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Welcome to Weekend Rewind, a glance back at The Tribune's best news stories, top photos and opinions you may have missed from Saturday and Sunday.

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Top stories this past weekend

The forces behind the Jazz's success • The Utah Jazz should be in limbo. A small-market team left directionless during a bitter NBA lockout that hit the 115-day mark Sunday. A rebuilding franchise that no longer has coach Jerry Sloan to rely on or All-Star guard Deron Williams to promote, entering an uncertain era made fragile by an unpredictable economy. Instead, the Jazz are entrenched in Salt Lake City. Former owner Larry H. Miller's entrepreneurial vision has endured the worst American recession since the Great Depression, while the franchise is well-prepared for the effects of an NBA work stoppage that has left lesser organizations fighting for their existence. • http://bit.ly/ozmE9p

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In Utah, Jazz are still king of the mountain • Jazz President Randy Rigby has seen almost everything during his 25 years with the Larry H. Miller Group of Companies. But his answers to the challenges the Jazz face remain the same: keep evolving, keep changing and, most importantly, keep making money. • http://bit.ly/oEHVmS

Car sales are the motor that keeps diversified company cruising • Being the parent company of the Utah Jazz gives the Larry H. Miller Group of Companies sex appeal. But selling cars, sports team merchandise, more cars, movie tickets and still more cars is what has made the company a leading figure in Utah's business community for three decades and one of the state's top employers. • http://bit.ly/oYZAiD

Romney bets on winning gold in Silver State • Fortunes are won and lost in Las Vegas, but come February, Nevada may play a key role in deciding the next Republican nominee for president.The state's first-in-the-West nominating contest is a prime target for Mitt Romney, who won the state by a large margin in 2008. This time through he once again has a sizable ground operation in place and has spent considerable time in the Silver State, hoping for an important momentum boost that could help propel him to the GOP nomination. • http://bit.ly/qNfL9c

Utah hospital to offer live donor liver transplants for adults • Living donor liver transplants have not been an option for adults in Utah since 2008. Now, the same surgical team that transplants segments of livers from living donors at Primary Children's Medical Center is ready to do the same at Intermountain Medical Center for adults dying from liver disease. • http://bit.ly/p9bE8T

Prints, dental records: Alexis Rasmussen confirmed dead • One mystery ended Saturday when North Ogden police confirmed the body they discovered earlier this week is that of 16-year-old Alexis Rasmussen, who had been missing since Sept. 10. But there was still no explanation of what killed the teenager. • http://bit.ly/nJSnLO

Condo developer turns to auction to get Utah units sold • At the height of the real estate boom, the condo market in downtown Salt Lake City was hot. But after the residential sector along the Wasatch Front took a turn for the worse in summer 2007, condo sales plummeted. Illustrating just how dramatically things have turned, on Nov. 5 two of those projects hit the auction block. Kennedy Wilson Auction Group, based in Beverly Hills, Calif., will try to sell 35 condos at Broadway Park Lofts, 360 W. Broadway in downtown Salt Lake City, and two at the high-end Maple Heights development near downtown at 678 H Street. • http://bit.ly/nk6XqD

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Other news of interest

Occupy SLC joins forces with activists to march against immigration plan • http://bit.ly/omqmEd

Pepper spray used to disperse dancers after Union, Uintah game • http://bit.ly/r7CLpO

Utah State could make jump to megaconference, source says • http://bit.ly/paVxyE

Utah opens final large-region deer hunt season • http://bit.ly/qKnXuf

Deportations of criminals up in Salt Lake City • http://bit.ly/pCzY08

Utahns not touting Iraq war end — yet • http://bit.ly/obesaj

Fear Factory, Salt Lake City's newest haunt, to open soon • http://bit.ly/q8ao9v

Two credit unions robbed in Salt Lake and Davis counties • http://bit.ly/r63uaf

In his last days, Gadhafi wearied of a fugitive's life • http://bit.ly/qDElPi

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Columns and opinions

Library renewal • Library's faults are at the top • http://bit.ly/nWOXLi

Brian Moench: Why is Hatch so afraid of people like me? • http://bit.ly/pVNFTR

Charlie Luke • A new face for S.L. District 6 • http://bit.ly/npuLZC

George Pyle • Pretending religion is irrelevant • http://bit.ly/pNl6a3

Paul Rolly • Haven't we been here before? • http://bit.ly/mPj6Sc