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• Kristen Ledlow may have found her new favorite NBA team in the Utah Jazz

  24-02-2019 23:46
  NBA TV and TNT’s Kristen Ledlow may have very well found her new favorite team as the Utah Jazz Twitter account advocated for her to have a role in Space Jam 2. In case you somehow missed it, it was recently made official that a Space Jam 2 is forthcoming, set to be released on […]
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• Utah Jazz: If history repeats, Ricky Rubio is about to get lit

  24-02-2019 23:44
  Ricky Rubio played a key role in the Utah Jazz’s big second-half run in 2017-18. He may have saved his best for the playoff race this season, too. What a difference a day makes, huh? Less than 24 hours after Utah Jazz point guard Ricky Rubio logged eight turnovers — including one particularly head-scratching lob […]
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: CP3 cleans up ‘controversial’ John Stockton comments

  24-02-2019 22:00 via sportspyder.com
  After ruffling the proverbial feathers of Utah Jazz fans, Chris Paul is reframing his recent comments on John Stockton's assist record. Depending on who yo...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Are turnovers the Utah Jazz’s biggest problem? Quin Snyder isn’t so sure.

  24-02-2019 21:56 via sportspyder.com
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• Utah women keep their NCAA Tournament hopes alive, hold off Washington State 75-67 in home finale

  24-02-2019 21:55
  The Utah women’s basketball team kept its hopes for an NCAA tournament bid alive by beating Washington State 75-67 Sunday afternoon at the Huntsman Center.The undermanned Utes, who lost another player to injury Friday and were down to only seven in uniform, jumped out to a 13-point lead in the third quarter. But that advantage dwindled down to only a point before Utah (20-7, 9-7) held on for the Pac-12 win.Washington State (9-18, 4-12) led the contest 39-38 early in the third when the Utes
  
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• Are turnovers the Utah Jazz’s biggest problem? Quin Snyder isn’t so sure.

  24-02-2019 21:51
  How big of a problem are the Jazz’s turnovers?On the surface, it seems like the answer is obvious. The Jazz currently rank 27th in the league in turnovers, their lowest league rank in any statistical category. In Utah’s 1-point loss against Oklahoma City, the Jazz committed 25 turnovers; while in their 16-point win over Dallas, they committed only seven. Check and mate, right?Not so fast, according to Jazz head coach Quin Snyder.“The thing that’s interesting about that &m
  
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• Two-loss week crushes BYU’s late-season momentum, and now Cougars need some help to get the all-important No. 2 seed in March’s WCC tournament

  24-02-2019 20:32
  BYU could play Gonzaga 10 times this season and probably never come within 10 points of the Zags, but for a few brief moments in both halves on Saturday night, the Cougars showed some flashes of being able to hang with the college basketball team that will probably be ranked No. 1 in the nation this week.That’s what coach Dave Rose chose to focus on after the Cougars fell 102-68 at McCarthey Athletic Center, a 6,000-seat venue where somehow BYU defeated the best program in the West three c
  
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• Utah Jazz: CP3 cleans up ‘controversial’ John Stockton comments

  24-02-2019 19:43
  After ruffling the proverbial feathers of Utah Jazz fans, Chris Paul is reframing his recent comments on John Stockton’s assist record. Depending on who you talk to, Chris Paul is either forever determined to troll the Utah Jazz and their fans with inflammatory remarks or he’s a misunderstood dude whose words continue to be misconstrued […]
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Back from long injury absence, Raul Neto serving as a steadying positive for Utah Jazz

  24-02-2019 19:02 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz have been very successful over the last five games while the Brazilian has been on the floor.
  
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• Back from long injury absence, Raul Neto serving as a steadying positive for Utah Jazz

  24-02-2019 19:00
  SALT LAKE CITY — On the surface, Raul Neto's contributions to the Utah Jazz over the last five games have been rather modest.Entering Saturday night's game against the Dallas Mavericks, the Brazilian had averaged just 4.8 points and 3.5 assists in less than 12 minutes per contest since returning on Feb. 6 from an injury that kept him sidelined for almost a month.But there's another perhaps lesser-lauded stat the fourth-year pro has put up a gaudy number in. Since his return, Neto has an ou
  
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• An Arizona town marshal threatened to arrest a 12-year-old journalist. She wasn’t backing down.

  24-02-2019 18:35
  When a small-town Arizona officer stopped a 12-year-old reporter who was chasing down a story tip on Monday, he probably had no idea what he was getting himself into.Hilde Lysiak, the preteen journalist whose exploits have inspired a Scholastic book series and an upcoming TV show, made a name for herself in 2016 by being the first to report on a grisly murder in her hometown, then firing back at critics who suggested that a 9-year-old girl shouldn’t be hanging around crime scenes. Since th
  
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• Kirby: For yesteryear’s Latter-day Saint missionaries, late news was better than no news

  24-02-2019 17:41
  Latter-day Saint missionaries may now phone home once a week from wherever they are called to serve on Earth.Even better, they can Skype with their families. It can be dangerous because it enables the romantically involved to see how much weight has been gained and/or hair lost.Such immediate communication is a huge change in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Until 1960, missionaries were obliged to write home with crayons once a month and, after that, only by pencil until 1975. S
  
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• Challenging segregation, clashing with the LDS Church, fighting racism today: The first 100 years of the NAACP in Utah

  24-02-2019 17:18
  Thelma Steward and Wallace Thurman were walking down Salt Lake City’s Main Street on a Tuesday afternoon when a group of white soldiers bumped into the young black couple.At 200 South, one soldier pushed Thurman down and started beating his head against the concrete — without provocation, witnesses later told officers. A few of the other men grabbed Steward, several bystanders reported, forced her into a car and drove toward their military base shouting racist slurs. When the two saw
  
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• Utes in review: Utah keeps answering every time its basketball season appears to be crumbling

  24-02-2019 17:09
  Pullman, Wash. • The only two Pac-12 basketball teams that beat Washington State in the past three weeks held the offense-oriented Cougars to 36 second-half points.First-place Washington, not surprisingly, was one of those clubs. The other? Utah, the team that hardly appeared to be in the Huskies' league as of Wednesday in Seattle.Utah recovered offensively in Saturday’s 92-79 victory at Washington State. The Utes won the game because they improved defensively after a poor start at Be
  
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• [NBA] - Dirk Nowitzki reflects on two decades of battles with the Utah Jazz—from Stockton and Malone to Mitchell and Gobert

  24-02-2019 16:50 via sportspyder.com
  For all the buckets Karl Malone made during his Hall of Fame career—more than 36,000 points in all—it’s a miss that Dirk Nowitzki might remember best. With the final seconds of a playoff game ticking
  
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• Commentary: Herbert and Trump conspire to shill for big corporations

  24-02-2019 16:21
  In his State of the State address on Jan. 30, Gov. Gary Herbert abruptly broke his continuity of thought to warn us against evil socialism (example provided: Venezuela). It was a strange non sequitur.How fascinating that just six days later, President Trump did the same thing in his State of the Union address, using exactly the same example.Coincidence? Highly unlikely.We probably just witnessed the launching of a new GOP fear campaign, the goal of which is to scare the bejesus out of anyone lea
  
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• Commentary: When your brain is not your friend

  24-02-2019 16:18
  The human brain is arguably evolution’s greatest accomplishment. Give credit to your brain for language, learning, memory, comprehension, reasoning, judgment, perception and countless other cognitive abilities.Our brains make us sentient beings. We are aware of our awareness. By age 3 the human toddler, due to brain development, has begun to develop the ability to reflect on its own activity and in time will be able to control its own thinking and behavior to accomplish self established go
  
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• Legislature wants a review of state tax incentives to see whether they provide the economic benefits supporters claim

  24-02-2019 16:16
  Do tax incentives given to businesses benefit Utah’s economy? A bill flying through the Utah Legislature seeks an independent analysis to find the answer.HJR12 would direct the Utah Tax Review Commission to study the positive and negative effects of tax incentives and recommend whether a general tax rate cut for all taxpayers would provide more benefit to the economy than these targeted breaks.Sponsoring Rep. Kay Christofferson, R-Lehi, told The Tribune in an interview that Utah’s ta
  
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• Should Salt Lake County be split in two? Some west-side city leaders are so frustrated they are talking about it.

  24-02-2019 16:13
  An array of elected officials from cities in southwest Salt Lake County support a bill that would allow communities to strike out and create their own county without a majority vote from the county they would leave behind.Representatives from Herriman, Riverton, West Jordan and Copperton say they don’t feel their interests are represented at the county level and are frustrated by what they see as a disproportionate lack of funding from the county when it comes to transportation and Zoo, Ar
  
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• BYUtv goes to Hollywood — and gets grilled about lack of gay and ethnic characters on its shows

  24-02-2019 16:09
  BYUtv has big dreams. It wants to be a household name. It wants millions of people to watch its programs.As a first step toward a higher national profile, BYUtv joined the Television Critics Association winter press tour this month in Pasadena, Calif. It was a chance to get some press for a channel that hasn’t been a priority for TCA members.Industry website The Wrap posed seven “burning questions” ahead of the tour — and No. 6 was, “What are you, BYUtv?” Mari
  
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• [KSL] - Dirk Nowitzki cheered by Jazz fans in what may have been his final game in Utah

  24-02-2019 16:05 via sportspyder.com
  The man Utah fans have loved to hate over the course of his career was cheered in what may have been his final game in Salt Lake City.
  
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• Commentary: The vital role of oral health

  24-02-2019 16:00
  Most of the colleges and schools within University of Utah Health are in easy proximity. Separated by a pathway. The School of Dentistry, though, is a quick car trip or shuttle bus ride, jog, or vigorous walk from the heart of the health campus to our building in Research Park. Some may say the distance reflects common longtime notion that oral health care is removed from or separate from general medical care.It isn’t. And I say this resoundingly.There are well-established connections betw
  
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• Commentary: The future of space travel ain’t what it used to be

  24-02-2019 15:15
  “The future ain’t what it used to be.”— Yogi BerraSome events in our lives are so monumental that we remember where we were when it happened. Kennedy’s assassination, 9/11, or the Apollo moon landing. The 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing will be celebrated in July.In this era of division, we may never be united like we were in those fading, epochal moments in history. John Kennedy spoke for the nation when he declared that America would reach the moon in
  
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• Commentary: Mars probe Opportunity had so much to teach us

  24-02-2019 15:15
  The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity mission officially ended last week, as we accepted the reality that Oppy had gone silent forever.Engineered to last only three months, Oppy persevered for nearly 15 years and traveled over 28 miles, working longer and traveling farther on an extraterrestial surface than any other lander.Oppy’s last transmission, translated into plain-speak, is almost heartbreaking, if we allow ourselves the indulgence that rovers, like humans, can feel: “My batt
  
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• Commentary: Our Utah representatives are not representing us

  24-02-2019 15:13
  On Nov. 6, the voters of Utah voiced their demands loud and clear: We want Medicaid expansion, and we want it now. We want medical marijuana, and we want it now.The majority of Utah voters approved of both ballot initiatives, with Proposition 3 passing with 53.3 percent of the vote and Proposition 2 passing with 52.7 percent of the vote. And this was all in spite of the stance of two major Utah institutions: the Republican Party and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Despite Utah&rs
  
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• Letter: Unvaccinated children should not be in public school

  24-02-2019 15:00
  With the outbreak of measles in Washington state and the issue of whether a child should be vaccinated unbelievably being brought up once again, I believe there is a solution that the state of Utah could enact to help protect the children of this state.If a parent does not want to provide a child with the medically/scientifically proven protection of vaccinations for once-eradicated diseases, if they’re able to be vaccinated, that’s fine.Those children, though, should not be allowed
  
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• Letter: The inland port project is pretty transparent, all right

  24-02-2019 15:00
  I went to the Utah inland port public forum Tuesday evening, way over at the Utah State Fairgrounds. I soon became disoriented.What century were we in? Freight trains, switching yards, shipping containers, diesel trucks, warehouses, all the graphs curving up and blue-skies optimism, so it couldn't have been 2019, the 21st century. Maybe the ‘50s?But, which? The booming post-war 1950s? Or the 1850s, home of our Legislature?Anyway, drastic climate change wasn't on the radar. No limits to gro
  
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• Letter: Opposing a hate crimes law is an act of hate

  24-02-2019 15:00
  Those who oppose or fail to support including LGBT persons within the scope of Utah’s “hate crimes” statute are committing acts of hate. Actively attempting to block protection of the LGBT community from violence arising from bigotry is an even more egregious act of hate.I challenge anyone to provide a cogent reason why this shameful omission should not be rectified immediately.Tad M. Taylor, Cottonwood Heights Submit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Eliminating democracy in Utah

  24-02-2019 15:00
  OK, now I’m beginning to understand.The Utah Theocratic Republican Party is on a campaign to reduce democratic practices in Utah by:Eliminating the impact of citizens’ initiatives, making them nothing but expensive public opinion polls.Eliminating the public election of the State School Board members. I suppose the next logical move would be constitutional changes for the creation of a State Legislative Election Review Board to review the results of all elections. Certain vi
  
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• Letter: Beer is more important than health care? Really?

  24-02-2019 15:00
  So, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints came out in opposition to higher alcohol beer in grocery stores. The leaders see this as a “moral issue.”On expansion of Medicaid, we only hear silence.So, more alcohol in beer is a more important and higher moral issue than providing health care and insurance to those neighbors who really need it? Really?Larry S. Smith, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Allowing cars to run red lights is a bad idea

  24-02-2019 15:00
  House Bill 151, which would allow cars to disregard red lights at intersections during times of "extremely low traffic," is a bad idea.My major concern is for pedestrians and cyclists.While not true in all countries, drivers in the United States often do not "see" people on bicycles when checking for conflicting traffic. Once drivers get accustomed to disregarding the red light, this sets up an expectation to continue through the intersection if there is no other motor vehicle traffic.Combine th
  
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• Commentary: Proposed abortion law would set a reasonable standard

  24-02-2019 14:45
  As the sponsor of House Bill 136 in the Utah House, I’ve had to get up to speed quickly on the subject of abortion after a lifetime of averting my eyes.Abortion is not a pleasant topic, and no one really wants to talk about it or think about it. It’s also a very contentious issue — a barn-burner of a word not to be mentioned in polite company. Above all, we do not want to know the gory details of the abortion procedure, perhaps because if we did know those details, we might be
  
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• Commentary: Abortion ban would demean women and their doctors

  24-02-2019 14:45
  Just a few weeks ago, I held the hand of a young mother whose prenatal screening indicated a high risk for Down syndrome in her fetus. She was understandably worried, and we talked about our next steps to confirm the test.As an obstetrician with additional training in high-risk pregnancy, I see my role in these situations as a supportive presence, someone who provides honest information, assuages fears, and walks with the patient down whichever road she chooses.Some of our state legislators, how
  
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• BYUtv goes to Hollywood — and get grilled about lack of gay and ethnic characters on its shows

  24-02-2019 14:30
  BYUtv has big dreams. It wants to be a household name. It wants millions of people to watch its programs.As a first step toward a higher national profile, BYUtv joined the Television Critics Association winter press tour this month in Pasadena, Calif. It was a chance to get some press for a channel that hasn’t been a priority for TCA members.Industry website The Wrap posed seven “burning questions” ahead of the tour — and No. 6 was, “What are you, BYUtv?” Mari
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Undocumented Mateo on ‘Superstore’ is both hilarious and important — in a non-preachy way

  24-02-2019 14:00
  When the NBC sitcom “Superstore” was being cast, the producers generally didn’t have “types” in mind. They weren’t looking for a Hispanic woman to play Amy (America Ferrerra), a white man to play Jonah (Ben Feldman) or a Pacific Islander to play Cheyenne (Nichole Bloom).But they did have a specific idea for one role: “Mateo ... was supposed to be a straight Latino guy,” said Nico Santos — who stars as gay, Filipino Mateo in the comedy about t
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Love you have to coerce is not love at all

  24-02-2019 14:00
  There's an old song that always comes to mind at times like this."I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" -- a 1968 hit for the Temptations and the Supremes -- is a litany of lavish promises: "Every minute, every hour, I'm gonna shower you with love and affection -- look out, it's coming in your direction. I'm gonna make you love me."As boy meets girl sentiment, it is harmless and sweet. But as government policy, it is something else, entirely. What does it mean, after all, when the state says, "I'm gonna m
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Watch Paul George drain game-winning floater in 2OT, lift Thunder past Jazz

  24-02-2019 12:36 via sportspyder.com
  Paul George split the Joe Ingles/Ricky Rubio double team then drained a rainbow floater over Rudy Gobert.
  
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• The Triple Team: Jazz get out in transition and stop the opposition at the rim to get home win over Mavericks

  24-02-2019 09:35
  Three thoughts on the Jazz’s 125-109 win over the Dallas Mavericks from Salt Lake Tribune beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Jazz run through fatigueAfter the Jazz scored 129 points in regulation on Friday night, they scored 125 in regulation on Saturday night. This time, it was enough to win.But what I thought was a little bit remarkable was that they were primarily successful tonight by running the ball and scoring in transition. According to CleaningTheGlass, the Jazz scored 103 points per 100
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Jazz pull away from Mavericks for 125-109 victory

  24-02-2019 09:11 via sportspyder.com
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- �� In their first home game after the NBA All-Star break, the Utah Jazz had plenty of energy down the stretch. Utah pulled away for a 125-109 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday night by taking care of the ball and...
  
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• [NBA] - Joe Ingles extends iron man streak—not that he's keeping track

  24-02-2019 08:36 via sportspyder.com
  They have seen their teammate played through pain, seen him shake off a nasty finger sprain, seen him wrap a bandage around his bloodied head and keep going.Now the Utah Jazz’s ironman is the NBA’s
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz-Mavericks analysis by Andy Larsen

  24-02-2019 08:32 via sportspyder.com
  Three thoughts on the Jazz’s 125-109 win over the Dallas Mavericks from Salt Lake Tribune beat writer Andy Larsen.
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - No Luka Doncic for Mavs, but ex-Jazzman Trey Burke scores 20 in relief role

  24-02-2019 08:23 via sportspyder.com
  The Dallas Mavericks were missing star rookie Luka Doncic, but ex-Jazzman Trey Burke scored 20 points off the bench in a reserve role for the Mavs.
  
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• No Luka Doncic for Mavs, but ex-Jazzman Trey Burke scores 20 in relief role

  24-02-2019 08:14
  SALT LAKE CITY — Jazz fans looking forward to seeing the likely NBA Rookie of the Year, Luka Doncic, were disappointed as he sat out Saturday night for Dallas for the second straight game because of a sore ankle.Before the game, Mavs coach Rick Carlisle was brief in his comments about Doncic, saying he would not play and that his status was "day-to-day."Doncic has started 55 of the Mavs' 59 games this year and is averaging 20.7 points, 7.2 rebounds and 5.6 assists on 43 percent shooting.Al
  
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• [NBA] - The Roundup—Jazz come alive in second half, beat Mavs by 16

  24-02-2019 08:08 via sportspyder.com
  The struggle was real Saturday night for the Jazz, who fought through tired legs and cold shooting to secure a 125-109 win over the Dallas Mavericks in Salt Lake City. The win came a night
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz shake off fatigue and roll to victory over short-handed Mavericks

  24-02-2019 07:59 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz were coming off a double-overtime loss in Oklahoma City the night before, but they found enough energy to pull away from Dallas 125-109 Saturday night at Vivint Arena.
  
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• Real Salt Lake ends preseason with 3-0 loss to Portland

  24-02-2019 07:45
  Real Salt Lake finished its 2019 preseason with a starting lineup that looked closer to normal on Saturday against the Portland Timbers, but the small semblance of cohesion didn’t produce positive results. RSL lost to Portland 3-0 as it looks ahead to starting the regular season on the road next week against the Houston Dynamo. The Timbers led 2-0 at halftime Saturday and scored another goal near the end of the match for good measure. NoteAlbert Rusák returned to the team after miss
  
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• Utah Jazz shake off fatigue and roll to victory over short-handed Mavericks

  24-02-2019 07:42
  SALT LAKE CITY – The big question before Saturday's Utah-Dallas game was how the Jazz would react after playing a nearly-three-hour double-overtime game the night before in Oklahoma City when the Jazz suffered a heartbreaking one-point loss.Prior to Saturday's game with Dallas, coach Quin Snyder brushed it off, saying the media was more concerned than his team was and said, "That was last night and not today," and "We've got a game to play tonight."While the Jazz looked a little tired and
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Dirk Nowitzki’s last game in Utah ended how it should ... with a loss

  24-02-2019 07:26 via sportspyder.com
  Remember that guy who pulled Andrei Kirilenko to the ground back in 2008? It was his last game against Utah.
  
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• Lack of rest no problem as Jazz pull away from Mavericks for 125-109 victory

  24-02-2019 07:25
  After Friday night’s double-overtime thriller against the Thunder, Saturday night’s game against the Mavericks was bound to be a bit underwhelming by comparison.Given that they played 58 minutes, then arrived back in Salt Lake City after 2 a.m., and then played for a second consecutive night, the legs were bound to be tired.Beyond that, after facing one of the premier teams in the league, the follow-up was against a lottery-bound foe which had recently traded most of its best rotatio
  
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• Jazz beat fatigue — and the odds — in back-to-back after double-overtime loss

  24-02-2019 07:22
  Coming into Saturday night’s game against the Dallas Mavericks, the numbers were grim for the Utah Jazz. Teams entering back-to-back contests after playing a double-overtime game were 0-5 in such games in the last two seasons, according to ESPN’s Royce Young.Per Elias: Teams are 0-5 the past two seasons the second night of a back-to-back coming off a double overtime game. OKC finished up playing against the Jazz some 18 hours ago.— Royce Young (@royceyoung) February 24, 2019I g
  
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