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• MLS Week in Review: Nashville expansion team takes big step, hires former Liverpool exec as CEO

  21-05-2018 23:44
  How do you start an MLS expansion team? For Nashville, the answer is, go big.The Nashville side announced Monday that it had named former Liverpool chief executive Ian Ayre as its CEO. The move comes five months after Nashville was granted an expansion club for the next wave of MLS growth. His hire was first reported by The Tennessean Monday morning. “The opportunity to put Nashville on the national and international soccer map is a truly outstanding challenge, and I literally cannot wait
  
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• Utahns creating school safety plan feel added urgency after Texas mass shooting

  21-05-2018 23:12
  After another school shooting last week in Texas, members of the Utah School Safety Commission say they’re inching closer toward a series of recommendations to prevent a similar tragedy here.But the panel’s ideas may not veer into politically charged gun laws or even require a change to state law, said Terryl Warner, a member of the Utah Board of Education who sits on the informal safety panel.“There are certain things that we can probably fix or do without legislative changes,
  
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• Former Utah standout DT Filipo Mokofisi retires after signing rookie free agent deal with Packers

  21-05-2018 23:09
  Another former Utah standout is hanging up his cleats. A week after former University of Utah defensive tackle Lowell Lotulelei abruptly retired from football after being signed to a rookie free agent contract, another one-time Ute is moving on as well.On Monday, the Green Bay Packers placed Filipo Mokofisi on the reverse/retired list, Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst announced.Mokofisi’s agent, Deryk Gilmore, confirmed Monday that Mokofisi’s stepping away from football.Mokofi
  
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• Letter: Pot is better than opioids

  21-05-2018 23:00
  The recent front page piece on the LDS Church’s opposition to medical marijuana alarms me. Since there is an opioid epidemic, why isn’t the LDS Church supporting the natural medical alternative? If the church is truly concerned for its members’ health, then it should be on the other side of the issue. Rather than fear marijuana being addictive, it should advise against the use of opioids, which are lethal. There is far more evidence of opioid addiction than there is of marijuan
  
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• A watchdog group asks Netflix to pull ’13 Reasons Why’

  21-05-2018 23:00
  New York • A media watchdog group is calling on Netflix to pull its “13 Reasons Why” series because of potentially harmful content.The Parents Television Council describes the second season of the series as “a ticking time bomb to teens and children.” It wants both seasons yanked.A request for comment from Netflix wasn’t immediately returned Monday.The first season of “13 Reasons Why” included a graphic depiction of a teen’s suicide. The secon
  
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• The theology of joy — why it’s more than happiness and how you can obtain it

  21-05-2018 22:38
  Theologian Miroslav Volf, who has written books on subjects ranging from the Trinity to the challenges of reconciliation in divided societies, has turned to what might seem like a frivolous subject: joy.But Volf, 61, the leader of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, says studying the theology of joy with students and scholars is “hard work.”He spoke with Religion News Service about the difference between joy and happiness, biblical lessons on joy and how the average person can fin
  
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• .@rudygobert27 your fan base is growing 🦆 https://t.co/1FZETbuWC1

  21-05-2018 22:11 via twitter.com
  
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• Toxic cloud caused by Hawaii volcano lava emerges over ocean

  21-05-2018 22:06
  Pahoa, Hawaii • White plumes of acid and extremely fine shards of glass billowed into the sky over Hawaii as molten rock from Kilauea volcano poured into the ocean, creating yet another hazard from an eruption that began more than two weeks ago: A toxic steam cloud.Authorities on Sunday warned the public to stay away the cloud that formed by a chemical reaction when lava touched seawater.Further upslope, lava continued gushing out of large cracks in the ground in residential neighborhoods i
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - A new era: How would Karl Malone fit in the modern NBA?

  21-05-2018 22:03 via sportspyder.com
  ... top him. For example, imagine how dominant he would be alongside the current Jazz roster. Just take a moment and imagine a Rudy Gobert-Karl Malone frontcourt. ...
  
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• Margaret Sullivan: Stormy Daniels’s lawyer is a media star — so why is he threatening journalists?

  21-05-2018 22:00
  Ever since the story broke in March over President Donald Trump’s lawyer paying hush money to porn actress Stormy Daniels, her hard-charging lawyer has been everywhere.Michael Avenatti has fed stories to major publications, appeared in a near-constant loop on cable news, and blasted away at Trump on Twitter. His early training in opposition research (at Rahm Emmanuel’s firm) has been on incessant display as he has released explosive financial records casting Trump lawyer Michael Cohe
  
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• French Open organizers won’t give Serena Williams a seeding

  21-05-2018 21:53
  Paris • Serena Williams’ return to Grand Slam tennis from maternity leave just got even tougher.French Open organizers announced on Monday they will not give Williams a seeding.“This year again, tournament officials will establish the list and ranking of the women’s seeds based on the WTA ranking,” the French Tennis Federation said in a statement to The Associated Press. “Consequently, (the seeds) will reflect this week’s world ranking.”Williams, a
  
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• Portrait of despair: Opioids land more women behind bars

  21-05-2018 21:52
  Jacksboro, Tenn. • On opposite sides of the county jail, a mother and her son chat about school, girls, birthday gifts — and their future together. They aren’t allowed to see each other face-to-face, so the inmate and the fifth-grader connect by video.“Hi, Mommy,” 10-year-old Robby says to Krystle Sweat, clutching a phone in the visiting room as he looks at his mother on a screen, sitting in her cell.Robby hasn’t hugged or even touched her since Christmas Day 2
  
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• Oliver North blames school shootings on ‘culture of violence.’ He was a pitchman for a violent video game.

  21-05-2018 21:39
  Incoming National Rifle Association president Oliver North is not wasting any time jumping into the gun control debate. On Sunday, two days after a 17-year-old killed 10 people at a Texas high school, the retired Marine made an appearance on “Fox News Sunday” to discuss the epidemic of school shootings.“The problem that we’ve got is that we’re trying like the dickens to treat the symptom without treating the disease,” North said. “And the disease, in thi
  
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• A new era: How would Karl Malone fit in the modern NBA?

  21-05-2018 21:32
  There’s always talk about how players of the past would fit in today’s NBA, and much of the time, it focuses on the all-time greats. Which begs the question, how would Utah Jazz legend Karl Malone’s game translate to the ever-changing basketball landscape of today? When looking back in NBA history, most people know that […]
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• Letter: Rolly was always a mandatory read

  21-05-2018 21:20
  I feel as though I lost a good friend — Paul Rolly’s column. “Rolly and Wells” and, later, “Rolly” have long been a mandatory read for those of us interested in Utah politics, government and business.I first became acquainted with Paul in the 1980s when he regularly reported on Utah utility regulation. I served on the Public Service Commission at that time and was often interviewed by Paul. On Sunday, July 23, 2006, I (along with my colleague Alan Moll and oth
  
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• Olympian sues USA Swimming alleging sex abuse cover-up

  21-05-2018 21:15
  Seattle • Olympic swimmer Ariana Kukors Smith sued USA Swimming on Monday, alleging the sport’s national governing body knew her former coach sexually abused her as a minor and covered it up.Kukors Smith alleges Sean Hutchison, who began coaching her at a swim club near Seattle, groomed her for sexual abuse when she was 13, started touching and kissing her when she was 16, and engaged in sexual activity with her when she was 17.“This lawsuit is about holding people accountable w
  
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• Utah official says wannabe Russian spy didn’t access sensitive data on state computers; no charges sought

  21-05-2018 20:40
  Investigators say Travis Lee Bailey, a self-described wannabe spy for Russia, did not obtain any sensitive documents during the two weeks he worked for the Utah Department of Technology Services.That comes after Bailey, a non-practicing attorney, said he “found a gold mine” of documents because of lax security that he called “an absolute horrendous joke.” He said he passed them onto Russia, where he has been working to obtain asylum.“We looked at his computers, and
  
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• Utah women’s basketball assistant Gavin Petersen promoted to associate head coach

  21-05-2018 20:17
  Utah women’s basketball coach Lynne Roberts on Monday announced the promotion of Gavin Petersen to associate head coach.“Gavin is a star in this profession and he plays such a significant role in our program,” Roberts said in a news release. “He is smart, hardworking, and a true professional. Stability among my staff is key and Gavin has been a cornerstone of stability for me and this program. He is incredibly good at what he does and he sees the value in being here at Ut
  
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• From 8% to 93%, Salt Lake County city councils close meetings to the public in a wide range. Find out how your city rates for transparency.

  21-05-2018 20:16
  Salt Lake County cities were slightly more open to the public last year than they were in 2016 when it comes to how often they moved a portion of each meeting behind closed doors. But some cities shut out the public significantly more frequently in 2017, according to a Salt Lake Tribune analysis of meeting minutes across the 16 cities in the county. At the top of that list was West Jordan, which closed some part of more than 9 out of 10 council meetings — a 48 percent increase in closures
  
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• Leonid Bershidsky: How Europe can keep money flowing to Iran

  21-05-2018 20:00
  The determination of European nations, Russia and China to keep the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran alive isn’t necessarily futile. Europe has more influence than the U.S. on SWIFT, the Brussels-based global payments network.The system was founded in the 1970s by a group of global banks that wanted to standardize the way they shared transaction information, instead of letting each country, or even big banks, impose their own standards. SWIFT is owned by its members and provides the backbo
  
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• Utah appeals court delays trial of activist accused of trying to harm cattle by closing gate

  21-05-2018 19:45
  The Utah Court of Appeals has intervened in the trial of a conservation activist and her husband accused of trying to kill cattle in San Juan County.Rose Chilcoat and Mark Franklin were to face a jury trial starting Wednesday on charges that they trespassed on state trust lands and closed a corral gate with the intent of blocking livestock’s access to water.Seventh District Judge Lyle Anderson has twice rejected defense requests for stays while the Durango, Colo., couple’s lawyers ch
  
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• Boy Scout allegedly denied help at hardware store

  21-05-2018 19:18
  A historic hardware store in Purcellville, Virginia, is at the center of a community controversy over allegations that one of its employees used an anti-gay slur after refusing to help a Boy Scout asking for donations for a service project.The alleged incident happened Friday afternoon at Nichols Hardware, a family-owned store that was founded more than 100 years ago and is a “trip back in time,” according to a Loudoun County, Virginia, history organization.After the boy and his fath
  
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• Border Patrol agent detained two U.S. citizens at a gas station after hearing them speak Spanish

  21-05-2018 19:11
  A Montana woman said she plans to take legal action after a Border Patrol agent detained and questioned her and a friend — both U.S. citizens — after overhearing them speak in Spanish at a gas station.The incident occurred early Wednesday morning at a convenience store in Havre, Montana, a town in the northern part of the state, near the border with Canada.Ana Suda said she and her friend, Mimi Hernandez, were making a midnight run to the store to pick up some eggs and milk. Both are
  
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• Utah honors Mormon President Russell Nelson, a former heart surgeon, with its highest science award for lifetime achievement in medicine

  21-05-2018 19:05
  LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson is now known mostly for seeking spiritual healing of hearts, but Monday he won Utah’s highest civilian scientific award for a lifetime of earlier work as an innovative surgeon who physically healed hearts. Gov. Gary Herbert and the Utah Science Technology and Research Initiative (USTAR) announced Nelson as the winner of a lifetime achievement award as part of the annual Governor’s Medals for Science and Technology.He joins such past recipients a
  
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• Kragthorpe: What’s next for Olympic legend Rulon Gardner? Coaching Herriman’s wrestlers for ‘the long run,’ or so they hope

  21-05-2018 19:04
  Herriman • Rulon Gardner is standing at the edge of the mat, functioning as a gigantic clock. “Six, five, four, three, two, one, time!”Herriman High School’s returning wrestlers are going through a brief, introductory workout, with this segment devoted to finishing a period of a simulated match with a quick takedown. The session is conducted by their new coach, who has brought copies of his autobiography (for sale, $20) and medals (free to touch), while delivering some hig
  
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• The Jazz were 18-26 when Gobert returned from his knee injury and, behind the league’s stingiest defense, they fini… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-05-2018 19:03 via twitter.com
  The Jazz were 18-26 when Gobert returned from his knee injury and, behind the league’s stingiest defense, they fini… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Letter: Our free press is in peril

  21-05-2018 19:00
  I am sick about the substantial cuts to staff and content at The Salt Lake Tribune. The newspaper’s owner, Paul Huntsman, reportedly said he had to go ahead with the layoffs because he had three kids to put through college.What about the financial well-being of the 34 people — his former employees — who lost jobs and their families? I don’t know how this could ever be viewed as the right decision. Even more discouraging is that there were other buyers interested in purcha
  
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• Expert: Meth and pills are problems in US evidence rooms

  21-05-2018 18:56
  Ogden • Evidence room problems illustrated by the case of a Utah technician who was fired after being found high on methamphetamine at work are all too common, according to a national police expert.Joe Latta, executive director of the International Association for Property and Evidence, told the Standard-Examiner on Sunday that methamphetamine and pills have been a serious problem in evidence rooms around the country over the last three to four years.“What you are dealing with is not
  
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• Hopi Tribe ask governments for help in land exchange efforts

  21-05-2018 18:50
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • The Hopi Tribe has reached out to local governments for help as it attempts to finalize a land transfer under an agreement between the tribe and the Navajo Nation.The Hopi Tribe was promised nearly 23 square miles (60 square kilometers) of state trust land south of Interstate 40 and east of Flagstaff in a 1996 agreement approved by Congress in a dispute over overlapping boundaries of Hopi and Navajo reservation lands, the Arizona Daily Sun reported last week.Recent effort
  
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• Sugar House Park cancels July 4 fireworks — but not because of money this time

  21-05-2018 18:22
  Barring some sort of eleventh-hour reprieve, Salt Lake City’s most popular Fourth of July fireworks display has fizzled out.The annual event at Sugar House Park is a no-go, according to Chad Anderson, president of the Sugar House Park Authority board of trustees. He issued a statement that because of “cost and environmental concerns, the private organizer of the previous years’ July 4​th​ fireworks event has chosen not to put on the event” in 2018.For the past
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Re-drafting the 2017 NBA draft lottery

  21-05-2018 18:18 via sportspyder.com
  ... l selection: No. 13 You’re absolutely right. There’s now way the Jazz could move all the way up to number 1 from 24. You’re also absolutely right...
  
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• George F. Will: Battling campus oppression of the freedom of expression

  21-05-2018 18:00
  Washington • On election night 2016, Mark Schlissel, the University of Michigan’s president, addressed more than 1,000 students, declaring that the 90 percent of them who had favored the losing candidate had rejected “hate.” He thereby effectively made those who disagreed with him and with the campus majority eligible to be targets of the university’s “bias response teams.” That his announced contempt for them made him a suitable target of the thought pol
  
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• Richard N. Goodwin, White House speechwriter, dead at 86

  21-05-2018 17:53
  New York • Richard N. Goodwin, an aide, speechwriter and liberal force for the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson who helped craft such historic addresses as Robert Kennedy’s “ripples of hope” and LBJ’s speeches on civil rights and “The Great Society,” died Sunday evening at age 86.Goodwin, the husband of Pulitzer Prize winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, died at his home in Concord, Massachusetts. According to his wife, he died after a brief bout with cance
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Rudy Gobert winner's mentality has Utah Jazz 'beating expectations at every point'

  21-05-2018 17:47 via sportspyder.com
  ... important (he is) until he’s not there.” That seemed pretty evident with the Jazz’s early-season woes as Gobert dealt with knee injuries, keeping him sideline ...
  
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• Rudy Gobert winner's mentality has Utah Jazz 'beating expectations at every point'

  21-05-2018 17:37
  SALT LAKE CITY — Ricky Rubio knew who Rudy Gobert was before he joined the Utah Jazz this past season, of course. The Stifle Tower, who is 7-foot-1 and whose arms span 9 feet 7.5 inches, is kind of hard to miss — and especially on the basketball court when he can send your shot into the stands quicker than you released it.But the Spanish point guard learned something important about Gobert in their first season as teammates. It’s what makes Gobert even more dangerous to opponen
  
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• LGBT community cheers Pope Francis’ ‘God made you like this’ remark

  21-05-2018 17:35
  Vatican City • Pope Francis’ reported comments to a gay man that “God made you like this” have been embraced by the LGBT community as another sign of the pontiff’s desire to make gay people feel welcomed and loved in the Catholic Church.Juan Carlos Cruz, the main whistleblower in Chile’s clerical sex abuse and cover-up scandal, said Monday he spoke to Francis about his homosexuality during their recent meetings at the Vatican. The pope invited Cruz and other vi
  
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• West Jordan’s City Council closed 93 percent of its meetings last year. Murray kept the doors open. How does your city rate for transparency?

  21-05-2018 17:15
  Salt Lake County cities were slightly more open to the public last year than they were in 2016 when it comes to how often they moved a portion of each meeting behind closed doors. But some cities shut out the public significantly more frequently in 2017, according to a Salt Lake Tribune analysis of meeting minutes across the 16 cities in the county. At the top of that list was West Jordan, which closed some part of more than 9 out of 10 council meetings — a 48 percent increase in closures
  
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• A formerly suicidal Salt Lake City firefighter got help — and now he’s urging other first responders to consider therapy

  21-05-2018 17:15
  After a sleepless two days at the firehouse, Capt. Mike Stevens trudged up the stairs to his bedroom and pulled out his .40-caliber handgun. He sat on the edge of his bed and began to make a mental list of the reasons he should end his own life and the reasons he shouldn’t.He thought his wife would be able to find a better husband and, if he died, she could take the life insurance and pay off the house. He felt he was no longer making a difference. He sat there holding the gun for about 15
  
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• Gehrke: So Utah’s attorney general is going to sue an opioid pusher? It’s about time.

  21-05-2018 17:14
  Since Sean Reyes took office as Utah’s attorney general in 2013, there have been well over 1,400 residents who have died from opioid-related overdoses. Over the past year, Reyes has been prodded by the Legislature, pre-empted by one county after another, and even called out by House Speaker Greg Hughes to take a lead in protecting Utahns from this scourge. Finally, his office decided to sue one opioid manufacturer — Purdue Pharma Inc. — a first step that comes far later than it
  
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• Fireworks fizzle — Sugar House Park cancels July 4 event

  21-05-2018 17:13
  Barring some sort of 11th-hour reprieve, Salt Lake City’s most popular Fourth of July fireworks display has fizzled out.The annual event at Sugar House Park is a no-go, according to Chad Anderson, president of the Sugar House Park Authority board of trustees. He issued a statement that because of “cost and environmental concerns, the private organizer of the previous years’ July 4​th​ fireworks event has chosen not to put on the event” in 2018.This is just the
  
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• Letter: U.S. shares blame for Middle East violence

  21-05-2018 17:00
  What happens when our friends behave badly? What happens when we behave badly? Apparently, nothing. I speak of the slaughter of innocents in Gaza. I won’t pretend Hamas isn’t lobbing rockets, but what is the measured response? Surely, more than 50 killed and 2,000 wounded in one day, in addition to 41 killed and the 9,000 wounded in previous weeks, is “overkill.” Where is the outrage? Where is the conscience of America?Is it because we are equally guilty? Maybe not Gaza,
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Three predictions for what could happen with the Robert Mueller investigation

  21-05-2018 16:30
  Three predictions for what could happen with the Robert Mueller investigation. Utah GOP Central Committee ousts minority and female members. Synthetic drug Spice becoming more pervasive in Utah.Happy Monday. Buckle your seatbelts and grab the oxygen masks. It’s about to get interesting. A former federal prosecutor lays out three predictions for what could happen with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. He could wrap it up this summer, demand to interview President Donald
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The best play from each Jazz player this season

  21-05-2018 16:15 via sportspyder.com
  ... season was the shot that broke the franchise record, and secured his spot in Jazz infamy. It was aslo a big shot that helped decide the outcome of the game, i ...
  
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• E.J. Dionne: Trump’s dehumanization project

  21-05-2018 16:00
  Washington • It’s never right to call other human beings “animals.” It’s not something we should even have to debate. No matter how debased the behavior of a given individual or group, no matter how much legitimate anger genuinely evil actions might inspire, dehumanizing others always leads us down a dangerous path.This is why we need to reflect on the controversy over exactly whom President Trump was referring to as “animals” during a roundtable discussi
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Jazzmen Raul Neto and Ekpe Udoh celebrate Birthdays

  21-05-2018 15:35 via sportspyder.com
  ... s birthday one day before Ekpe, on May 19th. Happiest of birthdays, ! — Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) During this game in the following clip, and were both injured. I ...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Did Ricky Rubio low-key just try to recruit Nemanja Bjelica?

  21-05-2018 15:28 via sportspyder.com
  ... eneration Tournament. While there, someone snapped a pic of him hanging with Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell. He posted the pic on Instagram and even endorsed Mit ...
  
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