Introducing the KFAN Salt City Hoops Show

I’m excited to announce the launch of the KFAN Salt City Hoops Show, which will debut live on the 1320 KFAN airwaves starting this Saturday at 11am. You can listen at 1320 AM or online at http://1320kfan.com/  The show...

Jazz 123 – Mavs 121: The Triple Overtime Wet Willy Game

Games like this are the reason I love professional basketball. Could I interest you in a German-speaking giraffe that can play basketball? How about a slightly unhinged ginger who gives wet willies to his opponents? Perhaps a...

Jazz 98 – Grizzlies 103

Utah Jazz 98 Final Recap | Box Score 103 Memphis Grizzlies Paul Millsap, PF 38 MIN | 8-15 FG | 0-2 FT | 7 REB | 1 AST | 17 PTS | 0 Is there any trait of this Jazz team more perplexing than Millsap’s...

The Location of Jazz Nation

There’s a dichotomy, used in linguistics and in literary criticism, used to describe the relationship between words and their referents. The word we speak or write for referent is called “the signifier” while...

Hornets 96 – Jazz 85

Utah Jazz 85 Final Recap | Box Score 96 New Orleans Hornets Paul Millsap, PF 39 MIN | 11-21 FG | 5-6 FT | 8 REB | 3 AST | 27 PTS | -9 WARRIOR. Millsap was by far the best Jazz player on the...

Jazz 91 – Spurs 84: The Devin Harris Game ft guest appearances by John Stockton and Greg Ostertag

Utah Jazz 91 Final Recap | Box Score 84 San Antonio Spurs Here’s referee Ken Mauer in beach clothes but same hair at a Summer League game in 2007: — All videos by memoismoney / Root Sports /...

Diagnosing Utah’s Recent Woes

Typically, when a team misses the playoffs, it’s for one of two rather obvious reasons. 1. A talented roster that is incapable of meshing the considerable talents of each individual into a concerted team effort. 2. A roster...

David Stern to Keynote the Governor’s State of Sports Awards Ceremony

If you were wondering why David Stern attended last night’s Jazz-Suns game, you’ll be pleased to know that it wasn’t simply to create a disturbance in the Force. Channing Frye hit that shot completely on his...

Jazz 105 – Suns 107

This game was just a punch in the stomach. It really felt like every shot the Suns put up was going in, but somehow the Jazz kept finding ways to claw back into it. Until this: Now, I don’t have a problem with the...

Salt City Hoops Podcast: Kirk Goldsberry

Listen to this episode at 1320kfan.com. This week on the podcast from the 1320 KFAN studios I was joined by Kirk Goldsberry to talk about his work with statistical visualization and his presentation at the MIT Sloan Sports...