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The Utah Jazz are an American professional basketball team based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Jazz compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member club of the league's Western Conference Northwest Division.

Since 1991, the team has played its home games at Vivint Smart Home Arena.

The franchise began play in 1974 as the New Orleans Jazz, an expansion team based in New Orleans; the Jazz moved to Salt Lake City in 1979.

The Deseret News is a newspaper published in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

It is Utah's oldest continuously published daily newspaper and has the largest Sunday circulation in the state and the second largest daily circulation behind The Salt Lake Tribune.

The News is owned by Deseret News Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Deseret Management Corporation, a holding company owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah.

With an estimated population of 190,884 in 2014, the city lies at the core of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,153,340 (2014 estimate).

Salt Lake City is further situated within a larger metropolis known as the Salt Lake City-Ogden-Provo Combined Statistical Area.

This region is a corridor of contiguous urban and suburban development stretched along an approximately segment of the Wasatch Front, comprising a total population of 2,423,912.

It is one of only two major urban areas in the Great Basin (the other is Reno, Nevada).

The BYU Cougars are the collegiate athletic teams that represent Brigham Young University (BYU), a major university in Provo, Utah.

BYU fields 21 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) varsity athletic teams.

They are a member of the West Coast Conference for most sports.

Other sports compete in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and as independents.

They were a member of the Mountain West Conference (MW) from its formation in 1999 until leaving in 2011 as part of a major NCAA conference realignment.

Before the formation of the MW, the Cougars competed in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, the Mountain States Conference, and the Western Athletic Conference.

The Utah Utes are the athletics teams representing the University of Utah.

They are named after the Ute tribe of Native Americans.

The men's basketball team is known as the "Runnin' Utes"; the women's basketball team, formerly known as the "Lady Utes," now prefers to be referred to as the "Utes"; and the women's gymnastics team is known as the "Red Rocks".