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• Utah State lands No. 8 seed in Midwest Region, will play No. 9 Washington in Columbus

  17-03-2019 23:53
  The Utah State Aggies finally know when and where they get to put on their dancing shoes.After clinching an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament with Saturday’s win against San Diego State, it was announced Sunday that the Aggies are the No. 8 seed in the Midwest Region, and will play No. 9 Washington in Columbus, Ohio on Friday. It marks Utah State’s first trip to the tournament since 2011.The Huskies won the Pac-12 regular season title, but were drubbed by Oregon in the Pac-12 Tour
  
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• Gonzaga receives a No. 1 seed and is coming to Salt Lake City again

  17-03-2019 23:46
  Gonzaga is a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament for the third time in school history. And in each case, the Bulldogs have been sent to Salt Lake City. There was considerable talk about Gonzaga dropping to a No. 2 seed after losing to Saint Mary's in the championship game of the West Coast Conference tournament in Las Vegas. But the Bulldogs (30-3) stayed on the top line in the West Region on Selection Sunday and were assigned to Vivint Smart Home Arena for the third time in seven seasons. Gonzaga
  
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• Should media avoid naming the gunmen in mass shootings?

  17-03-2019 23:34
  A few months after teen shooters killed 12 classmates and her father at Columbine High School, Coni Sanders was standing in line at a grocery store with her young daughter when they came face to face with the magazine cover.It showed the two gunmen who had carried out one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. Sanders realized that few people knew much about her father, who saved countless lives. But virtually everyone knew the names and the tiniest of details about the attackers who
  
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• While redface is ‘every bit as deep as blackface minstrelsy and slavery,’ Native Americans say it hasn’t gotten the same attention as other racist imagery

  17-03-2019 22:45
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • John Little can hardly go a week without a reminder that he and other Native Americans often are viewed as relics of the past: the Indian maiden on the butter container at the grocery store, the kids’ teepees sold at popular retailers and the sports fans with their faces painted doing tomahawk chops at games.But he doesn't hear widespread outrage over these images that many Native Americans find offensive, even as the country has spent most of the year coming to gri
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Winners of 3 straight, Utah Jazz to embark on 4-game road trip vs. some of Eastern Conference's worst teams

  17-03-2019 22:31 via sportspyder.com
  The 40-29 Jazz will open the trip on Monday against the Washington Wizards.
  
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• Winners of 3 straight, Utah Jazz to embark on 4-game road trip vs. some of Eastern Conference's worst teams

  17-03-2019 22:29
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz have certainly started to take advantage of an end to their regular season schedule that was perceived by many to be a rather easy road.With last Tuesday's contest against the Phoenix Suns marking the beginning of a 14-game stretch in which the Jazz would play just one team above .500, they've won their first three by an average of nearly 18 points. That includes Saturday night's victory against the Brooklyn Nets, the one squad Utah will play before April 9 t
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Northwest Notes: Westbrook, Jokic, Jazz, Exum

  17-03-2019 22:20 via sportspyder.com
  Thunder star Russell Westbrook will be suspended one game after picking up his 16th technical foul of the season on …
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz Week 23 Outlook: Four-game road trip vs. lottery squads

  17-03-2019 21:39 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz have a great opportunity to build on their current three-game winning streak as they'll visit four lottery-bound teams in Week 23. The Utah J...
  
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• New Zealand citizens open to gun reform after massacre at mosques

  17-03-2019 21:38
  Christchurch, New Zealand • The New Zealand leader’s promise of tightened gun laws in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings has been widely welcomed by a stunned population.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her Cabinet will consider the details of the changes on Monday. She has said options include a ban on private ownership of semi-automatic rifles that were used with devastating effect in Christchurch and a government-funded buyback of newly outlawed guns.While curtailing g
  
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• Jazz big man Derrick Favors is ‘playing out of this world,’ and everyone is noticing

  17-03-2019 21:33
  When Derrick Favors was brought back this past summer on a two-year deal, many critical fans wondered what exactly the Jazz were doing.These days, it’s safe to assume most of those same people now wonder what exactly the Jazz would do without him.His raw numbers don’t jump off the page at you — he’s averaging 11.7 points, 7.4 rebounds, and 1.5 blocks this season — but he’s certainly doing his part to remind anyone who may have forgotten just what kind of impac
  
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• Utah Jazz Week 23 Outlook: Four-game road trip vs. lottery squads

  17-03-2019 21:13
  The Utah Jazz have a great opportunity to build on their current three-game winning streak as they’ll visit four lottery-bound teams in Week 23. The Utah Jazz slipped momentarily to eighth place in the West last week after falling to the Oklahoma City Thunder, but luckily they were able to recover quite well from there, […]
  Utah Jazz Week 23 Outlook: Four-game road trip vs. lottery squads - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz big man Derrick Favors is ‘playing out of this world,’ and everyone is noticing

  17-03-2019 21:09 via sportspyder.com
  When Derrick Favors was brought back this past summer on a two-year deal, many critical fans wondered what exactly the Jazz were doing.
  
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• Authorities temporarily suspend search for young girl in San Juan County

  17-03-2019 21:06
  Authorities have temporarily halted efforts to find 4-year-old Anndine Jones in San Juan County after three days of ground and water searches. According to a press release issued Sunday by the Navajo Police Department, the halt “will allow public safety to organize and secure additional resources for subsequent search efforts.”FOX 13 reports that Anndine had been at her home near Aneth and Montezuma Creek on Thursday when she disappeared. According to a missing person flier from the
  
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• While redface is ‘every bit as deep as blackface minstrelsy and slavery,’ Native Americans say the stereotype hasn’t gotten the same attention — or widespread outrage — as other racist imagery

  17-03-2019 18:21
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • John Little can hardly go a week without a reminder that he and other Native Americans often are viewed as relics of the past: the Indian maiden on the butter container at the grocery store, the kids’ teepees sold at popular retailers and the sports fans with their faces painted doing tomahawk chops at games.But he doesn't hear widespread outrage over these images that many Native Americans find offensive, even as the country has spent most of the year coming to gri
  
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• Kirsten Gillibrand joins 2020 presidential fray. Could Joe Biden soon follow?

  17-03-2019 18:05
  And then there was one more. And maybe one more still to come?The large crop of Democrats who want to be president grew, technically, when New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand changed her status Sunday from exploring a 2020 White House run to becoming a full-fledged candidate. She'd spent more than a month visiting states to gauge support for a campaign, so voters likely considered her already in the race.Not yet in, but perhaps tantalizingly close is former Vice President Joe Biden, who told Delawa
  
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• Still no sign of toddler reported missing in San Juan County

  17-03-2019 17:59
  After three days of ground and water searches in San Juan County, authorities on Saturday said they still have yet to find any sign of 4-year-old Anndine Jones.FOX 13 reports that Anndine had been at her home near Aneth and Montezuma Creek on Thursday when she disappeared. According to a missing person flier from the Navajo Police Department, authorities found Anndine’s footprints along McElmo Creek near her home. She was last seen wearing a light blue shirt and dark blue pants.Anyone with
  
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• A new tour at Utah’s Hogle Zoo goes behind the scenes, includes a display of zebra eyes and an orangutan heart

  17-03-2019 17:47
  Stacked along the back of the laboratory’s stainless steel counter were dozens of jars.There was a golden frog suspended in yellow gel. One bottle was full of zebra eyes. Another held an orangutan heart. And a fourth was something marked “kangaroo 2004,” but it wasn’t clear what it was, maybe tissue.Kelsy Dickensen focused in on one of the smallest containers, though. Inside was an entire armadillo, gray and scaly and unmoving, curled up and preserved.“That is the c
  
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• [KSL] - Jazz create 'Solidarity' shirts denouncing racism

  17-03-2019 16:38 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz players and the organization want the important conversation that began last Monday to continue.
  
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• Commentary: There is room for another Church of Jesus Christ

  17-03-2019 16:21
  Last summer, I received a notification on my phone that my name was mentioned on Facebook. Of course, I was curious and clicked the link. Turns out, my friend mentioned that I was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ (colloquially referred to as the “Bickertonites”). She also indicated that I recently wrote a biography of William Bickerton, one of the major claimants to Joseph Smith’s prophetic mantle after his untimely murder in 1844. I was happy to see that my new book, &ld
  
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• George F. Will: Worse living through chemistry

  17-03-2019 16:20
  Washington • On Feb. 12, Joaquin Guzman Loera, aka “El Chapo,” was convicted of multiple crimes related to running the Sinaloa drug cartel, Mexico’s largest. Thirteen days before his conviction, authorities seized enough of the synthetic opioid called fentanyl for 100 million lethal doses. It was hidden in a truck carrying cucumbers through the Nogales port of legal entry. On Feb. 28, authorities at the port of Newark inspecting a container ship that had arrived from Colom
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Rudy Gobert dominates in Utah Jazz win over Brooklyn Nets

  17-03-2019 15:30 via sportspyder.com
  You mean a Jazzman is allowed to have a "flu game"?
  
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• Tax reform collapsed this session. So what are Utah lawmakers going to do next?

  17-03-2019 15:28
  The Legislature’s pitch for tax reform was ambitious but relatively well-defined: Stabilize sales tax collections by applying it to services not now taxed, like car washes and funerals and legal services, and then offset any new money coming in by lowering the rate people pay on such purchases.But from the ashes of that failed proposal emerged a more sprawling, open-ended and ambiguous plan. A new task force will likely weigh any and all shifts in Utah’s tax structure ahead of an exp
  
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• ‘Smile but don’t stare’: Elizabeth Smart offers advice to Wisconsin residents after teen escaped kidnapper

  17-03-2019 15:25
  Barron, Wis. • Kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart says it’s OK for residents of a northwestern Wisconsin town to “smile, but don’t stare” if they bump into a 13-year-old local girl recovering from the killings of her parents and her own abduction.Smart spoke to about 1,300 people Friday night at Barron High School. Residents are trying to understand how they can support Jayme Closs, who authorities say escaped from captivity in January, nearly three months after her p
  
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• Commentary: How a proud Utah son won a limerick-writing contest in Ireland

  17-03-2019 15:15
  There is a statue of James Joyce in Dublin, Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize, and Frank McCourt got the Pulitzer. None of those great Irish writers, however, won a tour group bus limerick contest on the Emerald Isle.No, it was this Irish-American from Utah who captured that particular literary distinction. Although I have always enjoyed writing prose, Ireland’s whitewashed cottages, thousand shades of green, and Guinness-on-tap brought out the poet in me.Ancestry.com says I am 97% Irish,
  
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• Commentary: An accurate understanding of sex is a basic right that all young people deserve

  17-03-2019 15:14
  Discussions continue in Utah regarding health and sex education in our schools. Perhaps more effort needs to be made by those of us in the middle to come together to promote and achieve a reasonable curriculum that respects every individual’s values, while also allowing each student the availability of a more comprehensive curriculum.Some will continue to lobby for abstinence-based programs only, while others prefer the maximum amount of information to be presented to every student.There a
  
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• Commentary: What is the ‘Utah way’? Depends on who you are.

  17-03-2019 15:13
  If you are involved at all in Utah politics, you most likely have heard about the “Utah way” of doing things. But what exactly is the “Utah way?”The New York Times referred to the firing squad as “a Utah way of death.” The arrival of Frontrunner ahead of schedule and under budget was described as being “kind of the Utah way.” Gov. Gary Herbert declared that “turning a blind eye and doing nothing” to help “our neighbors, our friend
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz star Donovan Mitchell goes to bat for his organization after Russell Westbrook fan incident

  17-03-2019 14:59 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz organization got behind their players for the recent racial issue stemming from the incident between Oklahoma City Thunder star Russell Westbrook and a local Utah fan named Shane Keisel. Before the Jazz-Nets game on Saturday night,...
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz star Rudy Gobert explains why he played through sickness

  17-03-2019 14:27 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert played through illness on Saturday night in their game against the Brooklyn Nets. It sure didn’t seem like it, though, as the Frenchman was his usual dominant self, patrolling the paint and anchoring the Jazz defense...
  
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• [Sporting News] - Draymond Green sounds off on Russell Westbrook's Jazz fan incident

  17-03-2019 14:11 via sportspyder.com
  Draymond Green said, “I don’t really understand why grown men get off on going to somebody else’s job and saying (BS).”
  
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• The new tour at Utah’s Hogle Zoo goes behind the scenes, includes a display of zebra eyes and an orangutan heart

  17-03-2019 14:00
  Stacked along the back of the laboratory’s stainless steel counter were dozens of jars.There was a golden frog suspended in yellow gel. One bottle was full of zebra eyes. Another held an orangutan heart. And a fourth was something marked “kangaroo 2004,” but it wasn’t clear what it was, maybe tissue.Kelsy Dickensen focused in on one of the smallest containers, though. Inside was an entire armadillo, gray and scaly and unmoving, curled up and preserved.“That is the c
  
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• Letter: Who else has trouble with Isaac Asimov’s Super Quiz?

  17-03-2019 14:00
  Given how heavy the news can be these days, I enjoy reading the Comics and Puzzles section of the Salt Lake Tribune — that is, until I get to Isaac Asimov’s Super Quiz! I’m a reasonably educated person, but I must admit I rarely get beyond the “average” level and don’t get to the “great” level very often, and I have never reached the “fantastic” level. Please tell me there are others of you out there experiencing this level of self-este
  
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• Letter: Utah is stealing from Salt Lake City with the inland port

  17-03-2019 14:00
  The people of Salt Lake City are gradually awakening to the travesty of the inland port. It is an unprecedented land grab by the state of Utah, seizing more than 20 square miles from the authority of Salt Lake City. The port has its own unelected governing board of 11 people, only two of whom come from Salt Lake. This board answers only to the state. All authority now rests with the board. The city has lost ownership of the land, any authority, and most of the revenues that may come from the eco
  
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• Letter: Students call for focus on renewable energy resources

  17-03-2019 14:00
  Recently, Utah Youth for Environmental Solutions (UYES) requested the State Institutional Trust Lands Administration participate in an Earth Day Town Hall concerning climate action. The administration declined our invitation, sending a message that the board doesn’t take climate change or youth seriously. SITLA provides funding for K-12 public education and other beneficiaries by generating revenue from harmful extractive industries (oil, gas and mining). As a student, this rejection makes
  
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• Letter: Reject extremism and debate with rationality and respect

  17-03-2019 14:00
  I am so tired of extremism and its incredibly damaging effects on society. Why have we simply discarded the approach of respectfully considering others’ views in attempting to reach the most reasonable and rational answer or solution to a given issue or problem? Maybe it’s because an intelligent, well-reasoned discussion of actual facts and issues is never as entertaining as extreme labeling (as evidenced by the unfortunate popularity of the entertainers who portray themselves as &ld
  
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• Leonard Pitts: A moral issue we should all worry about

  17-03-2019 14:00
  If you think you’re angry now, wait till you read the court documents.Not that the summaries of a college cheating scandal so massive it briefly bumped President Donald Trump from the “Breaking News” chyrons were not enough to make a nun cuss. Indeed, the story offered a perfect storm of outrage: the wealthy, well-known and well-connected gaming the system, lying, fixing tests and paying bribes to get their kids into prestigious colleges. It didn’t hurt that two of those
  
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• Commentary: Acton’s abortion bill perpetuates patriarchal oppression

  17-03-2019 14:00
  House Bill 136 has now passed its final hurdle of the Utah legislature. If signed, the bill will restrict abortions to the first 18 weeks of pregnancy.At the beginning of the legislative session, Rep. Cheryl Acton was not impressively well-informed on the bill she was sponsoring, having been sought out by Eagle Forum and Pro-Life Utah, arguably identified as a potentially successful sponsor for her relative newness to the Legislature and therefore lack of concern regarding the risks involved wit
  
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• Utah lawmakers move to ban cities from creating stronger police review boards. The very thing activists are pushing for in Salt Lake City.

  17-03-2019 13:00
  Utah activists have pushed cities to create stronger civilian review commissions to help hold police accountable. The state Legislature took notice, and on Thursday, moved to ban the very boards these activists want.HB415, sponsored by Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield, won’t affect boards already in existence, like Salt Lake City’s independent Civilian Police Review Board, which can recommend whether an officer acted outside official policy but cannot dole out discipline. This bill would
  
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• Tax reform collapse this session. So what are Utah lawmakers going to do next?

  17-03-2019 13:00
  The Legislature’s pitch for tax reform was ambitious but relatively well-defined: Stabilize sales tax collections by applying it to services not now taxed, like car washes and funerals and legal services, and then offset any new money coming in by lowering the rate people pay on such purchases.But from the ashes of that failed proposal emerged a more sprawling, open-ended and ambiguous plan. A new task force will likely weigh any and all shifts in Utah’s tax structure ahead of an exp
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Marcia Clark gets a chance to retry O.J. (sort of) in ‘The Fix’

  17-03-2019 13:00
  “The Fix” isn’t exactly about O.J. Simpson. Just sort of. Kind of. OK, it’s totally about O.J. Well, partially.This 10-part, serialized drama, which premieres Monday at 9 p.m. on ABC/Ch. 4, centers on former prosecutor Maya Travis (Robin Tunney). Eight years earlier, Maya failed to get a conviction in a high-profile murder case involving a rich, famous, African-American celebrity, Severen “Sevvy” Johnson (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), who was charged with a doubl
  
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• Kirby: Walk softly and carry a big stick — now that’s a church calling I can sustain

  17-03-2019 13:00
  On a Facebook group to which I belong, someone recently posed an important question for Latter-day Saints: “If you could create your own [church] calling, what would it be?”For churchgoers, this would mean an entirely new method of participation. No longer would you have to sit around and wait for inspiration (a spiritual draft) on the part of someone else to find something for you to do.But what if you could tailor an original church task to your own needs and desires?Note: Keep in
  
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• Jean Hill: Restorative justice is the longterm answer to hate crimes

  17-03-2019 13:00
  The Utah legislature’s passage of SB 103 Victim Targeting Penalty Enhancements is one important step toward building a safer society in Utah. Enhancing the penalties for crimes designed to strike fear in an entire community sends a strong message. However, the message is meaningless without offender programming that addresses the deep-seated prejudices that lead to criminal behavior against minority groups.During the debate on SB 103 in the Senate, Sen. Lyle Hillyard, R-Logan, repeatedly n
  
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• BYUtv’s ‘Dwight in Shining Armor’ is a family show that’s not overtly or covertly LDS

  17-03-2019 13:00
  The title character in BYUtv’s new series “Dwight in Shining Armor” isn’t the one wearing the armor.Dwight (Sloane Morgan Siegel) is a somewhat nerdy teenager whose life suddenly changes when he falls through a hole in the ground ... and lands on a princess who’s been magically slumbering for 1,000 years.Their accidental lip-lock awakens Princess Gretta (Caitlin Carmichael), who is no damsel in distress. While Dwight talks his way out of trouble, she wears armor and
  
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• Commentary: Legislators just swept away a crucial consumer protection for real estate buyers

  17-03-2019 12:30
  Among the bills recently passed by Utah’s legislature was Senate Bill 121: Controlled Business in Title Insurance Repeal, a decidedly unsexy offering that flew under the radar of most onlookers. Because after all, who knows or cares about title insurance; and, controlled business in any setting sounds like something that should get the axe. Am I right?Trouble is, the Controlled Business in Title Insurance (CBTI) law that legislators just swept away is a critical consumer protection law. Yo
  
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• Commentary: Herbert’s roadless rule petition won’t help wildfire situation

  17-03-2019 12:00
  Last year Gov. Gary Herbert surprised the state’s 29 county executives by sending them a proposal to support him in Utah’s formal rejection of the “roadless rule” that was enacted by the US Forest Service (USFS) in 2001. The roadless rule set aside about half of the roadless areas on our national forests that lacked roads and prohibited new road construction and logging in these areas.Some 373,000 miles of forest roads already crisscross the nation’s public lands. T
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz center Rudy Gobert admits he’s battling sickness in game against Nets

  17-03-2019 07:20 via sportspyder.com
  After dominating the Brooklyn Nets, Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert revealed that he had been battling sickness throughout the day, per Eric Walden of The Salt Lake Tribune. Rudy Gobert confirmed his 23p/17r/3b performance came despite being sick all...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Triple Team: Rudy Gobert’s “flu game,” Derrick Favors on the glass, and Jae Crowder’s 4-point plays lead Jazz to big win over Nets

  17-03-2019 07:05 via sportspyder.com
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 114-98 win over the Brooklyn Nets from Salt Lake Tribune beat writer Andy Larsen.
  
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• [USA Today] - Gobert shakes off illness to lead Jazz past Nets, 114-98

  17-03-2019 07:02 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert shakes off illness to lead Jazz past Nets 114-96
  
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