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• Catholic Community Services improves social distancing outside homeless day center

  21-04-2020 23:21
  
  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.After complaints from a community group made up of nearby businesses, the Weigand homeless day center in Salt Lake City’s Rio Grande neighborhood is implementing new procedures to promote social distancing in its mealtime lin
  
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• Utah’s Congress members ask President Trump to help save local news

  21-04-2020 23:01
  
  Washington • Utah’s House members and more than 200 of their colleagues are urging President Donald Trump to help local news outlets that are crucial to informing the public during the pandemic but suffering because of a precipitous drop in advertising during the crisis.In a letter to Trump, GOP Reps. Rob Bishop, John Curtis and Chris Stewart and Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams ask that the president direct the government to buy ads in local media outlets for new and existing programs and
  
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• Catholic Community services improves social distancing at Weigand Center

  21-04-2020 22:57
  
  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. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.After complaints from a community group made up of nearby businesses, the Weigand homeless day center in Salt Lake City’s Rio Grande neighborhood is implementing new procedures to promote social distancing in its mealtime lin
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Rumor: Jazz were ‘growing weary’ of Rudy Gobert even before coronavirus gaffe

  21-04-2020 22:55 via sportspyder.com
  
  Since Utah Jazz franchise centerpieces Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell tested positive for COVID-19, various reports have emerged regarding the All-Stars’ increasingly fractured — and possibly irreparable —relationship. Gobert and other Jazz...
  
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• A VA coronavirus study finds hydroxychloroquine results in more patient deaths

  21-04-2020 22:55
  
  A malaria drug widely touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus showed no benefit in a large analysis of its use in U.S. veterans hospitals. There were more deaths among those given hydroxychloroquine versus standard care, researchers reported.The nationwide study was not a rigorous experiment. But with 368 patients, it's the largest look so far of hydroxychloroquine with or without the antibiotic azithromycin for COVID-19, which has killed more than 171,000 people as of
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Gordon Monson: The Utah Jazz and their fans know better than anyone about the greatness of Michael Jordan

  21-04-2020 22:52 via sportspyder.com
  
  “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy [ride].”
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, April 21: Utah reports four new deaths but new cases drop; McDonald’s, KFC and Subway announce donation programs.

  21-04-2020 22:48
  
  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 Tuesday, April 21. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----2:45 p.m.: Free meals for first responders at McDonald’sHealth c
  
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• Utah’s Congress members ask President Trump for help saving local news

  21-04-2020 22:45
  
  Washington • Utah’s House members and more than 200 of their colleagues are urging President Donald Trump to help local news outlets that are crucial to informing the public during the pandemic but suffering because of a precipitous drop in advertising during the crisis.In a letter to Trump, GOP Reps. Rob Bishop, John Curtis and Chris Stewart and Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams ask that the president direct the government to buy ads in local media outlets for new and existing programs and
  
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• AP source: Minor leagues set to accept cut to 120 affiliates; future of Pioneer League’s Ogden Raptors

  21-04-2020 22:43
  
  New York • The minor leagues are prepared to agree to Major League Baseball’s proposal to cut guaranteed affiliations from 160 to 120 next year, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press, a plan that would that would impact hundreds of prospects and cut player development expenses.The person spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday because no announcements were authorized. The development was first reported by Baseball America.An electronic negotiating session i
  
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• Former RSL coach Mike Petke settles lawsuit against the team

  21-04-2020 22:35
  
  Former Real Salt Lake coach Mike Petke is no longer suing the club.Petke, RSL, Major League Soccer and league commissioner Don Garber on March 3 all filed to dismiss all the claims in the lawsuit and settle out of court. Third District Judge Patrick Corum agreed and signed the order two days later.“These dismissals, consents, and stipulations are each and all with consent of the opposing party,” the motion to dismiss reads. “Each party shall bear its own costs and attorneys&rsq
  
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• In a first for Utah, a COVID-19 sufferer receives plasma transfusion from a recovered patient

  21-04-2020 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. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.People who have recovered from COVID-19 may have a way to give something back: Donating their plasma to help people still suffering from the disease.“We are taking plasma from people who have recovered, through a donation pro
  
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• Rick Burtenshaw: Aren’t we lucky to have this great Legislature?

  21-04-2020 22:00
  
  Fellow residents of the state of Utah, I hope we all appreciate the blessing we enjoy by having our current state Legislature. How many places can say they have the smartest and best Legislature (or any other type of body) in the known universe?As they like to tell us, they are far brighter than anyone at the federal level. They like to say that the best level of government is that which is closest to the people, and they are closer to us than the federal government and are far better than the n
  
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• AP source: Minor leagues set to accept cut to 120 affiliates; future of Pioneer League’s Ogden, Orem teams unclear

  21-04-2020 21:56
  
  New York • The minor leagues are prepared to agree to Major League Baseball’s proposal to cut guaranteed affiliations from 160 to 120 next year, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press, a plan that would that would impact hundreds of prospects and cut player development expenses.The person spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday because no announcements were authorized. The development was first reported by Baseball America.An electronic negotiating session i
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Potential Rudy Gobert Trade Destinations

  21-04-2020 21:41 via sportspyder.com
  
  The relationship between Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell might be headed for a divorce. Below are three potential trades for Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert....
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, April 21: Utah reports four new deaths but new cases drop; JetBlue cutting hours among Utah workers.

  21-04-2020 21:36
  
  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 Tuesday, April 21. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----1:25 p.m.: Utah receives nearly $6.2 million in federal cash to help o
  
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• If the NFL doesn’t play, neither will college football, says Utah coach Kyle Whittingham

  21-04-2020 21:36
  
  As far as Kyle Whittingham is concerned, the absolute best-case scenario for the 2020 college football season remains an on-time start, preferably with eight weeks to prepare.The University of Utah head coach’s worst-case scenario, which echoes anyone and everyone else with anything invested in the sport, is no season at all with the COVID-19 pandemic ongoing and no clear end in sight.Somewhere in between those two polar opposites sits a compromise, whether that be a start later in the fal
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, April 21: Utah reports four new deaths but new cases drop

  21-04-2020 20:50
  
  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 Tuesday, April 21. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----12:40 p.m.: Two of Utah’s new deaths connected to a long-term ca
  
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• Andrew G. Bjelland: Whatever happened to principled conservatism?

  21-04-2020 20:36
  
  From Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley to George Will and David Brooks, thinkers on the right have presented conservatism as a matter of conscience and principle.Do President Donald Trump, Attorney General William Barr, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and many other self-styled “conservatives” strike you as persons of conscience and principle? Do they consistently act in accord with fundamental conservative principles? Or do they instead often engage in the coercive and m
  
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• Big donors shower Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes with campaign cash

  21-04-2020 19:30
  
  With the help of many big donors, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes raised 50 times more money this term than either of his challengers going into this week’s state Republican Convention.New disclosure forms show Reyes raised $1.35 million over his current four-year term, including $355,000 so far this year.Meanwhile, Utah County Attorney David Leavitt raised $27,000 (with $20,000 of it coming from family connections). And former Attorney General John Swallow — who resigned in one of
  
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• Gordon Monson: The Utah Jazz and their fans know better than anyone about the greatness of Michael Jordan

  21-04-2020 19:22
  
  “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy [ride].”It was Bette Davis who uttered that famous line in her role as aging stage actress Margo Channing in the film, “All About Eve.”But she might as well have been talking to Utah Jazz fans, as anyone and everyone who cares about NBA basketball turns his or her attention, vegetated as it now is in the midst of the coronavirus shutdown, to the ongoing saga/documentary, “The Last Dance,” starring Michael
  
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• Utah cites Nevada company for price gouging first responders, but firm says it has remedied the issue

  21-04-2020 19:17
  
  The Utah Division of Consumer Protection filed a citation this week against a Nevada-based company it says price gouged two Utah law enforcement agencies that bought personal protective equipment amid the coronavirus outbreak.Monday’s citation alleges that SwabTek, which usually sells test kits to help law enforcement officers identify narcotics and explosives, sold South Jordan 500 N95 masks and 2,000 three-ply masks last month for a cost more than $2,000 greater than allowed under the st
  
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• [Sports Illustrated] - Six Rings and Seven Sneakers: The Story Behind Michael Jordan’s NBA Finals Shoes

  21-04-2020 18:33 via sportspyder.com
  
  A look at the inspiration behind the design to some of MJ's most-iconic shoes.
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, April 21: Utah company donating hands-free shoes to medical workers

  21-04-2020 17:51
  
  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 Tuesday, April 21. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----9:50 a.m.: Utah company donating hands-free shoes to medical workersA
  
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• GOP candidates for Utah governor are loaning themselves thousands, even millions, for the contest

  21-04-2020 17:39
  
  Republicans jockeying to become Utah's next governor are pouring their own money into the contest, with several of the candidates writing their campaigns six- or seven-figure checks.Provo venture capitalist Jeff Burningham has loaned his campaign $2.1 million since January, while businesswoman Jan Garbett’s team has taken in more than $745,000 in loans from the candidate and her family’s company. Thomas Wright, former chairman of the Utah GOP, has loaned himself $300,000, according t
  
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• How Utah teachers are helping students who have ‘gone dark’ during the coronavirus outbreak

  21-04-2020 17:34
  
  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.West High School teacher Valerie Gates hopped in her little blue Mazda last Wednesday — with the trunk almost too full of school laptops and chargers to close — and started driving around the neighborhoods of Salt Lake
  
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• Utah State quarterback Jordan Love remains a polarizing prospect as NFL Draft looms

  21-04-2020 17:06
  
  Given how it has altered the NFL Draft process for prospects and teams alike, of course the COVID-19 pandemic is a big deal, but the way Andrew Kessler sees it, the pandemic is a bigger deal for later-round or fringe prospects.“If this were January 10, things would have been different,” Kessler, an agent with Laguna Beach-based Athletes First, told The Salt Lake Tribune last week. “The vast majority of players did not have a pro day, and that is damaging for guys who were not a
  
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• [Fansided: Sir Charles In Charge] - Utah Jazz: No plans to trade Donovan Mitchell or Rudy Gobert

  21-04-2020 16:52 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz don't have any plans to trade either Donovan Mitchell or Rudy Gobert, despite their reported tension The Utah Jazz was one of the most intrig...
  
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• After 3 days of voting, Salt Lake County GOP convention decides 4 close races

  21-04-2020 16:45
  
  After voting that stretched for three days in the Salt Lake County Republican Convention, attorney Jordan Teuscher missed avoiding a primary election by two votes.Similarly, South Jordan Mayor Dave Alvord missed skipping the primary by four votes in a hotly contested County Council race. Also, recently appointed state Rep. Steve Christiansen, R-West Jordan, was forced into a primary.Because of the coronavirus outbreak, the convention this year was online — with delegates watching videos an
  
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• West Jordan police ask for help finding suspect in killing of a husband and wife. Suspect’s wife arrested for disposing of evidence.

  21-04-2020 16:08
  
  West Jordan • Police have named a suspect in the deaths of a West Jordan couple who were shot at their home by an intruder.Police are looking for Albert Enoch Johnson, 31. He is 5-foot-10 and about 270 pounds. He was an acquaintance of Tony and Katherine Butterfield, who were killed early Saturday in what police have described as a home invasion. Katherine Butterfield died inside her home, while Tony was found dead in the yard. They died of gunshot wounds, and police have not recovered the
  
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• Some U.S. producers, states reopening amid political pressure

  21-04-2020 15:31
  
  Seattle • Boeing and at least one other U.S. heavy-equipment manufacturer resumed production and some states rolled out aggressive reopening plans Monday, despite nationwide concerns there is not enough testing yet to keep the coronavirus from rebounding.In one of the most forceful moves yet, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced plans to restart the state's economy before the end of the week. Kemp said gyms, hair salons, bowling alleys and tattoo parlors could reopen Friday, as long as owners
  
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• Paul Krugman: To deal with coronavirus, the right sends in the quacks

  21-04-2020 15:05
  
  Over the past few days there have been noisy, threatening demonstrations at various statehouses demanding an end to COVID-19 lockdowns.The demonstrations haven’t been very big, with at most a few thousand people, and involve a strong element of astroturfing — that is, while they supposedly represent a surge of grassroots anger, some of them have been organized by institutions with links to Republican politicians, including the family of Betsy DeVos, the secretary of education.And pol
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: A Biden presidency could be better than some progressives think

  21-04-2020 15:04
  
  Lawrence Mishel, a well-known labor economist, has been a critic of centrist Democrats for decades. “My adult lifetime has covered the Carter, Clinton and Obama years, and labor policy has never been a priority,” Mishel, the former president of the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, told me. In the 2016 primary, he voted for Bernie Sanders. This year he supported Elizabeth Warren. (So did I.)But when Mishel saw Joe Biden’s labor policy, he was thrilled. &ldquo
  
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• Beer is no longer flowing at this Salt Lake City bar, but paychecks are

  21-04-2020 15:03
  
  When bars shuttered across the state last month, most employees had no choice but to apply for unemployment.“Nobody can really stay in this industry right now," said bar manager Erica Taylor, “and make money."But Taylor and 31 of her co-workers at Salt Lake City’s Twist bar are lucky. They have been able to keep their jobs because owner Kirk Bengtzen is paying employees out of his own pocket.“I see the way the employees live paycheck to paycheck. A lot of the servers live
  
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• Leading Utah gubernatorial candidates want a ‘homeless czar’

  21-04-2020 15:02
  
  Two of Utah’s leading gubernatorial hopefuls say they support the creation of a central leader to address homelessness in the state — an idea that was wildly unpopular among homeless service providers when a state lawmaker proposed it earlier this year.Proponents of the concept — and of a bill sponsored by Rep. Kim Coleman, R-West Jordan — say appointing a single point person with the final say on how to help unsheltered communities would promote accountability and respon
  
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• The Underrated Players: Northwest Division

  21-04-2020 15:00 via basketballinsiders.com
  
  In stop No. 2, Ben Nadeau examines the most underrated players in the Northwest Division.
  
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• It’s been 5 weeks and thousands of Utah students still haven’t logged on for school amid the coronavirus

  21-04-2020 15:00
  
  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.West High School teacher Valerie Gates hopped in her little blue Mazda last Wednesday — with the trunk almost too full of school laptops and chargers to close — and started driving around the neighborhoods of Salt Lake
  
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• Salt Lake County jail won’t talk about its coronavirus outbreak

  21-04-2020 14:45
  
  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.Seventeen people who are incarcerated at Salt Lake County jails have tested positive for the coronavirus, health department officials confirmed Monday.The number of infected inmates has nearly tripled in the past two weeks —
  
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• 1st District U.S. House race packed with mayors, commissioners, execs — even someone facing a felony

  21-04-2020 14:30
  
  Two of the 1st Congressional District candidates are current mayors. Three are or were elected county leaders. One was a tribal chairman. One is fighting a felony charge. One doesn’t live in the district. And one inaccurately claimed for years that he had a college degree.They are among the vast field of 14 candidates competing in political conventions this week to replace outgoing Republican Rep. Rob Bishop in the district in northern and eastern Utah. They combine to make it a colorful r
  
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• Utah health officials plan to buy 200K doses of unproven treatment for COVID-19

  21-04-2020 14:15
  
  State officials are planning to buy a stockpile of malaria drugs to treat as many as 200,000 coronavirus patients in Utah, even though medical experts have discouraged them from purchasing the unproven medication.The deal with the Utah pharmacist who has amassed the drugs isn’t finalized, said Tom Hudachko, a Utah Department of Health spokesman. But the idea is to distribute the huge supply of medication to pharmacies across the state, where it will be available for free to coronavirus pat
  
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• Robert Kirby: Let’s hit those coronavirus protesters where it counts — in their wallets

  21-04-2020 14:00
  
  Fair warning: I may have contracted COVID-19. It’s too early to tell, but I have definitely been exposed. A little.On Sunday, a package was left on my doorstep. It was from Rash, a longtime friend whose nickname stems from a hot 30-foot section of summer highway in 1969. Never mind.The “boredom relief package” contained 3 pounds of elk jerky, a bowling ball and a half-dozen magazines that may have been expensive collector items, but I’ll never know because my wife immedia
  
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• Esther Hunter: Neighborhood worries about new coronavirus care center

  21-04-2020 14:00
  
  Salt Lake City’s East Central Community has serious concerns related to the recent announcement made by the Utah Department of Health and the Governor’s Utah Coronavirus Task Force about the plan to turn the City Creek Post-Acute Nursing Home into a 72-bed coronavirus acute care facility. Our understanding is that this facility is being planned as a site for patients not yet recovered from coronavirus, contagious and many with serious underlying issues.As a community we have extensiv
  
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• Bernie Sanders: The foundations of American society are failing us

  21-04-2020 14:00
  
  We are the richest country in the history of the world, but at a time of massive income and wealth inequality, that reality means little to half of our people who live paycheck to paycheck, the 40 million living in poverty, the 87 million who are uninsured or underinsured, and the half million who are homeless.In the midst of the twin crises that we face — the coronavirus pandemic and the meltdown of our economy — it’s imperative that we re-examine some of the foundations of Am
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - Rudy Gobert Trade Rumors: 'Rumblings' Jazz 'Were Growing Weary Of' DPOY

  21-04-2020 13:54 via sportspyder.com
  
  David Aldridge of The Athletic has added to the speculation that the Utah Jazz could trade All-Star center Rudy Gobert ...
  
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• [Larry Brown Sports] - Jazz reporter: Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell will work things out

  21-04-2020 10:16 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz were at the center of the coronavirus pandemic when center Rudy Gobert became the first NBA player to test positive for the virus. That happened in March and led to the immediate suspension of the league's season. Not only did Gobert's...
  
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• Rudy Gobert more available than you think?

  21-04-2020 07:41
  
  There have been rumblings well before either of them contracted coronavirus that the Jazz were growing weary of Gobert. Not that they were actively shopping him or trying to get rid of him, but that he might be more available than you’d think a Defensive Player of the Year and guy who is such an anchor would be. It will not surprise me if Utah moves on after this season.
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - NBA Trade Rumors: Jazz Have No Plans to Move Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert

  21-04-2020 06:22 via sportspyder.com
  
  Despite concerns about potential chemistry problems moving forward, the Utah Jazz reportedly have no plans to trade Donovan Mitchell or Rudy Gobert ...
  
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• Finchem to join Woods next year in World Golf Hall of Fame

  21-04-2020 06:03
  
  Tim Finchem, who expanded the PGA Tour’s footprint around the world and negotiated TV contracts that more than tripled prize money during his two decades as commissioner, has been elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame.Finchem was elected through the contributor category and will become the ninth administrator to be inducted, joining predecessor Deane Beman.“It is the greatest honor to be elected to join golf’s most legendary players and contributors in the World Golf Hall of F
  
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• Woman fatally shot in South Jordan home

  21-04-2020 05:50
  
  Police are investigating the death of a 35-year-old woman who was fatally shot in a South Jordan home on Monday.Around 6 a.m., officers responded to a domestic violence call at a home near 10200 S. Jordan Creek Drive, said Sgt. Sam Winkler with the South Jordan Police Department.When officers arrived, “the boyfriend had left the scene” and the “officers couldn’t make contact” with the girlfriend, he said.The department received a second call for the same location ar
  
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• South Salt Lake offers $5,000 reward for information on apartment fire

  21-04-2020 05:43
  
  Investigators believe last week’s fire at the Shenandoah Apartments in South Salt Lake was intentional, and they are offering a $5,000 reward for information that can help them find who caused the blaze.The fire was reported at the complex, 336 E. 3360 South, about 3 a.m. on April 16 and is believed to have started in a vehicle parked in a carport outside the apartments.Flames spread to nearby vehicles — burning about 18 cars — and then to the apartment building. Officials said
  
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• [KSL] - Mike Conley downplays Gobert-Mitchell beef, says the Jazz are staying connected | KSL.com

  21-04-2020 05:36 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Jazz are staying connected — or at least they’re trying to while the NBA is on hiatus due to the novel coronavirus.
  
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