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• Utah man sentenced to prison for up to 35 years for fatally choking his girlfriend

  19-04-2018 23:55
  A Magna man has been sentenced to prison for up to 35 years in prison for his girlfriend’s death, after he choked the woman to unconsciousness and delayed getting her treatment while he tried to cover up his involvement in the crime.Jeffrey Allan Larson, 30, had pleaded guilty to second-degree felony manslaughter (reduced from first-degree felony murder) and obstructing justice, both second-degree felonies.Third District Judge Vernice Trease on Wednesday sentenced Larson to consecutive pri
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: What went right/wrong in Game 2 vs. OKC

  19-04-2018 23:47 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz: Derrick Favors proves yet again just how invaluable he is by Jared Woodcox ...
  
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• Grant Hill wants Donovan Mitchell and Ben Simmons to see the fun side of their Rookie of the Year battle

  19-04-2018 23:45
  There was no Twitter in 1994, and Grant Hill is glad now that was the case.But there was satellite TV. And on many nights he got home, he would stay up to watch West Coast games, especially ones in which Glen Robinson and Jason Kidd were playing. Hill wasn’t fully focused on winning the NBA’s Rookie of the Year — he was more concerned with helping the Detroit Pistons win — but that didn’t stop him from drawing some motivation from his fellow first-year pros.“I
  
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• Federal appeals court grants Jeremy Johnson a new sentencing hearing

  19-04-2018 23:34
  Online entrepreneur Jeremy Johnson — sentenced in 2016 to more than 11 years in federal prison for providing false information to a bank — may not have to serve that much time, after all.The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday reversed Johnson’s sentence and sent the case back to the district court for another sentencing hearing.The appeals court said U.S. District Judge David Nuffer erred by assessing a two-level enhancement based on a finding that Johnson received more
  
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• Utah Jazz: What went right/wrong in Game 2 vs. OKC

  19-04-2018 23:29
  The Utah Jazz managed to grind out a gutsy Game 2 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder despite showing some weaknesses that they’ll need to clean up moving forward. Whenever a team comes away with a W, especially in the playoffs, it’s hard to get too nit-picky. The mantra ‘survive and advance’ certainly applies as […]
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• She wore a dinosaur puppet during a military oath. It got her and a colonel removed from the job

  19-04-2018 23:00
  It’s unclear why Master Sgt. Robin Brown, a public affairs officer with the Tennessee Air National Guard, recited her oath of re-enlistment last week using a dinosaur puppet.Or why the colonel conducting the ceremony allowed her to do so, stifling his laughter as the puppet mouthed the oath.But the two have been let go from the Guard after a video of the incident went viral, garnering about 2.4 million views on Facebook by Wednesday and upsetting many in the military community who felt Bro
  
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• Senate confirms Trump pick as NASA administrator over Democratic objections

  19-04-2018 23:00
  The Senate on Thursday narrowly confirmed Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., as NASA administrator, despite deep concerns from Democrats that he lacks the scientific and management expertise to lead the space agency.The vote to install the three-term lawmaker was 50-49. President Donald Trump had initially tapped Bridenstine for the post last year, but his nomination stalled amid Democratic criticisms, as well as some reticence from Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who said Thursday that NASA should be led
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Joe and Renae Ingles didn’t want a long-distance marriage, so one of the world’s best netball players gave up her career. She says payoff was worth it, but still grapples with the decision.

  19-04-2018 22:48 via sportspyder.com
  ... e to appease Jazz lottery pick Dante Exum, a fellow Australian. But very quickly Ingles became ...
  
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• Joe and Renae Ingles didn’t want a long-distance marriage, so one of the world’s best netball players gave up her career. She says payoff was worth it, but still grapples with the decision.

  19-04-2018 22:44
  Surrendering a career as a world-class professional netball player wasn’t easy.It would be one thing, Renae Ingles says, if she weren’t still one of the world’s best players in her sport — a mashup of basketball, European handball and even Ultimate Frisbee. But she left the game in 2016 in her prime, knowing she had great years left. There are times, she acknowledges, when she still struggles with that.Then she’ll look across her living room and see Joe on the floor
  
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• With no end in sight, Utah’s MyKayla Skinner is dominating college gymnastics

  19-04-2018 22:37
  St. Louis • The brilliance of MyKayla Skinner is verified at the very mention of her name. Because when the three syllables are voiced, those closest to her — who’ve seen her grind through the week-to-week pressure, through the clouds of chalk, during the milliseconds in flight where she’s always in control — immediately beam. They do distinctly, differently, but they’re all transported to those days in the gym or those nights under the lights where Skinner wow
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - OKC Thunder star Paul George blossomed into an NBA draft prospect while playing for former BYU basketball coach Steve Cleveland

  19-04-2018 22:28 via sportspyder.com
  ... s 8-of-11 3-point shooting performance in the first playoff game against the Jazz. "He developed and blossomed because he had the chance to do that and he’s w ...
  
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• Rosenstein said to tell Trump he’s not target in Mueller probe

  19-04-2018 22:17
  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told President Donald Trump last week that he isn’t a target of any part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, according to two people familiar with the matter.Rosenstein, who brought up the Mueller probe himself, offered the assurance during a meeting with Trump at the White House last Thursday, a development that helped tamp down the president’s desire to remove Rosenstein or Mueller, the people said.After the meeting, Trump
  
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• OKC Thunder star Paul George blossomed into an NBA draft prospect while playing for former BYU basketball coach Steve Cleveland

  19-04-2018 22:15
  PROVO — Steve Cleveland told the parents of Paul George they had nothing to apologize for.It was a few years ago when the Oklahoma Thunder forward was a few seasons into his NBA career as a member of the Indiana Pacers.The former BYU and Fresno State basketball coach was serving as an LDS Church mission president in Indianapolis when the soon-to-be four-time NBA All-Star invited him and his wife Kit to a Pacers game. During the evening out, Paulette George told Cleveland she was sorry her
  
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• [Deadspin] - How Stories About Mundane Things Taking Over Locker Rooms Took Over Sports Media

  19-04-2018 22:10 via sportspyder.com
  ... you know that the Thunder really like halal food? Did you know that the Utah Jazz are obsessed with coffee? Did you know that the Atlanta Hawks love Uno? Did...
  
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• Police: Utah parents planned murder-suicide that killed kids

  19-04-2018 22:07
  Police documents say a couple who recently moved from Switzerland to Utah planned a murder-suicide that left their family of four dead, buying sleeping pills and researching shootings.The report says 43-year-old Jessica Griffith believed she suffered from terminal health problems and discussed in text messages with her husband a “good time to leave” so they would be together and have “love for eternity.”The family of four was found dead in November 2017, months after movi
  
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• Monson: The Jazz now are throwing punches with bad intentions

  19-04-2018 22:06
  The Jazz proved many things against the Thunder in Game 2 of their playoff series Wednesday night in OKC, but the one that stood out the most is this: They can play leathery, grown-man basketball.Even when they are led by a fresh-faced kid.Just as some observers were saying the Jazz couldn’t hang with Russell Westbrook, Paul George, Carmelo Anthony and Steven Adams, they did more than hang with those guys. They roughed them up. They punched them in the mouth and stole away their home-court
  
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• University of Utah students offer plan to solve gridlock in Little Cottonwood Canyon — without adding pavement

  19-04-2018 22:05
  Tolls, ride sharing apps, car pooling, avalanche sheds and a visitor center are among the key recommendations offered by a team of University of Utah engineering students hoping to solve the growing traffic nightmare in Little Cottonwood Canyon.At least 2 million people visit canyon each year, leaving the ever-popular recreation area hopelessly congested on peak days and an ever-growing burden on a fragile alpine environment that is a key water source for Salt Lake City and home to two of the na
  
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• Late snows helped mountain resort lodges in Utah and the West make up for some lost business

  19-04-2018 21:45
  For lodging properties around Western ski resorts, an abundance of mountain snow in late-February and March proved better late than never for their business prospects.Ski season occupancy levels that were down 2.6 percent at the end of February climbed back a bit as reservations picked up with the late-arriving snowfall. By the end of March, the number of rooms that had filled nightly this ski season at 20 mountain resorts — including Park City — was down only 1.3 percent from a year
  
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• [Deadspin] - The Thunder Are Being Shady About Steven Adams's Possibly Injured Arm

  19-04-2018 21:45 via sportspyder.com
  ... d to: steven adams steven adams oklahoma city thunder 2018 nba playoffs utah jazz steven adams oklahoma city thunder 2018 nba playoffs utah jazz Photo: Sue Og ...
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Steven Adams compares Rudy Gobert and Derrick Favors’ way of pounding the glass

  19-04-2018 21:42 via sportspyder.com
  ...Wednesday. “They’re two different players,” said Adams when asked about the Jazz’ twin towers. “One uses his length and his sheer size, which for me I gotta...
  
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• The Thunder Are Being Shady About Steven Adams's Possibly Injured Arm

  19-04-2018 21:29 via deadspin.com
  To refresh your memory, Steven Adams rammed in an alley-oop in Game 1 of the Thunder’s playoff series against the Jazz that made a satisfying thunk, but also rendered his right arm unusable. It just sort of hung there for awhile.
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• ‘Great Shakeout’ drill focuses on prepping Utah for the next major earthquake along the Wasatch fault

  19-04-2018 21:21
  Hundreds of thousands of people throughout the state took part in Thursday’s “Great Shakeout” — a drill mimicking a 7.0-magnitude earthquake along the Wasatch fault.The annual drill is meant to keep Utahns prepared for a major quake, which generally occurs about every 350-400 years, according to the Utah Geographical Survey. It has been roughly 350 years since the Wasatch fault’s last major earthquake.Additional information on the drill and emergency preparedness re
  
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• ‘I Feel Pretty’ hopes you bust a gut laughing at an ordinary woman with self-esteem

  19-04-2018 21:14
  “I Feel Pretty” suffers from a fatal flaw: its premise. Built around the notion that there’s something inherently hilarious — even crazy — about a woman not supermodel-thin or -gorgeous behaving with the confidence of one who is, the comedy treats its star, Amy Schumer, as if she were Chris Farley in the “Saturday Night Live” skit “Chippendales Audition.”In that classic sketch from 1990, the late actor — nearly 300 sloppy pounds of him
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz display rare team bond after Game 2 playoff win against OKC Thunder

  19-04-2018 20:33 via sportspyder.com
  ... n the fourth, but he refused to selfishly hog all the credit for helping the Jazz even the playoff series, 1-1. “The biggest thing with us is there are a lot...
  
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• Utah Jazz display rare team bond after Game 2 playoff win against OKC Thunder

  19-04-2018 20:22
  OKLAHOMA CITY — In the hallway adjacent to the Oklahoma City Thunder locker room, Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder entered the interview room for a postgame presser following Wednesday’s intense 102-95 victory.Snyder spoke for nearly seven minutes, followed by OKC coach Billy Donovan for another seven and a half minutes then a sharply dressed Russell Westbrook hit the podium for just 2:06.When it was time for the Jazz players to enter the room, it wasn’t just one or two guys behind
  
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• Kirby: OK, I’m on call for jury duty, so I guess I should leave my Nerf dart gun home

  19-04-2018 20:21
  Got my summons for jury duty. Starting Friday and continuing for a week, I am on standby. I can’t go anywhere or do anything that will make me unavailable for court.At 5 p.m. Friday, and every day hereafter until April 27, I have to call and give my juror number. A recording will tell me whether I need to head to the courthouse, or call back the next day.The summons cautioned that I should expect to wait. It even included tips on how to make waiting for jury service more endurable.For exam
  
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• Utah police investigating ‘possible homicide’ of infant in Saratoga Springs

  19-04-2018 20:20
  Saratoga Springs police were investigating how an infant died in a “possible homicide,” according to a Thursday news release.The release from the city said that someone called police Wednesday morning, and when police arrived to investigate, the child was declared dead.A suspect was taken into custody, the release said, but no formal charges had been filed as of Thursday.The baby’s family as well as the suspect in custody are cooperating with officers conducting an investigatio
  
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• Columbine students will hold a day of service, not a walkout, on the 19th anniversary of the school shooting

  19-04-2018 20:19
  Denver • A planned national high school walkout for gun control on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine shooting Friday won’t include student protests at the Colorado school that changed the way the nation viewed shootings.Just as it has done every year since the April 20, 1999, shooting killed 12 students and a teacher, Columbine High School will be closed, and students there will stick with their tradition of holding a day of service to commemorate the tragedy in a community that i
  
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• Dana Milbank: Nikki Haley was confused, all right. She believed Trump.

  19-04-2018 20:10
  Washington • Nikki Haley thought she knew what President Trump was going to do. Now she looks like a dupe.What makes Republicans in Congress think their trust in Trump will work out any better for them?Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he won’t take up legislation blocking Trump from firing special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. Why? “I don’t think he’s going to” sack Mueller, McConnell told Fox News.House Speaker Paul D. Ryan expressed s
  
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• Utah’s Rainbow Bridge National Monument is now the world’s latest dark-sky sanctuary

  19-04-2018 20:06
  Southern Utah’s Rainbow Bridge National Monument has been selected as an international dark-sky sanctuary, a designation meant to recognize the area for its naturally dark skies and a cultural heritage revered by Native Americans.“We’re thrilled to be the first National Park Service unit to receive this specific designation, as this will only fuel our night-sky preservation efforts,” William Shott, superintendent of Rainbow Bridge National Monument and Glen Canyon Nationa
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: President Nelson’s world tour, the status of the faith’s #MeToo movement, and funeral potatoes in the spotlight

  19-04-2018 20:06
  Introducing the Mormon Land newsletter — a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want Mormon Land in your inbox? Subscribe here.This week’s “Mormon Land” podcastWhat constitutes a real apology? What is the value of forgiveness? Those questions emerged after the recent LDS General Conference during which several Mormon leaders focused on forgi
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Turning Point: Jazz Total Team Effort

  19-04-2018 20:03 via sportspyder.com
  ... ively and Donovan Mitchell played the role of closer as the Jazz beat the Oklahoma City Thunder to even their Western Conference series at on ...
  
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• The State Room is launching The Commonwealth Room, a sister concert venue in South Salt Lake

  19-04-2018 20:00
  South Salt Lake • Cinco de Mayo being a party day anyway, Chris Mautz and Darin Piccoli figured it’d also be the perfect occasion to celebrate opening the Salt Lake area’s newest concert venue, The Commonwealth Room (195 W. Commonwealth Ave.), with a free show. Meanwhile, in the two weeks until then, the harried co-owners acknowledge there’s plenty yet to do.That “retro chic” plywood board covering the entrance should probably come down, the multipanel mural sh
  
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• #NationalHighFiveDay https://t.co/CLudqTjITJ

  19-04-2018 19:57 via twitter.com
  
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• Ex-Playboy model who alleged Trump affair reaches settlement with Enquirer publisher

  19-04-2018 19:55
  Former Playboy centerfold Karen McDougal has reached a settlement with tabloid publisher American Media Inc., ending a lawsuit over the rights to the story of the affair she says she had with Donald Trump a decade ago.The settlement means McDougal is no longer bound by the contract with AMI, the parent company of the National Enquirer, which bought — but never published — her story for $150,000 in the months before the 2016 presidential election.The settlement ends one of two legal b
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Donovan Mitchell leads fourth-quarter charge as Jazz stun Thunder, tie series at 1-1

  19-04-2018 19:50 via sportspyder.com
  ... ed diminished, he found himself, and he found another gear: And. One. — Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) Donovan Mitchell ends the 3rd quarter with a throwdown (via ) —...
  
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• ‘She has nerves of steel’: The story of the pilot who calmly landed the Southwest Airlines flight

  19-04-2018 19:49
  The pilot’s voice was calm yet focused as her plane descended, telling air traffic control she had “149 souls” on board and was carrying 21,000 pounds — or about five hours’ worth — of fuel.“Southwest 1380, we’re single engine,” said Capt. Tammie Jo Shults, a former fighter pilot with the Navy. “We have part of the aircraft missing, so we’re going to need to slow down a bit.” She asked for medical personnel to meet her aircr
  
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• Jazz spend unscheduled extra night in Oklahoma City after plane problems

  19-04-2018 19:46
  The Jazz spent an unplanned night in Oklahoma City on Wednesday after plane problems grounded the team’s postgame trip home. Unspecified mechanical issues forced the Jazz to return to their hotel after Wednesday’s 102-96 victory over the Thunder at Chesapeake Energy Arena. a win which knotted the best-of-seven playoff series at 1-1.The Jazz left Oklahoma City Thursday morning and finally landed in Salt Lake City just after 11 a.m.This marks the second time this season the Jazz’
  
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• Minnesota prosecutor won’t file charges in Prince’s death

  19-04-2018 19:42
  Minneapolis • The prosecutor in the Minnesota county where Prince died said Thursday that no criminal charges will be filed in the musician’s death, effectively ending the state’s two-year investigation into how Prince got the fentanyl that killed him.Carver County Attorney Mark Metz’s announcement on no criminal charges came just hours after documents revealed that a doctor who was accused of illegally prescribing an opioid for Prince had agreed to pay $30,000 to settle a
  
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• After calling Barbara Bush an ‘amazing racist,’ a professor taunts critics: ‘I will never be fired’

  19-04-2018 19:37
  In the hours after Barbara Bush died Tuesday, people from around the world began expressing their condolences and sharing their warm memories of the Bush family matriarch, even if they didn’t share her political views.Former president Bill Clinton, the man who once campaigned against her husband, called her “a remarkable woman” with “grit & grace, brains & beauty.” Another former president, Barack Obama, said she had “humility and decency that reflects
  
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• Provo denies wrongdoing in lawsuit five women filed alleging sexual harassment by the former police chief

  19-04-2018 19:34
  Provo’s municipal government on Thursday responded to a lawsuit alleging it did nothing to prevent sexual harassment against female employees by former Police Chief John King and held a morning news conference to discuss the case.Provo’s City’s formal response to the lawsuit, which the city filed earlier Thursday, makes a number of technical defenses. In essence, the city denies discriminating against employees. The response also says the city acted in “good faith”
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - The Latest: Ginobili: Erin Popovich death has team 'hurting'

  19-04-2018 19:29 via sportspyder.com
  ...Comments Most Popular "Playoff P" Paul George scores 36, leads Thunder past Jazz DE Ezekiel Ansah signs franchise tag with Detroit Lions Ingram makes NBA deb ...
  
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• Utah and 3 other states accuse Arizona of taking more than its share of Colorado River

  19-04-2018 19:09
  Denver • Tension over the drought-stressed Colorado River escalated into a public feud when four U.S. states accused Arizona’s largest water provider of manipulating supply and demand, potentially threatening millions of people in the United States and Mexico who rely on the river.The four states — Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — plus Denver’s water utility said the Central Arizona Project was trying to avoid a reduction in its share of the Colorado River wh
  
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• [Deadspin] - Even A Hobbled Donovan Mitchell Won't Go Down Easily

  19-04-2018 18:55 via sportspyder.com
  ... led to: 2018 nba playoffs 2018 nba playoffs NBA Playoffs nba Basketball utah jazz donovan mitchell 2018 nba playoffs NBA Playoffs nba Basketball utah jazz don ...
  
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• Even A Hobbled Donovan Mitchell Won't Go Down Easily

  19-04-2018 18:46 via deadspin.com
  After bruising his foot in Game 1, Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell insisted that he’d suit up for Game 2, despite having to play through a personally unprecedented amount of pain to do so. He didn’t seem very limited in his second-ever playoff game when he got a steal and scored on the first possession of the game, then…Read more...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Derrick Favors proves yet again just how invaluable he is

  19-04-2018 18:44 via sportspyder.com
  ...has been absolutely invaluable to the Jazz in every situation. Just when you thought you couldn't love these guys any m ...
  
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• Noah Feldman: Comey’s actions show the near impossibility of restoring traditional models of authority

  19-04-2018 18:42
  James Comey’s extraordinary attacks on Donald Trump as “morally unfit” to be president are more than a ploy to sell books. The unprecedented phenomenon of a fired FBI director taking on a sitting president is also a symptom of the most fundamental challenge facing the U.S. political system today.Put simply: There’s no single, nonpartisan trusted source of authority. In the recent past, nonpartisan law enforcement would have been trusted by broad swaths of the American peo
  
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• Kragthorpe: Now comes the tough part; can the Jazz win home playoff games?

  19-04-2018 18:39
  In advance of his team’s victory over Oklahoma City in Game 2, Jazz coach Quin Snyder fielded my question about what enables road teams to win playoff games. “If I knew the answer to that,” Snyder said good naturedly, “I wouldn’t tell you anyway. I’d just try to go do it.”His team then went out and did it again, winning 102-95 and evening the series that resumes Saturday night at Vivint Smart Home Arena. The Jazz will try to do what nobody has done consi
  
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• Former Utah state trooper sentenced to jail time for intentionally starting a wildfire ‘because he wanted to feel the excitement of it’

  19-04-2018 18:34
  A former Utah Highway Patrol trooper was sentenced to 6 months in the Uintah County jail Tuesday for starting a 1,000-acre fire last year near the town of Maeser.As part of his sentence, Rex Richard Olsen, 38, will be on probation for three years.Olsen said he started the fire “because he wanted to feel the excitement of it,” according to court papers. Olsen was originally charged by the Utah Attorney General’s Office with arson, a second-degree felony, and with a violation of
  
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• Weekly Run podcast: How the Jazz adjusted to win Game 2 and even up with the Thunder

  19-04-2018 18:30
  Oklahoma City • Defense travels, and so does the podcast.Tony Jones and Kyle Goon report from Chesapeake Energy Arena, breaking down the adjustments and performances in the Utah Jazz’s Game 2 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder. With special guest Andy Larsen of KSL.com, the team looks at Donovan Mitchell, Russell Westbrook and the plays and players that mattered on the Weekly Run Podcast, the Tribune’s show about the Utah Jazz. There’s also some diving into the local color
  
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