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• [Clutchpoints] - Joe Ingles trolls Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert, Shaquille O’Neal before All-Star Game

  16-02-2020 23:41 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz have quietly become one of the more exciting NBA teams in the league. Adding to their pick-and-roll arsenal, the team embraced the 3-point line which led to a fourth-best 36-18 record in the Western Conference. Utah’s  success has also...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Utah Jazz are on the verge of a big run

  16-02-2020 22:14 via sportspyder.com
  
  All signs are pointing to a nice finish for the Utah Jazz this season
  
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• ‘Are you sick?’ For Asian Americans, a sneeze brings suspicion

  16-02-2020 22:01
  
  Chicago - Strings of lanterns in festive red and gold swayed high above the streets in Chicago’s Chinatown, but few people strolled the sidewalks on a recent afternoon.At Slurp Slurp Noodles, tourists were not filling the usual tables for lunch, a waitress said. A school crossing guard had stashed a face mask in her pocket, ready to slip it on when her nerves began to fray.The mysterious coronavirus outbreak has so far largely spared the United States, with only 15 confirmed cases across t
  
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• BYU guts it out in SoCal, earning two hard-fought wins to improve chances of breaking into the AP Top 25

  16-02-2020 20:16
  
  San Diego • The past week wasn’t pretty, but it was what the Cougars needed. And it may help bump the BYU men’s basketball team into the Associated Press Top 25 for the first time in nine years.BYU survived two games on the road, beating Loyola Marymount on Thursday and San Diego on Saturday for six-straight wins. The Cougars, however, secured the wins differently than before.After shooting a record-tying nine games straight above 50% from the field, BYU struggled with getting s
  
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• Timothy Egan: California diaspora may turn the tables on Trump

  16-02-2020 20:00
  
  President Donald Trump clearly hates the most populous state in the country he governs. While trashing California with his gutter mouth, the president has used his office to physically trash the home to nearly one in eight Americans — seeking to make its air more polluted, its water less clean, its forests more vulnerable to catastrophic fires.But now the Golden State is poised to strike back. By moving its presidential primary from June to March 3, California will finally exert a politica
  
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• [KSL] - Where the Jazz think they stand at the All-Star break | KSL.com

  16-02-2020 19:32 via sportspyder.com
  
  The season is full of ebbs and flows and countless narratives, so how do the Jazz view themselves as they get a chance to take a deep breath?
  
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• [Deseret News] - How to watch Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert in the NBA All-Star Game

  16-02-2020 19:23 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz franchise cornerstones Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert will compete Sunday evening in what will be the first NBA All-Star Game for both. Mitchell and Gobert will both be reserves on Team...
  
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• Americans on Japan cruise to spend 14 days in coronavirus quarantine in U.S. military facility after flying home

  16-02-2020 18:11
  
  Tokyo • Americans Cheryl and Paul Molesky are trading one coronavirus quarantine for another. The couple from Syracuse, N.Y., are cutting short a 14-day quarantine on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in the port of Yokohama, near Tokyo, to be flown back to the United States. But they will have to spend another two-week quarantine period at a U.S. military facility to make sure they don’t have the new virus that’s been sweeping across Asia.About 380 Americans are on the cruise sh
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: Mike Conley should settle in after All-Star break

  16-02-2020 17:35 via sportspyder.com
  
  It's been a rough season for Utah Jazz point guard Mike Conley. He recently put together a great four-game stretch, though, and that should continue next w...
  
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• Utah men dealing with 72-hour layoff between Oregon State-Oregon road games

  16-02-2020 17:26
  
  Eugene, Ore. • The University of Utah men’s basketball team tipped off against Oregon State Thursday at 7 p.m. at Gill Coliseum. The Utes do not play again until 7 p.m. Sunday, when they face 17th-ranked Oregon at Matthew Knight Arena.That means Utah will go 72 hours between tip-offs on this Oregon swing, which began with a 70-51 loss to the Beavers. Will Utah alter any preparation as it tries to salvage a weekend split and win its first Pac-12 road game of the season?The Utes bussed
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz players chime in on NBA’s Dunk Contest fiasco

  16-02-2020 16:20 via sportspyder.com
  
  Following last night's controversial ending to the Dunk Contest, several Utah Jazz players let their feelings on the matter be known. Even though their wer...
  
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• Utah Jazz players chime in on NBA’s Dunk Contest fiasco

  16-02-2020 16:00
  
  Following last night’s controversial ending to the Dunk Contest, several Utah Jazz players let their feelings on the matter be known. Even though their weren’t any Utah Jazz players competing during All-Star Saturday Night, it was still an incredibly fun time, filled with mixed emotions. From excitement to disappointment, and from hyped to shocked, many […]
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• Michelle Goldberg: The right’s big lie about Roger Stone

  16-02-2020 15:00
  
  Randy Credico is the witness from Robert Mueller’s investigation who Roger Stone, Donald Trump’s longtime adviser, has been convicted of threatening. A few months ago, Credico texted me, “If Stone goes to jail I’m a walking dead man.” On Thursday, after the president’s intervention to get Stone a lighter sentence convulsed the Justice Department, I spoke to Credico, a left-wing comedian and activist, and he elaborated on what he’d meant. “The guy g
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Utahns’ dreams come true on ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.’ And, yes, they really build houses in days.

  16-02-2020 14:00
  
  For 199 episodes spread over eight years, “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” made dreams come true. In the space of a week, deserving families had their homes remodeled from top to bottom. Or got the keys to new homes built from the ground up.And viewers got to vicariously share the experience and shed a few tears as they learned about the families on the show, who had sad and/or inspiring stories.The original series ran on ABC. A revival returns Sunday where it makes perfect sense &md
  
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• Robert Kirby: There’s more than one way to be yourself in your religion

  16-02-2020 14:00
  
  Growing up outside of Utah, I never encountered many social problems for being a Mormon. I’m guessing it was a military brat thing.The nomadic lifestyle caused people to glom onto whatever they could in a relationship. Religion wasn’t a condition when making friends at school.Whether a girl was Christian, Jewish, Muslim or pagan had no bearing on whether I was physically attracted to her. Hormones always had the first say. Religion, if it were going to be a problem at all, didn&rsquo
  
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• Paradox pipeline lives up to its name for Utah regulators

  16-02-2020 14:00
  
  Millions of cubic feet of natural gas are being wasted in a ball of flame at a Moab-area oil field while state regulators and a bankruptcy court determine the fate of an indefinitely idled pipeline.The Paradox pipeline connects to a major interstate transmission line, passing oil-producer Wesco Operating Inc.'s Blue Hills plant, which processes natural gas coming from its 18 oil wells on Big Flat, a popular recreation area northwest of Moab. Without access to that pipeline, which regulators have
  
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• Letter: Trump clearly abuses his power

  16-02-2020 14:00
  
  Sometimes it amazes me, though not often enough, how little logic some members of the Utah Legislature use when proposing bills.This past week Sen. Mitt Romney voted to convict Donald Trump on the first of two articles of impeachment, abuse of power. The very next day, members of the Utah Legislature were calling for Romney’s censure.The legislators feared retribution from Trump because of Romney’s vote. Any president of the United States who uses his power to punish a state of more
  
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• Letter: More must be done to save the climate

  16-02-2020 14:00
  
  I’ve become a climate change alarmist.I didn’t start that way. I spent 30 years in the electrical generation industry dealing with fossil fuel and renewable technologies, so I’m well aware of the efficiencies, challenges, pollution and climate impact of those technologies. Because renewable energy is now less expensive than fossil fuel energy and, because of the performance and technological advantages of electric cars over fossil fuel cars, I believed the market would solve ou
  
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• Letter: Lawmakers do not care about us

  16-02-2020 14:00
  
  Utah State Sen. Dan McCay was recently quoted in The Tribune (“Proposed bill would ban elective abortions in Utah,” Feb. 8): “We tend to overvalue the people that are here and undervalue the people that aren’t here yet.”This type of attitude perfectly explains why our state Legislature has continually stonewalled Medicaid expansion, failed to pass sensible gun laws and adequately fund education, among other things.Once you are born, the majority of our representativ
  
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• Letter: God bless you, Mitt Romney

  16-02-2020 14:00
  
  I am a liberal, Democrat, Jewish-born atheist, ACLU member, Planned Parenthood donor and harsh critic of the Mormon church who somehow survived 24 years as a Utahistan resident before retiring to my home state.And all I want to say right now is God bless you, Mitt Romney. I may disagree with you on many issues, but you are a man of honesty, honor and conscience.Now keep it up!Lee J. Siegel, Beverly Beach, Ore.Submit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Apologies to future generations

  16-02-2020 14:00
  
  To my grandchildren and future generations, I offer my abject and absolute apology.In our youth, my generation was idealistic and hopeful of a better tomorrow, as are most young people. We turned that idealism into action. Our protests and demonstrations were significant in ending America’s involvement in Vietnam’s civil war, which was not our fight in the first place.We supported Martin Luther King and others as they led the struggle to gain civil rights for all Americans, especiall
  
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• Letter: A perspective for LDS members

  16-02-2020 14:00
  
  For all of you good members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, let me try to put this in perspective:“For I had seen a vision; I knew it, and I knew that God knew it, and I could not deny it, neither dared I do it; at least I knew that by so doing I would offend God, and come under condemnation.” — Joseph Smith, on his seeing God and Jesus.“Were I to ignore the evidence that has been presented and disregard what I believe my oath and the Constitution dema
  
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• Favoritism for Salt Lake County’s biggest arts groups was baked into ZAP tax funding. Should that change?

  16-02-2020 14:00
  
  The Utah Symphony had run at a deficit for eight years straight; it had raided endowment funds and considered its major donors tapped out. Desperate for new funding, it lobbied with other struggling fine arts groups for a new sales-tax increase to support culture and the Hogle Zoo.The response from Salt Lake County voters in 1993 “wasn’t only `No,'” then-Commissioner Brent Overson said at the time. “It was, ‘Hell, no.'”Opponents had portrayed the proposal as a
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: I’ve fallen out of love with my boyfriend

  16-02-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Ann Cannon • My boyfriend and I met four years ago when we were both freshmen in college. I recently asked him if we could take a break from each other, and while he wasn’t happy about it, he agreed to. As it turns out, I’ve discovered during our time apart that I actually don’t want us to be a couple any more, although I would still like to be friends. He’s a good guy, and at this point we have so much history together. The problem is that I’m just not in
  
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• Advocates want more art teachers in Utah schools and another financial boost for cultural groups

  16-02-2020 14:00
  
  The Utah Cultural Alliance wants to make sure there is an art teacher working in every elementary school in the state — and it’s asking the Utah Legislature for $15 million over five years to make that happen.The request is one of the alliance’s top priorities in the session underway, as the arts community tries a new, more unified approach to requesting public funding.The Beverly Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program currently funds arts educators for more than 202,000 student
  
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• Justin F. Thulin: Unicorns and a crisis in American democracy

  16-02-2020 13:00
  
  Wouldn’t it be great to have a senator or representative in Congress whose primary motivation was the greater good, and who was indifferent to his or her own reelection? This politician would be animated by sympathy for the human condition, and leverage his capacities to legislate on behalf of his fellows without thought of personal aggrandizement.Scanning the political landscape hoping to catch a glimpse of one of these rare creatures is a lonely endeavor populated more by shadows or perh
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Why Donovan Mitchell wants Team LeBron try to dunk on Jazz C Rudy Gobert

  16-02-2020 07:44 via sportspyder.com
  
  Head coaches around the league rewarded Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert a well-deserved spot as a reserve in this year’s NBA All-Star game. Gobert’s game isn’t predicated on flashy offensive highlights, which is what fans look for in the All-Star...
  
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• Utah State defeats Fresno State for seventh win in eight games

  16-02-2020 07:10
  
  Fresno, Calif. • Sam Merrill scored 24 points to lead Utah State to a 71-59 victory over Fresno State on Saturday night.Justin Bean added 15 points and 11 rebounds for Utah State (21-7, 10-5 Mountain West Conference), which has won seven of its last eight games. Diogo Brito had 10 points.Noah Blackwell had 13 points for Fresno State (9-17, 5-10), which has lost three of four. Nate Grimes added 11 points and 10 rebounds.The Aggies never trailed. Fresno State pulled to 45-44 with 10:47 to pla
  
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• Alley-oop and tight defense in final minute lift BYU over San Diego, 72-71

  16-02-2020 06:59
  
  San Diego • There’s something about the Jenny Craig Pavilion — a place BYU has historically struggled playing at. And Saturday was no different.But luckily for the Cougars, they were able to keep fighting the whole game and held on to beat San Diego 72-71.Yoeli Childs scored the winning basket on an alley-oop from TJ Haws in the final minute, and the Toreros missed a last-second shot as they faced tight defense.“We jumped in a huddle right after the game, after we shook ha
  
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• China’s leader, under fire, says he led coronavirus fight early on

  16-02-2020 06:45
  
  Under fire for its response to the coronavirus epidemic, China’s authoritarian government appears to be pushing a new account of events that presents President Xi Jinping as taking early action to fight the outbreak that has convulsed the country.But in doing so, authorities have acknowledged for the first time that Xi was aware of the epidemic and involved in the response nearly two weeks before he first spoke publicly about it — and while officials at its epicenter in the city of W
  
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• 2020 Democratic candidates seek their fortunes in Nevada

  16-02-2020 06:41
  
  Las Vegas • As the Democratic presidential race hurtles toward Nevada, candidates in the still-crowded field are jumping into their first test in a racially diverse state with solid union muscle and shaky plans for a presidential caucus.Nevada has no obvious front-runner, though Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders heads into the contest on strong footing. The state has received only a sliver of the attention of the first two states on the primary calendar, Iowa and New Hampshire. Looking at the jum
  
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• State colleges: UVU beaten by 3-pointer in final second

  16-02-2020 06:34
  
  Las Cruces, N.M. • Jabari Rice had a career-high 29 points, including a 3-pointer in the final second that made the difference, as New Mexico State won its 15th consecutive game, narrowly defeating Utah Valley 84-82 on Saturday.The Aggies trailed by a point late in the game when Rice got an assist from Evan Gilyard and drained the 3-pointer with a second to play for the winning margin.Ivan Aurrecoechea had 18 points for New Mexico State (21-6, 12-0 Western Athletic Conference). Isaiah White
  
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• Derrick Jones Jr., Bam Adebayo and Buddy Hield winners at epic All-Star Saturday

  16-02-2020 06:25
  
  Chicago • Aaron Gordon lost another epic dunk contest. And it was by a couple of inches — namely, the top of Tacko Fall’s head.Derrick Jones Jr. finally got his long-awaited dunk contest title as an exclamation point to an scintillating All-Star Saturday Night, both for him and the Miami Heat. Jones and Gordon needed a dunk-off to decide a winner, Jones prevailing 48-47 in the one that determined who left with the trophy.Miami’s Bam Adebayo won the skills title as well, an
  
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• BYU beats San Diego 72-71 on alley-oop from Haws to Childs in final minute

  16-02-2020 06:22
  
  San Diego • There’s something about the Jenny Craig Pavilion – a place BYU has historically struggled playing at. And Saturday was no different.But luckily for the Cougars, they were able to keep fighting the whole game and held on to beat the Toreros 72-71.The win extends BYU’s win streak to six, improving the Cougars to 21-7 and 10-3 in West Coast Conference play.Since joining the WCC, BYU had previously gone 4-4 at USD, with losses in 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2018.The Torer
  
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• Daryl James: Don’t trade property rights for trails

  16-02-2020 06:00
  
  Ogden resident Dianne Egbert posted a warning sign in her yard when city planners came for her property: “Hands off my home.” She has a similar message for state lawmakers looking at dueling bills on eminent domain.Egbert understands that property seizure is sometimes necessary, but she also knows that government officials who talk about public interest often have ulterior motives.“They’re very sneaky,” she says. “They do not always have good intentions.&rdquo
  
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• [Deseret News] - From G League to All-Star, Rudy Gobert says Donovan Mitchell and Quin Snyder saved his career

  16-02-2020 05:24 via sportspyder.com
  
  It is special for Rudy Gobert to be here. It is special for him to be here, representing the Utah Jazz. It is special for him to be sitting next to his teammate Donovan Mitchell on the eve of their All-Star debuts.
  
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• Record day for Lone Peak’s Jordan Tiffany at 6A swimming championships

  16-02-2020 04:44
  
  Looking strictly at the books, Lone Peak’s Jordan Tiffany knew his qualifying time in the 100-yard butterfly wasn’t really very close to the state record. In fact, at the Class 6A swimming championships, it was almost three seconds off — making it a longshot to break under normal circumstances.But, you see, that state record was set by none other than Tiffany himself only a year ago.So when the Tennessee Volunteers-bound swimmer got on the block at the BYU pool on Saturday, he
  
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• [Forbes] - Adam Silver Optimistic But The NBA Still Has A Problem In China

  16-02-2020 04:44 via sportspyder.com
  
  The lost revenue from from October's Daryl Morey tweet doesn't look devastating for the NBA. Yet. But that could change. Looking at how a variety of players -- Chinese TV, the Rockets' owner, the decisions of President Trump, even the death of Kobe...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Defense in the All-Star Game? Donovan Mitchell wants someone to try and dunk on Rudy Gobert, ‘because it’s not gonna happen’

  16-02-2020 03:46 via sportspyder.com
  
  Chicago • Given that NBA All-Star Games are typically so defense-averse that any possession which does not culminate in a dunk can be directly attributed to either laze or 3-point hubris, it’s fair to wonder exactly what role two-time reigning...
  
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• Defense in the All-Star Game? Donovan Mitchell wants someone to try and dunk on Rudy Gobert, ‘because it’s not gonna happen’

  16-02-2020 03:28
  
  Chicago • Given that NBA All-Star Games are typically so defense-averse that any possession which does not culminate in a dunk can be directly attributed to either laze or 3-point hubris, it’s fair to wonder exactly what role two-time reigning Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert might play in Sunday’s iteration.Count Donovan Mitchell — his teammate on both the Utah Jazz and Team Giannis — among those who don’t foresee the big man willingly stepping aside t
  
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• ‘It’s a nightmare’: Brittany Bowe’s funk continues as Americans still looking for a medal at speed skating world championships

  16-02-2020 03:02
  
  Kearns • The International Skating Union’s Single Distance World Championships are recognized as the most significant long-track speed skating event in any non-Olympic year. Therefore most, if not all, the athletes competing inside the Utah Olympic Oval this weekend have scheduled their training so this is when they’ll be at their very fastest.Something in that scheduling went awry for Brittany Bowe.Prior to last week, the Salt Lake City resident hadn’t lost at 1,000 meter
  
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• K.C. Hildreth: Climate change is more than a moral imperative

  16-02-2020 02:30
  
  A few weeks ago, the chief executive of BlackRock, a $7 trillion investment fund, announced that they would make investment decisions with “environmental sustainability” as a core goal. This announcement follows on the heels of a letter, signed in December of last year by 631 investors representing $37 trillion dollars in assets, calling on governments to step up their efforts against climate change and commit to put their money behind their words.Why are these fund managers, with th
  
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• RSL draws with Sporting Kansas City in first preseason game

  16-02-2020 02:27
  
  Real Salt Lake’s first foray into Major League Soccer competition this preseason ended in a scoreless draw Saturday against Sporting Kansas City in Tucson, Ariz.RSL’s two best chances of the game came in the second half after the 70th minute. Defender Justen Glad’s headed attempt was saved, and forward Tate Schmitt’s shot three minutes later was blocked.Sporting Kansas City’s Johnny Russell had a free kick from about 20 yards in the 83rd minute that he tried to chip
  
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• [Deseret News] - Will Rudy Gobert shoot a 3 in the All-Star Game? What to expect

  16-02-2020 02:21 via sportspyder.com
  
  Dribble, crossover, behind the back, pull up, 3. Those were the actions of Jazz big man Rudy Gobert on Saturday afternoon.
  
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• No. 3 Utah gymnasts beat Oregon State. But this is why it felt like a loss.

  16-02-2020 00:56
  
  As expected, Utah’s third-ranked gymnastics team beat No. 21 Oregon State on Saturday, with a score of 197.1-196.275 in front of 15,558 attendees at the Huntsman Center.What the Utes didn’t expect was for the win to feel like a loss.The Utes had a season-best effort on vault and their second-best effort on beam, but a disappointing effort on floor left the Utes frustrated.Utah had two falls and scored a season low 48.7 on the final event. Losing the meet wasn’t a real possibili
  
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• Utah March for Our Lives holds rally for gun violence prevention bills

  16-02-2020 00:32
  
  Members of the Utah March for Our Lives chapter rallied on Capitol Hill on Saturday, calling for action on a number of gun violence prevention bills that, three weeks into the legislative session, have yet to receive public debate.The rally, which featured a number of student speakers, took place the day after the two-year anniversary of a school shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., that set off cries for gun reform around the nation and sparked the formation of local yout
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell make their All-Star debuts in the shadow of another famous Utah duo

  16-02-2020 00:11
  
  Chicago • Whenever the Utah Jazz bring in a draft prospect, or add a player through free agency or a trade, the guy is inevitably asked by reporters what he knew about the organization.And the answer is almost always just as inevitable: Stockton and Malone.After Sunday’s All-Star Game, though, Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert may be able to create a wider variety of responses.That the team’s present focal points would each get his first career All-Star nod in the same season was
  
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• Pete Buttigieg’s dash for cash: 10 fundraisers in two weeks, including a stop in Utah

  16-02-2020 00:06
  
  In the compressed and crucial weeks between the New Hampshire primary and Super Tuesday, Pete Buttigieg is moving aggressively to replenish his campaign coffers with an ambitious schedule of 10 fundraisers held across six states in a 14-day period.The money chase for Buttigieg began in Indianapolis on Thursday at the 16,000-square-foot home of a supporter as donors noshed on egg salad and cucumber sandwiches — “What a thrill to be back home again in Indiana,” Buttigieg said &md
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz’s Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell make their All-Star debuts in the shadow of another famous Utah duo

  16-02-2020 00:02 via sportspyder.com
  
  Chicago • Whenever the Utah Jazz bring in a draft prospect, or add a player through free agency or a trade, the guy is inevitably asked by reporters what he knew about the organization.
  
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