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• [NBA] - Roundball Roundup: Jazz approach important week against Sixers and Lakers

  02-12-2019 23:10 via sportspyder.com
  
  1-1 over the weekend. Quin Snyder challenges his club. How will they respond on the final day of the road trip? UtahJazz.com's JP Chunga looks at the week ahead. A rundown of the episode:0:55 —
  
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• Utes players and a coach earn honors this week, headlined by Blackmon and Moss being named All-Americans

  02-12-2019 22:44
  
  Utah running back Zack Moss has gained 929 yards after contact this season. Ute safety Julian Blackmon has missed only seven tackles, among 56 opportunities.Pro Football Focus named them first-team All-Americans, based on film evaluations of every play and they go beyond traditional statistics. Ute sophomore tight end Brant Kuithe and senior quarterback Tyler Huntley made the third team and junior cornerback Jaylon Johnson received an honorable mention.Moss has rushed for 1,246 yards, while miss
  
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• Ex-Utah teacher admits to felony child abuse after slamming a boy into a wall

  02-12-2019 22:34
  
  Provo • A former Utah County gym teacher accused of slamming a 14-year-old student into a wall took a plea deal Monday that will allow him to avoid jail time if he stays out of trouble.Anthony Robbie Chidester, 41, pleaded guilty as charged to second-degree felony child abuse Monday. But as part of a plea deal, Chidester’s charge will be reduced to a misdemeanor after two years if he completes anger management classes, performs community service and commits no new crimes.It was a last
  
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• RSL trades Brooks Lennon to Atlanta

  02-12-2019 22:29
  
  Real Salt Lake homegrown player Brooks Lennon is moving on. The club announced Monday it has traded the 22-year-old to Atlanta United in exchange for $150,000 in targeted allocation money and $150,000 in general allocation money. RSL would also keep a percentage of transfer fees if Lennon is later sold outside of Major League Soccer.“Brooks has been an integral part of the RSL family for years, starting with our Academy and excelling at every level along the way,” RSL interim general
  
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• Letter: For Christmas, give the gift of experience

  02-12-2019 22:24
  
  This Christmas season, consider buying your children something far more valuable than material gifts. Consider investing in experiences.Especially for older children, an opportunity to do something unique builds a memory that will last longer than through the last few days of the year. Going somewhere new, seeing their favorite team in action, spending time away from home will build lasting memories that they will think of for many Christmases to come.What’s cooler than a new Donovan Mitch
  
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• Letter: That letter wasn’t about Mike Lee?

  02-12-2019 22:17
  
  I have to admit to getting a little confused reading the Nov. 29 story regarding Sen. Mike Lee’s complaints about the American Bar Association’s “not qualified” rating of a federal appeals court judge.The ABA letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee said “that the nominee lacks humility, has an ‘entitlement’ temperament, does not have an open mind, and does not always have a commitment to being candid and truthful.”Imagine my surprise when I reread
  
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• The Utes want a spot in the College Football Playoff. Here’s what needs to happen.

  02-12-2019 22:11
  
  As the stakes have steadily risen this fall, Kyle Whittingham has diligently shaped a narrative that he is not concerned with what teams are doing outside of his own.In addressing reporters Monday morning, the Utah head coach at one point went back to that well, furthering the notion that nothing outside Salt Lake City matters as he prepares his team for the Pac-12 championship game.But the end of a postgame video tweeted from the Utah football account Saturday night said otherwise. In the wake
  
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• Jim Nielson: Utah tax reform plan is born of legislative hubris

  02-12-2019 22:10
  
  This past week, I sent my state senator and representative the following message. Then I posted it online:“This is one constituent that hopes you will oppose the latest version of tax reform. More stable for the government; less so for those that can barely afford food and can’t wait for a once a year rebate or EIC.“To me the compensating factors proposed both for raising the food tax and for removing the constitutional income tax earmark for education are both cases of extreme
  
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• Mayor Biskupski’s deal to sell Utah Theater irked those who want to save it. Here’s how it got to this point.

  02-12-2019 22:05
  
  Some supporters of the historic Utah Theater were shocked to learn Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski had inked a deal to sell the dilapidated performance hall on Main Street.The sales agreement, signed in early November, has set the proverbial stage for global real estate firm Hines and Utah-based developer Joel LaSalle to demolish the 101-year-old theater and build a 30-story residential skyscraper in its place.There have been last-ditch efforts to save the Utah Theater and even some City C
  
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• Washington’s Chris Petersen resigns, Jimmy Lake to take over

  02-12-2019 22:03
  
  Seattle • Washington coach Chris Petersen has unexpectedly stepped down after six seasons at the school, with defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake promoted to run the program.Petersen's decision was shocking coming off a season where the Huskies went 7-5 in the regular season and are bound for a sixth straight bowl game under his leadership. Petersen will coach the Huskies in the bowl game, his final game in charge of the program he helped grow back into national prominence during his tenure.Th
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - After a night to forget in Toronto, Utah Jazz look for redemption in Philadelphia

  02-12-2019 22:01 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah’s turbulent road trip comes to an end tonight in Philly
  
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• 2 killed in Arches National Park fall were from California

  02-12-2019 22:00
  
  Moab • Authorities say a man and woman who died last week while hiking in a popular area of Arches National Park were a couple from California.Grand County Sheriff Lt. Kim Neal said Monday that the two who died Nov. 29 while hiking to Delicate Arch were 65-year-old Toshiaki Amimoto and 60-year-old Etoko Amimoto of Torrance, California.He says their son, 30-year-old Ryo Amimoto, suffered serious injuries but survived.Neal says it appears the three slipped while on a steep slope in a sandston
  
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• UTA unveils improved bus shelters and signs funded by Salt Lake City

  02-12-2019 21:29
  
  After the Utah Transit Authority recently increased the frequency and service hours on key bus routes — thanks to a tax hike by Salt Lake City — officials on Monday unveiled additional steps to make service more accessible to the disabled, and more comfortable for all.City and UTA leaders showed off new bus stop shelters that are wheelchair accessible, and new larger signs that can be seen from greater distances and contain more information including schedule data. They are on eight-
  
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• Mexican officials arrest suspects in massacre of 9 women and children

  02-12-2019 21:01
  
  Mexico City • Mexican authorities Sunday detained several suspects implicated in the massacre of nine members of a Mormon sect in northern Mexico in early November, according to the office of the nation’s attorney general.The detentions came during a joint operation by members of the Mexican armed forces and intelligence agents and followed the detention last month of another suspect living in Mexico City, the attorney general’s office said in a statement, providing no further i
  
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• Pope Francis says Nativity scenes should go in town squares, schools

  02-12-2019 21:00
  
  Greccio, Italy • Pope Francis on Sunday hailed Nativity scenes as “simple and admirable” signs of Christian faith and encouraged their placement in workplaces, schools and town squares as he bolstered a Christmas tradition that has at times triggered bitter legal battles in the United States.Francis visited a hill town, Greccio, where St. Francis of Assisi, the pontiff’s namesake, reenacted the first creche scene, using living persons instead of statues, likely in 1223, du
  
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• How the Utes won the Pac-12 South title for the second straight year

  02-12-2019 20:35
  
  Utah’s first Pac-12 South championship came with considerable drama, after the Utes lost their first two conference games last season, then had to beat Oregon and Colorado in November without offensive stars Zack Moss and Tyler Huntley.The Utes’ second title, taking them into Friday’s Pac-12 championship game vs. Oregon, also required some regrouping and an even stronger finish. A loss to USC in Utah’s conference opener meant that eight straight wins would be needed to ov
  
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• Utah substitute has been fired after telling fifth graders that ‘homosexuality is a sin’

  02-12-2019 20:01
  
  A substitute teacher who told a class of fifth grade students in Utah County last month that “homosexuality is a sin” has been fired.The staffing company that employed the woman announced in a statement Monday morning that after an investigation into her comments — which have received widespread attention — it “made the decision to end the employee’s relationship with Kelly Services.”The woman was working at the time at Deerfield Elementary School in Alp
  
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• U.S. House impeachment report coming ahead of landmark hearing

  02-12-2019 19:00
  
  Washington • The House impeachment report on President Donald Trump will be unveiled Monday behind closed doors for key lawmakers as Democrats push ahead with the inquiry despite the White House’s declaration it will not participate in the first Judiciary Committee hearing.The Democratic majority on the House Intelligence Committee says the report, compiled after weeks of testimony, will speak for itself in laying out what Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., called the evidence of "wrongd
  
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• Navajo country music pays tribute to ‘Indian cowboys’ and outlaw legends

  02-12-2019 18:49
  
  Shiprock, N.M. • They started out from hamlets deep in the Navajo Nation, driving hours on washboard roads. When the Saturday night crowd finally arrived at Redd’s, the parking lot swelled with pickup trucks.Clad in Wrangler jeans and cowboy boots, they danced under the dim lights to bands playing outlaw country classics by singers such as Waylon Jennings. Between songs, couples murmured sweet nothings to each other in English and Diné Bizaad, the Navajo language enduring in th
  
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• The new ‘three amigos’ riding into Trump impeachment inquiry

  02-12-2019 17:43
  
  Lisa Mascaro | AP Congressional CorrespondentWashington • The “three amigos” used to stand for one thing in Washington — the pack of globe-trotting senators led by John McCain who brought American idealism to the world’s trouble spots.Now it refers to another trio, the Trump envoys who pushed Ukraine to pursue investigations of Democrats and former Vice President Joe Biden.The shift represents more than the appropriation of a name. It also marks a departure from effo
  
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• Letter: Devin Nunes wants you to think the parrot isn’t dead

  02-12-2019 17:28
  
  Probably some of you remember “Monty Python’s Flying Circus,”a legendary British TV comedy from back in the 1970s.My favorite bit was the “Dead Parrot” sketch. A customer walks into a pet shop holding up a birdcage containing a “stiff as a board” dead parrot, saying that he wants to make a complaint, that the “Norwegian blue” parrot he purchased half an hour earlier was dead.The shopkeeper insists that the bird is just “resting,”
  
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• UN chief urges countries not to surrender on climate fight

  02-12-2019 16:35
  
  Madrid • U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres urged countries Monday not to give up in the fight against climate change, as representatives from nearly 200 countries gathered in Madrid for a two-week meeting on tackling global warming.In his opening speech to delegates, Guterres cited recent scientific data showing that levels of heat-trapping gases have hit a record high, reaching levels not seen for at least 3 million years when sea levels were 10-20 meters (33-66 feet) higher t
  
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• [Sports Keeda] - Utah Jazz vs Philadelphia 76ers: Match Preview and Predictions - 2nd December 2019

  02-12-2019 16:33 via sportspyder.com
  
  Can the Utah Jazz return to winning ways against the in-from Philadelphia 76ers?
  
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• Meth is killing more Utahns than ever before

  02-12-2019 16:31
  
  The number of methamphetamine-related fatal overdoses in Utah more than doubled in the past five years, as law enforcement has seen a stunning increase in large meth busts statewide.Drug overdose deaths involving meth rose from a low of 31 in 2010 to 217 in 2018, according to records from the state Department of Public Health. That’s far more meth-related deaths than the previous high of 52 in 2006.“We keep hearing that meth is coming back, but it didn’t leave,” said Megh
  
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• 3 killed in Utah when van crosses the center line and hits their car head on

  02-12-2019 16:24
  
  Three people were killed Sunday in southern Utah when their car was struck by a van that crossed the median and struck them head-on.According to the Utah Highway Patrol, the van was headed south on U.S. 89 near mile marker 34 at about 7:20 p.m. when it suddenly crossed the center line and hit the car, killing the driver and both passengers. The driver of the van was taken by helicopter to a hospital.
  (Photo courtesy of the Utah Highway Patrol) Three people were killed when this van crossed the c
  
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• Great Pyrenees puppies found abandoned in Utah mountains

  02-12-2019 16:20
  
  Snowmobilers found three Great Pyrenees puppies that were found alone in a remote area of Weber County, rescue crews said.The snowmobilers were in the Ant Flat area near Monte Cristo on Sunday afternoon when they noticed the puppies, Weber County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue wrote in a social media post.Crews brought a rescue sled to the snowmobilers to help take the puppies out of the mountains, the team wrote. Hope’s Rescue in Ogden is identifying homes for the puppies, the c
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Sixers vs. Jazz odds, spread, line: 2019 NBA picks, Dec. 2 predictions from model on 9-1 run - CBSSports.com

  02-12-2019 16:17 via sportspyder.com
  
  SportsLine's advanced computer model simulated Monday's Sixers vs. Jazz game 10,000 times.
  
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• [Basketball Insiders] - Nic Claxton Is Right Where He’s Supposed to Be

  02-12-2019 15:42 via sportspyder.com
  
  Second-round picks have a mixed history of success on NBA rosters. Despite seeing limited minutes, Nic Claxton could be an exception to the rule. Drew Maresca speaks with the Brooklyn Nets' rookie big man and Jarrett Allen about his potential.
  
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• [Give Me Sport] - NBA Recap: Toronto Raptors Slay Utah Jazz in 130-110 Defeat | GiveMeSport

  02-12-2019 15:26 via sportspyder.com
  
  Toronto Raptors Slay Utah Jazz in 130-110 Defeat
  
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• [Windsor Star] - Gasol and Conley meet for first time as Raptors crush Jazz | Windsor Star

  02-12-2019 15:21 via sportspyder.com
  
  Marc Gasol and Mike Conley played 718 regular season or playoff games together as teammates with the Memphis Grizzlies.
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Nursing homes are the next target for the Trump administration’s deregulation push

  02-12-2019 15:14
  
  The latest regulation rollback of the Trump administration is aimed at nursing homes. The proposed relaxation of rules is aimed at relieving the “burden” on facility operators. But critics fear the changes would risk the health and safety of millions of nursing home residents. [NPR]Topping the news: A clustering of jaywalking tickets in the area near the downtown homeless shelter and Pioneer Park indicate that police are targeting the homeless. [Trib]-> A new poll says a majority
  
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• Robert Gehrke: If what to get for the holidays is getting you down, try giving instead

  02-12-2019 15:11
  
  I can pretty much pinpoint the time it hit me. I was sitting on the couch, top button undone, trying to stave off a Thanksgiving food coma to make it through “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” and contemplating how I should get to the gym in the morning to do some sit-ups — which, of course, I didn’t.Snoopy had served up the jelly beans and pretzels, Peppermint Patty had lost it, and they were loading in the car to go to grandma’s for a real feast, when that feeling of
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Watch 76ers vs. Jazz: How to live stream, TV channel, start time for Monday's NBA game - CBSSports.com

  02-12-2019 15:01 via sportspyder.com
  
  How to watch 76ers vs. Jazz basketball game
  
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• Miguel Trujillo: It takes more than scholarships to be successful in college

  02-12-2019 15:00
  
  Fans of the University of Utah’s football team have a lot to be excited for on the field, and even more to cheer for off the field.The U. recently made a commitment to their low-income students by establishing a scholarship fund to attend school for free. It is a sign that higher education institutions are finally recognizing the need to provide a quality education for all students. This announcement made me proud to have graduated from this institution.While there is still much progress t
  
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• Salt Lake City’s Flourish Bakery changes lives of recovering addicts, but it needs a new home

  02-12-2019 14:00
  
  After 40 years of addiction — and two rounds in prison — 52-year-old Dennis Sisneros has been sober 389 days.Sobriety, the former heroin addict explains, may have come sooner, if not for a relapse in 2018 while waiting to get an internship at Salt Lake City’s Flourish Bakery.Sisneros was finally able to enter the 12-month training program in August and is learning the art and skills of professional baking. In the kitchen — located at Salt Lake Community College’s So
  
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• Letter: When you vote, remember who’s trying to help you and who isn’t

  02-12-2019 14:00
  
  First, I want to commend BYU-Idaho for reversing its policy to exclude students whose only health insurance was Medicaid. Many of these students were married, many working to make ends meet, and most already faced high financial hurdles. Easing their path was the right thing to do. But second, I am curious how The Tribune managed to write this long and detailed story without a single mention of the often maligned Obamacare (ACA for short). That letter from the feds OK’ing Idaho’s Med
  
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• Letter: We can’t seem to handle our own waste

  02-12-2019 14:00
  
  I am not sure of the rest of the state, but here in Midvale we recently received a notice that severely restricts what we dispose of as recyclable wastes. The only things we can now dispose as a recyclable are metal cans, flattened corrugated cardboard and plastic containers with necks (cleaned before disposing). This is alleged to be because the recyclers in China, no less, will only take these items.Shame on America. We can’t seem to handle our own waste! However, that is not true. We ha
  
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• Letter: The American people deserve a comprehensive investigation

  02-12-2019 14:00
  
  The president should be held to a higher standard; it is the job of the president to support and defend the Constitution, and that includes President Trump.As a lifelong Republican, I have taken a wait-and-see approach to Trump’s presidency. I was concerned with the foreign meddling in the 2016 election, but uncertain as to his role in it. But now, I am very concerned. The president should be focused on getting things done, not leveraging foreign aid to strong-arm an international ally to
  
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• Letter: Remember when there were two Thanksgivings?

  02-12-2019 14:00
  
  With Thanksgiving falling so late in November this year, it brings back to mind President Franklin Roosevelt’s ill-fated Depression-era executive order to advance the holiday one week earlier in the month. Roosevelt felt like this would give people more time to shop between Thanksgiving and Christmas and as a result spark an economic boost to a nation deep in the Depression. About half of the country went along with the idea, and about half stuck to the traditional date. For others, it gav
  
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• Letter: Lt. Col. Vindman was indeed improperly dressed

  02-12-2019 14:00
  
  As a really old Korean veteran, I hesitated writing this letter, knowing full well that so many Trumpers who might read it couldn’t care less what I think. I watched our own Rep. Chris Stewart using his own military service try to dress down wounded warrior Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman for appearing before the world in his dress uniform. I agree, he was indeed improperly dressed. He should have been in full battle gear, as he was being attacked by his own bone spurs commander-in-chief with h
  
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• Letter: Enough of the self-serving, unprincipled backing of Trump

  02-12-2019 14:00
  
  Despite solid evidence, Republican members of Congress, like fawning groupies, continue to stand with President Trump. Among them, notably, is our own Rep. Chris Stewart, whose inability to sort fact from fiction was on display recently during the impeachment hearings.Trump’s mob-like tactic, conditioning military aid and a White House visit upon investigations of a goofy conspiracy theory and the Bidens, is extortion and an abuse of presidential power. Republican leaders’ defense of
  
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• Letter: Defense of the University of Utah’s actions doesn’t sit well

  02-12-2019 14:00
  
  I usually enjoy and agree with Don Gale’s commentary. And while I agree that there are many factors which contributed to the three University of Utah student deaths in the last two years, his defense of the university’s actions in the McCluskey case doesn’t sit well.In 1972 when I was fulfilling my work-study hours alone, in the evening, at the Weber State social work department, I was approached by a man who grabbed at my body and announced his foul intention. I was terrified
  
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• It’s not last decade’s drug: Meth is killing more Utahns than ever before

  02-12-2019 14:00
  
  The number of methamphetamine-related fatal overdoses in Utah more than doubled in the past five years, as law enforcement has seen a stunning increase in large meth busts statewide.Drug overdose deaths involving meth rose from a low of 31 in 2010 to 217 in 2018, according to records from the state Department of Public Health. That’s far more meth-related deaths than the previous high of 52 in 2006.“We keep hearing that meth is coming back, but it didn’t leave,” said Megh
  
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• How Salt Lake City went from trying to save the Utah Theater to signing a deal to sell it to developers

  02-12-2019 14:00
  
  Some supporters of the historic Utah Theater were shocked to learn Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski had inked a deal to sell the dilapidated performance hall on Main Street.The sales agreement, signed in early November, has set the proverbial stage for global real estate firm Hines and Utah-based developer Joel LaSalle to demolish the 101-year-old theater and build a 30-story residential skyscraper in its place.There have been last-ditch efforts to save the Utah Theater and even some City C
  
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• [Fox Sports] - 76ers play the Jazz on 3-game win streak

  02-12-2019 09:35 via sportspyder.com
  
  Philadelphia looks to extend its three-game win streak with a victory against Utah
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Err Canada: Flat Start Dooms Jazz in Toronto

  02-12-2019 08:38 via sportspyder.com
  
  And yet thats nothing compared to the trouble the Jazz had getting off the ground inside Scotiabank arena a few hours earlier. For Torontos part, they came ready to play.
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - VIDEO: Frustrated Rudy Gobert punches himself in the face in Jazz’s blowout loss to Raptors

  02-12-2019 08:19 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert could not contain his frustration as he punched himself in the face during Sunday’s blowout loss to the Toronto Raptors. Late in the second quarter of the game, the Jazz found themselves trailing by 37 points. Gobert was...
  
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• NFL roundup: Broncos edge Chargers 23-20 on last-second FG in rookie QB Drew Lock’s debut

  02-12-2019 07:37
  
  Denver • Brandon McManus’ 53-yard field goal as time expired, set up by a long interference call, capped a furious final 14 seconds and gave the Broncos a 23-20 victory over the Los Angeles Chargers.Rookie quarterback Drew Lock’s debut win for Denver came a month after Brandon Allen beat Cleveland. It made the Broncos the first team in league history to have two quarterbacks start and win their NFL debuts in the same season.The winner by McManus, who stormed off the field just b
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Triple Team: The Jazz suffer a gut-check loss to the Raptors. They’ll have to decide: ‘How bad do we want to be a good team?’

  02-12-2019 05:27 via sportspyder.com
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 130-110 loss to the Toronto Raptors from Salt Lake Tribune beat writer Andy Larsen.
  
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• [KSL] - Historically bad first half dooms Jazz in Toronto | KSL.com

  02-12-2019 05:17 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Jazz trailed by a franchise-record 40 points at halftime in their 130-110 loss to the Raptors on Sunday.
  
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