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• Utah Jazz fans need this ‘Spanish Samurai’ t-shirt from BreakingT

  24-04-2018 23:56
  The Utah Jazz are leading the Oklahoma City Thunder 3-1 in the first round of the playoffs, and a big reason why is the play of Ricky Rubio (AKA The Spanish Samurai). Ricky Rubio and the Utah Jazz have taken a commanding 3-1 lead over OKC in the first round of the playoffs. The Jazz […]
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• Letter: If Romney won’t support the president, he shouldn’t become senator

  24-04-2018 23:30
  Mitt Romney says he will have to make up his mind if he will support President Trump. If that is the case, the United States does not want or need Mitt Romney for a senator from Utah.I hope the voters from Utah do not make the mistake and elect Romney to the U.S. Senate. The United States needs senators who are going to support Trump, and Romney, I believe, will not support Trump.Romney talks out of both sides of his mouth and he showed his lack of courage during the last election.My son lives i
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Often overlooked, Royce O’Neale is another rookie having a great year

  24-04-2018 23:02 via sportspyder.com
  ... ’Neale. On the year, O’Neale has 18 games with at least eight points and the Jazz are 14-4 in those games (14 of those 18 games have come since January). In h ...
  
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• Cass Sunstein: Trump’s promising plan to link welfare to work

  24-04-2018 23:00
  President Donald Trump’s “Executive Order on Reducing Poverty in America” has produced the expected political reactions. Because it focuses on saving taxpayer money and strengthening work requirements for federal programs, many conservatives are celebrating it, while many progressives have attacked it as punitive and dehumanizing.As it turns out, it’s a lot more interesting and subtle than either side has seen — and potentially more constructive.As one of its &ldquo
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Thunder face questions with their season on the line

  24-04-2018 22:57 via sportspyder.com
  ... -24 after the first quarter, but that was with favorable officiating and the Jazz missing open shot after open shot. Neither would be sustainable. The whistle ...
  
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• Frances Mayes’ new Tuscan novel is the ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ for women of a certain age

  24-04-2018 22:50
  In the beginning of “Women in Sunlight,” we meet three middle-aged American women. Two of them are widows; the other recently fled a bad marriage. All share a vague urge to start over. So on a whim and barely knowing each other, they move to Italy for an indefinite period.Sound familiar? Yes, this is a version of “Eat, Pray, Love” for women of a certain age. Call it “Eat, Drink, Nap.” Readers who want sparkling details about great meals in a beautiful setting
  
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• Thunder face questions with their season on the line

  24-04-2018 22:46
  The Oklahoma City Thunder’s mindset is both predictable and alarming at the same time.The Thunder, pushed to the brink of elimination at the hands of the Jazz, understand Wednesday’s Game 5 at Chesapeake Energy Arena is a mandatory win. Otherwise Oklahoma City’s season ends in stunning and disappointing fashion.How did the Thunder get to this point? How did they fall behind 3-1 to a Jazz team they dominated during the regular season? How realistic is it for Oklahoma City to dig
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Warriors’ Kevin Durant not surprised by Jazz’s 3-1 lead on Thunder: ‘We got our asses kicked by them twice’

  24-04-2018 22:39 via sportspyder.com
  ... yoffs, you’re playing at home and those guys take care of home.” KD said the Jazz's powerful 3-1 lead, performance can't come as a shock: "We got our asses ki ...
  
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• Letter: It would be best for consumers to avoid plastic bags where possible

  24-04-2018 22:30
  Regarding the letter titled “SLC must find a way to recycle plastic bags,” my advice is:1. Don’t carry your groceries out in plastic bags. Either request paper bags, or bring your own sturdy reusable grocery bags.2. For other shopping, carry a fabric bag that can be folded up to the size of a small pouch and reused.3. Find a grocery store that recycles plastic bags. I am not familiar with Salt Lake City, but both Dicks in Centerville and Bountiful have bins for recycling plasti
  
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• FDA cracks down on sales of Juul, other e-cigarettes to youth

  24-04-2018 22:26
  Washington • The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced a nationwide undercover “blitz” to crack down on the sale of e-cigarettes – particularly the hugely popular Juul products – to children and teenagers by regular and online retailers.The effort started April 6 and will continue to the end of the month. The agency said it has uncovered dozens of violations of the law and issued 40 warning letters related to Juul e-cigarettes.“Let me be clear to re
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Good Guy Without a Gun

  24-04-2018 22:20
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, April 25, 2018.<br>You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.<br>The Right Stuff<br>Enfant Terrible<br>Serving Cats and Dogs<br>Congretional Obstruction<br>The Rent Is Too Damn High!<br>Hannity Dumpty<br>Storm Warning<br>Dotard’s Last Stand<br>Patriarchal Boost<br>Super Fun X-Ray Glasses!<br>Want more Bagley? Become a fan on Face
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Celtics’ Terry Rozier a huge fan of Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell

  24-04-2018 22:15 via sportspyder.com
  ... ts Celtics’ Terry Rozier a huge fan of Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell by April 24, 2018 Terry Rozier gave his two cents on ...
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Tax cuts were supposed to save the GOP from Trump. Oops.

  24-04-2018 22:00
  Tax cuts were supposed to save the Republican Party from President Trump.Voters would ignore the president’s Twitter outbursts, his Cabinet’s private-jet and redecoration scandals, the Russia investigation, porn star and Playmate payoffs, and many other miscellaneous embarrassments.Voters were supposed to be so very grateful to have a little extra pocket money that they would be willing to overlook all that nonsense and eagerly cast their ballots for the GOP come November.Unfortunate
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - NBA great Ray Allen talks about being 'clutch,' new book

  24-04-2018 21:54 via sportspyder.com
  ... itter Email Print Save Top Comments Most Popular Rubio's triple-double leads Jazz past Thunder 115-102 Mitchell scores 33, Jazz rout Thunder 113-96 DE Ezekiel ...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Rudy Gobert has been the difference against the Thunder, and time is running out for them to solve Jazz big man

  24-04-2018 21:45 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah has fallen head over heels for the Jazz again Monson: How about this Jazz guarantee? The Thunder are done Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert, left, blocks a ...
  
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• Make sure to check out our 2018 Playoffs Hub at UtahJazz.com!! Head there for all of your up-to-date Ja… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-04-2018 21:45 via twitter.com
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• Rudy Gobert has been the difference against the Thunder, and time is running out for them to solve the Jazz big man

  24-04-2018 21:42
  The Oklahoma City Thunder should be used to seeing Rudy Gobert in a nice suit. Over the course of the season, the Utah Jazz center had to make too many sartorial choices that fulfilled the NBA’s dress code for injured players on the bench.Gobert was again dressed to the nines for Russell Westbrook and company Monday night, sporting a slim-cut black jacket with a pink pocket square to match his shirt. This time, though, Gobert was in the seat he preferred, one on the podium after another pl
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Loud crowd: Why Donovan Mitchell called Utah Jazz fans 'unbelievable'

  24-04-2018 21:36 via sportspyder.com
  ...like Donovan Mitchell, too," Logan added, "so I’m not a hater or anything." Jazz fans will get another chance to playfully hate Fogg this Friday if OKC can f ...
  
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• Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar: We’re all preparing for the Trump-Kim summit to go wrong. But what if it goes right?

  24-04-2018 21:30
  As the United States prepares for historic discussions between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the Trump administration and its international partners have a lot of work ahead of them. A successful summit, if it can be achieved, will be only the start of a long and complicated process.Eliminating the nuclear threat and achieving stability and security on the Korean Peninsula will require unconventional thinking and steps that are much broader than denuclearization. Ju
  
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• Letter: Small government is no model of accountability; in Salt Lake County, it exemplifies bureaucratic waste

  24-04-2018 21:30
  The conservative ideology that small government is better government is being put to the test by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.Pruitt should have never been confirmed by the Senate. His questionable ethics at the EPA are bad enough, but what we’re now finding out is that this unethical behavior also occurred during his tenure with state government in Oklahoma.The idea that a small government allows citizens to get involved and hold local leaders accountable is a severely flawed notion. He
  
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• Kragthorpe: Is this the best Jazz team in 10 years? In 20 years? Ever? (No, not ever.)

  24-04-2018 21:29
  Any debate about whether this is the most popular Jazz team in 20 years ended late Monday night when the celebration of another rousing victory at Vivint Smart Home Arena made their playoff rival’s “Loud City” building seem like a library by comparison. Fans love this team, and the Jazz just keep making themselves more endearing. These guys are embraceable in every way. They’re also really good, inspiring another question: Is this the best Jazz team since the franchise&rs
  
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• Loud crowd: Why Donovan Mitchell called Utah Jazz fans 'unbelievable'

  24-04-2018 21:25
  SALT LAKE CITY — If you attended the last two playoff games in Vivint Arena or heard it on TV, your ringing ears might still be letting you know it's Utah, not Oklahoma City, that brought the thunder into this first-round series.Jazz fans — specifically their loud and proud nature, emphasis on the LOUD — have emerged as one of the fun story lines of this postseason.People have taken note.https://twitter.com/SASpurs5/status/987893328015450112https://twitter.com/a_diamond3/status
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Mitt Romney’s trolling of Russell Westbrook was epic

  24-04-2018 21:22 via sportspyder.com
  ... rin Hatch’s seat in the Senate, but it was good times for he and the rest of Jazz Nation on Monday. Westbrook, meanwhile, had a rough go of it. First he was t ...
  
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• [Sports Illustrated] - Russell Westbrook: NBA reviewing potential Game 5 suspension | SI.com

  24-04-2018 21:17 via sportspyder.com
  ... o check into the game. Thunder guard Raymond Felton was called for a foul on Jazz center Rudy Gobert and Gobert went to the ground holding his groin after the ...
  
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• We have Swat Lake City, and now presenting... SLAM Lake City 💥 @WasatchFord #DunksoftheWeek https://t.co/EDRtsiGwDm

  24-04-2018 21:08 via twitter.com
  
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• BYU’s Shawn Olmstead named MPSF men’s volleyball coach of the year

  24-04-2018 21:08
  BYU’s Shawn Olmstead has been named the 2018 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation men’s volleyball coach of the year, the conference announced Tuesday.Olmstead, in his third season with the Cougars was previously named the conference’s coach of the year in 2016, his first season at the helm.He is just the fourth coach at BYU to earn league coach of the year honors, following previous head coach Chris McGown in 2013, his father Carl McGown in 1999 and 2001 and Tom Peterson in 2003
  
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• Utah Jazz: Mitt Romney’s trolling of Russell Westbrook was epic

  24-04-2018 21:04
  Russell Westbrook did his best to get into the heads of the Utah Jazz, but his antics may have been trumped by some Mitt Romney trash talk. Unquestionably, the Utah Jazz’s Game 4 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder was high drama. As noted by fellow J-Noter Tyler Thorpe, the moments, twists and turns came […]
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• Noah Smith: Need work? Maybe that should be a job for government.

  24-04-2018 21:00
  Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., recently proposed a federal program guaranteeing a job for anyone who wants one. It’s an idea that sounds a lot more radical than it is. Properly implemented, a job guarantee — or something like it — could be a good way of fighting recessions and getting more Americans into the workforce in the long term.Economist Adam Ozimek, writing in Forbes, wasn’t a fan of Booker’s plan, calling it “absurd” and “insane”:“C
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - The Utah Jazz odd couple is destroying the Oklahoma City Thunder

  24-04-2018 20:46 via sportspyder.com
  ... . While each possession represents a different iteration, the essence of the Jazz offense is displayed in that clip. Rubio’s aggression damages the armor, whi ...
  
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• Sandy mayor to reveal results of investigation into city’s police chief, who has been on leave since April 2 for undisclosed reasons

  24-04-2018 20:44
  Sandy Mayor Kurt Bradburn is holding a news conference at 4 p.m. Tuesday, regarding an investigation into the city’s police chief, Kevin Thacker, who has been on administrative leave since April 2.At the news conference, the mayor will “update the press and the public on the findings and actions being taken as the result of an independent investigation into the actions” of Thacker, according to a news release.City officials have previously declined to say what Thacker might be
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Russell Westbrook falls short on guarantee as Utah Jazz keep OKC Thunder on ropes

  24-04-2018 20:38 via sportspyder.com
  ... 7kh4— Eric Woodyard (@E_Woodyard) April 24, 2018 Still, even in victory, the Jazz refused to go back at Westbrook through the media during their time in the s ...
  
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• Letter: Where is the coverage of other GOP candidates and Jenny Wilson?

  24-04-2018 20:30
  Why not have the headline, “Mike Kennedy forced into primary.” You anointed Mitt Romney senator months ago. Where is coverage of other Republicans and Jenny Wilson?Kathy Alderson, Salt Lake City
  
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• Chile’s sex abuse whistleblower goes from pariah to Vatican VIP, says he will urge Pope Francis to dump ‘toxic’ bishops

  24-04-2018 20:26
  Vatican City • The key whistleblower in Chile’s clerical sex abuse scandal has arrived in Rome for his audience with Pope Francis and said Tuesday he will urge the pope to get rid of the “toxic” bishops and cardinals who have defamed and discredited abuse survivors around the world.In an interview in St. Peter’s Square, Juan Carlos Cruz said he was honored Francis wants to apologize in person for having himself discredited victims during a January trip to Chile. Fran
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump calls the Russia lawsuit ‘funny.’ He once sued to prove he wasn’t an orangutan.

  24-04-2018 20:16
  Washington • “So funny,” President Trump remarked of the Democratic National Committee’s lawsuit against the Trump campaign, the Russian government and WikiLeaks.Hilarious.Almost as funny as when Trump sued Palm Beach County, Fla., because of the “malicious” jet noise above Mar-a-Lago.Or when Trump sued Bill Maher after the comedian challenged Trump to prove he was not the spawn of an orangutan.Or the time Trump sued the Chicago Tribune for $500 million because
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: How about this Jazz guarantee? The Thunder are done

  24-04-2018 20:15 via sportspyder.com
  ... ayoff basketball. It’s not just the Thunder behaving as though they, not the Jazz, are the relative playoff neophytes. It’s not just the fact that in Game 4,...
  
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• Monson: How about this Jazz guarantee? The Thunder are done

  24-04-2018 20:13
  Let’s cut through all the clutter and B.S. in the Jazz-OKC playoff series and say it the way it is:The Thunder are done. Done in. Done for. Done gone. Done run. Done beat.It’s not just that the Jazz are up, 3-1, and they’ve thumped the Thunder in three straight games, on the road and at home, games that have increasingly become as lopsided as a Kardashian cartwheel, the margin totaling 37 points. It’s much worse than just that.And it’s more than the way OKC is react
  
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• Jake Tapper’s new political thriller is at its best when it’s most bonkers

  24-04-2018 20:12
  Jake Tapper, the tenacious anchor of CNN, the merciless slayer of alternative facts, the dogged deflator of political egos, has written a novel about corruption in Washington. In the scandal-a-day era of President Donald Trump, the news doesn’t leave much room for fiction about our government’s debauchery, but Tapper still heaps plenty of scorn on the king of chaos:“He’s impossible to ignore. He’s become this … planet … blocking the sun. And whatever p
  
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• You gotta love it: How Utah has fallen head over heels for the Jazz again

  24-04-2018 20:03
  Nine hours before the Jazz rolled the Thunder and took a 3-1 series lead, a man in a black baggy jacket and raggedy jeans dropped to his knees on the sidewalk. He pressed his palms together, interlocking his fingers. He shut his eyes and prayed. Along his walk north on 200 East, he stopped at the sight of a gold cabinet, decorated with various votive candles and a small porcelain statue of the Virgin Mary. As he knelt, he did so also alongside a faded basketball, a photo of the late Larry H. Mil
  
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• Versatility and ability to drop into pass coverage have boosted BYU linebacker Fred Warner’s NFL Draft stock

  24-04-2018 19:53
  Provo • BYU senior Fred Warner flew under the national radar last year partly because of BYU’s dismal football season and partly because he played a rare position — “flash linebacker,” sort of a cross between a safety and an outside linebacker.But NFL scouts noticed, and many believe the Cougars’ best player will be the first local player taken in the NFL Draft, which begins Thursday in Arlington, Texas, and runs through Saturday. “I’ve been told it
  
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• [The Comeback] - Why would Paul George want to come back to the Thunder?

  24-04-2018 19:36 via sportspyder.com
  ... ifling defensive team. That’s not nothing. But they’re getting housed by the Jazz! A very good Jazz team, sure, but it’s a big leap from “clearly worse than t ...
  
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• Trump: Kim Jong Un ‘very open’ and ‘very honorable’

  24-04-2018 19:34
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Tuesday said North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has been “very open” and “very honorable,” and wants an historic, high-stakes meeting as soon as possible.This is a sharp break from the American president’s previous denunciations of Kim as “Little Rocket Man.”The United States and North Korea have been negotiating a summit between Trump and Kim to be held in May or June to broker a deal on Pyongyang’s nucle
  
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• Letter: Say no to Romney — he’ll be asking you to forget a lot that you shouldn’t

  24-04-2018 19:30
  I was pleased to learn that Mitt Romney was not handed Utah’s Republican Party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate. This means that he must ask all of you to vote for him in your primary. Please don’t.He must ask you to forget about his 2016 vitriolic epistle against then-presidential candidate, Donald Trump, four years after asking for his money and endorsement. Please don’t.He must ask that you forget about his refusal to fight Barack Obama with a small fraction of the fer
  
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• Russell Westbrook falls short on guarantee as Utah Jazz keep OKC Thunder on ropes

  24-04-2018 19:20
  SALT LAKE CITY — When Russell Westbrook strolled into the interview room at Vivint Arena on Monday night, his energy was much different than it was 48 hours earlier.The Oklahoma City All-Star guard was much more humble as he addressed the media this time in a loose tie, unbuttoned top and blazer with designer frames in between Paul George and Carmelo Anthony.For the third consecutive postseason game, Westbrook and the Thunder suffered an L.So, two days after vowing to shut down Jazz guard
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Mitchell, Jazz dump Thunder for 3-1 series lead

  24-04-2018 19:15 via sportspyder.com
  ... l. Utah made 45.1 percent of its shots and was 12 of 34 from long range. The Jazz pulled away at the start of the second half. They scored the first nine poin ...
  
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