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• Thompson's playmaking a steadying force for defending champs

  17-11-2017 23:52
  Oakland, Calif. • Klay Thompson danced unabashedly in China after winning another NBA championship, and it got shared all over social media. He smoked a stogie on the rooftop, letting loose to reveal another side of himself."I didn't plan for that video to go viral," Thompson said matter-of-factly. "I was just having fun. I've always been myself and having fun while doing it and learning to enjoy every day, because it goes by so fast."Coming to that mindset, however, has been a process for
  
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• Southern Utah, Weber State and Northern Arizona all playing for a piece of the Big Sky football title on Saturday

  17-11-2017 23:52
  Southern Utah, Weber State and Northern Arizona will all play for at least a piece of the Big Sky Conference football championship on Saturday.
  The No. 9 Wildcats, No. 18 Thunderbirds and No. 23 Lumberjacks are all tied at the top of the Big Sky standings with 6-1 conference records entering the final weekend of the regular season.
  Three for the title<br>Idaho State at Weber State<br>When • Saturday, 2 p.m.<br>Northern Arizona at Southern Utah<br>When • Saturday
  
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• NBA Commissioner Adam Silver reportedly meets with NCAA group over one-and-done rule

  17-11-2017 23:50
  NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has not hidden his feelings about the NBA's one-and-done rule, which has been in place since 2005 — before he assumed control of the league — and mandates that draft prospects be both 19 years old and one year removed from high school. He doesn't like it and wants to get rid of it, for multiple reasons. And on Thursday, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, Silver met with the NCAA's new Commission on College Basketball about possibly doing away with th
  
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• After beating the Warriors for their 14th straight win, the future is now for the Celtics

  17-11-2017 23:47
  The Boston Celtics have attempted to pull off one of the most difficult balancing act in sports in recent seasons by trying to win in the present while setting themselves up for success for the next decade.Thursday night, though, the focus on the future officially faded into the background. With a 92-88 victory over the Golden State Warriors in front of a raucous crowd inside Boston's TD Garden, the Celtics increased their stunning win streak to 14 games, and announced to the league that this ye
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Analysis: Utah Jazz should consider giving Donovan Mitchell more playing time ahead of Ricky Rubio

  17-11-2017 23:46 via sportspyder.com
  ... g numbers he’s posted throughout the course of his career thus far. “But the Jazz didn’t trade for Rubio to get scoring. They traded for his leadership, defen ...
  
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• Danica Patrick to stop racing after next year’s Indianapolis 500

  17-11-2017 23:38
  Homestead, Fla. • She started in go-karts when she was 10, and was a national champion two years later. By the time Danica Patrick turned 16, she was on her own in Europe, pursuing a racing career.Patrick was a fearless woman in a sport almost exclusively comprised of male drivers. She raced hard, sparred with her rivals off the track and rarely flinched while becoming one of the most recognizable athletes in the world.Her tough-girl persona almost never cracked in public.When it came time
  
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• Every six weeks for more than 36 years: When will sex abuse in Olympic sports end?

  17-11-2017 23:37
  As the number of women accusing former Olympic gymnastics team physician Larry Nassar of sexual assault has continued to rise this year — surpassing 130, including at least five former Team USA members — victims, lawyers and members of Congress have directed outrage at USA Gymnastics, whose chief executive resigned in March.While the Nassar case has captured public attention because of the renown of a few of his accusers, it is far from an isolated instance. The problem of sexual abu
  
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• Analysis: Utah Jazz should consider giving Donovan Mitchell more playing time ahead of Ricky Rubio

  17-11-2017 23:30
  Ricky Rubio, 27, has been a pro basketball player for the past 13 years.At 14, he began his playing career in Spain and was one of the youngest ever to play in the Euroleague. He’s had invaluable time to polish the fundamentals of the game against quality competition.Yet Rubio still can’t shoot — and it’s hurting the Utah Jazz, who might want to consider pulling the plug on the point guard at least to see if alternative lineups can work.The Jazz currently have the fifth l
  
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• Dec. 5 is D-Day for Russia’s Olympic hopes as IOC meets to discuss punishment

  17-11-2017 23:21
  Geneva • The International Olympic Committee will decide on Dec. 5 if Russia can compete at the Pyeongchang Winter Games.Russia faces being banned from the Feb. 9-25 games in South Korea as punishment for state-backed doping at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.The IOC said on Friday that a "decision with regard to the participation of Russian athletes in the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 will be taken" by its executive board on the opening day of a Dec. 5-6 meeting in its home city of Lausan
  
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• Orem’s Puka Nacua ties state record in Tigers' state championship win

  17-11-2017 23:15
  Call it the curse of mom.Orem standout Puka Nacua laughed that it was his mother’s fault that he didn’t set a record for touchdown receptions in a season.“Curse my mom,” he said. “No, I love my mom. But she cursed me with big feet — size 15. The back of that heel, he caught me with that one.”Nacua was pulled down from behind, just 2 yards short of owning the state record on his own. Winning the state title was plenty of consolation for the Orem junior re
  
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• BYU vs. UT Arlington men's basketball preview

  17-11-2017 23:12
  UT Arlington at BYU<br>At the Marriott Center, Provo<br>Tipoff • Saturday, 7:30 p.m.<br>TV • BYUtv<br>Radio • 1160 AM, 102.7 FM, Sirius XM 143<br>Records • BYU 2-0, UTA 1-0<br>Series • Tied, 1-1<br>Last meeting • UTA 105, BYU 89 (March 15, 2017)<br>About the Mavericks • They defeated West Coast Conference member LMU 85-80 last Saturday in their first game behind a 28-point effort from Kevin Hervey. … Seven
  
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• Mountain Crest's Beau Robinson steps up on offense, defense in title game loss

  17-11-2017 23:05
  Mountain Crest High School senior Beau Robinson waved his team off the field, urging them to pick up the pace.Snow swirled around him as he almost bounced among his teammates. The Mustangs’ season, and some of their careers, ended with Orem lining up in victory formation in the state championship game. But Robinson wouldn’t settle for anything less than a sprint as the clock ran out.“Ever since we were young kids, we’ve been taught to run off the field, never walk on the
  
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• Allegations against Alabama's Roy Moore dividing GOP women

  17-11-2017 22:41
  Montgomery, Ala. • Standing on the white marble steps of Alabama’s Capitol, Kayla Moore surrounded herself with two dozen other women Friday to defend husband Roy Moore against accusations of sexual misconduct that are dividing Republicans, and women in particular.“He will not step down. He will not stop fighting for the people of Alabama,” Kayla Moore said at a “Women for Moore” rally. Acting as her husband’s lead defender, she lashed out at the news med
  
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• Orem blanks Mountain Crest for first state title since 1994

  17-11-2017 22:34
  The Orem defense harassed Mountain Crest all game to capture the Tigers’ first state championship since 1994.The Tigers only surrendered 137 total yards in the 26-0 victory in Friday’s Class 4A state title game at Rice-Eccles Stadium.Cooper Legas threw a touchdown and ran for one to lead the Tigers to victory.This story will be updated.
  
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• Kick off your weekend with your @AFCU Instant Rewind!! ⏪ What are your weekend plans, Jazz fans?? (Besides watchin… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-11-2017 22:33 via twitter.com
  Kick off your weekend with your @AFCU Instant Rewind!! ⏪What are your weekend plans, Jazz fans?? (Besides watchin… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Holly Richardson: Honoring the Wonder Women in our lives

  17-11-2017 22:23
  Blockbuster hit “Wonder Woman” came out earlier this year and in it we see a kick-butt female superhero who is talented, smart, brave, strong and caring, who owns her power and uses it for good.Audiences loved it. By the end of September, “Wonder Woman” had pulled in gross worldwide sales of over $818 million. It was the top grossing film of the summer, the No. 1 film with a female director (Patty Jenkins), the No. 1 superhero origin film (domestic and worldwide) and the
  
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• Surging UMass looks capable of handing BYU its first November home loss since 2005

  17-11-2017 22:22
  Provo • BYU players and coaches couldn’t believe what they were seeing from their hotel rooms in Fresno, Calif., back on Nov. 4. Mississippi State, which had pummeled BYU 35-10 four weeks ago, was getting all it wanted from one-win UMass.Trailing 20-13 at halftime, the Bulldogs eventually prevailed 34-23 over the UMass team that BYU crushed 51-9 last year in Provo.That’s why the 3-8 Cougars, who haven’t lost a home game in November since 2005, say they will be on high-ale
  
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• Utah State business school on the defensive after student media finds a lapse in tuition oversight

  17-11-2017 22:19
  Utah State University administrators plan to convene a tuition advisory panel for the first time in December after reporters with the school’s student newspaper discovered that the group formed two years ago has never held a meeting. In 2015, university administrators entered into an agreement with USU’s student government to create a Differential Tuition Advisory Board. The board’s charter calls for annual meetings and outlines the membership of the advisory panel to include s
  
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• [KSL] - The accelerated development of Donovan Mitchell

  17-11-2017 22:11 via sportspyder.com
  ... etty good for an NBA guard. And he's doing it while taking 30 percent of the Jazz's possessions and moving into the starting lineup. No rookie in the last 29...
  
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• The tragic misfortune of ChenWei Guo, who drove to a Utah canyon just as a couple sought another victim

  17-11-2017 22:04
  The husband and wife sat on the hill overlooking the dirt parking lot, watching cars crunch up the unpaved road into Red Butte Canyon.Authorities say they had already killed one man back in Colorado and were both wearing the dead man's clothes against the Utah chill. Now they wanted to get to Tennessee.Austin and Kathleen Boutain decided they would kidnap someone, a random driver in the hills covered with fields of high grass cowlicked by the mountain wind just east of the University of Utah in
  
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• Kevin Costner’s new TV series ‘Yellowstone’ is filming, and spending tons of money, all over Utah

  17-11-2017 21:47
  There’s a massive television production underway in Utah, and the state has a starring role as Montana in the upcoming series “Yellowstone,” which stars Oscar- and Emmy-winner Kevin Costner.The series, which will premiere in mid-2018, is designed to make a big splash for the Paramount Network, which will replace current cable channel Spike in January. It’s a colossal, spare-no-expense production that’s pumping perhaps as much as $30 million into Utah’s economy
  
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• With bat encounters seemingly on the rise, Utah wildlife experts offer these 7 safety tips

  17-11-2017 21:45
  There seem to be more instances of bats entering homes, schools and businesses in Utah this year.The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources offers the following tips if you happen to have a bat enter your home or business.• Do not swat at a flying bat. Wait for it to land.• If you are trying to pick up a bat, always wear thick gloves.• Open an outside door or window. Then leave the room and allow the bat to leave on its own.• If the bat lands within reach, cover it with a towel.
  
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• Rainy, snowy and windy conditions double crash rate along Utah highways, UDOT says

  17-11-2017 21:45
  Highway commuters crashed at about double the normal rate Friday morning due to mountain snow and valley rain that came down hard along the Wasatch Front on Friday.From 6 a.m. to 11 a.m., there were 55 crashes, mostly along freeways along the Wasatch Front, said Utah Department of Transportation spokesman John Gleason. He said the number is about double the average for a typical weekday, but is “not as high as you’d expect in a major winter storm.”During the first “major
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz, Bees Holiday Ticket Packages Available Now

  17-11-2017 21:45 via sportspyder.com
  ... kets to 1 Jazz game, 2 tickets to 1 Stars game, $20 Megaplex gift card  3-Pointer ($100) –  ...
  
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• Duchesne County inmates charged with sex assault, accused of forcing fellow inmates into a strip search

  17-11-2017 21:30
  Two female inmates in the Duchesne County jail are facing sexual assault charges, accused of forcing fellow inmates to strip down and be searched for allegedly stolen sugar packets.The two women, 29-year-old Zhondee Spring Nephi and 21-year-old Letha Ilene Beston, were charged this week with two counts of forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony. Nephi was also charged with assaulting a prisoner, a third-degree felony.One of the alleged victims reported to jail officials on Oct. 29 that she
  
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• Well-rested Utah State takes on Hawai’i in Aggies’ final home game of the season

  17-11-2017 21:19
  Matt Wells was initially unhappy at the placement of Utah State’s bye week so late in the season, but the Aggie football coach might be coming around now.The week off for Utah State came just last weekend, and the well-rested Aggies now resume their schedule Saturday against Hawai’i. It marks USU’s final home game of the season.
  “I would have ... hoped that the bye week was a little more mid-October. It happens to be right now,” Wells said.“I’m not sure
  
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• Commentary: I'm a feminist. I study rape culture. And I don't want Al Franken to resign.

  17-11-2017 21:00
  As a feminist and the author of a book on rape culture, I could reasonably be expected to lead the calls for Al Franken to step down, following allegations that he forced his tongue down a woman’s throat, accompanied by a photo of him grinning as he moves in to grope her breasts while she sleeps. It’s disgusting. He treated a sleeping woman as a comedy prop, no more human than the contents of Carrot Top’s trunk, and I firmly believe he should suffer social and professional cons
  
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• A South Salt Lake audit looking into use of public funds was estimated to take three weeks. Four months — and an election — later, it’s still unfinished.

  17-11-2017 20:48
  When South Salt Lake hired an outside auditor at the end of June to look into questions from two city councilmen about whether public funds were being diverted to the mayor’s re-election campaign, the councilman overseeing the audit anticipated the process would take three weeks. But more than four months later, there are still no answers.
  Mayor Cherie Wood requested the audit herself after Council members Mark Kindred and Shane Siwik, who were running for her seat at the time, raised conc
  
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• NCAA women's basketball champions say no to Trump

  17-11-2017 20:44
  The South Carolina Gamecocks waited months to receive an invitation to the White House. When it finally arrived earlier in November, the NCAA women's basketball champions gave this reply: thanks, but no thanks.Gamecocks Coach Dawn Staley confirmed Thursday that her squad will not be joining other NCAA spring-season title teams in a ceremony Friday at the White House. South Carolina reportedly cited a scheduling conflict, the same reason the NCAA men's champion North Carolina Tar Heels offered in
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - To tank, make a change or stay the course: The Utah Jazz dilemma

  17-11-2017 20:44 via sportspyder.com
  ... mber 14, 2017 The next option the Jazz have is to look to make some trades, either now or at the deadline, to help...
  
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• Your college football team is very worried about GOP tax plans

  17-11-2017 20:37
  For more than 30 years, colleges and universities have leaned on an obscure tax rule that allows sports boosters to make tax-deductible contributions to their teams. Athletic fundraisers around the country say that's an advantage that generates millions in annual revenue — and one that's threatened by Republican tax legislation.The issue revolves around donations that confer the right to buy top-tier football and basketball tickets. Modeled after seat licenses in pro sports, these "contrib
  
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• American legend Erin Hamlin nears the end of her long luge journey

  17-11-2017 20:34
  Erin Hamlin is looking forward to normalcy. She is getting married next summer in her hometown. She is thinking about career moves. She is trying to figure out the rest of her life.It is probably her last luge season. It is definitely her last Olympic season.As such, it would be easy to fall into the trap of saying that winning a gold medal at the Pyeongchang Games in February would be the only thing that makes this season a success. It's important, sure, but Hamlin is entering her 13th year of
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz continue their East Coast Trek as they face Brooklyn Nets

  17-11-2017 20:26 via sportspyder.com
  ... t road win... still The Jazz still have yet to win one on the road this season. The Jazz will need to ban ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Rodney Hood, Sixth Man

  17-11-2017 20:26 via sportspyder.com
  ... cent years as the science behind it becomes more and more clear. Perhaps the Jazz should re-think their road trip regimen because what they’re doing right now ...
  
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• Kevin Costner’s sweeping new TV series is spending big bucks in Utah

  17-11-2017 20:16
  There’s a massive television production underway in Utah, and the state has a starring role as Montana in the upcoming series “Yellowstone,” which stars Oscar- and Emmy-winner Kevin Costner.The series, which will premiere in mid-2018, is designed to make a big splash for the Paramount Network, which will replace current cable channel Spike in January. It’s a colossal, spare-no-expense production that’s pumping perhaps as much as $30 million into Utah’s economy
  
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• Greg Sargent: Remarkable, angry exchange between Hatch and Brown unmasks the GOP's tax-cut lies

  17-11-2017 20:09
  Late Thursday night, just before the Finance Committee passed the Senate’s version of the tax bill slashing taxes on corporations and the rich, a remarkable moment unfolded that perfectly captured the GOP’s whole handling of the tax debate — in all its dishonesty, misdirection and bottomless bad faith.Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, engaged in extended sparring with committee chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, over who would benefit from the Senate bill, with Brown insisting that it fundamen
  
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• Selective outrage: Trump criticizes Franken, silent on Moore

  17-11-2017 20:08
  Washington • President Donald Trump is displaying selective outrage over allegations of sexual harassment against prominent men in politics, as his own tortured past lingers over his response.Trump moved quickly Thursday to condemn accusations against Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken as “really bad,” but he has remained conspicuously silent on the more serious claims leveled against Roy Moore, the Republican in Alabama’s special Senate race who faces allegations he sex
  
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• Utah teen accused of assaulting and killing 12-year-old neighbor girl is now competent to stand trial, judge says

  17-11-2017 20:03
  A Utah juvenile court judge ruled Friday that a 17-year-old West Valley City boy is now competent to stand trial in the sexual assault and killing of his 12-year-old neighbor.The ruling now clears the way for the case — which has been delayed for more than year — to move forward to a preliminary hearing.If 3rd District Juvenile Court Judge James Michie decides there is enough evidence for the case to move forward, he will then hear more evidence about the boy and decide whether the c
  
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• Jazz // Nets // TONIGHT 👊 Tipoff: 5:30 PM MT #UTAatBKN https://t.co/KM6LoPwnth

  17-11-2017 19:30 via twitter.com
  
  Jazz // Nets // TONIGHT 👊Tipoff: 5:30 PM MT#UTAatBKN https://t.co/KM6LoPwnth
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Ricky Rubio out, Thabo Sefolosha questionable tonight in game against Brooklyn

  17-11-2017 19:29 via sportspyder.com
  ... nts a different challenge. For the second time in a seven-day span, the Utah Jazz are playing the Nets. But this time, the Jazz won’t have their home fans che ...
  
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• [ESPN] - Jazz's Rubio to miss game with sore Achilles

  17-11-2017 19:25 via sportspyder.com
  ...ESPN Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Utah Jazz point guard Ricky Rubio is suffering from soreness in his right Achilles and ...
  
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• Roy Moore 'will not step down,' his wife Kayla Moore says

  17-11-2017 19:23
  Montgomery, Ala. • Embattled Alabama Republican nominee Roy Moore’s wife Kayla Moore said Friday that her husband will not end his Senate campaign, which has been upended by allegations that he initiated unwanted sexual encounters with women when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s.“He will not step down. He will not stop fighting for the people of Alabama,” Kayla Moore said in remarks here Friday.Her comments were the latest signal that Moore is not planning to end
  
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• Ricky Rubio out, Thabo Sefolosha questionable tonight in game against Brooklyn

  17-11-2017 19:20
  NEW YORK — Injuries continue to hit the Utah Jazz hard.After Friday’s shootaround, the team announced that starting point guard Ricky Rubio is out against Brooklyn tonight with right Achilles soreness.Veteran forward Thabo Sefolosha is also questionable with right knee soreness.These injuries are on top of Rudy Gobert’s right tibia contusion, Joe Johnson’s right wrist tendon instability and Dante Exum’s shoulder injury.Two-way guard Nate Wolters will be made availab
  
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• Rev Jesse Jackson discloses Parkinson's disease diagnosis

  17-11-2017 19:13
  Chicago • The Rev. Jesse Jackson says he’s been seeking outpatient care for two years for Parkinson’s disease and plans to dedicate himself to physical therapy.In a Friday letter to supporters, the 76-year-old says family and friends noticed a change in him about three years ago and he could no longer ignore symptoms.He says the diagnosis isn’t a sign to stop working but a “signal” to make “lifestyle changes” to slow progression of the chronic neuro
  
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• A simple color change is allowing Rich High School to drop its Confederate soldier mascot

  17-11-2017 19:02
  Rich High School is changing its mascot of more than 30 years after complaints that it is racially insensitive. The 142-student high school in northern Utah’s Rich County will phase out its Confederate Rebel mascot and by altering its gray fatigues for a classic royal blue uniform transform the school into the far more politically palatable Revolutionary Rebel.The decision has been a long time coming, said principal Rick Larsen. Complaints about the symbol’s racist connotations had b
  
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• David Archuleta: ‘I dared to not be afraid to be a Mormon in the entertainment industry’

  17-11-2017 19:01
  David Archuleta is back in Utah at this very moment, and does he have big plans.Yes, of course, there’s the Monday performance at Abravanel Hall by the Beehive State’s favorite “American Idol” alum. But, as for the truly momentous and newsworthy way he intends to spend the rest of his time here …“I’m gonna get a haircut,” Archuleta revealed exclusively to The Salt Lake Tribune in a phone interview.Ummm, you’re a platinum-selling pop singer &
  
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• Jazz shootaround: Stop us if you've heard this one before — injuries are mounting for the Jazz

  17-11-2017 18:58
  New York • Over two years, the Jazz have consistently been one of the most injured teams in the NBA.That trend seems to be continuing this season.Ahead of Friday night’s matchup against the Brooklyn Nets at the Barclays Center, Utah’s injury report reads like a walking M.A.S.H unit.• Dante Exum, out.• Joe Johnson, out.• Rudy Gobert, out.• Ricky Rubio, out.• Thabo Sefolosha, questionable.So, if you’re counting at home, here’s what it means Fr
  
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• To tank, make a change or stay the course: The Utah Jazz dilemma

  17-11-2017 18:38
  After a disappointing start to the season, the Utah Jazz may soon find themselves facing some tough decisions on how to proceed this year. There’s been a lot of chatter regarding the future of the Utah Jazz of late. After a disappointing start to the season that finds the Jazz at 6-9 after losing six […]
  To tank, make a change or stay the course: The Utah Jazz dilemma - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Rain, snow and wind slow commutes with multiple crashes on Utah highways

  17-11-2017 18:20
  A winter weather advisory from the National Weather Service warned of slippery, snowy road conditions in major mountain passes along the Wasatch Front on Friday.The valley rain — heaviest north of Salt Lake City — was causing delays for morning commuters, and there were multiple crashes on and near highways.From 6 a.m. to about 9 a.m., there were nearly 30 crashes along freeways along the Wasatch Front, said Utah Department of Transportation spokesman John Gleason. He said the number
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz “#TankNote” T-Shirts Now Available!

  17-11-2017 18:15 via sportspyder.com
  ...Jazz 7:00 PM - Vivint Smart Home Arena - Salt Lake City, UT Sat Nov 25 Milwaukee...
  
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