Basketball - Utah Jazz news

• Legal giant Oscar McConkie Jr., an LDS Democrat who formed one of Utah’s largest law firms, dies at 94 of COVID complications

  03-11-2020 23:55
  
  At a time in the 1960s, when Democrats ruled the now reliably red Beehive State — Lyndon Johnson was president, Calvin Rampton was governor, and Dems held the majority in the Utah Senate — Democrat Oscar W. McConkie Jr. enjoyed a key role bridging the party and his church.McConkie was a titan in the community from a prominent family. His older brother, Bruce R. McConkie, was an influential Latter-day Saint apostle and author of “Mormon Doctrine,” and his father, Oscar Sr.
  
  Read more

• Jonathan J. Miner: Protecting others during a pandemic

  03-11-2020 22:57
  
  When I was a kid, my dad would often recite a poem called “Home” at family home evening. Tears would well up in his eyes whenever he would read the lines: “You’ve got to weep to make it home. You’ve got to sit and sigh, and watch beside a loved one’s bed, and know that Death is nigh.”Last week, a nurse came to my office to tell me that I had an urgent phone call. It was the daughter of a patient telling me that her dad was on the ventilator and dying fro
  
  Read more

• George Pyle: ‘Our Mussolini’ looks to his Blackshirts

  03-11-2020 22:57
  
  He is, indeed, our Mussolini.You can tell because the Blackshirts are out in force. And the lawyers.This president who was officially seeking reelection has made little pretense of trying to be the preferred candidate of a majority of Americans. The closer Election Day came, the more he made it clear that his only path to maintaining power is not through democracy but through the subversion of it.Armed thugs ran a bus carrying Joe Biden supporters off the road in Texas. And the president lost no
  
  Read more

• Live election updates: Utah breaks its turnout record, and Davis County offers drive-thru voting

  03-11-2020 22:32
  
  Salt Lake Tribune reporters will give you the latest on the 2020 election as the final votes are cast. Have a tip? Reach out to [email protected], also sign up for The Rundown, our political newsletter, here.2:30 p.m.: How drive-thru voting works in Davis CountyFarmington • Davis County residents who voted in-person Tuesday did so without leaving their cars.“People have been pretty impressed with the process,” said Raegan Johnson, an election worker from Layton. “
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Utah COVID-19 hospitalizations shatter record again, with 1,669 new cases Tuesday

  03-11-2020 22:12
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.Coronavirus hospitalizations blew past previous record highs on Tuesday, with 366 Utahns currently hospitalized as cases continued to rise precipitously, and 1,669 new diagnoses statewide.Nearly 500 Utahns have been admitted to hospitals
  
  Read more

• Utah coronavirus hospitalizations shatter record, with new cases up 1,669 on Tuesday

  03-11-2020 21:27
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.Coronavirus hospitalizations blew past previous record highs on Tuesday, with 366 Utahns currently hospitalized as cases continued to rise precipitously, with 1,669 new diagnoses statewide.For the past week, the state has averaged 1,726
  
  Read more

• Legal giant Oscar McConkie Jr., an LDS Democrat who formed Utah’s largest law firm, dies at 94 of COVID complications

  03-11-2020 20:54
  
  At a time in the 1960s, when Democrats ruled the now reliably red Beehive State — Lyndon Johnson was president, Calvin Rampton was governor, and Dems held the majority in the Utah Senate — Democrat Oscar W. McConkie Jr. enjoyed a key role bridging the party and his church.McConkie was a titan in the community from a prominent family. His is older brother, Bruce R. McConkie, was an influential Latter-day Saint apostle and author of “Mormon Doctrine,” and his father, Oscar
  
  Read more

• Without Utah or Utah State on the schedule, rivalry game with Boise State brings some normalcy to BYU’s season

  03-11-2020 20:46
  
  Provo • So far this season, No. 9 BYU has been forced to play a lot of first-time opponents. That’s through no fault of the their own — the Cougars had its strongest independence-era schedule ripped to shreds by COVID-19.Five of the first seven opponents were a first for BYU. The Cougars had some familiarity with Houston having played against the Cougs in 2013 and 2014, but hadn’t played Navy in more than three decades — well before any of the current players were ev
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• U.S. voters mark end of election like no other at the polls

  03-11-2020 20:37
  
  Voters marked the end of an election like no other at the polls on Tuesday, casting the last of what will likely be a record number of ballots despite a global pandemic that has upended long-established election procedures and triggered hundreds of lawsuits.Election officials warned that millions of absentee ballots could slow the vote count, perhaps for days, in some key battleground states. President Donald Trump threatened legal action to prevent ballots from being counted after Election Day.
  
  Read more

• ‘Trib Talk’: A special live election night show

  03-11-2020 20:00
  
  You’ve mailed your ballot, and now it’s time to watch the results come in.Before you turn your focus to the late arriving presidential results, we invite you to watch an election night “Trib Talk” special.We are going live at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday right here and on our Facebook page.Political correspondent Bryan Schott and The Tribune’s Taylor Stevens, Robert Gehrke, Bethany Rodgers and Lee Davidson will discuss Utah’s results and the national stage.The crew wi
  
  Read more

• Live election updates: Utah breaks its turnout record

  03-11-2020 19:50
  
  Salt Lake Tribune reporters will give you the latest on the 2020 election as the final votes are cast. Have a tip? Reach out to [email protected], also sign up for The Rundown, our political newsletter, here.11:30 a.m.: Utah breaks turnout recordThe Lieutenant Governor’s Office tweeted at 11:30 a.m. that Utah had just officially exceeded the turnout four years ago of 1,152,369.That is based on the number of by-mail ballots processed by county clerks at that point.Utah currently has 1,6
  
  Read more

• Gordon Monson: BYU, in preparing for Boise State, had to break a cardinal rule

  03-11-2020 19:31
  
  Somepeople wondered why BYU belched and burped a bit in the second half of its game against Western Kentucky on Saturday night. After all, theCougars scored touchdowns on their first five possessions, leading atthe half 35-3, before scoring a mere six points — two field goals — downthe stretch.What kind of showing is that for the ninth-ranked team in the country?It’s exactly what it should have been.Answer this question: If you were Kalani Sitake and Zach Wilson and the rest,wh
  
  Read more

• Live election updates: Utah’s early turnout already at 99% of 2016′s tally

  03-11-2020 19:00
  
  Salt Lake Tribune reporters will give you the latest on the 2020 election as the final votes are cast. Have a tip? Reach out to [email protected], also sign up for The Rundown, our political newsletter, here.11 a.m.: Go to vote and get a salmon lunchIn 2020, everything is a little bit unusual — even the free hot dogs that companies give away on Election Day.A seafood brand from Norway will give away its sustainable salmon dogs at the Salt Lake County Government Center, 2001 S. State.Th
  
  Read more

• For Utah football freshmen, nothing has been normal amidst COVID-19 pandemic

  03-11-2020 17:49
  
  Van Fillinger is acutely aware that his initial college experience over the last few months has been anything but normal.As with any college freshman, Fillinger has dealt with adjustment. An adjustment to being away from home for the first time, an adjustment to dorm life, an adjustment to dining halls, an adjustment to college-level classes.Now, consider the fact we’re in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, which means most classes are being held virtually and merely walking around campu
  
  Read more

• Live election updates: Nordstroms in Salt Lake City boarded up its windows, worried about violence

  03-11-2020 17:47
  
  Salt Lake Tribune reporters will give you the latest on the 2020 election as the final votes are cast. Have a tip? Reach out to [email protected], also sign up for The Rundown, our political newsletter, here.9:40 a.m.: City Creek braces for violenceOne of the remarkable images of Election Day 2020 is boarded up buildings in Washington, D.C., New York City, and yes, Salt Lake City.Nordstroms at City Creek Mall has wood over its windows, with the store worried about potential violence in the s
  
  Read more

• Navajo energy company to acquire shares in coal power plant

  03-11-2020 17:16
  
  Albuquerque, N.M. • The Navajo Nation would expand its investment in coal-fired electricity generation as part of a plan announced Monday to acquire more shares in one of the Southwest’s last remaining coal power plants.The Navajo Transitional Energy Co. has negotiated an agreement in which Public Service Co. of New Mexico would divest from the Four Corners Power Plant in 2024 with the tribal company taking over PNM’s 13% share. The agreement would call for the utility to pay to
  
  Read more

• 2 dead, 15 wounded in Vienna terror attack, authorities say

  03-11-2020 17:07
  
  Vienna • Gunmen opened fire on people enjoying a last night out at Vienna’s cafes and restaurants before a coronavirus lockdown Monday in what authorities said was a terrorist attack that left at least two dead — including one of the assailants — and 15 wounded.“We are victims of a despicable terror attack in the federal capital that is still ongoing,” Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said hours after the gunfire erupted.“One of the perpetrators
  
  Read more

• Utah’s weather will be gorgeous — until this weekend

  03-11-2020 17:02
  
  Utah’s weather will be sunny, warm and mostly dry throughout the work week — almost more like summer than fall — but a big change is expected this weekend. By Sunday, it’ll seem more like winter.Weather will not be a problem on Election Day. The NWS is forecasting a high of 69 in northern Utah, with partly sunny skies and light wind. It’ll be about 10 degrees warmer in southern Utah, with a 30% chance of rain — but that’s mainly before 9 a.m.
  (Courtesy o
  
  Read more

• Live election updates: Voting underway in Utah and, so far, lines are moving

  03-11-2020 17:02
  
  Salt Lake Tribune reporters will give you the latest on the 2020 election as the final votes are cast. Have a tip? Reach out to [email protected], also sign up for The Rundown, our political newsletter, here.9 a.m.: First voter in West Valley City got there at 5:30 a.m., but the lines are not longFour years ago, Hunter Library in West Valley City saw some of Utah’s longest lines for voting on Election Day. State Sen. Daniel Thatcher complained he stood in line for two hours then and sa
  
  Read more

• Bret Stephens: In this election, Mom knows best. Again.

  03-11-2020 16:45
  
  Nov. 13, 1950. An Italian ocean liner makes its way into New York Harbor after a 13-day voyage from Genoa. Passengers, many of them in tears, pack the deck as the ship glides past the Statue of Liberty. After the devastation of the war, they’ve made it to America — to a country that, for the immigrants aboard, represents safety, freedom, abundance and hope in an otherwise broken world.Among the immigrants are my grandmother Nina, a refugee who has already fled Russia, Germany and now
  
  Read more

• Paul Krugman: The war on truth reaches its climax

  03-11-2020 16:43
  
  I began writing a column for The Times way back in 2000. My beat was supposed to be economics and business. But I couldn’t help noticing that one of that year’s contenders for the presidency was systematically making false claims about his policy proposals. George W. Bush kept insisting that his 1%-friendly tax cuts were targeted on the middle class, and his plan to privatize Social Security just wished away the system’s obligations to older Americans.At the time, however, my e
  
  Read more

• Mark Fluchel: Will the Supreme Court treat our health like our cars? A physician’s perspective on the pending case ACA case.

  03-11-2020 16:43
  
  Auto insurance is required by law in all states except New Hampshire, where one is obligated to provide evidence of funds to cover an at-fault accident, and Virginia, where one can pay an uninsured driver’s fee. Most Americans accept these laws, as few of us are interested in sharing the roads with drivers who cannot pay in the event of a collision. I am not aware of any pending Supreme Court cases challenging these mandates.One could reasonably argue that, while liability insurance should
  
  Read more

• Tribune Editorial: Protests only make the virus stronger

  03-11-2020 15:17
  
  There are people in this nation, in this state, who are doing everything within their power to get control of the COVID-19 pandemic, save lives, ease the pressure on our health care system and get everyone back to work, back to school, back to normal.They give the public the benefit of their advanced education and training, working longer hours and making less money than they would in the private sector.And what do these people get for their hard work and devotion?Insults. Death threats. Vandali
  
  Read more

• What you need to know about voting in Utah on Election Day

  03-11-2020 14:00
  
  If there is one thing you need to know about voting on Election Day, it’s this: Do NOT mail your ballot.The state is not allowing votes to be counted that have a Nov. 3 postmark. Monday was the cutoff for postmarked ballots. You missed it.If there is a second thing you need to know, it’s this: If you are not registered to vote yet, you can still participate.For everyone who has waited until Tuesday to cast your ballot, here are your remaining options:Put it in a drop boxBallots will
  
  Read more

• Proposed oil railway would chew up 10,000 acres of Uinta Basin habitat

  03-11-2020 14:00
  
  A proposed oil-hauling railroad would degrade up to 10,000 acres of wildlife habitat in northeastern Utah, potentially disrupting migration corridors and ruining wetlands, according to a new draft environmental review.The federal Surface Transportation Board is reviewing the Uinta Basin Railway, proposed by a group of energy-producing Utah counties that hopes to connect the state’s oil patch to the national rail network. Such a transportation conduit would take hundreds of tanker trucks of
  
  Read more

• Election Day: What to expect in Utah and in battleground states

  03-11-2020 14:00
  
  It’s not hyperbole to say Utahns are excited to vote, and that enthusiasm has only increased in recent weeks. This is a consequential election, held during a pandemic, so it means election night will be a bit different across the country.What should you expect in Utah and how can you smartly track the national results as they come in? Here’s what you need to know to be an effective armchair expert Tuesday night.Utah’s early turnoutA new survey from Y2 Analytics found a big jump
  
  Read more

• Letter: Thank your health care workers

  03-11-2020 13:00
  
  Our health care workers are trained to care for others, but they did not sign up for months on end of watching patients struggle to breathe, possible daily exposure to a deadly virus, countless overtime hours and now, it appears, life or death decisions as to which patients who need intensive care cannot receive it. All this while worrying about the effects of the pandemic on their own families. Most of us cannot even imagine the stress they are under. If you know any health care workers, please
  
  Read more

• Charles M. Blow: Our most dangerous weeks are ahead of us

  03-11-2020 06:00
  
  The weeks following the election could very well be the most dangerous weeks in this country since the Civil War.If Donald Trump should lose, he may well not concede. And he will still be president, with all the power that bestows. His supporters will likely be seething, thinking that the election has been stolen. These are seeds he has been sowing for months.Trump will have command of the military, the Justice Department and part of the intelligence apparatus.He already knows that the Manhattan
  
  Read more

• Rally backed by ‘Trump Train’ held in Salt Lake City as coronavirus cases soar

  03-11-2020 05:14
  
  Hundreds crowded onto the grounds of Washington Square in Salt Lake City just after dusk Monday for a pro-Trump rally in open defiance of Utah’s prevailing COVID-19 restrictions.Flag-draped supporters, few of them wearing masks, clustered for the pre-Election Day rally near the west steps of the Salt Lake City and County Building. They were backed by a sympathetic parade of honking SUVs and trucks waving Trump 2020 banners and forming a “Trump Train” that cruised up and down St
  
  Read more

• Letter: Let’s respect each other

  03-11-2020 05:00
  
  My thanks to whoever was the brain behind the Peterson/Cox commercial advocating respect for one another and unity going forward. It is the most uplifting advertisement I’ve ever seen, and gives me hope for the future. Good on everyone involved with putting that ad together. (And vote Peterson!)Judy Mahoskey, MurraySubmit a letter to the editor
  
  Read more

• Charlie Warzel: What keeps Facebook’s election security chief up at night?

  03-11-2020 04:00
  
  Facebook is not the entire internet. But it does reflect and account for some of the greater web’s chaos. With just days to go, hyperpartisan pages on the platform are churning out propaganda to millions of followers.In recent weeks, malicious actors both foreign and domestic have attempted to use inauthentic networks to push narratives to sow confusion and division. Others, including President Trump and his campaign, have used the platform to spread false information about voting while so
  
  Read more

• Trump threatens to fire Fauci in rift with disease expert

  03-11-2020 03:56
  
  Opa-Locka, Fla. • President Donald Trump is suggesting that he will fire Dr. Anthony Fauci after Tuesday’s election, as his rift with the nation’s top infectious disease expert widens while the nation sees its most alarming outbreak of the coronavirus since the spring.Speaking at a campaign rally in Opa-locka, Florida, Trump expressed frustration that the surging cases of the virus that has killed more than 231,000 people in the United States this year remains prominent in the n
  
  Read more

• Letter: Teachers are doing their best with online learning

  03-11-2020 03:00
  
  Our family’s experience with online education in the Salt Lake City School District is very different from the picture painted by Michelle Quist in her Oct. 29 column. For our family, online education works just fine and we are grateful every day that our district superintendent and our school board had the courage to commit to the online model and then the wisdom to ensure the district’s people and technology were prepared to deliver an effective online experience.We check in often
  
  Read more

• Utah redshirt junior cornerback Bronson Boyd set to transfer

  03-11-2020 02:04
  
  The University of Utah’s already young, inexperienced secondary got even younger and more inexperienced late Monday afternoon.Redshirt junior cornerback Bronson Boyd has entered his name in the NCAA Transfer Portal, The Salt Lake Tribune has confirmed. 247sports was first to report Boyd’s portal entry.Boyd’s decision to transfer comes on the same day Utah released its first in-season depth chart. On it, Boyd is listed as a backup at one cornerback spot behind much-hyped four-st
  
  Read more

• Alixel Cabrera: The spooky ghosts of New York City

  03-11-2020 02:00
  
  After New York turned into a COVID hot spot in March and April, when the virus was so new in the U.S., it left a bitter impression on New Yorkers. Back then, the drastic transformation that the city suffered inspired illustrations of empty landmarks that were only conceivable in post-apocalyptic movies.It was exhausting to split the mind into trains of thought of sadness of the lives that were suddenly lost; with the fear of uncertainty and the longing for former routines and the spectacular det
  
  Read more

• Utah hospitals are juggling as admissions hit another daily record from COVID-19

  03-11-2020 01:55
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.Utah’s hospitals set another unwanted record Monday — an indicator, say doctors, that a drastic shift in health care standards during the COVID-19 pandemic is getting closer.According to the Utah Department of Health’s
  
  Read more

• West Valley City releases bodycam showing police dogs biting dozens of people

  03-11-2020 01:42
  
  West Valley City police released body camera and police reports Monday for 25 times when police dogs bit suspects over a nearly three-year period — the latest Salt Lake County police agency to do so after video surfaced of a Salt Lake City police officer ordering his dog to bite a Black man who was on his knees with his hands in the air.While Salt Lake City police identified many of their cases as problematic and flagged them for review for criminal charges against the officers involved, o
  
  Read more

• Utah liquor stores are open on Election Day — some until 10 p.m.

  03-11-2020 01:25
  
  A long time ago, liquor stores in Utah were closed on Election Day — but that law was changed years ago.But on Monday, rumors were swirling on social media to the contrary.The Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control clarified the misinformation, announcing on Twitter that all state-run stores will be open Nov. 3.To clarify misinformation on the web, Utah State Liquor Stores are open election day.Normal operating hours, 11am to 7pm or 10 pm depending on the store.— DABC Utah (@U
  
  Read more

• Most Americans see Bible, Quran and Book of Mormon as ‘expressions of the same truths’

  03-11-2020 01:24
  
  A majority of Americans (65%) say that the Bible, the Quran and the Book of Mormon are “all expressions of the same truths.”That somewhat-surprising finding is part of a just-released survey of 3,020 U.S. adults (with a 1.78% plus or minus margin of error) conducted jointly by the American Bible Society and the Barna Group.More predictable was the fact that most self-identified Christians (52%) disagreed with that assessment, either somewhat or strongly.Evangelical Christians, for ex
  
  Read more

• Letter: Support carbon dividends

  03-11-2020 01:00
  
  It’s commonly assumed that taking action to reduce emissions will punish U.S. businesses and harm living standards. What many people don’t realize is that the current absence of a national climate policy is penalizing our businesses and economy right now.Today, U.S. businesses compete on an unlevel playing field against foreign corporations with lower costs and higher emissions. That means Utah’s manufacturers, farmers, miners, and oil and gas producers don’t get any cred
  
  Read more

• Trump talks legal action, Biden on offense in 2020 presidential campaign finale

  03-11-2020 00:58
  
  Cleveland • President Donald Trump cast doubt in advance on Tuesday’s election results, while Democratic challenger Joe Biden pushed ahead on offense on the final full day of campaigning ahead of an election conclusion that could have consequences for the U.S. for years to come.The president threatened legal action to stop vote counting in crucial states including Pennsylvania, where both candidates campaigned Monday, and his advisers put out a statement accusing Democrats of trying t
  
  Read more

• No. 9 BYU preparing for ‘dogfight’ at No. 21 Boise State in shortened week

  03-11-2020 00:14
  
  Coaches and players may not say it, but No. 9 BYU started getting ready Monday for what is the biggest game of the season when the Cougars play at No. 21 Boise State on Friday.The upcoming matchup — the first of two ranked teams in the series — has serious implications for BYU. For just the fourth time in program history, the Cougars have gotten off to a 7-0 start.Five of those wins came behind dominating performances, leading BYU to not only break into national rankings, but also ge
  
  Read more

• Melissa Brackmann: Cancer and COVID: When ‘first do no harm’ means everyone

  03-11-2020 00:00
  
  We hear the COVID-19 statistics every day: the test counts, the case counts, the death counts. It feels like we’re becoming numb to the numbers. So I won’t belabor numbers, but underneath them lies a growing and urgent problem.With record-setting days across Utah each week, our hospital talk turns increasingly to our diminishing capacity. If COVID-19 cases continue rising, our health systems may eventually have no choice but to delay care for everything except life-threatening emerge
  
  Read more

Follow @UtahJazz_News_ on Twitter!