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• Zack Moss has become a big part of the Utes' offensive identity

  23-12-2017 23:54
  An injured Tyler Huntley watched from the sidelines and finally saw the guy he’d been looking for all season as his former high school teammate Zack Moss, the Utes’ starting running back, bullied Colorado’s defense.“I actually got on him a couple times because in high school nobody could tackle him,” Huntley said. “So I was like, ‘You got to get back to that Zack Moss I know.‘”Huntley’s presence as the starting quarterback in offensive
  
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• Utah blogger known for posting Mormon theology tinged with alt-right themes apparently booted from Twitter

  23-12-2017 23:49
  A controversial Utah blogger, who predicted she’d be removed from Twitter in its purge of so-called “alt-right” ideologues, appears to have had her account suspended on Saturday.Links to Ayla Stewart’s “Wife with a Purpose” account now redirect to a page saying it has been suspended.Stewart, whose verified user status was recently removed, had anticipated she’d soon be booted from Twitter, writing on Nov. 18, “My Twitter days are numbered, not beca
  
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• Facing Republican attacks, FBI's deputy director plans to retire early next year

  23-12-2017 23:38
  Washington • Andrew McCabe, the FBI's deputy director who has been the target of Republican critics for more than a year, plans to retire in a few months when he becomes fully eligible for pension benefits, according to people familiar with the matter.McCabe spent hours in Congress this past week, facing questions behind closed doors from members of three committees. Republicans said they were dissatisfied with his answers; Democrats called it a partisan hounding.McCabe, 49, holds a unique
  
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• Presidential coin undergoes a Trumpian makeover

  23-12-2017 23:00
  For two decades, the commander in chief has doled out distinguished-looking coins as personal mementos. Now, the presidential "challenge coin" has undergone a Trumpian transformation.The presidential seal has been replaced by an eagle bearing President Trump's signature. The eagle's head faces right, not left, as on the seal. The 13 arrows representing the original states have disappeared. And the national motto, "E pluribus unum" — a Latin phrase that means "Out of many, one" — is g
  
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• Commentary: I’m a Salt Lake businessman and I believe we need the Dream Act

  23-12-2017 22:59
  I grew up in Salt Lake City and I know how great this community is. Over generations, my family has been active in local real estate, mining, transportation and petroleum exploration and production. I currently own the Salt Lake, Garfield & Western Railway, a short line railroad; help run a company that harvests a specialized aquaculture feed product from the Great Salt Lake; and serve on the board of directors of the zoo that bears my family’s name.Over the years, I have encountered m
  
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• Utah’s top Christmas lights displays— yes, even Temple Square — are using less electricity these days

  23-12-2017 22:57
  Once upon a time, the average Utahn would have used as much electricity lighting their roofline for Christmas as the typical Ethiopian would have used in an entire year.But thanks to power-saving light emitting diode bulbs, known as LEDs, adding holiday sparkle can mean a slight uptick in the average household’s December electric bill — an increase roughly equivalent to running two extra loads of laundry.LED Christmas lights, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, use on average
  
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• Missing Ogden woman found dead in the snow

  23-12-2017 22:53
  An elderly Ogden woman with dementia who went missing Friday morning was found dead in the snow Saturday.Ogden Police responded to a report of a person lying on the 700 block of 28th St. at 9;48 a.m. to find Verna Marriott dead.Marriott, 79, wandered from her 428 29th St. home between 2 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Friday. Police said she may have been disoriented, wasn’t dressed for the cold and used a walker.According to a news release, officers and volunteers searched for Marriott Friday night a
  
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• Commentary: An Open Letter to Senator Orrin Hatch

  23-12-2017 22:00
  Dear Senator Hatch,When I write to you, I like to include photos of us together. We have attended caucus and fundraisers. I shared with you that I was proud to have you as my senator when you eulogized your friend, Teddy Kennedy. (Back then, you crossed the aisle. You represented Utahans like me.) This is me, Julie Hooker, your constituent.Now, however, I need answers. Your friends, the Huntsmans, honored me with their Excellence in Education award in 2016, in part because of the Pop Up Pantry I
  
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• Gift wrap or tape in 1 hour: How Amazon aids procrastinators

  23-12-2017 21:59
  New York • With five days until Christmas, someone in New York urgently needed 10 rolls of wrapping paper. Another person needed a bag of potatoes and aluminum foil baking pans. And someone needed six rolls of Scotch tape, 100 blank envelopes, and 240 dog poop bags — in different colors.Even after online shipping deadlines have passed, holiday procrastinators in more than 30 cities who have already paid for Amazon’s $99-a-year Prime membership can order this weekend to get gifts
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Tony Jones: Pacers got laughed at after dealing Paul George. Who’s laughing now?

  23-12-2017 21:57 via sportspyder.com
  ...• The Anthony Davis trade talk won’t die until they start winning. 18. Utah Jazz • Struggling through most difficult December in the league, but wins over Bo ...
  
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• Tony Jones: Pacers got laughed at after dealing Paul George. Who’s laughing now?

  23-12-2017 21:48
  Kevin Pritchard is smarter than all of us.Or at least he was in July.Remember when the Indiana Pacers general manager traded superstar forward Paul George to the Oklahoma City Thunder? The deal was roundly — and loudly — panned at the time.Yes, the trade had to be made. George made it clear he wanted out of Indiana and wouldn’t be re-signing with the team in free agency this summer. But everybody thought the Pacers’ GM got swindled.
  To recap: Indiana brought back shooting
  
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• 🏀 #OKCatUTA 🕰 6PM MT 📺 @ATTSportsNetRM 🎽 Association 📻 @1280sports https://t.co/saMC82kZCU

  23-12-2017 21:35 via twitter.com
  
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• Letter: Reducing monuments a fair compromise to two big land grabs

  23-12-2017 21:29
  Westerners, and particularly Utahns, have always taken offense to federal land-grabs, and the Southwest has often been a target of such largely-improper misappropriations. As much as I dislike President Trump, it doesn’t prevent me from understanding that some previous presidents have greatly abused the power to claim state lands for national monuments.Considering the vast history of humans on our planet, there is likely precious-little land that could pass the nonsacred muster. For 30,000
  
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• Storm leaves 120 dead, 160 missing in southern Philippines

  23-12-2017 21:00
  Zamboanga, Philippines • A tropical storm in the southern Philippines unleashed flash floods that swept away people and houses and set off landslides, reportedly leaving more than 120 people dead and 160 others missing, officials said Saturday.Most of the deaths from Tropical Storm Tembin were in the hard-hit provinces of Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur and on the Zamboanga Peninsula, according to an initial government report on storm casualties.Romina Marasigan of the government’s
  
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• Commentary: Let's make America decent again

  23-12-2017 20:59
  We have had enough of the politics of indecency. The empty promises. The blaring epithets. The contested versions of “real” and “fake” news. The demonizing of any and all who disagree with us. It’s time to stop and take a breath, see where we have come from, and see what we have come to.Donald Trump promised his followers that, together, they would make America great again. Many politicians have made that identical promise. Like Trump, they have essentially failed t
  
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• Monson: The Jazz have gone to hell and back ... well, almost

  23-12-2017 20:36
  The power of non-verbal communication was underscored by Quin Snyder’s expression the other night.Here’s the setup:It was a couple of hours before the Jazz were to play San Antonio and 22 hours after they had played the Thunder at Oklahoma City in the last game of a six-game road trip. Nothing quite says “Welcome home” like the tail end of a back-to-back against the Spurs.Snyder was still in warm-up gear, over on a quiet side of a hallway through the inner bowels of Vivin
  
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• Letter: Why doesn’t Trump bring his monument argument full circle?

  23-12-2017 20:29
  If as Trump has just lectured us about how wrong it is for Utah land policy decisions to be made by a hand full of bureaucrats in far away Washington, D.C., why is it logical that some other Washington bureaucrats come along and slice and dice Grand Staircase and Bears Ears into several smaller pieces?Why doesn’t Trump bring his logic argument full circle with an executive order rescinding these monument designations altogether and let Utahns decide whether they should be established in th
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz hoping Donovan Mitchell is back for rematch with Oklahoma City

  23-12-2017 20:19 via sportspyder.com
  ... er talks about facing the Thunder for the second time this week, and why the Jazz didn’t watch film of the most recent loss. pic.twitter.com/Gf1OvDbkNN— Kyle...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz guard Ricky Rubio donates $20,000 for cancer research at Huntsman Cancer Institute

  23-12-2017 20:19 via sportspyder.com
  ... idst of a $150,000 campaign for 5 for the Fight, a non-profit partner of the Jazz. Rubio’s mother, Tona Vives, died of lung cancer in 2016, and Rubio marked t ...
  
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• Jazz guard Ricky Rubio donates $20,000 for cancer research at Huntsman Cancer Institute

  23-12-2017 20:13
  Ricky Rubio just dished out his best assist of the season, and it won’t be on a highlight reel.The Utah Jazz point guard donated $20,000 to the charity 5 for the Fight at the Huntsman Cancer Institute on Friday afternoon. Layton Construction will match the gift to help fund cancer research.The cause is a personal one for Rubio, who is in the midst of a $150,000 campaign for 5 for the Fight, a non-profit partner of the Jazz. Rubio’s mother, Tona Vives, died of lung cancer in 2016, and
  
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• Commentary: Hatch stands up for Mormon trails, ignores Native American history

  23-12-2017 20:05
  In 1978, Sen. Orrin Hatch backed the legislation that created the 1,300-mile Mormon Pioneer Historic Trail -- 132 years after Mormon pioneers traveled portions of it to reach the Salt Lake Valley. The trail passes through several states across private, state and federal land and is part of the National Trails System.The Bears Ears National Monument was established by President Obama thousands of years after Native American ancestors first inhabited the area. Hatch and the rest of our congression
  
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• Jazz hoping Donovan Mitchell is back for rematch with Oklahoma City

  23-12-2017 20:04
  It may seem like just yesterday that the Utah Jazz last played the Oklahoma City Thunder.Nope. It was Wednesday.That 107-79 demolishing was worth forgetting. The Jazz (15-18) discussed the game but didn’t watch film. But at least two things are expected to be very different when the teams tip off for the second time in four days Saturday evening. Utah will host this time and they’re expecting star rookie Donovan Mitchell to be back on the floor.Mitchell (17.7 ppg) quickly has become
  
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• Commentary: Don't let the War on Drugs lead to untreated pain

  23-12-2017 20:02
  “Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.”— Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965Albert Schweitzer was a physician and theologian, best remembered for his missionary work in Africa. If you’ve experienced excruciating and unremitting pain, or felt helpless observing someone else in the throes of such torment, you know exactly what Dr. Schweitzer was talking about.Pain is the alarm that tells us something is wrong. It is the main reason people seek medical car
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Remember Dante Exum?

  23-12-2017 19:55 via sportspyder.com
  ...50.0% 26.6% In preseason Exum outplayed Ricky Rubio in some areas. The Utah Jazz were much better while he was on the floor. We had thought that was due to R ...
  
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• [KSL] - The sports fan guide to the 2017 holiday weekend

  23-12-2017 19:47 via sportspyder.com
  ... ourse, the NBA’s holiday weekend starts plenty early for Utah fans, when the Jazz host Oklahoma City on Saturday night. Utah (15-18) is currently ninth in the ...
  
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• Letter: Restore RSL's property tax to its previous value

  23-12-2017 19:32
  A recent Tribune news article and editorial describe details leading to a large property tax reduction on the Real Salt Lake (RSL) stadium. Apparently, Real Salt Lake is not as profitable as anticipated by Dell Loy Hansen, the present owner. He purchased RSL and then two years later petitioned for a property tax reduction in order to compensate for negative cash flow.Is this a result of the “good-old-boy-network” philosophy in Salt Lake County and specifically Sandy? It appears that
  
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• Kragthorpe: One family, four college players at once? Only in Utah

  23-12-2017 19:20
  In advance of Mississippi’s season opener, women’s soccer coach Matt Mott told Ella Johnson she would be starting for the Rebels “next to your sister.” When the Hawaii basketball schedule was published, forward Gibson Johnson texted his brother: “Go check who you play on December 17th.”The pairings of the Johnson sisters as the Ole Miss center backs and the Johnson brothers as opponents in last Sunday’s Hawaii-Utah Valley game are part of a bigger story.
  
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• ‘Alexa, where’s Santa?’ NORAD teams up with Amazon Echo to let you know where St. Nick is on Christmas Eve

  23-12-2017 19:20
  Denver — Alexa, where’s Santa?Amazon’s diligent, computerized know-it-all is the latest technology to enlist in NORAD Tracks Santa, the military-run program that fields phone calls and emails from children around the world eager to ask when Santa will arrive.Now entering its 62nd year, NORAD Tracks Santa will go live Sunday, with about 1,500 volunteers answering calls and emails at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Updates will be posted on social media and
  
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• Commentary: How should Utah handle this opportunity to help low-income students?

  23-12-2017 19:02
  The Republican tax plan, which passed last week, expands 529 college savings plans so parents can use the tax-advantaged funds on K-12 expenses such as private school. This is a win for students and families across Utah.It also raises important policy questions for the state of Utah.How can low-income students benefit most from this federal change? This new law gives state lawmakers the opportunity to reconsider how some education programs for low-income students can better meet the unique needs
  
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• California wildfire now largest in state history

  23-12-2017 19:02
  Los Angeles • A California wildfire that has killed two people and seared its way through cities, towns and wilderness northwest of Los Angeles became the largest blaze ever officially recorded in California on Friday, authorities said.The Thomas fire took only 2 ½ weeks to burn its way into history books as unrelenting winds and parched weather turned everything in its path to tinder — including more than 700 homes.The fire in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties had scorched 27
  
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• Missing California man and his two dogs found dead at the bottom of a cliff in the San Rafael Desert

  23-12-2017 18:57
  The body of a California man, who went missing in Utah in October, was found at the bottom of a cliff in the San Rafael Desert on Friday, alongside the bodies of his two dogs.No one had heard from 53-year-old Reynaldo Andico since Oct. 13, when he told family members he was in the mountains in Utah, according to a post on the Facebook page of the Emery County Sheriff’s Office.He had been driving with his three small dogs when he stopped in the Justesen Flats area of the desert.A Division o
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz Sign Naz Mitrou-Long to Two-way Contract

  23-12-2017 18:44 via sportspyder.com
  ... TEM Excellence Wheelin' JazzCommunity Community News Jazz Youth Jazz Fit Donation Request Form Player Ticket Donations Doing Good Pass it Along S ...
  
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• Letter: Concealed carry bill is a giant, hypocritical step backward

  23-12-2017 18:28
  After attending the very moving vigil recently to remember Sandy Hook and other gun violence victims, I opened my newspaper to the editorial page this morning. There I learned that our attorney general, Sean Reyes, has joined his counterparts in 20 other states to support a congressional bill that would force recognition of our concealed carry permits on all the states that have the good sense not to allow the concealed carrying of firearms.At a time when we should be looking for intelligent and
  
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• Waking up on a game day like... 🕺🕺🕺 Tipoff: 6PM MT 🎟️🎟️: bit.ly/2BWinhM #OKCatUTA https://t.co/4BIFg8a2Yh

  23-12-2017 18:24 via twitter.com
  
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• We have signed Naz Mitrou-Long to a two-way Contract. Details: on.nba.com/2BVU3gk https://t.co/rCR2IbmQM4

  23-12-2017 18:15 via twitter.com
  
  We have signed Naz Mitrou-Long to a two-way Contract.Details: on.nba.com/2BVU3gk https://t.co/rCR2IbmQM4
  
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• Woman shot in neck while riding in car on I-15 in Salt Lake City

  23-12-2017 18:10
  A late-night shooting on Interstate 15 left a woman injured and the car she was riding in riddled with bullet holes.The shooting was reported about 11 p.m. Friday on southbound Interstate 15 between 1000 and 2000 South, Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Jared Cornia said.The shooter traveling in another vehicle pulled up and fired several shots into the car, striking the woman, who was a passenger, in the neck, and then sped away.The woman was taken to a nearby hospital and treated. She is expected to
  
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• A contractor hired a hit man to kill a homeowner. The hit man was a cop.

  23-12-2017 18:00
  Many people have an exasperating tale about a construction contractor who didn't get the job done. Shoddy work. Stopped showing up. Took the money and ran. But those don't compare to the tale of Daniel Jamison, a contractor who had a string of fraud-related convictions when he was hired and paid by a Fairfax County, Virginia., man to do a $41,000 home remodeling job.Jamison did some work on the home, then vanished. The homeowner had him charged with construction fraud. So Jamison took his own ac
  
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• George Chapman: Transit riders want service increases more than they want free fares

  23-12-2017 17:59
  Lost in the celebration about Friday’s free fare day on UTA bus and rail systems is the reality that mass transit service is still inadequate.The effort to encourage mass transit ridership on one of the biggest shopping days of the year in downtown Salt Lake City is commendable but misses the point that there should be a more concerted effort to encourage mass transit ridership throughout the year. That requires better service.During the UTA budget discussion, General Manager Jerry Benson
  
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• Letter: Despite Trump's monument rhetoric, hope lies in fighting for the Earth

  23-12-2017 17:30
  Re: “Trump greeted by thousands of Utah protesters” (The Tribune, Dec. 4):In his speech at the state Capitol, President Trump asserted that shrinking the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase national monuments would bring in a “bright new future of wonder and wealth.” As thick smog forms in our Salt Lake Valley, it is hard to imagine how opening up protected lands to fossil-fuel extraction would bring any type of brightness to our polluted Utah skies.In reducing the siz
  
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• Will giving the state control of historic Hole in the Rock Road pave the way for crowds and development?

  23-12-2017 17:17
  A proposal in Congress to transfer Hole in the Rock Road to the state of Utah has ignited both hopes and worries that development and tributes to the area’s Mormon heritage could one day draw crowds to this remote and historic tract of land, which lost protections when President Donald Trump dismantled Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument earlier this month.Hole in the Rock Road is a primitive dirt road that runs 57 miles from State Road 12 near Escalante to the “Hole in the R
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Seeing through the GOP's dishonest tax calculation

  23-12-2017 17:04
  Spend some time on one of the many tax calculators out there to estimate the impact of the GOP’s tax bill, and you quickly find there is no average American. A married couple under one calculator making $25,000 to $75,000 with no kids, living in a high-tax state (and therefore itemizing) likely pays $120 more under the new plan; but a non-itemizing couple could save $520. (That’s it? Yup). Change the income to $350,000 to $750,000, and the savings for an itemizer soars to more than $
  
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• 'It's a Wonderful Life' is a holiday classic. The FBI thought it was communist propaganda.

  23-12-2017 17:04
  Every holiday season, millions of people cozy up near a warm fireplace or at least a warm television to watch a familiar black-and-white tale, the 1946 classic “It’s a Wonderful Life.”The film, which director Frank Capra considered his best, follows the down-on-his-luck George Bailey. He’s a businessman in the fictional town of Bedford Falls, who is about to lose his loan company to the rich, evil banker Mr. Potter. Bailey considers committing suicide on Christmas Eve, de
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz-OKC Thunder: Donovan Mitchell returns to battle Russell Westbrook

  23-12-2017 16:58 via sportspyder.com
  ... . More from The J-Notes Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell probable (!) for Saturday’s bout vs. OKC 1 h ago Utah Jazz ...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell probable (!) for Saturday’s bout vs. OKC

  23-12-2017 16:58 via sportspyder.com
  ... ter.com/5hMcliUb4E — Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) December 22, 2017 Fortunately, it appears quite likely that Mitc ...
  
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• Utah Jazz-OKC Thunder: Donovan Mitchell returns to battle Russell Westbrook

  23-12-2017 16:54
  With Donovan Mitchell expected to make his return for the Utah Jazz, the rookie guard will be tasked with counteracting Oklahoma City Thunder star Russell Westbrook. On Thursday, the Utah Jazz managed to do something that it’s probably not a stretch to say few would have expected. They beat the San Antonio Spurs. Now, they […]
  Utah Jazz-OKC Thunder: Donovan Mitchell returns to battle Russell Westbrook - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: Get to know 2-way player Erik McCree, how he can help

  23-12-2017 16:35 via sportspyder.com
  ... yforce, where he remained for 13 games until he was released. More from Utah Jazz 12/20 - How the Utah Jazz have been better this season without Rudy Gobert 1 ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell probable (!) for Saturday’s bout vs. OKC

  23-12-2017 15:51
  After missing two straight games, it looks like Utah Jazz rookie sensation Donovan Mitchell should be back in action tonight against OKC. Without question, the most promising part of the 2017-18 season thus far for the Utah Jazz has been the rapid development and incredible play of Donovan Mitchell. The rookie sensation out of Louisville […]
  Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell probable (!) for Saturday’s bout vs. OKC - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion
  
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