Basketball - Utah Jazz news

• [KSL] - Previewing the tougher-than-ever NBA Western Conference

  13-10-2017 23:55 via sportspyder.com
  ... p, and he's proven to be a huge problem for the other team's guards. And the Jazz should get more minutes out of the Derrick Favors/Rudy Gobert combo, which i ...
  
  Read more

• 3rd Congressional District candidates debate Friday night

  13-10-2017 23:52
  Four candidates looking to fill Utah’s vacant congressional seat are set to debate early Friday night in Sandy. The event, hosted in part by the Alliance for a Better Utah, starts at 6:30 p.m. and will be live-streamed here: On stage will be Republican Provo Mayor John Curtis, Democrat Kathie Allen, the new United Utah Party’s Jim Bennett and Libertarian Joe Buchman. The Salt Lake Tribune will update this story throughout the night.
  
  Read more

• Surveillance video: Woman steals credit card from Utah convenience store clerk while he’s having a seizure

  13-10-2017 23:30
  Rather than rendering aid to a 7-Eleven store clerk who was having a seizure, a woman in the store went through his wallet and stole a credit card, police say.Unified Police Department is asking for help from the public to locate the woman, who was at the convenience store at 6852 S. State Street on Oct. 4.The woman walked around the counter while the clerk was having a seizure on the floor, a news release from UPD said, and rather than helping the man, she took his wallet from his pocket.Survei
  
  Read more

• Bagley Cartoon: What We Do With Creepy Pervs

  13-10-2017 23:19
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017.You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below. Want more? Become a fan of Bagley on Facebook at www.facebook.com/notrobertkirby.InfernoTaking a Knee in SLCTrump IQ TestPollutionpaloozaCongress and the NRAIt’s Good to Be KingWe are All Puerto RicansWar of the WordsIt’s Our FaultThings That Go Repeal in the Night
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Police, family search for missing Brigham City man with dementia

  13-10-2017 22:59
  Brigham City police are searching for an 89-year-old man with dementia who has been missing since Wednesday evening. Floyd Kling found the keys to his red pickup truck on Wednesday at 6 p.m. and disappeared with a three-quarter tank of gas, police wrote on Facebook on Thursday. Kling’s Chevy Silverado has a veteran license plate, and the number is F268G.“He could be in three different states,” said Brigham City Police Chief Mike Nelson. “That‘s our real concern, we
  
  Read more

• After reports of Steve Bannon’s plan to target Hatch, Gov. Herbert says Utahns ‘ought to reject’ outside influence

  13-10-2017 22:55
  Gov. Gary Herbert and the state Republican Party chairman are both telling former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon to back off and leave Utah’s 2018 Senate race alone.“For people to think they can come in from outside and shape our thinking process or what we think is important and proper, I think is a waste of time and effort and they might as well stay home,” said Herbert, who has held elective office continuously since 1990.Still, the offer from Bannon — to fi
  
  Read more

• Eric Walden: My top five bucket-list concerts are …

  13-10-2017 22:38
  I’m a big fan of Nick Hornby stories. I’m especially a fan of “High Fidelity.” Somewhat paradoxically, I haven’t yet read that particular book, but the film adaptation starring John Cusack, Iben Hjejle and Jack Black is an all-time fave.And while I may or may not have seen it originally on a date with a woman who did not go on to become my wife, it has nevertheless had a lasting impact on my marriage, as the missus (who also enjoys it) and I will often pick each oth
  
  Read more

• Utahns can buy Sundance Film Festival passes on Monday, before everyone else can

  13-10-2017 22:35
  Utah movie lovers can buy passes for the 2018 Sundance Film Festival on Monday, getting a two-day head start on the rest of the world.A presale of festival passes and ticket packages for Utah residents happens Monday, from noon to 8 p.m. Mountain time, on Sundance’s website.Locals can buy all the pass and package options available to everyone, at prices ranging from $300 to $3,500, and the youth and student ticket packages. Those go on sale to everyone on Wednesday at noon.Locals also will
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Salt Lake City detective officially appeals firing after nurse’s arrest

  13-10-2017 22:30
  The former Salt Lake City police officer who arrested a University Hospital nurse this summer wants his job of 27 years back. Detective Jeff Payne’s attorney, Greg Skordas, filed documents late Thursday appealing Chief Mike Brown’s decision to terminate Payne earlier this week. The appeal is addressed to the Salt Lake City Civil Service Commission. The Civil Service Commission is a three-member body that hears appeals from police and fire department employees who argue their discipli
  
  Read more

• Stadler breaks ground on railcar manufacturing plant expected to employ 1,000 in west Salt Lake City

  13-10-2017 22:29
  The far west side of Salt Lake City soon will be home to a railcar manufacturing facility that could employ 1,000 Utahns.Government and company officials broke ground Friday at 150 S. 5600 West for a $50 million facility where Stadler USA will build and assemble train vehicles for transit authorities around the country.“We are more than thrilled to welcome, permanently, Stadler to Salt Lake City,” said Mayor Jackie Biskupski. “To have a company with a global footprint call the
  
  Read more

• Recognize this?? Come find us!! FIRST COME FIRST SERVE for tix and prizes! Better hustle!! #RoadToTipoff… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-10-2017 22:25 via twitter.com
  Recognize this?? Come find us!! FIRST COME FIRST SERVE for tix and prizes! Better hustle!! #RoadToTipoff… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
  Read more

• Utes have a giant opportunity to seize control of their own destiny in Saturday visit to USC

  13-10-2017 22:15
  Los Angeles • By the end of the regular season, it may become clear that the Pac-12 South title got decided this weekend. Preseason division favorite USC and presumptive top challenger Utah collide on Saturday, the winner puts itself in a great position to potentially supplant last year’s South champion Colorado.The Utes (4-1, 1-1) need to respond after their first loss of the season last weekend, but they’ll have to do it on the road against the Trojans (5-1, 3-1) in a national
  
  Read more

• George Pyle: Stories. Like ‘Hamilton.’ They get the job done.

  13-10-2017 22:15
  Thomas Jefferson had just pulled his wife off the balcony of his Philadelphia lodgings and back into bed. Much to the discomforted astonishment of John Adams, who was standing below with Benjamin Franklin.Adams: “In the middle of the afternoon?!?”
  Franklin: “Not everybody‘s from Boston, John.”
  It worked. Martha’s timely, um, visit cured Jefferson’s writer’s block and he was able to finish drafting the Declaration of Independence. So the Broadway mu
  
  Read more

• 5️⃣ DAYS! 🎟🎟 bit.ly/2yjklap https://t.co/bMEaJdZFW7

  13-10-2017 22:10 via twitter.com
  
  5️⃣ DAYS!🎟🎟 bit.ly/2yjklap https://t.co/bMEaJdZFW7
  
  Read more

• Report: Real Salt Lake’s Joao Plata among five players suspended from Ecuador national team

  13-10-2017 22:09
  Real Salt Lake winger Joao Plata was reportedly one of the five players that the Ecuador Football Federation suspended indefinitely for disciplinary purposes.The FEF did not identify the five players in Thursday’s release, but Ecuadorian newspaper El Comercio reported that Plata was among five who allegedly left the team hotel to go to a party before Ecuador’s 3-1 loss to Argentina Tuesday.“Once the report by [national team coach] Prof. Jorge Célico was analyzed, where t
  
  Read more

• Ghosts of Utah get their due as An October Evening grows to two

  13-10-2017 22:09
  It won’t just be one October Evening celebrating local horror film, fashion, music and dance, but two as the popular event goes beyond the grave and into the world of ghosts.Local filmmaker Stephen Simmons and Pretty Macabre owner and fashion designer Andrea Hanson are marking the 12th edition of An October Evening and promising less campy comedy and more darkness — an effect, Simmons said, of growing up.“This year definitely has a darker feel,” he said. “A lot of t
  
  Read more

• Commentary: What is the Second Amendment really about?

  13-10-2017 22:02
  Ask any gun enthusiast what the Second Amendment says and the answer will likely be a paraphrased version of, “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” But this is only the concluding half of the amendment.The generally ignored opening clause provides an interesting premise for that conclusive final statement. “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state,” the amendment begins. What does this mean, and why was it
  
  Read more

• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Downbeat: Derrick Favors is the longest tenured Jazzman

  13-10-2017 21:59 via sportspyder.com
  ... red Jazz player. We have waived Torian Graham Details: Good luck to you, ! — Utah Jaz ...
  
  Read more

• Commentary: Tar sands mine leaves a scar, and nothing good

  13-10-2017 21:43
  In late September I swayed in my rocking chair next to 13 other elders, singing “Paradise” by John Prine and holding banners across our laps that read “Keep it in the Ground,” “No Tar Sands Mining in Utah,” and “Invest in Our Future, Not Climate Chaos.” We demonstrated at the PR Spring tar sands mine in the Book Cliffs of eastern Utah to bear witness, call for restoration of the land, and stand up for intergenerational justice.U.S. Oil Sands, the C
  
  Read more

• The Weekly Run: Dante Exum takes a tumble, but Donovan Mitchell's stock keeps rising

  13-10-2017 21:34
  Are you glass-half-empty or glass-half-full after the Utah Jazz preseason? There’s a little room for both.The injury to Dante Exum, potentially season-ending, is definitely cause for concern. But at the same time, rookie Donovan Mitchell has given Jazz fans a lot of reason to be hopeful in his last two preseason games.On this week’s podcast, we explore what Exum’s injury means for his career, but also what his absence means for Mitchell’s development. We also talk how Uta
  
  Read more

• Federal Reserve exec: Utah, U.S. economies are on the right path

  13-10-2017 21:08
  The country and the state of Utah are on the right economic path, as the Federal Reserve slowly increases interest rates and the Intermountain West develops as a tech corridor, according to the president of the central banking system’s Western region.“[We’re in the ninth year of economic expansion. People can’t lose track of that,” said John C. Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, whose nine-state territory includes Utah. In an interview
  
  Read more

• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Huey Lewis won’t be ‘Dancing With the Stars’ just to sell tickets

  13-10-2017 21:02 via sportspyder.com
  ...Lewis continued. “This is pop music, popular music — it’s not classical, or jazz, where you just look at someone’s virtuosity, this is a participatory art. S ...
  
  Read more

• ‘Let’s do something bigger’: Salt Lake City man builds giant King Kong, Empire State Building for Halloween

  13-10-2017 20:51
  Ammon Smith won’t deem himself a “Halloween nut,” but he won’t settle for a few carved pumpkins displayed on the porch. He’s gained local notoriety for his massive displays — graveyards, pirate ships, fire-breathing dragons — that get bigger every year.He’s also not a King Kong fanatic — he doesn’t think he’s ever seen the original 1933 film — but the giant ape was an obvious candidate to take up residence on Smith’s h
  
  Read more

• Huey Lewis won’t be ‘Dancing With the Stars’ just to sell tickets

  13-10-2017 20:48
  Huey Lewis is used to doing things his own way — well, mostly.He put a three-piece horn section in his backing band when that wasn’t necessarily a popular direction to go. He took up permanent residence on a ranch in Montana, of all places, three decades ago and has remained there. (“More cheese, less rats,” he explained. “I like the outdoors, so more critters, less people — that’s fine with me.”) And now, when he could be content to leave his musi
  
  Read more

• Cowbells will clang as BYU takes its clunky — and now tweaked — offense to Mississippi State

  13-10-2017 20:35
  Starkville, Miss. • Cowbells will ring, or clang, or jingle, or whatever sound thousands and thousands of cowbells make when commandeered by more than 60,000 frenzied fans on Saturday morning as demoralized BYU limps into Southeastern Conference territory.The Cougars are at Davis Wade Stadium for only the second time ever for a seemingly inevitable beatdown at the hands of a team they somehow defeated exactly a year ago, Mississippi State. It is a scene the Cougars have prepared for, even u
  
  Read more

• Mormon scriptures to be translated into 34 additional languages, including Farsi, Navajo and Arabic

  13-10-2017 20:33
  Top LDS Church authorities have approved translation of the Book of Mormon and other of the faith’s scriptural works into dozens of additional and often rare languages.The Utah-based faith’s governing First Presidency spelled out the news in a letter this week to regional and congregational leaders.Receiving translations of the Book of Mormon, the church’s signature scripture, for the first time will be speakers of Burmese, Georgian, Navajo, the Micronesian language of Pohnpeia
  
  Read more

• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Schedule Spotlight: October a Season-Determining Start?

  13-10-2017 20:32 via sportspyder.com
  ... he internal dynamics of the roster limit their ceiling, and–pertinent to the Jazz here–how quickly it takes for them to hit their stride. This team should be...
  
  Read more

• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Nigel Williams-Goss strong in EuroCup debut

  13-10-2017 20:19 via sportspyder.com
  ... nst Lietuvos Rytus Vilnius of the Lithuanian LKL. More from The J-Notes Utah Jazz Notes: Exum injury still unclear, Super Rudy Block and more 18h ago Utah Jaz ...
  
  Read more

• Trump: Iran violating nuke deal but he won't pull out now

  13-10-2017 20:16
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Friday angrily accused Iran of violating the spirit of the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, blaming it for a litany of malign behavior and hitting its main military wing with anti-terrorism sanctions. But Trump, breaking with a campaign pledge to rip up the agreement, said he was not yet ready to pull the U.S. out or re-impose nuclear sanctions.Instead, he kicked the issue to Congress and the other nations in the seven-country accord, telling lawmakers to t
  
  Read more

• Richard Davis: Is our current two-party system invincible?

  13-10-2017 20:00
  In 2016, a junior minister in the government of France formed a new political party – En Marche! The party considers itself “radical centrist” and is drawing ideas from both the left and the right. The initial response from established politicians, journalists, and the other political parties was, not surprisingly, dismissal. The new party was written off as incapable of being a force in French politics. After all, France had a political party system that had lasted for decades
  
  Read more

• Holly Richardson: You have a calling. Are you pursuing it?

  13-10-2017 20:00
  “I believe there’s a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.”— Oprah WinfreyI believe we all come to this earth with gifts and talents designed to help us grow and to bless others lives. There are traits unique to each of us and it is in pursuing and doing those things that we find and fulfill our “calling” or find our “voice.” Dr. S
  
  Read more

• Bruce Arena quits as US men's coach after missing World Cup

  13-10-2017 19:59
  New York • Bruce Arena resigned as U.S. men’s national team coach on Friday, three days after the Americans failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time since 1986.The U.S. Soccer Federation said within 10 days it will announce an interim coach for planned exhibition games next month.“There’s no point in me being around,” Arena said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “I’m not going to be around for the next cycle. The only thing
  
  Read more

• Utah Jazz: Nigel Williams-Goss strong in EuroCup debut

  13-10-2017 19:57
  Utah Jazz draftee Nigel Williams-Goss has officially tipped off his pro career with BC Partizan in Belgrade, Serbia. With just days remaining before opening night, the guard line of the Utah Jazz has been a hot topic. Not all of the discussion has been good; Dante Exum may be out for the season with a […]
  Utah Jazz: Nigel Williams-Goss strong in EuroCup debut - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
  Read more

• Utah ski resorts set tentative opening dates starting in mid-November

  13-10-2017 19:49
  If there is enough snow, the ski season should begin in less than a month.Ski Utah held its annual media luncheon recently and announced tentative opening dates for Utah resorts.Park City Mountain and Brian Head have scheduled Nov. 17 opening dates. Alta and Snowbird are planning Nov. 22 opening dates.December openings include Deer Valley and Solitude on the 2nd, Sundance on the 8th, Cherry Peak on the 18th, Nordic Valley on the 19th and Eagle Point on the 21st.Brighton, usually the first resort
  
  Read more

• .@JoeIngles7 on the importance of teamwork 🤝 #JrNBAWeek https://t.co/UtBvxjpCAz

  13-10-2017 19:46 via twitter.com
  
  .@JoeIngles7 on the importance of teamwork 🤝#JrNBAWeek https://t.co/UtBvxjpCAz
  
  Read more

• Thirty years later, Trashcan Sinatras are ‘not going anywhere’

  13-10-2017 19:00
  While guitarist John Douglas acknowledges the Trashcan Sinatras’ 30th-anniversary acoustic event this Tuesday night at the Metro Music Hall in Salt Lake City will be a stripped-down, bare-bones affair, he and his bandmates still have grand ambitions for it.“We play for a while, we do two sets, we’ve got no support, [play] a couple hours, maybe longer than that depending on the venue, what the rules are, but basically the concept is we just play all night,” he said. &ldquo
  
  Read more

• Trump to extend March 5 deadline to end DACA protections if Congress doesn't act, GOP senator says

  13-10-2017 18:54
  Tulsa, Okla. • President Donald Trump will extend a March 5 deadline to end protections for young undocumented immigrants if Congress fails to act by then, according to a Republican senator who spoke directly with the president about the issue.Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., said Trump told him he was willing to "give it some more time" to allow lawmakers to find a solution for "dreamers," unauthorized immigrants brought to this country as children, if Congress does not pass legislation exten
  
  Read more

• Rich Lowry: How the NFL lost to Trump

  13-10-2017 18:53
  Donald Trump isn’t exactly on a winning streak, but he is beating the NFL in a rout.The league’s commissioner, Roger Goodell, signaled the beginning of a messy, divisive retreat with a memo stating, “Like many of our fans, we believe that everyone should stand for the National Anthem.” Now he tells us.The climbdown comes only weeks after a clueless bout of self-congratulation by the NFL and the media over widespread anthem protests. Donald Trump doesn’t play three-d
  
  Read more

• Weekly Run Jazz podcast: Dante Exum takes a tumble, but Donovan Mitchell's stock keeps rising

  13-10-2017 18:49
  Are you glass-half-empty or glass-half-full after the Utah Jazz preseason? There’s a little room for both.The injury to Dante Exum, potentially season-ending, is definitely cause for concern. But at the same time, rookie Donovan Mitchell has given Jazz fans a lot of reason to be hopeful in his last two preseason games.On this week’s podcast, we explore what Exum’s injury means for his career, but also what his absence means for Mitchell’s development. We also talk how Uta
  
  Read more

• Book of Mormon translations in dozens of new, rarer languages on the way

  13-10-2017 18:42
  LDS Church leaders have approved translation of the Book of Mormon and other of the faith’s scriptural works into a variety of new, unique and often rare languages.News of the translations, contained in a letter from the church’s First Presidency, was read to members at their local sacrament meetings last Sunday.Receiving full translations of the Book of Mormon for the first time will speakers of Burmese, Georgian, Navajo, the Micronesian language of Pohnpeian, and African tribal dia
  
  Read more

• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz podcast: Dante Exum takes a tumble, but Donovan Mitchell's stock keeps rising

  13-10-2017 18:40 via sportspyder.com
  ... y cause for concern. But at the same time, rookie Donovan Mitchell has given Jazz fans a lot of reason to be hopeful in his last two preseason games. On this...
  
  Read more

• Cops as vampires? Turns out, they can draw blood — mine — and without making a scene

  13-10-2017 18:33
  The forces of darkness descended on me Wednesday morning. I was hauled into a room in the dungeon of West Valley City Police Department and forced to give up a sample of my blood.As Officer Amanda Keller strapped my arm and prepared a needle, I tried to make sure she was following procedure.Me • “Aren’t I supposed to be unconscious for this part?”Her • “I could make that happen if you want.”Cops pulling blood out of people is a big deal these days, ever si
  
  Read more

• Hey Provo! Come meet us at the @riverwoodsshops at 12:30pm for Utah County's ticket and prize raffle! 🎟🎁… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-10-2017 18:30 via twitter.com
  Hey Provo! Come meet us at the @riverwoodsshops at 12:30pm for Utah County's ticket and prize raffle! 🎟🎁… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
  Read more

• Goodbye, SAGE. Utah Board of Education picks new vendor for statewide testing

  13-10-2017 18:06
  Utah is cutting ties with Washington, D.C.-based American Institutes for Research (AIR), the testing vendor that developed the SAGE exam taken by public school students each year.The Utah Board of Education announced Friday that it will enter into a five-year, $30 million contract with Questar Assesment Inc., headquartered in Minnesotta, to develop a new computer-adaptive tests for Utah students in grades three through eight.Utah retains ownership of the SAGE bank of test questions, which will b
  
  Read more

• Wildfire burns home of 'Peanuts' creator Charles Schulz

  13-10-2017 17:49
  Santa Rosa, Calif. • The home of "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz burned to the ground in the deadly California wildfires but his widow escaped, her stepson said Thursday.Jean Schulz, 78, evacuated before flames engulfed her hillside home Monday and is staying with a daughter, Monte Schulz said.The Schulzes built the California split-level home in the 1970s and the cartoonist lived there until his death in 2000."It's the house he died in. All of their memorabilia and everything is all gone,
  
  Read more

• Leonard Pitts: The GOP is finally, sorta, willing to admit the obvious

  13-10-2017 17:48
  Yes, he's childish and incompetent. Is that really news by now?But of course, it wasn't that assessment of Failed President Trump that made jaws drop over the weekend so much as it was the person making it. Meaning Sen. Bob Corker, who unleashed an extraordinary barrage of contempt on Twitter and in a New York Times interview.The Tennessee Republican referred to the White House as an "adult day care center," accused the failed president of treating his office like "a reality show" and fretted th
  
  Read more

• Elderly Texas couple rescued after almost week stranded on Utah mountain road, deputies say

  13-10-2017 17:24
  An alert cattleman and an “S.O.S.” message crafted of rocks and flowers likely saved the lives of an elderly Texas couple stranded for six days in southern Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.Kane County Chief Deputy Sheriff Alan Alldredge said Friday that Gerald Byler, 76, and his 78-year-old wife Helena ran into trouble on a remote, rocky stretch of Croton Road when their rental car broke down on what was planned to be a day trip to Lake Powell.It wasn’t
  
  Read more

• Scott D. Pierce: To silence NBC, Trump would have to shut down 230 stations — including Mormon-owned KSL

  13-10-2017 17:17
  If Donald Trump really wants to shut down NBC News on broadcast TV, he’ll have to persuade more than 200 television stations — including KSL-Ch. 5.That won’t happen, of course. And the president clearly does not understand how television works, despite his career as the host of cheesy reality shows.We shouldn’t be surprised, given that he also doesn’t understand the Constitution.Trump continues to declare genuine reporting is “fake news.” Any reporting t
  
  Read more

Follow @UtahJazz_News_ on Twitter!