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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Salt City Seven: The Truth About ROY, Gobert’s Impact, the Playoff Fight & More

  30-03-2018 23:58 via sportspyder.com
  ... a second to entertain Nick Young. Because he’s Joe.)   Doling out credit for Jazz wins, one imaginary Spalding at a time. Only one victorious Spalding to dole ...
  
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• NHL stunner: A 36-year-old accountant who had never played pro stars as goalie in Blackhawks win

  30-03-2018 23:58
  On Thursday night in the middle of a National Hockey League game between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Winnipeg Jets, an unfamiliar figure in a No. 90 Blackhawks jersey stepped onto the ice at the United Center.“Hey, who’s this guy?” an announcer joked.That guy was Scott Foster, the team’s emergency goalie, a 36-year-old accountant who hadn’t played in a competitive hockey game in more than 10 years. He played hockey for Western Michigan University from 2002 to 200
  
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• Utah’s Latino legislators blast plans for Census to ask if respondents are U.S. citizens

  30-03-2018 23:50
  Utah’s Latino legislators blasted plans to ask in the 2020 Census if respondents are U.S. citizens — arguing that will scare undocumented immigrants into not participating, preventing accurate counts of all Utah residents.“If this decision is allowed to occur, likely 100,000 Utah residents will opt not to participate,” said Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck, D-Salt Lake City, who also is co-chairwoman of the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators (NHCSL) Latino Voting Task
  
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• 59-year-old Murray man was shot and killed by downstairs neighbor, then neighbor killed himself, police say

  30-03-2018 23:46
  An hours-long investigation into the Thursday death of a 59-year-old Murray man eventually led police back to the same apartment complex, one floor below the victim, where they found the suspected shooter dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.Police first learned of the shooting about 3:15 p.m. Thursday, when they got calls about someone firing shots the Birkhill Apartments complex, at 4262 S. Jummer Way (about 100 West).When officers arrived, they found Brad Gukeisen dead with mult
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Mississippi St-Louisville, UConn-Notre Dame in Final Four

  30-03-2018 23:32 via sportspyder.com
  ...in OT classic for Final 4 Brown's 3-pointer lifts Celtics to 97-94 win over Jazz NCAA Latest: Texas Tech beats Purdue for last Elite 8 spot Syracuse could lo ...
  
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• Commentary: Passover reminds us that time is not the enemy

  30-03-2018 23:30
  As a Jew, I always found something funny about Passover. Why, for a holiday about celebrating freedom, are there so many restrictions? We have to eat unpleasant things; we have to drink this many glasses of wine and no more; we have to eat a horrible crackerbread all week, no pasta, no peanut butter, no bread.But it occurs to me that Passover is all about time. It’s about the way we have to have faith in time, and live time, and trust the way it turns things over: It turns water to blood,
  
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• Holly Richardson: Making changes in the wake of the Mormon #MeToo Moment

  30-03-2018 23:17
  Since allegations of abuse against a former president of the church’s Missionary Training Center have become public, more people have come forward with their own stories of abuse. People have shared their stories with me, others have shared with Salt Lake Tribune editors, with therapists and undoubtedly there are others sharing their own Mormon #MeToo stories with friends and family.Where do we begin to make institutional change that will protect potential victims but also leadership? Firs
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - By the Stats: Utah’s loss to Boston

  30-03-2018 23:15 via sportspyder.com
  ... me was the fourth time in March the Jazz have allowed an opponent to shoot over 50 percent from three. The Jazz shots ...
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: The Wrecking Crew

  30-03-2018 23:06
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, April 1, 2018.<br>You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.<br> MAGA Magritte<br>Family History<br>Getting to the Bottom of It<br>Warmonger<br>One Word – Plastics<br>Adoration of the Donald<br>Bloodsuckers<br>Killing Justice<br>A Tale of Two Moabs<br>Nesting Fib Face<br>Want more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• ‘There is no limit to the gross, sexually explicit questions’ — Big crowd marches through Salt Lake City calling for an end to one-on-one Mormon bishop interviews with youths

  30-03-2018 23:02
  Hundreds of demonstrators marched through the heart of Salt Lake City on Friday to protest the LDS Church’s practice of closed-door, one-on-one meetings between young members and local lay leaders — interviews that sometimes include intimate questions about moral cleanliness and sexual behavior. The group, led by Houston businessman Sam Young, a former Mormon bishop, delivered a petition with 55,000 signatures to the LDS Church Office Building demanding an end to these “worthin
  
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• Twenty years later, the Utes’ Final Four run remains magical

  30-03-2018 22:53
  With his Cinderella team a game away from a shot at the national championship, Loyola Chicago basketball coach Porter Moser has been thinking about his old boss lately, the dude in the sweater.“I wish coach Majerus was around,” Moser, an assistant coach under the legendary Rick Majerus at Saint Louis, told reporters at the site of the Final Four. “Obviously I was so close to him and, ironically, it was 20 years ago almost to the date that he was in San Antonio with his Utah tea
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - KU-Villanova matchup an argument for reseeding Final Four

  30-03-2018 22:51 via sportspyder.com
  ...in OT classic for Final 4 Brown's 3-pointer lifts Celtics to 97-94 win over Jazz NCAA Latest: Texas Tech beats Purdue for last Elite 8 spot Syracuse could lo ...
  
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• Could there be more cases where Utah Department of Corrections withheld medical records despite court orders?

  30-03-2018 22:50
  After a Utah judge ripped prison officials’ handling of medical records in a death penalty case, the Utah Department of Corrections says it is reviewing other cases to ensure it has responded appropriately to court orders.It was revealed during a court hearing earlier this week that the department had withheld more than 1,600 pages of medical documents in a death penalty case, which, in part, led to prosecutors withdrawing their intent to execute the man — and he was sentenced Wednes
  
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  30-03-2018 22:49 via twitter.com
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• As school-safety panel seeks Utahns’ ideas, chairman vows solutions won’t infringe on gun rights

  30-03-2018 22:37
  The newly minted Utah School Safety Commission is hosting a series of public hearings to collect input from communities on how to make Utah schools safer.The 11-person volunteer commission, formed in early March in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, shootings, plans to meet at Box Elder High School April 3 at 7 p.m., with more meetings to follow in the Morgan, Rich and Jordan school districts and elsewhere across the state. Rep. Mike Kennedy, R-Alpine, helped assemble the commission in hopes of
  
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• Commentary: How to make Good Friday great again

  30-03-2018 22:30
  As Christians around the world mark Good Friday, they do so in changing times. In an increasingly diverse Christian community, there’s noted and growing ambivalence toward this holy day that we so strangely call “good,” commemorating Jesus’s execution on the cross by the Roman authorities.Such concerns aren’t old. The noted 5th-century African bishop Saint Augustine of Hippo famously said, “We are Easter people, and ‘alleluia’ is our song!” P
  
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• Can ‘Jump,’ a new play by a young Utah playwright, teach us how to die? Or how to live?

  30-03-2018 22:20
  Maybe the best way to tell the story of the new Utah play “Jump” begins with a date gone wrong. Against his instincts, Austin Archer took the challenge to go skydiving.It was windy that day, but Archer, a Utah-raised actor and writer who suffers from extreme motion sickness, wanted to know if he could actually step out of a plane. “In my brain, I was either going to die or I was going to live,” he says.After the thrill of the freefall, after Archer’s parachute opene
  
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• Thrilled students meet ‘Hidden Figures’ author whose book on NASA women inspired them to rename their Salt Lake City elementary school

  30-03-2018 22:13
  For nonfiction author Margot Lee Shetterly, history can sometimes seem dead and unchanging, buried in texts books.So hearing that Utah elementary students campaigned to rename their school after Mary W. Jackson, a subject of Shetterly’s work, came as evidence to her that the past is still alive and well.Jackson was a relative unknown until Shetterly published her book “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space R
  
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• Pathologist: Stephon Clark was shot 8 times, 7 from behind

  30-03-2018 21:50
  Sacramento, Calif. • Sacramento police shot Stephon Clark seven times from behind, according to autopsy results released Friday by a pathologist hired by Clark’s family, findings that call into question the department’s assertion that the 22-year-old black man was facing officers and walked toward them when he was killed.Dr. Bennet Omalu, whose study of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in football players prompted the NFL to adopt new safety rules designed to prevent concussions
  
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• Let's. Go. twitter.com/NBA/status/979…

  30-03-2018 21:47 via twitter.com
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• Big crowd marches through Salt Lake City calling for an end to Mormon bishops’ interviews with children about sexual matters

  30-03-2018 21:39
  A former Mormon bishop was leading a march in downtown Salt Lake City on Friday to protest the LDS Church’s practice of closed-door, one-on-one meetings between young members and local lay leaders — which sometimes include intimate questions about moral cleanliness and sexual behavior. The faith’s governing First Presidency, though, unveiled new guidelines for bishops’ interviews this week, perhaps taking some wind out of the movement. Local leaders in The Church of Jesus
  
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• 59-year-old Murray man was shot and killed by downstairs neighbor, before neighbor killed himself, police say

  30-03-2018 21:39
  An hours-long investigation into the Thursday death of a 59-year-old Murray man eventually led police back to the same apartment complex, one floor below the victim, where they found the suspected shooter dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.Police first learned of the shooting about 3:15 p.m. Thursday, when they got calls about someone firing shots the Birkhill Apartments complex, at 4262 S. Jummer Way (about 100 West).When officers arrived, they found Brad Gukeisen dead with mult
  
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• Alexandra Petri: I am sick of these kids demanding safe spaces

  30-03-2018 21:30
  I am sick of these children and their demands for safe spaces.Safe spaces! Back in my day, all we had were dangerous spaces. People would call you names that would turn your ears blue. Everyone had measles, mumps and rubella, just as a matter of course, and we did not go crawling to our family physicians for so-called vaccines. Disease was a ritual of childhood. We toughed it out. We built character.We did not have satellite radio or the internet. We had to make our own electricity by rubbing st
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Statement mandated by KUTV’s right-wing owner only highlights its hyprocrisy

  30-03-2018 21:27
  The Sinclair Broadcast Group-mandated statement about “fake news” is now running on KUTV, and it’s having the opposite effect of what was intended.Listening to Channel 2 anchors Mark Koelbel and Shauna Lake, reading from the script, express concern “about the troubling trend of irresponsible, one-sided news stories plaguing our country” serves to remind viewers that KUTV’s owner has a long history of one-sided news coverage to promote its right-wing agenda.The
  
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• West-side Salt Lake City’s Nomad Eatery has food from all over the map — but one bite will bring you back home

  30-03-2018 20:55
  It’s difficult to walk into Nomad Eatery and not feel immediately transported.A neon pink sign against a green frond-filled backdrop mimics vibrant, tropical Cuba. Dining room lights crafted from chicken feeders, an open kitchen and shelves of cookbooks remind me of a farm in the Midwest. The wood-backed bar with a ceiling riveted together like an airplane wing delivers me to the terminal, where I watch jets take off and land. And the $40,000 Navajo rug from the Shiprock Santa Fe gallery i
  
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• Stephen Carter: Secretly, Americans love guns: Just look at TV.

  30-03-2018 20:33
  I don’t know how the debate over gun control is going to play out. But there’s a challenge at the heart of the matter to which we pay too little attention.Secretly, Americans love guns - if not the actual physical devices then at least the abstract idea. We say we don’t but our collective id, as represented by what we watch on the screen, suggests otherwise. Because for every police procedural in which the suspect who swears he’s innocent finds his licensed handgun missin
  
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• Trying to extinguish the flames on the Donovan Mitchell vs. Ben Simmons rookie of the year debate on the Weekly Run podcast

  30-03-2018 20:32
  The playoff race, Rookie of the Year debate, missing (or not missing) Gordon Hayward — what isn’t there to talk about?In a week where a whole bunch of Jazz takes have been Kissed By Fire, Aaron, Tony and Kyle try to make sense of it all on ‘Weekly Run’, The Tribune’s podcast about the Utah Jazz.Here’s the rundown:At 1:45 • The loss to Boston. Should Jazz fans be concerned about these kinds of performances heading into the playoffs?At 7:00 • Are some
  
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• 🔑: Gobert vs. Gasol Tipoff: 7PM MT 🎟️: bit.ly/2J3uxJ0 https://t.co/budcGxN48d

  30-03-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  
  🔑: Gobert vs. GasolTipoff: 7PM MT🎟️: bit.ly/2J3uxJ0 https://t.co/budcGxN48d
  
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• Defensive Player Of The Year Watch – 3/30/18

  30-03-2018 20:25 via basketballinsiders.com
  With the season winding down and the playoffs taking shape, things are starting to get tight in the NBA. Spencer Davies looks at his six DPOY candidates.
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Official or not, Donovan Mitchell is OUR Rookie of the Year

  30-03-2018 20:23 via sportspyder.com
  ... a 76ers without Joel Embiid? Yes, Mitchell couldn’t single-handedly keep the Jazz above .500 during one of the toughest stretches of the season without the te ...
  
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• L.A. Kings to play preseason game in Salt Lake

  30-03-2018 20:21
  The puck will drop at Vivint Smart Home Arena. The Los Angeles Kings announced Friday that they will host a preseason game in downtown Salt Lake City on Sept. 24 against the Vancouver Canucks. The preseason hockey event is being dubbed “the Salt Lake Shootout.”It’s the first time in 10 years that an NHL hockey preseason game will take place in Utah.There will be more games to come, too.The Kings also will hold future preseason games at Vivint Smart Home Arena in 2019 and 2020 t
  
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• Mormons gather for march through Salt Lake City calling for an end to bishops’ interviews with children about sexual matters

  30-03-2018 20:18
  A former Mormon bishop will lead a march in downtown Salt Lake City on Friday to protest the LDS Church’s practice of closed-door, one-on-one meetings between young members and local lay leaders — which sometimes include intimate questions about moral cleanliness and sexual behavior. The faith’s governing First Presidency, though, unveiled new guidelines for bishops’ interviews this week, perhaps taking some wind out of the movement. Local leaders in The Church of Jesus C
  
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• Autopsy confirms that bodies found on ledge 100 feet down a Utah County mine shaft belong to missing teens

  30-03-2018 20:18
  A medical examiner confirmed Friday that the two bodies found in an abandoned mine shaft, just inside the southwest Utah County border, belong to a teenage couple missing since late December.The bodies of 17-year-old Brelynne “Breezy” Otteson and 18-year-old Riley Powell were recovered by police Wednesday with knife wounds and their hands bound behind their backs, according to a probable cause statement for the arrest of 41-year-old Jerrod William Baum, of Mammoth, a town near Eureka
  
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• 59-year-old Murray man was shot and killed by downstairs neighbor, before neighbor killed himself

  30-03-2018 20:15
  An hours-long investigation into the Thursday death of a 59-year-old Murray man eventually led police back to the same apartment complex, one floor below the victim, where they found the suspected shooter dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.Police first learned of the shooting about 3:15 p.m. Thursday, when they got calls about someone firing shots the Birkhill Apartments complex, at 4262 S. Jummer Way (about 100 West).When officers arrived, they found Brad Gukeisen dead with mult
  
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• There's still time to enter! Only four home games left!!! twitter.com/utahjazz/statu…

  30-03-2018 20:14 via twitter.com
  There's still time to enter!Only four home games left!!! twitter.com/utahjazz/statu…
  
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• Nomad Eatery’s decor and menu might feel all over the map, but one bite will bring you back home

  30-03-2018 20:13
  It’s difficult to walk into Nomad Eatery and not feel immediately transported.A neon pink sign against a green frond-filled backdrop mimics vibrant, tropical Cuba. Dining room lights crafted from chicken feeders, an open kitchen and shelves of cookbooks remind me of a farm in the Midwest. The wood-backed bar with a ceiling riveted together like an airplane wing delivers me to the terminal, where I watch jets take off and land. And the $40,000 Navajo rug from the Shiprock Santa Fe gallery i
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - How the Utah Jazz can make a strong push in next 5 games

  30-03-2018 20:01 via sportspyder.com
  ... es will be the biggest stretch of the year in Salt Lake City. More from Utah Jazz 3/22 - Utah Jazz: The most interesting team in the West playoff race 3/19 -...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Official or not, Donovan Mitchell is OUR Rookie of the Year

  30-03-2018 19:55
  Both Donovan Mitchell and Ben Simmons are extremely deserving of the Rookie of the Year award, but there’s no question among Utah Jazz fans who has their vote. The NBA Rookie of the Year debate this season has become pretty heated and, quite frankly, at times a little disappointing due to the reactions of some […]
  Utah Jazz: Official or not, Donovan Mitchell is OUR Rookie of the Year - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Breaking down the Utah Jazz's potential playoff opponents if they make the postseason

  30-03-2018 19:50 via sportspyder.com
  ... e Spurs, along with Oklahoma City, hold a slim game and a half lead over the Jazz, currently in the No. 8 spot. While the fortunes of franchises rise and fall ...
  
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• Breaking down the Utah Jazz's potential playoff opponents if they make the postseason

  30-03-2018 19:41
  With only seven games left in the regular season, you'd think that the Utah Jazz would have a solid idea of who they could face in the opening round of the NBA playoffs, and if they themselves are postseason bound. However, the tight race in the Western Conference has left everything up in the air.The only things we know for sure is Houston is No. 1 and Golden State is No. 2. It is still mathematically possible for the Jazz to end up anywhere from No. 3 to out of the playoffs entirely, and much
  
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• A comedy about cancer and a drama about a girls’ soccer team highlight Salt Lake Acting Company’s next season

  30-03-2018 19:30
  In the upcoming season, Salt Lake Acting Company will stage stories about finding comedic connections at a mother’s bedside, as well as a dance inspired by the star-crossed love of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. The company also will focus on the hormone-fueled energy of a girls’ soccer team and a cultural war at a red-state bakery.The company’s 48th season will be “filled with heart, humor and deep human connections,” says Cynthia Fleming, executive artistic director.
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz-Memphis Grizzlies: As ever, Mitchell & Co. face must-win

  30-03-2018 19:23 via sportspyder.com
  ... int range in the game. That’s the kind of effort from distance that sunk the Jazz against the C’s. In that regard, though, you would expect a regression to th ...
  
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• School-safety commission seeks Utahns’ input in series of hearings

  30-03-2018 19:16
  The newly minted Utah School Safety Commission is hosting a series of public hearings to collect input from communities on how to make Utah schools safer.The 11-person volunteer commission, formed in early March in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, shootings, plans to meet at Box Elder High School April 3 at 7 p.m., with more meetings to follow in the Morgan, Rich and Jordan school districts and elsewhere across the state. Rep. Mike Kennedy, R-Alpine, helped assemble the commission in hopes of
  
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• Peter Frampton may not be cool, but he will still play a mean guitar at headlining show in Salt Lake City

  30-03-2018 19:16
  Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character reminds Patrick Fugit’s in the movie “Almost Famous” why music journalists who want to do a credible job can’t become friends with their subjects: “They make you feel cool. And, hey, I met you — you are not cool.”Peter Frampton worked as a technical adviser on that film and can fully identify with the pitfalls of the allure of cool — even though he happens to be a world-famous and world-class guitarist.After
  
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• Lone Peak comeback falls short in national boys’ hoops tourney

  30-03-2018 19:01
  Lone Peak’s furious rally against Florida’s Montverde Academy came up just short in Thursday’s opening round of the GEICO High School Nationals boys’ basketball tournament in New York.The Knights, who won the Class 6A state title, rallied back from a 19-point deficit in the second quarter to take a lead in the game’s final minute before falling 87-82.Chantry Ross’ 3-pointer with 44 seconds left gave the Knights a one-point lead, but Montverde scored the final
  
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• Utah Jazz-Memphis Grizzlies: As ever, Mitchell & Co. face must-win

  30-03-2018 18:55
  The Utah Jazz have been one of the Association’s best teams recently, but have still incurred some costly let-downs. They can’t afford another against the Memphis Grizzlies. A ho-hum start to the year and injuries to key players notwithstanding, the competition in the Western Conference has become every bit the gauntlet pundits predicted after an […]
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• Utes not taking NIT experience for granted despite a loss in the championship game

  30-03-2018 18:44
  New York • No. It wasn’t the big tournament and it wasn’t the national title on the line. But you still will have an uphill battle if you want to argue with Utes coach Larry Krystkowiak or his team that this postseason was meaningless or something to be disregarded.The Utes’ season concluded with an 82-66 loss to Penn State at Madison Square Garden in front of the largest NIT Championship game crowd since 2005. Penn State beat the Utes at their own game. The Utes scored f
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - NCAA Latest: Custer says Kansas had too many guards for him

  30-03-2018 18:35 via sportspyder.com
  ...in OT classic for Final 4 Brown's 3-pointer lifts Celtics to 97-94 win over Jazz NCAA Latest: Texas Tech beats Purdue for last Elite 8 spot Syracuse could lo ...
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Cavs coach Lue expected to attend game but not sit on bench

  30-03-2018 18:35 via sportspyder.com
  ...in OT classic for Final 4 Brown's 3-pointer lifts Celtics to 97-94 win over Jazz NCAA Latest: Texas Tech beats Purdue for last Elite 8 spot Syracuse could lo ...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz-Memphis Grizzlies key matchup: Gobert vs. Gasol

  30-03-2018 18:34 via sportspyder.com
  ... s quite likely that they’ll emerge victorious. However, while Gobert and the Jazz deserve credit for keeping Gasol in check, it shouldn’t be forgotten that Ga ...
  
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