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Elder Ulisses Soares of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and his wife Rosana will be the featured keynote speakers at Family Discovery Day, a free, all-virtual event held during RootsTech 2022. Part of the Soares’ message will originate from their homeland of Brazil. | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Elder Ulisses Soares, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and his wife, Sister Rosana Soares, will be among the featured keynote speakers at this year’s free online RootsTech 2022, the world’s largest online family history conference, taking place March 3-5. Elder and Sister Soares will be the main speakers at Family Discovery Day on March 5, a one-day event designed for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to discover and celebrate their family heritage, FamilySearch announced Sunday in a news release. Elder Soares, the first South American Latter-day Saint apostle, and his wife were both born in São Paulo. Part of their RootsTech message will originate from their homeland of Brazil, where they will both share family experiences on location. “Family history isn’t all about the distant past,” Elder Soares said in the news release. “You can look to your own recent experiences and stories as it unfolds right here in the present. You can establish your own traditions. It is a combination of the past and the present that makes you uniquely you.” Culture, heritage, traditions and life experiences help a person understand who they are, but it is only part of their identity, the apostle said. “You cannot fully understand the breadth of who you are without understanding whose you are,” Elder Soares said. “Do you understand that you are literally a child of God? Have you discovered what that divine heritage means for you?” Elder Soares invited followers to join him at Family Discovery Day in a social media post Sunday. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ulisses Soares (@ulisses__soares) Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, also of the Quorum of the Twelve, and his wife, Sister Patricia Holland, were the keynote speakers at RootsTech Family Discovery Day in 2021. The Hollands took viewers on a virtual family history tour of St. George, Utah, their hometown. RootsTech 2022 will follow the same online model as it did in 2021. The event will feature internationally diverse keynote speakers and a mix of on-demand, livestream and interactive sessions where participants can connect with each other, ask questions and learn from experts. Other keynote speakers announced for RootsTech 2022 include actor Matthew Modine, French baker Apollonia Poilâne and Argentine singer and actor Diego Torres. Register for RootsTech 2022 at rootstech.org.

Adobe Stock image Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022 TELEVISION BASKETBALL Butler at Providence, FS1, 10 a.m. Women: Fordham at Dayton, ESPNU, 10 a.m. Women: St. Bonaventure at George Mason, CBSSN, 10 a.m. G League: Ignite vs. Nets, NBA TV, 11 a.m. Women: Ohio St. at Rutgers, ESPN2, 11 a.m. Women: Colorado at Arizona, Pac-12 Mountain, noon Women: DePaul at Xavier, CBSSN, noon Women: Oklahoma at Kansas St., ESPNU, noon Xavier at Marquette, FS1, noon UMass at Saint Louis, USA, 12:30 p.m. Arizona at Cal, Pac-12, 1 p.m. G League: Skyforce vs. Kings, NBA TV, 1 p.m. Memphis at Tulsa, ESPN, 1 p.m. Women: Iowa St. at Baylor, ESPN2, 1 p.m. Michigan at Indiana, CBS, 1:30 p.m. Women: Alabama at Auburn, ESPNU, 2 p.m. Women: Utah at Arizona St., Pac-12 Mountain, 2 p.m. Lakers at Heat, NBA TV, 4 p.m. Jazz at Warriors, AT&T SportsNet/NBA TV, 6:30 p.m. Women: UCLA at USC, Pac-12, 7 p.m. Washington at Oregon, FS1, 8 p.m. BOWLING PBA Players Championship regional finals, FS1, 2 p.m. EXTREME SPORTS X Games Aspen, ABC, 11 a.m. (ESPN, 5 p.m.) GOLF HSBC Championship, GOLF, midnight Latin America Amateur Championship, ESPN2, 9 a.m. Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions, GOLF, 10 a.m. The American Express, GOLF, 1 p.m. GYMNASTICS UCLA at Oregon St., Pac-12, 3 p.m. NFL Rams at Buccaneers, NBC, 1 p.m. Bills at Chiefs, CBS, 4:30 p.m. NHL Jets at Penguins, NHLN, 11 a.m. SOCCER Arsenal vs. Burnley, USA, 7 a.m. TENNIS Australian Open, ESPN2, 7 p.m. RADIO BASKETBALL Women: Utah at Arizona St., AM-700, 2 p.m. Jazz at Warriors, AM-1280/FM-97.5/FM-102.7/AM-1600, 6:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 24, 2022 TELEVISION BASKETBALL Louisville at Virginia, ESPN, 5 p.m. Loyola (Md.) at Colgate, CBSSN, 5 p.m. Morgan St. at Norfolk St., ESPNU, 5 p.m. Women: San Diego at BYU, BYUtv, 5 p.m. Jazz at Suns, AT&T SportsNet/NBA TV, 7 p.m. St. John’s at Seton Hall, FS1, 7 p.m. Texas Tech at Kansas, ESPN, 7 p.m. UNLV at San Diego St., CBSSN, 7 p.m. Arizona St. at USC, ESPN2, 9 p.m. BOWLING PBA Players Championship regional final, 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Providence at Xavier, CBSSN, 4:30 p.m. Vanderbilt at South Carolina, ESPNU, 5 p.m. Grizzlies at Spurs, ESPN, 5:30 p.m. Oklahoma at West Virginia, ESPN2, 6 p.m. VCU at Davidson, CBSSN, 6:30 p.m. Tulsa at Tulane, ESPNU, 7 p.m. Suns at Jazz, AT&T SportsNet/ESPN, 8 p.m. Utah at Washington St., Pac-12, 8 p.m. San Diego St. at Utah St., FS1, 9 p.m. GOLF Farmers Insurance Open, GOLF, 10 a.m. Southwestern Invitational, GOLF, 2:30 p.m. NHL Blackhawks at Red Wings, TNT, 5:30 p.m. Bruins at Avalanche, TNT, 8 p.m. SOCCER Hearts vs. Celtic, CBSSN, 12:45 p.m. TENNIS Australian Open, ESPN2, 8 p.m. RADIO BASKETBALL Suns at Jazz, FM-97.5/AM-1600, 8 p.m. Utah at Washington St., AM-700, 8 p.m. San Diego St. at Utah St., AM-1280, 9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022 TELEVISION BASKETBALL Women: Fairleigh Dickinson at Mount St. Mary’s, ESPNU, 3 p.m. Women: UConn at South Carolina, ESPN, 4 p.m. Gardner-Webb at UNC Asheville, ESPNU, 5 p.m. Lakers at 76ers, TNT, 5:30 p.m. Ohio St. at Minnesota, ESPN, 6 p.m. Cal at UCLA, Pac-12, 7 p.m. ECU at Memphis, ESPN2, 7 p.m. Morehead St. at SE Missouri St., ESPNU, 7 p.m. Purdue at Iowa, FS1, 7 p.m. UAB at WKU, CBSSN, 7 p.m. UMKC at Denver, ALT, 7 p.m. Timberwolves at Warriors, TNT, 8 p.m. BYU at Santa Clara, ESPNU, 9 p.m. Colorado at Washington, Pac-12, 9 p.m. LMU at Gonzaga, CBSSN, 9 p.m. Stanford at USC, FS1, 9 p.m. GOLF Dubai Desert Classic, GOLF, 12:30 a.m. Gainbridge LPGA, GOLF, 9:30 a.m. Farmers Insurance Open, GOLF, 1 p.m. SOCCER U.S. vs. El Salvador, ESPN2, 4:30 p.m. Jamaica vs. Mexico, CBSSN, 5 p.m. TENNIS Australian Open, ESPN, 8:30 p.m. VOLLEYBALL Mount Olive at BYU, BYUtv, 7 p.m. RADIO BASKETBALL Utah Valley at Chicago St., AM-960, 6 p.m. Weber St. at Northern Colorado, FM-103.1, 6 p.m. BYU at Santa Clara, AM-1160/FM-102.7, 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28, 2022 TELEVISION BASKETBALL Penn at Harvard, ESPNU, 3 p.m. Akron at Toledo, CBSSN, 5 p.m. Ohio at Buffalo, ESPNU, 5 p.m. Rhode Island at Dayton, ESPN2, 5 p.m. Women: St. John’s at DePaul, FS1, 5 p.m. Lakers at Hornets, ESPN, 5:30 p.m. Jazz at Grizzlies, AT&T SportsNet, 6 p.m. Cleveland St. at Wright St., ESPNU, 7 p.m. UNLV at Colorado St., FS1, 7 p.m. Women: Arizona St. at Stanford, Pac-12, 7 p.m. Women: Colorado at Utah, Pac-12 Mountain, 7 p.m. Knicks at Bucks, ESPN, 8 p.m. Boise St. at Fresno St., FS1, 9 p.m. Women: UCLA at Oregon, Pac-12, 9 p.m. GOLF Dubai Desert Classic, GOLF, 12:30 a.m. Gainbridge LPGA, GOLF, 9:30 a.m. Farmers Insurance Open, GOLF, 1 p.m. (CBS, 3 p.m.) GYMNASTICS Alabama at Auburn, ESPN2, 7 p.m. HOCKEY Wild at Rangers, NHLN, 6 p.m. Avalanche at Blackhawks, ALT, 6:30 p.m. Neb.-Omaha at Colorado College, CBSSN, 7 p.m. TENNIS Australian Open, ESPN, 1:30 a.m. RADIO NBA Jazz at Grizzlies, AM-1280/FM-97.5/AM-1600, 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022 TELEVISION BASKETBALL Duke at Louisville, ESPN, 10 a.m. Georgetown at Butler, FS1, 10 a.m. La Salle at Davidson, USA, 10 a.m. LSU at TCU, ESPN2, 10 a.m. Wichita St. at Tulane, ESPNU, 10 a.m. Michigan at Michigan St., CBS, 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Brigham Young Cougars forward Caleb Lohner (33) dunks the ball in Provo on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News It was a night of celebrations Saturday at the Marriott Center and, at times along the way, BYU fans were partying like it was 1981. At halftime, the school paid tribute to the revered 1981 Cougar basketball team that advanced to the Elite Eight of NCAA Tournament — a feat that’s never been matched at BYU — and 14,857 Cougar faithful showed up to cheer for them, as well as the current BYU team. The 2021-22 Cougars made the ’81 squad proud with an entertaining 78-65 victory over Portland. A lot has changed in 41 years — BYU has gone from the Western Athletic Conference to the West Coast Conference, and the game is much different, too — but there were magical moments Saturday when the feeling in the Marriott Center was reminiscent of past glories. Members of the ’81 team, and the coaching staff, attended the pregame shootaround, and coach Mark Pope broke his sacrosanct pregame protocol to speak to them for a couple of minutes as they dined. Pope felt humbled. “These guys have done something that’s never been done here. To think that they’re willing to walk in this gym and watch us fight and support us is incredible,” Pope said. “We talk about this all of the time. We get to walk in with 15,000, 18,000 in this building because those guys built this incredible fan base. When they were playing, it was 23,000 every single night. They built this generational love for this university.” That generational love was on full display in a variety of ways Saturday. After a 3-pointer late in the first half, BYU’s Seneca Knight slapped the hand of a young fan on the front row. “I shot it and turned around and then the kid put his hand out,” Knight said. “It was great to celebrate with him.” While many of the players on that 1981 team are in their 60s, one of them, Greg Kite, took time after the game to talk to freshman big man Atiki Ally Atiki in the locker room and share his knowledge. “It’s fun having those guys around,” Pope said. Saturday also marked freshman Fousseyni Traore’s birthday. Some old-timers in the crowd compare his remarkable rebounding ability to Steve Trumbo from the ’81 team. Traore recorded another double-double Saturday with 13 points and 10 rebounds. He was also 6 of 6 from the field and had four assists. “What can I say about this Fouss? Six-for-six, on his birthday?” Knight said. “That’s crazy.” The Cougars fell behind by seven early but, as they are wont to do, finished the first half strong. Knight, who scored 14 points, including 4 of 9 from 3-point range, picked up a couple of early fouls but drilled back-to-back 3s in the final minute of the half to give BYU (17-4, 5-1) a 39-34 halftime lead. And the Cougars never looked back. “They all came to me and told me to keep shooting,” Knight said of his teammates. “To be able to give them that spark and just knowing that they believe in me and knowing I was able to fulfill what they were asking me to do, it felt great.” The Cougars took control in the second half and led by as many as 20. Guard Te’Jon Lucas turned in an outstanding performance, scoring a game-high 16 points and dishing out seven assists. Forward Caleb Lohner scored BYU’s first seven points of the game and finished with 13 points and five rebounds. On a night when its star, Alex Barcello — this team’s equivalent of Danny Ainge — had a modest nine points, the rest of the Cougars picked up the scoring slack. “We’re growing. Te’Jon was unbelievable in the first half. Sen was unbelievable in the first half,” Pope said. “How about these guys finishing the half? This team has some magic. It has nothing to do with coaching, either. They’re smart, high-IQ, feel the importance of the moment. We finished the last minute of the half — every game it’s been really special and they did it again. “Everybody saw Atiki take another step tonight. We’re seeing Fouss grow every single night,” Pope added. “And Caleb Lohner took a step forward tonight. And Seneca Knight took a real step forward tonight. That’s super important for our team to reach our ceiling.” The Pilots (10-9, 1-3) entered the night ranked No. 1 nationally in free-throw percentage, shooting 81.6%. But Saturday, they made just 9 of 18 from the charity stripe. Pope, of course, credited the student section, the ROC, for its free-throw defense. “That’s the student section, baby! That’s the magic of playing in this building. They’ve been great for us all year,” he said. “They take pride in it. Where is there a basketball environment with a student section like that? I don’t think there is one. They had a huge impact on the game.” All in all, it was a night that carried on the legacy of that 1981 team. “We walk into this building and there’s 15,000 people, and the greatest, most accomplished team ever to compete for BYU have put aside their lives for a couple of hours to come support these guys and watch these guys,” Pope said. “That’s super humbling. … My last comment to them was, ‘We’ve got to take you guys off the board as the most accomplished team.’ We’ve got to find a way to do it somehow. It’s really special.” BYU visits Santa Clara next Thursday.

Mengshin Lin, Deseret News About 3,000 Utahns came to the state Capitol to join in the March for Life and advocate against abortions and for an abortion-free state on Saturday. "Right at conception … that fetus has so much ability, it has so much potential, and so just taking that away, it doesn't seem right," said Ava Hill, one of the attendees. Hill came to the march with two of her sisters, Lia and Dru; all three are teenagers. Dru said that it was empowering to see different people that share their values and think similarly about abortion. Ava Hill said that she has varying opinions on most political issues, but that she is firmly against abortion, and believes that life begins when something is able to grow. She said she has lost friends because of this political stance. This March for Life marks 49 years since abortion was legalized in the United States through the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision announced Jan. 22, 1973. It was the seventh annual march in Utah, Mary Taylor, president of Pro-Life Utah, said in a speech. Mengshin Lin, Deseret News Thousands rally outside of the Utah Capitol for the annual March for Life in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. "The winds of change seem to be blowing through the Supreme Court right now. There are strong hints from the Supreme Court that they may uphold the Mississippi 15-week ban or maybe even overturn Roe," Taylor said. "Roe v. Wade may not see its 50th birthday." She talked about how a Supreme Court decision could affect Utah. She said a 2019 Utah law prohibiting abortions after 18 weeks would go into effect if the Mississippi ban being considered by the court is upheld and a 2020 Utah law would ban abortions in the state if Roe v. Wade is overturned by the court. She said to the marchers, however, that there is still work to be done in Utah. "We need all hands on deck more than ever now if we want to ensure an abortion-free state. At Pro-Life Utah, we believe the way to do that is to offer women in crisis pregnancies our love, our support and our assistance," Taylor said. She said that almost 3,000 babies lost their lives in the state of Utah to abortion over the last year. Pro-Life Utah was able to save 19 babies through its life grant program, Taylor said, but it could do more with more volunteers and donations. "We are honored by the support of the many, many Utahns who joined us in publicly standing up for the littlest ones among us. We have sent a powerful message to our state legislators, and I urge Utah representatives to pay attention to what their constituents came here to say today," Taylor said in a press release after the event. Mengshin Lin, Deseret News Nick Vujicic speaks during the annual March for Life in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. The keynote speaker at the event was Nick Vujicic, a man who was born without any arms or legs. He said that his mother was considering abortion, but had an ultrasound through a pro-life organization and after seeing him she choose life instead. "The same universal truth rings throughout the world. That every single human being, no matter who we are, no matter where we're from, no matter how we look, no matter what disabilities we have, that God never makes junk. And there is viability for every single baby," Vujicic said. He encouraged those at the Capitol to talk about their pro-life stance and views on chastity before marriage in their families and in churches. Vujicic suggested praying over people at the Planned Parenthood buildings. "There is power in prayer, there is power in action. ... Let us become firm, and continue to do all we can to defend every single unborn child in America," Vujicic said. He said that he thinks the Supreme Court may make a neutral stance on abortion and leave the decision of abortion up to the states. He said that federal laws and rules can be fought by states, including Utah. Clara Cook, who marched at the event as part of Utah State University's chapter of Students for Life, said she learned from listening to Vujicic that people can learn from their disabilities, and that it is important to not discount someone's potential because of any disability. She said this is the second march she has attended, and agreed that it was an optimistic atmosphere. "I think that if you want to make a difference you have to be optimistic about the future," Cook said. Jill Kasper, another marcher said that hearing Vujicic made her feel like she could make a difference. She commented about the peaceful nature of the protest, saying everyone was cheerful and respectful, no one was angry. One marcher, Sue Robertson, adopted a baby 22 years ago and said that it has been a good experience for her. She said that her daughter's birth mom has been involved in their lives and sat at the parents' table at her daughter's wedding. "(Adoption) doesn't need to be this awful thing that people make it out to be, it can be a really beautiful thing because we're all working together for the good of that child," Robertson said. Mengshin Lin, Deseret News Dru Hill, left, Ava Hill and Lia Hill join thousands in a rally outside of the Utah Capitol for the annual March for Life in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. Deanna Holland, executive director of Pro-Life Utah, said this is the largest group they have had at a March for Life in Utah. She said these yearly marches are uplifting and joyful, and that this year was not any different. The group said it arrived at its attendance total of approximately 3,000 people by using clickers to count as well as using above-crowd views to estimate. "Pro-Life Utah is always uplifting and positive and supportive. We have so many women in our organization that are post-abortive, and we know what abortion does to a woman," Holland said. "A lot of women walking into the clinic are in a heightened state of stress and fear. … And we like to take that away, pull them back off the cliff, and then let them figure out what they want to do. Almost all of our moms keep their babies." The organization has a mobile clinic which offers free ultrasounds and encourages people going to abortion clinics to consider other options. Holland said 92% of women who accept a free ultrasound and are offered aid choose not to have an abortion. She said that the organization is currently helping 12 moms who were planning to get abortions. They try to find what is leading the moms to seek an abortion and solve their problems — they find housing, fix cars, drive moms to doctor's appointments, donate baby products and help with immigration. Holland said that she hopes people who came to the march get engaged, and volunteer in their sidewalk advocacy programs and to help moms in the program. Other marches like this one occurred around the country, including a rally and car-parade that happened in St. George at the same time. Eric Moutsos, the keynote speaker at that event, talked about why men should be involved in the pro-life movement. "Men not only have a duty, but an obligation to protect life. Did God create women to be the front line of defense for the most vulnerable among us? Without voices of men on the topic of abortion, the battle lines are very weak and the enemy knows it," Moutsos said in a press release after the event. Sen. Mike Lee spoke at the United States Senate celebrating the March for Life this week, and shared a message online to the marchers in Utah and around the country. He said that the rights for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness begin in the womb. "Tragically, under Roe and its devastating aftermath, the promise of life is denied to far too many babies of both genders, every race and varying physical ability. Each life has unlimited potential and value. I pray that this is the last March for Life under Roe. I pray that we might see each precious baby as a gift from God to be loved and nurtured. I pray that each life will be valued for what it is, equal, because equality begins in the womb," Lee said. Mengshin Lin, Deseret News An anti-abortion flag is pictured during the annual March for Life in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022.

Illustration by Alex Cochran, Deseret News Yes, interest in organized religion is declining. But that’s not the only story you can tell about American religious life In recent decades, the biggest story in American religious life has been about decline. Congregations are shrinking. Churches are closing. Religious “nones” are on the rise. What gets lost amid all the panel discussions, think pieces and survey reports on these trends is the fact that faith groups are far from dead. As sociologist Mark Chaves puts it, “Even though decline is happening, religion remains, by world standards, very vibrant in the U.S.” “Decline is an important story and we should keep telling it. ... But we should also be telling stories about what’s happening among people who are still in church,” he said. In a new report featuring findings from the National Congregations Study, Chaves takes his own advice. He and his co-authors closely examine what’s going on within American churches and highlight a number of surprising — and little-discussed — trends. “You can use these data to tell a story that’s something different than the usual decline story,” said Chaves, who directs the National Congregations Study and is also a professor of sociology and religious studies at Duke University. The ongoing study is a nationally representative survey of congregations that was first conducted in 1998. Among the trends highlighted in the report is the growing racial and ethnic diversity within churches across the U.S. When the survey was first fielded, fully 71% of Americans congregations were predominately white and non-Hispanic. Over the next two decades, that figure fell nearly 20 percentage points to 53%. “Even though churches do remain highly segregated places in general, they’re less so than they used to be,” Chaves said. Similarly, although the U.S. religious landscape continues to be dominated by Christian churches, it’s gradually becoming more diverse. “Taken together, there are now about as many synagogues, mosques and Buddhist or Hindu temples in the U.S. (9% of all congregations) as there are Catholic parishes (6% of all congregations),” researchers noted in the new report. Here are some of the other findings highlighted by Chaves and his co-authors: Members of smaller congregations donate more money to their house of worship than members of larger congregations. Worship services today are more likely to be informal and feature expressive activities like hand raising than they were in the past. Women increasingly hold leadership roles in their churches. The latest wave of the survey (conducted from 2018 to 2019) found that 14% of U.S. congregations are led by women. Nearly 9 in 10 houses of worship now allow women to serve on their governing boards. Members of politically liberal congregations are much more likely than members of politically conservative congregations to say their church would publicly endorse political candidates if legal prohibitions on that practice disappeared. In general, “liberal churches are more often politically active than conservative churches,” Chaves said. More than half of U.S. congregations (54%) allow openly gay and lesbian people to become church members. That figure has increased substantially in recent years. Chaves hopes these data points and others shared in the report, which is written for a general audience instead of a scholarly one, help people better understand how their congregations’ worship practices, community programs and policies compare to the rest of the country’s. “Everybody knows their own situations. Results like these help people put their own situation in a broader context,” he said.

USC guard Drew Peterson (13) drives during the game against the Utah Utes at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret News The USC Trojans, ranked No. 16, got 23 points on 5 of 5 3-point shooting from unsung guard Drew Peterson and rolled past the Utes 79-67 at the Huntsman Center Having played three teams the past eight days that have been ranked in the top 10 of the Associated Press Top 25 poll — and another above-average team on the road — all without best player Branden Carlson, the hard-luck Utah Runnin’ Utes can hardly be blamed for their losing streak hitting eight games. But that doesn’t mean new coach Craig Smith has to like it, or even accept it. “I hate losing more than anything in this world,” the coach said Saturday night after the No. 16 USC Trojans rolled past the Utes 79-67 in front of 7,846 fans at the Huntsman Center in a Pac-12 game that didn’t seem that close. The look on Smith’s face showed he meant it. Utah fell to 8-12 overall, 1-9 in Pac-12 play and remained at the bottom of the league standings. The Trojans (16-2, 6-2) completed a sweep of the mountain schools, having won a close one at Colorado Thursday. “I am not saying (USC’s Drew Peterson) is Scottie Pippen, but he has that type of game. That dude is good.” — Utah basketball coach Craig Smith Not since 2012, their first season in the Pac-12, have the Utes lost eight straight games, although help could be on the way. Smith said the 7-foot Carlson, recovering from an appendectomy, could return next week when the Utes play at Washington State and Washington. Then again, the team’s leading scorer might not return until Utah plays at Colorado on Feb. 12, Smith said, perhaps trying to dampen expectations. In other words, fans should probably get used to some rocky times the next two weeks, and the losing streak could get even bigger. “We need to play well, and it would be nice to get a dub,” Smith said, insisting that hope is not lost. Actually, the Utes do seem to be improving. They took a mild step back Saturday after pushing No. 9 UCLA to the wire in a 63-58 loss on Thursday, but the effort was still there. Smith said the Utes looked “sluggish” in their fourth game in eight days. And USC is probably a tougher matchup for Utah than UCLA and Arizona are, for whatever reason. Consider that the Trojans crushed the Utes 93-73 in Los Angeles back on Dec. 1. Utah was much more competitive 52 days later. “We are night and day (better) compared to that team that lost by 20,” Smith said. And another thing that will play well in some parts of Los Angeles better than others, or in Tucson, for that matter: Smith says USC could win the national championship, something he didn’t utter after the Utes lost 82-64 at No. 6 Arizona on Jan. 15 or to the Bruins two nights ago. “I mean, that team that can win it all,” Smith said. “Because of, like I said, their rim protection, the way they rebound. “I think they are so high-level on the defensive end, and then they are so efficient on the offensive end. They can do it in so many ways.” Saturday, Drew Peterson, the 6-foot-9 guard who transferred from Rice, via Libertyville, Illinois, was a perfect 5 of 5 on his 3-point attempts, and missed just one shot from the field in racking up a game-high 23 points. The Utes had no answer for him. “I am not saying (Peterson) is Scottie Pippen, but he has that type of game,” Smith said. “That dude is good.” So are Chevez Goodwin (nine points), Isaiah Mobley (10), Boogie Ellis (18) and Max Agbonkpolo (seven). But on this day, Peterson stole the show from his more-ballyhooed teammates. “USC is a very, very good basketball team,” Smith said. “There is nothing they don’t have. They have great point guard play, great athleticism up and down the lineup, elite size and versatility. “They just play a lot of different ways,” he continued. “When you make mistakes, they make you pay. It is just very difficult to score on those guys in the paint.” Indeed, the Trojans outscored the Utes 40-20 in the paint and outrebounded them 42-31 inside. “To even (be competitive) you gotta make some 3s, and we did make some 3s, but not enough of them,” Smith said. Perhaps the game, from Utah’s perspective, will be referred to in the future as freshman guard Gabe Madsen’s coming-out party. He was 5 of 11 from 3-point range, including some circus shots from the deep corner, fading away, that found nothing but net. The Cincinnati transfer finished with a career-high 20 points in 23 minutes. “Gabe was really good all weekend,” Smith said. “I mean, 6 for 12 from the field (Saturday). He hit some big ones that kinda got us back into it in the first half when we made our big run. “That dude just knows how to play.” Madsen hit a 3-pointer with 17 seconds left in the first half to send the Utes into the locker room trailing just 35-30. And when Marco Anthony made two free throws seconds into the second half, Utah was within three. But that’s as close as the Utes would get. The Trojans got a triple from Peterson that ignited a 21-6 run and dashed the Utes’ upset hopes. USC led by as many as 18, but the Utes never threw in the proverbial towel. The group is still fighting to the bitter end, which most teams on long losing streaks at this juncture of the season generally don’t do. Dusan Mahorcic’s 17-footer trimmed USC’s lead to 65-56 with just over five minutes left, but Agbonkpolo beat the tired Utes down the floor for a lob dunk and Trojans coasted from there. “It didn’t feel like we were only down by nine. It felt like more,” Smith said. “We were just kinda being in a dangerous spot for them. I am not sure they felt uncomfortable.” Speaking of uncomfortable, that’s how things are getting with Utes guard David Jenkins Jr., the UNLV transfer who was supposed to be one of the team’s top scorers this season. Jenkins played only 2 minutes, 59 seconds, missed the only shot he attempted, committed a foul and had a turnover. He was held scoreless for the second-straight game for the first time in his college career. The Utes were minus-11 when he was on the floor. “I thought our young guys played very, very well,” Smith said, crediting walk-on Eli Ballstaedt (career-high six points and one assist in a career-high 15 minutes) and Jaxon Brenchley for sparking the Utes off the bench for the second straight game. “Our veteran guys need to be better for us if we are going to beat a team of this caliber,” he concluded. A team that he believes could be holding the gold trophy the first weekend of April.

Brigham Young Cougars forward Seneca Knight (24) dunks on the Portland Pilots in Provo on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News BYU (17-4, 5-1) defeated Portland 78-65 Saturday night at the Marriott Center in front of a crowd of 14,857. Here are three keys to the Cougars’ win: After falling behind by as many as seven in the first half, BYU closed out the first half strong with an 8-0 run, including back-to-back 3-pointers by Seneca Knight to go up 39-34 at halftime. Knight was one of four Cougars to score in double figures. Knight finished with 14 points; Te’Jon Lucas had 16 to go along with seven assists; Fousseyni Traore recorded another double double with 14 points and 10 assists; and Caleb Lohner added 13 points, including a monster dunk midway through the second half. BYU outscored Portland 32-16 in the paint and the Pilots, who entered the night as the nation’s top free throw shooting team, made just 9 of 18 from the charity stripe.

Rick Jellen, BYU professor of plant and wildlife sciences, and Lauren Young, BYU graduate student of genetics and biotechnology, look over samples of quinoa inside a greenhouse in this undated handout photo. | BYU Quinoa, that nutty sweet seed we curiously refer to as a grain, has shot up the food chain from obscure California-hipster dish to an American culinary mainstay. Its popularity has now reached the level that the people who decide such things have officially ascribed a national day in January to institutionalize its consumption, which, unlike other arbitrary consumer days (looking at you, Slurpee Day), might actually be a good thing, considering the seed’s impressive profile of nutrition, with B vitamins, fiber, minerals and protein. Add to that its quick cook time and immense versatility. There’s a team of researchers at BYU, however, who see it as a bigger phenomenon yet. Plant scientist Rick Jellen and a team of student researchers are digging in on a program that promotes the cultivation of hybridized quinoa strains, whose heat resistant qualities and soil adaptability make for a viable crop in communities where precarious climate conditions threaten food security — an issue they say will likely worsen in the face of climate change, giving the work urgency. “Subsistence farmers in parts of Africa, for example, are using animals to till their fields, they’re using animal manure to fertilize, and they likely have salty soil or very highly variable conditions,” said Jellen, whose pilot seed program is underway with farmers in Morocco. “Our breeding program will help farmers in those areas find strains that are perfectly adapted to their own native environment and meet the needs of those production conditions.” The project is an offshoot of Jellen’s earlier work with a team of international researchers who were the first to successfully sequence the quinoa genome, an achievement praised as a major contribution to the field and published in the journal Nature. By mapping the plant’s genome, botanists are now able to identify specific genes that correspond to particular traits of the plant — for example, the gene responsible for producing the “soapy” film common on commercially sold quinoa, which are chemical compounds called saponins believed to function like a pesticide. BYU Lauren Young, BYU graduate student of genetics and biotechnology, looks over samples of quinoa inside a greenhouse in this undated handout photo. What few consumers consider, however, is that the soapy compounds we rinse before cooking are not prevalent in all strains of quinoa. Rather, they happen to be a dominant trait of the quinoa grown in Peru and Bolivia, where the U.S. gets the overwhelming majority of its consumer quinoa. “When you buy quinoa from Costco or Walmart or Macys, the bag will say product of Bolivia. The problem is those (strains) originate in a part of the world that has very, very specialized climates. The main commercial production zone of quinoa is 12,000 feet above sea level in the high Andes,” said Jellen. “Domestication in that geographic isolation means the strain has lost a lot of the adaptive characteristics needed in most of the rest of the world. Most of the world does their farming at or near sea level, where the temperatures are much warmer, and where there’s a much broader diversity of insects, pests and diseases that attack it.” This led Jellen on a cross-country scavenger hunt in search of wild quinoa strains that have adapted to a variety of climates. He’s collected and reproduced roadside wild quinoa seeds from Louisiana to Oregon and New Hampshire, picking from locales with conditions he believes will be suitable for production in places like Malawi, Guyana, the Caribbean and other countries facing food insecurity. Jellen has collected close to 500 different strains of wild quinoa. He’s since focused on sequencing and cross-breading strains exhibiting heat and salt tolerance properties, and has now produced a tailored hybrid strain ideal for Morocco, where Jellen decided to pilot the seed program. This is where he first started his field research career as an oat geneticist, and where today food security has become a growing concern. “Subsistence farm families in Morocco have lost protein in their diets because the previous few decades have gone through cyclic drought periods associated with climate change. They stopped growing leguminous crops in order to produce cash crops” for export, namely cereal crops for Europe. Hybrid strains of quinoa hold the potential to be both cash crops as well as protein rich subsistence crops in Morocco and other countries facing food insecurity. Yet Jellen’s work on sequencing and hybridizing has potential for a host of applications. “It’s conceivable that people might want to breed quinoa for high saponin content for industrial or agricultural use. For instance, (saponins) might make for an interesting bio pesticide that organic farmers can apply in their fields. You can go in a lot of directions.” The direction his work is most interested in for now is improving global nutrition and food security. “Our goal is to improve the nutritional status of populations of the developing world. We are at a crossroads, and we need to have crops that are more reliably productive,” Jellen said. “That’s why we are so invested in encouraging small farming communities to start growing quinoa.”

Are you allowed to visit work when you’ve had omicron variant symptoms? | Illustration by Zoe Peterson, Deseret News Are you allowed to visit work when you’ve had omicron variant symptoms? What should you do if you have omicron variant symptoms and need to go to work? Well, for many Americans, heading to work is the answer. What’s happening: Millions of Americans are still heading into the office for work even if they’re sick with COVID-19 since they can’t survive without their paychecks, according to CNN. “Some workers are struggling to get or afford testing to confirm they have been infected. Many don’t have paid sick leave and need to keep up with their bills,” CNN reports. “And others fear they will face repercussions from their bosses if they call out sick or feel added pressure to work because of severe staffing shortages.” Why this matters: The United States does not have a national paid sick leave law, meaning that millions of Americans can’t take off. At the same time, this means people still head to work even when sick and infect more people with the highly transmissible omicron variant. What you should do: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a pretty simple tip for you — “Employees who have symptoms should notify their supervisor and stay home.” Moreover, the CDC say people with any signs or symptoms of COVID-19 and for all close contacts of persons with COVID-19 should get tested. Similarly, legal experts believe employees should avoid the workplace, too. “Employees who test positive for COVID-19 should be removed from the workplace immediately,” said Arielle Eisenberg, an attorney with Cozen O’Connor in Miami.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., speaks before President Joe Biden signs the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, on Nov. 15, 2021. | Evan Vucci, Associated Press Sen. Kyrsten Sinema was formally censured by the Arizona Democratic Party on Saturday, after her vote on the Senate’s filibuster rules effectively blocked Democrats’ voting rights legislation, The Associated Press reported. The rebuke is symbolic but signals the growing distance between Sinema and some Democratic party leaders and donors, according to AP. The chair of the Arizona Democratic party, Raquel Terán, said in a statement that the party voted for the censure because “ramifications of failing to pass federal legislation that protects (constituents’) right to vote are too large and far-reaching,” per NPR. The decision was “a result of her failure to do whatever it takes to ensure the health of our democracy,” Terán added. Sinema, as well as Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, voted with Republicans to maintain the filibuster rules in the Senate. Changing the filibuster rules would have allowed Senate Democrats to pass voting rights legislation with a simple majority, according to The New York Times. While Sinema has said that she supports the voting rights legislation, she does not support passing it by changing the filibuster, according to AP. She has said that the filibuster forces bipartisanship and allows the minority party to have a voice. “When one party need only negotiate with itself, policy will inextricably be pushed from the middle towards the extremes,” Sinema said in a floor speech last week, per AP. Several groups are already raising funds to challenge Sinema when she runs for reelection in 2024, including the Primary Sinema Project, which has collected over $300,000 from nearly 12,000 donors, AP reported.

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