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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz fans, how are you holding up?

  21-03-2020 23:46 via sportspyder.com
  
  So... this is weird...
  
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• [Deseret News] - Joe and Renae Ingles’ new podcast promises to show who the Utah Jazz forward really is

  21-03-2020 23:41 via sportspyder.com
  
  If you’re a Jazz fan looking for some new content and a way to stay connected to the team, there’s a new podcast that’s right up your alley.
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Can time heal all wounds for the Utah Jazz?

  21-03-2020 22:53 via sportspyder.com
  
  Can the Jazz get back to winning basketball?
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - NBPA exec Michele Roberts hasn’t heard from players who are upset with Rudy Gobert

  21-03-2020 22:50 via sportspyder.com
  
  Executive Director of the National Basketball Players Association Michele Roberts hasn’t heard from players who are upset with Utah Jazz starting center Rudy Gobert. Gobert was the first NBA player to test positive for COVID-19. The big man jokingly...
  
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• [12up] - Ben Simmons Explains Why He Thinks Anthony Davis Plays Better Defense Than Rudy Gobert

  21-03-2020 22:48 via sportspyder.com
  
  Philadelphia 76ers star Ben Simmons does not think that Rudy Gobert is a better defender than Anthony Davis.
  
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• Peter Reichard: How will the coronavirus change us?

  21-03-2020 22:25
  
  The reactions to coronavirus range from prudence to panic, and there’s reasonable debate about which reaction fits where. But regardless of your view, and leaving aside the economic issues, the virus will probably change the way we live and operate.To begin with, the crisis is exposing businesses, government agencies and vast swaths of the population to new ways of working. Utah Foundation, with support from UCAIR, has undertaken a study of telecommuting in 2020. The sudden shift to teleco
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, March 21: Utah courts push back all jury trials; more camping, river trip closures at national parks

  21-03-2020 22:17
  
  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. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Saturday, March 21. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]3:15 p.m.: More campground and river trip closures at Utah’s nation
  
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• State reports 24 new confirmed cases of coronavirus in Utah, bringing total to 136

  21-03-2020 22:07
  
  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 number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Utah jumped to 136 on Saturday after 24 more people tested positive for the disease.State data shows nearly 440 people were tested for the virus Friday as hospitals announced new ways of seeing more patients.The state reports that 2,560 Utah patients have been tested
  
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• Tribune Editorial: The money must flow

  21-03-2020 22:00
  
  There is nothing more important than our health. But the economy is pretty important, too, especially as it affects our health.The global COVID-19 virus pandemic is playing havoc with both.There is no cure, yet, for the physical ills caused by the virus. But there is something that can be done to save — or, at least, preserve — the economy. And that’s to pump money, lots and lots of money, into circulation.It needs to be done soon, with a minimum of politics or bureaucracy gett
  
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• If nothing else, Utah State’s basketball season showed the Aggies aren’t going away anytime soon

  21-03-2020 21:51
  
  Abel Porter has been watching Utah State men’s basketball games and reliving the good, bad and ugly moments from the 2019-20 season. Like the 55-point win over Weber State early in the year. Or the game against St. Mary’s, where the Aggies squandered a late lead for their first loss of the season.Porter has been watching not only to pass the time due to sports being postponed or canceled throughout the country due to the coronavirus, but also to navigate his emotional and mental stat
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, March 21: Utah courts postpone all jury trials until at least June 1

  21-03-2020 21:49
  
  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. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Saturday, March 21. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]2:10 p.m.: Utah Courts postpone all jury trialsAll Utah jury trials are o
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: John Stockton and the ‘short shorts’ saga

  21-03-2020 21:24 via sportspyder.com
  
  John Stockton did more than enough during his 19-year career with the Utah Jazz to merit his Hall of Fame induction, but nothing will be as memorable as th...
  
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• University of Utah experts advise caution over drugs hyped as possible coronavirus treatments

  21-03-2020 21:11
  
  University of Utah experts are expressing concern about the hype surrounding two medications that President Donald Trump and state officials have held up as potential treatments for the coronavirus.There have been no clinical trials demonstrating that the drugs, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, are effective in combatting the disease, notes David Jonah Grunwald, a professor of human genetics at the U. And he argued it’s potentially dangerous to spread information that COVID-19 patients
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, March 21: Utah coronavirus cases climb to 136, up from 112

  21-03-2020 21:11
  
  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. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Saturday, March 21. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]2:10 p.m.: Utah Courts postpone all jury trialsAll Utah jury trials are o
  
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• As coronavirus grows, so do questions: Will the Tokyo Olympics open?

  21-03-2020 20:04
  
  Tokyo • The Olympic flame has arrived in Japan from Greece. Next comes the torch relay around the country, which is scheduled to start Thursday in northern Japan. Organizers have asked crowds to be restrained, but have been imprecise about what that means. Greek officials last week stopped a relay on the second day and it did not resume because of crowd size.In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, Japanese organizers and IOC President Thomas Bach say that the games will open July 24 at the
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, March 21: Utah coronavirus cases climb to 136, up from 112 on Friday

  21-03-2020 19:52
  
  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. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Saturday, March 21. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]12:48 p.m.: State health department reports 136 confirmed COVID-19 cases
  
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• Italy virus cases soar again; NY eyes temporary hospitals

  21-03-2020 19:41
  
  The coronavirus pandemic took an increasingly bleak toll Saturday in the U.S. and Europe, producing staggering caseloads in New York and Italy and setting off a desperate scramble to set up thousands of additional hospital beds at convention centers and college campuses.Italy, at the heart of western Europe's rampaging outbreak, announced 793 new deaths and 6,557 new cases. More than 60 percent of the latest deaths occurred in the northern region of Lombardy, where hospitals have been reeling, i
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Eric Walden: NBA teams getting cuts in line for COVID-19 testing is not a good look

  21-03-2020 19:00 via sportspyder.com
  
  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.
  
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• Eric Walden: NBA teams getting cuts in line for COVID-19 testing is not a good look

  21-03-2020 18:57
  
  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.Rudy Gobert. Donovan Mitchell. Christian Wood. Kevin Durant. Marcus Smart. Three other unnamed Nets. Two Lakers. One member of the Nuggets organization. Three from the 76ers. As of Saturday morning, those 14 individuals represented the comprehensive list of NBA personnel known to have tested positive for COVID-1
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - 5 former Utah Jazz players we’d love to see in a BIG3 quarantine

  21-03-2020 18:51 via sportspyder.com
  
  The BIG3 league is preparing a reality-TV style tournament while under quarantine. These five former Utah Jazz players would add some extra excitement. It'...
  
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• 5 former Utah Jazz players we’d love to see in a BIG3 quarantine

  21-03-2020 18:37
  
  The BIG3 league is preparing a reality-TV style tournament while under quarantine. These five former Utah Jazz players would add some extra excitement. It’s been a little over a week without Utah Jazz basketball, or any basketball in general. The NBA suspended the 2019-20 season. The NCAA Tournament was cancelled, as was the G-League season. […]
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, March 21: Salt Lake City pulling back on parking tickets; breakdown of senior shopping hours

  21-03-2020 18:12
  
  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. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Saturday, March 21. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]11:15 a.m.: Breakdown of senior shopping hoursGrocery stores across the s
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, March 21: With people in quarantine in mind, Salt Lake City pulling back on parking tickets

  21-03-2020 16:55
  
  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. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Saturday, March 21. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]9:45 a.m.: SLC will limit parking enforcementSalt Lake City won’t b
  
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• Curfews and lockdowns multiply as virus advances rapidly

  21-03-2020 16:50
  
  Berlin • Streets, squares and highways were deserted in large parts of the world Saturday as curfews and lockdowns multiplied in the face of a rapidly advancing virus that is severely straining many health systems.Three American states with a combined population of 70 million are moving to restrict residents to their homes to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. California started Friday, and New York and Illinois were to follow this weekend. Connecticut and Oregon were preparing to d
  
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• Crossover country superstar Kenny Rogers dies at 81

  21-03-2020 16:47
  
  Nashville, Tenn. • Kenny Rogers, the smooth, Grammy-winning balladeer who spanned jazz, folk, country and pop with such hits as “Lucille,” “Lady” and “Islands in the Stream” and embraced his persona as “The Gambler” on records and on TV, died Friday night. He was 81.He died at home in Sandy Springs, Georgia, representative Keith Hagan told The Associated Press. He was under hospice care and died of natural causes, Hagan said.The Houston-born p
  
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• Utah basketball opened 2019-20 optimistically, and optimism remains after up-and-down youthful season

  21-03-2020 16:19
  
  The expectations for any University of Utah men’s basketball are readily available in the rafters of the Huntsman Center.Up above one baseline, there are six banners. One represents the program’s lone NCAA Tournament crown in 1944, another represents the 1947 NIT championship. The other four showcase three Final Fours, two Elite Eights and 11 trips to the Sweet 16.No mention of conference titles, no mention of conference tournament titles, no mentions of trips to the NCAA Tournament
  
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• Vikram Ravi: Coronavirus exposes Utah’s digital divide

  21-03-2020 16:00
  
  As Utahns are preparing and embracing social distancing, self-quarantines and potential widespread lockdowns, many transitions have involved technology, working from home, virtual medical consultations, taking online classes and using social media for critical updates.What has not yet been answered is, what will Utah residents without the internet do?One in seven Utah households does not have an internet subscription. These individuals are increasingly vulnerable without the digital access neede
  
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• Gordon Monson: The Utah Jazz, RSL, Utah, BYU, Utah State, MLB and the NFL will play games again. They will. They will.

  21-03-2020 16:00
  
  Sports leagues, including the NBA, MLB, MLS and even the NFL and college football, are all looking for ways to prepare to start or restart their seasons, their preparations for seasons, once the effects of the coronavirus are safely minimized. Should some of those alterations be permanent?It makes you wonder, once the nasty beast is beaten, or at least contained.That last part will happen, right? It will. It will. Say it with me, it will.And sports will find ways to work again from there.They wi
  
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• Navajo Nation, southeast Utah health officials urge tourists to stay home

  21-03-2020 15:56
  
  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. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.Bluff • Confirmed coronavirus cases on the rural Navajo Nation rose to 14 on Thursday night as health care officials in southeast Utah brace for the arrival of the virus.The majority of the cases were clustered on the northern
  
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• Utah couples, venues grapple with how to plan weddings during coronavirus

  21-03-2020 15:55
  
  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.People keep telling Kaitlyn Gilley and her fiance that this will be a funny story to tell their grandchildren someday. But right now, having to postpone their upcoming wedding because of the coronavirus hasn’t felt that fun, Gilley said.“The repercussions have reached so far and so close to home,&rdq
  
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• Coronavirus has upended economic life in Utah. Here’s a guide to getting help.

  21-03-2020 15:55
  
  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.If you thought the 2008 Great Recession came on suddenly, that was a slow walk compared to the coronavirus’ overnight body blow to Utah’s economy.“This is an immediate slam dunk,” said Mark Knold, chief economist at the state Department of Workforce Service, an agency now at the center of
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Grading Jarrell Brantley’s promising G-League season

  21-03-2020 15:05 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz rookie forward Jarrell Brantley displayed a superior skill set in the G-League, often times looking like a legitimate NBA role player. Players, f...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Grading Jarrell Brantley’s promising G-League season

  21-03-2020 15:00
  
  Utah Jazz rookie forward Jarrell Brantley displayed a superior skill set in the G-League, often times looking like a legitimate NBA role player. Players, fans and executives around the league are clinging to the little optimism that remains, hoping that the 2019-20 NBA season resumes. They don’t want to see the same outcome that saw […]
  Utah Jazz: Grading Jarrell Brantley’s promising G-League season - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and
  
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• Runnin’ Utes opened 2019-20 optimistically, and optimism remains after up-and-down youthful season

  21-03-2020 14:44
  
  The expectations for any University of Utah men’s basketball are readily available in the rafters of the Huntsman Center.Up above one baseline, there are six banners. One represents the program’s lone NCAA Tournament crown in 1944, another represents the 1947 NIT championship. The other four showcase three Final Fours, two Elite Eights and 11 trips to the Sweet 16.No mention of conference titles, no mention of conference tournament titles, no mentions of trips to the NCAA Tournament
  
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• Jeffrey S. Nielsen: Use this moment to rethink our economic system

  21-03-2020 14:00
  
  The stoic philosophers taught that everything that happens has two handles — an obstacle handle and an opportunity handle. Meaning we choose how to respond to life’s challenges as either an obstacle to our wellbeing or as an opportunity for improvement.The situation we are now in with the coronavirus is such a moment. We see how fast government and business can move when faced with an existential threat. So, let’s use this moment as an opportunity to rethink the social and econ
  
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• Meet Joni, Lumen and Rio, Solitude’s avalanche search-and-rescue dogs

  21-03-2020 13:00
  
  If you stopped by for a cold one at Thirsty Squirrel, Honeycomb Grill, St. Bernard’s or Argenta Pub during a ski day at Solitude Mountain Resort this season, you’ve no doubt seen the cute pups on the Moab Brewery tap handles.Rio, Lumen and Joni are working girls — avalanche dogs at Solitude Mountain Resort — who, along with their handlers, love to spend their apres-ski time hanging out after a day of work at the Thirsty Squirrel, where they are familiar faces to the regul
  
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• Letter: Take life lessons from our dogs

  21-03-2020 13:00
  
  Sitting on my couch, pondering what to do when my calendar is blank, I look down at my dog sleeping in the morning sun.Over 60, fortunately retired, and housebound by coronavirus, I get it. I have become my dog.Uncurl from bed, have breakfast. Go for a walk. Come home and find a comfortable place to sit. Read for a while. Grow restless, circle through the halls, stop for a drink of water, shift to a different chair. Seek out a family member for a hug.At last it’s time for lunch. So good! T
  
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• Letter: Stop U.S. interventionism

  21-03-2020 13:00
  
  Democratic and Republican foreign policy has led the United States down the path of world policing, which has pathetically taken advantage of our service men and women. The only stable and moral solution is to abandon interventionist and imperialist policies that unnecessarily put our armed forces at increased risk. If we truly care about the men and women in the armed forces, then we must elect a party that takes the safety of our service members seriously. With the general election approaching
  
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• Letter: Not a good look for the president

  21-03-2020 13:00
  
  Every day, heroic health care workers show up on the front lines, risking their lives, to take care of the sick, while the lunatic in the Oval Office takes to the airwaves to tell the American people, "No, I am not responsible," for any of this. Not a good look.It didn't need to be like this. If we had a leader in the White House instead of the equivalent of a slow third grader, we'd have been better equipped to deal with the coronavirus. Donald Trump's criminal negligence, cruelty and ignorance
  
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• Letter: Help immunocompromised people by social distancing

  21-03-2020 13:00
  
  On Nov. 6, my daughter Zoe was born at 23 weeks and two days. She weighed 1 pound, 6 ounces. She spent 106 long and hard days in the NICU at Utah Valley Hospital. On Feb. 20, she finally got to come home. Not long after that, concerns about COVID-19 began. As you can imagine, the timing felt cruel and hard. Zoe is immunocompromised, on oxygen, and very much at risk for all illnesses, including COVID-19.I’m asking, begging and pleading with all of you, as you begin to make adjustments in yo
  
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• Johnny Townsend: The LDS Church should create solar and wind farms

  21-03-2020 13:00
  
  If there’s one thing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is good at, it’s acquiring real estate.Critics find this near obsession less than Christlike, but church leaders can transform what’s currently an unflattering perception into both a financial and PR win. The church can convert some of its agricultural farms and cattle ranches to solar and wind farms to lessen the impact of the climate crisis. By doing so, the church will also create more outdoor jobs, a neces
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: The best-case and worst-case outcomes for coronavirus

  21-03-2020 06:00
  
  Here’s the grimmest version of life a year from now: More than 2 million Americans have died from the new coronavirus, almost all mourned without funerals. Countless others have died because hospitals are too overwhelmed to deal adequately with heart attacks, asthma and diabetic crises. The economy has cratered into a depression, for fiscal and monetary policy are ineffective when people fear going out, businesses are closed and tens of millions of people are unemployed. A vaccine still se
  
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• Broncos agree to deal with running back Melvin Gordon

  21-03-2020 05:41
  
  Englewood, Colorado • The Denver Broncos continued an impressive offseason haul Friday by agreeing to a two-year deal with former Los Angeles Chargers running back Melvin Gordon.A person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press that it’s worth $16 million with all but $2.5 million guaranteed. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because terms of the deal weren’t revealed.The Broncos didn’t announce the deal but did tweet a clip of King Features comic stri
  
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• [Deseret News] - How are fans coping with a world sans sports?

  21-03-2020 05:23 via sportspyder.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — In a perfect sports world, the NCAA Tournament would be entertaining us this weekend with the second round of action after basketball fans soaked up a bevy of buzzer-beaters,...
  
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• Frank Fish: As an experienced consultant, I’d replace Trump ASAP

  21-03-2020 05:00
  
  I think that Donald Trump is a fraud, a congenital liar and a danger to the world. But why should you give any weight to my opinion?First, I am 80 years old, retired and have nothing to gain but a better life for my family and friends if Trump becomes a one-term president. Second, most of my career involved helping executives at major corporations all over the Western world make better decisions — a habit that’s hard to break.For much of my career, I worked for a company in Princeton
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Watch Stephen Curry’s golf trick shot in his house

  21-03-2020 04:21 via sportspyder.com
  
  Stephen Curry is sheltering at home and decided to practice his chipping in the house and he nailed this impressive trick shot.
  
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• More big changes for LDS missionaries: ‘Substantial numbers’ to come home early; all MTCs to close their doors

  21-03-2020 03:28
  
  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.A lot of Latter-day Saint missionaries will be coming home soon. Some won’t be serving their whole 18-month or two-year missions. And no newly called proselytizers will be going to any of the church’s Missionary Training Centers — at least anytime soon.These are the latest directives from
  
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• Jamelle Bouie: Don’t let Trump and the Republicans off the hook

  21-03-2020 03:00
  
  Donald Trump and the Republican Party are trying to distract you from their catastrophic failure.Two months ago, as the world knows, Trump was praising China’s government for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak, while downplaying the severity of the threat to the United States. “We have it totally under control,” he said in an interview to CNBC on Jan. 22. “It’s one person coming in from China and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.&rdqu
  
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• Utah’s quake took its toll on at least 77 historic buildings

  21-03-2020 02:51
  
  At least 77 historic structures in Salt Lake City and Magna sustained damage in Wednesday’s magnitude 5.7 earthquake. Among those hardest hit in Salt Lake City were the Jackson Apartments, 274 W. 200 South, and the Crane Building around the corner on 300 West, according to Christopher Merritt, the state’s historic preservation officer. “In the Jackson Apartments [a four-story 1915 building], a large chimney sustained a catastrophic crack,” Merritt said. “I don&rsquo
  
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• Hundreds of Utah inmates will soon be released in response to coronavirus

  21-03-2020 01:39
  
  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.As many as 200 people could be released from the Salt Lake County jail in the coming days as authorities grapple with how to manage the criminal justice system during a time of heightened concern over the spreading coronavirus.Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said authorities plan to release at least
  
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