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• Utah Jazz are in very real striking distance of second place in West

  05-01-2020 23:37
  
  The Utah Jazz have put themselves in an ideal and realistic situation to move into second place in the West in the near future if they continue their hot streak. It was easy to be discouraged with the way the Utah Jazz started the season considering that by and large their performance simply didn’t match […]
  Utah Jazz are in very real striking distance of second place in West - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz eager for first regular-season matchup against ex-teammate and ‘awesome dude’ Derrick Favors

  05-01-2020 23:09 via sportspyder.com
  
  New Orleans • While Jazz fans have embraced the explosive offensive capability brought to the team this season by Bojan Bogdanovic, many still can’t help but miss the man Bogey replaced — Derrick Favors.
  
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• Tribune Editorial: San Juan County shouldn’t bet its future on a copper mine

  05-01-2020 23:00
  
  A person who is poor often is placed in situations where they make what seem to them to be reasonable decisions, decisions that to others are clearly mistakes.They may take out high-interest loans to stay temporarily afloat. They may skip college, or even high school, so they can start bringing in full-time — if minimum-wage — paychecks right away. They may engage in criminal or other self-destructive activities seeking immediate gratification, economic and otherwise.A community that
  
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• Jazz eager for first regular-season matchup against ex-teammate and ‘awesome dude’ Derrick Favors

  05-01-2020 22:57
  
  New Orleans • While Jazz fans have embraced the explosive offensive capability brought to the team this season by Bojan Bogdanovic, many still can’t help but miss the man Bogey replaced — Derrick Favors.Actually, that goes for the Jazz players, too.Though the team and the big man who spent more than eight years of his career in Utah were first reunited in a preseason game back on Oct. 11, their first regular-season meeting was delayed when back spasms forced him to stay home and
  
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• Decomposing body found on hiking trail behind the Utah Capitol

  05-01-2020 21:23
  
  A decomposing body was found Sunday on a hiking trail near Victory Road in Salt Lake City, according to FOX 13. Victory Road runs northwest behind the Utah Capitol Building.Salt Lake City Police Lieutenant Brett Olsen told FOX 13 that a hiker called to report the body around 10 a.m. Sunday.Police and representatives from the medical examiner’s office are investigating the scene.See more at FOX 13.This is a developing story. The Salt Lake Tribune will add more information once it’s av
  
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• The BYU Cougars made progress in the 2019 football season, even if it didn’t always look like it

  05-01-2020 20:02
  
  At a quick glance, BYU pulled a repeat during the 2020 football season — a 7-6 record, identical to the previous year. But there was growth this season, even if it looked like another middle-of-the-pack finish.Peel away some layers, and there were some milestone wins for Kalani Sitake’s program — at Tennessee in Week 2, over USC at home the following week and, maybe most impressively, a heart-stopping victory over Boise State at LaVell Edwards Stadium in late October. That&rsqu
  
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• Timothy Egan: The case for a one-term Joe

  05-01-2020 20:00
  
  You may have heard an old crank in a big house ranting about appliances and unflushable toilets the other day. “Remember the dishwasher, you’d press it, boom — there’d be like an explosion,” he said, apropos of nothing. “Now you press it 12 times.”The bathroom is another battleground. In the shower, “you turn on the faucet, you don’t get any water.” It gets worse. “People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once
  
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• Iran abandons nuclear deal in response to U.S. airstrike that killed its top general

  05-01-2020 19:53
  
  Tehran, Iran • Iran said Sunday it would no longer abide by any of the limits of its unraveling 2015 nuclear deal with world powers after a U.S. airstrike killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad, ending an accord that blocked Tehran from having enough material to build an atomic weapon. The announcement came Sunday night after another Iranian official said it would consider taking even-harsher steps over the U.S. killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani on Friday. Hundreds of thousands of people fl
  
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• U.S. is targeting Iran’s ‘actual decision-makers,’ Pompeo says

  05-01-2020 18:03
  
  Washington • Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday the U.S. strategy in countering Iran is to target the country’s “actual decision-makers” rather than to focus on Iranian proxy forces in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East.Pompeo was explaining U.S. strategy in the aftermath of the U.S. drone strike that killed Iran’s most powerful general, Qassem Soleimani, who was mastermind of the country’s military operations outside Iran. That killing has sent shoc
  
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• Al-Shabab attacks military base used by U.S. forces in Kenya

  05-01-2020 18:01
  
  Nairobi, Kenya • Al-Shabab extremists overran a key military base used by U.S. counterterror forces in Kenya before dawn Sunday, destroying U.S. aircraft and vehicles, Kenyan authorities said. It was the al-Qaida-linked group’s first attack against U.S. forces in the East African country, and the military called the security situation “fluid” several hours after the assault.It was not yet clear whether any U.S. or Kenyan forces were killed. A U.S. Africa Command statement,
  
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• Iraq’s Parliament calls for expulsion of U.S. troops

  05-01-2020 17:53
  
  Baghdad • Iraq’s Parliament called for the expulsion of U.S. troops from the country Sunday in reaction to the American drone attack that killed a top Iranian general, raising the prospect of a withdrawal that could allow a resurgence by Islamic State extremists.Lawmakers approved a resolution asking the Iraqi government to end the agreement under which Washington sent forces more than four years ago to help in the fight against ISIS.The bill is subject to approval by the Iraqi govern
  
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• The Triple Team: Donovan Mitchell, who carried the Jazz to another win, is playing like one of the best in the league

  05-01-2020 17:35
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 109-96 win over the Orlando Magic from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Donovan Mitchell is playing at an top-10 levelDonovan Mitchell was incredible tonight, the biggest reason the Jazz went into Orlando and won a game against a team that had won their last two by 20+ points. He scored 32 points on 14-21 shooting, 4-7 from three, and added six assists.A lot of it was just incredible midrange shotmaking from Mitchell: on floaters, on pull-
  
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• [Deseret News] - Utah Jazz mailbag: Jazz beat writer Sarah Todd answers readers’ questions

  05-01-2020 16:26 via sportspyder.com
  
  ORLANDO — Sunday is a day for rest, reflection and Utah Jazz mailbags. Welcome to the first of many to come! Every week I’ll be answering some of your questions, submitted via email and Twitter....
  
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• 16 arrested while occupying park to protest Salt Lake City’s response to homelessness

  05-01-2020 16:26
  
  Police early Sunday arrested 16 demonstrators who had been camping in the park that surrounds Salt Lake City Hall to protest the treatment of people experiencing homelessness.The group, a subset of the activist group Civil Riot called the Take Shelter Coalition, set up tents in Washington Square Park on Thursday, and said demonstrators would stay there until public officials listened to their demands, which include opening a downtown shelter to replace the now-shuttered Road Home and to stop tic
  
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• Robert Kirby: Many LDS missionaries face a big question — Should they stay or go home?

  05-01-2020 16:03
  
  On New Year’s Day, my 18-year-old granddaughter learned something unbelievable about her father, a matter so astonishing that she was both shocked and impressed.Years ago, my son-in-law turned down a call to serve a mission in Costa Rica for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.He decided at the last minute it just wasn’t for him, that he was going for everyone else but himself. He’d much rather stay home and marry my daughter. And I’m glad he did.Granddaughter
  
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• Utah is saving money by paying patients to go to Mexico for expensive drugs

  05-01-2020 15:00
  
  To cope with explosive prescription drug prices, the state of Utah came up with an unorthodox option for the public employees it insures: Pay them to go to Mexico.In other countries, specialty drugs can cost as little as half the U.S. price — which means the savings for taxpayers can be substantial. But the plan raised questions: Is it safe? Would Utahns be willing to make the trip over the international border to Tijuana, 700 miles away? And why are drug prices so much higher in America?W
  
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• Latina author organizes migrant families book drive in New Mexico

  05-01-2020 15:00
  
  Las Cruces, N.M. • A good book can take a reader on a journey, but for migrants on an actual journey a book can also uplift, entertain and inspire.New Mexico author Denise Chavez created Libros para el Viaje, or books for the journey, with that idea in mind."Our commitment is to deliver books to our children, young people and adults where ever they are housed," Chavez said.That includes shelters on both sides of the border, camps near international bridges in Ciudad Juárez, where pe
  
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• Company to shut down inactive New Mexico uranium mine

  05-01-2020 15:00
  
  Grants, N.M. • A Texas-based company won’t resume operations at an inactive uranium mine and instead plans to begin an estimated 16 months of closure activity to reclaim the site in western New Mexico, officials said.State officials on Friday confirmed Hobson, Texas-based Rio Grande Resource Corp. provided formal notice in early December of its plan to close the Mount Taylor Mine near Grants, the Gallup Independent reported.Bill Brancard, general counsel of the state Energy, Minerals
  
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• What do a Utah ski resort, a hospital chain and a South Jordan hotel have in common? They are among the Wasatch Front’s biggest tax delinquents.

  05-01-2020 14:00
  
  The Wasatch Front’s largest property tax delinquents are an interesting bunch.Powder Mountain ski resort argues it deserves a big property tax break available to ranchers and farmers because it allows livestock to graze there in the off-season — and wants to resolve that before paying its overdue bill. Union Pacific says it is being railroaded by tax collectors.A hotel at the center of past Utah Transit Authority scandals managed not to pay its tax on time. The American Express build
  
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• Voters in town once run by polygamous sect probably broke the law when they cast ballots, prosecutor says, but charges are unlikely

  05-01-2020 14:00
  
  A county prosecutor says there’s evidence that as many as 22 people who were improperly registered to vote in Colorado City, Ariz., cast ballots in the 2018 general election.Mohave County Attorney Matt Smith said more could have illegally voted in that election, but investigators gathered evidence of only 15 to 22 improper voters in a town where the Census Bureau says there are about 4,800 people. Smith does not expect to file any charges partly because he can’t find all those voters
  
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• Utah sees Latter-day Saint slowdown and membership numbers drop in Salt Lake County

  05-01-2020 14:00
  
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recorded its smallest membership growth in Utah in at least three decades this past year. And, in 2019, 14 of the state’s 29 counties saw the actual number of members decline.The most significant drop came in Salt Lake County, which saw the roster of Latter-day Saints fall by 6,710 even as the state’s largest county grew by 10,000 people.What’s happening in the heart of Mormondom? Why would Utah, a state with a vibrant economy and
  
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• Utah architect David Ross Scheer: Here’s my list of the best Utah buildings

  05-01-2020 14:00
  
  “Ten best” lists are great conversation (or argument) starters. If it’s a slow night in a sports bar, you can always liven things up by asking fans to list the 10 best baseball (football, soccer, badminton, bocce) players in history. Like all such lists, this one is subjective, but (I hope) not without a certain objective basis. One major difference between sports and architecture is that while, for example, batting and pitching are judged separately, good buildings have to &ld
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: PBS documentary shows parallels between McCarthy and Trump — including one the press won’t like

  05-01-2020 14:00
  
  PBS’ “American Experience” documentary about Joe McCarthy is deeply disturbing — not just because of the senator’s outrageous lying, red-baiting and gay-baiting, but because of the parallels between what happened in the early 1950s and what’s happening today.And the similarities go far beyond the fact that both McCarthy and Donald Trump employed the nefarious Roy Cohn as their legal adviser.There are also disconcerting parallels between how the media of the 19
  
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• Letter: Trump is responsible for many deaths

  05-01-2020 14:00
  
  When you vote against someone rather than for someone, the alternative may be worse than you intended.If you voted against Bob Bennett, you ended up with Mike Lee. If you voted against Hillary Clinton, you got the dictator wannabe, Donald Trump.This inept “chosen one,” according to the Associated Press, had the unmitigated gall to warn about impending carnage in Syria after throwing the Kurds to the wolves and releasing terrorist prisoners when he withdrew U.S. troops from Syria. Mea
  
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• Letter: Senators should conduct a fair proceeding

  05-01-2020 14:00
  
  Let’s assume, for the sake of discussion, that the president was treated unfairly by the proceedings that led to his impeachment in the House of Representatives.Let’s further assume, for the sake of discussion, that most of the senators who will decide the question of whether to now remove the president from office are professing Christians, including some members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who believe and accept the teachings of the New Testament, including
  
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• Letter: Our commander in cheat

  05-01-2020 14:00
  
  President Trump’s extended holiday vacation has given us a hiatus from his insistent and often juvenile tweets. This is likely because he is golfing at his resort at Mar-a-Lago. There has been little information on his golfing partners or his prowess.There is a book, “Commander in Cheat,” written by sports writer Rick Reilly which recounts details of the President’s golfing style. Reilly, who has actually golfed with Trump, describes his cheating during an 18-hole round a
  
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• Letter: Don’t be like Mr. Potter’s assistant

  05-01-2020 14:00
  
  In the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life,” I always believed that Mr. Potter was the most evil character.I was wrong. It was Potter’s aide.In the movie, this wheelchair-pushing assistant watched Potter steal $8,000 from Uncle Billy. Yet he did nothing.When Potter called the police on George Bailey, Potter’s aide stood there again, mute, doing nothing as Potter lied to the world.Potter’s assistant had enough facts to implicate and denounce Potter because he saw the
  
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• Letter: America is worse under Trump

  05-01-2020 14:00
  
  I just read the letter from Michele Stuart, “My money is on Nancy Pelosi,” saying that the more time that passes, the more the truth will come out.In fact, people all over the country are beginning to wake up to realize the emperor has no clothes, no decency, no common sense. From the Navy Seals who were horrified by the pardoning of their “evil” captain, to the farmers being crushed by tariffs, those who wish for America to be great are realizing that what Donald Trump i
  
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• Leonard Pitts: This is the Year of Reading Women

  05-01-2020 14:00
  
  I’m here to say goodbye to Stephen King.Not that he's going anywhere. Indeed, I imagine he's at his desk even now, devising a fiendish fate for some schmuck unlucky enough to be a character in a Stephen King novel.But whatever that fate may be, I will know nothing about it — not this year, at least. I will be similarly ignorant of whatever legal potboiler John Grisham has in the pipeline or whatever magisterial new history David McCullough publishes next. The acclaimed new novels by
  
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• George Pyle: Where Biskupski lost me, familiar news from afar and an honor that got away

  05-01-2020 14:00
  
  As the odometer rolls over, some bits left over from 2019:As Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski prepares to leave office, it is sad that my strongest memory of her administration is how she lost me.In December of 2016, the mayor held a news conference to announce the choices she and other city officials had made — after a closed-door process that made no one happy — for the location of what were to be four new homeless service centers that would replace the benighted Road Home she
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: We’re traveling abroad. What if we get sick of each other?

  05-01-2020 14:00
  
  Well, take a look at these two emails that arrived in my inbox on the same day …Dear Ann Cannon • I’m traveling to a foreign country with my know-it-all, 28-year-old daughter in a few months. How do we get along for two weeks?— Concerned MamaDear Ann Cannon • I’m traveling to a foreign country with my sassy 61-year-old mother in a few months. How do we get along for two weeks?— Concerned DaughterDear Mama and Daughter • Hahahahahahaha! I think you tw
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Utah puts road win streak on the line against New Orleans

  05-01-2020 09:55 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah comes into a matchup with New Orleans after winning three games in a row on the road
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - The Utah Jazz shot their way past the Orlando Magic 109-96

  05-01-2020 09:17 via sportspyder.com
  
  Another night, another solid victory. The Utah Jazz continued their fine play by pulling out a 109-96 road victory over the Orlando Magic. He paced the Magic with 24.
  
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• State colleges: Utah Valley rallies, but falls to Kansas City 68-63

  05-01-2020 06:55
  
  Kansas City, Mo. • Jahshire Hardnett came off the bench to tally 17 points to lead Kansas City to a 68-63 win over Utah Valley on Saturday night.Jordan Giles had 16 points for Kansas City (9-7, 2-0 Western Athletic Conference), which won its fourth consecutive game. Javan White added 13 points, nine rebounds and three blocks. Rob Whitfield had 10 points for the hosts.Brandon Averette had 16 points for the Wolverines (7-10, 1-1), who fell behind by 16 points in the second half before regaini
  
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• NFL roundup: Texans rally past Bills; Titans knock out Patriots

  05-01-2020 06:34
  
  Houston • Deshaun Watson’s teammates talked all week about how they never feel as if they’re out of any game when No. 4 is on the field.On Saturday Watson showed why the Houston Texans have so much trust in him, when the quarterback’s dazzling performance late after a tough start led them to a playoff victory.Watson spun out of a would-be sack and coolly completed a pass that set up the winning field goal in overtime as the Texans rallied from a double-digit second-half de
  
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• Utah State sees multiple streaks halted despite Neemias Queta’s return to lineup with loss to No. 13 San Diego State

  05-01-2020 06:28
  
  Logan • The lights went out over the court at At Dee Glen Smith Spectrum arena on Saturday night prior to Utah State’s men’s basketball game against San Diego State.In the darkness, the Aggies crowd shouted, “Welcome to Hell!”The Spectrum was indeed a version of Dante’s Inferno on Saturday, but only for the Aggies. A 77-68 loss to the Aztecs left them burned in myriad ways.The worst of the damage came to the Aggies’ hopes of defending their Mountain West
  
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• [KSL] - Georges Niang sparks Jazz in 4th as Utah pulls away for win in Orlando | KSL.com

  05-01-2020 06:09 via sportspyder.com
  
  Georges Niang tied his career-high in Utah's win over Orlando.
  
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• [Deseret News] - Georges Niang breaks out in Utah Jazz win over Orlando Magic

  05-01-2020 05:38 via sportspyder.com
  
  ORLANDO — Georges Niang has a nickname that Donovan Mitchell affectionately gave to him — OTA. The name refers to the offseason practices that are commonly referred to as OTAs, or organized team...
  
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• Childs leads BYU to WCC-opening 63-38 victory over Loyola Marymount

  05-01-2020 04:58
  
  Provo • Maybe both teams were still in holiday mode.Maybe it was just one of those games.But despite Brigham Young and Loyola Marymount universities combing for only 101 points, the Cougars came away happy.The Cougars (12-4, 1-0 West Coast Conference) beat the Lions (7-9, 1-1 WCC) 63-38 on Saturday night at the Marriott Center in BYU’s WCC opener.Senior forward Yoeli Childs led all scorers with 19 points and added 12 rebounds, while senior guard Jake Toolson contributed 13 points and
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz finish strong late to beat the Orlando Magic

  05-01-2020 04:47 via sportspyder.com
  
  Georges Niang appreciation time
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Highlights: Donovan Mitchell—32 points, 6 assists

  05-01-2020 04:39 via sportspyder.com
  
  Donovan lit it up in Orlando making 4 threes and going 14-21 from the field for his 11th 30-point game this season.
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Highlights: Jazz 109 | Magic 96

  05-01-2020 04:23 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Jazz dominated in the fourth quarter behind hot shooting and scoring off the bench to get their fifth straight victory.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Triple Team: Donovan Mitchell’s playing like one of the best players in the league, and he carried the Jazz to another win against Orlando

  05-01-2020 04:21 via sportspyder.com
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 109-96 win over the Orlando Magic from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Mitchell scores 32 points to lead Jazz over Magic 109-96

  05-01-2020 04:15 via sportspyder.com
  
  Donovan Mitchell scored 32 points and Georges Niang added 15 off the bench to help the Utah Jazz beat the Orlando Magic 109-96
  
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• The Triple Team: Donovan Mitchell’s playing like one of the best players in the league, and he carried the Jazz to another win against Orlando

  05-01-2020 04:08
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 109-96 win over the Orlando Magic from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Donovan Mitchell is playing at an top-10 levelDonovan Mitchell was incredible tonight, the biggest reason the Jazz went into Orlando and won a game against a team that had won their last two by 20+ points. He scored 32 points on 14-21 shooting, 4-7 from three, and added six assists. A lot of it was just incredible midrange shotmaking from Mitchell: on floaters, on pull
  
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• [NBA] - The RoundUp—Utah Jazz beat Orlando behind a flurry of fourth-quarter 3s

  05-01-2020 04:05 via sportspyder.com
  
  Who needs magic when you have chemistry?The Utah Jazz used a complete team effort, taking over the fourth quarter on Saturday night in Orlando to win their fifth straight game, their 10th victory in
  
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• Trump says 52 targets already lined up if Iran retaliates

  05-01-2020 03:53
  
  West Palm Beach, Fla. •President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to Iran on Saturday, threatening to hit dozens of targets in the Islamic Republic “very fast and very hard” if it retaliates for the targeted killing of the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force.The series of tweets came as the White House sent to Congress a formal notification under the War Powers Act of the drone strike on Gen. Qassem Soleimani, a senior administration official said. U.S. law required notific
  
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• [Deseret News] - 3 takeaways from the Utah Jazz’s 109-96 win over the Orlando Magic

  05-01-2020 03:38 via sportspyder.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz pulled away from the Orlando Magic in the fourth quarter to pick up their fifth straight win, 109-96, at the Amway Center on Saturday night in Orlando. Here are three...
  
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• [KSL] - The reasons behind Joe Ingles' recent brilliance | KSL.com

  05-01-2020 03:36 via sportspyder.com
  
  Heading into the offseason, Joe Ingles knew he needed a counter for getting forced right. He found one.
  
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• Jazz heat up in fourth quarter, cruise past Magic 109-96

  05-01-2020 03:15
  
  Orlando, Fla. • With one open shot after another going off-target, Saturday’s game was slipping away from the Jazz. The looks were there, but the results weren’t, as Donovan Mitchell’s airballed try at the end of the third period dropped the most efficient 3-point shooting team in the league to a meager 8 of 27 from beyond the arc.And then, in the fourth, Utah’s first possession saw Mitchell bury a 3. Their second possession ended with a made 3 by Georges Niang. Then
  
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