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• Graduate transfer RB Ty’Son Williams shines in BYU’s first scrimmage of preseason camp

  10-08-2019 23:51
  Provo • It didn’t take head coach Kalani Sitake, offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes or starting quarterback Zach Wilson to single out which player shined the most at BYU’s first preseason training camp scrimmage on Saturday at LaVell Edwards Stadium.Graduate transfer running back Ty’Son Williams apparently didn’t account for any of the 54 points the offense put on the scoreboard in running 107 plays, but he did a lot of the work to get his teammates in position to sco
  
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• Tribune Editorial: It’s the guns

  10-08-2019 23:46
  It’s the guns.It’s not mental illness, though that’s a problem we should do more about.It’s not video games.It’s not even, as bad as that problem is, racism and xenophobia.The simple, incontrovertible fact is that nations around the globe, throughout the history of humanity and its precursors, have suffered from emotional problems and delusional thinking, have become obsessed with ever-evolving forms of amusement and have found reasons to dislike, even hate, people
  
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• [Deseret News] - Brad Rock: Who would a Jerry Sloan statue be for?

  10-08-2019 23:08 via sportspyder.com
  The longtime Jazz coach isn't a fan of awards. But a petition is out there, trying to get the ball rolling on a statue to go with those of John Stockton and Karl Malone.
  
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• Brad Rock: Who would a Jerry Sloan statue be for?

  10-08-2019 23:00
  Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan cheers on the team during the home season opener in Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009.Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret NewsFormer Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan has hisbanner unveiled in his honor during halftime of the Utah Jazz game in Salt Lake CityFriday, Jan. 31, 2014.Jeffrey_Allred, Deseret NewsHead coach Jerry Sloan coaches his team against the Hornets at the EnergySolutionsArena. Monday, January 4, 2010.Deseret NewsFormer Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan and his w
  
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• The Tour of Utah starts on Monday with a northern Utah backdrop

  10-08-2019 22:51
  Last year, there was a lot of red rock and desert. This year? More granite-faced mountains, high-altitude passes and conifers. Beginning Monday, the Tour of Utah will run for the 20th time — the ninth time since the race was sanctioned internationally — in the northern part of the state.A total of 117 athletes representing 24 countries are expected to battle across 477 miles of northern Utah when the race begins Monday with the Prologue at Snowbird, up Little Cottonwood Canyon.The fi
  
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• Mission accomplished: This leader got a more unvarnished LDS history to members, with the blessing of his bosses

  10-08-2019 22:47
  In the past seven years, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has tackled some of the faith’s most controversial aspects of its history — polygamy, scriptural translation using a “seer stone,” a divine mother, the all-male priesthood, and, of course, race.The Utah-based faith engaged scores of professional historians to tell the story in an evenhanded but positive way, hoping to add context, clarity and transparency for believers and critics alike.At the center
  
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• With high standards for Utah’s defense, Morgan Scalley wants more from the No. 2 group

  10-08-2019 22:35
  The side effect of fielding one of the Pac-12's best defenses is the dropoff from the starters to the reserves is inevitable.The gap between Utah’s No. 1 and No. 2 groups was the biggest issue cited by coach Kyle Whittingham and defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley after Saturday’s first of two major scrimmages at Rice-Eccles Stadium in preseason football camp.“That's our job as coaches,” Scalley said of the second unit's need for improvement. “That's where we make
  
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• Dozens of members of Utah’s Jewish community gather at ICE office, with this message: ‘Close the Camps’

  10-08-2019 22:15
  Hefting signs, giving prayers and reciting poems, about 100 volunteers from Utah Jewish community groups gathered for a vigil outside Utah’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office Saturday, with one message: “Close the camps.”“It was illuminating to be there,” said Eileen Hallet Stone, Utah section president of the National Council of Jewish Women, one of the groups organizing the protest in West Valley City. “People got out of their on lives for a m
  
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• Letter: Garbett puts forward bold ideas while other candidates peddle more of the same

  10-08-2019 22:02
  If you look at the field of Salt Lake City mayoral candidates and have a hard time telling one from the other, you’re in luck.An important difference between David Garbett and other candidates just made headlines this week, in a Salt Lake Tribune article titled “Salt Lake City mayoral candidates attack David Garbett’s plan to move oil refinery as empty hype.”I endorsed David Garbett because I saw in him a kindred soul — someone, like me, who was ready, willing, and
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: 3 most likely scenarios for the 2019-20 season

  10-08-2019 21:41 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz are right in the middle of the packed Western conference, and therefore there are many possibilities for how their season will unfold. The Ut...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Way too early predictions for 2019-20 Western Conference standings

  10-08-2019 21:31 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz face ample competition in a loaded Western Conference. Here's a first-look at how the regular season standings could stack up in 2019-20. In ...
  
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• Little Cottonwood Canyon is open again after crews cleared away storm debris

  10-08-2019 21:20
  Little Cottonwood Canyon is back in business.Carlos Braceras, executive director of the Utah Department of Transportation, tweeted at about noon Saturday that crews had reopened the popular canyon, clearing away storm debris that had blocked the roadway.“This represents extraordinary effort once again by the same people who kept your roads safe during last winter’s heavy snowfall,” Braceras wrote.Little Cottonwood — home to the Alta and Snowbird resorts — is a popul
  
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• Utah Jazz: Way too early predictions for 2019-20 Western Conference standings

  10-08-2019 21:17
  The Utah Jazz face ample competition in a loaded Western Conference. Here’s a first-look at how the regular season standings could stack up in 2019-20. In the latest rendition of The J-Notes Blast Podcast, I took some time to measure the Utah Jazz’s competition in the Western Conference and predict how each opponent would stack […]
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• Thad Box: We must learn to control our guns in the United States

  10-08-2019 21:00
  In 1939, Dad gave me a dollar bill to buy my own Christmas present. I had a whole dollar to buy anything I wanted! I was rich. Dad had a job helping build a dam for President Roosevelt’s rural electrification project. I could wear store-bought clothes and go to picture shows on Saturday.I bought a tommy gun that you could wind up and spew sparks at girls and other enemies of a 10-year-old boy. When Dad saw me shooting sparks at my little sister he grabbed my gun, threw it on the sidewalk a
  
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• [NBA] - Utah Jazz take over NBATV this weekend

  10-08-2019 20:59 via sportspyder.com
  Want to re-live the excitement of The Shot? See Pistol Pete dribble circles around defenders? Cheer on the Mailman in the NBA Finals? You’re in luck. The Utah Jazz are taking over NBATV. The
  
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• [Fansided: Sir Charles In Charge] - NBA By The Uniform Numbers: The best players in the 40s

  10-08-2019 20:21 via sportspyder.com
  Continuing our series on the best players that wear each uniform number, we rank the best NBA players wearing a number in the 40s In our third installment ...
  
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• Police: El Paso shooting suspect said he targeted Mexicans

  10-08-2019 20:08
  El Paso, Texas • The man accused of carrying out last weekend’s deadly mass shooting at a Walmart in the Texas border city of El Paso confessed to officers while he was surrendering and later explained that he had been targeting Mexicans, authorities say.Patrick Crusius, 21, emerged with his hands up from a vehicle that was stopped at an intersection shortly after last Saturday's attack and told officers, "I'm the shooter," Detective Adrian Garcia said in an arrest warrant affidavit.C
  
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• Jason Mathis: Why I support Stan Penfold for Salt Lake City mayor

  10-08-2019 20:02
  If I still lived in Salt Lake City, I wouldn’t be writing this. I would be too careful and cautious and worried about offending anyone to say what I really think. I left the Beehive State a year ago and now feel even more free to speak my mind. I know and like many of the folks running for mayor of Salt Lake City. Jim Dabakis, Luz Escamilla, Erin Mendenhall and David Garbett are all people I admire. I have worked closely with all of them in different capacities. I would call each of them a
  
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• Christen Press, Amy Rodriguez and Veronica Boquete are the attacking trio the Utah Royals are banking on the rest of the season

  10-08-2019 19:33
  For the Utah Royals FC, there’s really only been two players who have been scoring goals consistently: Christen Press and Amy Rodriguez.The two forwards play together up top in coach Laura Harvey’s 4-1-2-1-2 formation, and have combined for 11 of the 14 goals scored by the club so far in 2019 (Rodriguez has 6, Press has five). But there’s a caveat: Until Wednesday’s blowout over Sky Blue FC, Press and Rodriguez had not appeared on the score sheet in the same game.The reas
  
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• Start of Speed Week postponed due to wet conditions on Salt Flats

  10-08-2019 19:21
  Rainy weather has postponed the first day of racing Saturday for the annual Speed Week at the Bonneville Salt Flats east of Wendover. Bill Lattin, president of the sponsoring Southern California Timing Association, said Saturday that conditions weren’t safe enough to start the speed trials on the famous salt. He said that race organizers will evaluate the salt each day to make a determination. While it is possible the event could begin Sunday, the more likely scenario is for it to start Mo
  
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• Activists were fined over 50k after challenging officials for closed meetings. Now they are appealing in Utah’s Supreme Court.

  10-08-2019 17:57
  A lawsuit headed to the Utah Supreme Court began, like many southern Utah disputes, as a fight over public lands. But it’s become a case about open government.When President Donald Trump was considering whether to dissolve or shrink Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments, he sent then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to Utah to speak with local leaders. The May 2017 trip caused controversy, not only because Trump ultimately rolled back protections for 2 million acres, but
  
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• Saturday update: Little Cottonwood Canyon still closed — for now

  10-08-2019 17:47
  Here is an update on Wasatch Front canyons that were swamped by heavy rains, triggering mudslides that blocked roads and forced some evacuations:• Little Cottonwood Canyon remained closed Saturday morning so crews could remove debris from multiple slides that reached the road, the Utah Department of Transportation website reported.The next chance for vehicles to enter or leave the canyon will be between noon and 12:30 p.m., UDOT said.• Neighboring Big Cottonwood Canyon is open.• U
  
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• The LDS Church’s non-historian ‘historian’ who helped shine a light on Mormonism’s past, the warts and the worshipful

  10-08-2019 17:11
  In the past seven years, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has tackled some of the faith’s most controversial aspects of its history — polygamy, scriptural translation using a “seer stone,” a divine mother, the all-male priesthood, and, of course, race.The Utah-based faith engaged scores of professional historians to tell the story in an evenhanded but positive way, hoping to add context, clarity and transparency for believers and critics alike.At the center
  
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• Wasatch Front county clerks seeing low voter turnout ahead of Tuesday primary

  10-08-2019 17:10
  Days ahead of this year’s municipal primary elections, early voting and by-mail ballot turnout along the Wasatch Front are slightly lower than expected, according to county election officials.“It’s low,” Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen told The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday. Voters “may not know about the candidates, just waiting to make up their minds; they’re in the middle of summer vacation. I don’t know, it’s just not on their radar, perha
  
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• Utah affordable housing fund is running low on money this year after just one meeting

  10-08-2019 17:10
  One of Utah’s major sources of loans for affordable housing projects — the Olene Walker Housing Loan Fund — is running low on cash and isn’t expected to get a new infusion until next summer.The dip in reserves reflects increasing demand for less expensive apartments in a state where rents in many areas continue to climb.According to one of the fund’s top managers, it’s also being driven by rising construction costs and a shifting picture for other subsidies th
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein apparently kills himself in jail while awaiting sex trafficking trial, official says

  10-08-2019 17:02
  Jeffrey Epstein, the politically connected financier and registered sex offender charged recently with sexually abusing dozens of young girls in the early 2000s, has apparently died by suicide in prison, according to a person familiar with the matter and multiple media reports.Epstein, 66, hanged himself in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, though the exact timing was unclear according to ABC News, which was first to report the development.Epstein, a multimillionaire with ti
  
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• Monson: Julian Blackmon becomes a safety-first kind of guy for his senior season at Utah

  10-08-2019 17:00
  Julian Blackmon’s story — a heartening tale, indeed — is inked out on his left arm, one of the hammers he uses to tackle opponents. The cluster of tattoos there has the components of his life that are most meaningful to him, and there’s space left unmarked for more to come. A lot more.The Utes’ safety presently awaits his next turn, his senior season, a year of promise for himself and his team. Blackmon will play a huge role as one of the quarterbacks in the back of
  
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• David Ibarra: I have the executive skills to be mayor of Salt Lake City

  10-08-2019 16:17
  Voters have an incredibly important decision ahead of them. Do we stay with the same crew of politicians who have been leading us, or do we bring in some new blood, with the experience to lead a group of people and reach a goal? I hope voters choose the latter. My brother Mickey and I grew up on the streets of Salt Lake City. For as long as I can remember, I’ve taken a daily 45-minute walk through Salt Lake City. Progress in this city seems to have stalled. I got in this race because Salt
  
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• New program helps Utah farmers with disabilities

  10-08-2019 16:00
  Logan • Agriculture can be as much a lifestyle as it is an occupation. Farmers often don’t retire — they just keep on working. That’s not always easy, though, as back problems, knee problems and any number of other disabilities can get in the way.AgrAbility of Utah, a partnership between the Utah State University Cooperative Extension and nonprofit Allies with Families funded through the USDA, is here to help with exactly that issue.Randall Bagley joined AgrAbility of Utah
  
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• Jean Hill: New centers are part of a larger effort to end homelessness

  10-08-2019 16:00
  As a member of the Salt Lake Valley Coalition to End Homelessness, I was encouraged to see the results of a new Salt Lake Tribune poll indicating that Utahns understand that closing the Road Home and opening three new homeless resource centers in Salt Lake County won’t solve the problem of homelessness in the state. No one single solution to homelessness exists, but if all of us are willing to work together to address the root causes, we can use best practices to render the condition rare,
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Video: Jazz star Donovan Mitchell gives game-worn shoes to young fans after USA intra-squad scrimmage

  10-08-2019 15:50 via sportspyder.com
  Team USA finally gave NBA-hungry fans some action when the senior roster squared off with the Select Team on Friday night. Following the blowout contest, Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell made the day even more special for some lucky young fans,...
  
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• M. Royce Van Tassell: Closing a failing charter school is a feature, not a bug

  10-08-2019 15:45
  The recent hullaballoo over closing the American International School of Utah has been entertaining, if not terribly informative. Critics assail charters closing as a problem, as “gambling with children.” By contrast, they argue, at least district schools don’t “vanish.” Such criticisms simply fail to understand the much greater risk in allowing failing schools to persist. Precisely because we can and do close a failing charter school, the risk of persistent failure
  
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• Enviros and media fight a Utah court ruling they fear could block the public from challenging closed-door meetings

  10-08-2019 15:14
  A lawsuit headed to the Utah Supreme Court began, like many southern Utah disputes, as a fight over public lands. But it’s become a case about open government.When President Donald Trump was considering whether to dissolve or shrink Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments, he sent then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to Utah to speak with local leaders. The May 2017 trip caused controversy, not only because Trump ultimately rolled back protections for 2 million acres, but
  
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• Rich Lowry: Immigration restriction is not hate

  10-08-2019 15:00
  President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda has always been considered exclusionary and prejudiced by progressives; now they consider it tainted by mass murder.The El Paso massacre, carried out by a white nationalist waging a lunatic war against Hispanic immigration, is being used as a bludgeon against Trump and immigration restriction more broadly.After years spent trying to rule immigration restriction out of bounds, the left is doubling down on ruling immigration restriction out of boun
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Kendrick Perkins says Jazz is a ‘powerhouse’ with a starting 5 that can compete with anyone

  10-08-2019 14:42 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz didn’t make a big splash in the offseason, but they’re still seen by many a team that may represent the Western Conference in the NBA Finals next year. One of those people is former NBA player Kendrick Perkins. In my opinion the Utah...
  
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• Letter: Utah’s failed leadership cost us millions of dollars

  10-08-2019 14:00
  Utah continues to have failed leadership. When state Medicaid expansion under the ACA went into effect and became available, Gov. Gary Herbert chose not to make a decision. Instead, he delegated the decision-making to the Utah Legislature.The GOP-majority Legislature saw fit not to expand available coverage. Here we are now. Nearly six years later and Utah is squabbling about expansion.With great leadership and insightfulness, Chris Christy, the Republican governor of New Jersey, embraced the ex
  
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• Letter: Speak up to protect cougars in Utah

  10-08-2019 14:00
  The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources proposes to increase by 34 the number of cougar trophy hunting permits. This year, 641 cougars might have their lives shortened by gunshot.The state believes that our mountain lion population is sustainable if we kill no more than 10% to 12% of the known number of cats. But cougars are elusive, making the true size of the population a best guess based on extrapolations drawn from the numbers killed in the various regions around the state.This percentage wo
  
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• Letter: Republicans only have plans for destruction

  10-08-2019 14:00
  I hear every Republican candidate and current office holder decrying the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) as “something that can’t be fixed” and advocating doing away with the entire program.I have yet to hear even one Republican put forth any option for covering all those they will cavalierly throw to the wolves. Until I see some concrete plan presented by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell or any other Republican, I will continue to believe Republicans have no plans for an
  
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• Letter: Promise not to pardon him

  10-08-2019 14:00
  Next question: By show of hands, if elected, who will promise not to pardon Donald J. Trump?Scott Kenney, AlpineSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Mendenhall and Garbett stand out

  10-08-2019 14:00
  Erin Mendenhall and David Garbett were standouts in the mayoral race debate recently at the public library. Each showed that they were serious, informed and well prepared, and they communicated their visions well.For that reason, I was dismayed to see that Jim Dabakis was ahead in the polls. How is that possible? He came across as stodgy and even clown-like at times and seemed content to restate old ideas. Our city deserves and needs better.The population of Salt Lake City and the state of Utah
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell a low-key top performer in Team USA scrimmage

  10-08-2019 07:18 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell quietly registered one of the stronger performances at the USA Basketball Blue/White scrimmage in Las Vegas. USA Basketball...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Donovan Mitchell, Team USA Blue cruise in scrimmage

  10-08-2019 07:02 via sportspyder.com
  Spida with 8 points and 4 assists in debut
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz star Donovan Mitchell starts for Team USA in scrimmage, developing backcourt chemistry next to Kemba Walker

  10-08-2019 06:53 via sportspyder.com
  Las Vegas • Donovan Mitchell can’t help but find himself in the starting lineup of every team he joins, it seems.
  
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• Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell a low-key top performer in Team USA scrimmage

  10-08-2019 06:47
  Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell quietly registered one of the stronger performances at the USA Basketball Blue/White scrimmage in Las Vegas. USA Basketball held its Blue/White scrimmage at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Friday night; a game that pitted members of the program’s Select Team against the group of Senior National Team players from […]
  Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell a low-key top performer in Team USA scrimmage - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs
  
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• Jazz star Donovan Mitchell starts for Team USA in scrimmage, developing backcourt chemistry next to Kemba Walker

  10-08-2019 06:38
  Las Vegas • Donovan Mitchell can’t help but find himself in the starting lineup of every team he joins, it seems.You may remember Mitchell’s rookie season with the Utah Jazz, in which he started Game No. 1 due to a last minute bathroom break needed by Rodney Hood. He’d find himself there permanently by early November.And in his first game — okay, just a intrasquad scrimmage, but the public’s first chance to see this version of Team USA — he got the start
  
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• [KSL] - 'People still like you and remember you': Bryon Russell is grateful to still feel a part of the Jazz organization | KSL.com

  10-08-2019 06:37 via sportspyder.com
  Years after his playing days, and even further from the trips to the NBA Finals, Bryon Russell still feels a connection to the Utah Jazz.
  
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• Roads start to reopen after mudslides

  10-08-2019 06:28
  Residents of Utah County’s Loafer Canyon were allowed to return to their homes after an evacuation order Thursday prompted by heavy rains that swept through the Wasatch Front, closing several canyon roads.Utah County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Spencer Cannon said the road through Loafer Canyon remains closed to nonresidents, and property owners were asked to park in driveways and off the road to allow room for ongoing maintenance.“They were working on it last night to make it safely
  
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• Jazz fans in Vegas getting something special https://twitter.com/nbakicks/status/1160040118754824193 …

  10-08-2019 06:18 via twitter.com
  Jazz fans in Vegas getting something special https://twitter.com/nbakicks/status/1160040118754824193 …
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Kendrick Perkins gives high praise to the Utah Jazz ahead of 2019-20 season

  10-08-2019 05:12 via sportspyder.com
  Despite all the upgrades made by teams in the Western Conference, former NBA champion Kendrick Perkins likes the Utah Jazz's odds of coming out of the West...
  
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