Basketball - Utah Jazz news

• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Isaac Haas will be a player to watch in the G-League

  30-08-2018 23:43 via sportspyder.com
  ...the Salt Lake City Stars. Earlier this month, the Utah Jazz announced the signing of center Isaac Haas. Given the fact that Utah’s roste ...
  
  Read more

• Utah Jazz: Isaac Haas will be a player to watch in the G-League

  30-08-2018 23:29
  Former Purdue big man turned Utah Jazz camp player Isaac Haas should be on fans’ radars when/if he finds his way to the Salt Lake City Stars. Earlier this month, the Utah Jazz announced the signing of center Isaac Haas. Given the fact that Utah’s roster for opening night has essentially been set since July, […]
  Utah Jazz: Isaac Haas will be a player to watch in the G-League - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
  Read more

• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah has had a giant in the NBA, WNBA and NBA G-League

  30-08-2018 22:24 via sportspyder.com
  ...LAKE CITY, UT – MARCH 22: Rudy Gobert #27 and Greg Ostertag #00 of the Utah Jazz meet during a press interview about the 1997 Reunited Western Conference Cha ...
  
  Read more

• Former LDS bishop who went on hunger strike faces possible excommunication

  30-08-2018 22:16
  The former LDS bishop who went on a three-week hunger strike to protest church leaders doing one-on-one, private interviews with children and youths faces possible excommunication from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Sam Young went to social media to post a copy of a letter he received from his stake president, a regional Latter-day Saint leader in Texas, informing him the church will “convene a formal disciplinary council in your behalf which includes the possibility of ex
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Utah has had a giant in the NBA, WNBA and NBA G-League

  30-08-2018 22:03
  Rudy Gobert isn’t the only seven-foot-plus giant to be associated with the state of Utah and the Utah Jazz. Seven-foot-one. A wingspan that nearly stretches to eight feet. Rudy Gobert is indeed a giant. Utah, and the Utah Jazz, are familiar with some other giants, though. A few associated with the Jazz, one in the […]
  Utah has had a giant in the NBA, WNBA and NBA G-League - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
  Read more

• 👀 twitter.com/NBA/status/103…

  30-08-2018 21:52 via twitter.com
  👀 twitter.com/NBA/status/103…
  
  Read more

• Utah governor says it’s time to move forward on medical marijuana, whether ballot initiative passes or fails

  30-08-2018 21:39
  Utah Gov. Gary Herbert still plans to vote “no” on Proposition 2, which would legalize medical marijuana in the state.But he said Thursday that whether the ballot initiative passes or fails, Utah’s lawmakers need to work to make medical cannabis available to patients.“If it doesn’t pass, then we need to get with the Legislature and come back into session and create a better law,” Herbert said. “If it does pass, we still have the same challenge, and that&
  
  Read more

• Arizona’s speedy QB Khalil Tate is going to be a handful for BYU. Can the Cougars slow him down?

  30-08-2018 21:37
  Provo • From 2012 to 2016, BYU’s defensive players often said they were thankful that they only had to try to stop dual-threat quarterback Taysom Hill in practices, and not in games.The current Cougar defenders will get that challenge Saturday when they face a quarterback that might be even better than Hill was at running the football, Heisman Trophy candidate Kahlil Tate of Arizona.“Dynamic player, man,” said BYU defensive coordinator Ilaisa Tuiaki. “There are a lot
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Dana Milbank: The Democrats are a menace to public safety

  30-08-2018 21:31
  Washington • So President Trump is worried there will be violence if the Democrats win in November."They will overturn everything that we've done, and they'll do it quickly and violently — and violently," Trump reportedly told evangelical Christian leaders at a private White House dinner Monday. Citing Antifa (anarchists, not Democrats) and "some of these groups," Trump added, "these are violent people."His concern is entirely understandable. The Democrats are a menace to public safet
  
  Read more

• Kearns industrial area has had dirt roads for 73 years. Now officials predict newly paved byways will lead to a business boom.

  30-08-2018 21:02
  Kearns • At the end of World War II, the U.S. Army Air Force closed Camp Kearns training base, and its northwest corner full of warehouses was converted into an industrial area. But for 73 years, it lacked paved roads — until now.Officials on Thursday celebrated completion of a $1.9 million project to pave some 1.5 miles of local roads, and predicted it will help attract more industries and jobs to the area.“It was so decimated,” state Rep. Eric Hutchings, R-Kearns, said a
  
  Read more

• Utah polygamous sect members in line to hold on to town council

  30-08-2018 21:01
  Salt Lake City • A polygamous sect that has been losing control of a community on the Utah-Arizona border that it has long controlled is in line to hold on to seats on a town council after three member incumbents survived a primary election challenge from outsiders.Vance Barlow, the town manager and town clerk in Colorado City, Arizona, says Donald Richter secured one of the four seats outright because he won more than 50 percent of the vote in Tuesday's primary.He says two other incumbents
  
  Read more

• Man threatened to kill newspaper staff over Trump editorials

  30-08-2018 20:58
  Boston • A California man upset about The Boston Globe’s coordinated editorial response to President Donald Trump’s attacks on the news media was arrested Thursday for threatening to travel to the newspaper’s offices and kill journalists, whom he called the “enemy of the people,” federal prosecutors said.Prosecutors say 68-year-old Robert Chain's threatening phone calls to the Globe's newsroom started immediately after the Globe appealed to newspapers across th
  
  Read more

• John McCain memorialized as hero, fighter and wiseacre

  30-08-2018 20:55
  Phoenix • Sen. John McCain was eulogized as a “true American hero” — and a terrible driver with a wicked sense of humor and love of a good fight — at a crowded church service for the maverick politician Thursday that ended with the playing of Frank Sinatra’s “My Way.”Addressing an estimated 3,500 mourners, former Vice President Joe Biden recalled "the sheer joy that crossed his face when he knew he was about to take the stage of the senate floor and
  
  Read more

• [The Basketball Network] - A Healthy Dante Exum Takes Utah Jazz To Another Level

  30-08-2018 20:07 via sportspyder.com
  ...can be. He posted a defensive rating of 98.9, per NBA.com. When he sat, the Jazz’s team mark rose to 101.8. It’s not an increase that causes you to rub your...
  
  Read more

• This week in Mormon Land: Another hint of a two-hour block? Science gives a nod to the Word of Wisdom. A Primary lesson on the evils of racism.

  30-08-2018 20:06
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want Mormon Land in your inbox? Subscribe here.This week’s podcast: The politics of pot
  Leah Hogsten|The Salt Lake Tribune
  Plants for medical marijuana in Colorado in 2014. (Leah Hogsten/)Soon after the church announced its opposition to a Utah ballot initiative on med
  
  Read more

• Commentary: McCain’s passing is an echo of the Reagan era

  30-08-2018 19:54
  Intriguing that the passing of Sen. John McCain, a Reagan Republican, feels a bit like the passing of Ronald Reagan in tone and message.Reagan’s passing was scripted perfectly and delivered a classic final bow for the former president. It seems McCain understood the moment and has taken a page from that playbook, without cynicism, but with purpose.McCain’s language, image, story and writings, spread over this week on television and social media, convey an optimism about the country,
  
  Read more

• 2 Utah cities will be among the first to get the new ‘saloon-style' beer aged in High West bourbon barrels

  30-08-2018 19:43
  Salt Lake City and Park City will be among the first markets in the country to get bottles of Western Standard, a new saloon-inspired beer aged in bourbon barrels from Utah’s High West Distillery, company officials announced recently.The German-style lager is being called a “modern beer with historical roots" and should be in Utah’s state-run liquor stores by mid-September, said High West founder David Perkins. The beer is 5.4 percent alcohol by volume, a level that exceeds the
  
  Read more

• Join the team! >> bit.ly/2wsd5ck https://t.co/WTuHFNpy60

  30-08-2018 19:39 via twitter.com
  
  Join the team!>> bit.ly/2wsd5ck https://t.co/WTuHFNpy60
  
  Read more

• Red All Over: Ute football schedule’s degree of difficulty will increase after Weber State’s visit

  30-08-2018 19:33
  Red All Over is The Tribune’s weekly newsletter about University of Utah athletics. To have it delivered to you each Thursday, subscribe here.Utah’s football team will play the 19th-toughest schedule in the country this season, according to ESPN’s Football Power Index. Life gets only more difficult for the Utes after Thursday night’s opener vs. Weber State at Rice-Eccles Stadium.That's not to say the Wildcats will make things easy for Utah, just that starting the season w
  
  Read more

• Eye on the Y: BYU’s long offseason wallowing in disappointment of 4-9 football season is almost over

  30-08-2018 19:31
  Eye on the Y is The Tribune’s weekly newsletter about University of Utah athletics. To have it delivered to you each Thursday, subscribe here.As I’ve written before in this space, BYU should have a better football team in 2018 than it did in 2017. It remains to be seen if that improvement translates to more victories and a bowl bid that, in my eyes, will signal a successful season. But it just seems like the players are more bought-in and the new offensive coaching staff knows what i
  
  Read more

• #TBT | #TakeNote https://t.co/mPyWI8Tk7C

  30-08-2018 19:22 via twitter.com
  
  #TBT | #TakeNote https://t.co/mPyWI8Tk7C
  
  Read more

• Aggies hoping extra experience helps them avoid ‘disaster’ vs. No. 11 Michigan State

  30-08-2018 19:20
  A year ago, the Utah State football team opened its season on the road against a Big Ten powerhouse ranked No. 9 in the country.This Friday, the Aggies open their season on the road … against a Big Ten powerhouse … ranked No. 11 in the country.So, what’s to keep this matchup with Michigan State from turning out the same way the 2017 tilt with Wisconsin did — when USU scored the game’s first 10 points, was tied at halftime, but fell apart after the break en route t
  
  Read more

• Scott D. Pierce: ‘Jack Ryan’ is good, but will it join the list of TV’s best movie adaptations?

  30-08-2018 19:15
  John Krasinski is going where a lot of actors have gone before — into the lead role in “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan.”A buffed-up Krasinski, complete with six-pack abs but retaining the likability and charm he exuded as Jim on “The Office,” is stepping into the shoes worn by Alec Baldwin in “The Hunt for Red October,” Harrison Ford in “Patriot Games” and “Clear and Present Danger,” Ben Affleck in “The Sum of All Fears”
  
  Read more

• Labor Day weekend traffic: Expect half-hour delays leaving town today on I-15, up to one-hour delays on Friday

  30-08-2018 19:02
  Officials warn that Labor Day weekend travel will be complicated by heavy traffic by vacationers leaving town, some ongoing road projects and FrontRunner shutting down half its line for testing on Saturday, and replacing trains with buses.The Utah Department of Transportation warns that up to an extra hour may be needed to travel along Interstate 15 through Salt Lake and Utah counties on Friday between 2 and 8:30 p.m. because of holiday travelers headed out of town. The heaviest delays are expec
  
  Read more

• Commentary: McCain, Mueller and the current state of the right

  30-08-2018 18:30
  On Saturday night John McCain, former prisoner of war and senator from Arizona, died after a yearlong battle with aggressive brain cancer. While much has been written about McCain’s extraordinary life and more will certainly be forthcoming, I’m reminded of another war hero, Robert Mueller.Like McCain, former FBI Director Mueller is a veteran of the Vietnam War and has spent most of his adult life in service to the United States. Also like McCain, Mueller has been a registered Republi
  
  Read more

• [Clutchpoints] - John Stockton, Karl Malone era trainer retires from franchise

  30-08-2018 17:49 via sportspyder.com
  ... buddies with the hall-of-fame power forward.” The Stockton/Malone era of the Jazz in the 90’s is still widely considered as the most successful period in the...
  
  Read more

• This week in Mormon Land: Spider-Man goes anti-LDS? Another hint of a two-hour block? And science gives a nod to the Word of Wisdom.

  30-08-2018 17:40
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want Mormon Land in your inbox? Subscribe here.This week’s podcast: The politics of pot
  Leah Hogsten|The Salt Lake Tribune
  Plants for medical marijuana in Colorado in 2014. (Leah Hogsten/)Soon after the church announced its opposition to a Utah ballot initiative on med
  
  Read more

• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Is Rudy Gobert as good as prime Dwight Howard?

  30-08-2018 17:32 via sportspyder.com
  ... Warriors, a team that had an 11.35 SRS (fourth all time). The next year, the Jazz were eliminated by a squad that had an 8.21 SRS (27th all time). Moving on t ...
  
  Read more

• Utah DWR sends tiny trout skydiving into lake

  30-08-2018 17:16
  A Utah Division of Wildlife Resources video of tiny trout skydiving into a lake is getting attention online — and eliciting concern for the fish.Fun fact: We stock many of Utah's high-mountain lakes from the air. The fish are tiny — anywhere from 1–3 inches long — which allows more than 95% of them to survive the fall. #Utah #TroutTuesday pic.twitter.com/kotDe91Zzw— Utah DWR (@UtahDWR) August 21, 2018The DWR posted the video along with this “Fun fact: We stock
  
  Read more

• [Sporting News] - 'NBA 2K19' ratings revealed for top players, rookies

  30-08-2018 17:13 via sportspyder.com
  ... on Tatum makes the biggest leap, jumping five points from his rookie season. Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell gained three points, and 2018 Rookie of the Year Ben...
  
  Read more

• Ex-LDS bishop who went on hunger strike faces possible excommunication

  30-08-2018 17:06
  The former LDS bishop who went on a three-week hunger strike to protest church leaders doing one-on-one, private interviews with children and youths faces possible excommunication from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Sam Young went to social media to post a copy of a letter he received from his stake president, a regional Latter-day Saint leader in Texas, informing him the church will “convene a formal disciplinary council in your behalf which includes the possibility of ex
  
  Read more

• Marvel removes logo deemed anti-Mormon from latest edition of ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’

  30-08-2018 16:51
  Marvel has removed what has been interpreted as an anti-Mormon “Easter egg” from the latest edition of the Spider-Man comic book series — although the Utah artist who drew it denies that he had anti-Mormon intentions.“The Amazing Spider-Man No. 4,” released Aug. 22 and drawn by artist Ryan Ottley, a former member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, includes a panel in which the superhero is covered with advertising logos. One logo, seen clearly on hi
  
  Read more

• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - What should we expect from Grayson Allen this season?

  30-08-2018 16:43 via sportspyder.com
  ... ovan Mitchell, at least not by matching his rookie campagin last season. The Jazz selected Grayson Allen with the 21st pick, and as such have a lower ceiling...
  
  Read more

• Political Cornflakes: Proposed campus assault rules would bolster protections for abusers, make it harder for victims, reports New York Times

  30-08-2018 16:26
  New rules proposed by Education Secretary Betsy Devos would reportedly make it harder for colleges to act against campus sexual predators. The Utah Inland Port Authority board soundly rejects calls to open its committee meetings to the public. And LDS Dems criticize the ‘alarmist' tone of their faith’s opposition to the medical pot initiative.Happy Thursday!The New York Times reports it has obtained proposed rules by Education Secretary Betsy DeVoss that would bolster protections for
  
  Read more

• ‘Mormon Land’: A political scientist discusses the faith’s push against Utah’s medical marijuana measure and why it might or might not work

  30-08-2018 15:23
  Soon after The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced its opposition to a Utah ballot initiative on medical marijuana, emails began appearing in the inboxes of Mormons across the state. In them, the church stated that while it “does not object to the medicinal use of marijuana,” it is dead set against this particular ballot measure.Will the church succeed in defeating what, to this point, has been a popular proposal? Will the email blast prove effective or could it bac
  
  Read more

• Holly Richardson: Give yourself permission to dream

  30-08-2018 15:21
  I love, love, love the fall. I love the cooler weather, I'm immensely grateful the heat of the summer is over, I love the return to a more structured routine (even though spontaneity is fun too), I love the smells, I love the colors and I especially love the renewed goal-setting that is inspired by dropping temperatures.January, of course, is the most common goal-setting time of the year, but it is definitely not the only time. Around New Year’s, I wrote about SMART goals and vision boards
  
  Read more

• Utah film about Mormon heroines Emma Smith and Jane Manning James gains Hollywood honor for its gender balance and racial diversity

  30-08-2018 15:18
  A Utah-made film about two famous women from Latter-day Saint history — a determined black convert and the first lady of the faith — earned a place on a new Hollywood list of “gender-balanced and racially diverse films both in front of and behind the camera.”The movie, “Jane and Emma,” tells the story of the unlikely, even risky, friendship between Jane Manning James and Emma Smith, wife of church founder Joseph Smith, in the 1840s as The Church of Jesus Chris
  
  Read more

• Gehrke: It’s ridiculous that Salt Lake County Republicans haven’t taken action against their spokesman for his harmful comments about LGBTQ suicide

  30-08-2018 15:18
  Last week, a 9-year-old in Colorado killed himself after he was bullied by classmates because he was gay.It was a tragic case where an LGBTQ youth took his own life after losing hope, and it happens in Colorado and in Utah and across the country, because these young people are bullied and ostracized.Contrary to what the Salt Lake County Republican Party’s official spokesman, Dave Robinson, said last week, it is not a result of gay people having “grundles of sex” with random par
  
  Read more

• Letter: Utah schoolchildren are safe in their fortresses, but there’s no money left to educate them

  30-08-2018 15:00
  I’m sure I’m not the only one who, upon reading the article about the metal security door built as a prototype for the Rose Springs Elementary School, responded with disbelief and a heavy heart. “Pretty impressive,” says our governor, and yes, it is. Impressive as a symbol of the violence in our society and the fear we will further ingrain in our children. Surely, the “hundreds of thousands of dollars” per school would be better spent on combating gun violence
  
  Read more

• Letter: Medical marijuana hasn’t destroyed society yet

  30-08-2018 15:00
  As the election nears, Utah’s “powers that be” appear to be freaking out. The people of Utah might actually bypass them and directly pass legislation making medical marijuana available to Utahns in need. Heaven forbid! Of course, in spite of predictions of doom, this is not a revolutionary concept. It’s already legal right now in 30 states; that’s 60 percent of America. Each of those states made an informed choice. That choice was not made by some radical associatio
  
  Read more

• Letter: I’m sick of the Mormon church taking away my free agency

  30-08-2018 15:00
  Hey, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (whew, Mormon/LDS is much easier to type), what happened to free agency? The LDS Church’s statement on the Medical Marijuana Initiative states what the church thinks of members’ and non-members’ ability to think for themselves. The LDS Church is in favor of medical marijuana but not in favor of the Utah voter initiative that is on the ballot. Translation: The LDS Church isn’t controlling the process like it does when legisl
  
  Read more

• Letter: Hatch should apologize for insulting New York in his defense of Trump

  30-08-2018 15:00
  Recently, with dismay, I watched Sen. Orrin Hatch say, “I think most people in this country realize that Donald Trump comes from a different world. He comes from New York City, he comes from a slam-bang, difficult world. It is amazing he is as good as he is. If anything, you have to give him plaudits for the way he has run the country as president.”I moved from New York City to Salt Lake County 20 years ago, and while New York can be faster-paced than Salt Lake City, it is not a diff
  
  Read more

• George Pyle: Federal agencies need changes in attitude, not just latitude.

  30-08-2018 15:00
  Jacob Bronowski, a British scientist sent to analyze the ruins of the Japanese cities destroyed by atomic bombs at the end of World War II, thought that the headquarters of the new United Nations should be in Hiroshima. That way, all the delegates from all the nations, whether they were on the winning side of the war or the losing, whether nearly destroyed or untouched, would see for themselves some hint of what might happen if peace were to again elude us and we turned to war in the Nuclear Age
  
  Read more

• Cass Sunstein: The president who would bring back the Sedition Act

  30-08-2018 15:00
  The president of the United States calls the press "the enemy of the people." Does he also have a problem with freedom of speech?In a recent tweet, President Donald Trump complained that if you google "Trump news," you see "only the viewing/reporting of Fake News Media." That means that "they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD," and that "Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out."In Trump's view, "Google & others are suppressing voic
  
  Read more

• The LDS Church says it wasn’t ‘responding well’ to sexual assaults in the mission field. These two women helped its leaders see that.

  30-08-2018 07:36
  This is Part 1 of a two-part story on mission safety in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. To read Part 2, click here.Missionary Camille Junca felt her mother was being ridiculous.A family friend stationed nearby with National Public Radio had offered to pick up Junca from her mission and take her away, her mother said anxiously in an email, because the Mexican state where she was serving had become too dangerous.But Junca felt The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would
  
  Read more

• Will they start? If not, when will the rookie QBs play?

  30-08-2018 06:29
  Will they start? If not, when will they play?While there are many scenarios that can dominate the spotlight as the NFL season kicks off, with five teams there is only one.The first-round rookie quarterback.Eventually, they all will get the chances to be the franchise guy. For such teams as the Browns and Jets, it’s been a long and futile search to find their man.This Cleveland version of an NFL club arrived in 1999 and still is searching. For New York, the last true franchise QB was Joe Na
  
  Read more

• Utah’s inland-port board votes to keep the doors shut on its committee meetings despite public support for opening them

  30-08-2018 06:15
  Gov. Gary Herbert wants them open. So do more than 160 organizations and individuals, including Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski, Alliance for a Better Utah and a number of community councils.Nevertheless, the Utah Inland Port Authority board on Wednesday reaffirmed its decision to shut the public out of the meetings of its three subcommittees. The vote was 9-2, with board Chairman Derek Miller and Salt Lake City economic development Director Laura Fritts voting to open them up to the publi
  
  Read more

• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Which Nike jersey did the Utah Jazz rock the most during last season?

  30-08-2018 06:14 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell attends Dwyane Wade training camp by Jared Woodcox ...
  
  Read more

• Which Nike jersey did the Utah Jazz rock the most during last season?

  30-08-2018 06:00
  The 2017-18 NBA season was the debut year of the Nike uniforms. The Utah Jazz wore four different uniforms. There’s only a few complaints general NBA fans have had about the new Nike NBA jerseys. It wasn’t until after Christmas that teams started to stock up on apparel, and the jerseys had their fair share […]
  Which Nike jersey did the Utah Jazz rock the most during last season? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
  Read more

• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell attends Dwyane Wade training camp

  30-08-2018 05:58 via sportspyder.com
  ... er ( @JimmyButler), & Donovan Mitchell ( @spidadmitchell) were there. #Heat #Jazz #Blazers pic.twitter.com/yykGqv3Gs9 — Tomer Azarly (@TomerAzarly) August 28, ...
  
  Read more

Follow @UtahJazz_News_ on Twitter!