Basketball - Utah Jazz news

• After impeachment, Congress goes back to work with ‘everything at stake in November’

  12-02-2020 23:37
  
  Washington • Inside the Capitol, it’s as if the impeachment of President Donald Trump never happened.One week after the historic undertaking shuttered to a close, Congress is feverishly back at work emboldened but also arguably diminished by the outcome.Senate Republicans are flexing their new status as Trump's unshakable allies, hitching their election pursuits to his and looking the other away as the president seems to dole out favoritism for friends and payback for critics with app
  
  Read more

• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Bojan Bogdanovic joins BreakingT’s NBPA Collection

  12-02-2020 23:22 via sportspyder.com
  
  Bojan Bogdanovic hit an insane buzzer beater to earn the Utah Jazz a victory over Houston. Big Shot Bogey now joins BreakingT's NBPA Collection. Things wer...
  
  Read more

• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Weekly Run newsletter: Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert keep bigger picture in mind ahead of All-Star Game

  12-02-2020 23:16 via sportspyder.com
  
  There’s no question that Rudy and Donovan are excited about Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game in Chicago, and the fact that they get to participate in it. Asked at Wednesday morning’s shootaround if the fact that he is an All-Star has sunk in yet, Donovan...
  
  Read more

• BYU linebacker Chaz Ah You arrested on suspicion of drunk driving

  12-02-2020 23:08
  
  Provo • A BYU linebacker was arrested Saturday on suspicion of DUI after police found containers of alcohol and a THC vape pen in his vehicle.A Utah County Sheriff’s Office deputy pulled over Chaz Kapuni Ah You, 21, after pacing Ah You going 75 in a 35 mph zone. The arresting deputy also noted that Ah You was following too closely to other vehicles on the road and was making unsafe lane travel, changing lanes abruptly without signaling.After the deputy initiated the stop in Eagle Moun
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Commentary: We once fought jihadis. Now we battle white supremacists.

  12-02-2020 23:00
  
  As a former soldier and FBI agent, we both risked our lives to fight Al Qaeda. But the enemy we currently face is not a jihadist threat. It’s white supremacists — in the United States and overseas.One American group, The Base, peppered a recruitment video with footage of our faces, intercut with shots of masked men machine-gunning a spray-painted Star of David. The Scandinavia-based Nordic Resistance Movement called us out by name, referring to us in a recent statement as “the
  
  Read more

• Utah Jazz: Bojan Bogdanovic joins BreakingT’s NBPA Collection

  12-02-2020 22:59
  
  Bojan Bogdanovic hit an insane buzzer beater to earn the Utah Jazz a victory over Houston. Big Shot Bogey now joins BreakingT’s NBPA Collection. Things weren’t looking good for the Utah Jazz in the final seconds against the Houston Rockets. Through a double team, Bojan Bogdanovic drained a cold-blooded 3-pointer. You hit a shot like […]
  Utah Jazz: Bojan Bogdanovic joins BreakingT’s NBPA Collection - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion
  
  Read more

• [CBS Sports] - Heat vs. Jazz odds, line, spread: 2020 NBA picks, Feb. 12 predictions from proven computer model - CBSSports.com

  12-02-2020 22:57 via sportspyder.com
  
  The SportsLine projection model has a pick for the clash between the Heat and Jazz.
  
  Read more

• Weekly Run newsletter: Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert keep bigger picture in mind ahead of All-Star Game

  12-02-2020 22:46
  
  There’s no question that Rudy and Donovan are excited about Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game in Chicago, and the fact that they get to participate in it. Asked at Wednesday morning’s shootaround if the fact that he is an All-Star has sunk in yet, Donovan quickly replied, “No! I’m not gonna lie to you.”But then, there’s a good reason for that: The Jazz players have been focused on … well, the Jazz.“Playing the tougher teams that we have, you can&rs
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• New volume of ‘Saints’ reveals the many sides of Brigham Young

  12-02-2020 22:31
  
  Latter-day Saints imagine Brigham Young as a commanding theocrat, who mobilized a crestfallen and beleaguered people after the death of their prophet-founder, who led them on an epic exodus across the Plains to what they hoped would be a Zion in the West, who battled a hostile government, and whose fingerprint was on every move — from their arrival in the Great Basin to his death in 1877.This image of the “Lion of the Lord,” as he was known, sits atop monuments, stands on statu
  
  Read more

• [Deseret News] - Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert excited for All-Star festivities, but focused on bigger goals

  12-02-2020 22:22 via sportspyder.com
  
  Being named an All-Star still hasn’t sunk in for Donovan Mitchell. Right now, he’s focused on winning games. Rudy Gobert will join Mitchell on Team Giannis Sunday night in Chicago.
  
  Read more

• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Game thread: Utah Jazz looking to enter break with a bang

  12-02-2020 22:21 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz have an opportunity to enter the All-Star break on a four game winning streak. Will the Miami Heat allow that to happen tonight? Things are g...
  
  Read more

• Frank Bruni: Bernie Sanders prevails. Cue the party panic.

  12-02-2020 22:00
  
  The Democratic race was messy going into New Hampshire. It’s even messier as it moves on.Yes, Bernie Sanders won the state’s primary on Tuesday night. And that victory, coming on the heels of his functional tie with Pete Buttigieg in the dysfunctional Iowa caucuses last week, makes him the indisputable front-runner for the Democratic nomination.But look at how closely behind him Buttigieg finished, despite furious attacks from Sanders and other rivals over recent days. Look at the su
  
  Read more

• Game thread: Utah Jazz looking to enter break with a bang

  12-02-2020 21:53
  
  The Utah Jazz have an opportunity to enter the All-Star break on a four game winning streak. Will the Miami Heat allow that to happen tonight? Things are going good for the Utah Jazz right now. After a five game blip where they were out of sorts on both sides of the ball, they are […]
  Game thread: Utah Jazz looking to enter break with a bang - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
  Read more

• Zach Fender: Physicians are the key to solving the opioid crisis

  12-02-2020 21:00
  
  In June of this year, I underwent surgery to repair my shoulder after a bike accident. Prior to the operation, my surgeon mailed me a prescription for painkillers for use after the surgery. When I opened the letter, I saw that he had prescribed me oxycodone, a potent opioid commonly used to treat pain during recovery.While this occurrence is quite commonplace, I was surprised that at no point during my treatment before or after the surgery did he ever have a conversation with me about the potent
  
  Read more

• The BYU Cougars have a solid NCAA basketball tournament resume — now they have to enhance it

  12-02-2020 20:49
  
  Provo • Cosmo the Cougar may have made national highlight reels after dunking a 3-pointer last weekend, but the Cougars aren’t doing too bad themselves.Actually, this is shaping up as potentially the best BYU squad since the Jimmer Fredette days.The Cougars have already matched last year's win total with a 19-7 record and still have five regular season games remaining, starting at Loyola Marymount on Thursday.As of Wednesday, BYU is ranked No. 23 in the NCAA’s Net Rankings, No.
  
  Read more

• Utah man suspected of killing his girlfriend and shooting a police officer also shot himself in the face

  12-02-2020 20:47
  
  A Salt Lake City man suspected of killing his girlfriend and shooting a police officer this week also apparently shot himself in the face, investigators say.In jail documents filed this week, police wrote that someone at 125 S. 300 East called 911 early Monday and left the line open rather than speaking to dispatchers. Dispatchers heard talking in the background, about "someone getting hurt and getting killed," investigators wrote.Multiple Salt Lake City officers went to an apartment building at
  
  Read more

• Utah basketball center Branden Carlson is shining, aided by AAU

  12-02-2020 20:46
  
  Corvallis, Ore. • Branden Carlson had never played a minute of AAU basketball as his teenage years unfolded and his time at Bingham High School wore on.As a junior in the spring of 2016, that changed. Exum Elite Utah Prospects, an adidas-sponsored outfit and considered one of, if not the preeminent club programs in the state, came calling. Given at least Carlson’s physical stature, there wasn’t much of a discussion as to whether or not Exum Elite was going to take him on, even i
  
  Read more

• USWNT will play Australia at Rio Tinto Stadium April 10

  12-02-2020 20:35
  
  Salt Lake City fans of the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team will get to see them in their own back yard.The USWNT will play a friendly at Rio Tinto Stadium, home of the Utah Royals FC, before the start of the National Women’s Soccer League season, it was announced Wednesday. Three national team players in Christen Press, Becky Sauerbrunn and Kelley O’Hara all play for the Royals.The Americans, who won the FIFA Women’s World Cup last summer and are preparing for a run in the 2020
  
  Read more

• UTA will take steps to prevent long delays during weather

  12-02-2020 19:59
  
  Amid recent heavy snowstorms, Utah Transit Authority trains faced long and widespread delays — which executives say they are working hard to prevent in the future.Eddy Cummins, UTA chief operations officer, acknowledged to the agency’s board on Wednesday that “operations struggled significantly last week” and “our customers did experience extensive delays from Saturday, Feb. 1 to Thursday, Feb. 6.”He said that came as “the operation team dealt with a bro
  
  Read more

• USWNT to play another friendly at Rio Tinto Stadium, will face Australia on April 10

  12-02-2020 19:56
  
  Salt Lake City fans of the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team will get to see them in their own back yard.The USWNT will play a friendly at Rio Tinto Stadium, home of the Utah Royals FC, before the start of the National Women’s Soccer League season, it was announced Wednesday. Three national team players in Christen Press, Becky Sauerbrunn and Kelley O’Hara all play for the Royals.The Americans, who won the FIFA Women’s World Cup last summer and are preparing for a run in the 2020
  
  Read more

• FBI wants your help to catch the ‘TGIF Bandit’ before he robs another bank

  12-02-2020 19:55
  
  The FBI is asking for the public’s help to locate the “TGIF Bandit,” who is believed to have robbed three Utah banks or credit unions inside three grocery stores in three months — and always on a Friday.• On Friday, Dec. 6, a man robbed the Cyprus Credit Union inside the Walmart at 11328 South Jordan Gateway in South Jordan.• On Friday, Jan. 3, a man robbed the America First Credit Union inside the Dan’s Market at 1360 S. Foothill Drive in Salt Lake City.&
  
  Read more

• UTA Board raises pay ranges for most agency administrative jobs by 2%

  12-02-2020 19:53
  
  After surveying salaries of similar jobs in the state, the Utah Transit Authority Board voted Wednesday to increase the median pay ranges for administrative jobs at the agency by 2%.The three-person, full-time board — whose salaries are set by a separate advisory board — is allowing up to 79 administrative positions potentially to receive base pay higher than board members’ own current $140,000 a year each.Still, compensation levels generally appear lower now than when past hig
  
  Read more

• After long train delays in recent storms, UTA says it is working to prevent repeats

  12-02-2020 19:26
  
  Amid recent heavy snowstorms, Utah Transit Authority trains faced long and widespread delays — which executives say they are working hard to prevent in the future.Eddy Cummins, UTA chief operations officer, acknowledged to the agency’s board on Wednesday that “operations struggled significantly last week” and “our customers did experience extensive delays from Saturday, Feb. 1 to Thursday, Feb. 6.”He said that came as “the operation team dealt with a bro
  
  Read more

• [CBS Sports] - That's Pretty Interesting: With Robert Covington, radical Rockets are going small and thinking big on defense - CBSSports.com

  12-02-2020 19:21 via sportspyder.com
  
  Also in the notebook: The improvisational Jazz!
  
  Read more

• What former newspaper buildings turn into

  12-02-2020 19:17
  
  The lead engraving of Joseph Pulitzer’s retirement message from 1907 has been removed, along with much of the rest of the interior of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s former headquarters.The engraving will be replaced in the remodeled building with a version etched in glass. But the newspaper has already moved to a smaller home in a nearby building owned by the StarWood Group, a developer and investment firm that has big plans for the old newsroom.The block-long building in downtown St.
  
  Read more

• Utah, Salt Lake City will form joint committee to help propel state’s Winter Olympics bid

  12-02-2020 19:14
  
  The Olympic torch won’t burn again in Utah for at least another decade, but legislators have begun to put gas in the line.Governor Gary Herbert and Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall on Wednesday announced they would be forming a committee to guide the Salt Lake City-Utah bid for an Olympic Games. The group, officially named the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games, will be headed by Fraser Bullock and includes Utah Sports Commission president and CEO Jeff Robbins. Both helped orc
  
  Read more

• New campus sexual misconduct rules will tackle dating violence

  12-02-2020 18:56
  
  Washington • Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ pending rules on sexual misconduct at the nation’s schools and colleges will include provisions to shore up protections for victims of stalking and dating violence, a response to lethal attacks that have underscored the weakness of current policies.The rules will for the first time cement domestic violence, dating violence and stalking as forms of gender discrimination that schools must address under Title IX, the federal civil right
  
  Read more

• ‘What’s old is new again’: Advocates say tribal voting hurdles remain

  12-02-2020 18:24
  
  Washington • Voting barriers for Native Americans have always existed, but polling cutbacks, discriminatory voter ID laws and lack of funding for elections are making things worse, advocates told a House panel Tuesday.“What was old is new again,” said Rep. Marcia L. Fudge, D-Ohio, who chaired the hearing. “It is not only appropriate, but necessary, to hold a few hearings and make up for lost time.”The hearing came the same day a federal appeals court agreed to tempor
  
  Read more

• ‘The Hunt,’ a film turned lightning rod, will arrive in theaters in March

  12-02-2020 18:15
  
  Universal City, Calif. • “The Hunt” is back on. Only this time Universal Pictures has designed a radically different marketing campaign for the violent film, which is ostensibly about liberal elites who kill conservative “rednecks” for sport.Before “The Hunt” was shelved last year in the face of criticism, Universal had started to market the film as something it was not: a relatively straightforward horror flick. Now the studio is hoping that an unusual m
  
  Read more

• The 2020 BYU-Northern Illinois football game is being moved to Chicago

  12-02-2020 18:14
  
  Provo • Instead of traveling to DeKalb, Ill. at the end of October, the BYU Cougars will instead play Northern Illinois at the SeatGeek Stadium in Chicago for a featured matchup called the 2020 Huskie Chi-Town Showdown, it was announced Wednesday.SeatGeek Stadium, which is 12 miles southwest of downtown Chicago, is the current home of the Chicago Red Stars of the National Women's Soccer League and former home of the Chicago Fire of Major League Soccer. The game will be the first for the Cou
  
  Read more

• Utah center Branden Carlson has blossomed as a freshman, thanks in part to his summer of AAU basketball

  12-02-2020 17:33
  
  Corvallis, Ore. • Branden Carlson had never played a minute of AAU basketball as his teenage years unfolded and his time at Bingham High School wore on.As a junior in the spring of 2016, that changed. Exum Elite Utah Prospects, an adidas-sponsored outfit and considered one of, if not the preeminent club programs in the state, came calling. Given at least Carlson’s physical stature, there wasn’t much of a discussion as to whether or not Exum Elite was going to take him on, even i
  
  Read more

• Utah Rep. Chris Stewart could be Trump’s next intelligence director

  12-02-2020 16:53
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump is reportedly considering Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, to head the nation’s intelligence community.Stewart, who has been a loyal defender of the president throughout the impeachment proceedings, is a top contender to be director of national intelligence, according to a The New York Times report citing current and former Trump administration officials.Stewart, if appointed and confirmed by the Senate, would oversee the nation's 17 intelligence agencie
  
  Read more

• How polygamy helped Utah women get the right to vote

  12-02-2020 16:15
  
  In February 1870, Utah women became the first in the country to vote under an equal suffrage law. The triumphant version of this history celebrates the state’s early dedication to equality for women.But the driving force behind the milestone was arguably Utah’s fight to preserve polygamy — a practice under new attack after the end of the Civil War.“Women’s suffrage and polygamy were intertwined from the beginning here,” said Katherine Kitterman, historical dir
  
  Read more

• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz Alumni: Jae Crowder finds an ideal fit in South Beach

  12-02-2020 16:13 via sportspyder.com
  
  Three games after the trade deadline, former Utah Jazz fan favorite Jae Crowder has already looked right at home with the Miami Heat. The Utah Jazz made ma...
  
  Read more

• Utah Jazz Alumni: Jae Crowder finds an ideal fit in South Beach

  12-02-2020 16:00
  
  Three games after the trade deadline, former Utah Jazz fan favorite Jae Crowder has already looked right at home with the Miami Heat. The Utah Jazz made major improvements during the off-season. Everyone knows it. They had to make some difficult moves though, cutting ties with multiple players that fans had fallen in love with, […]
  Utah Jazz Alumni: Jae Crowder finds an ideal fit in South Beach - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
  Read more

• Trial team quits Roger Stone case in dispute over sentence

  12-02-2020 15:39
  
  Washington • The four lawyers who prosecuted Roger Stone quit the case after the Justice Department overruled them and said it would take the extraordinary step of lowering the amount of prison time it would seek for President Donald Trump’s longtime ally and confidant.The departures on Tuesday raised immediate questions over whether Trump, who earlier in the day had blasted the original sentencing recommendation as “very horrible and unfair," had at least indirectly exerted his
  
  Read more

• Sanders edges Buttigieg in NH, giving Dems 2 front-runners

  12-02-2020 15:33
  
  Manchester, N.H. • Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire’s presidential primary, edging moderate rival Pete Buttigieg and scoring the first clear victory in the Democratic Party’s chaotic 2020 nomination fight.In his Tuesday night win, the 78-year-old Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, beat back a strong challenge from the 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana. The dueling Democrats represent different generations, see divergent paths to the nomination and embr
  
  Read more

• [THE SPORTSRUSH] - UTA vs MIA Dream11 Prediction : Utah Jazz Vs Miami Heat Bucks Best Dream 11 Team for NBA 2019-20

  12-02-2020 15:18 via sportspyder.com
  
  UTA Vs MIA Dream11 Team Overview, Match Centre And Probable Playing 5: Miami Heat’s six game schedule away from home curtails today when they visit Utah Jazz   
  
  Read more

• [CBS Sports] - How to watch Jazz vs. Heat: NBA live stream info, TV channel, time, game odds - CBSSports.com

  12-02-2020 15:18 via sportspyder.com
  
  How to watch Jazz vs. Heat basketball game
  
  Read more

• The best midseason free agency additions of the last decade

  12-02-2020 15:05
  
  After the 2020 NBA trade deadline, the focus of basketball transaction rumors often shifts to the potential buyout market for contenders.
  As noted by our own Frank Urbina, the buyout market “might actually be more interesting” than previously expected. While we recently collected a list of potential candidates for a buyout, ESPN’s Tim MacMahon reported that the last time a buyout addition played at least 100 playoff minutes for a team that won the title was in 2011. That w
  
  Read more

• Racism, polygamy, colonizer — New volume of ‘Saints’ reveals the many sides of Brigham Young

  12-02-2020 15:03
  
  Latter-day Saints imagine Brigham Young as a commanding theocrat, who mobilized a crestfallen and beleaguered people after the death of their prophet-founder, who led them on an epic exodus across the Plains to what they hoped would be a Zion in the West, who battled a hostile government, and whose fingerprint was on every move — from their arrival in the Great Basin to his death in 1877.This image of the “Lion of the Lord,” as he was known, sits atop monuments, stands on statu
  
  Read more

• ‘Mormon Land’: Brigham, polygamy, priesthood ban, Mountain Meadows and more are explored in latest church history volume of ‘Saints’

  12-02-2020 15:02
  
  In September 2018, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released its first authorized, in-depth look at the faith’s history in nearly a century.The four-volume set, known as “Saints,” will explore Mormonism from its humble birth to its current global presence. The first volume, “Saints: The Standard of Truth,” examined church history from 1815 to 1846. The second book, “Saints: No Unhallowed Hand,” which came out Wednesday, covers 1846 to 1893
  
  Read more

• Robert Gehrke: Limiting campaign cash sounds like a great idea, but money is like water — it’ll find a way

  12-02-2020 15:00
  
  Here’s a number to think about: $25 million.That’s how much politicians spent trying to get elected between 2013 and 2016 — the most recent year Utahns elected statewide candidates. Candidates for governor spent roughly $9 million on the 2016 election alone, with about half of it raised by the winner, Gov. Gary Herbert.That money has to come from somewhere and almost invariably it comes in big chunks from — as my colleague Lee Davidson has documented — corporations
  
  Read more

• Trump may pick Utah Rep. Chris Stewart to be the director of national intelligence

  12-02-2020 14:46
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump is reportedly considering Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, to head the nation’s intelligence community.Stewart, who has been a loyal defender of the president throughout the impeachment proceedings, is a top contender to be director of national intelligence, according to a The New York Times report citing current and former Trump administration officials.Stewart, if appointed and confirmed by the Senate, would oversee the nation's 17 intelligence agencie
  
  Read more

• [CBS Sports] - How to watch Jazz vs. Heat: TV channel, NBA live stream info, start time - CBSSports.com

  12-02-2020 14:41 via sportspyder.com
  
  How to watch Jazz vs. Heat basketball game
  
  Read more

• Utah women first won suffrage 150 years ago. Here’s what polygamy had to do with it.

  12-02-2020 14:00
  
  In February 1870, Utah women became the first in the country to vote under an equal suffrage law. The triumphant version of this history celebrates the state’s early dedication to equality for women.But the driving force behind the milestone was arguably Utah’s fight to preserve polygamy — a practice under new attack after the end of the Civil War.“Women’s suffrage and polygamy were intertwined from the beginning here,” said Katherine Kitterman, historical dir
  
  Read more

• University of Utah approves new $13 million building for its police department

  12-02-2020 14:00
  
  The University of Utah has approved plans to build a new $13 million facility for its campus police department — a move that comes after concerns that some students, including slain track star Lauren McCluskey, have been forced to discuss sensitive crimes in the current building’s lobby and others have been wary to report there at all.“It’s just so apparent that this is needed,” said Marlon Lynch, the newly appointed chief safety officer at the U. “I could see
  
  Read more

• Letter: Trump holds his own supporters in contempt

  12-02-2020 14:00
  
  Donald Trump famously bragged that he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and not lose any voters. That statement was not just one of Trump’s countless expressions of astonishing narcissism, it ironically revealed his core contempt for those supporters who place personal loyalty to him above what the plain truth tells them.Blind allegiance to Trump was on full display these past weeks in the U.S. Congress, sadly exemplified by the disgraceful performance of Rep. Ch
  
  Read more

• Letter: The mystery of ‘pro-lifers’ is solved

  12-02-2020 14:00
  
  A mystery explained! For a long time, I was perplexed at why so-called “pro-lifers” fought so hard to preserve the life and “rights” of fetuses, while seeming to be totally uncaring about what happened to fetuses after they were born.But finally, in The Tribune, I have an answer.Utah state Sen. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, in pushing forward his bill to ban abortions in Utah, announced, ““We tend to overvalue the people that are here and undervalue the people that a
  
  Read more

• Letter: Prayer breakfast no place to be vindictive

  12-02-2020 14:00
  
  At the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington the other day, President Trump took a shot at Sen. Mitt Romney for using his faith as a “crutch” for voting against him. He leveled a similar attack at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.The prayer breakfast was a time for Trump to be thankful for the Senate vote to acquit him of all impeachment charges. He could have been thankful for the positive economy the country has experienced. He could have asked for prayers for the world to fight the co
  
  Read more

Follow @UtahJazz_News_ on Twitter!