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• For the Jazz and other NBA teams, the schedule can be just as big a challenge as the opponent

  04-11-2018 23:38
  When does an excuse become a reason?For fans, NBA schedule difficulties can sometimes sound like an excuse. NBA players are paid millions of dollars, the thinking goes, so why can’t they be ready to play and win two nights in a row? Even if they travel in between, they should be fine on their fancy private jets, right?Cheri Mah, a physician scientist at the UC San Francisco Human Performance Center and someone who regularly consults with NBA teams on sleep-related issues, disagrees. In con
  
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• Letter: Young people can cancel out old people’s votes

  04-11-2018 23:17
  Young people can cancel out old people’s votesThe latest polls have Ben McAdams more or less even -- or even ahead -- in Utah’s 4th Congressional District, and Shireen Ghorbani behind in the 2nd District but not out of range of a major upset if turnout is unusually high.It would be a shame if either or both fall short of defeating their Republican rivals because thousands of young people couldn't be bothered to vote — and in this of all elections, inescapably in large part a re
  
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• USU Aggies earn their highest ranking in 57 years; Utes fall out of the AP Top 25

  04-11-2018 23:15
  Utah State received the school's highest football ranking since the Merlin Olsen era and Utah fell out of the AP Top 25, announced Sunday.USU, a 56-17 winner at Hawaii late Saturday, moved up four spots to No. 14. The Aggies were ranked No. 10 in the final poll of the 1961 season after going 9-1-1 with a loss to Baylor in the Gotham Bowl. More recently, USU finished No. 16 in 2012, having gone 11-2 in the program's last season under coach Gary Andersen.USU coach Matt Wells' team has an eight-gam
  
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• Letter: Newspaper endorsements are a waste of time

  04-11-2018 22:51
  Newspaper editorial board endorsements of political candidates and statements in favor of or opposed to ballot measures are, in the modern era, irrelevant and, quite frankly, a waste of newspapers' time and that of your readers. Maybe that wasn't the case decades ago, before the internet information age, but it certainly is the case now. I don't know a single voter who needs your input to decide how to vote. I know I don't.Scott Christian Bauer, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: The nation was run over by a big orange bus

  04-11-2018 22:38
  On the eve of Election Day, 2016, I was run over by a Nissan while crossing the street. The next day, the entire country was run over by a big, orange bus.Two years later, I’m mostly healed. The country, however, just keeps moving deeper into an intensive care unit staffed with butchers.Small wounds are being wrenched open; broken legs are treated with hammers. Infections are encouraged to spread their filth. And the big orange bus keeps careening down whatever road meets its need of the m
  
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• Letter: Prop 4 may not be as exciting as medical marijuana but it is at least as important

  04-11-2018 22:34
  Tuesday is Election Day and, for a midterm election, it’s a big one!In Utah, most of the election coverage is dedicated to medicinal marijuana. Yet in a time when dark money’s influence continues to grow, the U.S. Congress’ approval rating has hovered around 20 percent for a decade, and 100 million eligible Americans sat out the 2016 presidential election. Our democracy is in peril.Fortunately, as Utahns, we have the power to take a big step in standing up for democracy and dem
  
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• Letter: Tribune editorial should have been titled ‘Fascism in 2018’

  04-11-2018 22:29
  The Salt Lake Tribune’s editorial was titled “Love in the 4th.” It should have been titled “Fascism in 2018.”Under the extremely dubious reasoning that “Love is just finding her way,” The Tribune ignores the fact that re-election of a Republican Congress would justify and reinforce Donald Trump and the Republicans’ belief that the future of the nation is white male supremacy, keeping poor people poor and unrepresented, stifling a free press, ignori
  
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• Letter: Vote Democrat or United Utah Party, and protect your Social Security and health care protections for all

  04-11-2018 22:18
  If you haven't voted yet, especially if you're a senior, rely on Social Security and Medicare, and are in the habit of voting for whoever has an "R" by their name, please consider this: The current Republican-controlled Congress has promised to cut your earned benefits if they retain power after Tuesday's election.Congressional Republican leadership claims that the increasing deficit they created with massive tax cuts for the very rich can only be fixed by cutting Social Security and Medicare. A
  
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• Tribune editorial: Don’t suffer for nothing. Vote.

  04-11-2018 22:07
  It’s all over bar the voting.Weeks, that sometimes seemed like years, of often nasty campaign ads on TV, yard signs cluttering up everything and politicians popping up everywhere you look.It will all be over Tuesday night. That’s when the polls close and the counting — which may take several more days — begins.The sentiment, “Don’t vote, it only encourages them,” may seem appropriate just now. But the truth is that the suffering of the campaign season wi
  
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• Letter: McAdams should stay in Utah and keep the balance of the two political faiths

  04-11-2018 22:04
  Utahns, please don’t send Ben McAdams to Washington. He will get lost or buried in the untenable tribalism that is ruining our nation.If he is such a good man (and I don’t doubt this), he should stay in Utah and keep the balance of the two political faiths. There’s the Legislature, Salt Lake City mayor or the governor’s race. I feel it would harm his and Utah’s status in politics if he were elected to Congress. Consider our nation.P.S.: Each candidate in the 4th Con
  
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• Letter: Regarding the Cottonwood Mall site: We do not want to cause more division or contention in Holladay

  04-11-2018 22:02
  In response to inquiries about the redevelopment of the Cottonwood Mall site, the status of Utah Supreme Court’s ruling and the referendum before Holladay’s voters, we felt it was important to share the following with readers and broader public:In the absence of a ruling by the Utah Supreme Court, Ivory Homes and the Woodbury Corp. have chosen not to campaign in support of our redevelopment of the former Cottonwood Mall site. As a reminder, our companies did not seek a zoning change,
  
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• Letter of the Week: Honor America’s veteran’s by voting

  04-11-2018 22:00
  Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018, will be an especially poignant Veterans Day for remembrance, marking as it does the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.I’ll remember the regrets that my grandmother expressed about her brother, my great-uncle, killed in action in France during the last days of that war. The only son of immigrants, he left his widowed mother and five sisters when he volunteered. He felt a responsibility to serve this country.On a day that honors all veterans, I’ll remem
  
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• Commentary: Prop 4 is good for what ails democracy

  04-11-2018 21:36
  A huge opportunity awaits Utah on Nov. 6 -- an opportunity to vote yes on Proposition 4 and slay one of the great plagues of American democracy, gerrymandering. Every 10 years gerrymandering raises its ugly head and blights the fairness upon which our democracy is predicated. At that time, the state’s ruling political party, using United States Census data, redraws the state legislative and federal congressional districts to secure their political advantage. In 2010, the pernicious effects
  
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• North Ogden Mayor Brent Taylor, killed in Afghanistan, remembered as ‘a man of excellence' by Utah National Guard and Gov. Herbert

  04-11-2018 20:57
  Draper • Calling Brent Taylor “a man of excellence,” Utah National Guard Maj. Gen. Jefferson S. Burton lamented the death of the guardsman and mayor of North Ogden who was killed in an insider attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday.“He is a heavy loss for us and he will be missed,” said Burton, at a news conference held Sunday.Taylor’s remains will arrive at Dover Air Force base Monday evening. His funeral is still being planned.Taylor, a trainer of Afghan co
  
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• Office spaces in Salt Lake City: With costs rising and land at a premium, folks are getting creative, even setting up shop in shipping containers

  04-11-2018 20:30
  If you want to understand the latest trends in Salt Lake City office spaces, look at some of the effects of a sizzling economy.Utah could gain as many as 50,000 jobs this year — and workers need workplaces. Salt Lake County is expected to absorb up to a million square feet of new office digs, on par with its growth trajectory in recent years.Utah County will add about 1.5 million square feet, if the latest projections are a clue, with rapid office growth driven by the magnet of Silicon Slo
  
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• BYU in Review: Coaching blunders contributed to another close loss at Boise State for mistake-prone Cougars

  04-11-2018 19:34
  Boise • Jeff Grimes deserves credit for calling the screen play that went for 59 yards and put BYU into position to upset Boise State late Saturday night.But the Cougars’ first-year offensive coordinator, along with third-year head coach Kalani Sitake, deserve a good portion of the blame for mismanaging the clock and and making some questionable play calls once BYU got there in the eventual 21-16 loss.“This one will hurt a little bit,” Sitake said. “I am proud of all
  
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• Commentary: My cousin received wonderful care at the Salt Lake City VA

  04-11-2018 19:25
  Back in May, a tweet with pictures of a messy casting room at the Salt Lake City Veterans Administration Hospital went viral. The room was a mess, and that was the story.It was a dirty room where, earlier in the day, eight casts had been put on veterans. Another patient was assigned to the room before it had been thoroughly cleaned and had to wait 45 minutes for care. This resulted in the rant on Twitter. The gist of the tweet was the VA Hospital is a terrible place for our veterans.At the same
  
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• BYU stats professor Jared Ward finishes 6th and as top American athlete at 2018 NYC Marathon

  04-11-2018 19:18
  It’s another impressive number for the math whiz.Former Brigham Young University All-American star and Olympic runner Jared Ward continued his stellar slate of finishes as a professional marathoner, finishing Sunday’s 2018 TCS New York City Marathon in sixth place overall. The 30-year-old finished the race in 2:12.24, the highest-finishing American to compete Sunday.“It’s the place to do it, right? The New York streets are incredible,” he said in an interview on ESP
  
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• Utes in review: Utah’s November becomes more mysterious with Jason Shelley as the QB

  04-11-2018 18:47
  Tempe, Ariz. • Utah’s resounding victory over UCLA to conclude October naturally played into a theme of the Utes' coming back to the Rose Bowl in January as Pac-12 champions.The Utes' 38-20 loss at Arizona State and junior quarterback Tyler Huntley's season-ending collarbone injury Saturday created another potential return trip in December, amid the reality that the Cheez-It Bowl in Phoenix doesn't come with a parade.The sequence of events that ended their QB’s year, their four-
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz Week Four Outlook: Slumping Jazz face daunting home slate

  04-11-2018 17:31 via sportspyder.com
  ... At this rate, the Utah Jazz should be on the lookout for a third string point guard by Josh Padmore ...
  
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• Foundation raising money for Montana land purchase

  04-11-2018 17:11
  Augusta, Mont.• Falls Creek certainly lives up to its name.The hallmark of the stream-carved valley sits hidden in its steep bottom, the creek hitting the edge and dropping a few stories into the pool below. On a recent day, area ranchers Dan and Wyatt Barrett stood on the edge of the canyon, listening to the dull thunder of the falls and looking up the valley jutting north from the Dearborn River.“It’s time to get this opened up,” Dan Barrett told Helena’s Independe
  
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• Who needs a workplace? More Utahns, like other Americans, are working multiple side gigs to earn extra cash or make ends meet.

  04-11-2018 17:10
  When she’s finished for the day at her accounting job, Natalie Fleming fills up her car with gas and turns on the Uber and Lyft apps on her phone to signify that she’s ready to take riders.Her full-time job pays well, the 26-year-old said, but she drives about 20 hours a week — plus hours spent doing the back-end accounting for a business she’s starting with a friend — as a way to make extra money and to pay rent and various debts.“During the week, I probably
  
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• Utah Jazz Week Four Outlook: Slumping Jazz face daunting home slate

  04-11-2018 17:05
  The Utah Jazz host some daunting foes in Week Four. Fortunately, weary opponents and resting players may give Utah a slight edge that they wouldn’t otherwise have. While there are certainly plenty of reasons to refrain from hitting the panic button for the Utah Jazz, there’s also no denying that the team is off to […]
  Utah Jazz Week Four Outlook: Slumping Jazz face daunting home slate - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Tired and angry, migrant caravan splinters in Mexico

  04-11-2018 16:25
  Isla, Mexico • A 4,000-strong caravan of Central American migrants traveling through Mexico split up into several groups with one spending the night in a town in the coastal state of Veracruz and other migrants continuing toward the country’s capital.The divisions came during a tense day in which tempers flared and some migrants argued with caravan organizers and criticized Mexican officials. They were upset that Veracruz Gov. Miguel Angel Yunes had reneged on an offer late Friday to
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - At this rate, the Utah Jazz should be on the lookout for a third string point guard

  04-11-2018 16:10 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz subject to late thrashing, injury scares in Denver by Ryan Aston ...
  
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• A WWII chaplain collected glass shards from destroyed European churches. They’ve been transformed into art on display in Salt Lake City.

  04-11-2018 16:04
  Walking through places of worship destroyed in World War II, U.S. Army Chaplain Frederick A. McDonald saw glass everywhere, the “deeply smoked” fragments of shattered stained-glass windows.“The shards represented something deep that you want to remember about this,” he later said. “It’s so often a little thing that can bring back a flood of memories.”As he collected the shards in 1944 and 1945, he mailed them back home to Seattle, but he didn’t kno
  
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• At this rate, the Utah Jazz should be on the lookout for a third string point guard

  04-11-2018 15:44
  While Raul Neto is solid, I think it’s time for the Utah Jazz to scour the basketball world in pursuit of a third string point guard.  Unfortunately, seeing Raul Neto‘s name on the Utah Jazz injury report has become a trend over the last few years. He’s played in just 81 of a potential 164 […]
  At this rate, the Utah Jazz should be on the lookout for a third string point guard - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: HGTV’s ‘Property Brothers’ insist they don’t try to trick viewers about their renovation budgets

  04-11-2018 15:00
  As someone who watches TV for a living, I’m often asked: What do you watch for fun? My immediate answer: HGTV.I watch that channel way too much. I watch “Flip or Flop.” And “Desert Flippers.” And “Love It or List It.” And on and on. I prefer the remodeling shows to the real-estate shows, but I’ll watch “My Lottery Dream Home” or “House Hunters” — although I’d rather watch “House Hunters: Renovation.”A
  
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• Musical ‘Come From Away,’ coming to Eccles Theater, shows the bonds among strangers after 9/11

  04-11-2018 15:00
  Commercial flights had crashed into the north and south towers of the World Trade Center. Other planes appeared hijacked. For the first time in history, the Federal Aviation Administration closed U.S. airspace, and thousands of planes were suddenly looking for a nearby place to land.The isolated town of Gander, Newfoundland, on Canada’s east coast, had an enormous airstrip that was no longer being used, a relic of a time when transatlantic flights needed a place to refuel.One after another
  
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• Gomberg: I often avoid talking politics with my family, but a friend’s brave email has me reconsidering

  04-11-2018 15:00
  Bringing up politics with family members can be a lot like putting salt on a slug. The two things can coexist just fine, but when they come together, bad things happen. Like, burns and foaming at the mouth bad.That’s because politics isn’t for everyone, campaign seasons are too long, the heated debates can become relationship-enders and that stuff pales in comparison to casual observations about the weather or the familiar silence of screen scrolling.Except …What the actual cr
  
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• Gehrke: If Utah’s county jails don’t like a little transparency when inmates die, it’s time they stop taking state tax dollars

  04-11-2018 15:00
  Heather Ashton Miller was sent to the Davis County jail on a drug paraphernalia possession charge in 2016. She was two days into her sentence when she fell off her bunk and ruptured her spleen. A liter of blood spilled into her body, and she died hours later on the way to the hospital.Calvin and Kim Ostler are suing the Salt Lake County jail, alleging their daughter, Lisa Marie Ostler, was given insufficient medical treatment before she died from digestive inflammation.And Ashley Evan Jessop, 35
  
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• Draper City Council initiates plan to restrict future expansion of mines

  04-11-2018 15:00
  The Draper City Council has initiated a process to restrict future expansion of mining operations in the city, citing adverse impacts to residents as the primary concern motivating the decision.“We received an application from Geneva Rock a couple of times and the council got to discussing it and felt that it was important to the community for them to take a look at mining,” Draper spokesman Maridene Alexander told The Salt Lake Tribune.Geneva Rock, a gravel mining company, is one of
  
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• Commentary: We must find common ground to prevent violence

  04-11-2018 15:00
  The rabbi in Concord, N.H., where I grew up, sent out an email to congregants this week explaining that the front doors of our temple will now be locked during religious school. It is a prudent security step. But it’s hard to stomach the physical hardening of a place I bounded freely through as a child — a seamless doorway between secular and spiritual, where engagement with community outside is as sacred as the Torah scrolls inside.I learned about the Pittsburgh shooting in the dark
  
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• Commentary: Upper-class greed is at the root of America’s problems

  04-11-2018 15:00
  Three major factors in Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler achieving power were mass rallies, a patriotic slogan and disillusionment over loss of influence in the world. Power was gained more easily and faster in Trump’s case because TV carries his message to millions rather than the thousands who could attend a Hitler rally.Their slogans were similar: “Deutschland Über Alles” and “USA! USA! We’re #1.” Their main appeal was (is) to people who saw the world pass
  
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• Commentary: The Jews of American know: It never went away

  04-11-2018 15:00
  My wife is Jewish.Telling you that a couple of weeks ago probably would have prompted different images than it does following the greatest mass killing of Jews in the history of our republic. And depending on your politics, and in addition to the anti-Semite who did the shooting, you may have people you are inclined to blame.But blaming is less important to me in this moment of tragedy for Jewish peoples than trying to know, to accept, to understand the country in which we have been suffering an
  
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• Commentary: Our best guesses help us fill in our blind spots

  04-11-2018 15:00
  Gregory Clark seems to make us uncomfortable, and for that I congratulate him. The responses to his frequent op-ed pieces on religion and belief are always interesting, but no more so than Clark and his pointed, bare-fisted and often troubling articles.I really don’t understand the problem. He has his beliefs. And, being a scientist and a humanist and a nonbeliever, his beliefs, theories, philosophies and ideas are also often just unproven guesses. Assumptions in science are often part of
  
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• Dana Milbank: This time, our eyes are wide open

  04-11-2018 14:30
  Washington -- This time, our eyes are wide open.Exactly two years ago, many Americans held their noses and voted for Donald Trump. Some were conservatives willing to tolerate his vulgar excesses in hopes of getting tax cuts, a repeal of Obamacare and a friendlier judiciary. Others had Clinton fatigue. Sure, they were concerned about Trump's words about Mexican "rapists" and what he liked to do to women -- but maybe those were just words.Maybe Trump could build a coalition across traditional part
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Harris scores 20, Nuggets rally in 4th and beat Jazz 103-88

  04-11-2018 12:41 via sportspyder.com
  ...scored just 11 in the last two games combined, but Denver has won both. The Jazz led 77-71 early in the fourth quarter but went cold as Denver took control....
  
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• Donovan Mitchell tweaks an ankle, Jazz fall apart late in 103-88 loss to the Denver Nuggets

  04-11-2018 10:31
  Denver • On a night the Jazz finally found the defense gone missing so long ago it was about to go on the side of a milk carton, they saw their shooting touch disappear.On a night initially buoyed by the return of Donovan Mitchell from a hamstring injury, it turned scary when he came down awkwardly after a contorting fourth-quarter layup attempt resulted in him twisting his ankle and being carried to the locker room.On a night where there were so many encouraging signs for Utah, things stil
  
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• No. 18 Utah State routs Hawaii 56-17 for its eighth consecutive win

  04-11-2018 10:18
  Honolulu • Utah State extended its winning streak Saturday, while Hawaii tried to keep its season from slipping away.Darwin Thompson and Gerold Bright each ran for three touchdowns as No. 18 Utah State won its eighth straight game, 56-17 over Hawaii on Saturday night.The Aggies (8-1, 5-0 Mountain West) amassed 601 yards of total offense, including 426 rushing, and had a pair of 28-point quarters to pull away from the Rainbow Warriors (6-5, 3-3)."We've started well lately," Utah State coach
  
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• More blues in Boise as BYU rally falls just short in 21-16 loss to Broncos

  04-11-2018 07:01
  Boise, Idaho • BYU’s futility streak on the blue turf of Boise State’s Albertsons Stadium continued Saturday night, again in one of the most excruciating ways possible. The Cougars can mostly blame themselves. Once again, red-zone failures, penalties and costly turnovers plagued BYU’s offense, bone-headed mistakes tortured BYU’s special teams, and Boise State quarterback Brett Rypien and his clock-eating offense did the rest against a BYU defense that couldn’t
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz fall apart in fourth quarter as Nikola Jokic passes out 16 assists in Denver victory

  04-11-2018 06:40 via sportspyder.com
  ... ny as nine points. However, it all fell apart in the final 12 minutes as the Jazz suddenly went cold from the field (23.5 percent), while the Nuggets shot 56...
  
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• Utah Jazz fall apart in fourth quarter as Nikola Jokic passes out 16 assists in Denver victory

  04-11-2018 06:26
  DENVER — During his three years in the NBA, Denver's Nikola Jokic hasn't hurt the Utah Jazz too much. Last year, he averaged just 8.7 points and 8.7 rebounds in four games last year against Utah, well below his season marks.In Saturday night's game, Jokic again didn't score many points, finishing with just seven points on 3-of-9 shooting, well off his 19.4 average this season. Where the 7-foot, 250-pound center did kill the Jazz was with his passing as he dished out 16 assists, half of his
  
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• [NBA] - The Roundup—Jazz lose in Denver after cold-shooting fourth quarter

  04-11-2018 06:24 via sportspyder.com
  ... me, has now scored in double figures in seven of Utah's nine games. r — Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) Key Stretches After an even, back-and-forth first half, the Jazz ...
  
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• Mitchell tweaks an ankle, Jazz fall apart late in 103-88 loss to the Denver Nuggets

  04-11-2018 06:18
  Denver • On a night the Jazz finally found the defense gone missing so long ago it was about to go on the side of a milk carton, they saw their shooting touch disappear.On a night initially buoyed by the return of Donovan Mitchell from a hamstring injury, it turned scary when he came down awkwardly after a contorting fourth-quarter layup attempt resulted in him twisting his ankle and being carried to the locker room.On a night where there were so many encouraging signs for Utah, things stil
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz subject to late thrashing, injury scares in Denver

  04-11-2018 06:11 via sportspyder.com
  ... taped, which is probably the best thing that happened in the contest for the Jazz band. Where actual in-game performance was concerned, Jae Crowder was perhap ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Donovan Mitchell has injury scare, Utah Jazz lose third straight

  04-11-2018 06:08 via sportspyder.com
  ... pida-less Utah team. The Jazz went into the fourth quarter with a five point lead and when Mitchell left,...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Defense hasn't been up to par in Utah Jazz's slow start this season

  04-11-2018 06:07 via sportspyder.com
  ...year has been the play of Paul Millsap, who got his NBA start with the Utah Jazz as a little-known mid-second round draft pick out of Louisiana Tech. Because ...
  
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• Can pot save the pumpkin farm?

  04-11-2018 06:05
  Half Moon Bay, Calif. • John Muller steered his tractor left onto Main Street, four Atlantic Giant pumpkins in tow, and thousands of people at the pumpkin parade screamed with delight.But there were many others, spread throughout the festival that day, who feared the famous farmer had led the city down an uncertain path, demanding changes that couldn't be undone and attempting to enrich himself in the process.They are determined to stop “Farmer John,” even if it means putting hi
  
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• 📓| Jazz appear to dodge serious injury in loss to Nuggets » on.nba.com/2AMHDZb

  04-11-2018 06:03 via twitter.com
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