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Every summer, fans come for the bounce houses and basketball courts, the movie characters and mascot antics, the fireworks and the fully loaded fries. Oh, and they might see some baseball, too. As a general rule, Minor League Baseball isn’t about the game. But this season it will have to be. The deadly coronavirus that…

The Ogden Raptors’s season will start a month early this year. For Dave Baggott, the professional baseball team’s president, that’s both too soon and not soon enough to get the ball rolling. Baggott has an overwhelming number of new tasks to address since his team and its brethren in the Pioneer League — a short-season…

All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell’s MRI on his right ankle revealed no structural damage, and a low ankle sprain is expected to keep the fourth-year Jazz veteran out for several games, a league source with knowledge of the situation told The Salt Lake Tribune on Saturday morning. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski was first to report the news.…

BYU knew it had a steep mountain to climb if it wanted to keep dancing but struggled to use its usual weapons and instead fell to overall top seed Wisconsin, 3-0, in Saturday’s NCAA Women’s Volleyball Tournament third-round match in Omaha, Neb. The Badgers went into the regional semifinal having not lost a single match…

Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 127-115 overtime loss to the Los Angeles Lakers from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen. 1. Don’t Stop T’Ilyasova What a randomly glorious performance from the recently acquired Turkish forward-turned-center. Yesterday, I wrote about how he didn’t look productive at all in his backup center minutes. The…

Drivers in Utah could see reduced visibility from blowing dust as a storm hits Northern Utah on Monday. The National Weather Service says the wind will begin during the late morning or early afternoon and should end shortly after sunset. Gusts could exceed 30 mph and might bring rain and snow across northern valleys and…

Ahead of Saturday afternoon’s game, Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder was asked how — with leading scorer Donovan Mitchell, defensive centerpiece Rudy Gobert, All-Star guard Mike Conley, and bench stalwart Derrick Favors all sitting out — he planned to adjust. “Well, if you got any ideas, you can let me know,” he quipped. Snyder, of…

Utah’s gymnastics team didn’t win a national title Saturday, but any immediate disappointment in missing out on the hardware will no doubt be replaced by optimism for the future. The Utes did what they wanted to do, prove they could battle right along with the upper echelon of collegiate gymnastics on the sport’s biggest day,…

Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. Utah saw no new deaths and a decrease in both hospitalizations and ICU beds…

Morrie Schwartz was a Brandeis sociology professor who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 1995. While he was dying, he had a couple of conversations with Ted Koppel on “Nightline” and a bunch with his former student Mitch Albom, who wrote a book, “Tuesdays With Morrie,” which sold more than 15 million copies. For a…

The questions about Ramadan are always pretty much the same. First there is interest in how we observe the sacred month, which began this week. Then there is shock at how intense the requirement of fasting is: “Wait, so you fast all the way from before sunrise to sunset?” “You can’t even drink water?” “I…

Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. Almost 700,000 Utahns have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus — more than 20% of…

Denver • The Denver Nuggets will be without Jamal Murray indefinitely after the dynamic point guard suffered a torn ACL in his left knee. The Nuggets announced the diagnosis in a statement Tuesday. It’s a big blow to a team coming off a season in which it advanced to the Western Conference finals and is…