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• Utah sets a record — $3.4 million — in pre-Thanksgiving liquor sales

  23-11-2017 23:55
  Utah sold $3.4 million in alcohol on Wednesday at 45-state owned liquor stores to set a record for the day before Thanksgiving.Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control released sales figures Thursday that show about 347,000 bottles were sold on a day when residents packed the stores to load up before the holiday.Agency officials say the big day still fell just short of the all-time single day record set on Dec. 23, 2016. On that day, the state sold $3.7 million in liquor with 351,000 bottle
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz G-League update: Winless Salt Lake City Stars still a key cog

  23-11-2017 23:38 via sportspyder.com
  ... l. Both teams practice at the Zions Bank Basketball Campus, where Jazz GM Dennis Lindsey can often be seen at Stars’ practices. And the teams are o ...
  
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• Max Boot: America’s military doesn’t have enough money to do its job

  23-11-2017 23:33
  Sherlock Holmes once solved the mystery of a disappearing racehorse by noting “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” But, a Scotland Yard detective objected, “The dog did nothing in the night-time.” Holmes’s laconic reply: ”That was the curious incident.”Today, in Washington, D.C., the dog that isn’t barking is the defense budget. It is the biggest issue that no one — at least no one outside the defense policy community —
  
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• Monson: It’s time for BYU to dump its Honor Code

  23-11-2017 23:13
  BYU has a problem.It knows it has a problem, but it’s done nothing practical to solve it.Maybe it doesn’t want to solve it.But it should.The school says its aim is to compete at the highest level of college football and basketball. It has set that expectation, an expectation its fans have bought into and, despite its rather modest recent achievements — read: failures — in reaching those goals, continue to buy into, all as the school goes on pursuing and selling that notio
  
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• Sound ‘consistent with an explosion’ heard near missing Argentine sub’s last known location

  23-11-2017 22:41
  A sound detected near the last known location of an Argentine navy submarine carrying 44 crew members is believed to have come from an explosion.Enrique Balbi, spokesman for the Argentine navy, told reporters at a news conference Thursday that officials have found evidence showing that the abnormal sound, which was detected 30 miles north of the submarine's last-known location, was "singular, short, violent and non-nuclear" and "consistent with an explosion," the Associated Press reported.Balbi
  
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• To gain speed, people have been waxing skis for a century. These Utah inventors say they created something better.

  23-11-2017 22:34
  A Salt Lake City ski company and a University of Utah science professor say their invention means you’ll never need to wax your skis again.Their polymer-based “permanent base glide treatment” will last forever on the bases of Alpine skis and snowboards, they claim, eliminating the need for wax to reduce friction with the snow.Phantom is the creation of DPS Skis and Jeffrey Bates, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the U. whose prior work has improved
  
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• Utah Jazz G-League update: Winless Salt Lake City Stars still a key cog

  23-11-2017 22:14
  The Salt Lake City Stars have struggled to win games this season. However, the relationship between the Utah Jazz and their G-League affiliate is more symbiotic than ever. To say that the 2017-18 season hasn’t gone as planned for the Utah Jazz would be a massive understatement. The squad is as injury-addled as last year and they’ve already […]
  Utah Jazz G-League update: Winless Salt Lake City Stars still a key cog - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Si
  
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• Petula Dvorak: Our silence enables sexual predators in the workplace. It has to stop.

  23-11-2017 20:58
  It’s no wonder there’s a cone of silence around sexual harassment and assault. Women who speak up get devoured, discredited and ostracized by a toxic, misogynistic society. They get victimized again, which is why most never come forward.The predators know this. They feed on this. They thrive on this.But here’s the thing about #MeToo. We’ve all been in on the secret. We’ve all helped keep the secret. And that has to stop.Women who have endured harassment or assault &
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Game react: Utah Jazz get the gimme over Markkanen, Chicago Bulls

  23-11-2017 20:58 via sportspyder.com
  ... er 11 per game. Both marks rank in the Top 12 league-wide. What’s more: four Jazz players are connecting at better than 40 percent, while Hood is creeping up...
  
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• Alexandra Petri: I am President Trump, and I think women are very special

  23-11-2017 20:56
  “Women are very special. I think it’s a very special time, a lot of things are coming out, and I think that’s good for our society and I think it’s very, very good for women, and I’m very happy a lot of these things are coming out. I’m very happy it’s being exposed.”— President Donald Trump“Women are very special.” “It’s a very special time.” “A lot of things are coming out.”This is some form of code
  
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• Hogle Zoo’s elephants are ‘total hams’ for Thanksgiving — and the giant pumpkins that come with it

  23-11-2017 20:51
  The elephants at Hogle Zoo were super excited on Thanksgiving morning.Christie, a 31-year-old African elephant, and her 8-year-old daughter, Zuri, swayed back and forth, flapping their ears. Which is not their normal morning behavior.“They’re really excited,” said zookeeper Abby Green. “This is one of their favorite days. And they’re total hams.”Thanksgiving is Feast with the Beast day at the zoo. And it’s a big day for Christie and Zuri. A big day with
  
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• Lowell Lotulelei and Filipo Mokofisi, Utah's imposing senior defensive line duo, on their friendship and what comes next

  23-11-2017 20:49
  Filipo Mokofisi was not only an outside linebacker five years ago, but also a high school tight end.So when he made his official visit to Utah — the school that his father, Filipo Mokofisi Sr., once starred at himself — the versatile Woods Cross High star remembers bumping into a guy he’d only heard and read about.On that day five years ago, he met Lowell Lotulelei. And he still shakes his head recalling their first encounter.Mokofisi told himself the Utes could use another Lot
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Happy T(h)anksgiving from SLC Dunk

  23-11-2017 20:22 via sportspyder.com
  ... y Hood has appeared to find his rhythm coming off the bench this season. The Jazz are 3-6 in games when Rodney Hood started, with him scoring an average of 16 ...
  
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• BYU less-than-thrilled with setup for game in Brooklyn

  23-11-2017 19:36
  BYU basketball coach Dave Rose clearly isn’t thrilled about his team’s next game.The Cougars are headed across the country to New York City to take on Alabama on Friday afternoon in the Barclays Classic. But instead of playing a top 25 team at Barclays Center, the home of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, BYU is being forced to play on a much smaller stage: the 2,500-seat gym at Long Island University-Brooklyn.“It just happened about four weeks ago, five weeks ago, we found out,&r
  
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• They’re not Mormon but are building a Utah temple, and lawyers are helping for free

  23-11-2017 19:27
  At the center of Gyanu Dulal’s childhood in a Bhutanese village was a Hindu temple.It was where he, his parents, grandparents, extended family and neighbors gathered for daily prayers, community events and annual celebrations.Now Dulal wants such a sacred space in the Beehive State, where he can join with about 2,000 Bhutanese refugees to practice their faith, preserve their traditions, and pass on their language.“Our younger children are forgetting how to speak it,” he says, &
  
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• Game react: Utah Jazz get the gimme over Markkanen, Chicago Bulls

  23-11-2017 19:24
  Following a difficult road trip, the Utah Jazz got back on the winning track against Lauri Markkanen and the Chicago Bulls. For me, one of the major bullet points on the Utah Jazz 2017-18 season game plan had to be ‘getting the gimmes.’ With the squad facing a slim margin for error in the wake […]
  Game react: Utah Jazz get the gimme over Markkanen, Chicago Bulls - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Tens of thousands with outstanding warrants purged from background check database for gun purchases

  23-11-2017 19:08
  Washington • Tens of thousands of people wanted by law enforcement officials have been removed this year from the FBI criminal background check database that prohibits fugitives from justice from buying guns.The names were taken out after the FBI in February changed its legal interpretation of "fugitive from justice" to say it pertains only to wanted people who have crossed state lines.What that means is that those fugitives who were previously prohibited under federal law from purchasing f
  
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• Marc Thiessen: This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful Hillary Clinton is not president

  23-11-2017 19:01
  This Thanksgiving, I am grateful for many things — but when it comes to politics, I am especially thankful that Hillary Clinton is not sitting in the Oval Office.I am thankful that Neil M. Gorsuch is on the Supreme Courtand that President Donald Trump has secured a conservative majority that will protect human life, religious liberty, the Second Amendment and limited government. I am also thankful the president is moving at record pace to fill the federal appeals courts with young conserva
  
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• Letter: When a public servant makes a mistake, the wronged person cashes in

  23-11-2017 18:59
  When I first saw the video about university nurse Alex Wubbels getting arrested, I was sickened. I was proud of her for sticking up for her patient. The police officer who was involved in the incident was a bully and I thought he should get fired. We don’t need people like that on the police force.Because I am a wizened cynic, my next thought was: “Well, this is going to cost the taxpayers a million dollars.” Well I was wrong, it only cost us half a million dollars.Why? Why is
  
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• Letter: Trump’s response to Bergdahl verdict says it all

  23-11-2017 18:58
  Our “draft-dodger-in-chief” (bone spurs on heel, “can’t remember which leg”) has tweeted a withering attack on “deserter” Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, whining about the verdict that spared him further prison time for desertion in Afghanistan.He did, however, suffer five years of brutal Taliban captivity, plus the three years in the USA awaiting his trial and reduction in rank to private. Trump, would probably prefer the WWI practice of execution by firing squad,
  
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• From all of us at the Utah Jazz, Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 #GobbleGobble https://t.co/cP4cBTFcXW

  23-11-2017 18:30 via twitter.com
  
  From all of us at the Utah Jazz, Happy Thanksgiving 🦃#GobbleGobble https://t.co/cP4cBTFcXW
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: It’s time for to BYU dump its Honor Code

  23-11-2017 18:12 via sportspyder.com
  ... once accused of attempted murder. Now he's striving for a spot with the Utah Jazz Monson: Will Dell Loy Hansen stir you to buy tickets for Utah’s newest profe ...
  
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• Monson: It’s time for to BYU dump its Honor Code

  23-11-2017 17:50
  BYU has a problem.It knows it has a problem, but it’s done nothing practical to solve it.Maybe it doesn’t want to solve it.But it should.The school says its aim is to compete at the highest level of college football and basketball. It has set that expectation, an expectation its fans have bought into and, despite its rather modest recent achievements — read: failures — in reaching those goals, continue to buy into, all as the school goes on pursuing and selling that notio
  
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• Woman charged with automobile homicide in vehicle-pedestrian crash

  23-11-2017 17:42
  A 27-year-old woman is in jail for allegedly leaving the scene of an accident after hitting a pedestrian in a crosswalk, killing him. The woman is believed to have been intoxicated.Roxanna Molina has been booked into the Salt Lake County jail for felony charges of automobile homicide and failure to remain at the scene, as well as misdemeanor DUI.About 9 p.m. Wednesday, Unified police responded to the crosswalk at 4200 South Redwood Road in Taylorsville, where they found a man about 100 yards fro
  
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• ◾️⬛️ You are NOT going to want to miss this juicy Black Friday deal!! ⬛️◾️ Tickets are limited and these are the b… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-11-2017 17:30 via twitter.com
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• Increasingly predictable ‘Roman’ wastes talents of Denzel Washington

  23-11-2017 17:24
  It's getting close to Oscar season and that means it's time for an early prediction. Ready? Here goes: The Academy Award for Worst Title of a Motion Picture will surely go to "Roman J. Israel, Esq."This complex, untidy but ambitious film starring a brilliant Denzel Washington deserves better. At one point it was called "Inner City," which might actually be worse. But just labeling it after its quirky and fictional lead character is a cop out, like calling a film "Andy Kaufman" instead of "Man on
  
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• Letter: This is who I am, Rep. Curtis — are you ‘still here’ for me?

  23-11-2017 17:22
  After winning the special election for the 3rd Congressional District, John Curtis said in his victory speech, “if you’re not white, Mormon or male, I’m still here for you.”Are you still there for me as a biracial, transgender atheist who is poor with a pre-existing health condition and cannot afford health insurance; who is worried about a personal tax increase to help pay for tax cuts to the wealthy, who is disabled and needs Medicaid assistance because of a recent gun
  
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• Letter: There is no wrong time to tell the truth

  23-11-2017 17:22
  The media spotlight has exposed men accused of serious sexual offenses on both sides of the political spectrum. It appears that traditional views about the incredibility of the victim’s testimony still persist. I applaud the courage of the victims to point out the abuses and stand their ground under the withering fire to discredit them.The latest incident involves Roy Moore and a 14-year-old girl in 1979. Now, as a grown woman, she has come out with clear and concise details and a consist
  
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• Letter: If only gun deaths were treated like opioid deaths

  23-11-2017 17:22
  In recent days a familiar number has popped up in the news. The number is 90. That is the number of opioid addiction deaths that occur daily in the current opioid drug abuse crisis.Why is the number familiar? Because it is the same as the number of gun-related deaths that occur daily in the country. The opioid situation has been labeled a national crisis. Which it is and which our political establishment will undoubtedly do something about.On the other hand, hand-gun deaths have been taken as a
  
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• [NBA] - The Roundup—Jazz 110, Bulls 80

  23-11-2017 16:06 via sportspyder.com
  ... itchell midway through the second quarter kick-started Utah's offense as the Jazz closed the first half on a 17-8 run. Favors scored six points and Hood added ...
  
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• Jazz 110, Bulls 80 The Roundup: on.nba.com/2zfmlQH 🎥📊🏀 #CHIatUTA https://t.co/4SApVyHo0A

  23-11-2017 15:20 via twitter.com
  
  Jazz 110, Bulls 80The Roundup: on.nba.com/2zfmlQH 🎥📊🏀#CHIatUTA https://t.co/4SApVyHo0A
  
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• Back home again, Jazz deliver an emphatic 110-80 win over the Bulls

  23-11-2017 15:19
  The Utah Jazz are thankful, at least this holiday, for the NBA schedule-makers.Coming off a 1-3 road trip, the team needed a win. The Chicago Bulls, the worst team in the NBA, helped provide it.With Derrick Favors breaking out for 23 points, the Jazz cruised to a 110-80 win over Chicago, the biggest margin of victory for the Jazz at home this year.It was a feel-good night at Vivint Smart Home Arena — a rare event lately — as rookie Donovan Mitchell squirted Favors with a water bottle
  
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• UNLV drubs Utah, 85-58, hands Utes their first loss of the season

  23-11-2017 15:16
  Las Vegas • The Utes’ chances of going undefeated for the entire season was never ‘very high, and UNLV put an end to any remaining drama in that regard late Wednesday night in Sin City.UNLV freshman Brandon McCoy showed the difference a dominant old-school center can make with his 26-point, 17-rebound performance, while UNLV senior point guard Jordan Johnson (20 points, six assists) gave the Utes fits with his ability to break down the defense with the dribble.The Utes got 14 po
  
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• Utah lawyers helping refugees build their own temple and community center

  23-11-2017 13:56
  At the center of Gyanu Dulal’s childhood in a Bhutanese village was a Hindu temple.It was where he, his parents, grandparents, extended family and neighbors gathered for daily prayers, community events and annual celebrations.Now Dulal wants such a sacred space in the Beehive State, where he can join with about 2,000 Bhutanese refugees to practice their faith, preserve their traditions, and pass on their language.“Our younger children are forgetting how to speak it,” he says, &
  
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• You’ve scarfed down your Thanksgiving turkey; now what do you do with the carcass? Fashion a basket or a Hannibal Lecter bite guard?

  23-11-2017 13:51
  There comes a point after every Thanksgiving meal when a decision has to be made about the turkey carcass.This presumes, of course, that you had turkey for Thanksgiving, rather than enchiladas, goat with couscous, tofu, PB&J, or even military field rations.None of the latter is traditional a Thanksgiving meal, but allowances must be made for cultural differences. As long as there is pumpkin pie for dessert, whatever you eat remains a legitimate holiday meal.If you hate pumpkin pie, you aren&
  
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• UNLV handed the Utes their first loss this season late on Wednesday night

  23-11-2017 09:48
  Las Vegas • The Utes chances of going undefeated for the entire season weren’t very high, and UNLV put an end to any remaining drama in that regard late Wednesday night in Sin City.UNLV freshman Brandon McCoy showed the difference a dominant old-school center can make with his 26-point, 17-rebound performance, while UNLV senior point guard Jordan Johnson (20 points, six assists) gave the Utes fits with his ability to break down the defense with the dribble.The Utes got 14 points and
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Jazz Thankful for 30-Point Blowout of Bulls

  23-11-2017 08:44 via sportspyder.com
  ... oductive with his back to the basket or facing up defenders, it might be the Jazz’s best way to force double teams to create open perimeter shots. The pick an ...
  
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• Utah volleyball loses in straight sets at No. 4 Stanford

  23-11-2017 08:05
  Stanford, Calif. • Adore Anae finished with 12 kills as the No. 15 ranked Utah volleyball team lost to No. 4 Stanford 25-19, 25-22, 25-21 on Wednesday night in Pac-12 action.Bailey Choy recorded 22 assists for Utah (21-9, 12-7 Pac-12) and moved past the 2,000 career assist mark, the eighth player in program history to do so. Tawnee Luafalemana finished with 10 kills and both Brianna Doehrmann and Kenzie Koerber finished in double-digits in digs with 13 and 11, respectively.Utah was held to
  
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• Utah Grizzlies lose to Manchester

  23-11-2017 08:01
  West Valley City • Erik Higby’s first goal of the season sent the game into a shootout before the Utah Grizzlies lost 2-1 to the Manchester Monarchs on Wednesday night at the Maverik Center in ECHL action.Utah goaltender Kevin Carr stopped 25 shots for the hosts. Manchester will stay in town through the weekend as the teams play two more games on Friday and Saturday night.
  
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• [KSL] - The Triple Team: Jazz corral Bulls in 30-point win

  23-11-2017 07:45 via sportspyder.com
  ... ing is a nice job. I thought the Jazz's starters did a great job of holding the Bulls outside of the paint, with o ...
  
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• [KSL] - Salt Lake City Stars drop home game to Austin Spurs, 116-104

  23-11-2017 07:45 via sportspyder.com
  ... seven assists to go with six rebounds. Wolters has seen time with the Jazz most recently against the Orland Magic. The only player on the Stars to fini ...
  
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• Around the NHL: Blue Jackets win fifth consecutive game

  23-11-2017 07:20
  Columbus, Ohio • Josh Anderson scored two minutes into overtime to give the Columbus Blue Jackets their fifth straight win, 1-0 over the Calgary Flames on Wednesday night.Sergei Bobrovsky had 22 saves for Columbus in his third shutout this season and 22nd of his career. Mike Smith turned away 40 shots for Calgary.It was the first time this season that either team ended regulation scoreless.The Jackets outshot Calgary 2-1 for much of the game.The Flames, however, dominated puck possession in
  
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• Around the NBA: Miami ends Celtics’ 16-game winning streak

  23-11-2017 07:16
  Miami • Goran Dragic scored 27 points, Dion Waiters had 26 with a pair of big 3-pointers in the final minutes and the Miami Heat held on to beat Boston 104-98 on Wednesday night, snapping the Celtics' 16-game winning streak.Tyler Johnson scored 16 points for Miami, which had an 18-point lead cut to one in the final moments. The Heat shot 49 percent and outrebounded the Celtics 48-37.Kyrie Irving scored 23 points for Boston. Jayson Tatum added 18, and Jaylen Brown and Marcus Morris each had
  
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• No. 2 Arizona upset in Bahamas, spoiling Villanova showdown

  23-11-2017 07:11
  Paradise Island, Bahamas • Freshman Braxton Beverly scored a season-high 20 points and sparked the decisive late run that helped North Carolina State upset No. 2 Arizona 90-84 in Wednesday’s first round at the Battle 4 Atlantis.Allerik Freeman scored 24 points to lead the Wolfpack (5-0).Beverly hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 4:19 left, part of a stunning 13-1 run that put the Wolfpack up 86-76 with 1:48 left. He also hit six free throws and assisted on another basket during the spurt
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Jazz overwhelm Bulls from outside for 110-80 win (Nov 22, 2017)

  23-11-2017 07:00 via sportspyder.com
  ... nked in another jumper, while Favors scored back-to-back baskets to give the Jazz a 55-46 lead going into the break. ”They amped up their pressure, amped up t ...
  
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• [USA Today] - Jazz overwhelm Bulls from outside for 110-80 win

  23-11-2017 06:52 via sportspyder.com
  ... with an 8-0 run and took a one-point lead on a backdoor layup from Dunn. The Jazz surged back in front on back-to-back 3-pointers from Joe Ingles and Raul Net ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz thankful for a win against the Bulls

  23-11-2017 06:38 via sportspyder.com
  ... ues to show improvement in every area of his game and finds ways to help the Jazz win. The , coming off a back to back, had a terrible time scoring. Chicago’s ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Game Recap: Utah Jazz win against the Chicago Bulls

  23-11-2017 06:38 via sportspyder.com
  ... eep some of these minutes after comes back. The man just makes plays. — Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) The Jazz took care of the ball this game, making smart passes an ...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Jazz players grateful to be home for Thanksgiving

  23-11-2017 06:33 via sportspyder.com
  ... tilize him. But our guys have done a really good job.” Comment on this story JAZZ NOTES: The Jazz will play Milwaukee Saturday night at home and Denver Tuesda ...
  
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