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• ‘The Rookie’ is trying to be a different police show in the age of Black Lives Matter

  03-01-2021 23:48
  
  The formula for police shows is as old as television itself. The police officers are the good guys, and they do whatever they must to get justice — even if that means breaking the rules.And a high proportion of the bad guys are Black or Hispanic.But in a world where George Floyd died this summer in police custody and Black Lives Matters became a massive movement, that formula seems not just outdated, but offensive. Everyone who’s turned on a TV in the past year has seen unarmed peopl
  
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• Pelosi narrowly reelected speaker, faces difficult 2021

  03-01-2021 23:09
  
  Washington • Nancy Pelosi was narrowly reelected Sunday as speaker, giving her the reins of Democrats’ slender House majority as President-elect Joe Biden sets a challenging course of producing legislation to tackle the pandemic, revive the economy and address other party priorities.The California Democrat, who has led her party in the House since 2003 and is the only woman to be speaker, had been widely expected to retain her post. Pelosi received 216 votes to 209 for Rep. Kevin McCa
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: Starving children don’t cry

  03-01-2021 22:30
  
  Starvation is agonizing and degrading. You lose control of your bowels. Your skin peels off, your hair falls out, you hallucinate and you may go blind from lack of vitamin A. While you waste away, your body cannibalizes itself: It consumes its own muscles, even the heart.Yet Abdo Sayid, a 4-year-old boy so emaciated he weighed just 14 pounds, wasn’t crying when he was brought to a hospital recently in Aden, Yemen. That’s because children who are starving don’t cry or even frown
  
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• Commentary: The Lake Powell pipeline is a relic

  03-01-2021 21:10
  
  For more than 14 years Utah citizens have endured the fits and starts of a Lake Powell pipeline. In the latest chapter of this drama, Utah’s Division of Water Resources and the Washington County Water Conservancy District requested an extended timeline to consider the 14,000 comment letters received during the pipeline’s draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) review.One of those letters was potentially a fatal blockbuster. It threatened legal action from the other six Colorado R
  
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• Letter: Let’s hope snow forts aren’t a thing of the past

  03-01-2021 21:05
  
  Ever since I moved here in 1991, I’ve loved and always selected the Utah license plate with the skier and caption “Greatest Snow on Earth.” Our awesome snow seasons had always been a way of enticing my friends and family back in Georgia to come visit. Some great memories include sledding and making snow forts with my kids, and even shoveling my flat roof in Cottonwood Heights in 1993, when we had a 98-inch snow season.But in the last decade, it seems like snow has become less a
  
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• Letter: A pledge to the Utah state flag

  03-01-2021 21:04
  
  In addition to the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag, several states have an official state flag pledge or salute. Here is a proposal for Utah to mark its 125th anniversary of statehood on Jan. 4, 2021:“To honor and celebrate America’s Beehive State, for pioneers and industry, the flag of Utah I salute proudly.”Burke Scot Beu, Denver, Colo.Submit a letter to the editor
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: State sees 1,819 new cases, now in U.S. top five in cases per capita

  03-01-2021 21:03
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.Utah wrapped up a tumultuous week in regards to the coronavirus by adding 1,819 cases to the tally, meaning a total of 18,599 new cases were reported in the week after the Christmas holiday.Overall, there have been 283,473 counted cases
  
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• Letter: Trump doesn’t deserve the vitriol

  03-01-2021 21:02
  
  It amazes me, the hatred and vitriol in your paper by the public and your editorial staff toward one man: President Donald Trump.Too many have forgotten the three-plus years of low unemployment, lower poverty rates, more money in your paychecks, criminal justice reform, companies moving back to America, energy independence, trade agreements with China and Vietnam of $262 billion, and other accomplishments not listed; and last, but certainly not the least, peace in the Middle East; all while a co
  
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• Letter: Faux patriots are challenging election results

  03-01-2021 21:02
  
  I don’t understand all these faux patriots who continue to support the baseless allegations made by soon to be ex-President Donald Trump regarding election fraud. There was no election fraud, even Trump’s own attorneys told multiple judges there wasn’t election fraud even though they tell the media that it was rampant. Recently the Georgia Secretary of State had the Georgia Bureau of Investigation check 15,000 absentee ballots for correct signatures. Guess how many were fraudul
  
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• Letter: Save our Stages — and Romney — saved this theater

  03-01-2021 20:30
  
  I am a third-generation theater owner and operator in Vernal. My grandfather started in 1946. Our theater employs three full-time and 25 part-time employees, as well as maintaining a contract with a cleaning company that employs individuals with special needs. We are grateful that Sen. Mitt Romney’s office responded to our emails and asked further questions allowing them to understand and relate to our current situation. We are thankful for the Save our Stages grant program sponsored by Ro
  
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• Letter: There’s no real vaccine plan

  03-01-2021 20:29
  
  Lots of folks are confusing the list of prioritized population groups with an actual plan for getting a vaccine. If you don’t know where and from whom you’ll get the jab — and if you’re not a health care worker, or staff or resident of a long-term care facility, you don’t — that means there’s not a plan.The COVID-19 Vaccination Plan at coronavirus.utah.gov is dated Oct. 1, and it’s not actually a plan for how and where people will get vaccinations.
  
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• Letter: Using salt caves to store petroleum

  03-01-2021 20:28
  
  It was more than baffling to read Brian Maffly’s fine article in the Christmas day edition of The Tribune on the engineering of salt caves beneath central Utah lands to create voids for the storage of gasoline and other hydrocarbons piped from Uintah Basin and other Utah locations. Aside from the potential hazards of underground storage of a liquid bomb, what’s puzzling about it is the juxtaposition of this technological stretch, contrasted to the intuitively obvious idea of the salt
  
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• Ogden coffee shop owner, activist push for social justice

  03-01-2021 20:04
  
  Ogden • It started with a simple conversation between two men deeply invested in the lifeblood of Ogden.Their connection has resulted in a seemingly small but promisingly hopeful step on the path to social justice.Amir Jackson founded and operates Nurture the Creative Mind, a nonprofit that works to empower youth through creativity and the development of marketable skills.Darren Blackford owns Wasatch Roasting Co. with his wife, Tonya, a craft coffee roastery and coffee shop at 2436 Grant A
  
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• Margaret Renkl: The bomb that struck the heart of Nashville

  03-01-2021 19:41
  
  Nashville — If years were musical genres, 2020 would be a country song — or maybe a blues album, or possibly gospel. It’s hard to know, in the midst of sorrow, exactly which brand of anguish is lodged in the human soul. I do know this, though: It’s been a miserable year here, a year that tore our hearts to pieces even before a bomb reduced a historic part of this city to rubble on Christmas Day.Tornadoes ripped through Middle Tennessee last winter, killing 25 and destroyi
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: America’s Enemies

  03-01-2021 19:12
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on January 3, 2021. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:We Are Still HereHell of a YearCriminal ClassMaking a ListHo Ho HerpetologyHalf a LoafPlaying ThroughThe ThinkerWorking PresidentTime of Good CheerWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• For Utah basketball, another road trip, another lost weekend to Pac-12 teams

  03-01-2021 18:06
  
  To an extent, Larry Krystkowiak is correct. Every game has its own story, so here is the University of Utah men’s basketball team’s story after taking the Pac-12 Los Angeles swing over the long holiday weekend.The Utes led at UCLA on New Year’s Eve inside six minutes left, played to a one-possession advantage either way for the remainder of the game, and ultimately fell, 72-70. On Saturday at USC, Utah was down 16 early, but took a 1-point lead late in the first half. Its defen
  
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• ‘The Rookie’ is trying to be a different police show in the age of Black Lives Matters

  03-01-2021 18:00
  
  The formula for police shows is as old as television itself. The police officers are the good guys, and they do whatever they must to get justice — even if that means breaking the rules.And a high proportion of the bad guys are Black or Hispanic.But in a world where George Floyd died this summer in police custody and Black Lives Matters became a massive movement, that formula seems not just outdated, but offensive. Everyone who’s turned on a TV in the past year has seen unarmed peopl
  
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• Paul Huntsman: Today brings an even deeper commitment to our mission of local news

  03-01-2021 16:52
  
  Truth. Empowerment. Community.To donors, subscribers, readers, viewers and observers of The Salt Lake Tribune, thank you for your support as we make a historic journey during journalism’s most tumultuous season.You may have noticed that we changed our motto, which appears at the top of our website and newspaper, from “Utah’s Independent Newspaper” to “Truth. Empowerment. Community.” In its new form, The Tribune will continue to be the go-to source for local, i
  
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• Robert Kirby: After Dad’s death in 2020, my thoughts turn to the afterlife

  03-01-2021 16:34
  
  Many of you know that my father died in a COVID-19 intensive care facility last year. He suffered from Alzheimer’s and probably didn’t know he was about to cross over.It didn’t come as a surprise to the family when my sister texted “Dad just died.” There weren’t many tears. It was more like relief. The Old Man had been going downhill for a long time and wasn’t altogether happy about the process.Knowing what he had been forced to endure, I doubt death was
  
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• These Utahns protested police violence by dancing through neighborhoods. Was it a success?

  03-01-2021 16:33
  
  Rania Ahmed was at home in Sugar House one Sunday in June when she heard what sounded like a block party moving through her neighborhood.What she found outside was a protest, one of many organized this summer in Utah and across the nation by people rallying against police violence after George Floyd was killed by an officer in Minneapolis.But this demonstration was set to music, with dancers and roller skaters moving with an exuberance Ahmed said she hadn’t seen all summer.Dance Dance 4 Re
  
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• Eric Walden on the NBA: Becky Hammon’s historic turn coaching the Spurs should be a beginning, not an end

  03-01-2021 16:32
  
  In early January, a report in The Athletic about the chemistry issues that ultimately doomed what was supposed to be a 2020 championship run by the Clippers led off with an anecdote about how Kawhi Leonard’s demand that the team training staff create a private space for his pregame workouts often led to commandeering the spot that was supposed to serve as the locker room for female staffers.“While there appeared to be no sexist intent, the visual of women staffers being unable to use
  
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• How ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’ lifts up local restaurants

  03-01-2021 16:25
  
  Some viewers may be watching “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” for the drama.Is Jen Shah still arguing with Mary Cosby? How is Heather Gay moving on after divorce? And what does it mean when Lisa Barlow says she’s Mormon 2.0?Others, though, tune into the reality show for something more filling — the food and drink.In every episode, Utah restaurants, bars, bakeries and even fast-food spots set the scene for the on-screen spectacles that take place among the cast.[Subscri
  
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• Robert Gehrke: This Utah couple was married for 60 years and died of COVID-19 hours apart

  03-01-2021 16:11
  
  It was two nights after Christmas and Joan Yvonne Christensen was fading, bed-bound in an Ogden clinic as COVID-19 was taking her.Three of her four children and their spouses — dressed in protective equipment — were by her side, holding her hand.Vonnie, as everyone called her, hadn’t been conscious for a few days, slipping into a sort of coma, her daughter, Linda Guthrie, told me. Yet now, nearing the end, Vonnie, a lover of music, began to sing, so weakly some of it was inaudi
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Local news must stop using the term ‘officer-involved’

  03-01-2021 16:10
  
  On Sept. 21, KUTV-Channel 2 began a report with this sentence: “So far this year, Salt Lake County has seen 14 officer-involved shootings.” Which meant — what? Did officers shoot 14 people, or were 14 officers shot?The report went on to make it clear that officers did the shooting, but why use the vague term at all? Why begin, as KSL-Channel 5 did on Jan. 8, with an even more vague statement about a “major police presence, swarming the area of an officer-involved critical
  
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• Utah’s incoming Gov. Spencer Cox faces challenges on vaccinations, education

  03-01-2021 15:00
  
  Gov.-elect Spencer Cox is about to give up his four-hour daily round trip commute.During his time as lieutenant governor, Cox happily held onto his life in rural Sanpete County, choosing to make the 100-miles drive to and from the state Capitol rather than part from his seventh-generation family farm.But after Monday’s inauguration, he and his family will shift from their comfortable home in Fairview to a 16,000-square-foot mansion in Salt Lake City, and from baling hay to a professionally
  
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• Utah basketball’s Pelle Larsson at the forefront of Runnin’ Utes’ overseas movement

  03-01-2021 15:00
  
  Rylan Jones had just wrapped up practice with his University of Utah basketball teammates back in mid-October when he jumped on a Zoom call with local reporters.The Utes’ sophomore point guard fielded questions on a variety of topics, not to mention teammates, when the conversation turned to Pelle Larsson, the new 6-foot-5 guard combo guard who played professionally in his native Sweden last season.Larsson was a mystery to the average Utah fan. He did not emigrate over here for high school
  
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• Exclusive: Utah leaders went rogue in early coronavirus response, emails from health experts show

  03-01-2021 14:00
  
  The powerful state budget managers who controlled key parts of Utah’s initial coronavirus response were skeptical about the value of medical expertise in handling the crisis and made repeated attempts to resist or subvert health officials, according to records obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune.Springing into action soon after the virus hit Utah, the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget (GOMB) molded an economy-focused strategy that called for clamping down quickly on the diseas
  
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• Alexandra Ziesler: Trump was the right president at the right time

  03-01-2021 14:00
  
  It takes courage to face the onslaught of daggers and arrows that come as people are forced to leave behind what’s familiar, no matter how dysfunctional. Yet familiar patterns, established ways, even traditions can evoke complacency, ingratitude, boredom, sluggishness. It can take the force of immense moral courage to break these holds to awaken to new freedom.At the eve of a new presidential administration, I want to thank President Trump for his example of morally courageous leadership.
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Introducing The Tribune’s editorial principles and agenda

  03-01-2021 13:30
  
  With today’s edition, The Tribune goes to a weekly print format, delivered (to most of you) on Sunday mornings, and available for sale in retail outlets throughout our coverage area. Beyond our delivery zones, the weekly is available by mail delivery.Our 24/7/365 sltrib.com website, recently redesigned, is still going strong, providing up-to-date news, sports, features, entertainment and commentary. The Tribune’s new mobile app contains our content plus games and other features. And
  
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• Tribune Editorial: The Tribune Editorial Board

  03-01-2021 13:00
  
  The editorial voice of The Tribune will be in the hands of six people, three members of the newspaper’s professional staff, two from the Tribune’s Board of Directors and one from the community.
  (Francisco Kjolseth|The Salt Lake Tribune)Paul Huntsman. (Francisco Kjolseth/)- Paul Huntsman, chairman. Huntsman purchased The Tribune and became its publisher in 2016, and remains the chairman of its board now that the newspaper has become a nonprofit. He is president of Huntsman Family Inve
  
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• Paul Hunstman: Today brings an even deeper commitment to our mission of local news

  03-01-2021 12:00
  
  Truth. Empowerment. Community.To donors, subscribers, readers, viewers and observers of The Salt Lake Tribune, thank you for your support as we make a historic journey during journalism’s most tumultuous season.You may have noticed that we changed our motto, which appears at the top of our website and newspaper, from “Utah’s Independent Newspaper” to “Truth. Empowerment. Community.” In its new form, The Tribune will continue to be the go-to source for local, i
  
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• Oregon has five turnovers in Fiesta Bowl loss to Iowa State

  03-01-2021 05:14
  
  Glendale, Ariz. • The youngest team in the FBS, mistake-prone Oregon looked it in a 34-17 loss to No. 12 Iowa State in the Fiesta Bowl on Saturday.The Ducks (4-3, CFP 25) committed a season-high five turnovers, including a muffed kickoff return, had a touchdown negated by a penalty and held the ball for only 17:12. They were 0 for 6 on third down.“It is a game of execution,” coach Mario Cristobal said. “We weren’t able to execute and get done what we needed to get do
  
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• State colleges: Weber State tops Utah Valley 70-62 in men’s basketball

  03-01-2021 05:02
  
  Seikou Sishoho Jawara scored 14 points to lead Weber State past in-state rival Utah Valley 70-62 on Saturday in a nonconference game at the Dee Events Center in Ogden.Fardaws Aimaq had 18 points and 20 rebounds and Jamison Overton scored a game-high 19 points to lead the Wolverines, who fell to 2-5 overall on the season. The Wildcats improved to 4-3.The teams played through 12 lead changes and 10 ties during the first half, with neither team leading by more than three points. Aimaq had a double-
  
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• Neemias Queta lifts Utah State over Air Force 72-53

  03-01-2021 04:07
  
  Colorado Springs, Colo. • Neemias Queta tallied 15 points and 11 rebounds to lead Utah State to a 72-53 win over Air Force on Saturday.Justin Bean had 15 points and seven rebounds for Utah State (7-3, 4-0 Mountain West Conference), which earned its sixth straight victory. Brock Miller added 13 points. Rollie Worster had 10 points. He also had seven turnovers but only three assists.The Aggies connected on a season-best 54.5 percent (30-of-55) from the floor. Inthe second half, USU shot a bli
  
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• Talk show host Larry King reportedly in hospital with COVID-19

  03-01-2021 03:40
  
  Los Angeles • Former CNN talk show host Larry King has been hospitalized with COVID-19 for more than a week, the news channel reported Saturday.Citing an unidentified person close to the family, CNN said the 87-year-old King is undergoing treatment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.Hospital protocols have kept King’s family members from visiting him.The Peabody Award-winning broadcaster was among America’s most prominent interviewers of celebrities, presidents and ot
  
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• Mitt Romney calls Republican effort to reject Electoral College votes a threat to democracy

  03-01-2021 02:41
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney on Saturday called the “ploy” by a group of senators, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, to reject Electoral College votes a threat to democracy. That effort is also supported by Utah Rep.-elect Burgess Owens.“The egregious ploy to reject electors may enhance the political ambition of some, but dangerously threatens our Democratic Republic,” he wrote in a statement. “The congressional power to reject electors is reserved for the most extreme and unusual
  
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• Mitt Romney slams GOP effort to question Electoral College votes

  03-01-2021 01:51
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney on Saturday released a statement saying that the “ploy” by a group of senators including Ted Cruz to reject Electoral College votes is a threat to democracy.“The egregious ploy to reject electors may enhance the political ambition of some, but dangerously threatens our Democratic Republic,” reads the statement. “The congressional power to reject electors is reserved for the most extreme and unusual circumstances. These are far from it.”Romney
  
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• Utah Runnin’ Utes’ offense left much to be desired in 64-46 loss at USC

  03-01-2021 01:28
  
  Before diving into a full dissection of the University of Utah’s offensive struggles as part of a 64-46 loss at USC Saturday afternoon, it should be noted that the Trojans have cobbled together an elite defense.Entering Saturday, USC ranked second in the Pac-12 and ninth nationally in field-goal percentage defense (36.3%). Opponents are shooting just 31.5% from 3-point range, and KenPom.com ranks the Trojans 18th nationally in adjusted defense. Furthermore, USC is long, versatile at most s
  
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• Paul Westphal, Hall of Famer and NBA champion, dies at 70

  03-01-2021 01:00
  
  Paul Westphal, a Hall of Fame player who won a championship with the Boston Celtics in 1974 and later coached in the league and in college, died Saturday. He was 70.He died in Scottsdale, Arizona, according to a statement from Southern California, where Westphal starred in college. He was diagnosed with brain cancer last August.A five-time All-Star guard, Westphal played in the NBA from 1972-84. After winning a championship with the Celtics, he made the finals in 1976 with Phoenix, where he was
  
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• A few thoughts on Utah’s 64-46 loss to USC on Saturday afternoon

  03-01-2021 00:13
  
  The University of Utah men’s basketball team lost at USC, 64-46, Saturday afternoon at the Galen Center, the completion of getting swept on the Pac-12′s Los Angeles road trip. Here are a few quick takeaways.1. A year ago, this game would have been over early: The Utes were down 16 in the first half. A year ago, the game was over right there, but the Utes battled back to take a 1-point first-half lead. Much of the second half was nip-and-tuck, which also wasn’t the case on the r
  
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• A few thoughts on Utah’s 68-46 loss to USC on Saturday afternoon

  03-01-2021 00:01
  
  The University of Utah men’s basketball team lost at USC, 64-46, Saturday afternoon at the Galen Center, the completion of getting swept on the Pac-12′s Los Angeles road trip. Here are a few quick takeaways.1. A year ago, this game would have been over early: The Utes were down 16 in the first half. A year ago, the game was over right there, but the Utes battled back to take a 1-point first-half lead. Much of the second half was nip-and-tuck, which also wasn’t the case on the r
  
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