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• The Jazz have three World Cup players on their roster. Here’s how they’re planning to manage their load.

  02-10-2019 23:43
  For about six weeks, from the beginning to August to September 15, Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell, and Joe Ingles traveled the world playing basketball.Perhaps Mitchell’s Team USA flew the most miles, heading from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, then embarking on the 15 hour flight to Australia, where they played in Melbourne and Sydney. That was all before the FIBA World Cup began, and from there, they traveled to four different cities in China during the course of the tournament before flying b
  
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• RSL players, coaches say they’ve blocked out the recent front office drama, earning a playoff spot in the process

  02-10-2019 23:39
  Herriman • A lot has been going on for Real Salt Lake in the last several weeks.Longtime veteran Tony Beltran announced his retirement. Goalkeeper Nick Rimando played his last regular-season home game in an RSL uniform. The organization celebrated its 2009 Major League Soccer title. The team clinched a playoff berth.And that’s just on the field.Behind the scenes, there’s been a lot less celebrating and honoring. Instead, there’s been a serious reshuffling of top positions
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Jarrell Brantley & Justin Wright-Foreman: Media Day—9.30.2019

  02-10-2019 23:30 via sportspyder.com
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• | "He's (Rudy) a big, big dude, man. The screens he sets, what he opens up with the ability to roll. I've probably thrown more lobs in the last two days than I have in a long time."https://www.nba.com/jazz/video/teams/jazz/2019/10/02/2823466/1570050493007

  02-10-2019 23:30 via twitter.com
  | "He's (Rudy) a big, big dude, man. The screens he sets, what he opens up with the ability to roll. I've probably thrown more lobs in the last two days than I have in a long time."https://www.nba.com/jazz/video/teams/jazz/2019/10/02/2823466/1570050493007-mike-conley-2823466?_ga=2.165096951.916045683.1569883930-1160178980.1559837147 …
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz guard Mike Conley is excited to be throwing all of the lobs to Rudy Gobert

  02-10-2019 23:24 via sportspyder.com
  It’s safe to say Utah Jazz point guard Mike Conley is excited about playing with center Rudy Gobert. Conley says he has thrown more lob passes in the first two days of practice in Utah than he’s thrown in a long time. Mike Conley said he’s thrown...
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Royce O'Neale & Georges Niang: Meida Day—9.30.2019

  02-10-2019 22:50 via sportspyder.com
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• BYU women’s basketball team picked to finish second, behind Gonzaga, in WCC preseason poll

  02-10-2019 22:41
  Last season, BYU was the only team to in the West Coast Conference to beat Gonzaga — and the Cougars did it three times. The two regular-season matchups were each decided by a single basket, but the Cougars dominated the Bulldogs 82-68 on the way to their third conference title since joining the WCC in 2011.Both teams went on to the NCAA tournament, where they bowed out in the second round.However, it was Gonzaga who was picked to finish first in the annual preseason poll of the WCC’
  
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• Enrollment at Utah’s public colleges is up statewide, but down at the University of Utah and Utah State University

  02-10-2019 22:32
  The student bodies at Utah’s public research universities shrunk slightly in 2019, but those losses were offset by growth at their sister campuses around the state, according to new numbers released Wednesday by the Utah System of Higher Education.Total enrollment at the University of Utah dipped by 171 students in 2019, while enrollment at Utah State University fell by 122 students, bringing the headcounts at those campuses to 32,852 and 27,810, respectively.In a prepared statement, U. Se
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Tony Bradley & Emmanuel Mudiay: Media Day—9.30.2019

  02-10-2019 22:30 via sportspyder.com
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• How much should Utah teachers be paid? A new report has a suggestion — but it would cost $530 million.

  02-10-2019 22:30
  A group of prominent Utah educators and politicians believe that they’ve determined the exact starting salary that would keep teachers in the classroom and entice more to join them.The magic number: $60,000 a year. The next problem: how to fund it.That salary recommendation — which came Wednesday from an Envision Utah committee focused on the issue — is $10,000 more than even the highest paying Utah school district is currently offering. It’s nearly double the lowest payi
  
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• Student crowned homecoming queen 2 years after being shot

  02-10-2019 22:27
  Logan • More than two years after two classmates shot her in the head and left her for dead, Deserae Turner walked onto her high school field in Utah to cheers from thousands of people.She had been named homecoming queen, and everything about her reign was improbable.After 10 brain surgeries, Turner has defied doctors’ expectations, down to her ability to walk down a flight of stairs at the homecoming assembly and step onto the dance floor with the king.“She had to relearn every
  
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• What are we gonna do with all these media day pics?!? Oh, how about make something for #WallpaperWednesday?pic.twitter.com/NB9XxiUX2c

  02-10-2019 22:26 via twitter.com
  What are we gonna do with all these media day pics?!?Oh, how about make somethingfor #WallpaperWednesday?pic.twitter.com/NB9XxiUX2c
  
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• Leonard Pitts: More bushwa from the human bushwa machine

  02-10-2019 22:20
  “If Democrats are successful in removing the president from office (which they never will be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.” — Donald Trump, roughly quoting Robert Jeffress, a conservative Dallas preacherWhat if he's right?Granted, no militias are massing. No declarations of separation have been read.So one is tempted to dismiss Donald Trump's recent evocation of America's great 19th-century rupture as just more
  
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• In a major change, LDS Church to allow women to be witnesses at baptisms and temple sealings, functions previously reserved for males

  02-10-2019 22:16
  Mary Magdalene was the first person, the Gospel of Mark records, to witness Christianity’s most glorious event: the resurrection of Christ.Now, Latter-day Saint girls and women will be able to act as official witnesses to two of Mormonism’s most sacred ceremonies: baptisms and temple “sealings.”In another stride toward gender equity in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Russell M. Nelson announced to general officers meeting Wednesday — befor
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Rudy Gobert & Donovan Mitchell: Media Day—9.30.2019

  02-10-2019 22:13 via sportspyder.com
  Donovan Mitchell & Rudy Gobert take the podium to talk about FIBA play, expectations and their personal goals this season.
  
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• Ambassador Jon Huntsman touts ‘only marginal improvements’ in U.S.-Russia relations as he departs Moscow for Utah

  02-10-2019 22:06
  Washington • After two years lodged between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman is leaving his post on Thursday, returning to Utah where he is weighing a bid to again run for governor.Huntsman, who took on the role as America’s top envoy to Russia during a tumultuous time between the two world powers, said as he departs that things could have been worse if not for diplomatic efforts to stem a further slide in the relationship.“Our tour began w
  
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• After 2 workers are arrested for stealing $500K, UTA launches review of how its handles fares

  02-10-2019 21:52
  After two former employees were arrested within a month on charges of stealing a combined $500,000 in coins from fares, the Utah Transit Authority said Wednesday it will review and improve its systems for handling such money.“This is a serious matter and we do acknowledge there are improvements we need to make, and those efforts are under way,” UTA Executive Director Carolyn Gonot told the agency’s board Wednesday.She said that includes hiring an outside audit firm, RSM, &ldquo
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Ed Davis is not here to replace Derrick Favors, he’s here to be himself

  02-10-2019 21:26 via sportspyder.com
  Ed Davis knows who he is and what he brings to the Utah Jazz.
  
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• Disgraced Penn State coach’s son, Nicole Brown Simpson’s sister will join Utah march against child abuse Saturday

  02-10-2019 21:19
  The son of an infamous Penn State assistant football coach; the sister of murder victim Nicole Brown Simpson; and a woman who was twice abducted will be keynote speakers at Saturday’s March to End Child Abuse in Salt Lake City.“What is about to happen here in Salt Lake City will be epic,” promised Sam Young, the leader of Protect Every Child, which is sponsoring the event. “It will launch the equivalent of a civil rights movement of our time.”Young, a former bishop
  
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• Robert Kirby: Better stay alert during LDS General Conference in case the brethren try to sneak one past you

  02-10-2019 21:00
  One of the things I enjoy about General Conference is studying the faces of my fellow congregants. I like to guess how they’re receiving “the word” from leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Some stare vacantly, others seem enraptured, and a few appear to have tasted something disagreeable. Most are just mildly expectant.Unless there’s a floor show — dissenters standing up and shouting some agenda — there’s not much in the way of exc
  
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• Schiff, House Intel chairman, got early warning of whistleblower’s accusations

  02-10-2019 20:58
  Washington • The Democratic head of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam B. Schiff of California, learned about the outlines of a CIA officer’s concerns that President Donald Trump had abused his power days before the officer filed a whistleblower complaint, according to a spokesman and current and former American officials.The early account by the future whistleblower shows how determined he was to make known his allegations that Trump asked Ukraine’s government to inter
  
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• Utah’s first West Nile death of 2019 confirmed by health officials

  02-10-2019 20:40
  Utah health officials are confirming a death from West Nile Virus.In its weekly report, the Utah Department of Health identified one death related to the mosquito-borne illness.Nineteen cases have been reported statewide, according to the report.In 2018, 11 residents contracted the virus and one person died. Symptoms can include headaches, joint pains and a high fever — but 70% to 80% of people who are infected develop no symptoms, health officials said.“Less than 1% of people infect
  
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• Letter: No one is above the law. Except those who are.

  02-10-2019 20:39
  Were you reminded of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” when you read the Tribune’s Wednesday front-page headline, “No one is above the law?” Isn’t it obvious, no one is above the law ... except those who are! Donald Trump will see jail time just like Richard Nixon did.David C. Fischer, West Valley CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Dogs that attacked a girl in Eagle Mountain won’t be killed

  02-10-2019 20:13
  Two dogs that attacked and injured a 9-year-old girl in Eagle Mountain have been returned to their owners.A spokesman for the Utah County Sheriff’s Office said having the dogs killed “was something we were considering,” but acted on the advice of the Utah County Attorney’s Office.“There was a lot of sentiment in the community that it might be best if the dogs were put down,” said Sgt. Spencer Cannon. “But we have to be on sound legal footing.”On Se
  
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• Frank Bruni: For Trump, there are no bounds, no bottom

  02-10-2019 20:04
  I was based in Washington and reported from Capitol Hill during Bill Clinton’s impeachment, which was the last time the country entered waters like these. It was ugly, and Democrats and Republicans traded vicious words.But Clinton never publicly accused his detractors of treason or floated the idea that one of them be arrested on those grounds, as Donald Trump just did with Adam Schiff.Clinton and his defenders raised the specter of a “vast right-wing conspiracy,” to use Hillar
  
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• Robert Plant breathes new life into old songs in eclectic Salt Lake City show

  02-10-2019 19:54
  If you’ve never experienced a Robert Plant performance with backing band The Sensational Space Shifters, you could be forgiven for being jarred into cognitive dissonance by hearing the typical staccato guitar bursts of Led Zeppelin’s “Black Dog” replaced with languid electric fiddle and psychedelic organ flourishes.But that’s the point, isn’t it? Plant has never felt particularly bound to tradition, and so, Tuesday night’s re-framing of old rock and blue
  
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