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North Korea is developing even longer range ICBMs that may endanger mainland USA. The medical health legislation has become a nightmare for many. Congress is in a deep pit of inability to even decide when to take bathroom breaks. And what fills over half the front page of the Tribune on July 5 — some gawky looking, overpaid basketball player has decided to transfer to another NBA club. With the world tumbling toward potential maelstrom politically and socially, who gives a damn as to what Gordon Hayward has decided about his career goals and objectives.

So he wants to leave the moribund nature of Utah sports for the exciting sports history of Boston, home of the famed Celtics, baseball's Red Sox, the incomparable hockey Bruins and the nearby (30 miles) New England Patriots of the NFL. Hey, if LeBron James could leave that landfill on the shores of Lake Erie for the glitter of glamorous L.A., don't you think he'd give it a try? As for the snarky and amoebic-minded comments of Kragthorpe and Monson, the Smothers Brothers of inconsequential sports trivia, get a life, fellows. Your acerbic comments demean the profession of journalism, already attempting to nest itself even deeper in the pit of bias and triteness.

The only thing that will haunt Hayward is having to make so many trips to the bank. I suggest Kragthorpe and Monson return to the mundane world of the collegiate feuding between here and Provo, the lackluster Jazz and often inability of RSL to score unless someone finally puts a GPS unit in the net.

James F. Oshust

Millcreek