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• Brimming with confidence, former Ute Kyle Kuzma has blended in seamlessly with the Lakers

  03-04-2018 23:54
  Brian Shaw, 14-year NBA veteran and 13-year NBA coach, had his hands full Tuesday morning.The source of his troubles was rookie Kyle Kuzma, who was handily beating him in a catch-and-shoot 3-pointer competition during Lakers shootaround at Vivint Smart Home Arena. “One miss and this is over!” Kuzma shouted across the court. Sure enough, after Shaw missed a key 3-pointer, Kuzma proceeded to shoot five in a row, all at different spots around the arc, while sweeping past the veteran Lak
  
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• Two Utah construction companies to pay $1.2M to settle claims they violated terms of federal small business program

  03-04-2018 23:31
  Two Utah construction companies have agreed to pay the federal government $1.2 million to resolve allegations that they violated the terms of a program designed to help small, disadvantaged businesses.Big-D Construction Corp., which is based in Salt Lake City, has already paid $1,062,900, and Creative Times Dayschool Inc. will pay $150,000 within the next few months, for a total of $1,212,900, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Utah announced Monday.Under the settlement, Big-D and Creative Time
  
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• Utah to get cleaner gasoline by 2019, but will it be enough if Trump rolls back vehicle emissions standards?

  03-04-2018 23:30
  Utah officials celebrated a groundbreaking Tuesday for Utah’s first Tier 3-compliant oil refinery, but the event highlighting cleaner fuels was overshadowed by concerns over a Trump administration proposal to roll back U.S. emissions standards for new vehicles.Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, the head of the Utah Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and other dignitaries praised oil refiner Andeavor, formerly Tesoro, for its decision to begin producing the cleaner-burning Tier 3 vehicle fuels
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz wing Thabo Sefolosha suspended, apologizes for anti-drug policy violation

  03-04-2018 23:27 via sportspyder.com
  ... (@ThaboSefolosha) April 3, 2018 "I would like to first apologize to the Utah Jazz organization, speficially to our great owners, management, coaching staff an ...
  
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• Utah Jazz wing Thabo Sefolosha suspended, apologizes for anti-drug policy violation

  03-04-2018 23:21
  SALT LAKE CITY — Thabo Sefolosha will be suspended for five games when he returns from his injury rehabilitation.Sefolosha, who's been sidelined since January with a knee injury, and Dallas Mavericks big man Nerlens Noel have both been suspended without pay for five games for violating the terms of the NBA/NBPA Anti-Drug Program, the league announced Tuesday morning.Sefolosha’s suspension will begin with the next NBA regular season or playoff game for which he is eligible and physica
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Kentucky's Washington to enter draft but not hire an agent

  03-04-2018 23:08 via sportspyder.com
  ... et for national title game Brown's 3-pointer lifts Celtics to 97-94 win over Jazz Autopsy disputes police account of fatal Sacramento shooting Michigan going...
  
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• Jill McCabe: The president attacked my reputation. It’s time to set the record straight.

  03-04-2018 23:00
  I am an emergency room pediatrician and an accidental politician — someone who never thought much about politics until I was recruited to run for state office after making a statement about the importance of expanding Medicaid. That decision — plus some twisted reporting and presidential tweets — ended up costing my husband, Andrew, his job and our family a significant portion of his pension my husband had worked hard for over 21 years of federal service. For the past year and
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Kyle Kuzma shares why NBA defenders are barbecue chicken: ‘I’m just very confident at all times’

  03-04-2018 23:00 via sportspyder.com
  ... ty of Utah star returns to Salt Lake City Tuesday at 7 p.m. to face the Utah Jazz. His fellow rookie Lonzo Ball is with the team, but won’t be suiting up with ...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz mailbag: Can the Jazz be favored in a playoff series? How much of a setback would if Favors signs elsewhere?

  03-04-2018 22:51 via sportspyder.com
  ... sota Timberwolves. But those probably won’t happen. The good thing is if the Jazz finish in the fifth or sixth spot, they would have a chance against whicheve ...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Kyle Kumza shares why NBA defenders are barbecue chicken: ‘I’m just very confident at all times’

  03-04-2018 22:34 via sportspyder.com
  ... ty of Utah star returns to Salt Lake City Tuesday at 7 p.m. to face the Utah Jazz. His fellow rookie Lonzo Ball is with the team, but won’t be suiting up with ...
  
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• Commentary: Pope Francis believes in hell, a place God doesn’t send people, they choose it

  03-04-2018 22:31
  Social media posts have been going crazy with reports that Pope Francis has denied the existence of hell. Even some mainstream media have picked up the story supposedly based on an interview by an Italian journalist.Anyone who has followed the pope’s talks and sermons would immediately know that something does not smell right here. The pope has in fact spoken of hell in the past in a way that clearly indicates that he believes in it.In 2014, the pope mentioned hell when calling the Mafia t
  
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• Kyle Kuzma shares why NBA defenders are BBQ chicken: ‘I’m just very confident at all times’

  03-04-2018 22:30
  SALT LAKE CITY — At Los Angeles’ Staples Center Sunday, Sacramento Kings shooting guard Buddy Hield approached a fearless Kyle Kuzma on defense in the midst of the game.“You gotta be guarding me because if he’s guarding me it’s barbecue chicken,” Kuzma told Hield.Kuzma was telling Hield about his Kings teammate, Justin Jackson.“Justin,” he declared. “I’m letting you know.”The video has surfaced all over social media, raking in mor
  
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• Kyle Kuzma shares why NBA defenders are barbecue chicken: ‘I’m just very confident at all times’

  03-04-2018 22:30
  SALT LAKE CITY — At Los Angeles’ Staples Center Sunday, Sacramento Kings shooting guard Buddy Hield approached a fearless Kyle Kuzma on defense in the midst of the game.“You gotta be guarding me because if he’s guarding me it’s barbecue chicken,” Kuzma told Hield.Kuzma was telling Hield about his Kings teammate, Justin Jackson.“Justin,” he declared. “I’m letting you know.”The video has surfaced all over social media, raking in mor
  
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• Utah Pride Center has a new director and a new home

  03-04-2018 22:21
  It’s a new day for the Utah Pride Center — the Salt Lake City organization that serves the LGBTQ communities has a bright, new building and a new, energetic director.Gay marriage may be legal, said Rob Moolman, the nonprofit agency’s executive director, but there is a lot of work still to do for people and their families who don’t fit into the heterosexual norms of this culture.Known for the Utah Pride Festival and Parade, the center also seeks to support its constituents
  
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• Altar-bound Meghan Markle to leave TV show ‘Suits’ with a wedding

  03-04-2018 22:17
  Real life will imitate art this spring at the USA series “Suits” when series regular Meghan Markle bids farewell to the legal drama in a wedding — and then goes off to marry her prince in real life.Show creator and show runner Aaron Korsh has written an on-screen wedding for Markle’s paralegal-turned-lawyer Rachel Zane, who will finally exchange vows during the April 25 season seven finale with her longtime love, Mike Ross, played by Patrick Adams. The two have had one pr
  
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• Utah man formally charged with killing teens — one of whom he believed was pregnant — and throwing their bodies into abandoned mine shaft; funeral plans announced

  03-04-2018 22:14
  Provo • Jerrod William Baum was formally charged Tuesday with killing two teens and dumping their bodies into an abandoned mine shaft.The charges, filed in Provo’s 4th District Court, provide additional details of the slayings of 18-year-old Riley Powell and his 17-year-old girlfriend, Brelynne “Breezy” Otteson, who went missing last December and whose bodies were recovered from a mine shaft last week.Breezy was forced to kneel near the mine shaft and watch as Baum beat an
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz notes: Neto closing in on return, Sefolosha suspended

  03-04-2018 22:04 via sportspyder.com
  ... ly well. Neto is averaging over four points in 12.3 minutes per game for the Jazz this season. In other news, the NBA suspended Utah Jazz forward Thabo Sefolo ...
  
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• Utah refinery pushes ahead with clean-fuel expansion despite Trump proposal to roll back vehicle emissions standards

  03-04-2018 22:03
  Utah officials celebrated a groundbreaking Tuesday for Utah’s first Tier 3-compliant oil refinery, but the event highlighting cleaner fuels was overshadowed by concerns over a Trump administration proposal to roll back U.S. emissions standards for new vehicles.Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, the head of the Utah Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and other dignitaries praised oil refiner Andeavor, formerly Tesoro, for its decision to begin producing the cleaner-burning Tier 3 vehicle fuels
  
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• Kathy Griffin warns that her nightmare ‘can happen to you’

  03-04-2018 22:02
  Kathy Griffin says she hopes to make her U.S. comeback by laughing about the disturbing photograph that got her in hot water with the feds and almost killed her career. But she also has this warning amid the jokes: “If it happened to me, it can happen to you.”Griffin is embarking this summer on a North American tour that kicks off a year after she was widely condemned for posing for a picture in which she gripped a bloodied rendering of President Donald Trump’s head. Ten months
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: It’s not the economy (or only the economy) after all

  03-04-2018 22:00
  In his latest book, “Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy,” William Galston of the Brookings Institution wrote: “When I began writing about the travails of liberal democracy a few years ago, I believed economics represented the heart of the matter.” Everyone bought into the democratic system so long as prosperity was increasingly and widely shared. However, Galston had seen enough to know there may be bigger, less rational — and hence, harder-to
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Former Utah Jazz player Trey Lyles rips on Utah, Quin Snyder's practices

  03-04-2018 21:56 via sportspyder.com
  ...about bolting for Boston became public, Lyles tweeted out a GIF mocking the Jazz. The young player had just been traded to Denver in the Donovan Mitchell dea ...
  
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• Former Utah Jazz player Trey Lyles rips on Utah, Quin Snyder's practices

  03-04-2018 21:55
  It’s safe to say, Trey Lyles will not pursue a position with the Utah Office of Tourism when he retires from the NBA.The former Jazz forward took some shots at his old stomping grounds and first professional team during a podcast interview with another ex-Utah player, Richard Jefferson.Several minutes into his latest Road Trippin’ Podcast — and after teasing Lyles, his Denver teammate, about things like hockey, not rebounding enough, scuffling with Channing Frye, decommitting f
  
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• Utah Jazz notes: Neto closing in on return, Sefolosha suspended

  03-04-2018 21:47
  Good news: Utah Jazz guard Raul Neto had his fractured wrist evaluated, and has reportedly made good progress. Bad news: Thabo Sefolosha has been suspended for five games due to violating the NBA’s anti-drug policy. The Utah Jazz host the banged up Los Angeles Lakers tonight, and they could have backup point guard Raul Neto […]
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• Utah reports two deaths in hepatitis A outbreak, as health officials hope the disease’s spread has peaked

  03-04-2018 21:45
  Two Salt Lake County residents have died from complications due to hepatitis A in the first deaths in Utah since an outbreak began last summer, county health officials announced Tuesday.One fatality happened in January, officials said, but the Salt Lake County Health Department was unable to confirm the cause until this week due to other health problems affecting the patient. The second death occurred late last month, they said.The outbreak, which originated in San Diego, has steadily spread amo
  
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• Commentary: Mormon apostle needs to clarify his remarks about ‘nonconsensual immorality,’ because even unintended words can do harm

  03-04-2018 21:30
  On Sunday, near the end of the 2018 General Conference, Mormon apostle Quentin L. Cook took a moment to discuss the #MeToo movement.“It is commendable that nonconsensual immorality has been exposed and denounced,” he said. “Such nonconsensual immorality is against the laws of God and of society. Those who understand God’s plan should also oppose consensual immorality, which is also a sin.”Harsh reaction to his choice of saying “nonconsensual immorality”
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz to host Limping Lakers

  03-04-2018 21:25 via sportspyder.com
  ... on. Can the Jazz hold the Lakers under 90 points again? Russ Isabella-USA TODAY Sports Assumi ...
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Mavs' Noel, Jazz's Sefolosha get 5-game drug bans from NBA

  03-04-2018 21:18 via sportspyder.com
  ... s Hi, NBA Atlantic Central Southeast Southwest Northwest Pacific Mavs’ Noel, Jazz’s Sefolosha get 5-game drug bans from NBA Apr 3, 2018 at 2:48p ET 0 Shares N ...
  
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• There are lower expectations for BYU’s linebackers this year, but that’s not a bad thing

  03-04-2018 21:16
  Provo • Remember how BYU’s 2017 linebacking corps was supposed to be one of the best in school history? Well, bow linebacker Francis Bernard decided to redshirt a week before the opener and eventually asked for his release from the program; hard-hitting middle linebacker Butch Pau’u battled injuries for the second straight season and seemed to wear down later in the year. Only flash linebacker Fred Warner lived up to expectations, and the four-year starter likely will be the onl
  
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• Rolly: Candidates with, shall we say, interesting pasts want to be Utah’s senator of the future

  03-04-2018 21:05
  With the announced retirement of seven-term Sen. Orrin Hatch creating an open seat in Utah’s Senate race this year and a good bet that a Republican will win that post, it’s no surprise that a dozen or so GOP hopefuls have filed to run.All sorts of characters could be on the ballot — from those with a legitimate chance to those who are unknowns and those with colorful pasts.Front-runner Mitt Romney alone provides political diversity to the field. Based on his past political stan
  
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• Letter: Hey Mitt: Extraction industries add up to a smidgen of Utah’s economy

  03-04-2018 21:00
  In the Feb. 16 edition of The Tribune, in a Q&A with Washington bureau chief Thomas Burr, Mitt Romney said, “I think we need to revisit how we work with the Antiquities Act and how decisions are made about public lands.”That sounds good if you say it fast, but you have to say it really fast. He goes on to refer to agricultural and local interests as though they are paramount and as though they are somehow compromised.Pop quiz, Massachusetts Mitt: How much of Utah’s GDP is m
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Trump's America may be open for business. But will anyone shop here?

  03-04-2018 21:00
  President Trump began the year by declaring that “America is open for business.”“I’m here to deliver a simple message,” he said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “There has never been a better time to hire, to build, to invest and to grow in the United States.”Take a look at the markets over the past few days, however, and you’ll get a very different message.On Monday, the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index plummeted more
  
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• More Utah women are enrolling in college, but new report says many fail to finish or they pursue lower-paying careers than male peers

  03-04-2018 20:52
  Amber Bird always wanted to go to college. But after her first pregnancy, she no longer felt like she belonged at Brigham Young University.“It was something that was really hard for me to admit to myself,” Bird said Tuesday, highlighting some of the challenges women face in Utah’s higher education system. “Becoming a mom in some way made me feel like I was disqualified from going to school.”Bird ultimately decided that pushing her dreams aside would hurt, not help,
  
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• Dana Milbank: My foolproof plan to put President Trump in Amazon's pocket

  03-04-2018 20:00
  Washington • President Trump had a brilliant idea over the weekend.It came during his otherwise zany Twitter attack on Amazon over the past five days, about Amazon not paying taxes (it does), causing the Postal Service to lose money (it’s perfectly adept at losing money on its own) and supposedly controlling The Washington Post because Amazon founder Jeffrey P. Bezos owns the paper (so why don’t I get a discount at Whole Foods?).But in between was a nugget about “the Fake
  
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• NBA suspends injured Jazz forward Thabo Sefolosha for violation of league’s anti-drug policy

  03-04-2018 19:56
  Injured Utah Jazz forward Thabo Sefolosha has been suspended for five games by the NBA for violating the league’s anti-drug policy, the NBA announced Tuesday morning.Since Sefolosha is injured, his suspension clock won’t start until next season. The forward has been out since January after having surgery on his meniscus.Sefolosha was suspended, along with Dallas Mavericks center Nerlens Noel, who will miss the final five games of the season. Noel will be an unrestricted free agent th
  
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• Utah's abortion rate hits historic low, state report finds

  03-04-2018 19:55
  Salt Lake City • New state data show Utah’s abortion rate fell to a historic low in 2016, continuing a downward trend that comes amid a national decline.The new report from the Utah Department of Health shows there were 4.2 abortions performed for every 1,000 women ages 15 to 44. That’s the lowest figure since at least 1980, the oldest data included in the report.Utah’s abortion rate has been on the decline for several years. The new data reverse a small uptick from the ye
  
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• Boyd Summerhays is back in the Masters, this time as the swing coach for Tony Finau and Yuxin Lin

  03-04-2018 19:43
  Tony Finau stood in the middle of the 15th fairway with a one-stroke lead on a Sunday afternoon in Indiana. In the summer of 2014, having made a big breakthrough in his pro golf career by qualifying for the Web.com Tour, Finau failed to follow through with his chance to win the tournament.He hit a poor shot, bogeyed the par-5 hole and faded to a tie for fourth place. That’s the moment when Finau knew he needed some help with his golf swing. He soon arranged a meeting at Davis Park Golf Cou
  
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• Trump wants military to secure border with Mexico

  03-04-2018 19:27
  Washington • President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants to use the military to secure the U.S.-Mexico border until his promised border wall is built.Speaking at a lunch with Baltic leaders, Trump said he’d already discussed the idea with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.“We are going to be guarding our border with the military,” Trump said, calling the measure a “big step.”Trump has been deeply frustrated about the lack of progress building what was the signature
  
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• Arizona man kidnapped a Utah teen, tied her to his bed and told her he was keeping her as his ‘pet,’ charges say

  03-04-2018 19:24
  An Arizona man is accused of kidnapping a 17-year-old Utah girl, tying her to a bed in his Phoenix home and telling her he was going to keep her as his “pet.”According to charges filed in Utah’s 5th District Court on Monday, the man faces one count each of human trafficking and aggravated kidnapping, both first-degree felonies.The man has also been charged in Maricopa County, Ariz., with five counts of sexual conduct with a minor, one count of aggravated assault with a weapon o
  
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• Man accused of killing teens and throwing bodies into abandoned mine shaft to appear in court Tuesday; charges expected; funeral plans announced

  03-04-2018 19:18
  A man accused of killing two teens and dumping their bodies into an abandoned mine shaft is scheduled to appear in Provo’s 4th District Court Tuesday afternoon, when formal charges will likely be filed.Prior to Jerrod William Baum’s court appearance, the Utah County Attorney’s Office is planning to hold a news conference about the case.Baum, 41, of Juab County, is being held at the Utah County jail on suspicion of kidnapping and murdering 18-year-old Riley Powell and his 17-yea
  
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• 🗝️: Favors vs. Randle Tipoff: 7PM MT #TakeNote https://t.co/GZUoUT1IPG

  03-04-2018 19:17 via twitter.com
  
  🗝️: Favors vs. Randle Tipoff: 7PM MT#TakeNote https://t.co/GZUoUT1IPG
  
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• ‘Chappaquiddick’ puts focus on aftermath of Kennedy accident

  03-04-2018 19:14
  Jason Clarke plunged into frigid waters, repeatedly, for his role as the late Sen. Ted Kennedy in “Chappaquiddick.”The Australian actor said his research about the accident that thwarted Kennedy’s presidential chances included jumping into Poucha Pond, the same waters the Massachusetts Democrat’s car crashed into in July 1969, killing Mary Jo Kopechne.Clarke said the indie film, which is being released Friday, doesn’t try to sensationalize the accident, which Kenned
  
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• Letter: Shame on The Tribune for its misleading coverage of gun protests

  03-04-2018 19:00
  I would like to publicly thank Sheldon Kirkham for his op-ed piece on the “balanced” coverage by The Tribune of the March for Our Lives demonstration and the counter-demonstration by gun activists.I was one of the adults marching in support of the amazing young people leading this movement. I also personally witnessed the crowd size of both groups. Imagine my surprise to open The Tribune the next morning and see much larger photos and equal, if not more, print devoted to the gun-carr
  
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• Letter: No, Rich Lowry, the teens who are fighting back are fighting for our future

  03-04-2018 19:00
  In reference to the hit piece by Rich Lowry (“Teenagers are making our public debate even less civil”), damn those kids. Don’t they understand decorum and status quo? Have they no shame? Actually calling out those people who could do something about gun violence, but who do nothing but offer “hopes and prayers.”My question to Lowry is: When was the last time a crazed gunman mowed down a bunch of journalists? Bet that would change your tune. I think there is no time
  
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• Letter: Herbert is correct to proceed with caution on medical marijuana

  03-04-2018 19:00
  I found new respect for Gov. Gary Herbert when he cautioned against implementing authorization of legalizing medical marijuana. If there is justification for such a movement to legalize marijuana for terminally ill persons, it appears to be an attempt to set the stage for further efforts to end with the recreational use which is sought by many users. If in fact people who are terminal would find comfort in using marijuana, then why not use heroin which results in a far higher euphoria?Back in th
  
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• [USA Today] - Nerlens Noel, Thabo Sefolosha suspended five games for violating NBA's anti-drug program

  03-04-2018 18:59 via sportspyder.com
  ... lating NBA's anti-drug program Noel, of the Mavericks, and Sefolosha, of the Jazz, will be suspended without pay for the next five games that they're physical ...
  
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• NBA suspends Utah Jazz's Thabo Sefolosha for anti-drug policy violation

  03-04-2018 18:55
  SALT LAKE CITY — Thabo Sefolosha will be suspended for five games when he returns from his injury rehabilitation.Sefolosha, who's been sidelined since January with a knee injury, and Dallas Mavericks big man Nerlens Noel have both been suspended without pay for five games for violating the terms of the NBA/NBPA Anti-Drug Program, the league announced Tuesday morning.Sefolosha’s suspension will begin with the next NBA regular season or playoff game for which he is eligible and physica
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Turnover Blues Revisited

  03-04-2018 18:29 via sportspyder.com
  ... teoric rise came totally out of left field for me. It’s safe to say that the Jazz turnover problem as it was in October is no more. The same can be said about ...
  
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• Utah State Parks is considering privatizing four popular golf courses

  03-04-2018 18:24
  Utah State Parks and Recreation administrators are preparing a request for proposals that may result in private operation of four golf facilities in the state.The request, targeted for release in about a month, won’t necessarily lead to the awarding of a contract, officials say. Utah golf organizations have resisted privatizing of state and municipal courses, citing a history of green fees being raised in other states. State Parks official Scott Strong, however, said, “Fees charged b
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz vs. Los Angeles Lakers: Keys to a vital home win

  03-04-2018 18:20 via sportspyder.com
  ... Three-Point Threat Episode 28: Playoff Predictions, Utah Jazz Surprises, Week Preview by Jared Woodcox ...
  
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