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• Utah makes plans for soft reopening by early May amid coronavirus outbreak

  17-04-2020 23:48
  
  Gov. Gary Herbert announced Friday that Utah would begin to reopen shuttered restaurants, gyms and parks amid the coronavirus outbreak as he said there were signs of the disease ebbing in the state even as two more deaths were detailed by health officials.Utah’s decision, which would allow in-person dining and other activities possibly by the first of May, makes it one of the first states to aim to revert back to pre-pandemic life, though the governor stressed the move wasn’t going t
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Beyond horsing around, Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley is working out and has fingers crossed for NBA to re-start

  17-04-2020 23:44 via sportspyder.com
  
  Fresh off his victory in the nationally broadcast HORSE tournament featuring NBA players, WNBA players, and even a former star or two, Utah Jazz point guard Mike Conley met with Salt Lake City-area reports on Friday afternoon via a videoconference...
  
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• Beyond horsing around, Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley is working out and has fingers crossed for NBA to re-start

  17-04-2020 23:38
  
  Fresh off his victory in the nationally broadcast HORSE tournament featuring NBA players, WNBA players, and even a former star or two, Utah Jazz point guard Mike Conley met with Salt Lake City-area reports on Friday afternoon via a videoconference chat.And when not dropping tidbits about the tourney (like, say, how having an indoor court was a definite advantage, as was being ambidextrous, as well as playing HORSE with his Jazz teammates almost every single day), Conley got to discussing the NBA
  
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• RSL coach Freddy Juarez prefers intraconference play if MLS can’t play full remaining schedule of games

  17-04-2020 23:33
  
  Real Salt Lake players and coaches keep chugging along while they wait for Major League Soccer to resume its season. They’re collectively staying fit via virtual Zoom workouts, communicating regularly and holding tactical analysis sessions.But with Major League Soccer announcing Friday that games won’t be played until at least June 8, and the league’s earlier announcement that playing the entire remaining schedule is becoming increasingly unlikely, alternatives are starting to
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Mike Conley reacts to rumored Rudy Gobert-Donovan Mitchell feud

  17-04-2020 22:37 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz point guard Mike Conley says if there’s beef between Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell, then they will have to handle it like grown men. Mitchell is reportedly upset at Gobert for how the Jazz center acted before his positive COVID-19 test....
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz’s Mike Conley gives surprisingly optimistic take on NBA season resuming

  17-04-2020 22:37 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz point guard Mike Conley says players around the league are feeling confident about the 2019-20 season resuming. This is pretty surprising to hear given COVID-19 continues to spread across the world. However, the Jazz star did acknowledge...
  
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• Jazz confident about restarting the season

  17-04-2020 22:26
  
  What is Coach Quin Snyder telling the team? Mike Conley: We’re feeling more and more confident that something could happen where we’re able to play again. There are just so many things logistically to work out and so many things with COVID-19 itself that are unknown. But we’re optimistic. Q: Where is that optimism coming from? A: We’ve had calls with the NBPA and NBA. It seems like there are things that are coming together. It makes it feel as if a plan is slowly coming i
  
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• Tribes sue over distribution of coronavirus relief funding

  17-04-2020 22:24
  
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • Several Native American tribes sued the federal government Friday, seeking to keep any of the $8 billion in federal coronavirus relief for tribes kept out of the hands of for-profit Alaska Native corporations.The U.S. Treasury Department is tasked with doling out the money by April 26 to help tribes nationwide stay afloat, respond to the virus and recover after having to shut down casinos, tourism operations and other businesses that serve as their main moneymakers.The Co
  
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• [NBA] - Q&A: HORSE champion Mike Conley on trick shots, COVID-19, and how he's staying for a possible playoff push

  17-04-2020 22:23 via sportspyder.com
  
  Mike Conley has one title this year already. The Utah Jazz point guard is the NBA’s reigning HORSE king after beating out Chris Paul, Trae Young, Zach LaVine and others to win an All-Star shooting
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Friday, April 17: Leaders announce plan to reawaken state’s economy beginning May 1; Utah reports two new deaths and a surge in test results.

  17-04-2020 22:09
  
  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 Friday, April 17. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----2:05 p.m.: Facebook puts a damper on Utah company’s pivot to mask
  
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• LDS Church issues guidelines for baptisms, blessings and more during the coronavirus crisis

  17-04-2020 22:02
  
  Many religious rites in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — from blessings and baptisms to confirmations and ordinations — are tactile experiences, requiring person-to-person contact.How to move forward with those functions of faith during a global pandemic that often forbids such hands-on interactions has been a barrier for many members during the coronavirus crisis, especially in a religion with a male-only priesthood.On Friday, the Utah-based church’s ruling Fi
  
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• Eric Stulberg: Young doctors call on Utah for a stay-at-home order

  17-04-2020 22:00
  
  Dear Governor Herbert and Lieutenant Governor Cox,We are residents, physicians-in-training, battling the COVID-19 pandemic here in Utah. We are writing to strongly urge that you implement and enforce a state-wide stay-at-home order and resist any temptation to take away control from local authorities, such as those in Salt Lake City, who are implementing stay-at-home orders.While this is not “World War II,” and we appreciate your sentiment to avoid scaring people, we feel adamantly a
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Friday, April 17: Utah leaders announce plan to reawaken state’s economy beginning May 1; Utah reports two new COVID-19 deaths.

  17-04-2020 21:56
  
  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.It’s Friday, April 17. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----1:55 p.m.: Utah reports two new COVID-19 deathsTwo more Utahns have die
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: The last 5 photoshopped NBA jerseys I want to see on Donovan Mitchell

  17-04-2020 21:21 via sportspyder.com
  
  With Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz allegedly at each other’s throats, many of NBA Twitter’s Photoshop experts have taken to the pla...
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Friday, April 17: Utah leaders announce plan to reawaken state’s economy beginning May 1

  17-04-2020 20:44
  
  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 Friday, April 17. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----12:43 p.m.: Utah leaders unveil economic reopening planUtah aims to rel
  
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• Salt Lake school board member quits; superintendent, who resigned earlier, gets new job

  17-04-2020 20:21
  
  After earlier resigning her position as president, Tiffany Sandberg has now stepped down completely from the Salt Lake City school board.Her departure comes after months of infighting among members and controversy in the district. And it also shortly follows Superintendent Lexi Cunningham’s resignation, effective this summer, when she will be taking over the Utah State Superintendents Association.Reached by phone Thursday, Sandberg said she made the decision for personal reasons and did no
  
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• Peggy Cain and Melanie Agnew: Pandemic gives opportunity to address inequities

  17-04-2020 20:00
  
  The coronavirus pandemic is bringing into sharp relief underlying inequities in society. COVID-19 provides the opportunity to address the inequities as we rebuild with new systems. To do this, we need leaders who understand the compounding, intersecting factors that create long standing inequities.The coronavirus is impacting people of color hardest due to multiple factors (“Utahns of color are hit harder by virus,” Tribune, April 15). People of color tend to work in essential servic
  
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• Shelter the Homeless replaces its executive director

  17-04-2020 19:55
  
  The nonprofit that owns Salt Lake County’s three new homeless resource centers has announced it’s replacing its executive director.Laurie Hopkins, the incoming executive director for Shelter the Homeless, has served in a variety of leadership roles in nonprofit groups over the past 15 years, most recently as executive director at Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum since 2015.None of her prior experience appears to have involved homelessness issues.Prior to running the children
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Grading the NBA HORSE Challenge Finals

  17-04-2020 19:53 via sportspyder.com
  
  The NBA HORSE Challenge came to a close on Thursday as Mike Conley of the Utah Jazz took all contestants by surprise and snatched away the title of NBA HORSE champion. While the broadcast of this competition had its share of problems, these...
  
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• Wanted: 10,000 volunteers each week to sew masks for Utah health care workers

  17-04-2020 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.What’s billed as the largest volunteer effort in Utah since the 2002 Winter Olympics officially launched Friday, with the goal of sewing 5 million medical-grade face masks for health care workers treating patients with COVID-
  
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• ‘I want to win’: Park City bobsledder among athletes in medicine field facing coronavirus

  17-04-2020 19:49
  
  Kelsey Diemer feels the same energy as a doctor that she did a few years ago when she was among the best 3-point shooters in college basketball.Only this is no game.Her current opponent: The coronavirus. And while there's no parallel between a pandemic and a sporting event, Diemer sees value to taking the same approach now as a doctor as she did when she was an athlete: She simply needs to find a way to prevail."Medicine in general speaks to that athlete side of me," said Diemer, former guard at
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Mike Conley, the ambidextrous one, is the HORSE champion

  17-04-2020 18:59 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley took down Tamika Catchings, Chauncey Billups and Zach LaVine to win the NBA's HORSE competition. With no NBA basketball right n...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Mike Conley, the ambidextrous one, is the HORSE champion

  17-04-2020 18:48
  
  Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley took down Tamika Catchings, Chauncey Billups and Zach LaVine to win the NBA’s HORSE competition. With no NBA basketball right now, fans are desperate for some entertainment, so the NBA decided to hold a HORSE competition. This competition included Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley, as well as several other NBA/WNBA […]
  Utah Jazz: Mike Conley, the ambidextrous one, is the HORSE champion - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion an
  
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• A year after blaze, Notre Dame restoration halted by virus

  17-04-2020 18:30
  
  Paris • Notre Dame Cathedral stands crippled and isolated, locked in a dangerous web of warped metal scaffolding a year after a devastating fire gutted its interior, toppled its famous spire and horrified the world.Some of the 40,000 bars — erected for an earlier renovation project — melted in the intense blaze April 15, 2019. The unstable scaffolding now endangers the Gothic jewel that for many embodies the soul of France.The restoration of the landmark from the 12th and 13th c
  
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• Southwest drought rivals those of centuries ago, thanks to climate change

  17-04-2020 18:12
  
  Albuquerque, N.M. • A severe drought that has gripped the American Southwest since 2000 is as bad as or worse than long-lasting droughts in the region over the past 1,200 years, and climate change has helped make it that way, scientists said Thursday.The researchers described the current drought, which has helped intensify wildfire seasons and threatened water supplies for people and agriculture, as an “emerging megadrought.” Although 2019 was a relatively wet year, and natural
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Friday, April 17: 94 men have tested positive at homeless resource center; Utah House votes to speed up jobless benefits

  17-04-2020 18:06
  
  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 Friday, April 17. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----10:05 a.m.: Utah House advances bill on off-label medsThe Utah House si
  
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• Sundance Institute pledges $1 million to artists hurt economically by coronavirus pandemic

  17-04-2020 18:01
  
  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.Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute is creating a stimulus program for artists, giving $1 million in grants to filmmakers, playwrights and other creative people in financial pain during the coronavirus pandemic.“When hi
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Friday, April 17: Utah Senate to consider $80M relief bill; outbreak at homeless center reported

  17-04-2020 17:40
  
  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 Friday, April 17. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----9:40 a.m.: Homeless resource center COVID-19 outbreakSince the South Sa
  
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• John P. Watkins: COVID-19 and the limit of markets

  17-04-2020 17:00
  
  COVID-19 currently ravaging the world reveals both the limits of market economies and the power of government.Markets are not alert to external threats, foreign, domestic or microbial. This is government’s role, a role that government has largely failed. Donald Trump refers to himself as a war-time president. He gave an oath, promising to defend the American people against all enemies, domestic and foreign. We should add another enemy: an enemy in the form of a virus.The Trump administrati
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Friday, April 17: Refugee chefs offering ready-to-heat meals; bartenders sharing cocktail recipes

  17-04-2020 16:54
  
  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 Friday, April 17. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----8:55 a.m.: Bartenders earn tips by sharing original cocktail recipesHol
  
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• University of Utah’s Huntsman Center, Pac-12’s largest arena, to lower hoops capacity to 8,500

  17-04-2020 16:50
  
  The University of Utah’s Jon M. Huntsman Center has a basketball seating capacity of 15,000, making it the largest arena in the Pac-12.That’s about to change, drastically.Beginning next season, the upper bowl of the Huntsman Center will be curtained off, an athletic department spokesman told The Salt Lake Tribune. The new basketball seating capacity is set at 8,500, but athletic department officials would consider opening the upper bowl if a high-profile opponent and/or ticket demand
  
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• Here are five key coronavirus questions and the best answers we can offer

  17-04-2020 16:09
  
  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.Remember the Discovery Channel show “Mythbusters” that ran for 15 years? The team of Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman would test various rumors or adages to see which were Confirmed, Plausible, or Busted.I sought to do tha
  
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• While rest of Utah closes to tourism, anglers are streaming to Daggett County and some are worried

  17-04-2020 15:11
  
  The fishing has been great around the eastern Utah hamlet of Dutch John, maybe a little too great.Most fishing and river destinations in Utah and Colorado are closed to commercial guiding and outfitting in the face of the coronavirus epidemic. Yet Daggett County still welcomes visitors while some Dutch John-based operators are booking outings in Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area and on the Green River with the arrival of the spring fishing season.Some services, however, have suspended opera
  
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• ‘Bear hunts’ entertain kids, unite Salt Lake Valley neighborhoods

  17-04-2020 15:11
  
  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.Parks and wildlife departments across the nation have begun issuing warnings for residents of mountain communities to be on the lookout for bears coming out of hibernation. In Utah, the situation has progressed far past that.Bears
  
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• Utah scientists to test sewage to see if it can reveal rates of coronavirus infections

  17-04-2020 14:00
  
  Swabbing noses and throats may not be the only way to detect the breadth of the coronavirus in a community.Sewage, it turns out, may provide answers as well, and Utah scientists are eager to launch a pilot project to find out.If the project bears fruit, it could help determine the rates of COVID-19 infection in particular communities and perhaps provide early warnings for new outbreaks, according to Erica Gaddis, director of the Utah Division of Water Quality.“We are about to launch a pilo
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: ESPN wants us to watch the Jazz lose the ’98 NBA Finals again. It’s still too soon.

  17-04-2020 14:00
  
  I don’t care how good “The Last Dance” is, I have no interest in sitting through 10 hours of it. And I figure a lot of people in Utah will agree with me.This 10-part series, which premieres Sunday at 7 p.m. on ESPN, follows Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls through the 1997-98 season. ESPN is promoting it as the story of the Bulls’ final championship season in their 1990s dynasty. (They three-peated twice in that decade — ’91, ’92, ’93 and &rsqu
  
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• Robert Kirby: Old age — when fun becomes expensive and painful. Witness my broken wrist.

  17-04-2020 14:00
  
  Two weeks ago, I fell off a ladder in the garage and fractured my right wrist.Boredom must be getting to me because I didn’t know it was broken. Thanks to arthritis and assorted surgeries, the pain wasn’t that big of a deal. Not to me.It was to my wife. Fed up with the muttered curses whenever I lifted something heavy, she gave me a choice: See a doctor or sleep in the car.Daniel Hammon is my go-to orthopedic surgeon whenever I break something. He’s carved on me before. He exam
  
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• Letter: Republicans should honor their environmental history

  17-04-2020 14:00
  
  April 22 is the 50th world Earth Day. It’s an opportunity for all of us, but Republicans especially, to reflect on what was happening back in 1970.Increasingly alarmed by the degradation of their air and water, the decline of wildlife and the unregulated releases of toxins into the environment, Americans urged action and, in 1970, the president signed the National Environmental Policy Act, amended the Clean Air Act to phase out leaded gasoline and created the Environmental Protection Agenc
  
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• Letter: No more Amazon membership

  17-04-2020 14:00
  
  I finally canceled my Amazon Prime membership. I can no longer, in good conscience, support a company that is firing employees for asking for basic protections against a pandemic.Amazon employees are putting their lives on the line to bring products to our homes and they deserve to be backed up by the behemoth that is Amazon.I had already been feeling it was time to move on when I learned about the horrible conditions warehouse workers were employed under, but ease and convenience won out.I no l
  
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• Letter: Faith without works is dead

  17-04-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Rep. John Curtis,Your invitation to join in a worldwide day of fasting and prayer requires a public response.I am a Downwinder. Ten years ago, I lost my left lung to the incompetence, deceit and callous disregard of the government’s nuclear testing. Today my missing lung increases my vulnerability to the incompetent, deceitful and callously indifferent governmental response to the coronavirus pandemic.I’m frightened.I recognize the comfort prayer brings to many, and appreciate t
  
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• Letter: Don’t turn refugees away

  17-04-2020 14:00
  
  I realize many Utahns are struggling with the impact of COVID-19, but I am worried about the people of Guatemala, Mexico and the other countries who have almost no health care infrastructure.I am worried because the United States is planning to resume deportation flights sending back potentially infected immigrants starting next week.I am a family nurse practitioner and I have been traveling to Guatemala for eight years to provide health care to Guatemalans who have no or limited access to docto
  
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• Letter: Don’t judge people in parks

  17-04-2020 14:00
  
  I would like to take exception to Luana Chapman’s letter of April 11.Many of us have been advised to walk daily for our health and so continue to frequent various parks and walking trails. Although there may be several cars parked at these locations, we have only noticed individuals, maybe a couple, sometimes a family letting their children get some exercise. Not once have we seen large gatherings.If you meet someone else on the trails, everyone practices social distancing, maybe a nod, bu
  
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• Keith Mines: Is it time for a dose of humility?

  17-04-2020 14:00
  
  Humility is in shorter supply than surgical masks these days.The American Christian faith, once a bastion of humility, has gone all muscular. The servant leader concept, popular in the American business community for decades, has been replaced with the Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun.After the 9/11 attacks, there was a brief bout of national humility before we got on with the business of making the world over through brute force, then sullenly withdrawing when it didn’t go well. We ar
  
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• Here are five ways our understanding of coronavirus is evolving — from why men die more, to when we will get a vaccine

  17-04-2020 14:00
  
  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.Remember the Discovery Channel show “Mythbusters” that ran for 15 years? The team of Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman would test various rumors or adages to see which were Confirmed, Plausible, or Busted.I sought to do tha
  
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• Can’t see the art during the pandemic? Springville museum encourages people to BE the art.

  17-04-2020 14:00
  
  You can’t go see the art at the Springville Museum of Art right now. So the museum encouraged people to be the art, instead.The museum put its collection online, encouraged people to find a piece they liked and copy it. Not with brushes and paint, but with a camera and whatever they could find around their homes — clothes, building blocks, kids, spouses and more.“Since the museum is closed right now [because of the coronavirus pandemic], we are working hard to keep our audience
  
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• [Fadeaway World] - The 2013 NBA Draft Class: The Players Ranked By Category

  17-04-2020 11:22 via sportspyder.com
  
  The 2013 NBA Draft Class was one of the most interesting drafts in recent memory. Anthony Bennett was drafted #1 by the
  
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• Mike Conley wins H-O-R-S-E Challenge

  17-04-2020 10:06
  
  Utah Jazz point guard Mike Conley’s ability to use both hands propelled him to the win Thursday in the NBA’s first HORSE competition as he beat Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine for the title. Conley took the title “H-O” to “H-O-R-S-E” in the championship round. With the sports world halted by the coronavirus pandemic, the NBA, National Basketball Players Association and ESPN teamed up to create the single-elimination NBA HORSE Challenge to provide fans with ent
  
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• [ESPN Chicago: Bulls Blog] - Jazz's Conley beats Bulls' LaVine for HORSE title

  17-04-2020 07:18 via sportspyder.com
  
  The ability to make shots with both hands was the difference as Jazz point guard Mike Conley beat Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine to claim the NBA's first-ever HORSE competition on Thursday.
  
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• [ESPN] - Jazz's Conley beats Bulls' LaVine for HORSE title

  17-04-2020 07:06 via sportspyder.com
  
  The ability to make shots with both hands was the difference as Jazz point guard Mike Conley beat Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine to claim the NBA's first-ever HORSE competition on Thursday.
  
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• [Deseret News] - Mike Conley wins NBA HORSE Challenge

  17-04-2020 06:10 via sportspyder.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — It was readily apparent, and Zach LaVine vocally observed it. From the start of the championship round of the NBA HORSE Challenge on Thursday night, it was clear that Utah Jazz...
  
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