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• Tonight is gonna be a battle. #KeyMatchup | @USFCorp https://t.co/e7g2SNkatP

  19-10-2018 23:51 via twitter.com
  
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• [Torn By Sports] - Episode 167: 2018 NBA Tip-Off Reactions and Overreactions

  19-10-2018 23:28 via sportspyder.com
  ... nd week one results. We take a look at the good and no so good from the Utah Jazz at Sacramento Kings game. This episode is full of hot takes! Are the Pelican ...
  
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• A new episode of ♬The Note♬ podcast is up! We held a Q&A with @kristenkenney & @buckleupboler to discuss season exp… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  19-10-2018 23:23 via twitter.com
  A new episode of ♬The Note♬ podcast is up! We held a Q&A with @kristenkenney & @buckleupboler to discuss season exp… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz Bear, Jon Absey, has been fired

  19-10-2018 22:48 via sportspyder.com
  ...Eric Woodyard (@E_Woodyard) The released a statement on the matter. “Jazz Bear will continue to be one of the most iconic mascots in the NBA,” said Ja ...
  
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• [KSL] - Reports: Jazz fire Bear performer after 24 seasons

  19-10-2018 22:38 via sportspyder.com
  ... ould be the one performing. “Jazz Bear will continue to be one of the most iconic mascots in the NBA,” Zang sa ...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Warriors star Steph Curry respects Utah Jazz wing Joe Ingles’ confidence in feeling he’s league’s top shooter

  19-10-2018 22:23 via sportspyder.com
  ... h Curry, caught wind of Ingles’ bold remarks at the shootaround ahead of the Jazz-Warriors showdown. “That just means in Las Vegas in the Summer League in 200 ...
  
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• Religious freedom advocate Charles Haynes retires, praises Utah law balancing LGBT, faith rights

  19-10-2018 22:11
  Washington • Charles Haynes, a First Amendment scholar, has spent more than two decades helping schools walk the line between religion and state and advocating for the rights of people of a range of faiths and no faith.Over the past year, Haynes, 69, has been in the process of retiring from the Freedom Forum Institute’s Religious Freedom Center, continuing to serve as an adviser as he makes plans to write and volunteer in the future. The author and speaker says it “lifts his hea
  
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• Warriors star Steph Curry respects Utah Jazz wing Joe Ingles’ confidence in feeling he’s league’s top shooter

  19-10-2018 22:10
  SALT LAKE CITY — Joe Ingles' path to Utah was untraditional, to say the least.The Australian traveled overseas, playing in four different countries to being waived by the Los Angeles Clippers to now being respected as one of the league's top shooting guards, according to Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr."What a story," Kerr said ahead of Utah's home opener against the Warriors on Friday. "He's a great passer, great feel for the game."He's become an outstanding three-point shooter, an
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Warriors star Steph Curry respects Joe Ingles’ confidence in feeling he’s league’s top shooter

  19-10-2018 22:09 via sportspyder.com
  ... h Curry, caught wind of Ingles’ bold remarks at the shootaround ahead of the Jazz-Warriors showdown. “That just means in Las Vegas in the Summer League in 200 ...
  
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• Utah drops a bit to No. 2 nationally for job creation

  19-10-2018 22:07
  After months as No. 1 in the nation, Utah has dropped slightly to No. 2 for the percent of jobs it added over the previous 12 months.It added 52,400 jobs between September 2017 and September 2018, a 3.6 percent increase, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.The only state that did better was Florida, which had a 4.8 percent increase in the number of its jobs over that yearlong period. Texas was No. 3 at 3.3 percent.“The latest job market statistics indic
  
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• The Utah Jazz fired the man who’s performed as the Bear since 1994. A new person will take over the suit tonight.

  19-10-2018 22:04
  The Utah Jazz have fired Jon Absey, the man who acted as the Utah Jazz Bear since the mascot’s inception in 1994, The Salt Lake Tribune has learned.It is not clear why Absey was let go, but the team did confirm that he is no longer with the organization.“The Jazz Bear will continue to be one of the most iconic mascots in the NBA," Jazz spokesman Frank Zang said Friday afternoon. “Out of respect for its character, which is separate from any employee ever associated with it, we h
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - ICON Fitness - Raul Neto and Royce O'Neale

  19-10-2018 21:57 via sportspyder.com
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• The man who plays the Utah Jazz Bear has been fired by the team. He’s performed as the mascot since 1994.

  19-10-2018 21:42
  The Utah Jazz have fired Jon Absey, the man who acted as the Utah Jazz Bear since the mascot’s inception in 1994, The Salt Lake Tribune has learned.It is not clear why Absey was let go, but the team did confirm that he is no longer with the organization.“The Jazz Bear will continue to be one of the most iconic mascots in the NBA," Jazz spokesman Frank Zang said Friday afternoon. “Out of respect for its character, which is separate from any employee ever associated with it, we h
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Man inside the iconic Jazz Bear fired by Utah Jazz after 24 years

  19-10-2018 21:27 via sportspyder.com
  ... y, after a rift with the staff, the source disclosed. Comment on this story “Jazz Bear will continue to be one of the most iconic mascots in the NBA,” said Ja ...
  
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• Man inside the iconic Utah Jazz Bear fired after 24 years

  19-10-2018 21:17
  SALT LAKE CITY — As the Utah Jazz prepare to face the defending champion Golden State Warriors at Vivint Arena tonight, there will be a different man inside the iconic Jazz Bear mascot.Longtime mascot Jon Absey was fired this week, according to a Deseret News source.There will be a new face inside the mascot on a trial basis, but not Absey, after a rift with the staff, the source disclosed."Jazz Bear will continue to be one of the most iconic mascots in the NBA," said Jazz spokesman Frank
  
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• Man inside the iconic Jazz Bear fired by Utah Jazz after 24 years

  19-10-2018 21:17
  SALT LAKE CITY — As the Utah Jazz prepare to face the defending champion Golden State Warriors at Vivint Arena tonight, there will be a different man inside the iconic Jazz Bear mascot.Longtime mascot Jon Absey was fired this week, according to a Deseret News source.There will be a new face inside the mascot on a trial basis, but not Absey, after a rift with the staff, the source disclosed."Jazz Bear will continue to be one of the most iconic mascots in the NBA," said Jazz spokesman Frank
  
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• George Pyle: It’s hard to be ‘civil’ in the face of evil

  19-10-2018 21:09
  “When events change, I change my mind. What do you do?”— John Maynard Keynes (Or maybe Paul Samuelson. Or Winston Churchill)My mother had this clever habit, once her four children were grown, of ordering books for each of us to later — sometimes much later — be sent as Christmas gifts. It gave her a chance to read each book, decide if it was the kind of thing each of us might like and, on occasion, just keep it for herself.One of the pre-read gifts she got for me wa
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Kings takeaways: Three things we learned from season-opening loss to Jazz

  19-10-2018 21:06 via sportspyder.com
  ... oss to Jazz James Ham • October 18, 2018 SACRAMENTO -- After taking one on the chin from ...
  
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• Mia Love and Ben McAdams were pals before the close election contest that has them bashing each other

  19-10-2018 21:06
  Their families were friends for years, going to movies, dinners and sporting events together. Then they ignored the proverb that friends should never talk about religion or politics, and politics blasted apart their relationship.GOP Rep. Mia Love and her Democratic challenger, Ben McAdams, aren’t behaving like buddies anymore. They’re too busy hammering away at each other in the nastiest campaign in recent memory in Utah.Despite that, McAdams, the Salt Lake County mayor, still says,
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Andre Iguodala questionable vs. Jazz despite feeling ‘pretty good’

  19-10-2018 21:02 via sportspyder.com
  ... estionable vs. Jazz despite feeling ‘pretty good’ by October 19, 2018 forward is listed as quest ...
  
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• Have a question about the season you want answered by @BuckleUpBoler & @KristenKenney? Head over to our Instagram s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  19-10-2018 21:01 via twitter.com
  Have a question about the season you want answered by @BuckleUpBoler & @KristenKenney? Head over to our Instagram s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• State auditors checked out a Utah public health department after two of its employees were arrested. Here’s what they found.

  19-10-2018 20:54
  State auditors identified several flawed practices within the Southwest Utah Public Health Department during a review conducted after a couple former agency employees were charged with Medicaid fraud.The health care workers, Todd Alan Stirling and Russell Amon Hinton, are accused of making 1,300 false claims to Medicaid, according to charging documents.The audit determined the illicit activity was possible because of inadequate supervision by the health department’s director, a failure to
  
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• Utah State OC David Yost has turned the Aggies into an offensive juggernaut. This is how he did it.

  19-10-2018 20:53
  Logan • The brains behind one of the highest-functioning offenses in the country takes a swig from his giant gas station styrofoam soda cup directly in front of his keyboard. Surrounding him on this end of his elongated desk are mounds of papers riddled with plays. On the whiteboard behind him? A gluttony of schemes and outlined plays. On the projector screen near the end of the table? Yep. More plays. A Microsoft Word doc is being pieced together ahead of Utah State’s road trip to La
  
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• Expect more drama as Utah and USC renew the Pac-12 South’s best football series of recent years

  19-10-2018 20:53
  In three of the past four football meetings between Utah and USC, a mere yard decided the game. The Ute secondary's challenge Saturday night is to keep the Trojans from gaining yards in bunches.The Pac-12 South’s best series of this decade will be renewed during homecoming weekend at Rice-Eccles Stadium, where dramatic drives have given Utah victories in the Trojans' last two visits. USC could take command of the South, having righted itself after a slow start.Game 7#USCvsUTAH #UUThrowback
  
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• Kristin Chenoweth will perform in Tabernacle Choir’s Christmas concert

  19-10-2018 20:52
  Kristin Chenoweth, who won an Emmy for “Pushing Daisies” and a Tony for “You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” will be the featured guest and narrator at this year's Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert.The annual event is scheduled for three performances — Dec. 13-15 — at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City. Distribution of tickets for the concerts will begin Saturday at 10 a.m. MDT at lds.org/events.“Kristin Chenoweth is larger than life, I just hope th
  
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• Salt Lake City cook shares his Haitian culture through food and tries to undo the sinister stereotypes of the Voodoo religion

  19-10-2018 20:51
  Jean “Roody” Salvator earns extra income and exposure for his Makaya Catering business when he plans special “pop-up” dinners in Salt Lake City.But these one-night events have a higher purpose — to give the self-taught cook an opportunity to share the foods and stories of his native Haiti. “Every pop-up," he said, “I try to tell a story with cultural significance.”During his next dinner, on Oct. 27, he will tackle one of the most misunderstood part
  
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  19-10-2018 20:48 via twitter.com
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Favors, Gobert Feast as Jazz Look to Reestablish the Roll

  19-10-2018 20:43 via sportspyder.com
  ...still above average, and people with access to the numbers tell me that the Jazz’s overall efficiency on all plays involving a Favors P&R was almost identica ...
  
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• Catherine Rampell: The Trump administration is also punishing legal immigrants. Here’s how.

  19-10-2018 19:40
  Many people assume that the Trump administration’s immigration agenda is about punishing the undocumented. But for a taste of how it is punishing legal immigrants — and their U.S.-citizen families — consider the case of Maria, a doctor who came to California legally from Mexico.The first thing you need to know is that when her first child was born, five years ago, Maria had trouble breastfeeding.Her medical training had taught her how important good nutrition is for newborns. B
  
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• Tell the Tribune: Do you drive for Lyft, deliver groceries or have another side hustle?

  19-10-2018 19:06
  Nearly 1 in 4 Americans now earns money from a side hustle — like driving for Lyft, offering their home on AirB&B or delivering for UberEats — according to a 2016 survey by the Pew Research Center.The so-called “gig economy,” in which workers often take on multiple jobs from different companies rather than working full-time for a traditional employer, has been promoted to younger people as a way to build a career on their own terms.Are you a freelancer, side hustler o
  
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• Vivint is going to be BUMPIN' tonight 🤪 🏀: #GSWatUTA 📺: Xfinity: 693, DirectTV: 683-1, @ESPNNBA 📻: @ZoneSportsNet… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  19-10-2018 19:01 via twitter.com
  Vivint is going to be BUMPIN' tonight 🤪 🏀: #GSWatUTA 📺: Xfinity: 693, DirectTV: 683-1, @ESPNNBA📻: @ZoneSportsNet… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Environmental group accuses Rep. Rob Bishop, Natural Resources Committee of ‘politically motivated abuse of authority’

  19-10-2018 18:30
  Washington • An environmental group has denounced a House oversight committee for suggesting the organization’s efforts to block construction of a U.S. military base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa may require it to register as foreign agent.In a bluntly worded letter delivered earlier this week, the Center for Biological Diversity accused the Republican chairman and another senior GOP member of the Natural Resources Committee of pursuing a "politically motivated abuse of a
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - ADDING MULTIMEDIA Vivint Smart Home Teams Up with Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz for “Letters to Utah” Campaign

  19-10-2018 17:48 via sportspyder.com
  ... Vivint Smart Home Teams Up with Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz for “Letters to Utah” Campaign Oct 19, 2018 Updated 1 min ago Rudy Gobert in ...
  
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• Pope Francis accuser strikes back, blames gay priesthood for abuse

  19-10-2018 17:38
  Vatican City • The Vatican ambassador who accused Pope Francis of rehabilitating a disgraced ex-American cardinal is doubling down on his claims, asserting that the “scourge of homosexuality” in the priesthood is responsible for sex abuse and that the Vatican is being hypocritical in refusing to acknowledge it.Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano issued a third installment Friday in the war of words over the cover-up of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. He was responding to a Vatican car
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz-GSW: Sizzling Slow-Mo’ Joe set to tangle with KD

  19-10-2018 17:21 via sportspyder.com
  ... Ingles’ one-on-one match-up with Durant hasn’t been one that has favored the Jazz traditionally. Durant’s teams have won eight of 11 contests head-to-head whi ...
  
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• U.S. home sales fell in September to slowest pace in 3 years

  19-10-2018 17:12
  Washington • U.S. home sales fell for the sixth straight month in September, a sign that housing has increasingly become a weak spot for the economy.The National Association of Realtors said Friday that sales declined 3.4 percent last month, the biggest drop in 2 ½ years, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.15 million. That's the lowest sales pace since November 2015.Hurricane Florence dragged sales in North Carolina, but even excluding the storm's effects, sales would have fal
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz and Golden State Warriors headline tonight’s game on ESPN

  19-10-2018 16:55 via sportspyder.com
  ... as they did. If the Jazz want to go toe to toe with the Warriors, they will also need another strong...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - ESPN ranks Quin Snyder as top-20 coach across all sports

  19-10-2018 16:55 via sportspyder.com
  ... narowski, in his most recent podcast, spent some time talking about what the Jazz have done and their potential selling pitch for free agents. He begins talki ...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Watch: Utah Jazz stars Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert pen ‘Letters to Utah’

  19-10-2018 16:32 via sportspyder.com
  ... tah” campaign. Letters from Mitchell and Gobert released today, ahead of the Jazz's 2018-19 home opener against Golden State, and will be used on Jazz TV broa ...
  
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• Watch: Utah Jazz stars Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert pen ‘Letters to Utah’

  19-10-2018 16:29
  SALT LAKE CITY — It's become customary for professional athletes to pen farewell letters to their respective cities when they depart.However, Utah Jazz players Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert are trying to change that narrative. The teammates have signed a multi-year partnership with Vivint Smart Home to collaborate on several advertising and marketing campaigns such as the "Letters to Utah" campaign.Letters from Mitchell and Gobert released today, ahead of the Jazz's 2018-19 home opener
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Look inside the GOP war room, where researchers blast an endless stream of criticism at Democrats and stoke the daily fires of conservative outrage

  19-10-2018 15:53
  Take a peek inside the Republican National Committee’s war room, where 60 GOP researchers, bookers and attack dogs spent their time churning out the ammunition that conservative media and Trump supporters use daily to pummel the president’s foes. Their work has been throwing Democrats off message for months, while stoking the daily fires of conservative outrage. “I understand their weaponry, and frankly I don’t underestimate it at all,” said one aide to a Democrat c
  
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• General Conference: A missed opportunity to spotlight Latter-day Saint women?

  19-10-2018 15:50
  The just-completed General Conference promised a historic schedule shift that would highlight the emerging involvement and gender gains of Latter-day Saint women, yet, in the eyes of some, it wound up diminishing female visibility and voices.Here’s what happened: Instead of the all-male priesthood meeting, a women’s session was held. Alternating the priesthood and women’s sessions at the twice-yearly gatherings was billed as a way to enhance the prominence and prestige of femal
  
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• A fugitive was shot and killed by the Metro Gang Unit. It’s the fifth officer-involved shooting in nine days.

  19-10-2018 15:49
  A man wanted by police was shot and killed by members of the Metro Gang Unit in Salt Lake City on Thursday night.According to Unified Police, members of the Gang Unit were pursuing a fugitive when, at about 10:30 p.m., they followed two vehicles into an alley near 445 East and 300 South. An altercation ensued, and one UPD officer and one Saratoga Springs officer opened fire, hitting the man an unknown number of times. He died en route to a local hospital.His name has not yet been released by aut
  
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• Utah Jazz-GSW: Sizzling Slow-Mo’ Joe set to tangle with KD

  19-10-2018 15:48
  Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles did his best Kevin Durant impression on opening night; the two will go toe-to-toe in Game No. 2. The Utah Jazz may have dropped 123 points on the Sacramento Kings on opening night, but their uneven performance doesn’t exactly inspire confidence heading into a showdown with the Golden State Warriors. […]
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