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• Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell’s return date could prove problematic

  08-05-2021 20:16
  
  Cautious moves could cost the Utah Jazz their continuity come playoff time. The Utah Jazz announced on Friday that Donovan Mitchell will be out at least another week as the two-time NBA All-Star recovers from a sprained right ankle he suffered on April 16 during a home victory versus the Indiana Pacers. He has already […]
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• Washington County schools no longer require masks on campus

  08-05-2021 19:55 via sltrib.com
  
  St. George • The Washington County School District is no longer requiring students and staff to wear face coverings inside school campuses.The district’s board of education sent out an e-mail to faculty and staff Friday morning that stated: “It is our recommendation that masks should continue to be worn throughout WCSD schools, and we encourage all students to wear them.”When asked by St. George News, Steve Dunham, spokesperson for the Washington County School District, sa
  
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• Andy Larsen: The NBA’s play-in games are actually pretty brilliant, despite what the Lakers say

  08-05-2021 19:30 via sltrib.com
  
  Enjoyably, there’s a chance that the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers might not make the playoffs this year.OK, sure, it’s a long shot. They currently sit as the No. 6 seed, which would give them entry into the playoffs, no problem. But, as I write this, they stand just one half-game ahead of the seventh seed. And for that spot, and for the seeds No. 8-10 below it, the NBA has come up with a brilliant invention: the play-in tournament.The play-in tournament pits those four teams
  
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• 360 new cases of COVID-19 reported, no new deaths

  08-05-2021 18:08 via sltrib.com
  
  No new coronavirus-related deaths were reported on Saturday, as more than 23,000 people received a vaccine dose against COVID-19.Utah reached a milestone on Friday when the Department of Health reported that more than a million residents have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. That number remained the same on Saturday, but tens of thousands of people did get a dose Friday.Residents are considered fully vaccinated if they’ve received both doses of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines, or the
  
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• Three Points: Ranking RSL bicycle kick goals, Wondo kills defenses and substitution challenges

  08-05-2021 17:57 via sltrib.com
  
  Here are three observations from Real Salt Lake’s 2-1 loss to the San Jose Earthquakes from beat writer Alex Vejar.1. Best RSL bicycle kick goal ever?In light of striker Rubio Rubin’s stellar bicycle kick goal, I wondered: “How many times has an RSL player scored like that?”Not that many, it turns out. Thanks to the wonderful RSL fans online who can Google faster than me, it seems there are only three other instances when a player has scored on a bicycle kick during an ML
  
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• 3 observations from RSL’s loss to San Jose

  08-05-2021 17:26 via sltrib.com
  
  Here are three observations from Real Salt Lake’s 2-1 loss to the San Jose Earthquakes from beat writer Alex Vejar.1. Best RSL bicycle kick goal ever?In light of striker Rubio Rubin’s stellar bicycle kick goal, I wondered: “How many times has an RSL player scored like that?”Not that many, it turns out. Thanks to the wonderful RSL fans online who can Google faster than me, it seems there are only three other instances when a player has scored on a bicycle kick during an ML
  
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• The LDS Church could supercharge Utah’s drive to the vaccination finish line, Robert Gehrke writes

  08-05-2021 15:00 via sltrib.com
  
  A week ago, several hundred members of the anti-everything crowd got together in the town of Moroni (pop. 1,536) to air grievances about vaccines and masks and government and, well, just about everything.It was advertised as a veritable “Who’s Who” of the right-wing resistance — government stand-offer Ammon Bundy, conspiracy entrepreneur Eric Moutsos, state school board bomb-thrower Natalie Cline, presidentially pardoned off-road enthusiast and state Rep. Phil Lyman.To ca
  
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• Latter-day Saints are talking more about Heavenly Mother, and that’s where the debates and divisions begin

  08-05-2021 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Mormonism’s Heavenly Mother has gone mainstream.She is the topic of a number of books on sale at Deseret Book, which is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She has spawned essays (including an official one from the faith), poetry, a one-woman play, hymns, art shows, even academic debates.She has been embraced as part of the church’s Young Women theme, which was updated in 2019 to say: “I am a beloved daughter of Heavenly Parents, with a divine
  
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• Biden unveils plan to conserve 30% of the U.S.

  08-05-2021 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  President Joe Biden’s land and water conservation plan, released Thursday under the title “America the Beautiful,” highlights a preference for locally driven initiatives, tribal sovereignty, job creation, respect for private property rights and reliance on science — all things that seem tailored to blunt the concerns of the West’s conservative political leaders who reflexively chafe at development restrictions on public lands.Under one of his signature campaign pled
  
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• After tension over her speaking, here’s what the wife of the LDS president told graduates at Utah Valley University

  08-05-2021 07:15 via sltrib.com
  
  In the face of concern and controversy over her speaking, Wendy Watson Nelson — a former family therapist and the wife of the president of the Latter-day Saint Church — directed graduates in her address Friday night to drop their contentions, open space “for the existence of another” and, through those actions, come to find peace in their lives.“We don’t need to agree with another person’s ideas,” she said. “But when we open our ears and hear
  
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• The Triple Team: Bogdanovic’s 48 points by the numbers; how Jazz’s defense improved from awful to great

  08-05-2021 07:11 via sltrib.com
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 127-120 win over the Denver Nuggets from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Bogdanovic by the numbers48 points in 23 shots is just a pretty ridiculous level of efficiency. Honestly, without that level of both efficiency and sheer output in this game, the Jazz are done and dusted, and lose to the Nuggets on Friday night. It’s also, remarkably, the most points a Jazz player has scored in a regular season game since Karl Malone.How did Bo
  
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• Rubin bicycle kick erased by Wondolowski brace in RSL loss

  08-05-2021 05:41 via sltrib.com
  
  Sandy • Real Salt Lake dropped its first game of the season, and it took just seven minutes to do it.With a 1-0 lead in the 83rd minute, RSL looked primed to win its third game in a row to start the 2021 Major League Soccer season. But like Thanos from “The Avengers” franchise, Chris Wondolowski proved inevitable.Wondolowski scored twice in a four-minute span and led the Earthquakes to a 2-1 win over RSL, which fought formidably up until the home stretch of the game.Wondolowski&
  
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• Bojan Bogdanovic’s career-high 48 points carry Utah Jazz over Nuggets in playoff-like atmosphere

  08-05-2021 05:33 via sltrib.com
  
  Given that the Jazz were missing some main guys and the Nuggets were missing some main guts, who knows if Friday night’s matchup at Vivint Arena actually means anything.It felt like it meant something, though.It felt like playoff atmosphere.And if this 127-120 win/loss was a preview of what’s to come, there’s a lot for Utah to like.Timely defense … clutch shooting …And an absolutely incendiary Bojan Bogdanovic doesn’t hurt either.Yeah, the guy who shot 35% f
  
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• Sex therapist Natasha Helfer says she feels like she’s been kicked out of her home after LDS ouster

  08-05-2021 05:19 via sltrib.com
  
  “We stand with Natasha,” chanted a group of about 30 people outside the offices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in downtown Salt Lake City on Friday afternoon.People in the group held signs with messages including “sexuality is not a sin” and “excommunicate shame, not heroes.” They gathered to protest the decision by local lay leaders last month to revoke the membership of sex therapist Natasha Helfer, who has publicly opposed the church&rsq
  
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• Tell The Tribune: Are the Jazz still Utah’s team?

  08-05-2021 01:02 via sltrib.com
  
  If there ever was a time to be a Utah Jazz fan, this may be it.No NBA team has turned more heads this season. The Jazz have boasted the best record in the league most of the way and are considered legitimate contenders to win the franchise’s first NBA title. Three players were named All-Stars. Two more are leading the race for the league’s Sixth Man of the Year award.The Jazz are historically the state’s most popular sports team. And yet, even as they approach a level perhaps n
  
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• Donovan Mitchell out for at least another week

  08-05-2021 00:37 via hoopshype.com
  
  Andy Larsen: From Jazz PR: Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell was re-evaluated by the team’s medical staff today for a sprained ankle he sustained vs. Indiana on April 16. He continues to make progress towards a return and will be re-evaluated in one week.
  
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