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• [KSL] - Simulating the rest of the Jazz season

  04-04-2018 23:50 via sportspyder.com
  ... 6% 21.5% 6th seed 14.7% 15.0% 7th seed 12.3% 10.5% 8th seed 3.7% 1.9% So the Jazz are most likely to stay where they are, in the fourth seed. They're in about ...
  
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• Pierce: Sinclair is actively undermining journalists — including those at KUTV

  04-04-2018 23:41
  The Sinclair Broadcast Group’s campaign against so-called fake news has gotten away from it, embarrassing its ownership, management and employees, including those at KUTV-Channel 2.Not just anchors Mark Koelbel and Shauna Lake, who read the Sinclair script and became part of Deadspin’s viral video of dozens of anchors reading the same statement. KUTV’s reporters have been questioned about their objectivity and integrity.KUTV reporter Chris Jones tweeted, “I believe in jou
  
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• Alexandra Petri: A statement definitely not under duress from Sinclair

  04-04-2018 23:29
  Hello. I am Name A.Readers of this column, Name of Column, are no doubt aware of the high quality of balanced journalism that Name of Column provides. It is our greatest responsibility to serve our local community here in Name of Place.But I could not help noticing — on my own, totally unprompted! Turn off the teleprompter. I am going to speak from the heart. Wait a beat. Now continue.There is a plague of biased, fake news in this country. For instance, a story that was shared recently imp
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Doug Robinson: Hot Rod Hundley's story so good it should be a movie — and now it is

  04-04-2018 23:07 via sportspyder.com
  ...player; Utah fans knew him as the rapid-fire play-by-play announcer for the Jazz. What most didn’t know was that he was profoundly shaped and haunted by a tr ...
  
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• Salt Lake’s Tony Finau takes a spill while celebrating ace at Augusta National

  04-04-2018 23:04
  What an eventful Par-3 Contest at The Masters for Salt Lake City’s Tony Finau on Wednesday.Good grief, Tony Finau wrecked his ankle celebrating a hole in one pic.twitter.com/8o7JxVi3xQ— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) April 4, 2018
  Finau, who is making his first appearance at The Masters, hit an incredible hole-in-one and set off celebrating. It was during the celebration that he turned his ankle. He did continue to play after injuring the ankle.Finau is scheduled to tee off the first round at 1
  
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• Doug Robinson: Hot Rod Hundley's story so good it should be a movie — and now it is

  04-04-2018 23:01
  SALT LAKE CITY — The story of Hot Rod Hundley is so good it should be a movie — and now, three years after his death, it is.On April 8, a fine documentary called “Hot Rod” will debut on AT&T SportsNet following the game between the Lakers and Jazz, his former teams. It will re-air 24 times during the year and will also appear in other regions of the country.The movie, nearly three years in the making, actually made its premiere March 28 in his hometown of Charleston,
  
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• Those eligible for cleaning up criminal records can get legal, financial help Thursday

  04-04-2018 23:00
  Expungement Day is here.On Thursday, a coalition of state and Salt Lake County criminal justice and social service agencies, charity and advocacy groups, and legal organizations, including some 40 volunteer lawyers, are teaming up to help eligible people get their criminal records scrubbed. They are covering fees for those who qualify and providing free legal help.And yes, they’re taking walk-ins.The effort is an outgrowth of the Operation Rio Grande initiative to curb crime among the home
  
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• Doug Robinson: Doug Robinson: Hot Rod Hundley's story so good it should be a movie — and now it is

  04-04-2018 23:00
  SALT LAKE CITY — The story of Hot Rod Hundley is so good it should be a movie — and now, three years after his death, it is.On April 8, a fine documentary called “Hot Rod” will debut on AT&T SportsNet following the game between the Lakers and Jazz, his former teams. It will re-air 24 times during the year and will also appear in other regions of the country.The movie, nearly three years in the making, actually made its premiere March 28 in his hometown of Charleston,
  
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• Utah family of boy with Down syndrome drops discrimination lawsuit against Boy Scouts

  04-04-2018 22:59
  A Utah family who sued the Boy Scouts for policies they say discriminated against their son, who has Down syndrome, is withdrawing the lawsuit after the Scouts gave the family resources to help the boy earn his Eagle Scout award, attorneys announced Wednesday.Despite having limited verbal skills and development delays, Logan Blythe, 15, worked for years to earn enough merit badges to meet the threshold to become an Eagle Scout, the highest rank in the Scouts.His project was approved at the local
  
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• Twin sisters known for spirited battle with obsessive compulsive disorder die in possible ‘suicide pact’

  04-04-2018 22:55
  Sara and Amanda Eldritch would take showers that lasted upward of 10 hours. The inseparable twin sisters from Broomfield, Colo., would go through five bottles of rubbing alcohol every day, disinfecting their skin until it burned. They hardly ever left the house. When they did, they would stop eating and drinking hours in advance to the point of dehydration to avoid using public restrooms, they told local television station 9 News in 2016.Diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder as teenagers,
  
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• Veteran RSL defender Tony Beltran’s presence is felt on the team even while he’s recovering from a brutal knee injury

  04-04-2018 22:38
  The news kept getting worse as Real Salt Lake orthopedic surgeon Andrew Cooper led fullback Tony Beltran through the MRI of his right knee: ACL tear, LCL tear, damage to the posterolateral corner. “He discussed openly and honestly, ‘This is as serious a knee injury as they come,‘” Beltran said, applauding Cooper for his communication through every step of his treatment for an injury sustained at Colorado on Oct. 15.Beltran, a 10-year RSL veteran, now is a little more than
  
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• Cannabis sales forecast suggests it may surpass soda by 2030

  04-04-2018 22:36
  Pot may be on its way to beating pop.The U.S. legal cannabis industry is expected to reach $75 billion in sales by 2030, according to research firm Cowen & Co. That’s almost as large as the North American carbonated soft drink market in 2017.With the industries’ diverging trajectories, weed may be poised to take the mantle as the larger industry. Cannabis is growing rapidly as more states legalize the plant. Nine states and Washington, D.C., now allow for recreational pot use. Th
  
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• U.S. senator visits Venezuela amid talks over jailed Utah man Josh Holt

  04-04-2018 22:34
  Caracas, Venezuela • A powerful U.S. senator traveled to Venezuela on Wednesday as pressure mounted on President Nicolas Maduro to hand over a Utah man jailed in the turbulent South American country for nearly two years.Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois was to meet with members of the government and opposition, a spokesman for his office said. He didn’t provide further details.The Senate’s No. 2 Democrat is also expected to meet with Maduro to discuss the imprisonment of Joshua Holt,
  
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• Trump pushes back on fears of a trade war with China

  04-04-2018 22:18
  Beijing • President Donald Trump showed no sign Wednesday of backing down from an escalating trade confrontation with China, even as financial markets wobbled and American farmers and manufacturers warned that he was inviting a damaging commercial clash.Hours after the Chinese government announced plans to match the president’s tariffs on $50 billion in imported Chinese goods with import levies on American soybeans, cars and airplanes, Trump fired off a pair of bellicose tweets.&ldquo
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - AP Source: Lue expected to return Thursday for Cavaliers

  04-04-2018 22:06 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 UConn's Azura S ...
  
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• No more RC Willey ads — Paige Davis is hosting ‘Trading Spaces’ again

  04-04-2018 22:00
  Paige Davis put the perky in home improvement back in 2000 as the host of “Trading Spaces.” But that show went off the air a decade ago, and, locally, Davis became known as the spokeswoman for RC Willey.That gig has ended and “Trading Spaces” is returning to TLC, with Davis back as its host. But she still has a soft spot in her heart — and a sense of humor — about her local fame with the Utah-based home furnishings chain.Davis’ husband, actor Patrick Pag
  
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• Holly Richardson: ‘Indispensable linchpins’ — are they a good thing or a bad thing?

  04-04-2018 22:00
  I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images and interactions that change the marketplace. — Seth GodinSeth Godin, a prolific author of business books, a popular speaker and consultant, asks us to be indispensable in our worlds by creating art. In his 2010 book, “Linchpin: Are You indispensable?”, Godin presents the hypothesis that in today’s busy, ultraconnected world, people who do their jobs witho
  
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• Ex-fertility doctor facing suit for using his own sperm is a former Mormon mission and temple president

  04-04-2018 21:51
  Gerald E. Mortimer, the retired obstetrician/gynecologist who allegedly used his own sperm to impregnate a patient undergoing artificial insemination, served as president of both an LDS Church temple and a church mission in the Philippines.A lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Idaho names Mortimer, Linda G. McKinnon Mortimer, and Obstetrics and Gynecology Associates of Idaho Falls as defendants, accusing them of fraud and medical negligenceA news release from The Church of Jesus Ch
  
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• ‘We’re racking our brains:’ A series of teen suicides has left the Herriman High School community searching for answers

  04-04-2018 21:47
  Herriman • When Herriman High School Principal James Birch heard about the first student suicide last summer, he immediately thought of his own two teenagers and sat them down for a talk.“I made it known that I loved them, and that anything they were going through, they could talk to me about it,” Birch said in an emotional interview. “It didn’t matter how small it was — I was interested, and I would be there.”Since that summer day, four more students enr
  
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• Sinclair is actively undermining journalists — including those at KUTV

  04-04-2018 21:40
  The Sinclair Broadcast Group’s campaign against so-called fake news has gotten away from it, embarrassing its ownership, management and employees, including those at KUTV-Channel 2.Not just anchors Mark Koelbel and Shauna Lake, who read the Sinclair script and became part of Deadspin’s viral video of dozens of anchors reading the same statement. KUTV’s reporters have been questioned about their objectivity and integrity.KUTV reporter Chris Jones tweeted, “I believe in jou
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder rips team defense following Lakers win: ‘I didn’t like it’

  04-04-2018 21:35 via sportspyder.com
  ... ple.” Urgency, consistency, and execution are keywords shared throughout the Jazz locker room during this final push. Since Jan. 19, the Jazz are 27-7 with le ...
  
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• [KSL] - Jazz Gaming out to 'Compete' with draft picks in inaugural NBA 2K League

  04-04-2018 21:27 via sportspyder.com
  ... ing the inaugural NBA 2K League Combine. "We are thrilled to have Shaka join Jazz Gaming as our first pick," Jazz Gaming director of esports Josh Barney said...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Point guard 'Yeah I Compete' selected as Jazz Gaming's first player in NBA 2K League Draft

  04-04-2018 21:22 via sportspyder.com
  ... 2K League Combine. Browne averaged 24.2 points, 13.7 assists and 3.5 steals. Jazz Gaming views him as a slashing playmaker and a high-performing playmaker who ...
  
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• Spilled crude oil sparks fire on Utah highway and seeps into Strawberry Reservoir

  04-04-2018 21:13
  A trailer full of crude oil sparked a fire on a Wasatch County highway before seeping into nearby Strawberry Reservoir on Wednesday morning.Hours later, crews were still cleaning up the mess that closed the highway for several hours. By 10 a.m., officials had just one lane open and were alternating traffic flow through the area.A truck driver hauling two rigs fell asleep at the wheel just after 7 a.m. on U.S. Highway 40, near mile marker 42, according to the Utah Highway Patrol. The driver start
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Jazz coach Quin Snyder rips team defense following Lakers win: ‘I didn’t like it’

  04-04-2018 21:08 via sportspyder.com
  ... ple.” Urgency, consistency, and execution are keywords shared throughout the Jazz locker room during this final push. Since Jan. 19, the Jazz are 27-7 with le ...
  
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• Utah wants the power to keep a ‘startling’ amount of water in Bear Lake, but will the Great Salt Lake suffer?

  04-04-2018 21:06
  Officials in Utah and Idaho have filed an application to control an unclaimed portion of water in Bear Lake, in what some see as a danger to the Great Salt Lake and a prelude to development on northern Utah’s Bear River.If approved, the application filed with the Utah Division of Water Rights would give officials in the two states control of 400,000 acre-feet of water in Bear Lake — more than four times the amount of water at stake in Utah’s controversial Lake Powell pipeline p
  
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• Point guard 'Yeah I Compete' selected as Jazz Gaming's first player in NBA 2K League Draft

  04-04-2018 21:05
  An NBA TV announcer exuberantly proclaimed "What a time to be alive!" during an event that was televised live on Wednesday.He wasn't lying.The Utah Jazz and professional gaming squads from 16 other NBA teams took part in the inaugural NBA 2K draft from Madison Square Garden, selecting from a pool of 102 elite video athletes who'll participate in the first season of the fledgling esports league.And with the third pick of the NBA 2K League, Jazz Gaming selected Shaka Browne from Mount Vernon, New
  
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• Guard 'Yeah I Compete' selected as Jazz Gaming's first player in NBA 2K League Draft

  04-04-2018 21:05
  An NBA TV announcer exuberantly proclaimed "What a time to be alive!" during an event that was televised live on Wednesday.He wasn't lying.The Utah Jazz and professional gaming squads from 16 other NBA teams took part in the inaugural NBA 2K draft from Madison Square Garden, selecting from a pool of 102 elite video athletes who'll participate in the first season of the fledgling esports league.And with the third pick of the NBA 2K League, Jazz Gaming selected Shaka Browne from Mount Vernon, New
  
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• Jazz coach Quin Snyder rips team defense following Lakers win: ‘I didn’t like it’

  04-04-2018 21:04
  SALT LAKE CITY — Most coaches would’ve been happy.The Utah Jazz certainly had a reason to celebrate after topping the Los Angeles Lakers 117-110 Tuesday night to jump to No. 4 in the Western Conference standings. Even Donovan Mitchell appeared on ESPN First Take on Wednesday morning.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uviOynMYQkgBut Quin Snyder isn’t like most NBA coaches.Neither are his players, who are on a mission to secure a postseason berth with four games remaining.So when a
  
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• Wasatch Front commercial real-estate sales still going strong after record $2.2 billion year in 2017

  04-04-2018 21:02
  Coming off a record year in “the second longest expansionary period in U.S. history,” the Wasatch Front commercial real-estate market is showing “no signs of slowing down.”That’s the view of CBRE, a Los Angeles-based Fortune 500 commercial real-estate services and investment firm that has an office in Salt Lake City, in releasing an annual report that showed investment sales along the Wasatch Front in 2017 reached a record $2.2 billion.“Development and demand
  
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• Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder rips team defense following Lakers win: ‘I didn’t like it’

  04-04-2018 21:00
  SALT LAKE CITY — Most coaches would’ve been happy.The Utah Jazz certainly had a reason to celebrate after topping the Los Angeles Lakers 117-110 Tuesday night to jump to No. 4 in the Western Conference standings. Even Donovan Mitchell appeared on ESPN First Take on Wednesday morning.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uviOynMYQkgBut Quin Snyder isn’t like most NBA coaches.Neither are his players, who are on a mission to secure a postseason berth with four games remaining.So when a
  
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• Margaret Sullivan: The term ‘fake news’ has lost all meaning, which is just how Trump wants it

  04-04-2018 21:00
  We have officially crossed through the looking glass on the subject of trust in the traditional news media.Yes, we’re in a land described in the Lewis Carroll classic where meaning is exceedingly hard to pin down.“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”&ldqu
  
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• Dana Milbank: It's Mueller time

  04-04-2018 21:00
  Washington • They spent 11 months digging into allegations of collusion with Russia, obstruction of justice, money laundering and assorted other misdeeds.And now comes Mueller time.The special counsel had already racked up guilty pleas from top advisers to President Trump and indictments of Russian trolls and the president’s former campaign chairman. But events of this week show that Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia probe, long a theoretical threat to the Trump presidency, is gett
  
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• Letter: A suggestion for the neighborhood trash pickup program — from a dedicated scavenger

  04-04-2018 20:00
  I am very sad to hear that Salt Lake City is ending its neighborhood trash pickup program. Over the past 20 years or more, I have scavenged those piles for usable furniture, bikes, doors, chairs, tables, paving stones and much else. Often, a little gluing, screwing, patching or painting was all that was needed to bring the discarded item back to life.It is obvious the city has put some study into this change. It has solicited the input of homeowners throughout the city and expanded the list of t
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Trump’s self-delusion blinds him to legal peril

  04-04-2018 20:00
  The Washington Post reports:“Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III informed President Trump’s attorneys last month that he is continuing to investigate the president but does not consider him a criminal target at this point, according to three people familiar with the discussions.<br>“In private negotiations in early March about a possible presidential interview, Mueller described Trump as a subject of his investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 electio
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Breaking down the Utah Jazz's potential playoff opponents, April 4 edition

  04-04-2018 19:14 via sportspyder.com
  ... h of those teams are well out of the playoffs. The season finale between the Jazz and Trail Blazers could very well be a preview of the opening round of the p ...
  
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• Utah water officials want to own a piece of Bear Lake, but they say they aren’t interested in development — yet

  04-04-2018 19:09
  Officials in Utah and Idaho have filed an application to control an unclaimed portion of water in Bear Lake, in what some see as a danger to the Great Salt Lake and a prelude to development on northern Utah’s Bear River.If approved, the application filed with the Utah Division of Water Rights would give officials in the two states control of 400,000 acre-feet of water in Bear Lake — more than four times the amount of water at stake in Utah’s controversial Lake Powell pipeline p
  
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• Breaking down the Utah Jazz's potential playoff opponents, April 4 edition

  04-04-2018 19:07
  The Jazz have four games left, and there still isn't a clear picture who they could play in the postseason. It's still mathematically possible for Utah to miss the postseason altogether despite sitting at the No. 4 spot in the Western Conference. However, FiveThirtyEight gives Utah a 98 percent chance of making it.Losses by the Thunder and the Spurs Tuesday night have suddenly given the Jazz an opportunity to control their own destiny for home-court advantage in the first round, but Utah's last
  
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• Leonard Pitts: What killed Martin Luther King?

  04-04-2018 19:00
  Memphis • Martin Luther King’s men had a different question.At least, according to his aide, Andrew Young, they did. When the first reports went out that King had been gunned down while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in this city, America and the world demanded to know one thing: Who did it? Who was the sniper who shot him from a flophouse window? Who killed Martin Luther King?But as Young put it in the “American Experience” film “Roads to Memphis&rdqu
  
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• [KSL] - Patrick Kinahan: Donovan Mitchell on his way to greatness

  04-04-2018 18:58 via sportspyder.com
  ... result in long-term gain for the Jazz. Any struggles Mitchell has now, to go with all the success, will pay off as ...
  
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• Utah takes down BYU to even season baseball series

  04-04-2018 18:36
  The Utes will take wins any way they can get them, especially against rival BYU, after starting the season with 13 straight losses.Utah scored the winning run on a bases-loaded walk in the seventh inning and edged the Cougars 4-3 on Tuesday night in front of an announced crowd of 2,920 at chilly Smith’s Ballpark to even the scheduled four-game series at one win apiece.“It doesn’t always have to be pretty,” said Utah right fielder Erick Migueles, who hit a 3-run home run i
  
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• Men are concerned about what #MeToo is doing to men at work

  04-04-2018 18:35
  Six months after sexual harassment complaints started mounting against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, Americans seem split on what the #MeToo movement has meant for the workplace, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center.Sixty-eight percent of Republican men and 59 percent of Republican women say it’s “harder” for men to interact with female colleagues while 45 percent of Democratic men and 40 percent of Democratic women feel the same.The survey, called “
  
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• Kay Cannon sees path for others in her road to R-rated teen sex comedy ‘Blockers’

  04-04-2018 18:19
  Kay Cannon, a performer, screenwriter, producer and three-time Emmy nominee, had never directed anything before “Blockers,” an R-rated teen sex comedy that Universal Pictures is releasing wide Friday.She’d written and produced for “30 Rock” and “New Girl,” written the scripts for the enormously successful “Pitch Perfect” films and created the Netflix series “Girlboss.” But directing was not yet on her résumé, and it
  
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• Weekly Run newsletter: Listing pros and cons of each potential Jazz first-round playoff opponent

  04-04-2018 18:05
  For a moment, let’s accept the premise that the Jazz, who have less than a two percent chance of missing the postseason in most models, are in.Who the heck are they playing?While Quin Snyder may not feel that the playoffs are yet cinched, the reality is that the Jazz (45-33) are all but going to the postseason. The bigger question is who Utah’s first-round opponent will be, which is still a whole host of teams. It’s more likely at this point that the Jazz clinch a seed between
  
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• Kragthorpe: Tony Finau and Tiger Woods converge at Augusta National in the Salt Lake City native’s first Masters

  04-04-2018 17:58
  Augusta, Ga. Tiger Woods’ 12-stroke victory made the 1997 Masters a major event in sports history. His domination of the field at Augusta National Golf Club as an athletic, aggressive golfer and a person of color resonated around the world. It hit home in the Rose Park neighborhood of Salt Lake City, where 7-year-old Tony Finau watched the telecast in awe. “Tiger really inspired me to play,” Finau said recently. “Golf’s not that cool, if we’re being honest, fo
  
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• Utes feed off senior Tiffani Lewis’ passion, fire

  04-04-2018 17:38
  Tiffani Lewis’ teammates suppress knowing giggles as Utah gymnastics coach Tom Farden describes the senior’s fiery personality in a postmeet news conference.Their teammate, they know, is a bit unusual. Rather than playing the usual formalities so common in collegiate gymnastics, Lewis is known for her competitiveness. Don’t be mistaken — she is nice. Just don’t challenge her to a card game or anything where there is a winner.“She’s going to win,” t
  
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• The Darkness descend on Salt Lake City — humor, irreverence and striped catsuit in hand

  04-04-2018 17:33
  Circa 2003, The Darkness were well on their way to being the biggest band in the world. The throwback rockers based in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, were set to conquer the music scene thanks to a combination of muscular ’70s guitar riffs, gloriously histrionic ’80s camp, and the ubiquity of their falsetto-drenched hit single “I Believe in a Thing Called Love.”Fifteen years later, they’re far removed from those halcyon days, having gone from headlining international
  
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• Bees outfielder and Angels prospect Michael Hermosillo hoping to pave his way to the majors

  04-04-2018 17:16
  Michael Hermosillo will get that momentary itch again at times on a weekend in the fall when a football game comes across a television screen. After all, the Los Angeles Angels prospect signed to play college football at Illinois before deciding to try his hand in the professional baseball ranks.Hermosillo now finds himself tapping on the door to the major leagues five years after the Angels drafted him in the 28th round out of high school and he decided to bet on his own upside in a sport he&rs
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz get some help to find themselves in fourth in the West

  04-04-2018 16:53 via sportspyder.com
  ...deadly they can be, assuming they don’t rest any starters. Last of all, the Jazz will finish off the year with a road bout in Portland. Believe it or not, th ...
  
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• Utah Jazz get some help to find themselves in fourth in the West

  04-04-2018 16:41
  After a win over the Los Angeles Lakers last night and with a little help from teams formerly ahead of them in the standings, the Utah Jazz are now in fourth place in the Western Conference. The Utah Jazz entered last night’s contest against the Los Angeles Lakers in sixth place in the Western Conference. […]
  Utah Jazz get some help to find themselves in fourth in the West - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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