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• [NBA] - Locker room clean out interviews, 4.25

  26-04-2019 23:51 via sportspyder.com
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• Utah Jazz: Should the Jazz look to re-acquire Rodney Hood?

  26-04-2019 23:48
  The off-season has officially begun for the Utah Jazz. That being said, there’s many interesting free agent options out there for the Jazz – including former sixth man Rodney Hood. Looking back, I might have been a bit harsh on Rodney Hood during the 2017-18 season. I was really hoping the Utah Jazz would trade […]
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Tyler Cavanaugh—2019 locker room clean out

  26-04-2019 23:34 via sportspyder.com
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Tony Bradley—2019 locker room clean out

  26-04-2019 23:34 via sportspyder.com
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Rudy Gobert—2019 locker room clean out

  26-04-2019 23:34 via sportspyder.com
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Naz Mitrou-Long—2019 locker room clean out

  26-04-2019 23:34 via sportspyder.com
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Grayson Allen—2019 locker room clean out

  26-04-2019 23:34 via sportspyder.com
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Royce O'Neale—2019 locker room clean out

  26-04-2019 23:12 via sportspyder.com
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Ricky Rubio—2019 locker room clean out

  26-04-2019 23:12 via sportspyder.com
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Raul Neto—2019 locker room clean out

  26-04-2019 23:12 via sportspyder.com
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Georges Niang—2019 locker room clean out

  26-04-2019 23:12 via sportspyder.com
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Donovan Mitchell—2019 locker room clean out

  26-04-2019 23:12 via sportspyder.com
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• Tribune Editorial: Utah needs an accurate census count

  26-04-2019 23:00
  “Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state.”— The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United StatesIt says “the whole number of persons.” Not citizens. Not voters. Not legal residents. Not white people. Not English speakers. Not Republicans. (Or Democrats.) Persons.Because it deals with mathematics — though not with as much specificity as, say, s
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Thabo Sefolosha—2019 locker room clean out

  26-04-2019 22:50 via sportspyder.com
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Kyle Korver—2019 locker room clean out

  26-04-2019 22:50 via sportspyder.com
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Ekpe Udoh—2019 locker room clean out

  26-04-2019 22:50 via sportspyder.com
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Danté Exum—2019 locker room clean out

  26-04-2019 22:50 via sportspyder.com
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• Access road for Zion National Park reopening after repairs

  26-04-2019 22:31
  Zion National Park, Utah • A highway that is a main access route for Zion National Park is reopening following weeks of repairs following damage from heavy rain.Park officials announced Friday that the Zion-Mount Carmel Highway, also known as the State Route 9 Connector, will reopen Saturday, with restricted access for oversized vehicles.The closure was on the park's east side.Crews replaced one section of the road, with that work including stabilization of a slope and rebuilding of a retai
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Derrick Favors—2019 locker room clean out

  26-04-2019 22:27 via sportspyder.com
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• Ricky Rubio says he’s liked playing with the Jazz, but appears resigned to playing elsewhere next season

  26-04-2019 22:27
  In his two seasons with the Utah Jazz, Ricky Rubio has been a lightning rod of sorts. There have been moments of brilliance and stretches of maddening inconsistency. Some fans have loved him for his passion and creativity; others have lamented his shooting inadequacies and claimed the team’s fortunes are inherently capped with him as its point guard.During Thursday’s season-ending media wrap-up, Rubio reflected on all of it — the good and the bad, the successes and disappointme
  
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• Former police chief pleads guilty to impaired driving

  26-04-2019 22:24
  Wellsville, Utah • A former police chief in Utah has pleaded guilty to impaired driving after troopers say he drove erratically and failed a sobriety test.The Deseret News reported Thursday that court records show former Box Elder County police chef Shane Jacob Zilles pleaded guilty April 19 in Wellsville Justice Court.He was sentenced to two days in jail. However, he can instead complete five days of community service. He also was ordered to serve one year of probation.A Utah Highway Patro
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Ricky Rubio says he’s liked playing with the Jazz, but appears resigned to playing elsewhere next season

  26-04-2019 22:23 via sportspyder.com
  In his two seasons with the Utah Jazz, Ricky Rubio has been a lightning rod of sorts. There have been moments of brilliance and stretches of maddening inconsistency. Some fans have loved him for his passion and creativity; others have lamented his...
  
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• Kalani Sitake casts a wider net for BYU football recruits, but two high-profile LDS prospects remain at the top of coaching staff’s wish list

  26-04-2019 22:19
  Provo • Although there is still the matter of running back Ty’Son Williams getting accepted into a graduate program at BYU, Cougar coaches were thrilled a few weeks ago when the transfer from South Carolina announced via Twitter that he hopes to exhaust his final season of eligibility in Provo.However, the more pressing issue for head coach Kalani Sitake’s assistant coaches — the primary recruiters from mid-April through the end of May — is assembling the prospects w
  
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• The Met’s Costume Institute explores the idea of camp through fashion

  26-04-2019 22:00
  The organizers of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute admit they are a little worried that the title of their upcoming exhibition, “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” might cause confusion.“Camp” could suggest a study of apparel for the great outdoors, a la L.L. Bean or REI. But in this case, what the organizers mean by “camp” is what essayist Susan Sontag in 1964 described as a particular sort of artifice, exaggeration, and curiousness in fashion a
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz getting some online love from ... Kraft Mac & Cheese!?

  26-04-2019 21:56 via sportspyder.com
  This Kraft Twitter account — either overtaken by a Jazz fan or the NBA organization — has made dozens of tweets that are as popular in Utah as a Donovan Mitchell dunk.
  
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• Utah Jazz getting some online love from ... Kraft Mac & Cheese!?

  26-04-2019 21:52
  Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles (2) and Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) high five during Game 5 against Houston in Houston on Wednesday, April 24, 2019.Laura SeitzSALT LAKE CITY — Ready for a cheesy sports story?Having already won over the stomachs of many Utah Jazz fans, no doubt, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese is apparently trying to win over the hearts of the Beehive State's favorite NBA team.Perhaps the Jazz have commandeered the Twitter account of the famous pasta product or maybe a U
  
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• Salt Lake City’s dockless transportation options continue to grow with planned GREENbike expansion, third scooter company

  26-04-2019 21:26
  The dockless transportation boom that came to Salt Lake City last summer only continues to grow, with the addition this week of a third e-scooter company and GREENbike’s planned expansion into the e-bike arena this fall.Spin, a San Francisco-based scooter company, came to St. George last month and now joins the companies Bird and Lime in Utah’s capital city. Under city regulations, each of the companies can deploy up to 500 scooters — meaning there could now be up to 1,500 on c
  
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• Amid low unemployment and few available workers, UTA fights hard to attract needed drivers

  26-04-2019 20:50
  The ads offer Utah Transit Authority employees up to $1,000 if they recruit a friend who becomes a bus driver for at least a year. But some of the flyers are posted in an unusual place: inside the bathroom stall doors at UTA headquarters.“It’s a captive audience,” jokes Shari Burgess, senior recruiter for UTA. “Pretty creative, huh?”UTA officials say creativity is now a must as the agency competes with other businesses for the relatively few people seeking jobs amid
  
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• Gomberg: I had a mini meltdown driving to a doctor appointment, but then I had an epiphany

  26-04-2019 20:47
  It’s been about six weeks since my guts began their uprising, and so I thought I’d write a column about how my incredible treatment plan and powers of resilience have resulted in feeling fabulous again (you know I love a redemption story).The problem is, like a shimmering puddle ahead on a desert road, the imagined oasis of immediate good health was only a mirage. And if I may be completely candid, this stretch of highway hasn’t made for an easy journey.My diagnosis has been up
  
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• How D’Arcy Carden finally found her ‘Good Place’

  26-04-2019 20:28
  Los Angeles • What is Janet?At first, “The Good Place” creator Mike Schur thought his show set in the afterlife needed some sort of “centralized information database.” In heaven, the answers to all your eternal inquiries should await you, whether it was “Who killed JFK?” or “Did Allison from the fourth grade have a crush on me?” The original idea was for this information to all be available on a kiosk, but Schur realized it would be exponentia
  
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• Salt Lake Tribune welcomes two reporting fellows to cover women’s issues and San Juan County

  26-04-2019 20:19
  The Salt Lake Tribune will welcome two new fellows to its newsroom this summer to bolster its reporting on under-covered issues.The 2019 fellows were announced this week by Report for America, a national service program that helps place emerging journalists in local newsrooms. More than 1,000 candidates applied and, in the end, 61 were selected to serve in 50 organizations across the country.At The Tribune, Becky Jacobs will cover women’s issues and the stories behind Utah’s startlin
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Dennis Lindsey’s list of decisions for the summer is an unenviable task

  26-04-2019 20:17 via sportspyder.com
  Lindsey will be forced to make several spot-on choices in a sea of incorrect options
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Ricky Rubio unsure if he will return to Jazz next season

  26-04-2019 20:07 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz point man Ricky Rubio is still unsure if he will return to the team next season, following a 4-1 first-round series defeat at the hands of the Houston Rockets. The 28-year-old wasn’t fully convincing when talking with the front office,...
  
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• Commentary: Heeding Pope Francis’ eco-encyclical could pave way for Green New Deal

  26-04-2019 19:19
  In my previous column, I argued that Pope Francis’ approach to climate change — one focused on culture — is far superior to moving immediately to legislative approaches like the recently floated Green New Deal, which has zero chance of passing.According to climate science experts, we have 12 years to dramatically curb our carbon emissions before we reach a tipping point, after which climate change is not only inevitable but also disastrous. In light of this emergency, I argued
  
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• German artists admit they faked exploding Utah arch video — but hoax wasn’t as successful as they think

  26-04-2019 19:06
  A pair of German artists have admitted they created fake videos of an exploding Utah rock arch and hoodoos that went viral on internet in December — and they’re being given a bit too much credit for having fooled the media.In a story in the German newspaper Die Welt (The World) headlined “How two Berlin artists fooled American media,” Julius von Bismarck and Julian Charrière detail how and why they did it. Bismark said they wanted to create a fake video of somethin
  
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• Utah Republican Party interns sign letter calling party secretary ‘unfit’ for her office

  26-04-2019 18:55
  Interns and employees of the Utah Republican Party have called out the current party secretary, Lisa Shepherd, as being unfit for her leadership post in a letter sent to state Republican delegates on Thursday.The letter is signed by eight individuals, three of whom are currently listed as party staff on the party website, who say Shepherd engaged in unprofessional behavior and contributed to a work environment that became hostile, tense, antagonistic and unhealthy when she was present.“It
  
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• How Utah Royals FC forward Christen Press went from a goal-scoring specialist to an all-around player who gives defenses fits

  26-04-2019 18:41
  Sandy • Utah Royals FC forward Christen Press waited patiently for Washington Spirit fullback Paige Nielsen to make the pass. Once the ball left Nielsen’s feet, Press immediately stuck her left leg out to intercept it, starting a sequence that saw her dribble around and into the 18-yard box for nearly 10 seconds.In the moment, it appeared Press was looking for an opening to take one her patented strikes toward the goal. But at the last second, she found teammate Lo’eau LaBonta,
  
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• Missing indigenous women spotlighted by Washington bill

  26-04-2019 18:11
  Olympia, Wash. • A growing number of missing and murdered Native American women are the focus of a Washington bill signed into law Wednesday amid concerns the victims’ cases are slipping between jurisdictional gaps.Taking aim at confusion stemming from overlapping law enforcement boundaries and other factors, the bill creates a pair of liaison positions within the state patrol and requires the agency to develop best practices for handling the cases.Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed th
  
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• CBS’ ’48 Hours’ reports on Utah teen’s suicide — and 2nd teen sent to prison for helping her die

  26-04-2019 18:11
  The death of one Utah teenager and the shocking involvement of another in her suicide is the focus of Saturday’s edition of the CBS newsmagazine “48 Hours.”In the episode, titled “A Death in Payson Canyon,” correspondent David Begnaud recounts the events of May 5, 2017, when the body of Jchandra Brown, a Spanish Fork 16-year-old, was found hanging from a tree. But what was at first thought to be a suicide turned into a first-degree murder charge against 18-year-old
  
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• [Fansided: Sir Charles In Charge] - Houston Rockets seek revenge, waiting for the Warriors in round two

  26-04-2019 18:03 via sportspyder.com
  After taking care of the Utah Jazz, the Houston Rockets, seeking revenge, await the Golden State Warriors in the second round of the playoffs The Houston R...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Rockmonster Unplugged: Here is a team that should make Utah Jazz fans feel better

  26-04-2019 17:58 via sportspyder.com
  Oklahoma City got beat 4-1 in the first round, just like the Jazz. But the Thunder are on a playoff downslide with no end in sight — and doing it with better talent.
  
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• [Sports Illustrated] - 2019 NBA Playoffs: The future of Donovan Mitchell and the Jazz | SI.com

  26-04-2019 17:46 via sportspyder.com
  Donovan Mitchell and the Utah Jazz have outpaced expectations in his first two NBA seasons, making the postseason in the tough West. But what comes next? We consider the future in Salt Lake.
  
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• Rockmonster Unplugged: Here is a team that should make Utah Jazz fans feel better

  26-04-2019 17:38
  Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook (0) celebrates with Paul George (13) after a basket during the second half of Game 3 of the team's NBA basketball first-round playoff series against the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday, April 19, 2019, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)Sue Ogrocki, APOklahoma City Thunder forward Paul George, left, and forward Jerami Grant walk off the court after losing to the Portland Trail Blazers in Game 5 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, T
  
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• George Conway slammed Trump as ‘Deranged Donald,’ and a new nickname was born

  26-04-2019 17:35
  Washington • In President Donald Trump’s world, people may come and go, but nicknames are forever.Whether they are "Crooked," "Crazy," "Lyin' " or "Little," it appears that Trump has made it his personal mission to saddle his numerous rivals over the years with unflattering monikers, seizing any opportunity to deploy the epithets to the masses.On Thursday, however, Trump found himself in a rather unusual position in his war of words — receiving a nickname.In a series of early-mo
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Jazz Notes: Rubio, Favors, Offseason

  26-04-2019 17:19 via sportspyder.com
  After making the Western Conference Semifinals in 2018, the Jazz kept their roster relatively intact and won another 50 games …
  
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• Alexandra Petri: I mean, you have to think about electability

  26-04-2019 17:00
  Let me begin by stating that I, personally, have no problems with any of the candidates. I am excited by all of them. So excited. Super excited and not even a tiny bit uncomfortable. Gosh, I would vote for these candidates as many times as I saw "Get Out," as well as once for every mug or tote bag I own that says "The Future is Female" or "Love is Love" on it. (Imagine a lot of mugs and tote bags.) Were only that legal!But you have to think about electability.I just think people -- again, not me
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: Utah State's Craig Smith one of the five best hires in college basketball last season; Optimism abounds about future of Utah Jazz

  26-04-2019 16:45 via sportspyder.com
  Smith was singled out as one of the most successful new hires in college basketball. Also, the Jazz are "a really good team," and shouldn't "worry that its best players or fundamental belief...
  
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• Morning links: Utah State's Craig Smith one of the five best hires in college basketball last season; Optimism abounds about future of Utah Jazz

  26-04-2019 16:30
  Utah State Aggies head coach Craig Smith cheers on his team during a Mountain West Conference semifinal game against the Fresno State Bulldogs at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas on Friday, March 15, 2019.Houston Rockets guard James Harden (13) is blocked by Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) during Game 5 of a first-round NBA basketball playoff series in Houston on Wednesday, April 24, 2019.Laura SeitzWhile much of the sporting world was focused on the first round of the NFL draft Thurs
  
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• Behind the Headlines: Feds stack a Bears Ears advisory group with critics, and Moab’s tourism boom reaches a tipping point

  26-04-2019 16:04
  An advisory council for the reduced Bears Ears National Monument lacks monument supporters. Environmental activists shut down a Utah Inland Port Authority board meeting. And Moab’s tourism boom reaches a tipping point. At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Brian Maffly and Taylor Stevens, and columnist George Pyle join KCPW’s Roger McDonough to talk about the week’s top stories. Every Friday at 9 a.m., stream “Behind the Headlines” at kcpw.org, or tune in
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Warren’s free-college-and-debt-forgiveness plan may be liberal, but it isn’t progressive

  26-04-2019 16:03
  Washington - Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., might want to work on making her free-college-and-debt-forgiveness plan more progressive.That might sound like a weird criticism for a candidate already vying for the left-most lane in the 2020 primary. But I don't mean "progressive" in the sense of "more palatable synonym for liberal."I mean "progressive" in the sense of "more generous to the poor than the wealthy."Warren deserves credit for focusing the 2020 campaign on America's need to invest in h
  
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