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The Delta Center announces lowered prices for concessions at Utah Jazz games
The Utah Jazz have announced a “fan-friendly” concessions menu to be sold at all Utah Jazz and Utah Jockey Club games this season. All five menu items will cost between $2 and $3. According to a release from Smith Entertainment Group (SEG), the new items’ pricing represents an average 45% drop in cost.
This is the newest action in Ryan Smith and SEG’s ever-growing list of efforts to improve the fan experience for Utahns. This change was spurred by feedback from Jazz fans attending the Delta Center. Chris Barney, president of revenue and commercial strategy for Smith Entertainment Group, said of the concession prices, “Today marks an unprecedented step in our continuous commitment to elevating the fan experience at Delta Center. By introducing fan-favorite concessions at incredible prices, we’re showing fans that we are listening to their needs.”
Many NBA teams don’t have owners who care so deeply about the fans and their experience. Consider just a few of the things Smith and SEG have done since purchasing the Jazz in 2020:
- Brought the Jazz back to KJZZ, giving fans free access to Jazz games.
- Created a streaming service, which fans had begged for for years.
- Renamed the arena to the Delta Center.
- Did a terrible rebrand for the Jazz (boo), but listened to feedback and rebranded again to a very popular look among fans (yay!)
- Put on an impromptu NBA Draft Party at the Delta Center at the request of fans on Twitter.
- Bought Real Salt Lake and promised to keep them in Utah.
- Revived the Utah Royals, keeping them in Utah.
- Bought Utah Hockey Club, bringing the first NHL team to Utah.
- Added Utah HC to the streaming service and kept pricing reasonable.
- Reduced the inflated concessions prices at the stadium.
Smith and the ownership group aren’t perfect. I’ve given my fair share of criticism about the failed rebrand and other things, but one thing is sure: Ryan Smith is a Jazz fan. He wants the Jazz to thrive, and he wants the Jazz fans to love every second of it.
SALT LAKE CITY — A California man in Utah, as part of his duties with the National Guard, is accused of trying to solicit sex from a young teenager.
Joshua Ruben Rodriguez, 29, of Fresno, was charged Tuesday in 3rd District Court with attempted rape of a child, a first-degree felony, and enticement of a minor, a second-degree felony.
The investigation began when an agent with the Utah State Bureau of Investigation posed as a 13-year-old girl on a “popular social media site … in an attempt to locate and apprehend adults attempting to have sexual contact with children,” according to charging documents.
On April 16, Rodriguez sent the agent a message — believing he was talking to a teen girl — that stated, “I’ll be direct with you, I would like to get to know you and (have sex with) your mind into a daze to where you feel like a woman,” according to charging documents.
When the “girl” asked if he had a problem with her age, Rodriguez replied, “I don’t have a problem with your age,” the charges state.
The agent told Rodriguez to meet at an apartment complex in Salt Lake County where the girl lived, claiming her mother would be gone. When Rodriguez arrived, he was taken into custody, the charges state.
“(Rodriguez) does not have ties to Utah. He is a resident of Fresno, California. (He) was in town as part of his military service with the California National Guard,” prosecutors stated in charging documents while requesting he be held without bail pending trial.
ST. GEORGE, Utah (KUTV) — One person was hospitalized at the St. George Regional Hospital after a car rolled and caught fire just south of the Utah-Arizona border.
The Beaver Dam and Littlefield Fire Department in Arizona said its crews responded to the crash near the Black Rock Road exit – roughly two miles south of the state border – on Sunday night.
Upon arrival, crews put out the car fire and found the driver had left the scene. A single occupant, who was able to get out of the car on their own, was transported to the hospital by a Beaver Dam ambulance.
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Their condition has not been publicly released.
Details on what led to the crash and the condition of the driver were not immediately available.
The Beaver Dam and Littlefield Fire Department said law enforcement investigated the scene.
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SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz missed out on the NBA Playoffs, but still scored a big win thanks to a coin flip.
In Monday’s tiebreaker coin flip to determine who had the fourth-worst record in the league last season, the Jazz came out winners over the Sacramento Kings, who had the same 22-60 record.
Had the Jazz lost the coin flip, they would have been fifth in NBA Draft Lottery odds. Only the worst four teams are guaranteed to remain within the top eight of the lottery.
If Utah had fallen to fifth, there would have been the chance they could have dropped out of the top 8 teams in the lottery, and owed the draft pick to Oklahoma City, which was top-8 protected in a previous trade.
The Jazz now have an 11.5 percent chance to win the first overall pick in the NBA Draft Lottery, which is scheduled for Sunday, May 10.
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