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BYU football: Harvey Unga signs four-year contract with Bears

Deseret News - Former BYU running back Harvey Unga, who was selected in the seventh round of the NFL supplemental draft by the Chicago Bears last week, has signed a four-year contract. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ...

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Father of Shawn Bradley dies in accident

Deseret News - Reiner Bradley, father of former NBA basketball player and current political candidate Shawn Bradley, died Wednesday in an accident at his Castle Dale home. Reiner Bradley, 61, apparently fell off the roof of his home while completing a few repairs. He was "finishing up some items on his to-do list" before going to the Price pediatric clinic where he worked as a physician's assistant, Shawn Bradley told the Deseret News. As a medical worker, Reiner Bradley had spent every other month for the past 10 years working in Kazakhstan. ...

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New LDS Scriptures Site

LDS Media Talk - If you like the Church’s Scriptures site (scriptures.lds.org), you’re going to love the upgraded site that is now in beta testing. Visit it at beta.lds.org/scriptures. Exciting new features include personalized study tools that let you take notes, highlight/underline verses, tag verses, and save them to a folder. You can also Share your favorite verses with friends. What you see today is only phase 1. More is still to come, such as the ability to search your notes and view your tags. ...

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BYU basketball star Jimmer Fredette at the USA team camp

Deseret News - Even though much of the talk about BYU guard Jimmer Fredette since the end of last season has focused on his potential as a future NBA player, there's something Fredette wants to enjoy and experience first — his senior season as a Cougar. "I'm really anxious for it to get here," Fredette said Wednesday from the USA Men's Basketball camp at the Cox Arena in Las Vegas. "It's going to be my senior year, and college doesn't get any better than that. Our team is coming back with a lot of hype, and there are a lot of good things that...

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Ty Detmer speaks about LaVell Edwards

The Daily Universe - Looming in the shadows of Y Mountain, a mighty fortress carries the name of a legend. LaVell Edwards Stadium was named after the man who built Cougar football, and nearly 10 years after his retirement, his legacy lives on. If the walls of the stadium could talk, it would tell sagas of a hero and his army. During the 28-year “Edwards Era,” he produced six All-American quarterbacks. Among the greatest of these athletes is former BYU quarterback Ty Detmer. “LaVell was great,” Detmer said. “For a quarterback, he’s the perfect type of coach. He put a great system in place, and...

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Ty Detmer taking the reins as a head coach

The Daily Universe - One magical run began on a September evening in Provo nearly 20 years ago. Ty Detmer is hoping he can start another soon. Back in 1990, the then-gangly 6-foot, 175-pound quarterback from Texas was gunslinging his way to glory. Though the season had begun a week earlier in BYU’s win over UTEP, it was Detmer’s performance in a 28-21 victory over top-ranked Miami that propelled him to winning the Heisman Trophy. Fast forward to now, and Detmer, at age 42, is preparing to take on new challenges that could be just as daunting as facing a pack of Hurricane linemen bearing...

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Uplifting Non-LDS Music

Mormon Matters - I really like music. I like just about every kind of music. I like to choose it according to my mood to help me achieve a goal. Perhaps it is to relax, or maybe inspire me. Sometimes it’s nothing more than a distraction. Sometimes it moves me deeply in a very spiritual way. I really like most LDS hymns and children’s songs precisely because they move me spiritually. Nevertheless, there is a plethora of non-LDS songs that lift me spiritually as well. In this post, I’m taking a break from my normal analysis to report on the non-LDS songs that move...

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Don’t Wait to Educate

Millennial Star - Your child is never too young to learn about appropriate sexual boundaries and what is comfortable touch and uncomfortable touch. I recently learned of a six year old boy who propositioned a six year old girl for sex. Even though this was alarming, it was not the first time I have heard of such things. I have heard of girls and boys at even younger ages having sexual contact and relations with each other. These are the times we live in. It is unfortunate, but true. Upon hearing this I had another conversation with my children about appropriate touch and sexual...

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Mormon Church Under Pressure on Immigration

New American Media - The scandal over a blacklist of undocumented immigrants has shaken Utah's political establishment and shocked the state's Latino community. It has also focused attention on a complicated question: What exactly is the attitude toward immigration within Utah’s dominant institution—the Mormon Church? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as the Church prefers to be known (LDS Church is the accepted shorthand), counts two-thirds of Utah’s residents as members. No one is blaming the LDS Church for the blacklist (the identity—and religious affiliation—of the state employees under investigation for compiling the list is still unknown). But some are now asking whether...

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BYU Stake President: Service = Spouses

The Daily Universe -  In a world where some are absorbed with themselves, members of the BYU 2nd Stake seem to have found a cure — lose yourself in service. Each week there is at least one service project happening in the stake, but more often there are two or three opportunities of service to choose from. Stake President Robert H. Todd has made a promise that if members of the stake are faithful home and visiting teachers, learning to love the people they have been called to serve, Heavenly Father will bless their efforts in finding sweethearts and spouses. Thus far there is no...