Basketball - Utah Jazz news

• Kim Fischer leaves anchor desk at KTVX Ch. 4 after seven years

  26-11-2018 23:35
  Kim Fischer, part of the anchor team on KTVX-Ch. 4’s newscast for seven years, read her last news story just before Thanksgiving.Fischer told viewers on her final newscast Wednesday she is leaving for a new job at Waterford Institute, a Sandy-based education technology company. She said she will be involved with the company’s UPSTART program, a state-sponsored online preschool that prepares 4- and 5-year-olds for kindergarten.No permanent replacement has been named.As Wednesday&rsquo
  
  Read more

• These guys, again? Utah will face Washington’s Myles Gaskin and Jake Browning for a fifth time

  26-11-2018 23:34
  Washington’s Myles Gaskin is the Pac-12′s No. 3 all-time rusher with more than 5,000 yards. Nearly 10 percent of those yards have come vs. Utah’s proud defense, and the Huskies' tailback will take one last shot against the Utes in Friday’s Pac-12 championship game.Thanks to the Pac-12's scheduling rotation and the extra meeting they've earned as the Pac-12 South champions, the Utes will become the only team to face Gaskin and Washington quarterback Jake Browning five time
  
  Read more

• Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox praises ‘ridiculous’ jump in Utah voter turnout after statewide canvass of election results

  26-11-2018 23:33
  Voter turnout for this year’s midterm election in Utah hit a more than 50-year high, according to statewide numbers released Monday as part of the formal canvass of election results.A total of 1,082,972 ballots were cast this year, which equates to 75.55 percent of registered voters and 52 percent of the state’s vote-eligible population.“You’re going to have to go all the way down to 1962 to find anything near that in a midterm [year],” said Justin Lee, state electi
  
  Read more

• Inland Port opponents criticize naming of oil and gas advocates to new technical committee

  26-11-2018 23:31
  In advance of the Inland Port Authority Board’s meeting on Monday, a group opposed to the planned development are raising concerns about the inclusion of fossil fuel interests on a new committee.Board Chair Derek Miller proposed the technical committee at last month’s meeting as a way for experts to begin answering the economic, transportation and environmental questions posed by what has been billed as the state’s largest-ever economic development project.He pitched the inclus
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Commentary: Why the ‘Catholic Church’ is different than the ‘Catholic hierarchy’

  26-11-2018 23:25 via sportspyder.com
  It is time to stop using the term “Catholic Church” as a synonym for “Catholic hierarchy.”
  
  Read more

• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Threes of the Week - 11.26.18

  26-11-2018 23:15 via sportspyder.com
  Threes of the Week presented by: Mountain America Credit Union. https://www.macu.com/
  
  Read more

• Commentary: Why the ‘Catholic Church’ is different than the ‘Catholic hierarchy’

  26-11-2018 23:14
  It is time to stop using the term “Catholic Church” as a synonym for “Catholic hierarchy.”We all do it. “The church teaches such and such.” “The church lobbied against gay marriage.” “The church failed to protect children.” “The church is homophobic and sexist.” “The church is authoritarian.” “I hate the church.”The word “church” has multiple meanings. One theologian counted more than a do
  
  Read more

• Bagley Cartoon: Nine Lives to Live

  26-11-2018 23:07
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/11/24/bagley-cartoon-team-trump/"><u>Team Trump</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/11/21/bagley-cartoon-pilgrims/"><u>Pilgrim’s Progress</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/11/20/bagley-cartoon/">
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Jae Crowder’s newfound starter status needs to be permanent

  26-11-2018 22:55 via sportspyder.com
  With Jae Crowder starting in place of Derrick Favors, the Utah Jazz offense exploded in Sunday's win over the Sacramento Kings. In every facet of life, it ...
  
  Read more

• Police searching for man who held his wife and child hostage in Magna for almost a week

  26-11-2018 22:48
  Police are searching for a man who allegedly took his estranged wife and child hostage and held them in their Magna home for six days.SWAT surrounded the home on Monday after the woman escaped, but the suspect — Elias Christopher Lorenzo Garcia — was not inside when they arrived, said Sgt. Melody Gray of the Unified Police Department.“Sometime last Tuesday, the suspect showed up at the house” at 3731 S. 8000 West, Gray said. “He wanted the children for Thanksgiving.
  
  Read more

• NASA spacecraft InSight lands on Mars after six-month journey

  26-11-2018 22:42
  Cape Canaveral, Fla. • A NASA spacecraft designed to burrow beneath the surface of Mars landed on the red planet Monday after a six-month, 300 million-mile journey and a perilous, six-minute descent through the rose-hued atmosphere.After waiting in white-knuckle suspense for confirmation to arrive from space, flight controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., leaped out of their seats and erupted in screams, applause and laughter as the news came in that the t
  
  Read more

• Utah Jazz: Jae Crowder’s newfound starter status needs to be permanent

  26-11-2018 22:39
  With Jae Crowder starting in place of Derrick Favors, the Utah Jazz offense exploded in Sunday’s win over the Sacramento Kings. In every facet of life, it takes some measure of courage to enact change. Even when a particular course of action is clear and just, actually putting it into practice can be an agonizing […]
  Utah Jazz: Jae Crowder’s newfound starter status needs to be permanent - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
  Read more

• "He'll pop a three! 👀 It's up! 😲 BANG! 😤 What a shot! 😎" #ThreesoftheWeek | @MountainAmerica https://t.co/h3jl7IdO08

  26-11-2018 22:36 via twitter.com
  
  "He'll pop a three! 👀 It's up! 😲 BANG! 😤 What a shot! 😎" #ThreesoftheWeek |@MountainAmerica https://t.co/h3jl7IdO08
  
  Read more

• [Clutchpoints] - Donovan Mitchell, Victor Oladipo out for Jazz vs. Pacers

  26-11-2018 22:28 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz are scheduled to host the Indiana Pacers on Monday night, but the Jazz are going to be without the services of Donovan Mitchell, who will be missing his second consecutive game due to a rib contusion. Donovan Mitchell will be OUT tonight...
  
  Read more

• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jennifer Rubin: The price Republicans pay for embracing know-nothingism

  26-11-2018 22:21 via sportspyder.com
  For years, Republicans have refused to acknowledge the overwhelming scientific consensus about climate change. With the Trump administration’s own report confirming both the fact and urgency of climate change, some Republicans are begrudgingly moving to..
  
  Read more

• Jennifer Rubin: The price Republicans pay for embracing know-nothingism

  26-11-2018 22:13
  For years, Republicans have refused to acknowledge the overwhelming scientific consensus about climate change. With the Trump administration’s own report confirming both the fact and urgency of climate change, some Republicans are begrudgingly moving to concede reality — in the most equivocal fashion possible. (Other Republicans such as Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida wrongly insist there is doubt that climate change is man-made, despite the danger that increasingly extreme climate condi
  
  Read more

• Over the last 5 games, Ricky Rubio is averaging 19 points per game in under 28 minutes a night while shooting 50% f… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-11-2018 21:19 via twitter.com
  Over the last 5 games, Ricky Rubio is averaging 19 points per game in under 28 minutes a night while shooting 50% f… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
  Read more

• Could 6-6 BYU be left out of a bowl game? It’s possible, with more eligible teams than there are bowl slots.

  26-11-2018 21:09
  Provo • As if losing a 20-point lead in the heartbreaking 35-27 loss to Utah in the rivalry game late Saturday night wasn’t agonizing enough for BYU, coach Kalani Sitake’s football team faces more torment this week as it awaits a bowl invitation.A postseason berth for the 6-6 Cougars is not quite as certain as it appeared to be two weeks ago when they demolished New Mexico State 45-10 to get bowl-eligible, because there are at least 81 teams that fit that description and only 78
  
  Read more

• Utah high school teacher arrested for allegedly shooting and killing her ex-husband’s girlfriend as her children watched

  26-11-2018 20:54
  A Utah high school health teacher was arrested Sunday after police say she shot and killed her ex-husband’s girlfriend.Chelsea Watrous Cook, 32, was booked into the Salt Lake County jail on suspicion of aggravated murder on Sunday evening after she allegedly came to her ex’s apartment to give one of her children cold medicine, then pulled out a gun and fired it towards 26-year-old Lisa Vilate Williams.Williams was struck twice in the torso, according to a probable cause affidavit, an
  
  Read more

• [Deseret Morning News] - Donovan Mitchell out again for Monday night's Utah Jazz game against Indiana Pacers

  26-11-2018 20:53 via sportspyder.com
  Star guard will miss his second straight full game because of a rib contusion.
  
  Read more

• [Bleacher Report] - Donovan Mitchell Won't Play vs. Pacers with Rib Injury

  26-11-2018 20:53 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell won't play Monday against the Indiana Pacers because of a rib contusion, the team announced . Mitchell finished second in the 2017-18 Rookie of the Year voting after averaging 20...
  
  Read more

• Donovan Mitchell out again for Monday night's Utah Jazz game against Indiana Pacers

  26-11-2018 20:51
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz will again be without their top offensive weapon Monday night at Vivint Arena against the Indiana Pacers, as the team announced in the afternoon that shooting guard Donovan Mitchell will sit out because of the rib contusion he suffered last week.It will mark the second straight game Mitchell will be sidelined after he was injured in the first half of last Friday night's game against the Los Angeles Lakers. The Jazz lost that game 90-83 but beat the Sacramento
  
  Read more

• “Now to have the chance to play for a team that I watched in those Finals ... to have a chance to wear that jersey… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-11-2018 20:42 via twitter.com
  “Now to have the chance to play for a team that I watched in those Finals ... to have a chance to wear that jersey… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
  Read more

• On Cyber Monday, Pope Francis urges generosity, not consumerism

  26-11-2018 20:38
  Vatican City • Pope Francis says the “sickness of consumerism” is the enemy of generosity as he called for the faithful to give a little something to the poor.Francis made the comments during his morning homily Monday, so-called Cyber Monday, when online retailers woo shoppers with bargains ahead of Christmas.Francis made no mention of Christmas shopping — in Italy, the official season begins Dec. 8 — but his plea for generosity will likely be repeated in coming week
  
  Read more

• Donovan Mitchell is OUT tonight against Indiana (rib contusion).

  26-11-2018 20:24 via twitter.com
  Donovan Mitchell is OUT tonight against Indiana (rib contusion).
  
  Read more

• ‘It’s a deceptive practice’: More women are speaking out about the risks linked to breast implants

  26-11-2018 20:16
  Washington • To all the world, it looked like breast implants were safe. From 2008 to 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration publicly reported 200 or so complaints annually — a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of implant surgeries performed each year.Then last fall thousands of problems with breast implants flooded the FDA's system. More than 4,000 injury reports filed in the last half of 2017. Another 8,000 in the first six months of 2018.Suddenly, women like Jamee Coo
  
  Read more

• 🏀: #INDatUTA 🎟: bit.ly/2ByTKcM 📍: @vivintarena 📺: @ATTSportsNetRM (Xfinity: 693, DirectTV: 683-1, Dish:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-11-2018 20:05 via twitter.com
  🏀: #INDatUTA🎟: bit.ly/2ByTKcM 📍: @vivintarena 📺: @ATTSportsNetRM (Xfinity: 693, DirectTV: 683-1, Dish:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
  Read more

• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - 40 seasons in Utah: Being part of a legacy

  26-11-2018 19:57 via sportspyder.com
  Close This video is unavailable. Watch Queue Queue Watch Queue Queue Remove all Disconnect The next video is starting stop Loading... Get YouTube without the ads. Working...
  
  Read more

• [Salt Lake Tribune] - ‘It’s a deceptive practice:’ More women are speaking out about the risks linked to breast implants

  26-11-2018 19:43 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • To all the world, it looked like breast implants were safe. From 2008 to 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration publicly reported 200 or so complaints annually — a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of implant surgeries...
  
  Read more

• [NBA] - Classic connections: 40th-season bridges past and present for Utah Jazz players

  26-11-2018 19:36 via sportspyder.com
  Every day for one school year when he was 7 or 8, Raul Neto would open up his book and see it: a picture of John Stockton taped onto the first page. Neto’s father was a fan of the legendary point guard, which meant the young Neto was, too. He still...
  
  Read more

• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz face shorthanded Indiana Pacers in back-to-back bid

  26-11-2018 19:30 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz will look to protect home court on Monday night, something they haven't done well to this point, and get redemption on the Indiana Pacers. Fo...
  
  Read more

• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Highlights: Jazz 133 | Kings 112

  26-11-2018 19:22 via sportspyder.com
  Close This video is unavailable. Watch Queue Queue Watch Queue Queue Remove all Disconnect The next video is starting stop Loading... Get YouTube without the ads. Working...
  
  Read more

• Rep. Mia Love takes shots at Trump, McAdams and news media in her first public appearance since election loss

  26-11-2018 19:20
  Mia Love speaks after conceding to Ben McAdamsRep. Mia Love is holding a news conference after conceding to Ben McAdams in the race for Utah's 4th Congressional District.Posted by Fox 13 News on Monday, November 26, 2018Just-defeated GOP Rep. Mia Love fired farewell shots Monday at Republicans, Democrats, President Donald Trump and the news media — with a special volley aimed at the man who beat her, Democratic Rep.-elect Ben McAdams.“I believe that we have elected a wolf in sheep&r
  
  Read more

• GM to slash up to 14,000 jobs in North America

  26-11-2018 19:20
  Detroit • General Motors will lay off up to 14,000 factory and white-collar workers in North America and put five plants up for possible closure as it restructures to cut costs and focus more on autonomous and electric vehicles.The reduction includes 8,100 white-collar workers, some of whom will take buyouts and others who will be laid off. Some U.S. factory workers could transfer to truck or SUV factories that are increasing production.Most of the affected factories build cars that won't b
  
  Read more

• Oscar-winning director Bernardo Bertolucci dies at 77

  26-11-2018 19:17
  Rome • Italian film-maker Bernardo Bertolucci, who won Oscars with “The Last Emperor” and whose erotic drama “Last Tango in Paris” enthralled and shocked the world, died Monday. He was 77.Bertolucci's press office, Punto e Virgola, confirmed the death in an email to The Associated Press. Italy's state-run RAI said Bertolucci died at his home in Rome, surrounded by family."He will be remembered among the greatest in Italian and world film," the Venice Film Festival, w
  
  Read more

• Utah Jazz face shorthanded Indiana Pacers in back-to-back bid

  26-11-2018 19:12
  The Utah Jazz will look to protect home court on Monday night, something they haven’t done well to this point, and get redemption on the Indiana Pacers. Following one of the better team victories of the season in Sacramento, the Utah Jazz are right back at it less than 24 hours later. They’re looking to […]
  Utah Jazz face shorthanded Indiana Pacers in back-to-back bid - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
  Read more

• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Just a regular team? The Utes plowed through all the checkpoints on their way to the Pac-12 championship game vs. Washington

  26-11-2018 19:07 via sportspyder.com
  At times this season, USC linebacker Jordan Iosefa was absolutely right. Utah did look like “just a regular team” in significant chunks of the Utes' three losses and even parts of their nine victories.
  
  Read more

• Just a regular team? The Utes plowed through all the checkpoints on their way to the Pac-12 championship game vs. Washington

  26-11-2018 19:01
  At times this season, USC linebacker Jordan Iosefa was absolutely right. Utah did look like “just a regular team” in significant chunks of the Utes' three losses and even parts of their nine victories.Yet the way the No. 17 Utes overcame those struggles is exactly why they’re extraordinary. Utah persevered on the way to the program’s first Pac-12 title game Friday vs. No. 10 Washington at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.While proving Iosefa wrong, they’ve
  
  Read more

• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Rep. Mia Trump takes shots at Trump, McAdams news media in her first public appearance since election loss

  26-11-2018 18:55 via sportspyder.com
  Just-defeated GOP Rep. Mia Love fired farewell shots Monday at Republicans, Democrats, President Donald Trump and the news media — with a special volley aimed at the man who beat her, Democratic Rep.-elect Ben McAdams.
  
  Read more

• 🐐 twitter.com/statmuse/statu…

  26-11-2018 18:46 via twitter.com
  🐐 twitter.com/statmuse/statu…
  
  Read more

• Alexandra Petri: This is exactly what I meant by ‘Make America Great Again’

  26-11-2018 18:44
  This, specifically, is exactly what I thought of when I wanted to Make America Great Again. To the letter. Donald Trump has delivered on his promise, to me and to other voters.I wanted a president who would stand up to our greatest threats (journalists, White House Correspondents' Association Dinner comedians, the institution of First Dog, the French, generals, John McCain) and embrace America's truest allies (Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, Saudi Arabia in general, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un
  
  Read more

• Max Boot: The only cause our president is willing to serve is his own well-being

  26-11-2018 18:43
  For more than 800 years — ever since the Magna Carta was issued in 1215 — British and then American philosophers and politicians have been fighting to limit the power of their political leaders. That is why the English Civil War and the American Revolution were fought. That is why in 1689 the English Parliament issued a Bill of Rights that declared that “suspending the laws or the execution of laws by regal authority without consent of Parliament is illegal.”That is why i
  
  Read more

• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz center Rudy Gobert thinks emphasis on freedom of movement rules is hurting Utah’s defense

  26-11-2018 17:46 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz big man Rudy Gobert recently offered an explanation on why he believes his team has been in a funk as of late. According to the 7-foot-1 center, the league’s clamping down on freedom of movement rules has resulted in a negative impact on the...
  
  Read more

• Don’t forget, this is happening now! ⤵️ twitter.com/utahjazz/statu…

  26-11-2018 17:32 via twitter.com
  Don’t forget, this is happening now! ⤵️ twitter.com/utahjazz/statu…
  
  Read more

• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Raul Neto has breakthrough game in Sac-Town

  26-11-2018 17:31 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz got a big boost from their third-string point guard, Raul Neto, in route to a blowout victory over the Sacramento Kings on Sunday night. When...
  
  Read more

• Utah Jazz: Raul Neto has breakthrough game in Sac-Town

  26-11-2018 17:13
  The Utah Jazz got a big boost from their third-string point guard, Raul Neto, in route to a blowout victory over the Sacramento Kings on Sunday night. When Raul Neto plays, he can be effective and make an impact for the Utah Jazz. The problem is that he hasn’t been healthy. Utah’s bout with the […]
  Utah Jazz: Raul Neto has breakthrough game in Sac-Town - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
  Read more

• Second man in car that killed South Salt Lake Police officer released without charges

  26-11-2018 16:48
  The man who was a passenger in the car that struck and killed a South Salt Lake Police officer on Saturday night has been released from custody and faces no charges.Officer David Romrell, 31, was killed when he and his partner responded to the report of a burglary at a business complex at 3575 S. West Temple about 5:30 p.m. Saturday. They confronted Felix Anthony Calata, 31, who was in his car when officers arrived. Calata accelerated and struck Romrell, who — despite emergency surgery &md
  
  Read more

• Letter: We can be humane to animals

  26-11-2018 16:41
  I read a couple of stories recently that highlighted an irony regarding the treatment of animals raised for food.A group of activists came to the Utah Capitol with letters for the governor and dead piglets from a local factory farm in hand. They described the raising of pigs in gestation and battery cages that restrict the animals from any freedom of movement. They identified the barbaric methods of killing these piglets simply because they may have been too small to be of commercial value.In co
  
  Read more

• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz’s Derrick Favors not changing mindset after move to bench

  26-11-2018 16:40 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz moved big man Derrick Favors to the bench after going through a tough stretch, losing three straight games and five of their last six. The move paid off in a big way, as the Jazz had a rousing 21-point win on the road against the Sacramento.
  
  Read more

• Letter: Evil is done by people, not God

  26-11-2018 16:32
  I think John Dombek was right in saying that God does not start and end wars. The same with religious wars. I don't think that God started them either. They were all started by people "in the name of God."God gets praised and thanked for many things, but who says that he did what we thank him for? Paul said that we are the temple of God and that he will dwell in us; the Quakers called true religion “the Inward Light" within individuals. We only have to connect to it.The Buddha said in 600
  
  Read more

Follow @UtahJazz_News_ on Twitter!