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• [CBS Sports] - Donovan Mitchell, Bojan Bogdanovic have been superb for Jazz, who look dangerous despite strange early trends - CBSSports.com

  05-11-2019 23:12 via sportspyder.com
  Conley will be better, but you wonder about Utah's shot distribution, and its one missing defensive ingredient
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Utah’s Missing Piece

  05-11-2019 23:10
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/11/04/bagley-cartoon-new-hope" target=_blank><u>A New Hope</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/11/01/bagley-cartoon-road/"><u>The Road to Homelessness</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/10/31/bagley-cart
  
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• As a thank you to taxpayers, Hogle Zoo admission is free on Wednesdays in November and December

  05-11-2019 23:06
  Admission to Hogle Zoo will be free on Wednesdays in November and December, a “thank you to Salt Lake County residents for the ZAP program,” according to zoo officials.Hogle Zoo receives about $2.2 million per year from the Zoo, Arts and Park Program. The voter-approved tax — which adds a penny to every $10 purchase in the county — helps fund more than 200 nonprofit organizations.In recent years, zoo admission has been free on the last Wednesday in November, December, Jan
  
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• Jazz injury report: Ed Davis - OUT (left fibula fracture) Danté Exum - OUT (right knee rehab) Emmanuel Mudiay - OUT (left hamstring tightness

  05-11-2019 23:01 via twitter.com
  Jazz injury report:
  Ed Davis - OUT (left fibula fracture)Danté Exum - OUT (right knee rehab)Emmanuel Mudiay - OUT (left hamstring tightness
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Jazz Rank: Mike Conley comes in 4th

  05-11-2019 22:48 via sportspyder.com
  But where will he end the season?
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Don’t worry about Mike Conley’s dreadful start with Jazz

  05-11-2019 22:30 via sportspyder.com
  Mike Conley has had a real rough go of it in his first few weeks with the Utah Jazz. The veteran point guard is averaging 12.4 points, 3.9 assists and 2.1 rebounds while shooting a putrid 31.8% from the field and 28.2% on 3-pointers. If you take out...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Jazz alumni: Raul Neto, Utah’s most beloved third-string PG, returns as a 76er

  05-11-2019 22:22 via sportspyder.com
  Sixers PG Raul Neto was always ready when Jazz coach Quin Snyder called his number in Utah. He should get a warm welcome in his return to Vivint Arena. The...
  
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• Jazz alumni: Raul Neto, Utah’s most beloved third-string PG, returns as a 76er

  05-11-2019 22:15
  Sixers PG Raul Neto was always ready when Jazz coach Quin Snyder called his number in Utah. He should get a warm welcome in his return to Vivint Arena. There will be no shortage of spotlight action for Utah Jazz fans when they host the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday. In addition to two headline player […]
  Jazz alumni: Raul Neto, Utah’s most beloved third-string PG, returns as a 76er - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• 3 cougars kill deer in Salt Laker’s backyard

  05-11-2019 22:03
  Three cougars caused a bit of a commotion in an eastside Salt Lake neighborhood on Tuesday morning — although things have since returned to normal.According to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, the resident of an Olympus Cove home near 4300 South and 4000 East heard a deer being attacked in his backyard about 6:30 a.m. Footage from his security camera showed three mountain lions attacking and killing the young deer.Unified Police and DWR biologists responded to the home, which is ab
  
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• Can the BYU women’s basketball team get back to the NCAA tourney without their leading scorer? That’s the Cougars’ plan.

  05-11-2019 21:56
  This is another in a series of stories previewing the men’s and women’s college basketball season. Coming Thursday: Weber State men.Provo • Over the summer, the BYU women’s basketball tean took what looked to be a huge blow to their upcoming season after their most successful run in recent years.Last season, the Cougars made their way back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2016 by winning the West Coast Conference tournament championship. BYU ended its 2018-1
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Dante Exum a full participant at Jazz practice

  05-11-2019 21:10 via sportspyder.com
  A return to action is looming for Dante Exum
  
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• It’s a marathon pic.twitter.com/lhrOSudzLD – bei Zions Bank Basketball Center

  05-11-2019 21:06 via twitter.com
  It’s a marathon pic.twitter.com/lhrOSudzLD – bei Zions Bank Basketball Center
  
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• Donovan on the midrange: "That shot's going to be there for me, and if it's going to be there for me, I've got to be able to make it."pic.twitter.com/cDZFTGG7bm – bei Zions Bank Basketball Center

  05-11-2019 21:05 via twitter.com
  Donovan on the midrange:"That shot's going to be there for me, and if it's going to be there for me, I've got to be able to make it."pic.twitter.com/cDZFTGG7bm – bei Zions Bank Basketball Center
  
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• Former LDS Church leader pleads guilty to photographing undressing woman

  05-11-2019 21:03
  Nashville, Tenn. • A Holladay man who served as a local leader for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has pleaded guilty to illegally taking photos of a woman inside a dressing room at a popular Tennessee mall.News outlets report 55-year-old Steven Murdock was convicted of unlawful photography Monday and sentenced to a year of supervised probation. A judge also ordered him to undergo counseling.A Nashville Metro police affidavit from August states a woman accused Murdock of lea
  
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• George Pyle: Future of media is one brave new world, or the other one

  05-11-2019 21:00
  "O brave new world, that has such people in’t!”— The TempestWhen William Shakespeare put those words in the voice of Miranda, Prospero’s lonely, castaway daughter, “brave new world” was an expression of awe and wonder, if a naive one.Some 300 years later, when Aldous Huxley borrowed the phrase as the title for an early work of dystopian fiction, it was something much more sinister.So, which brave new world of mass media are we approaching?There’s the one
  
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• Gordon Monson: You want to see history made? The 2019 Utah Utes are making it.

  05-11-2019 20:32
  The 2019 Utes are the best Utah football team in school history.(And Kyle Whittingham just piloted his Harley straight off the road into a Rubber Rabbitbush.)Yeah, yeah, that declaration has argument plastered all over it, from port to starboard, from stem to stern. And, man, it’s a beautiful thing to even have such a prospect, ridiculous or otherwise, run across the collective bow.It’s an absolutely irresponsible, premature thing, too. But where’s the fun in waiting? Better to
  
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• Danté Exum participated in a full practice today. Emmanuel Mudiay went through portions of today's practice.

  05-11-2019 20:24 via twitter.com
  Danté Exum participated in a full practice today.
  Emmanuel Mudiay went through portions of today's practice.
  
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• Pope Francis criticizes cultural discrimination in new book of interviews from Amazon synod

  05-11-2019 19:50
  Vatican City • In a book-length interview published Tuesday, Pope Francis discussed his vision for a missionary church and criticized groups that discriminate against other cultures and view them as unworthy of receiving the gospel.“There are circles and sectors that present themselves as ilustrados (enlightened) — they sequester the proclamation of the gospel through a distorted reasoning that divides the world between ‘civilized’ and ‘barbaric,'” Franci
  
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• Here’s what to know about today’s election

  05-11-2019 19:25
  Utahns across the Wasatch Front who haven’t already cast their ballots by mail ahead of Election Day have the opportunity Tuesday to weigh in on the future of their cities by voting on local leadership.Among the biggest seats at stake this year is in the state’s capital city, where state Sen. Luz Escamilla and Salt Lake City Councilwoman Erin Mendenhall are facing off in Salt Lake City’s first general election ballot that has featured two women for mayor.The city also has three
  
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• Letter: Draft and abortion bans are not the same

  05-11-2019 19:11
  Robert Kimball Shinkoskey says the answer to Kamala Harris’ question about laws aimed “at restricting what men can do with their bodies” is the mandatory laws for male conscription into military service.Currently, however, there are no such laws beyond requiring registration with the selective service at age 18. So, yes, Sen. Harris has a valid argument.Additionally, men could seek deferrals or exemptions including student status or physical conditions like, you know, bone spur
  
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• Letter: Trump isn’t up to the level of fascist dictators of the past

  05-11-2019 19:10
  The word “fascism” is being bandied about in The Salt Lake Tribune lately with regard to Donald Trump.There are a number of sobering parallels between fascist philosophy and values espoused by the Franco-Mussolini-Hitler triad and current Trumpian statements and actions: racism, hatred of a free press, suppression of any and all political opposition, denigration of intellectualism, science and a host of others.The long out-of-print book “No Compromise: The Conflict Between two
  
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• Letter: We know what they are going to say

  05-11-2019 19:06
  If all news entities just left out “Breaking News” regarding what Republicans, Democrats and Donald Trump said after each mind-boggling event, there would not be much to say.We know Trump will always say: “Witch Hunt.”Republicans will always say: “He’s right.”Democrats will always say: “He’s wrong.”And the citizens of this country will just watch our country burn, drown and blow away.Craig Dunford, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the e
  
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• Letter: If the LDS Church isn’t for you, move on

  05-11-2019 19:06
  I have read many articles and opinions in The Salt Lake Tribune written by current and former members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who are LGBTQ folks or those concerned about them. They lament how the church has ostracized and excluded them from full participation.They want the church to come around to their way of thinking and apparently change church doctrine or policies.Let me tell you, there are numerous ways you can be ostracized at church that don’t get publici
  
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• Letter: Start the ERA all over again

  05-11-2019 19:04
  A question for Charlotte Maloney, whose article in the Oct. 27 Opinion section proposed that the Utah Legislature ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution:On March 22, 1972, the ERA was submitted to the state legislatures, with a seven-year deadline to acquire ratification by three-fourths (38) of the states. By the 1979 deadline, only 35 states had ratified the amendment (with four states withdrawing their ratification during that time period — another question for the Suprem
  
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• LDS Church leader convicted of photographing undressing woman

  05-11-2019 18:42
  Nashville, Tenn. • A Holladay man who served as a local leader for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has pleaded guilty to illegally taking photos of a woman inside a dressing room at a popular Tennessee mall.News outlets report 55-year-old Steven Murdock was convicted of unlawful photography Monday and sentenced to a year of supervised probation. A judge also ordered him to undergo counseling.A Nashville Metro police affidavit from August states a woman accused Murdock of lea
  
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• At least 9 women and children with Utah ties killed in Mexico; Trump offers to help get ‘these monsters’

  05-11-2019 17:41
  Three mothers and at least six children with Utah ties were killed Monday in Mexico, according to the victims’ families.The victims are U.S. citizens who have lived in a fundamentalist Mormon community in the border region for decades. They were traveling in three separate vehicles when the gunmen attacked, several family members said. They described a terrifying scene in which one child was gunned down while running away, while others were trapped inside a burning car.Two of the children
  
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• Members criticize LDS Church curriculum’s treatment of slavery in the New Testament

  05-11-2019 17:22
  On Sunday, Mormon social media came alive with criticism of the curriculum for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which for the week’s lesson included a statement that suggested Paul was asking a fellow Christian, Philemon, to forgive his slave, Onesimus.The adult Sunday school version of the lesson asks class members, “While it was likely hard for Philemon to forgive his slave who ran away, how would the gospel of Jesus Christ have made forgiveness easier?”That p
  
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• At least 9 women and children with Utah ties dead in Mexico

  05-11-2019 17:05
  Three mothers and at least six children with Utah ties were killed Monday in Mexico, according to the victims’ families.The victims are members of the LeBarón family, American citizens who have lived in a fundamentalist Mormon community in the border region for decades. They were traveling in three separate vehicles when the gunmen attacked, several family members said. They described a terrifying scene in which one child was gunned down while running away, while others were trapped
  
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• More Utah women are on state boards, but gender balance is still far off, report says

  05-11-2019 16:35
  Like Iowa, Utah has a law that encourages gender balance on state boards and commissions. But unlike Iowa, Utah hasn’t come close to that goal.Women filled 32.7% of the positions on 345 boards and commissions in the state in 2019, according to a brief released Tuesday from the Utah Women and Leadership Project. That’s a 4.6% increase from research on the same topic in 2016.“Developments in the last few years are genuinely encouraging, yet many state agencies still have little g
  
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• Button Down Bar in Salt Lake City sues DABC

  05-11-2019 16:32
  A Salt Lake City bar owner is suing the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control for taking away its liquor license.John Vecchi, the owner of Button Down Bar, 122 W. Pierpont Ave.. says in his 3rd District Court lawsuit that the DABC liquor commission used “false allegations” when it voted last week to forfeit his bar license.The seven-member board took the action after it determined that Vecchi failed to provide the DABC information about potential ownership changes to Button D
  
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• Former LDS Church Historian Dean Larsen dies at 92

  05-11-2019 16:31
  On a dark October day in 1985, Dean Larsen, official historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, called seven employees into his office to issue them a warning: Be careful on your way home.Larsen’s team of Mormon history specialists had just learned that Mark Hofmann, who was known at the time only as a rare-document dealer, had been seriously injured in a car bombing and, since they were involved in acquiring some of those items, they might be in danger, too.“We ne
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Have Patience with Mike Conley

  05-11-2019 16:10 via sportspyder.com
  It paid off with Ricky Rubio
  
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• Letter: A list of reasons to vote

  05-11-2019 16:02
  Kudos to Ron Molen for naming current threats to representative government in Utah in his Nov. 2 commentary.In the same issue, county clerks lamented the lack of voter turnout to date. Surely, Mr. Molen’s list provides motivation to vote. It has never been easier.The powers that be are as monolithic as we allow them to be. Mr. Molen’s list reminds me to continue to try to find ways to make a difference. Despite recent efforts to alter referendum results on propositions, the ballot bo
  
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• Here’s what to know about Tuesday’s election

  05-11-2019 15:51
  Utahns across the Wasatch Front who haven’t already cast their ballots by mail ahead of Election Day have the opportunity Tuesday to weigh in on the future of their cities by voting on local leadership.Among the biggest seats at stake this year is in the state’s capital city, where state Sen. Luz Escamilla and Salt Lake City Councilwoman Erin Mendenhall are facing off in Salt Lake City’s first general election ballot that has featured two women for mayor.The city also has three
  
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• Charles M. Blow: My wish for Michelle Obama

  05-11-2019 15:15
  Michelle Obama is an extraordinary woman by any measure.She is an attorney with degrees from Princeton and Harvard universities. She is the former first lady of the United States, and the first African American one. She just came off a gangbusters book tour for her memoir, “Becoming,” which was Amazon’s longest No. 1 title since “Fifty Shades of Grey.” And, according to polls, she is the most admired woman in the world.She has conducted her life with the utmost hono
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Mitt Romney is not a popular figure across the country, says new poll

  05-11-2019 15:13
  Happy Tuesday!Mitt Romney’s approval ratings in Utah aren’t great (38% thumbs up, 40% thumbs down) but nationally they’re much worse. Just 18 percent of Americans have a favorable view of Romney, compared to 38 percent who have an unfavorable view, according to a new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll. That leaves a big chunk of the populace — 37% — who describe their view of him as neutral. [NBC/WSJ]Topping the news: Operation Rio Grande has inflicted “long-term da
  
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• Letter: Tax breaks make no sense

  05-11-2019 15:13
  A groundbreaking was held last week for a new meat packing plant in Utah county. Will this, and other new businesses, Facebook, an inland port, etc., pay wages high enough for their employees to afford a $1,000 a month small apartment?Enticing low-paying industry to our state guts our taxes by giving such companies huge tax breaks, and ultimately adds to the housing crunch and homelessness. This makes no sense.Nancy Rushforth, OremSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: In the Ukraine scandal, Trump is both the con man and the mark

  05-11-2019 15:09
  Kenneth McCallion is a New York lawyer who once represented former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko of Ukraine. A few years ago, he brought a civil racketeering lawsuit on her behalf against some now familiar figures like Paul Manafort and the Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash. He knows a lot about corruption in Ukraine, and he said that earlier this year FBI counterintelligence investigators approached him for information about Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian activities.By then, McCallion had al
  
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• Bret Stephens: The NeverTrumpers are vindicated

  05-11-2019 15:07
  Even by Donald Trump’s standards, his tweet of Oct. 23 — the one that called NeverTrumpers “human scum” — plumbed new depths in the debasement of presidential speech.But what else has changed? If Robert Ballard, who discovered the wreck of the Titanic, were given the job of finding Trump’s moral bottom, he’d fail.Far more revealing in Trump’s tweet was its first sentence. “The Never Trumper Republicans, though on respirators with not many lef
  
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• Paul Krugman: Elizabeth Warren and the Wrath of the Wall Street Snowflakes

  05-11-2019 15:06
  Given all the recent focus on health policy, you might think that the medical-industrial complex would be heavily involved in the Democratic primary race, going all out to block Elizabeth Warren. And a coalition of drug companies, insurers and hospitals is indeed running ads attacking “Medicare for All.”But the health industry’s political role has been relatively muted so far. Partly this may reflect realism: Even if Warren becomes president, the chances of getting Medicare for
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Green light for Bojan Bogdanovic could lead to prolific season with the Jazz

  05-11-2019 14:10 via sportspyder.com
  With ample opportunity as a member of the Utah Jazz, Bojan Bogdanovic could be in for an even greater season than many originally presumed. Although Donova...
  
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• Robert Kirby: Newspapers have been cutting costs instead of trees, but we aren’t leaving

  05-11-2019 14:00
  Do I still have a job at The Salt Lake Tribune? Several friends wanted to know. Their texts started hitting my phone early Monday morning.Paul Huntsman, who owns The Tribune (along with me and a bunch of other ink-stained wretches), announced that the IRS had approved a new nonprofit model for the paper to pursue to keep it alive in a world increasingly run by social media.This will entail creating an endowment from donated money that will replace the dwindling advertising revenue that once fuel
  
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• Green light for Bojan Bogdanovic could lead to prolific season with the Jazz

  05-11-2019 14:00
  With ample opportunity as a member of the Utah Jazz, Bojan Bogdanovic could be in for an even greater season than many originally presumed. Although Donovan Mitchell has been absolutely scintillating in the Utah Jazz’s start to the season and Rudy Gobert has continued to assert himself extraordinarily on defense as Jazz fans have come […]
  Green light for Bojan Bogdanovic could lead to prolific season with the Jazz - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opi
  
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• Former LDS Church Historian Dean Larsen, ‘calming presence’ during Hofmann bombings, dies at 92

  05-11-2019 14:00
  On a dark October day in 1985, Dean Larsen, official historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, called seven employees into his office to issue them a warning: Be careful on your way home.Larsen’s team of Mormon history specialists had just learned that Mark Hofmann, who was known at the time only as a rare-document dealer, had been seriously injured in a car bombing and, since they were involved in acquiring some of those items, they might be in danger, too.“We ne
  
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• Button Down Bar in Salt Lake City sues state agency for seizing its liquor license

  05-11-2019 14:00
  A Salt Lake City bar owner is suing the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control for taking away its liquor license.John Vecchi, the owner of Button Down Bar, 122 W. Pierpont Ave.. says in his 3rd District Court lawsuit that the DABC liquor commission used “false allegations” when it voted last week to forfeit his bar license.The seven-member board took the action after it determined that Vecchi failed to provide the DABC information about potential ownership changes to Button D
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Salt City Seven: Spida’s Special Start, Rebounding Woes & More

  05-11-2019 09:22 via sportspyder.com
  Check in every week for the quotes, stats, plays and performances that tell the stories from the last 168 hours in the world of the Jazz. And hes knocking on the door.
  
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• At least 9 women and children with Utah ties dead in Mexico, others missing

  05-11-2019 06:01
  Three mothers and at least six children with Utah ties were killed Monday in Mexico, according to the victims’ families.Three other children suffered bullet wounds, said Lafe Langford Jr., a relative of some of the victims. He said doctors from across the Mexican state of Sonora were coming to help, though they would prefer to fly the wounded and others to the United States.“We can’t get a helicopter or any airplanes or airlifts," Langford said, “and it’s going to b
  
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• Police locate missing 7-year-old Magna girl

  05-11-2019 05:46
  A 7-year-old girl who had been missing for several hours on Monday was found safe, Unified police officials said.Police had asked for the public’s help after Amberley Russell went missing after she left Elk Run Elementary School in Magna at about 3:20 p.m. Monday on a blue scooter.Just before 10 p.m., Unified police said Amberley had been located and she’s safe.
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Dante Exum return could be very imminent

  05-11-2019 05:34 via sportspyder.com
  According to reports from The Athletic's Tony Jones, the return of Utah Jazz wing Dante Exum should be right around the corner. Dante Exum has become one o...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Dante Exum return could be very imminent

  05-11-2019 05:22
  According to reports from The Athletic’s Tony Jones, the return of Utah Jazz wing Dante Exum should be right around the corner. Dante Exum has become one of the more polarizing figures on the Utah Jazz roster. Some fans have seemingly completely given up on him, writing him off as little more than an injury-prone […]
  Utah Jazz: Dante Exum return could be very imminent - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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