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• [Oregon Live] - Robert Gobert pledges more than $500,000 to coronavirus relief, NBA arena workers - oregonlive.com

  14-03-2020 23:32 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz center and first NBA player to test positive for coronavirus is support workers and social services relief in Utah, Oklahoma City and France.
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Coronavirus: Rudy Gobert donates $500,000 to part-time worker fund, COVID-19 relief services - CBSSports.com

  14-03-2020 22:58 via sportspyder.com
  
  Gobert was the first NBA player to test positive for coronavirus
  
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• A note from the editor: During uncertain times, The Salt Lake Tribune is here for you

  14-03-2020 22:55
  
  Dear readers,We find ourselves in uncharted and unsettling territory.The spread of the coronavirus is moving rapidly and stories about how to prevent infection, when to get tested, restrictions on public events and travel, policies from elected officials and much more are dominating news coverage.During crises like these, the role and responsibility of journalists take on a heightened importance and at The Salt Lake Tribune, we take our ethical duties very seriously. We are working hard to deliv
  
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• Ogden police arrest teenager in fatal shooting of 16-year-old

  14-03-2020 22:49
  
  Police have arrested a 17-year-old in connection with the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old early Saturday at an Ogden home.The shooting occurred just before 6 a.m. in the 300 block of 9th Street, according to a news release from Ogden police. When officers arrived, they found a 16-year-old boy who had been shot. He died at the scene.Officers later arrested the 17-year-old, booking him into Weber Valley Detention Center on suspicion of murder and possession of a firearm by a restricted person.Poli
  
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• [USA Today] - Utah's Rudy Gobert, first NBA player with positive coronavirus test, pledges more than $500,000 for arena employees, others

  14-03-2020 22:40 via sportspyder.com
  
  Jazz center Rudy Gobert, first NBA player to test positive for coronavirus, to give more than $500,000 for arena employee fund, other relief services.
  
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• [Uproxx] - Rudy Gobert Will Donate $500,000 For Arena Workers And Relief Efforts In France, OKC, And Utah

  14-03-2020 22:35 via sportspyder.com
  
  Rudy Gobert is making a sizable donation in support of those whose lives have been impacted by coronavirus in recent days and weeks.
  
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• [NBA] - Utah Jazz All-Star Donovan Mitchell updates fans on his COVID-19 diagnosis

  14-03-2020 22:33 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz All-Star Donovan Mitchell is in isolation but says he feels fine after testing positive for the Coronavirus this week.Mitchell updated basketball fans on his status in an Instagram video
  
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• [Uproxx: Dime Magazine] - Rudy Gobert Will Donate $500,000 For Arena Workers And Relief Efforts In France, OKC, And Utah

  14-03-2020 22:28 via sportspyder.com
  
  Rudy Gobert is making a sizable donation in support of those whose lives have been impacted by coronavirus in recent days and weeks.
  
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• [ESPN] - Gobert donates $500K to worker fund, virus relief

  14-03-2020 22:17 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah's Rudy Gobert, the first NBA player to test positive for the coronavirus, is donating $500,000 to support the employee relief fund at Vivint Smart Home Arena and social services relief in Utah, Oklahoma City and within the French health care...
  
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• [Forbes] - With The NBA Suspended, It’s Time For The Kroenkes To Commit To Financially Supporting Their Employees

  14-03-2020 22:09 via sportspyder.com
  
  Many NBA owners and teams have committed financially support for their employees who are losing work. Stan and Josh Kroenke and the Denver Nuggets have not yet done so, and it's time for them to change that.
  
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• [CBC Sports] - Rudy Gobert donating $500K to help with COVID-19 relief

  14-03-2020 22:09 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz forward Rudy Gobert has donated $500,000 to support health services in the U.S. and France and employees of the team impacted by the COVID-19.
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Rudy Gobert donates $500,000 to Utah arena workers, OKC families and French Healthcare System

  14-03-2020 22:04 via sportspyder.com
  
  The donation is the "first of many steps" the big man will take in using his visibility in this health crisis for good.
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Utah women remembered. And forgotten.

  14-03-2020 22:00
  
  Recent weeks have seen much note and celebration of the fact that, 150 years ago this Valentine’s Day, a young Utah woman was the first female in the United States to cast a vote under an equal suffrage law.Recent days have left us with the question of why they bothered.Much time and destructive energy was expended over the just-ended session of the Utah Legislature on measures that seek to devalue women and reject the notion that they are equal before the law. It was enough that all the t
  
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• [USA Today: For The Win] - Rudy Gobert to donate more than $500,000 to support arena workers, fund coronavirus relief

  14-03-2020 21:57 via sportspyder.com
  
  Rudy Gobert is donating more than $500,000 to fund coronavirus relief and pay arena workers’ salaries.
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - NBA ref Courtney Kirkland tests negative for coronavirus after working Jazz game

  14-03-2020 21:57 via sportspyder.com
  
  NBA referee Courtney Kirkland was tested for the coronavirus after working the Utah Jazz-Toronto Raptors game on Monday. Per Eric Woodyard of ESPN, Kirkland tested negative: NBA referee Courtney Kirkland’s #coronavirus results came back negative and...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert donates $500K in wake of COVID-19 diagnosis

  14-03-2020 21:56 via sportspyder.com
  
  Rudy Gobert is donating over $500K in the wake of his positive test for the novel coronavirus, the Jazz announced Saturday.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Eric Walden: Rudy Gobert expressed ‘fear, anxiety, and embarrassment,’ from his coronavirus quarantine. I can relate.

  14-03-2020 21:56 via sportspyder.com
  
  It’s certainly quite the understatement to say it’s been a weird few days, isn’t it?
  
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• [KSL] - Donovan Mitchell's father and the last team to play the Utah Jazz test negative for coronavirus | KSL.com

  14-03-2020 21:56 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Toronto Raptors were the last team to play the Utah Jazz before Jazz stars Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell both tested positive for COVID-19.
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Rudy Gobert donating $500,000 to help arena workers, Utah COVID-19 services

  14-03-2020 21:49 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah's Rudy Gobert is pateint zero for the coronavirus in the NBA, and he is now donating $500,000 to help arena workers and families impacted by the virus.
  
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• [Oregon Live] - The NBA suspending play and its impact on the Portland Trail Blazers: What we know - oregonlive.com

  14-03-2020 21:48 via sportspyder.com
  
  The NBA took the extradorinaiy step to suspend its season on Wednesday night after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus. When will the NBA resume play? What will players do in the interim? Will the season pick up where it...
  
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• Eric Walden: Rudy Gobert expressed ‘fear, anxiety, and embarrassment,’ from his coronavirus quarantine. I can relate.

  14-03-2020 21:46
  
  It’s certainly quite the understatement to say it’s been a weird few days, isn’t it?And it’s simultaneously bizarre and yet wholly appropriate that the shutdown of sports leagues worldwide — you know, those diversions providing moments of respite for many, and the basis of employment for me — has been the least of it. If I didn’t have a firm grasp of the seriousness of the situation a week ago, as I suspect many of us didn’t, I certainly do now.Sim
  
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• [Sports Illustrated] - Rudy Gobert pledges $500K to arena employees, coronavirus efforts - Sports Illustrated

  14-03-2020 21:45 via sportspyder.com
  
  Gobert tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday.
  
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• [Larry Brown Sports] - Rudy Gobert makes huge donation for coronavirus relief

  14-03-2020 21:43 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert has received heavy criticism for the circumstances that led to his positive coronavirus test earlier this week, but now he's putting his money where his mouth is. The Jazz announced Saturday that Gobert is donating $500,00
  
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• [Deseret News] - Rudy Gobert pledges $500,000 to arena workers, coronavirus related services

  14-03-2020 21:36 via sportspyder.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — Rudy Gobert is following suit with other NBA stars by pledging money to arena employees and relief efforts amid the coronavirus pandemic. In a press release issued Saturday, the...
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Rudy Gobert donates $500K for arena employees and relief in Utah, OKC, France

  14-03-2020 21:30 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz announced on Saturday that All-Star center Rudy Gobert is donating more than $500,000 to support both the employee relief fund at Vivint Smart Home Arena and COVID-related social services relief in Utah, Oklahoma City and within the...
  
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• Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert donates $500K in wake of COVID-19 diagnosis

  14-03-2020 21:28
  
  Rudy Gobert is donating over $500K in the wake of his positive test for the novel coronavirus, the Jazz announced Saturday.A donation of $200,000 will go to part-time Vivint Smart Home Arena employees who will be impacted by the arena’s cancelation of all events there through the end of April. Donations of $100K each will go to families impacted by COVID-19 in the states of Utah and Oklahoma, the latter where Gobert was diagnosed with the virus. Another 100K euros will be donated to famili
  
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• Rudy Gobert donates $500,000

  14-03-2020 21:25
  
  Andy Larsen: The Jazz announce that Rudy Gobert is donating $500K to part-time arena employees, as well as COVID-19 services in Utah, Oklahoma, and France.
  
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• [The Score] - Gobert contributes over $500K to COVID-19 relief, Jazz arena staff

  14-03-2020 21:20 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert is pledging more than $500,000 for COVID-19 relief services in Utah, Oklahoma City, and France and to aid the Jazz's part-time arena staff during the NBA's ongoing season suspension, the team announced.More to come.
  
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• [Sportsnaut] - Jazz star Rudy Gobert donating more than $500,000 to help fight against COVID-19

  14-03-2020 21:19 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz star big man Rudy Gobert, who has tested positive for coronavirus, has donated $500,000 to help fight against COVID-19. More here.
  
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• Pac-12 cancels all spring sports through end of academic year; team activities on hold until March 29

  14-03-2020 21:18
  
  The Pac-12 announced on Saturday afternoon that all sports for the remainder of the academic year have been canceled in the face of Coronavirus fears. This echoes a Thursday announcement from the league, canceling the remainder of the men’s basketball conference tournament, plus all sports competitions and championships until further notice. The ‘until further notice’ part was essentially an indefinite suspension, not a full cancelation. The NCAA on Thursday canceled the NCAA T
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - Rudy Gobert Donates $500k to Support Those Impacted by Coronavirus Pandemic

  14-03-2020 21:17 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert is donating a total of $500,000 to assist various groups affected in the United States and France by the coronavirus pandemic, according to Tim Bontemps ...
  
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• [NBA] - Rudy Gobert contributes $500,000 to part-time employees, COVID-related services

  14-03-2020 21:11 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz announced today that Rudy Gobert is donating more than $500,000 to support both the employee relief fund at Vivint Smart Home Arena and COVID-related social services relief in Utah,
  
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• A familiar face is now coaching the BYU football running backs. Will he get the permanent job?

  14-03-2020 20:51
  
  Provo • When BYU announced they would be suspending all athletic events, it didn’t just affect the sports that were currently in season. It also halted spring football practice, which was scheduled to continue through March 28.On Friday, the NFL announced they would also be canceling all Pro Days and in-person pre-Draft visits, and the NCAA instituted a dead period — suspending in-person recruiting through April 15.With a limit to what the administration and coaches can do, it c
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Donovan Mitchell delivers message to fans: ‘I feel fine’

  14-03-2020 20:35 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz shooting guard Donovan Mitchell says he’s feeling good despite testing positive for the coronavirus. Mitchell delivered a message to Jazz and NBA fans as a whole on Saturday. He and teammate Rudy Gobert are the only players in the league...
  
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• [Deseret News] - Donovan Mitchell gives update on condition in video message

  14-03-2020 20:18 via sportspyder.com
  
  A few days after he and teammate Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19, Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell made a video message to give an update on how he’s doing that was posted on the NBA’s...
  
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• White House steps up safeguards as Trump awaits test results

  14-03-2020 20:13
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here.Washington • After days of resistance, President Donald Trump said Saturday that he was tested for the coronavirus and is awaiting his results as the White House stepped up precautions around him following his repeated direct and indirect exposures to COVID-19.Trump also told reporters at a White House brie
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Coronavirus: Donovan Mitchell speaks out for first time since testing positive for COVID-19 - CBSSports.com

  14-03-2020 20:09 via sportspyder.com
  
  Mitchell was the only other member of the Jazz to test positive, aside from Gobert
  
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• [ESPN] - Jazz's Mitchell feeling 'fine' during virus recovery

  14-03-2020 20:02 via sportspyder.com
  
  Jazz star Donovan Mitchell, who tested positive for the coronavirus earlier this week, said he's feeling 'fine' in a video the NBA posted to its Twitter account on Saturday.
  
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• [The Spun] - Video: Donovan Mitchell Posts Encouraging Coronavirus Update

  14-03-2020 19:59 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell - who tested positive for Coronavirus earlier this week - posted an encouraging update on Saturday.
  
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• [USA Today] - Utah Jazz's Donovan Mitchell in video update from coronavirus quarantine: 'I feel fine'

  14-03-2020 19:53 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell thanked fans for their support and added he is feeling "fine" while in isolation after his positive coronavirus test.
  
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• [Larry Brown Sports] - Donovan Mitchell shares update after positive coronavirus test

  14-03-2020 19:50 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell shared an encouraging update as he isolates himself after his positive test for the coronavirus. In a video, Mitchell said Saturday he is feeling good and taking all the precautions he has been told to take, and...
  
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• [12up] - The NBA Somehow Being Given 58 Coronavirus Tests When They're Scarce to the Public is a Joke

  14-03-2020 19:41 via sportspyder.com
  
  The NBA somehow being given 58 coronavirus tests for the Utah Jazz when they're scarce to the public is inexplicable.
  
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• [Deadspin] - When The NBA Returns, How Will The League And Teammates Deal With Rudy Gobert?

  14-03-2020 19:33 via sportspyder.com
  
  The internet lasts forever.
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - Donovan Mitchell Releases Video, Says He's 'Fine' After Coronavirus Diagnosis

  14-03-2020 19:28 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell provided an update on his status Saturday after he was diagnosed with the coronavirus this week...
  
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• Native American judge blazes trail in federal courts

  14-03-2020 19:00
  
  There are 870 federal judges in the United States. Two are Native American: one in Arizona, and one in the Eastern District Court of Oklahoma. No American Indians or Alaska Natives serve on any of the nation's federal appeals courts. Or the U.S. Supreme Court.That works out to 0.229%, or less than one-quarter of 1%.But even that number requires an asterisk because one of the judges is Frank H. Seay, Cherokee, who took senior status in 2003 and has been inactive for many years, Indian Country Tod
  
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• John Zaccheo and Kael Weston: Much work still to be done as ACA turns 10

  14-03-2020 19:00
  
  Later this month will mark an important date. March 23 will be 10 years since the Affordable Care Act became law.While criticized by some as Obamacare, the legislation remains an example of what we should expect from our government: a public policy focused on the public good. Arguably no area is more important right now for tens of millions of Americans than improving access to and the quality of health care for our families.Public education has long enjoyed consensus as a worthwhile and wise pu
  
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• LDS Church closes its downtown Salt Lake City restaurants and more temples worldwide

  14-03-2020 18:53
  
  Editor’s note • The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here.The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Saturday added its Joseph Memorial Building, along with the restaurants inside it, and the nearby Lion House eatery to its list of closed visitor attractions in downtown Salt Lake City.On Friday, as the coronavirus pandemic continued to alter daily life in
  
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• U.S. travel ban extends to UK, Ireland; Trump eyes U.S. limits

  14-03-2020 18:48
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump announced Saturday that the United States will broaden its European travel ban, adding the United Kingdom and Ireland to its list, and was considering imposing restrictions on travel within the U.S. to areas hit hard by the coronavirus spread.Under the restrictions on European travel, American citizens, green card holders and others are still allowed to return home to the U.S., but will be funneled to 13 airports and be subjected to health screenings and
  
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• Trump takes virus test, awaiting results

  14-03-2020 18:43
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here.Washington • After days of resistance, President Donald Trump said Saturday that he was tested for the coronavirus as the White House stepped up precautions after his direct and indirect exposures to COVID-19.Trump also told reporters at a White House briefing that he had his temperature taken before steppi
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - NHL announcer quarantined after staying in Rudy Gobert’s hotel room

  14-03-2020 18:43 via sportspyder.com
  
  Carolina Hurricanes announcer John Forslund has self-quarantined himself after staying in the same hotel room as Utah Jazz Rudy Gobert. Forslund occupied the same room as Gobert about 30 hours after the Jazz center stayed in the room in Detroit,...
  
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