the three-time defending champion and winner of the last two world championships.Chen, who hasn’t lost an event since he struggled in the 2018 Olympics short program, soared far above the ice — an
  
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• Navajo Nation purchases land that includes gravel pit

  25-01-2020 23:29
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • The Navajo Nation has purchased 1250 acres (506 hectares) of land that includes a gravel pit that the tribe plans to use to obtain sand and gravel for road work and other projects.The Gallup Independent reported that gravel pit's operator that leased its site from the previous land owners will now have a lease with the tribe and that the tribe's planned use of the material from the newly purchased site near Indians Wells, Arizona, should save money for the tribe.Tribal
  
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• Utah tribal leaders protest legislation aimed to keep Native American mascots

  25-01-2020 23:04
  
  Before facing east to the snowcapped mountains to lead a prayer, Eileen Quintana asked the 50 or so protesters who gathered at the Utah Capitol to raise their hands.As they wiggled their fingers toward the blue sky, Quintana told them that they were all members of the same clan — regardless of their race or ethnicity.“You are the five-fingered clan of this Earth,” she said. “We all are five-fingered. We’re humans. We’re on the surface of Mother Earth, holy, sa
  
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• Khashoggi documentary ‘The Dissident’ lands at Sundance

  25-01-2020 23:02
  
  Park City • A searing documentary about the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khassoggi made its anticipated debut at the Sundance Film Festival, unveiling a detailed investigation into the Saudi Arabia regime and the companies and governments that do business with it.Bryan Fogel’s “The Dissident” was one of the most high-profile documentaries at the Park City festival, and it made headlines even before it premiered Friday. The film, Fogel’s first since his
  
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• Tribune Editorial: After a year of defying Utahns, our leaders must face their credibility gap

  25-01-2020 23:00
  
  Holy cow this tax reform thing has been bungled. Thursday’s announcement that the bill passed in December would be repealed in January is just the latest veer in this clown car of a process.The past year first saw one major tax reform plan — negotiated in secret — dominate the last weeks of the 2019 legislative session before failing under attack from all sides. That was followed by a listening tour of legislators that obviously was not about listening. They spent their barnsto
  
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• Tribal leaders at Capitol rally protest Utah lawmaker’s push to keep Native American school mascots

  25-01-2020 22:06
  
  Before facing east to the snowcapped mountains to lead a prayer, Eileen Quintana asked the 50 or so protesters who gathered at the Utah Capitol to raise their hands.As they wiggled their fingers toward the blue sky, Quintana told them that they were all members of the same clan — regardless of their race or ethnicity.“You are the five-fingered clan of this Earth,” she said. “We all are five-fingered. We’re humans. We’re on the surface of Mother Earth, holy, sa
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Live: Jazz take on Mavericks at Vivint Arena

  25-01-2020 22:05 via sportspyder.com
  
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  25-01-2020 22:00
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Mavericks vs. Jazz odds, line: 2020 NBA picks, Jan. 25 predictions from advanced model on 32-16 run - CBSSports.com

  25-01-2020 21:50 via sportspyder.com
  
  The SportsLine Projection Model has simulated Saturday's Mavericks vs. Jazz matchup 10,000 times.
  
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• Cardinal at center of two popes storm doubles down on celibacy

  25-01-2020 21:43
  
  Vatican City • A Vatican cardinal at the center of a storm over a book about celibacy and the Catholic priesthood is denouncing the “brutality” of criticism directed at him and his collaborator, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.In an interview with Italian daily newspaper Il Foglio published Saturday, Cardinal Robert Sarah doubled down on his argument in the book, “From the Depths of Our Hearts,” that the Catholic priesthood is incompatible with marriage.“If you weak
  
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• Vatican women’s magazine blames drop in nuns on abuses

  25-01-2020 21:31
  
  Vatican City • The Vatican women’s magazine is blaming the drastic drop in the number of nuns worldwide in part on their wretched working conditions and the sexual abuse and abuses of power they suffer at the hands of priests and their own superiors.Women Church World dedicated its February issue to the burnout, trauma and exploitation experienced by religious sisters and how the church is realizing it must change its ways if it wants to attract new vocations.The magazine published Th
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz look to defend home court vs the Dallas Mavericks

  25-01-2020 21:04 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Jazz are entering a more difficult stretch of the schedule, looking to start on the right foot
  
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• Trump lawyers argue Democrats just want to overturn election

  25-01-2020 20:54
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump’s lawyers plunged into his impeachment trial defense Saturday by accusing Democrats of striving to overturn the 2016 election, arguing that investigations of Trump’s dealings with Ukraine have not been a fact-finding mission but a politically motivated effort to drive him from the White House.“They’re here to perpetrate the most massive interference in an election in American history," White House Counsel Pat Cipollone told senator
  
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• Eric Walden: Zion Williamson makes a stunning NBA debut. Now the critics should shut up and let him play.

  25-01-2020 19:58
  
  On Friday morning, the NBA PR team’s official Twitter account sent out a “By the Numbers” release regarding Zion Williamson’s debut on ESPN on Wednesday night.Included among them:• 2.357 million viewers (+88% vs. last year’s comparable game).• Williamson’s jersey now in top 10 best-selling jerseys among NBA players.• Sold-out crowd of 18,365 fans at the attendance-challenged Smoothie Kings Center.• NBA social content featuring Williamson ea
  
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• Utah gymnasts overcome slow start to defeat Arizona State

  25-01-2020 19:53
  
  Utah’s young gymnastics team knows it is on a learning curve. The lesson learned Friday night? The power of one routine.The Utes were off to a subpar start against Arizona State with several gymnasts taking steps on their vault landings. Then junior Alexia Burch landed her vault like her feet were covered in glue, earning a 9.95 score that not only won the event but gave the Utes the shot of momentum they needed in their 197.05-194.3 win over the Sun Devils.“That fueled the fire a li
  
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• No crime, Trump lawyers argue: Dems want to nullify election

  25-01-2020 19:26
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump’s lawyers plunged into their impeachment trial defense Saturday by accusing Democrats of striving to overturn the 2016 election, arguing that investigations of Trump’s dealings with Ukraine have not been a fact-finding mission but a politically motivated effort to drive him from the White House.“They’re here to perpetrate the most massive interference in an election in American history," White House Counsel Pat Cipollone told senat
  
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• Sundance: Ron Howard documents aftermath of the Camp Fire

  25-01-2020 19:23
  
  Park City • Ron Howard knew Paradise, the northern California town devastated by the most destructive wildfire in California history.His mother-in-law had lived there and he had visited the town. He had some understanding of its people. Ten days after what became known as the Camp Fire swept through Paradise, killing 85 people and destroying roughly 19,000 buildings, Howard went to see it.“I've never seen anything like it," he said.A little over a year later, Howard came to the Sundan
  
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• Mountain-man shooting event grows in northern Utah

  25-01-2020 19:20
  
  Logan • A northern Utah event straight out of the Old West is attracting more people with its mountain-man appeal, organizers said.About 50 people gathered in Blacksmith Fork Canyon to compete in the state-organized biathlon — an event combining cross-country skiing and sharpshooting — that features muzzleloader guns, the Herald Journal reported.Many wore traditional mountain-man gear to the event last Saturday dubbed Willy Wapiti's Smoke Pole Biathlon at Hardware Ranch, which i
  
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• Fog advisory lifted for northern Utah

  25-01-2020 19:20
  
  It was clear to see — or not — that it was foggy outside for much of Saturday morning.In fact, the National Weather Service issued a dense fog advisory for the Wasatch Front, stretching from the Cache Valley through the Salt Lake Valley and into the western Uinta Basin.“If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of distance ahead of you,” the weather service advised.The fog advisory was lifted at 11 a.m.The Utah Division of Air Quality reported moderate
  
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• Dennis Lythgoe: Ike deserves more credit for bringing down McCarthy

  25-01-2020 19:01
  
  Recently, PBS presented an American Experience documentary on the infamous communist hunter, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis.While watching the program, I was surprised that the producers failed to utilize a reinterpretation by a notable historian of Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency as it related to McCarthy. That book was published in 1982. Yet none of the historians consulted for the documentary indicated either a knowledge of the book, or of the other historians who revised the historical est
  
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• Utah gymnast overcome slow start to defeat Arizona State

  25-01-2020 18:49
  
  Utah’s young gymnastics team knows it is on a learning curve. The lesson learned Friday night? The power of one routine.The Utes were off to a subpar start against Arizona State with several gymnasts taking steps on their vault landings. Then junior Alexia Burch landed her vault like her feet were covered in glue, earning a 9.95 score that not only won the event but gave the Utes the shot of momentum they needed in their 197.05-194.3 win over the Sun Devils.“That fueled the fire a li
  
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• A Washington ski resort ended single-day tickets on weekends. Could Utah resorts be next?

  25-01-2020 18:49
  
  You’re staring down a precious day off and, though it sounds tempting, you aren’t sure you want to go through the considerable effort of hauling yourself and your gear up the mountains to go skiing or snowboarding. You set your alarm just in case and wake up to thick, fluffy flakes floating through the air and piling up on the ground.It’s go time!But hold on one second. If you don’t have a pass and didn’t buy your ticket ahead of time, you may have to spend this pow
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Eric Walden: Zion Williamson makes a stunning NBA debut, silencing his critics

  25-01-2020 18:18 via sportspyder.com
  
  On Friday morning, the NBA PR team’s official Twitter account sent out a “By the Numbers” release regarding Zion Williamson’s debut on ESPN on Wednesday night.
  
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• Eric Walden: Zion Williamson makes a stunning NBA debut, silencing his critics

  25-01-2020 18:04
  
  On Friday morning, the NBA PR team’s official Twitter account sent out a “By the Numbers” release regarding Zion Williamson’s debut on ESPN on Wednesday night.Included among them:• 2.357 million viewers (+88% vs. last year’s comparable game).• Williamson’s jersey now in top 10 best-selling jerseys among NBA players.• Sold-out crowd of 18,365 fans at the attendance-challenged Smoothie Kings Center.• NBA social content featuring Williamson ea
  
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• Fog advisory in effect for northern Utah

  25-01-2020 17:59
  
  It’s clear to see — or not — that it’s foggy outside.In fact, the National Weather Service has issued a dense fog advisory for the Wasatch Front, stretching from the Cache Valley through the Salt Lake Valley and into the western Uinta Basin.The fog advisory is expected to last until 11 a.m.“If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of distance ahead of you,” the weather service advises.The Utah Division of Air Quality is reporting moderate P
  
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• President Xi calls situation grave as China scrambles to contain virus

  25-01-2020 17:44
  
  Beijing • China’s leader on Saturday called the accelerating spread of a new virus a grave situation, as cities from the outbreak’s epicenter in central China to Hong Kong scrambled to stop the spread of an illness that has infected more than 1,200 people and killed 41.President Xi Jinping's remarks, reported by state broadcaster CCTV, came at a meeting of Communist Party leaders convened on the Lunar New Year holiday and underlined the government's urgent and ever-expanding eff
  
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• [CBS Sports] - How to watch Jazz vs. Mavericks: NBA live stream info, TV channel, time, game odds - CBSSports.com

  25-01-2020 17:42 via sportspyder.com
  
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• Trump lawyer says Dems want to ‘overturn’ last election

  25-01-2020 17:33
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump’s lawyers opened their impeachment trial defense in a rare Saturday session by accusing Democrats of striving to overturn the results of the 2016 election, saying the Democrats’ investigations into his dealings with Ukraine were not a fact-finding mission but a politically motivated effort to drive him from the White House.“They're here to perpetrate the most massive interference in an election in American history," White House Counsel P
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Game thread: Utah Jazz commence tough stretch by hosting Mavs

  25-01-2020 16:28 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz face a difficult 10-game stretch which will get underway on Saturday afternoon with a bout against the Dallas Mavericks. The gauntlet is abou...
  
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• More Utahns back President Trump as he faces impeachment trial

  25-01-2020 16:21
  
  Washington • As the Senate weighs Donald Trump’s presidential fate, more Utahns are backing him than ever before and do not want to see him convicted or removed from office, a new poll shows.The president has never been popular in Utah, earning less than half the vote in 2016, but nearly 57% of Utahns now say they support him as the Senate continues the trial on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress allegations based on his dealings with Ukraine. Some 38% of respondents in the st
  
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• Game thread: Utah Jazz commence tough stretch by hosting Mavs

  25-01-2020 15:42
  
  The Utah Jazz face a difficult 10-game stretch which will get underway on Saturday afternoon with a bout against the Dallas Mavericks. The gauntlet is about to begin. The Utah Jazz have 10 games remaining between now and the All-Star break and, as my J-Notes colleague Lucas Miller wrote on Friday, this stretch is certainly […]
  Game thread: Utah Jazz commence tough stretch by hosting Mavs - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Mavericks vs. Jazz odds, line: 2020 NBA picks, Jan. 25 predictions from projection model on 32-16 run - CBSSports.com

  25-01-2020 15:21 via sportspyder.com
  
  The SportsLine Projection Model has simulated Saturday's Mavericks vs. Jazz matchup 10,000 times.
  
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• The state accuses a Utah charter of not tracking its special education spending

  25-01-2020 15:00
  
  A popular Utah charter school could have to pay back more than $4 million in special education funding — which the state alleges was not properly documented and may have been misspent.After months of examining the ledgers and books at American Preparatory Academy (APA), accountants for the Utah Board of Education say they were unable to find any system that showed the money was “being properly expended.” Without that accountability, the state assumes the funds were not spent on
  
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• San Juan County DJ blends traditional Navajo songs and electronic dance music

  25-01-2020 15:00
  
  Bluff • Krieg Benally was crashing on the couch at his family’s house a quarter-mile north of the Navajo Nation when he had his first viral hit. It was 2015, and Benally — a Diné (Navajo) and San Carlos Apache DJ and producer — had worked for days in Bluff to remix “Burn Your Village to the Ground,” a song by the all-indigenous Canadian electronic group A Tribe Called Red.Benally and his frequent collaborator Hünter Sky — a Canadian musician a
  
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• Rep. Ben McAdams holds air quality town hall

  25-01-2020 15:00
  
  West Valley City • With the Wasatch Front tagged as one of the most polluted areas in the country, cleaning up the air is a top priority for residents and policymakers.“The challenge with improving our air is there’s no single solution that’s going to solve it. So it takes a lot of little things,” said Congressman Ben McAdams.McAdams, a Democrat, held a town hall meeting Thursday night in West Valley City to discuss solutions with scientists, air quality advocates an
  
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• Could Utah ski resorts end single-day ticket sales?

  25-01-2020 15:00
  
  You’re staring down a precious day off and, though it sounds tempting, you aren’t sure you want to go through the considerable effort of hauling yourself and your gear up the mountains to go skiing or snowboarding. You set your alarm just in case and wake up to thick, fluffy flakes floating through the air and piling up on the ground.It’s go time!But hold on one second. If you don’t have a pass and didn’t buy your ticket ahead of time, you may have to spend this pow
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Can they keep their poise to avoid peaking too early?

  25-01-2020 14:12 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz are on a roll of late, but they must not let their recent success trap them into peaking too early. Things are going great for the Utah Jazz ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Can they keep their poise to avoid peaking too early?

  25-01-2020 14:00
  
  The Utah Jazz are on a roll of late, but they must not let their recent success trap them into peaking too early. Things are going great for the Utah Jazz right now. Things were also going great for the “Lob City” Los Angeles Clippers seven years ago. Led by their star duo of Chris […]
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• Letter: The great illusion of the Senate impeachment trial

  25-01-2020 14:00
  
  Is this really true? I’ve heard the rumors that the Trump White House impeachment trial defense team has hired Siegfried and Roy to create their greatest act of illusion: “The Illusion of a Trial Regarding the Trump Indictments.”Thor Nilsen, SandySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Take a stand for clean energy

  25-01-2020 14:00
  
  Praises for the courage and integrity of state Rep. Stephen Handy’s Jan. 16 opinion piece. He stated: “Voters are taking notice and backing clean energy more than ever before, across the political spectrum. Public opinion regarding clean energy, especially among conservative voters, has improved dramatically. This trend is perhaps most apparent among young Republicans nationwide.”What else has improved dramatically? Over the last four years as a member of Citizens Climate Lobby
  
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• Letter: Sometimes a little humor is necessary

  25-01-2020 14:00
  
  Kudos to Heather Nowlin’s incredibly well written and very humorous letter. I counted more than a dozen brilliant entendres, innuendo and tongue-in-cheek gags. If anyone missed these subtle but clever bits, please read the letter again. Thank you, Ms. Nowlin, for poking fun where needed.Lon Wray, West Valley CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Seek backcountry routes that minimize impact on the land

  25-01-2020 14:00
  
  As a fellow senior (66) who also struggles with asthma, I read Rainer Huck’s quotes about backcountry travel routes in The Salt Lake Tribune on Jan. 3 with great interest. But I disagree with his rationale. Asthma and age do not limit everyone’s ability to enjoy the desert on foot. The Bureau of Land Management is undertaking current travel planning across 13 Utah areas because they violated the law with a similar effort in 2008. Those plans largely followed the opinion of special in
  
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• Letter: If senators honor their oath, Trump is out

  25-01-2020 14:00
  
  It’s simple.If the senators honor the oaths they have sworn and fairly judge the testimonies given, they should vote to remove Donald Trump from office.If, however, party loyalty trumps (pun intended) reason, they will vote to acquit.Glen V. Ruff, SpringvilleSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Hold Trump to MLB standards

  25-01-2020 14:00
  
  Should the president of the United States be held to a lower standard than Major League Baseball managers?Recently, two Major League Baseball managers were fired from their job for intercepting signals from the catcher to the pitcher and relaying those signals to the batter — otherwise known as cheating.If baseball managers can get fired for trying to take advantage of another team for their own personal gain by cheating, then why is this different from what our president did regarding Ukr
  
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• Letter: Don’t give the Republicans’ argument equal weight

  25-01-2020 14:00
  
  The press seems to give equal weight to the Republican charge that Democrats are trying to throw the 2020 election via impeachment. But that argument would make sense only if the Democrats had fabricated the evidence driving the current Senate trial. The evidence exists independent of Democrat or Republican actions. It must be genuinely and fully considered in terms of whether our president solicited foreign interference in our national election, and if so, whether this warrants removal from off
  
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• Letter: Attorney general is out of line

  25-01-2020 14:00
  
  Regarding Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes’ “eloquent” argument for Donald Trump’s impeachment acquittal, along with 20 other Republican “colleagues,” let’s keep this simple. What if the president under scrutiny was Barack Obama?Spare me.Gary D. Ruiz, MurraySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Alan Ormsby: Utah should step up to protect older workers

  25-01-2020 14:00
  
  Just this month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (POWADA), a huge step forward toward protecting older workers within their current jobs and when seeking employment. The bipartisan bill would restore older workers’ rights under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), which covers workers age 40 and over.This monumental vote was a decade in the making, and sends a clear message that it is time to start treating age di
  
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• 2020 aggregate NBA mock draft 4.0: Evaluating the rising upperclassmen

  25-01-2020 11:35
  
  Somehow already past the midpoint of the college basketball season, the 2020 NBA draft is starting to shape up with far more clear rankings.
  As always, we examine the most trusted analysts to give us the best idea of a consensus for what the upcoming draft class will look like in June. The latest 2020 NBA mock drafts from experts at ESPN, CBS Sports, SI.com, Bleacher Report, NBADraft.net, The Athletic and USA Today Sports Media Group’s Rookie Wire were used fo
  
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• Utah overcomes slow start to defeat Arizona State in gymnastics

  25-01-2020 06:51
  
  Utah’s young gymnastics team knows it is on a learning curve. The lesson learned Friday night? The power of one routine.The Utes were off to a subpar start against Arizona State with several gymnasts taking steps on their vault landings. Then junior Alexia Burch landed her vault like her feet were covered in glue, earning a 9.95 score that not only won the event but gave the Utes the shot of momentum they needed in their 197.05-194.3 win over the Sun Devils.“That fueled the fire a li
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - After Bench Rebuild, Jazz Have One More Move to Make

  25-01-2020 06:51 via sportspyder.com
  
  The club used its mid-level exception on center Ed Davis and brought in Jeff Green and Emmanuel Mudiay at the veterans minimum to help secure the back end of the roster.
  
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