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• Arizona men’s basketball self-imposes one-year postseason ban

  29-12-2020 23:49
  
  Tucson, Ariz. • The Arizona men’s basketball program has self-imposed a one-year postseason ban related to its long-running NCAA rules infractions case.Arizona was accused of nine counts of misconduct, including five Level I violations, in a Notice of Allegations sent by the NCAA in October. The violations include a lack of institutional control and failure to monitor by the university, and lack of head coach control by basketball coach Sean Miller.The school announced the one-year ba
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Bojan Bogdanovic says it’s not his wrist, but his rhythm that’s bothering him

  29-12-2020 23:33
  
  Early in Monday’s victory in Oklahoma City, Utah Jazz forward Bojan Bogdanovic was struggling through another poor-shooting half and could several times be observed shaking his surgically-repaired right wrist, as though it was bothering him, or he was in pain.And then, right after halftime, he absorbed a solid whack to the area from a defender looking to dislodge the ball … and, counterintuitively, started hitting shots immediately thereafter.“Actually, I felt pretty well [in
  
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• Jal Mehta: We must make our schools more human

  29-12-2020 23:29
  
  If a measure of a society is how well it takes care of its young, the past nine months are a damning indictment of our nation.Parents and teachers have been working overtime under impossible circumstances., and states have prioritized keeping gyms and restaurants open over keeping schools open. A result is that about 48 percent of all students are still in full-time virtual instruction (another 18 percent are in hybrid), according to Burbio, a company that tracks school calendars. These rates ar
  
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• Paul Krugman: 2020 was the year that Reaganism finally died

  29-12-2020 23:26
  
  Maybe it was the visuals that did it. It’s hard to know what aspects of reality make it into Donald Trump’s ever-shrinking bubble — and I’m happy to say that after Jan. 20 we won’t have to care about what goes on in his not-at-all beautiful mind — but it’s possible that he became aware of how he looked, playing golf as millions of desperate families lost their unemployment benefits.Whatever the reason, on Sunday he finally signed an economic relief bill
  
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• Charges filed in Christmas fatal shooting in Riverdale

  29-12-2020 23:00
  
  Charges have been filed against a teenage boy and at least one adult allegedly involved in a Christmas morning shooting that killed a Riverdale man and left his girlfriend seriously injured.Rayburn Jimmy Bennett, 16, of West Valley City, is being charged as an adult for shooting 36-year-old Trevor Anthony Martin, according to documents filed in 2nd District Court in Weber County.Bennett is charged with murder, robbery, burglary and obstructing justice, police documents said. The Salt Lake Tribun
  
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• Utah football finished 2020 strong and optimism will be present for 2021, but there is a gaping hole to fill

  29-12-2020 21:15
  
  Kyle Whittingham was hoping for a sense of normalcy moving forward.A normal offseason program, the normal 15 spring practices across March and April, a normal summer schedule, normal fall camp, and a normal 12-game season beginning Sept. 2 vs. Weber State.That normalcy is not coming any time soon following the death of Pac-12 Offensive Freshman of the Year Ty Jordan on Christmas night, which will produce questions both on and off the field. Assuming the COVID-19 pandemic allows it, the Utes will
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up 2,736 Tuesday, and the state reported 16 more deaths

  29-12-2020 21:12
  
  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.With 2,736 new coronavirus cases reported Tuesday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses bobbed up slightly after a lull in testing during the Christmas holiday.The Utah Department of Health on Tuesday reported a seven-day average of 2,035
  
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• Russell Fischer: Measure the true cost of foundation funding

  29-12-2020 20:27
  
  While browsing local graduate school programs I stumbled on the environmental humanities master’s degree offered by the University of Utah, which looks like a great program. It has just welcomed its first “practitioner in residence,” a local environmental leader whom the program pays $25,000 to participate for a semester.Likely in a schadenfreude-esque attempt to make myself feel better for not being an environmental leader, the following questions entered my mind: Who is payin
  
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• Larry Tye: MLB records were never real. Racism was.

  29-12-2020 20:26
  
  Major League Baseball keeps vowing to redress its racist past, but its half-steps only reinforce the elusiveness of that goal, for it and the rest of America.The league’s latest push, unveiled with fanfare last week, was to formally recognize the most prominent of the Negro leagues as equal to the American and National leagues.That, M.L.B.’s commissioner says, means that more than 3,400 players from seven distinct all-Black conferences will become part of big-league history, and incl
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Ratings update — DVRs and streaming make ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’ look a lot more like a hit

  29-12-2020 18:07
  
  Turns out that a lot of people are setting their DVRs to record “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” and those delayed viewers are making the first-season show look a whole lot more successful.When you add in the streaming numbers, we’re not talking about minor, moderate or even big increases. Some of the gains from delayed viewing and streaming are nothing short of huge — the number of viewers for the show’s Nov. 11 premiere quadrupled.Fans worried that the sho
  
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• The Triple Team: Thunder’s Lu Dort gets better of Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell for 3 quarters — then Mitchell gets last laugh

  29-12-2020 15:06
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 110-109 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder from Salt Lake Tribune beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Donovan Mitchell — finally — figures out the Lu Dort matchup in final six minutesIt was one of the worst games of Donovan Mitchell’s career. Well, for three and a half quarters.After a 3-15 start from the field, Mitchell made five of his eight next shots to carry the Jazz to the win. Indeed, those baskets, and a couple of free throws, were the onl
  
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• Robert Kirby: What did we learn from this year of the Great Pandemic?

  29-12-2020 15:04
  
  Two more days and we’ll be finished with 2020. The big question is: Will it be finished with us?My guess is that we still have a long way to go. If history has proved anything, it’s that horrible stuff doesn’t pay attention to timetables.World War II, the Great Depression, the bubonic plague and disco are excellent examples of rough times having their own schedules. None of them ended just because a year did.Note: I’m not sure if disco killed anyone or just made us wish w
  
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• These are The Salt Lake Tribune’s ‘most Utah’ stories of 2020

  29-12-2020 14:34
  
  Well, here we are: The end of this most unusual, painful and newsy year.It’s a time for reflection, so we wanted to look back at those only-in-Utah stories — the pieces that went viral or that speak to the essence of this state. Good, bad, hilarious, and tragic: Let’s look back at some of the “most Utah” stories of 2020.
  (Photo courtesy of the Utah Department of Health) State health officials are distributing Utah-themed condoms statewide as part of an HIV awareness
  
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• The threat of COVID hasn’t slowed the Utah Legislature’s push for new laws — lots of them

  29-12-2020 14:00
  
  The 2021 Utah Legislature is still weeks away, but there are already nearly 1,000 bills proposed, with more on the way.In a normal year, that’s not out of the ordinary. But, this is not a normal year, as legislative leaders worry a COVID outbreak on Capitol Hill could force them to cut the 45-day session short.“I’m cautiously optimistic that we’ll be able to deal with legislators or others getting COVID,” says Senate President Stuart Adams, R-Layton.The ongoing coro
  
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• Peter Wehner: The forgotten radicalism of Jesus Christ

  29-12-2020 14:00
  
  “Get used to different.”That line comes from a marvelous new TV series on Jesus’ life, “The Chosen,” in which Jesus, played by Jonathan Roumie, invites Matthew to become one of his disciples. Simon Peter, already a disciple, registers his fierce objection. Matthew is a tax collector, who were viewed as tools of Roman authorities, often dishonest and abusive. They were therefore treated as traitors and outcasts by other Jews.“I don’t get it,” Simon
  
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• Noteworthy Utahns who died in 2020: Judges, advocates, artists, athletes, coaches, trailblazers

  29-12-2020 14:00
  
  Revered jurists and lawyers. Leaders in business and government. Writers and actors. Advocates for Utah veterans, Korean War casualties and the Pacific Islander community. Inspirational coaches from many levels of the game. Former star athletes and a rising football sensation. A woman who blazed trails on the ski slopes, and a woman who defended polygamy, though it meant losing her children.The notable Utahns who died in 2020 came from various walks of life and had widely different effects on th
  
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• NBA drafts 3 Salt Lake City restaurants for safe ‘visiting team’ dining

  29-12-2020 14:00
  
  NBA teams traveling to Salt Lake City to take on the Utah Jazz this season won’t be able to eat at just any Utah restaurant.On the road, according to the NBA’s 2020-21 health and safety guidelines to deal with COVID-19, players, coaches and staff can dine somewhere other than their hotels if the restaurant provides outdoor dining, has a private indoor dining room or has been formally approved by the league.The league worked with the players association to come up with a list of at le
  
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• Letter: President needs a line-item veto

  29-12-2020 13:27
  
  With the passage of the recent COVID-19 relief bill it is obvious that there is no way congress can control pork barrel spending. Just look at all the unrelated items in this bill with money for a museum and other countries.The problem is no one in the House or Senate has a real incentive to do what is right for the country as a whole. The member of Congress from Oregon does not care what the people in North Carolina think. The senator from Georgia does not care what the people in Arizona think.
  
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• Fate of Trump’s $2,000 checks now rests with GOP-led Senate

  29-12-2020 07:16
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump’s push for $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks now rests with the Senate after the House voted overwhelmingly to meet the president’s demand to increase the $600 stipends, but Republicans have shown little interest in boosting spending.The outcome is highly uncertain heading into Tuesday’s session. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has declined to publicly address how he plans to handle the issue. But Democrats, sharing a rare priority wi
  
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• Donovan Mitchell’s late barrage helps Utah Jazz get both a win and some closure in return to Oklahoma City

  29-12-2020 06:10
  
  Yes, the Jazz and Thunder finally were able to tip off Monday night in Oklahoma City.Utah pulling out a hard-fought 110-109 victory after that was just a bonus.Donovan Mitchell scored Utah’s final 12 points, including the game-winning runner with 7 seconds left, Bojan Bogdanovic bounced back from another atrocious shooting start to finish with 23 points, Mike Conley approached a triple-double by posting 20 points, 10 rebounds, and nine assists, and Rudy Gobert — the NBA’s so-ca
  
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• The Triple Team: Thunder’s Lu Dort gets better of Donovan Mitchell for three quarters — then Mitchell gets last laugh

  29-12-2020 05:44
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 110-109 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder from Salt Lake Tribune beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Donovan Mitchell — finally — figures out the Lu Dort matchup in final six minutesIt was one of the worst games of Donovan Mitchell’s career. Well, for three and a half quarters. After a 3-15 start from the field, Mitchell made five of his eight next shots to carry the Jazz to the win. Indeed, those baskets, and a couple of free throws, were the on
  
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• Frank Bruni: Joe Biden’s withering olive branch

  29-12-2020 05:28
  
  The year will turn, Joe Biden will take the oath of office, and we’ll heal.That was the fundamental promise of his campaign, no? That was the hope.But I’m struggling mightily to hold on to even a sliver of it.Like President-elect Biden, I believe in common ground, in comity, in identifying where we intersect rather than where we diverge. I was drawn to him, as were a critical mass of other Americans, because he represented the calm after the storm, the sense after the sensation.But i
  
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• Donovan Mitchell’s late barrage leads Utah Jazz over Thunder in return to Oklahoma City

  29-12-2020 04:29
  
  Yes, the Jazz and Thunder were able to tip off Monday night in Oklahoma City.Utah pulling out a hard-fought 110-109 victory after that was just a bonus.Donovan Mitchell scored Utah’s final 12 points, including the game-winner with 7 seconds left, Bojan Bogdanovic bounced back from another atrocious shooting start to finish with 23 points, Mike Conley approached a triple-double by posting 20 points, 10 rebounds, and nine assists, and Rudy Gobert — the NBA’s so-called “Pati
  
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• Letter: Trump’s pardon of killers is deplorable indeed

  29-12-2020 04:27
  
  I expected Donald Trump to pardon his comrades in crime, but never in my wildest dreams did I think he would show just how much of a bottom-feeder he is by pardoning four convicted killers of 17 civilian men, women and children in Iraq. How could such a loathsome person ever become president of the United States?To Trump supporters, I believe the term “deplorables” is way too generous of a term for the kind of people you truly must be. Your continued support of Trump clearly shines a
  
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• House approves $2,000 checks, sending to GOP-led Senate

  29-12-2020 03:29
  
  Washington • The House voted overwhelmingly Monday to increase COVID-19 relief checks to $2,000, meeting President Donald Trump’s demand for bigger payments and sending the bill to the GOP-controlled Senate, where the outcome is highly uncertain.Democrats led passage, 275-134, their majority favoring additional assistance, but dozens of Republicans suddenly joined in approval. While Democrats favored bigger checks, Congress had settled on smaller $600 payments in a compromise over the
  
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• Letter: Apply pandemic thinking to solving climate crisis

  29-12-2020 03:26
  
  If your vision specialist says you have 20/20 vision, you’re pretty happy. Things come into focus. I think the year 2020 has created 20/20 clarity, as the pandemic has brought many things into focus. Two realizations stand out for me: science matters, and the U.S. can mobilize with incredible efficiency.During the pandemic, scientists and health professionals have warned of the consequences of ignoring calls to wear masks, social distance and avoid groups. Now we’re experiencing real
  
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• Richard Davis and Hillary Stirling: United Utah Party was the sleeper story of the 2020 election

  29-12-2020 02:30
  
  The major election outcome this year was the election of a new governor for the first time in 11 years. However, there was another story that was missed. That is the continued growth of the United Utah Party.This state-centric party was formed in May 2017 by a group of former Republicans and Democrats unhappy with the two major parties and seeking an alternative. The platform stresses moderate solutions regarding public education, immigration and the economy that appeal to voters who, for exampl
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up 1,716 Monday, after a Christmas lull in testing and hospitalizations

  29-12-2020 02:20
  
  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.With 1,716 new coronavirus cases reported Monday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued to decline.But with a lull in testing, the percentage of tests coming back positive also was rising — which suggests a high rate of unde
  
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• Letter: Who is telling us the truth?

  29-12-2020 01:25
  
  I am astounded at the number of Trump flags (literal or figurative) that I see still flying. Fellow Republicans, no indisputable, or even credible, evidence of election fraud has been presented. Today’s multiple choice test has only one question: Who is telling us the truth?1. Social media? Much good is found on social media, but it also presents many personal opinions and unverified information.2. Internet sites? Much verifiable truth is also found here, but there is also a great deal of
  
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• In his last speech as governor, Gary Herbert calls for unity, invokes Utah pioneer spirit

  29-12-2020 01:16
  
  In his final address as Utah’s governor, Gary Herbert urged the state’s residents to reject political divisiveness and to unite to battle the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 1,200 people in the Beehive State.Even as Utah struggles through “one of the biggest trials” in its history, Herbert said, he sees “light at the end of the tunnel” now that vaccine distribution has begun.“But we are still in a very long and dark tunnel,” Herber
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Hell of a Year

  29-12-2020 01:04
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Criminal ClassMaking a ListHo Ho HerpetologyHalf a LoafPlaying ThroughThe ThinkerWorking PresidentTime of Good CheerLoyalty OafManspreader MansplainsWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• BYU football’s 2020 success should extend to 2021, even if record doesn’t show it

  29-12-2020 00:10
  
  BYU finished the 2020 football season having only endured one loss (11-1) — a feat only accomplished five other times, but a first in the Cougars’ independence era. BYU’s success served as a beacon of hope through the pandemic-stricken season.But now the question remains: Can the Cougars provide similar, if not better, results next season?Yes, but it may not look like it on paper.The Cougars will be back to business as usual next year (or at least should be, assuming this pande
  
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• LDS Church sued for alleged role in Boy Scouts sex abuse

  29-12-2020 00:08
  
  Phoenix • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was hit with several lawsuits Monday for allegedly covering up decades of sexual abuse among Boy Scout troops in Arizona, marking the latest litigation before the state’s end-of-year deadline for adult victims to sue.The church “must be held accountable in order to bring healing and closure to Mormon victims of childhood sexual abuse,” Hurley McKenna & Mertz, a law firm that focuses on church sex abuse, said in
  
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