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• No. 21 Cal gymnastics team upsets No. 4 Utah

  25-02-2018 23:22
  Utah’s gymnastics team felt the joy of scoring an upset win a week ago. On Sunday, the Utes felt the sting of an upset defeat.The fourth-ranked Utes (8-2, 5-1) were upset by No. 21 California 197.5-197.45 Sunday at Cal.It marked only the second time the Bears (7-4, 3-3) have beaten the Utes in 22 meetings. The first win was in the 2016 NCAA semifinals.The Utes were without the full capacity of MyKayla Skinner as she sat out the floor and vault due to a sore ankle.Freshman Alexia Burch comp
  
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• Jazz will get a true test of their progress when high-flying Rockets visit Monday

  25-02-2018 23:10
  A rare home back-to-back this weekend produced a split with the Portland Trail Blazers and the Dallas Mavericks, in which nothing came easy for the Utah Jazz. Portland, led by Damian Lillard, dominated from the opening possession. It took until the closing possessions for the Jazz to put away an 18-42 Mavericks team.Clearly, the Jazz have lost a step since the all-star break. The offense hasn’t been as crisp. The defense, save for the last four minutes against Dallas on Saturday night, has
  
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• These California agents are coming for your guns

  25-02-2018 23:00
  Azusa, Calif. • By the time Senior Special Agent Sam Richardson's team rolled up to the small house on Lark Ellen Avenue in a cool twilight, it had little to show for several hours of work.The stops in San Dimas and Covina: no luck. At the gray house on a corner in Pomona, yes, Nohemi Page was home with her infant. But the four pistols registered in her name — guns that felony convictions in California now rendered illegal for her to possess — were long gone.When Page went to dr
  
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• Redistricting emerges as key ballot, legislative priority

  25-02-2018 22:00
  Jefferson City, Mo. • Responding to complaints about partisan gerrymandering, a significant number of states this year are considering changing the criteria used to draw congressional and state legislative districts or shifting the task from elected officials to citizen commissions.The proposals, being advanced both as ballot initiatives and legislation, are part of a larger battle between the political parties to best position themselves for the aftermath of the 2020 Census, when over 400
  
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• BYU faded a bit in February but hopes for a March makeover in WCC basketball tournament

  25-02-2018 19:29
  Provo • After the Cougars fizzled in the second half and lost 79-65 to No. 6 Gonzaga Saturday night, BYU assistant coach Tim LaComb joked that when he’s playing video games and things go badly, he simply hits re-set. “Unfortunately, no re-set button here,” he said, summarizing how BYU went a somewhat disappointing 11-7 in West Coast Conference play, including a 4-4 mark in February. Despite posting the most league losses ever since joining the West Coast Conference seven s
  
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• [Uproxx: Dime Magazine] - Donovan Mitchell Hooked Someone Up With Jazz Tickets So They Could Take A Classmate On A Date

  25-02-2018 19:23 via sportspyder.com
  ... itter user JRB48417549 wanted to hit Mitchell up about getting tickets for a Jazz game. The reason: JRB48417549 wanted to ask out a girl in his chemistry clas ...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz 2017-18 Week 20 Outlook, Predictions

  25-02-2018 18:46 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz-Dallas Mavs react: Mitchell and Co. withstand Barea’s barrage by Ryan Aston ...
  
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• Utah Jazz 2017-18 Week 20 Outlook, Predictions

  25-02-2018 18:29
  The Utah Jazz will aim to initiate a new winning streak as they face a trio of important games in Week 20 of the 2017-18 season. We had to figure that it would happen sometime, but seeing the Utah Jazz come back to earth in Week 19, the first week following the All-Star break, and […]
  Utah Jazz 2017-18 Week 20 Outlook, Predictions - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Print subscribers, here’s how to add unlimited digital access

  25-02-2018 18:12
  Still like the smell of ink on paper? Bless you. The Salt Lake Tribune has delivered news in print for nearly 147 years, and we’re proud to be there for you.Print readers don’t have to miss out on even more to read, see and hear at our website, sltrib.com. We launched a digital subscription program, and we are limiting non-digital subscribers to 10 articles and/or comments pages per month. But Tribune print subscribers get a discounted rate of $1.99 per month (99 cents the first mont
  
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• Former Provo High, BYU star Kyle Collinsworth trying to maximize chance to finish season with Dallas Mavericks

  25-02-2018 18:00
  SALT LAKE CITY — A little less than two hours before the Utah Jazz and Dallas Mavericks were set to square off Saturday night at Vivint Arena, a single player was putting up shots on the Mavericks’ end of the floor.Former Provo High and BYU star Kyle Collinsworth made his first trip back to the Beehive State as an NBA player, returning to the venue where he racked up his first collegiate triple-double just over three years ago, the beginning a run that saw him become the NCAA’s
  
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• #TheRoundup — Jazz bounce back with big win over Mavs >> on.nba.com/2F0H40O https://t.co/xizKHFTn09

  25-02-2018 17:57 via twitter.com
  
  #TheRoundup — Jazz bounce back with big win over Mavs>> on.nba.com/2F0H40O https://t.co/xizKHFTn09
  
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• Ten things we'll miss — and won't miss — about the 2018 Olympics and South Korea

  25-02-2018 17:57
  There’s no place like home. So as we prepare for our long return trek home to Salt Lake City, we wanted to share with you, the readers, what we experienced during the last three weeks here covering the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. After much deliberation, we’ve narrowed it down to what we’ll miss the most about this country and what we, well, won’t miss. THINGS WE WILL NOT MISSTHE COLD — Yes, we know the Winter Olympics are the Olympics in
  
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• Letter: Don’t take away assault survivors’ choice to report

  25-02-2018 17:40
  There is a current piece of legislation (House Bill 254) going through the Utah House of Representatives that will decrease the power of survivors of sexual assault to have ownership over their own stories.One of the elements in HB254 is a section that states universities can choose (if the perpetrator is deemed an “articulable and significant threat”) to report sexual assaults to local police, even if the victims do not give consent for information to be given. Logically, it makes s
  
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• Letter: Death penalty won’t bring victim back

  25-02-2018 17:38
  With the death penalty, the lawyers get rich, a murderer gets famous, survivors get nothing and the victim is still dead. Darlene Alley, Bountiful
  
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• Letter: About those ‘coal-powered’ cars …

  25-02-2018 17:35
  In the Feb. 21 Public Forum, Kermit Heid posited that electric-car drivers may not know that the electricity they use to power their cars comes from coal-fired generating plants operating at 30 percent efficiency.I can guess, too, that Heid may not know that he is a Republican, and that he would never blame our air pollution on the coal-fired plants around Utah. I wish he had attended the Liberty Wells Solar Panel Tour. It was a very astute idea, and it was very well attended. Since that event,
  
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• Letter: Please, act more adult than the children who were murdered on your watch

  25-02-2018 17:30
  I am too young to drink, too young to enlist, too young to vote. I am not, apparently, too young to die at your hands. I see it on the hastily typed papers taped to the school’s locked doors that beg students not to prop them open. I hear it in the hushed reverence in the halls, broken by the gunfire in videos recorded and shared. I know it when my little sister sees a neighbor with a holstered gun in an open-carry state and runs as fast as she can in the opposite direction.The same argume
  
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• Letter: Can’t we even talk about a solution to mass shootings?

  25-02-2018 17:28
  The Florida House voted down by a vote of 36 to 71 a procedural move to allow the body to even consider banning assault rifles and large-capacity magazines. They did this in front of survivors of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. How is this possible? They won’t even consider talking about some kind of solution to this horrible problem. Are these the legislators making America Great Again?Craig Dunford, Salt Lake City
  
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• Letter: We need sensible gun restrictions

  25-02-2018 17:26
  We constantly hear “If we restrict access to guns, then only criminals will have guns.” However, criminals do not seem to be the ones indiscriminately shooting at crowds of strangers! I worry more about those with no previous criminal record or documented history of mental illness who legally purchase and stockpile high-powered assault rifles and ammunition and use them on an increasingly frequent basis to commit mass murder of innocent bystanders. We can all agree that those people,
  
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• Rideshare diaries: People were taking pictures of my passengers. The uncomfortable question is why.

  25-02-2018 17:21
  I picked up three young men in Millcreek. They were on their way downtown to City Creek Mall. All three piled into the back seat. I offered to have one of them sit up front, but they said, nah, it’s not that far of a ride. I pulled up to the first stoplight. We were in the left-turn lane. A car pulled up next to us, and a woman rolled down her window, smiling. She pulled out her cellphone and took a picture. One of the men in the back seat chuckled. I assumed the picture-taking woman was a
  
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• Salt Lake City playwright says she ‘has no business being in theater’ — but she’s won a big national award

  25-02-2018 17:18
  Utah playwright Jenifer Nii’s “The Weird Play” unfolds with the effect of a Zen koan, a story as chameleonlike as Nii’s life. The play takes on universal questions of romantic and religious love, anchored by the story of gender-neutral characters labeled One, Two and Three. “‘The Weird Play’ felt like the most honest title,” Nii says. “In every way, this play is me wading into all the things I don’t do well. Love. Faith. Connecting. Thi
  
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• Pyeongchang ends the 2018 Winter Games with a rousing closing ceremony, pulling off an Olympics that somehow worked

  25-02-2018 17:02
  Pyeongchang, South Korea • On the 16th day, night fell on Olympic Stadium, flags waved and dancers swayed to the traditional sounds of the gayageums’ strings and a head-banging electric guitar solo underneath a neon pagoda — a mix of old and new, culture and color as chaotic as the past three weeks.The world’s best winter athletes, some adorned in gold, silver and bronze, all exhausted, waved goodbye.How to even begin summing up the 2018 Winter Games? To steal from speed s
  
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• Utah's governor says it may be time to raise the age to buy an assault rifle and limit the rounds it can fire

  25-02-2018 16:46
  Utah Gov. Gary Herbert supports expanded background checks for gun purchases. He is also open to restricting the number of rounds in a magazine and even raising the legal age to buy certain high-powered semi-automatic rifles.His comments are just the latest sign that a school shooting in Florida that left 17 dead has shifted the partisan debate of gun restrictions.Herbert, in Washington D.C., for a National Governors Association conference, sat down for an interview Friday with Politico’s
  
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• One night after winning streak snapped, Jazz start a new one with gritty win over Mavericks

  25-02-2018 15:50
  For four weeks, winning had just come so easily — maybe Jazz fans started to take for granted just how hard it can be.There was little that came comfortably in Utah’s 97-90 win over the Dallas Mavericks — the very team whose owner was fined $600,000 this week for saying his team should tank. While it was the Jazz’s 12th win in 13 games, they didn’t resemble the squad that went into the All-Star break with the NBA’s longest winning streak.Jae Crowder’s fr
  
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• Commentary: Utah may rank low on education spending — but with large class sizes, we’re getting more bang for our buck

  25-02-2018 15:30
  Among the qualities that define Utahns is a devotion to family — which is manifest in our average household size and the share of our population under 18, both the largest in the U.S. Another quality is Utahns’ strong sense of civic pride.So it’s not surprising that when people are reminded that our K-12 education spending per pupil is the lowest in the nation, a lot of folks get up in arms over it. Major efforts are now afoot in both civic circles and the Legislature to increa
  
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• Kragthorpe: BYU basketball team is unable to stay in Gonzaga's realm for very long

  25-02-2018 15:19
  ProvoThis is how close BYU came to completing a rally from 14 points behind against No. 6 Gonzaga: Cougar guard Elijah Bryant launched a 3-point attempt that could have given his team the lead and thrilled the home crowd Saturday night, but the shot spun in and out of the basket with 1:01 remaining.In the first half.And that’s as good as it would get for BYU in a 79-65 loss in front of 18,897 fans at the sold-out Marriott Center.Blowing a late lead in regulation and losing to Saint Mary&rs
  
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• Feds are investigating 23 potential civil rights violations at Utah elementary and high schools, according to new searchable list

  25-02-2018 15:01
  There at least 23 open investigations into alleged civil rights violations — most on the basis of disability, sex or race — across seven elementary and high school districts in Utah that receive federal funding. For the first time, the U.S. Department of Education has released a searchable database of ongoing cases at the K-12 level — a step many advocates say is important for transparency and to address systemic or cultural issues affecting young students. “Parents need
  
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• New Rio Grande outreach aims to help people clear their criminal records

  25-02-2018 15:00
  So you got arrested years ago, paid the penalty, did your time. Since then, you’ve cleaned up, and now you’re trying to stay on the straight and narrow. But your criminal record follows you when you apply for work, and holding down a job is critical to your success.Sure, you can get your Utah record cleared if you meet the requirements, but that costs money you just don’t have.For those in that predicament, another effort arising out of the Operation Rio Grande initiative is co
  
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• Commentary: Mormons know what it’s like to be a persecuted minority — so pass a hate-crime law for Utah

  25-02-2018 15:00
  Visitors to the historic Salt Lake City Cemetery may encounter a 15-foot-tall monument to a man they’ve never heard of. The memorial, dedicated in 1880, marks the final resting place of Joseph Standing, who had been violently murdered a year prior while serving as a Mormon missionary in northern Georgia. Carved on the sides of the monument are the names of the 12 members of the lynch mob who killed Standing in what the memorial accurately calls a shameful act of “bigotry and prejudic
  
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• At University of Utah Hospital, a small group of volunteers pledges that no patient will die alone

  25-02-2018 15:00
  It used to be that four or five patients would die in a room by themselves each month at the University of Utah Hospital.Sometimes they were homeless. Sometimes they were estranged from family or had outlived all their closest relatives. Sometimes their family and friends couldn’t reach Utah in time.U. nurse case manager Jim Geiermann had seen it over and over: “You go into a patient’s room, and they’re all by themselves.” They won’t be anymore.A newly formed
  
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• [Fadeaway World] - Donovan Mitchell Helps Out Jazz Fan On Twitter Who Was Looking For A Date

  25-02-2018 14:54 via sportspyder.com
  ...years old, understands this. That’s why Donovan was so understanding when a Jazz fan DM’ed Mitchell on Twitter asking for a pair of tickets to an upcoming Ja ...
  
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• Snow will hinder travel Sunday morning across Utah — but it should stop falling before noon

  25-02-2018 14:00
  Overnight snowfall will impact roadways across Utah on Sunday morning, though forecasters predict the snow will stop by the afternoon, lingering longest in the mountains.Salt Lake City — which remains under a winter weather advisory until 11 a.m. with other cities in the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys and the southern Wasatch Front — is predicted to get 2 to 4 inches of snow in the storm. Up to 6 inches of localized snow is possible with the advisory area, according to the National Wea
  
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• Leonard Pitts: What’s going on with 42% of Republicans?

  25-02-2018 14:00
  This is a column about 42 percent of Republicans.It is also a column about trust.A few days ago in Miami, the Knight Foundation, a philanthropic institution, convened a conference of journalists, tech persons, business persons and others to consider the state and future of journalism. Central to the gathering was a study conducted by Gallup and Knight measuring American attitudes toward news media.As medicine, it was castor oil.Among its findings: More Americans (43 percent) have a negative view
  
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• Kirby: Sorry, Utah, we’re not the least-sinful state — but at least we don’t watch the most porn

  25-02-2018 14:00
  Ever wonder which of America’s states is the least sinful? Yeah, me neither. I have my own problems — sin being one of the least of them.But I understand that some here might automatically think that the most sinless state is Utah. After all, which state is more known for being God-fearing than this one, right?Well, it’s not us. It’s Vermont. Of the 50 states, the Green Mountain State commits fewer sins than the rest. It must be all that “Freedom and Unity” Ve
  
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• Commentary: The Founding Fathers gave us the Second Amendment — but also the ability to change it

  25-02-2018 14:00
  During the last week, I, like many Americans, have again been forced to dwell of the mass shooting epidemic of this country.When I saw the headlines, I was horrified — but not shocked. That was the worst part; it was not anything new. It was something that has happened time and time again. I knew that the cycle would begin: a day of grief and social media posts asking for thoughts and prayers, a call for gun control action, some affirmations of solidarity (but no clear promises) from gover
  
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• Commentary: Can Sandy’s new mayor be honest without the news forcing him to be?

  25-02-2018 13:00
  Like others in Sandy, I was shocked to learn our newly elected mayor had presumed to award himself a significant salary increase.As has been reported in The Salt Lake Tribune, Mayor Kurt Bradburn was quick to fall on his sword after public outcry and immediately ordered his own salary reduced to put it below what mayors of Utah’s other most populous cities make.Well and good, lesson learned, one might be tempted to say. Indeed, Bradburn himself has implored us to take that view, insisting
  
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• As fewer people want to become police officers, Utah law enforcement agencies compete for experienced officers

  25-02-2018 13:00
  Since 2009, 61 police officers have left the Layton Police Department. Of those, eight were fired, nine retired and 12 left to work for other police agencies. In addition, eight officers never completed training, and 24 have quit law enforcement altogether.Layton isn’t an outlier. Across the state, officers are leaving the profession “at a very quick rate,” Salt Lake City police Detective Greg Wilking said. Maj. Scott Stephenson, who directs Peace Officer Standards and Training
  
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• Commentary: Trump’s standard of lying drags us all down

  25-02-2018 12:55
  President Trump has made many speeches and tweeted hundreds of times, but his two most important speeches in his first year were his inaugural address and the State of the Union speech. The inaugural address offered his underlying justification for policies highlighted a year later in his State of the Union speech.In his first speech, he described the America that he inherited from President Obama as the “American carnage,” a country decimated due to poverty, shattered dreams, disloy
  
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• Utah Jazz battle way past Dallas Mavericks, 97-90

  25-02-2018 08:49
  For four weeks, winning had just come so easily — maybe Jazz fans started to take for granted just how hard it can be.There was little that came comfortably in Utah’s 97-90 win over the Dallas Mavericks — the very team whose owner was fined $600,000 this week for saying his team should tank. While it was the Jazz’s 12th win in 13 games, they didn’t resemble the squad that went into the All-Star break with the NBA’s longest winning streak.Jae Crowder’s fr
  
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• [NBA] - The Roundup—Jazz hold on for win over pesky Mavs

  25-02-2018 08:45 via sportspyder.com
  ... t active streak in the NBA. He celebrated by outblocking Gobert 2-0. +16 The Jazz dominated the paint, outscoring the Mavericks 46-30 in the restricted area....
  
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• “It was a gritty win, and just as big a win as one of the ones that was something in a row.” 📝>>… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  25-02-2018 08:35 via twitter.com
  “It was a gritty win, and just as big a win as one of the ones that was something in a row.”📝>>… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Troubled Arizona loses 98-93 to Oregon

  25-02-2018 08:05 via sportspyder.com
  ... loses 98-93 to Oregon Teague scores 25 to lead Butler-less Wolves past Bulls Jazz edge Mavericks 97-90 for 12th win in 13 games Business Directory Latest Loca ...
  
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• Commentary: Gun violence in movies is a big part of the problem

  25-02-2018 08:00
  We are missing the mark (pun not intended) on the gun violence debate. As the nation reels from the horrific school shootings, Hollywood jumps to support the March for Our Lives campaign, pledging millions of dollars in support.I applaud these individuals, but question their motivations. If Hollywood truly cares about reducing gun violence, pledge not only your money, but vow to stop making films that glorify and reward gun violence.We flocked to see “Black Panther” — yet anoth
  
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• Peacock eager to build on breakout 2017 season

  25-02-2018 07:41
  West Palm Beach, Fla. • Brad Peacock went into spring training last year with the Houston Astros worried he wouldn't make the team.After the best season of his career, the right-hander's spot with the club is now secure. Even so, he's maintained the same mindset he had when his career was on the line."I still want to keep that edge on me," he said.Out of options after four unimpressive seasons in Houston, things didn't look good for Peacock this time a year ago. But his solid spring, couple
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz use late fourth quarter push to put away Dallas Mavericks

  25-02-2018 07:28 via sportspyder.com
  ... He also nailed two treys to move up to No. 3 in threes in a single season in Jazz history with 150 in 60 games. 🎥| 200 consecutive games for Jingles, and the...
  
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• [KSL] - The Triple Team: Jazz pull out win against struggling Mavericks

  25-02-2018 07:22 via sportspyder.com
  ...a lot of threes up from behind the arc from beyond the wings (more than the Jazz would have liked), but still, when the Jazz force teams into that shot profi ...
  
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• Utah Jazz use late fourth quarter push to put away Dallas Mavericks

  25-02-2018 07:20
  SALT LAKE CITY — The first 12 minutes were a breeze for the Utah Jazz.Five players posted five or more points. The Jazz were shooting 50 percent. Utah even ran the lead up to as many as 15.This was seemingly a blowout against the visiting Dallas Mavericks Saturday, right?Fast forward to the fourth quarter.With 5:13 remaining in regulation, Mavericks point guard J.J. Barea banked in a short shot. All of a sudden, the Jazz trailed 87-85 against one of the worst teams in the league.Somehow, s
  
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• Commentary: We are being manipulated to buy fear, hatred and mistrust

  25-02-2018 07:00
  Edward Bernays was Sigmund Freud’s nephew. He was also one of the most influential propagandists of his day. Bernays applied his talent mainly to advertising, where he saw himself as sort of a benevolent manipulator.In his seminal work, Propaganda (1928), he wrote, “We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.” Bernays played the long game in advertising/propaganda, thinking years and sometimes decades ahe
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz-Dallas Mavs react: Mitchell and Co. withstand Barea’s barrage

  25-02-2018 06:59 via sportspyder.com
  ... arrage here. It was the ninth time he’s scored 15 or more points against the Jazz despite just four career starts and 21 minutes per game in head-to-head matc ...
  
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• [Jazz Fanatical] - Utah Jazz vs. Dallas Mavericks: Opponent Game Thread Highlights

  25-02-2018 06:55 via sportspyder.com
  ... he is? Posted by Dynomite on Feb 24, 2018 | 9:53 PM Good refs is helping the Jazz.. Go MAVS! Posted by dyurdsray21 on Feb 24, 2018 | 10:08 PM clutch turnover...
  
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• Utah Jazz-Dallas Mavs react: Mitchell and Co. withstand Barea’s barrage

  25-02-2018 06:41
  Donovan Mitchell and the Utah Jazz came through in the clutch to outlast the Dallas Mavericks despite a big-time effort from J.J. Barea. Before Saturday night’s bout between the Utah Jazz and the Dallas Mavericks, the rookie battle undoubtedly occupied center stage. And rightfully so — Donovan Mitchell and Dennis Smith Jr. are already cornerstone […]
  Utah Jazz-Dallas Mavs react: Mitchell and Co. withstand Barea’s barrage - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site
  
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