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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Royce O’Neale’s work ethic continues to propel him upward in the Jazz’s player rotation

  06-10-2019 23:58 via sportspyder.com
  Asked during Saturday’s shootaround a few hours before that night’s preseason opener how he expected his role to change this season, Royce O’Neale was his typically low-key self.
  
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• For some Native Americans, no home address might mean no voting

  06-10-2019 23:39
  San Juan County • At the end of a labyrinth of red dirt roads and surrounded by the rusty cliffs of nearby mesas, Marthleen and Shuan Stephenson live on an isolated desert homestead on the sprawling Navajo Nation.Until last month, you couldn’t find their home using a traditional address. Instead, the directions went like this: “Turn off U.S. Highway 191 between mile markers 1 and 2. It’s a blue house with a tan roof.”The couple felt like they were living in the dark,
  
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• Royce O’Neale’s work ethic continues to propel him upward in the Jazz’s player rotation

  06-10-2019 23:32
  Asked during Saturday’s shootaround a few hours before that night’s preseason opener how he expected his role to change this season, Royce O’Neale was his typically low-key self.“I don’t,” he said. “Just play hard every night, be a defensive guy, make plays on offense, and shoot the ball when I’m open.”He’s correct insofar as he will definitely continue to do all those things for the Jazz. But suggesting that his role will not change is
  
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• Tribune Editorial: How Watkins and the U. can move on

  06-10-2019 23:00
  Ruth Watkins is fully capable of lifting the clouds of despair and mistrust that now hang over the University of Utah.But first, the president of Utah’s flagship university must, to paraphrase that nasty character in “Henry VI,” get rid of all the lawyers.And the University Police Department.It has been not quite a year since 21-year-old U. freshman Lauren McCluskey was murdered just outside her dorm on the U. campus, killed by a former boyfriend who himself died by suicide bef
  
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• Former Ute softball star Hannah Flippen makes the U.S. Olympic team

  06-10-2019 22:32
  Hannah Flippen, a former Utah softball star and current assistant coach, was named Sunday to the U.S. Olympic team for the 2020 Games in Tokyo.Flippen, 24, made the 18-player roster after a tryout camp in Oklahoma City. Softball has been restored to the Olympic program after last being staged in Beijing in 2008.“My time as a Ute has been instrumental in the path to this moment,” Flippen said in a school news release. “I could not be more proud to represent the University of Uta
  
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• [KSL] - Jazz look as advertised in 52-point win over Adelaide | KSL.com

  06-10-2019 22:26 via sportspyder.com
  Yeah, it was an Australian team, but the Jazz looked good — really good.
  
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• Blaine Lindgren, Olympic silver medalist from Utah, dies at 80

  06-10-2019 22:23
  Blaine Lindgren, a Salt Lake City native who won a silver medal in track and field in the 1964 Olympics, died Saturday. He was 80.Lindgren is remembered in Olympic history for just missing a gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles in Tokyo, where he leaned too soon toward the tape at the finish line and U.S. teammate Hayes Jones was awarded the victory.Lindgren is the most recent University of Utah graduate to earn an Olympic medal for the United States in the Summer Games. Women's swimmer Wang Xiao
  
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• [Torn By Sports] - Episode 202: Utah Jazz Preseason Basketball Is Here!

  06-10-2019 21:20 via sportspyder.com
  This week we talk Utah Jazz preseason and NBA official player measurements. Pop Culture discussion is all about Ad Astra.
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: The good, the bad, the ugly from preseason blowout over Adelaide

  06-10-2019 20:41 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz prevailed quite easily in their first preseason game of the 2019-20 season as they took on the Adelaide 36ers of Australia's NBL. The Utah Ja...
  
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• Utes move up to No. 15 in the polls after a weekend off

  06-10-2019 20:40
  Utah moved up two spots to No. 15 in both college football polls Sunday, setting up a potentially high-profile matchup with No. 18 Arizona State in the Pac-12 South in two weeks.The Sun Devils will come to Rice-Eccles Stadium on Oct. 19. First, though, the Utes (4-1) will play at Oregon State on Saturday, while ASU (4-1) hosts Washington State.Utah was idle this weekend. The Utes profited from losses by Washington at Stanford and by Iowa at Michigan, moving to No. 15 in the AP Top 25. Michigan r
  
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• Utah Jazz: The good, the bad, the ugly from preseason blowout over Adelaide

  06-10-2019 20:36
  The Utah Jazz prevailed quite easily in their first preseason game of the 2019-20 season as they took on the Adelaide 36ers of Australia’s NBL. The Utah Jazz took care of business in undeniable fashion when they took on the Adelaide 36ers from Australia’s NBL on Saturday evening. Though the game began somewhat closely contested […]
  Utah Jazz: The good, the bad, the ugly from preseason blowout over Adelaide - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opini
  
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• Police look for 2 men in Kansas bar shooting that killed 4

  06-10-2019 20:23
  Kansas City, Kan. • Two men opened fire inside a bar in Kansas City, Kan., early Sunday, killing four people and wounding five others in a shooting believed to have stemmed from an earlier dispute, police said.Authorities were searching Sunday for the two gunmen, said Officer Thomas Tomasic, a police spokesman. He said the two men had apparently gotten into some sort of disagreement with people inside Tequila KC Bar, left, then returned with handguns."We think there was something that happe
  
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• Latest from LDS General Conference: Help, lift and love those in need, church President Russell Nelson urges

  06-10-2019 20:11
  After a day full of sermons (on doctrine, commitment and the dangers of social media), changes (to the Young Men and Young Women programs) and announcements (plans for eight new temples, including two more in Utah) members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gathered Sunday for the final sessions of the faith’s 189th Semiannual General Conference.President Russel M. Nelson: Look for ways to help, lift and love othersIn 1984, Latter-day Saints held a churchwide fast and corre
  
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• Ross Douthat: When Trump gets his alligator

  06-10-2019 20:07
  If Watergate became, for Richard Nixon, a cancer on his presidency, then Donald Trump’s Ukraine scandal is shaping up as something different: It’s an alligator in his White House.The alligator, for readers who missed its recent moment in the news cycle, is the predatory beast that the president reportedly wanted to swim hungrily in a moat along our southern border, sharing the waters with poisonous snakes, shadowed by spiked-tipped walls above.But alligator mississippiensis is also a
  
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• South Florida is struggling this season, but BYU has its own problems to worry about

  06-10-2019 19:41
  South Florida got a much-needed win at UConn, beating the Huskies 48-22 on the road and improving 2-3. But is that a sign that USF is settling in or will the Bulls continue to struggle throughout the season?BYU is also in limbo.The Cougars had a couple of impressive wins, both in overtime, against Tennessee and USC, but they were sloppy against Utah and Washington made a show of them. Their last game, at Toledo, was decided in the last minute when the Rockets took advantage of a BYU turnover to
  
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• Maureen Dowd: Forget it, America, it’s Chinatown

  06-10-2019 19:03
  Washington • Forget it, America. It’s Chinatown.Washington, once the guarantor of American values, is a crime scene. This capital of white marble is now encircled by yellow tape, rife with mendacity, cowardice and corruption. It’s Chinatown on the Potomac.Robert Towne, screenwriter of the 1974 classic “Chinatown,” wrote the movie as a eulogy to great things that were lost. He said that he was not conjuring a place on a map but a state of mind: the futility of good in
  
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• Monica Potts: Abandoning a library in the land of self-defeat

  06-10-2019 18:13
  Clinton, Ark. — Inside Washington, there’s a sense that this scandal really is different. Even the White House’s memorandum of the phone conversation President Trump had with the Ukrainian president in July makes it clear that Mr. Trump asked a foreign country to help him undermine a political rival. But while national polls show support for impeaching him is growing, it’s still divided sharply along partisan lines. Democrats strongly favor it, while Republicans tend to o
  
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• Pac-12 football teams keep beating one another. Can any one-loss team stay that way?

  06-10-2019 18:12
  In early October, the Pac-12 already is down to four one-loss football teams and two of them have a 0.1-percent chance (or less) of staying that way. The recent trend remains intact: The competitive balance that make the conference fun to watch keeps hurting the Pac-12 in the national landscape.Or maybe there's just no College Football Playoff-worthy team in this league, period.The four-team CFP is likely to remain out of the conference’s reach for the fourth time in five seasons, unless O
  
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• VR exhibit, coming to Utah, immerses viewers in ‘Traveling While Black’

  06-10-2019 17:30
  A person could watch Roger Ross Williams’ “Traveling While Black” on The New York Times’ website, where it was first posted in January.But if you haven’t seen it through a virtual reality headset, as viewers can at Salt Lake City’s Broadway Centre Cinemas starting this week, “you basically haven’t seen it,” Williams said.“The beauty of VR, especially with a subject like this, is that you can’t escape it,” Williams said in a
  
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• Frank Bruni: How to sell your soul to Donald Trump

  06-10-2019 17:24
  There’s no way that Mike Pompeo actually venerates Donald Trump. I doubt he even likes the president much.Pompeo graduated first in his class at West Point decades ago, a feat that suggests enormous reserves of discipline, a profound respect for tradition and a talent for self-effacement when the circumstances warrant it. Trump possesses none of those qualities.Pompeo is an evangelical Christian, steeped in the very dictums that Trump has spent a lifetime mocking with both his words and hi
  
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• 2nd whistleblower backs original complaint against Trump, lawyer says

  06-10-2019 16:54
  Washington • A second whistleblower has spoken to the intelligence community’s internal watchdog and has information that backs the original whistleblower’s complaint about President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, according to the lawyer for the two.Lawyer Mark Zaid told The Associated Press in a text message Sunday that the second whistleblower, who also works in intelligence, hasn't filed a complaint with the inspector general but does have "firsthand knowledge th
  
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• Native American art gallery in Salt Lake City closing, as artists seek new ways to sell their work

  06-10-2019 16:10
  As he completes the sale of a piece of pottery and wraps it in tissue for the customer, David Dunn can’t help but point out the artistry of the work.“Very thin walls, very detailed,” Dunn said, pointing out the intricate design. “The movement [of the colors], like a cloud or the wind.”Dunn, owner of TP Gallery on downtown Salt Lake City’s Main Street, has specialized in selling Native American artwork — jewelry, rugs, pottery, beadwork and paintings &mda
  
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• Robert Kirby: The LDS Church is finally catching up to me

  06-10-2019 16:04
  That’s it. I’m done. It’s been coming for a while. But now that it’s here, I can’t deny the way I feel. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is no longer “true.” I’m tempted to resign my membership.There. I said it. I simply can’t abide the monstrous misuse of the priesthood any longer. Things have been going downhill ever since the old rumor that Hyrum Smith’s widow raised her oxen from the dead using her murdered husband&rs
  
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• While Jon Huntsman dealt with the Kremlin, Mary Kaye Huntsman practiced Instagram diplomacy

  06-10-2019 16:03
  Washington • Landing in Moscow some two years ago, Mary Kaye Huntsman embraced her temporary home, posting a picture of herself and her husband, newly minted U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman, strolling through the city streets.“And the journey begins,” she wrote on Instagram.Shortly afterward, she uploaded pictures of the ambassador presenting his credentials to Russian President Vladimir Putin and on a cuter side, an image of the American couple’s two pups, Oliver a
  
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• Jackie Biskupski: By speaking up for clean car standards, Romney stood up for Utahns

  06-10-2019 16:00
  As mayor of Salt Lake City, my most important job is protecting the health and well-being of our residents. In my capacity as co-chair of Sierra Club’s “Mayors for 100% Clean Energy,” and as chair of the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ “Alliance for a Sustainable Future” task force, I am focused on advancing policies that fight climate change, slash dangerous pollution, and bolster Salt Lake City’s economy.However, with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agenc
  
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• Leonard Pitts: How times have changed. And how they haven’t.

  06-10-2019 15:21
  You may, if you are old enough, recall a TV actor named Foster Brooks.He was a guest star on such classics of boomer kitsch as "The Monkees," "The Munsters" and "The Mod Squad." But if you do remember him, it's likely for one thing only: his imitation of inebriation. Brooks made his slurring, stammering "funny drunk act" a TV staple, back when drunks were still considered, well ... funny.To recall his career is to marvel at what a difference a generation or two makes.That era produced another TV
  
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• Maria Navas-Moreno: Fewer foreign students in our classrooms and labs is bad for business

  06-10-2019 15:00
  When I came to the University of Utah from Bogota, Colombia, as an eager graduate student 13 years ago, I was hungry for opportunity. American universities had a reputation for encouraging groundbreaking research, and the lack of red tape made the United States the best place in the world to start a business. After a decade researching nanotechnologies in Utah and California, I recently co-launched a company that’s creating consumer applications of sophisticated laser technologies.Yet I&rs
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: There’s a ghost on ‘Nancy Drew,’ and it scares me

  06-10-2019 14:00
  Nancy Drew is back, and she brought a ghost with her. A real ghost. A scary ghost.The new “Nancy Drew” (8 p.m. Wednesday, Ch. 30) is filled with attractive young people — it’s on The CW, so you had to figure that would be the case. There’s murder. Romance. Mystery. Angst. And a ghost.Not like in an episode of “Scooby-Doo.” There’s no logical explanation at the end of the episode. Nobody is wearing a mask to, like, scare people as part of a plan to
  
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• San Juan County painter Gilmore Scott has unique take on traditional Navajo artwork

  06-10-2019 14:00
  Montezuma Creek • One third of Gilmore Scott’s kitchen table serves as his studio space, his tray of paints a patch of clutter in his otherwise immaculate home.Outside the window, an immense sky hangs over the treeless mesas of the northern Navajo Nation. But Scott is turned toward his canvas, where he is layering vivid colors into an intense, geometric pattern, which he says was inspired by a Diné (Navajo) rug weaving tradition known as Eye Dazzlers.“When people see that
  
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• Midvale’s Tokyo Teriyaki is modern Asian with a nod to its Chinese past

  06-10-2019 14:00
  Midvale • Utah’s iconic Kowloon Café may be closed, but its spirit lives on at Tokyo Teriyaki.The fast-casual Asian restaurant opened recently in Midvale, with a second location coming soon to Salt Lake City.Owner Connie Wang has plenty of experience in the restaurant business. For many years, she helped run the Kowloon Café in West Valley City with her father, Raymond Wang. The quintessential Chinese American restaurant closed in May after 60 years in business. The fami
  
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• Letter: Why no party?

  06-10-2019 14:00
  I do not belong to either of the predominant political parties. I trust in more unified and moderate respectful debate and prefer people who focus on solutions. When reason prevails we all have cause to celebrate as a community, not as a party.Why not a Democrat? I believe it was Will Rogers who once said, “I do not belong to any organized political party, I am a Democrat.” Enough said.Why not a Republican? I am not sure that party still exists. The Republican Party I could respect w
  
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• Letter: We only have one chance to get it right

  06-10-2019 14:00
  Thank you, Salt Lake Tribune, for the Sept. 22 story “Development Quagmire.” It brought excellent coverage to the hows and whys of Salt Lake’s wetlands being left alone.People, especially state legislators, need to understand that we get one chance to get it right. By building the proposed inland port, we unintentionally poison our Salt Lake population. Through extensive pesticide use to poison mosquito larvae, we pollute the very air Salt Lake Valley residents need to live. We
  
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• Letter: Rep. Chris Stewart should be ashamed

  06-10-2019 14:00
  I don’t necessarily think Rep. Chris Stewart is stupid. I feel the same way about Sen. Lindsey Graham. Most of their fellow Republican representatives and senators are similarly not dumb.For this reason, Stewart, Graham, et al., should be especially ashamed of their efforts to deflect and obfuscate for our crooked president.Apparently, retention of power, achieved by not losing the votes of Trump’s base, is more important to them than their oaths of office or our country. Shameful.Ro
  
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• Letter: Educational preparation pays off

  06-10-2019 14:00
  I was surprised to read in your Sept. 29 Opinion section that the Early Childhood Education Teaching Program was being “reinstated.”You mean say such a program was ever terminated?I continued through the piece as the old adage — “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” — kept running through my head.Perhaps better said would be, “A pound of educational preparation in the sensitive years is worth a ton of benefit (cure) for the common good.&rdquo
  
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• City dwellers can meet the wild things near them, in exhibit coming to Natural History Museum of Utah

  06-10-2019 14:00
  Utahns will get to learn more about the creatures that live wild among us, at a new exhibit opening at the Natural History Museum of Utah.“Nature All Around Us” is one of the biggest in-house exhibits the museum has created, and the most hands-on and interactive. Museum staff have spent three years developing it, and the opening marks the museum’s 50th anniversary.The exhibit opens Oct. 19 at the museum, at 301 Wakara Way on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City. It r
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: I want to go back to work ... I think

  06-10-2019 14:00
  Dear Ann Cannon • I’m a college graduate as well as a wife and mother of a couple of great teens. I’m also feeling a little bit lost these days. I’d love to work again, and I know I’ve still “got it” even after 15-plus years of being a full-time mom. However, I’m struggling to reconcile my role as a full-time mother with my desire to do more outside the home.People wonder what I do all day since my kids have been in school for some time. Surely, the
  
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• 140-year-old family farm in Utah staying close to its roots

  06-10-2019 14:00
  Payson • I t’s a cool, fall afternoon, and 87-year-old Payson resident, Ron Jensen, sits at his kitchen table inside a nearly 50-year-old home that he designed and built himself.His wife of 60 years, Gerry Jensen, sits at the kitchen counter and looks on as her husband talks about their family's life on the farm. Tears well up in their eyes as Ron Jensen tells about a life once lived — a life still worth hanging on to.It was in the 1860s when Ron Jensen's grandfather, Carl John
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Triple Team: Andy Larsen’s analysis on who’s a natural passer, player-by-player through the Jazz’s bench, and more

  06-10-2019 08:14 via sportspyder.com
  Three thoughts on the Jazz’s 133-81 win over the Adelaide 36ers from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.
  
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• The Triple Team: Andy Larsen’s analysis on who’s a natural passer, player-by-player through the Jazz’s bench, and more

  06-10-2019 07:58
  Three thoughts on the Jazz’s 133-81 win over the Adelaide 36ers from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Who is a natural passer?The level of competition hangs over actual, serious analysis of this game: breaking down a 50-point win over an Australian team probably is more likely to produce wrong conclusions than it is right ones. Remember last year’s 50-point win over Perth? Grayson Allen led the team in scoring, Alec Burks finished second with 18 points, and the Jazz
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Rookie Miye Oni plays well in first NBA preseason action after ‘whirlwind’ first week of training camp

  06-10-2019 07:48 via sportspyder.com
  Miye Oni’s performance in Saturday night’s preseason game doesn’t jump off the stat sheet: nine points on 4-of-7 shooting from the field, five rebounds, three assists in 18 minutes.
  
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• Portland State pulls away from Southern Utah for 52-31 Big Sky football victory

  06-10-2019 07:41
  Portland, Ore. • Davis Alexander threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score and Sirgeo Hoffman added two touchdown runs to power Portland State to a 52-31 victory over Southern Utah on Saturday.The Vikings (3-3, 1-1 Big Sky Conference) started fast and never looked back against the Thunderbirds (1-5, 0-2). Portland State used Cody Williams’ 37-yard field goal and Hoffman’s 2-yard TD run to take a 10-0 lead after one quarter. Following Hoffman’s score, Southern Utah dr
  
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• Kris Jackson’s late touchdown gives Weber State the points it needs to hold off Idaho 41-35

  06-10-2019 07:41
  Moscow, Idaho • Kris Jackson’s late touchdown gave Weber State the points it needed to hold off Idaho 41-35 on Saturday.Idaho (2-4, 0-2 Big Sky) got within 34-28 on Mason Petrino’s 1-yard run with 3:19 to go before Jackson scored the necessary insurance touchdown on an 18-yard run. The Vandals followed Jackson’s score with a 97-yard kickoff return by Nick Romano but an ensuing onside bounded out of bounds.Doug Lloyd, the holder on field goal attempts, took a snap and went
  
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• [KSL] - 'Our goal is to win an NBA championship': New Jazz president talks about path, ideas for team | KSL.com

  06-10-2019 07:36 via sportspyder.com
  In 1994, Jim Olson was selling Jazz tickets in a basement room. Twenty-five years later, he's running the team.
  
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• Rookie Miye Oni plays well in first NBA preseason action after ‘whirlwind’ first week of training camp

  06-10-2019 07:30
  Miye Oni’s performance in Saturday night’s preseason game doesn’t jump off the stat sheet: nine points on 4-of-7 shooting from the field, five rebounds, three assists in 18 minutes.But given the position in which he was put, that qualifies as a major success. Yes, Oni stood out by not seeming out of place, even as he shared lineups with Joe Ingles, Royce O’Neale, Ed Davis and Jeff Green. There are obviously qualifiers — the biggest being that the Jazz were playing a
  
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• Jazz give stars the night off but still rout the Adelaide 36ers 133-81 in preseason opener

  06-10-2019 07:09
  After months of waiting, after months of eager anticipation to see how all the new pieces of the team might fit together, Jazz fans finally got their first look in Saturday’s preseason opener …At the likes of Ed Davis, Jeff Green and Nigel Williams-Goss. And, OK, a little Bojan Bogdanovic, too.Still, with stars Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert and Mike Conley all getting the night off from coach Quin Snyder to rest, that comprehensive look will have to wait, and those in attendance at
  
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• [NBA] - The Roundup—Jazz beat 36ers by 52 in preseason opener

  06-10-2019 06:40 via sportspyder.com
  After five months off, the Utah Jazz tipped off their 2019 preseason schedule with a 133-81 victory over the NBL's Adelaide 36ers Saturday night in Salt Lake City. "I thought we played the
  
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• Latter-day Saint temples coming to Orem and Taylorsville, upping Utah’s eventual total to 23

  06-10-2019 06:33
  Utah will have 23 Latter-day Saint temples, thanks to two more church President Russell M. Nelson announced Saturday night.They will be built in Orem and Taylorsville.The Beehive State is home to 17 operating temples, with more planned in Layton, Saratoga Springs, Washington County and Tooele Valley.Nelson, the 95-year-old leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, announced six other temples as well Saturday — in Freetown, Sierra Leone; Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea; Bent
  
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• | @unclejeffgreen with 16p | 2 3pm | 2s #TakeNote | #ADEatUTApic.twitter.com/nABjkJkb5V

  06-10-2019 06:10 via twitter.com
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Shorthanded Utah Jazz beat the Adelaide 36ers by 52

  06-10-2019 06:02 via sportspyder.com
  Preseason is fun.
  
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• In a nod to Heavenly Mother, LDS Young Women’s theme changed to ‘Heavenly Parents’

  06-10-2019 05:46
  Beehives, MIA Maids and Laurels are out — Heavenly Parents are in.That’s what happened Saturday night at the women’s session of the 189th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.The Utah-based faith eliminated the names historically associated with Young Women classes. All will simply be known as “Young Women.”In another step on the gender-equity front, it revised the Young Women theme Saturday night, changing “we are d
  
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