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• Jazz’s Raul Neto probable to return against Phoenix after missing last 12 games with groin strain

  05-02-2019 23:50
  SALT LAKE CITY — After playing for nearly a full month without a legitimate backup point guard, Raul Neto is probable to return against Phoenix at home on Wednesday.Neto participated in today's practice after sitting for the last 12 games with a left groin strain.In his fourth season, he's averaging 4.9 points, 2.0 assists and 1.5 boards in 12 minutes, but the depth is necessary for the Jazz roster as they prepare to enter a pivotal stretch of the year."We took a couple injuries, we're pla
  
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• The Jazz’s month of being short-handed means everyone is trying to step up, but has had the trickle-down effect of lesser bench production

  05-02-2019 23:49
  It’s been a month now since the Jazz have been anywhere near full-strength.Dante Exum and Thabo Sefolosha both went down in the Jan. 5 game in Detroit. Ricky Rubio went out in the next game, Jan. 7 in Milwaukee. And Raul Neto went out in the subsequent game, Jan. 9 against Orlando.Well, Rubio has already made his return to game action, and Neto participated in Tuesday’s practice at Zions Bank Basketball Campus and is now probable to play Wednesday vs. Phoenix. Sefolosha has been ramp
  
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• Documentary ‘Knock Down the House,’ starring Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, wins Sundance’s Festival Favorite prize

  05-02-2019 23:23
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has found a constituency that really likes her, outside her congressional district in Brooklyn and The Bronx: Moviegoers at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.Director Rachel Years’ documentary “Knock Down the House,” which chronicled Ocasio-Cortez’ underdog victory and the unsuccessful campaigns of three other insurgent Democrats, has won the Festival Favorite award, the Sundance Institute announced Tuesday.The award is decided by audiences att
  
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  05-02-2019 23:11 via twitter.com
  
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• Here’s how Utah Jazz players are approaching NBA trade deadline week

  05-02-2019 22:57
  SALT LAKE CITY — As the clock ticks, with the NBA trade deadline looming, the mood was relatively light inside the Zions Bank Basketball Campus on Tuesday afternoon.Raul Neto returned to practice after missing the past 12 games with a left groin strain, while center Rudy Gobert shot 5-for-10 from corner 3-pointers with assistant coach Vince Legarza and members of the staff.Even as connected as this year's Jazz team has been throughout the year, that could certainly change in a couple of da
  
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• Senate committee unanimously approves gender-neutral amendments to the Utah Constitution

  05-02-2019 22:44
  Utah’s state constitution would lose much of its gender-specific terminology under a proposed amendment that sailed past a Senate panel on Tuesday.Members of the Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee voted unanimously for SJR7, which would edit the constitution’s language to replace “husband” and “wife” with “spouse,” and swaps out words like “man,” “him" and “he” with “person,”
  
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• Woman dies after being struck by foul ball at Dodger Stadium

  05-02-2019 22:32
  Los Angeles • A grandmother celebrating her 79th birthday and 59th wedding anniversary at a game at Dodger Stadium last August died four days after being hit in the head by a foul ball.Linda Goldbloom's death Aug. 29 was ruled an accident by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner. She was in the stands Aug. 25 when a ball hit by a San Diego Padres player sailed over protected netting and struck Goldbloom.She died at L.A. County-USC Medical Center. The cause of death was acute intra
  
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• Utes launch the second half of Pac-12 basketball play needing to improve just to duplicate their 5-4 start

  05-02-2019 22:29
  Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak always says he wants his basketball teams to improve throughout the season. His continual emphasis of that subject has created something of a myth about his program.The Utes don't always get better, in terms of wins and losses. Judging by their two nine-game segments of the Pac-12 schedule, the Utes have posted an improved record in the second halves of four of Krystkowiak's previous seven conference seasons. The record shows an average bump of 0.42 wins in the secon
  
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• Did the Utah Legislature do the right thing by overriding the medical marijuana initiative? Poll shows voters are divided.

  05-02-2019 22:03
  The Legislature’s decision to overwrite the medical marijuana initiative with a bill of its own making enraged some advocates and patients, but a new poll suggests voters are more inclined to sanction the substitute.Fifty-one percent of those surveyed in the The Salt Lake Tribune-Hinckley Institute of Politics poll said they supported the changes made by lawmakers during a December special session, held a couple of days after Proposition 2 took effect. The Utah Medical Cannabis Act —
  
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• Rich Lowry: An irrational political culture, about to get more so

  05-02-2019 22:00
  Ralph Northam deserves his current friendless state.The Virginia governor's initial reaction to a shocking image of a man in blackface standing next to someone dressed in a Klan outfit that appeared on his page of his medical school yearbook was to admit one of the figures was him.His news conference the next day taking his confession back was, even if you believe his latest strange account (he supposedly knew nothing about his page or the yearbook), maladroit and cringe-inducing. It included th
  
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• Virginia’s highest office frozen as Northam weighs next move

  05-02-2019 21:58
  Richmond, Va.• Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s office put much of the business of governing on hold Tuesday as the Democrat privately weighed whether he can stay in the job despite the uproar over a racist photo on his 1984 medical school yearbook page.Negotiations between the governor's office and the Republicans who run the legislature were suspended on what was otherwise one of the busiest days on the legislative calendar. Northam wasn't making any of the public appearances he does a
  
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• Winter storm: Utah deputy hit by out-of-control semitrailer truck; Interstate 15 closed between Weber and Box Elder County

  05-02-2019 21:37
  A winter storm is causing congestion and collisions on Utah roads Tuesday, as Utah Highway Patrol troopers report multiple crashes and semitrailer truck slide-offs, including at least one case where a deputy was injured at a crash site. A Rich County deputy was at the scene of semitrailer wreck on State Road 30 near Laketown Canyon, south of Bear Lake, when another semitrailer lost control and struck the deputy. That semitrailer later ran into some rocks and stopped, according to UHP.The deputy
  
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• Jazz’s Quin Snyder happy to welcome back Suns coach, ex-assistant Igor Kokoskov: ‘I care deeply about Igor’

  05-02-2019 21:37
  SALT LAKE CITY — As the Utah Jazz went through one of the greatest turnarounds in NBA history last season, it wasn't a secret that assistant coach Igor Kokoskov was being courted by opposing teams.All along, Jazz head coach Quin Snyder had considered him a head coach in the NBA — even as he served on his staff — so when Kokoskov interviewed for the vacant Phoenix Suns job, he wasn't offended."I think Igor is capable of doing two things at once," Snyder said during the Jazz's fi
  
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• Red Rocks went into the season with enough depth to juggle their lineups. Injuries are now putting that to the test.

  05-02-2019 21:33
  Utah’s gymnastics team went into the season with the intention of using a variety of lineups. But now the those intentions have turned into necessity as several nagging injuries are forcing the Utes to fill their lineups with different options.The fourth-ranked Utes, who host No. 14 California on Saturday, are saddled with three notable injuries with standout MyKayla Skinner hampered by a sore ankle, junior Missy Reinstadtler gimpy with a foot injury and freshman Cristal Isa sidelined with
  
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• Bill to relax legal notices mandate defeated after Utah lawmakers question its impact on newspaper revenue

  05-02-2019 21:28
  A bill loosening the requirement that legal notices be published in a local newspaper was defeated Tuesday in a 35-39 vote of the Utah House.Bill sponsor Rep. Kim Coleman, R-West Jordan, argued that the notices are costly and inefficient, as legal parties can be individually notified without general publication. But Rep. Merrill Nelson, R-Grantsville, objected to the bill, saying that notices provide critical revenue to newspapers, particularly smaller publications that serve Utah’s rural
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Tell The Tribune: We want to hear your most awkward, hilarious and bad date stories

  05-02-2019 21:03 via sportspyder.com
  Dating can be awkward, hilarious and sometimes just plain weird. With Valentine’s Day coming up, we’d like readers to share their best “worst date” stories.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Man suffocates mountain lion who attacked him in Colorado

  05-02-2019 21:03 via sportspyder.com
  Fort Collins, Colo. • Wildlife officials say a man who fought off a young mountain lion on a northern Colorado trail killed the animal by suffocating it.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Pope Francis caps visit to Arabian Peninsula with historic Mass

  05-02-2019 21:02 via sportspyder.com
  Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates • The soft hymns of “Hallelujah” boomed from speakers Tuesday as Pope Francis celebrated the first papal Mass in the Arabian Peninsula for about 180,000 people, capping a visit to the United Arab Emirates that...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: Bummed because football season is over? Cheer up. Another one is about to begin. Enter your Salt Lake Stallions.

  05-02-2019 21:02 via sportspyder.com
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• HQ Trivia, Vine app co-founder Kroll died of drug overdose

  05-02-2019 21:00
  New York • The New York City medical examiner says the death of a tech executive who co-founded the HQ Trivia and Vine apps was caused by an accidental drug overdose.The medical examiner said Tuesday that Colin Kroll died of the combined effects of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine.Police found Kroll at his apartment in December after getting a request for a wellness check.Kroll was the chief executive of the trivia app, which live-streams short trivia shows to users and became popular after its
  
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• Commentary: How the neocons captured Donald Trump

  05-02-2019 21:00
  President Trump's foreign policy has largely been defined by its inconsistency. Venezuela, however, has been an exception. Since the campaign, Trump has maintained that "all options are on the table" for ensuring the removal of the government of Nicolás Maduro. Trump has even openly mused to reporters and foreign leaders about launching military action against the South American country.In recent weeks, the White House has ratcheted up the pressure and sanctions against Maduro's regime an
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - If you loved the new Utah Jazz Vivint ads, you’ll love the bloopers even more!

  05-02-2019 20:54 via sportspyder.com
  How are the bloopers even better?
  
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• [NBA] - Comedian Adam Sandler shoots hoops with the Utah Jazz before Salt Lake City performance

  05-02-2019 20:51 via sportspyder.com
  Adam Sandler was a golf prodigy in “Happy Gilmore” and a football star in “The Waterboy.” But the actor and comedian might want to consider a role on the basketball court in the future.Sandler, who
  
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• Pope Francis caps visit to Arabian Peninsula with historic Mass

  05-02-2019 20:29
  Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates • The soft hymns of “Hallelujah” boomed from speakers Tuesday as Pope Francis celebrated the first papal Mass in the Arabian Peninsula for about 180,000 people, capping a visit to the United Arab Emirates that emphasized the presence of minority Christians in the region and a greater understanding with Islam.It was considered to be the largest display of public worship by Christians on the peninsula, the birthplace of Islam. A large, golden-hued c
  
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• Monson: Bummed because football season is over? Cheer up. Another one is about to begin. Enter your Salt Lake Stallions.

  05-02-2019 20:24
  Are you ready for some more football?The weekend that traditionally is the absolute bleakest, darkest for football fans is the one immediately after Super Bowl Sunday, those poor souls now facing a long and dreary offseason without so much as a jet-sweep, a blitz or a cover-2 in sight.Enter something called the Alliance of American Football, in the general sense, and the Salt Lake Stallions, in the specific.It is a new professional league, the Stallions a team in it, that may or may not grab you
  
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• Tell The Tribune: We want to hear your most awkward, hilarious and bad date stories

  05-02-2019 20:23
  Dating can be awkward, hilarious and sometimes just plain weird. With Valentine’s Day coming up, we’d like readers to share their best “worst date” stories.Your responses won’t be published without your permission. A reporter from The Salt Lake Tribune might reach out for further comment.window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.3.min.js"><\/script>')
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• Man suffocates mountain lion who attacked him in Colorado

  05-02-2019 20:21
  Fort Collins, Colo. • Wildlife officials say a man who fought off a young mountain lion on a northern Colorado trail killed the animal by suffocating it.Colorado Parks and Wildlife says the man was running alone near Fort Collins when the lion attacked him from behind after the movement apparently triggered its hunting instincts.The runner, whose name hasn't been released, fought off the cougar, hiked out of the area after Monday's attack and drove himself to a hospital. He suffered facial
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Students at Sundance explore film through the eyes of faith

  05-02-2019 20:20 via sportspyder.com
  More than 200 seminary and Christian college students, faculty and others who view films through the eyes of faith attended the Sundance Film Festival in Park City.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Islamic State may regroup after US Syria pullout, general says

  05-02-2019 20:20 via sportspyder.com
  President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria won support from the top U.S. general in the region, although he warned Islamic State may try to reassert control and influence after losing its ability to hold territory in the war-
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Teens who use e-cigarettes more likely to start smoking, study says

  05-02-2019 20:15 via sportspyder.com
  Two new studies of e-cigarettes may bolster the U.S. government’s efforts to stem what it calls a growing epidemic of youth vaping.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Pope Francis acknowledges priests, bishops have sexually abused nuns

  05-02-2019 20:15 via sportspyder.com
  Aboard the Papal Plane • Pope Francis has for the first time publicly acknowledged the scandal of priests and bishops sexually abusing nuns and says he is committed to doing more to fight the problem.
  
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• Students at Sundance explore film through the eyes of faith

  05-02-2019 20:08
  More than 200 seminary and Christian college students, faculty and others who view films through the eyes of faith attended the Sundance Film Festival in Park City. The students were part of Windrider Forum, an initiative that began in 2005 with a few dozen students from Fuller Theological Seminary and Biola University. Now an official partner with the festival, Windrider hosts screenings for students from more than 20 Christian schools.Keri Putnam, executive director of the Sundance Institute,
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - BYU still searching for running backs as another football signing day arrives, but Cougars ‘not panicking’ in order to restock position

  05-02-2019 20:08 via sportspyder.com
  Provo • Most of the heavy lifting for the 2019 recruiting class was done in December when BYU’s football program signed 14 prospects to national letters of intent a couple days before the Cougars walloped Western Michigan in the Famous Idaho Potato...
  
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• [KSL] - Ben Anderson: Jazz blockbuster trade is nearly a decade in the making

  05-02-2019 20:00 via sportspyder.com
  With the NBA trade deadline nearing, the Jazz may finally be at the end of a long rebuilding process, just one piece away from contending in the Western Conference.
  
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• Islamic State may regroup after US Syria pullout, general says

  05-02-2019 20:00
  President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria won support from the top U.S. general in the region, although he warned Islamic State may try to reassert control and influence after losing its ability to hold territory in the war-torn country."If the major actors and their proxies become embroiled in a competition for influence in Syria, this may create space for ISIS remnants or other terrorist groups to reform or reconstitute," Gen. Joseph L. Votel, the head of U.S.
  
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• Pope Francis acknowledges priests, bishops have sexually abused nuns

  05-02-2019 19:59
  Aboard the Papal Plane • Pope Francis has for the first time publicly acknowledged the scandal of priests and bishops sexually abusing nuns and says he is committed to doing more to fight the problem.Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Francis noted that Pope Benedict XVI had taken action against a France-based order after some of its religious sisters had been reduced to "sexual slavery" at the hands of the priest who founded the order and other priests."Should we do something more? Yes. Is the
  
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• Teens who use e-cigarettes more likely to start smoking, study says

  05-02-2019 19:48
  Two new studies of e-cigarettes may bolster the U.S. government’s efforts to stem what it calls a growing epidemic of youth vaping.Children and teens who had used e-cigarettes were four times more likely to have taken up cigarette smoking than those who didn’t vape, according to a study published Friday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Almost 179,000 youth who have tried cigarettes and more than 43,000 who are currently smoking would not be if they had never starte
  
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• Raul participated in practice today.

  05-02-2019 19:32 via twitter.com
  Raul participated in practice today.
  
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• 169 arrests in sex trafficking effort ahead of Super Bowl

  05-02-2019 19:30
  Atlanta • The FBI says 169 people were arrested as a result of an 11-day effort targeting human trafficking in the lead-up to the Super Bowl in Atlanta.The FBI says in a news release Tuesday that the operation ran from Jan. 23 through Feb. 2. The FBI says it aimed to raise awareness by taking proactive steps to address the threat of sex trafficking before and during the Super Bowl.The FBI says the arrests included 26 alleged traffickers and 34 people accused of trying to have sex with minor
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Abby Hornacek, daughter of Utah Jazz legend Jeff Hornacek, just joined Fox Nation as a new host

  05-02-2019 19:28 via sportspyder.com
  Abby Hornacek, the daughter of Utah Jazz legend Jeff Hornacek, has signed on to work with Fox Nation, a subscription-based streaming service.
  
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• BYU still searching for running backs as another football signing day arrives, but Cougars ‘not panicking’ in order to restock position

  05-02-2019 19:26
  Provo • Most of the heavy lifting for the 2019 recruiting class was done in December when BYU’s football program signed 14 prospects to national letters of intent a couple days before the Cougars walloped Western Michigan in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.But there is still some work to be done on Wednesday when the traditional signing period begins across the country, said Alema Fitisemanu, BYU’s player personnel coordinator.“We are looking to sign a couple more,” Fit
  
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• Abby Hornacek, daughter of Utah Jazz legend Jeff Hornacek, just joined Fox Nation as a new host

  05-02-2019 19:21
  SALT LAKE CITY — Abby Hornacek, the daughter of Utah Jazz legend Jeff Hornacek, has signed on to work with Fox Nation, a subscription-based streaming service.Hornacek will be a travel and lifestyle host on the network, according to a press release emailed to the Deseret News.Hornacek made her debut Sunday during a special program on the Fox News Channel called "Fox Nation: In Depth," which aired during the halftime of the Super Bowl.
  "Abby brings an energetic and unique voice to the table
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Trump planning campaign to halt transmission of HIV in US by 2030

  05-02-2019 19:20 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • President Donald Trump plans to announce a campaign to halt transmission of HIV in the United States by 2030 in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, a goal some experts believe is within reach, according to people inside and...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Trump squabbles with Democrats before speech on unity

  05-02-2019 19:11 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • The bitter partisanship of the past two years was on full display Tuesday just hours before President Donald Trump was to call for optimism and unity in his State of the Union address.
  
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• Trump planning campaign to halt transmission of HIV in US by 2030

  05-02-2019 19:00
  Washington • President Donald Trump plans to announce a campaign to halt transmission of HIV in the United States by 2030 in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, a goal some experts believe is within reach, according to people inside and outside the administration.The U.S. Health and Human Services Department is expected to roll out the plan within days of Trump's address, the sources said. Greg Millett, director of public policy for the American Foundation for AIDS Research, said t
  
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