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• Utah football gets right to work on 2021, lands two QB transfers

  20-12-2020 23:47
  
  It took all of 24 hours after the end of its season for the University of Utah to aggressively put together its quarterback room for the 2021 season.Late Saturday night, the Utes picked up a commitment from Ja’Quinden Jackson, a transfer from the University of Texas and a former four-star recruit out of Dallas-area power Duncanville High School. On Sunday afternoon, Utah landed a big fish in four-year Baylor starter Charlie Brewer. Jackson and Brewer announced their respective commitments
  
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• ‘That’s where my heart is’: Rudy Gobert, Utah Jazz sign 5-year, $205 million extension

  20-12-2020 23:32
  
  All-Star center Rudy Gobert will continue to cast his long shadow in the paint for the Jazz, and in the state of Utah, for the foreseeable future.That’s because the two-time Defensive Player of the Year agreed to terms on a five-year, $205 million extension with the Utah Jazz this weekend, beating the Dec. 21 deadline for player and club to sign a contract. ESPN’s Tim MacMahon was first to report the news, which the Salt Lake Tribune independently confirmed.In a Sunday afternoon virt
  
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• Explainer: Are new coronavirus strains cause for concern?

  20-12-2020 23:05
  
  Reports from Britain and South Africa of new coronavirus strains that seem to spread more easily are causing alarm, but virus experts say it’s unclear if that’s the case or whether they pose any concern for vaccines or cause more severe disease.Viruses naturally evolve as they move through the population, some more than others. It’s one reason we need a fresh flu shot each year.New variants, or strains, of the virus that causes COVID-19 have been seen almost since it was first
  
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• Congress likely to approve nearly $1 trillion virus aid bill Sunday

  20-12-2020 22:56
  
  Washington • Top negotiators appear on the brink Sunday of agreeing to long-delayed legislation to deliver a new round of aid to pandemic-slammed businesses, $300 bonus jobless benefits and a $600 direct payment to most Americans, an aid package that is smaller than Democrats and President-elect Joe Biden would like.The must-pass measure, coming in at more than $900 billion, is expected to be released late Sunday and would be brought immediately to the House floor for a vote. It includes te
  
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• Donovan Mitchell excited about Rudy Gobert's extension

  20-12-2020 21:51
  
  Eric Walden: Donovan, on Rudy’s extension, and their relationship: “It’s big. I’m excited for him and I told him that. … We’re fine. It’s over. It’s past us. It’s hard to believe it’s still the same year (that everything happened).”
  
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• Utah men’s hoops reports positive COVID-19 test; Tuesday game at Arizona State postponed

  20-12-2020 21:34
  
  The University of Utah men’s basketball team was set to play at Arizona State on Tuesday, but COVID-19 had other plans.The game at Desert Financial Arena has been postponed after the Utes on Sunday reported a confirmed positive case within the program. The Pac-12 will work with both programs in effort to find a mutually agreeable date to get the game played.Utah’s trip to Southern California to face UCLA (Dec. 31) and USC (Jan. 2) is not thought to be in danger. In the interim, the U
  
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• Letter: Sen. Mike Lee’s tricky wordplay

  20-12-2020 21:30
  
  So Mike Lee wants to redefine America as “not a democracy.” He prefers to call it a republic. I believe what Lee and his cohorts are trying to do is to use semantics to make us believe that “republic equals good” and “democracy equals bad.” You see, this way he can convince people to believe that Republicans are the good party and Democrats are the bad guys.Trying to instill fear and shame in certain words is a trend these days. Another word being purported to
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: 1,994 new cases and seven more deaths reported on Sunday

  20-12-2020 21:13
  
  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.In a week where Utah saw its first vaccine distributions and highest single-day death record, the state capped off the past seven days with 1,994 new cases and seven more deaths on Sunday, as reported by the Utah Department of Health.An
  
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• The Boca Raton Bowl may be the last time Zach Wilson plays in a Cougar uniform. Where does he rank among BYU quarterback greats?

  20-12-2020 19:51
  
  The 2020 BYU football season will go down in history. After all, the Cougars mounted a 10-1 regular season record after almost not having a season at all.While most college football programs still weren’t playing, BYU took center stage, playing in primetime slots on national platforms. The opportunity allowed Zach Wilson’s break-out season to be showcased.The Cougars’ starting quarterback, who’s a Manning Award finalist, may very well wrap up his collegiate career on Tues
  
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• Letter: Let’s focus on clean, renewable energy

  20-12-2020 19:30
  
  Don Gale unwittingly spreads fossil fuel industry misinformation when he claims “we could cover the state with solar panels and windmills and it still wouldn’t provide enough electricity to handle predictable needs.”A 2013 report by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory looked at the land use requirement to power the entire United States using solar energy. Based on conservative assumptions, the conclusion was that approximately 22,000 square miles of solar farm would genera
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 235 new COVID-19 cases, 3 more deaths

  20-12-2020 19:01
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation health officials have reported 235 new COVID-19 cases plus three more virus-related deaths.In all, the tribe has reported 20,810 coronavirus cases resulting in 745 deaths since the pandemic hit the vast reservation in March.The new statistics released Saturday night came as the reservation entered the latest in a string of weekend-long lockdowns designed to limit activity that can spread the virus. Health officials said almost 190,000 people on the vast re
  
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• College Football Playoff matchups: Alabama vs. Notre Dame; Clemson vs. Ohio State

  20-12-2020 18:55
  
  Notre Dame was picked Sunday over Texas A&M for the final College Football Playoff spot and will face No. 1 Alabama in the semifinals while Clemson and Ohio State were paired in the CFP for the third time. The Fighting Irish and Crimson Tide will meet Jan. 1 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, after a late pandemic-related relocation from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. The Tigers and Buckeyes are set to play the same day at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans — if all goes according
  
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• Utah football ended COVID-fueled 2020 with a wild finish, Drew Lisk’s shining moment vs. Washington State

  20-12-2020 18:30
  
  Good for Drew Lisk.The redshirt senior quarterback played in six games for the University of Utah from 2016-19, and none this season until he was thrust into duty late in the first half Saturday afternoon vs. Washington State.Lisk engineered five scoring drives on eight second-half possessions, four of which went for touchdowns, as the Utes scored 38 unanswered points to defeat the Cougars, 45-28, to finish this weird, unprecedented season at 3-2 with three straight wins.Lisk finished 15-for-26
  
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• Rudy Gobert, Utah Jazz sign 5-year, $205 million extension

  20-12-2020 17:59
  
  All-Star center Rudy Gobert will continue to cast his long shadow in the paint for the Jazz, and in the state of Utah, for the foreseeable future.That’s because the two-time Defensive Player of the Year agreed to terms on a five-year, $205 million extension with the Utah Jazz this weekend, beating the Dec. 21 deadline for player and club to sign a contract. ESPN’s Tim MacMahon was first to report the news, which the Salt Lake Tribune independently confirmed.The deal falls short of th
  
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• Ross Douthat: When you can’t just ‘trust the science’

  20-12-2020 17:16
  
  One of many regrettable features of the Donald Trump era is the way that the president’s lies and conspiracy theories have seemed to vindicate some of his opponents’ most fatuous slogans. I have in mind, in particular, the claim that has echoed through the liberal side of coronavirus-era debates — that the key to sound leadership in a pandemic is just to follow the science, to trust science and scientists, to do what experts suggest instead of letting mere grubby politics deter
  
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• Utah football lands Texas QB transfer Ja’Quinden Jackson

  20-12-2020 17:11
  
  The University of Utah football program signed its highest-rated recruiting class ever on Wednesday, but on Thursday, head coach Kyle Whittingham indicated he was still in the market for some more quarterback help. That help will indeed arrive in time for spring practice in March.Ja’Quinden Jackson, a transfer from the University of Texas and a former four-star recruit out of Dallas-area power Duncanville High School, committed to the Utes late Saturday evening via Twitter.As a true freshm
  
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• Mitt Romney calls Trump’s attempts to overturn election loss ‘sad’ and ‘embarrassing’

  20-12-2020 17:01
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney did not mince words when asked about President Donald Trump’s continuing efforts to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden.“It’s really sad and in a lot of respects embarrassing,” said Romney, R-Utah, who made the rounds on the Sunday morning political talk show circuit. “He’s leaving Washington with a whole series of conspiracy theories and things that are so nutty and loopy that people are shaking their heads, wondering what in the world ha
  
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• Wes Long: Whom does America belong to?

  20-12-2020 17:00
  
  As I look to 2021, I am struck by the dizzying array of crises that have occurred across our country. Politically, economically and socially, we’ve all been through much, and we have more to address before equilibrium can be established.Considering our present holiday season and the approach of a new year, however, we’re never short of occasions to assess the state of things and reorient our direction. If we have endured the past few years and yet are still determined to do what we&r
  
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• Rudy Gobert signs 5-year, $205 million extension with Utah Jazz

  20-12-2020 16:31
  
  All-Star center Rudy Gobert will continue to cast his long shadow in the paint for the Jazz, and the state of Utah, for the foreseeable future.That’s because the two-time Defensive Player of the Year agreed to terms on a five-year, $205 million extension with the Utah Jazz this weekend, beating the Dec. 21 deadline for player and club to sign a contract. ESPN’s Tim MacMahon was first to report the news, which the Salt Lake Tribune independently confirmed.The deal falls short of the &
  
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• Letter: It’s time for a representative overhaul

  20-12-2020 16:30
  
  How did we arrive at a point where we have a congressman, a senator and a state attorney general who, at best, are promoting actions that are destructive to democracy and not helpful to dialogue that encourages compromise and understanding? While the diversity and complex issues of Utah residents continue to expand, the interpretation of what is “good for Utah” continues to shrink.Sen. Mitt Romney becomes a “hero” for simply stating the obvious, Sen. Mike Lee downplays de
  
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• Why the Kane County water district is building a golf course

  20-12-2020 16:22
  
  Mike Noel is looking to get into the golf business and is seeking to harness public money to do it.The Kane County Water Conservancy District, which the retired southern Utah lawmaker has long run, has initiated plans to develop a destination golf course in Kanab, and has already dedicated funds to purchase land from a prominent local family and hire a top golf course designer.While district officials see the project as a wonderful boon to Kanab, others wonder if the district is wandering far ou
  
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• Jazz, Rudy Gobert agree to extension

  20-12-2020 16:07
  
  All-NBA big man Rudy Gobert will sign a five-year, $205 million contract extension with the Utah Jazz, he told ESPN after agreeing to the largest deal for a center in league history.
  
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• There’s a boutique winery in Utah, and you’ll never guess what’s growing nearby

  20-12-2020 14:00
  
  Erda, a tiny town in northern Utah, and La Rioja, a province in northern Spain, are 5,200 miles apart physically — and, some might say, culturally — but they share something in common:Both sit about the same distance north of the equator near the 40th parallel. It’s a geographic strip thought to be one of the best coordinates for growing grapes and making wine.Rioja is already one of the best known wine regions in the world, with thousands of vineyards thriving at the base of t
  
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• The story of one man who ran every street in Salt Lake City in 2020

  20-12-2020 14:00
  
  If you live in Salt Lake City, Bryant Heath ran by your house this year.If you work in Salt Lake City, Heath ran by your place of business. If you worship in Salt Lake City, he ran by your church. Your school, favorite grocery store, the gas station you usually stop by, your bank, your favorite park. He’s seen them all.This man — 35 years old, an engineer by trade — might know all of Salt Lake City better than anyone.That’s because Heath took on a crazy project in this cr
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: There are good things to watch on TV on Christmas Day

  20-12-2020 14:00
  
  It’s become a tradition at my house to go see a movie on Christmas Day. My kids are adults and nobody has young kids, so it’s sort of a family thing.(“Little Women,” “Mary Poppins,” “The Greatest Showman” and “The Force Awakens” were good choices — “Sweeney Todd,” not so much.)But we’re not going to a theater this year, for obvious reasons. And, like so many other families, we’re not having a huge gathering
  
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• Rich Lowry: Don’t pardon Edward Snowden

  20-12-2020 14:00
  
  No one will ever accuse President Donald Trump of being overly careful in his exercise of his pardon power.So, it makes sense that advocates of Edward Snowden, the man responsible for the most damaging classified leak in U.S. history, are mounting a last-minute push to get the president who pardoned Sheriff Joe and Roger Stone to issue his most outrageous and indefensible pardon yet.It’s a transpartisan alliance. Glenn Greenwald, Snowden’s journalistic partner and foremost advocate,
  
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• Exclusive: How COVID-19 has impacted Utah’s substitute teacher shortage

  20-12-2020 14:00
  
  Editor’s note • Through a grant from the Walton Family Foundation, The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting in-depth on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on education.When Joshua Lamore opted not to put his name in the substitute teacher pool this year, the decision had nothing to do with the risk of catching COVID-19.Lamore’s wife teaches math, and this spring — when schools statewide turned to remote learning at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic — he witnessed fi
  
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• 4.3 magnitude earthquake rattles Moab residents

  20-12-2020 04:50
  
  A 4.3 magnitude earthquake was felt by Moab residents on Saturday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.The earthquake happened in the area of Utah’s border with Colorado. The USGS said it occurred about 33 miles from Moab. Four people from Moab reported feeling the quake on the USGS’ website.Jana Pursley, a USGS geophysicist, said the earthquake happened in a fairly remote area so it shouldn’t have affected any homes or buildings. She said people felt the earthquake
  
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• Letter: We need a truth vaccine

  20-12-2020 04:30
  
  Everyone involved in the tremendous COVID vaccine development deserves all the thanks we can give. Their work was magnificent and only one critical vaccine is left to develop. We have a critical need for a truth vaccine. It should be developed and made mandatory for all those who hold or want to hold public office and for those who have forums to sway public opinion. Someone is lying to the American people and has been for a long while.At this point I don’t care if it’s a Republican
  
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• George Pyle: Tribune Opinion section is still your soapbox

  20-12-2020 02:01
  
  If you want to make the editor of a weekly newspaper really angry, you can suggest that putting out a newspaper once a week is only one-seventh as much work as printing one every day.It isn’t.Especially now that newspapers, including this one, are 24/7 digital operations, providing news, information and entertainment to readers wherever the internet may reach.None of the eight newspapers I’ve worked for was the weekly kind. But I’ve known some folks who did work for print weekl
  
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• Letter: Don’t militarize climate change

  20-12-2020 01:30
  
  With John Kerry appointed as our new climate envoy, it is time to discuss his national security framing of climate change. After his appointment, Kerry tweeted, “America will have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is.” The AP news story on his appointment quotes a Pentagon report that notes increases in border insecurity that will come with a warming planet.By framing climate change as a national security threat, Kerry, and liberals
  
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• Comeback for the ages: Utah football rallies past Washington State by scoring 38 unanswered points

  20-12-2020 01:18
  
  University of Utah football fans speak of “The Jason Shelley Game” with great reverence.Shelley, pressed into late-season duty in 2018 with Tyler Huntley out for the season, engineered 28 straight points against BYU, capped by his own 33-yard run with 1:43 left for a 7-point win.Saturday afternoon offered shades of that improbability as “The Drew Lisk Game” has now entered the program lexicon.Lisk, a former walk-on, not to mention a redshirt senior that was on the fence a
  
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• ‘Legend of Drew Lisk’ born as Utah football rallies for season-ending win behind ex-Jordan High QB

  20-12-2020 00:51
  
  Drew Lisk got his curtain call, just not the one he and the Utah Utes expected.It had been proposed by some fans that Lisk, a graduate of Jordan High, might be able to enter late in Saturday’s game against Washington State — long after a win was sewn up — and mark the end of his lengthy career with the Utes with a celebration on the field.Well, Lisk did finish the season, and likely his Utah career, on the turf at Rice-Eccles Stadium. And the quarterback did celebrate the Utes&
  
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• What a comeback: Utah football rallies past Washington State by scoring 38 unanswered points

  20-12-2020 00:01
  
  This is the type of thing that will get talked about forever among University of Utah fans.The backup quarterback, a former walk-on, not to mention a redshirt senior that was on the fence about even returning this fall for a fifth year, is pressed into duty and leads the Utes to a well-earned victory in the season finale.Picture the Jason Shelley-fueled comeback against BYU to close the 2018 regular season, only far-more improbable than that.Drew Lisk entered Utes lore on Saturday afternoon. Ins
  
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