The Milwaukee Bucks defeated the Atlanta Hawks in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals on July 3, which was held in Atlanta. The Bucks advance to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1974 where they will face the Phoenix Suns. 

Game 6 was a must-win for the Hawks as the Bucks held a 3-2 series lead. Both teams’ star players, Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo and Hawks guard Trae Young, suffered injuries during the series, a recurring theme with big name players this postseason. With Antetokounmpo sitting out again for Game 6, the Hawks had an opportunity to extend the series to seven games with Young returning to action from a bone bruise. However, the chips didn’t fall Atlanta’s way, and the Bucks defeated the Hawks 118-107.

The Bucks went on a very early 7-0 run to start the game and held on to the lead for the remainder of the game. Nearly every time the Hawks made a push, the Bucks shut it down by scoring another basket. The Hawks had missed 15 of their last 18 shots at the seven minute mark in the second quarter. Despite the lackluster performance from the Hawks in the first half, shooting 30% from the field, they were somehow still in the game, trailing by only four at the intermission.

All-Star forward Khris Middleton led the Bucks coming out of halftime and played a crucial role in the team’s efforts to pull ahead. Middleton finished with 32 points, and 23 of those came in the third quarter. With 27 points from Jrue Holiday, the Bucks had a commanding 19-point lead at the end of the third quarter. 

Hawks forward Cam Reddish, who missed most of the season due to injury, helped minimize the team’s deficit by coming off the bench and draining six three-pointers on seven attempts, finishing the game with 21 points. The Hawks made a late push and cut the Bucks’ lead to six with about four minutes left in the final quarter, but it was not enough to complete the comeback.

Young did not look like his normal self, shooting 4 of 17 from the field and finishing with 14 points, compared to his average of 28.8 points per game in the 2021 NBA Playoffs. Throughout the game, it was clear that Young was dealing with his injury as he later noted in his postgame press conference; yet Young still managed to play 35 minutes in hopes of salvaging the season.

“It’s definitely frustrating not being healthy and not being able to give my full 100%,” Young said. 

Despite the outcome, the Hawks more than exceeded expectations for both the regular season and postseason. The team dealt with a lot of adversity and change throughout the course of the year, including Nate McMillan stepping in as interim head coach after the team started off 14-20 and fired former head coach Lloyd Pierce. Since March 1, the Hawks amassed a 37-18 record, earning the most wins in the Eastern Conference during that time. 

McMillan was proud of the group for their resilience and fight in what was a difficult season both on the sidelines and on the court. 

“They’ve shown a lot of growth and they’ve certainly improved over the season,” McMillan said. “I never had to question their effort this season.” 

A team with a solid, young core had a lot of the correct pieces, but some of the players knew they were missing playoff experience. Picking up crucial experience during a deep postseason run, many predict the young roster will be in an even better position for seasons to come.

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The University of Utah men’s basketball team continues to build out its non-conference schedule to begin the season, announcing that they will play in the Sunshine Slam on Nov. 2o and 21 in Daytona Beach, Florida at the Ocean Center. 

Utah will host Bethune-Cookman at home on Nov. 15 before leaving for the Sunshine Slam road games that weekend. Boston College, Rhode Island and Tulsa will join the Utes in Florida.

The game against Bethune-Cookman is part of the tournament, designated as a regional round home game. Utah and Bethune-Cookman have never met before; the Wildcats are coming off of a dormant season where they did not play because of COVID-19. 

On Saturday, Nov. 20, Utah will play Boston College. This will be their fourth meeting in program history. The Utes lead the all-time series 2-1.

Depending on the outcome of that game and another game held that day, Utah will play either Tulsa or Rhode Island on Sunday, Nov. 21 for their second game of the weekend.

Utah leads the all-time series against Tulsa 5-2; this would be the eighth meeting between the two. If they play Rhode Island, it will be the fifth meeting all-time; the series is tied at two games apiece.

If Utah wins both games that weekend, they will be crowned the champion of the 2021 Sunshine Slam. The last champion was Delaware in 2019; the tournament was not played in 2020.

Air Force, Holy Cross and Bryant will also play in the Sunshine Slam, but Utah will not match up with any of them. 

This tournament will be the first road test for the Utes of the 2021-22 season, barring an additional matchup yet to be revealed. The only game scheduled before the Sunshine Slam for Utah is a home contest against Sacramento State on Saturday, Nov. 13.

The rest of the non-conference schedule consists of Missouri, Fresno State and BYU. Utah travels to Missouri on Dec. 18, Fresno State comes to Salt Lake City on Dec. 21 and the game against BYU has no set date but will be at the Jon M. Huntsman Center.

Utah is gearing up for a season with a lot of changes under new head coach Craig Smith. Traveling to Florida at the beginning of the year is a nice chance to string a couple of quality wins together before entering Pac-12 play.

The Utes will need all the help they can get this year, but the Sunshine Slam presents a golden opportunity for Smith to get his team right prior to when the games start really hitting hard.

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With more COVID-19 variants turning up, it’s time for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to let the public know if they will need booster shots to protect against these variants. 

As if the normal COVID-19 virus wasn’t bad enough, it is no different from other viruses and can mutate. While some variants start and fizzle out, some are here to stay, such as the Delta variant.

First discovered in India, the Delta variant is now 20 percent of all U.S. COVID-19 cases. Out of all the variants, Delta is the most transmissible, putting immunocompromised people in danger.

For some, the COVID-19 virus is like a bad cold or the flu. For others, it’s a long, strenuous and dangerous time with life long health issues to follow.

It’s important to be vaccinated against COVID-19, even if you’ve had it before. Natural immunity after the virus will not last forever and people have been reinfected before. 

Data has been released on the efficacy of the three major vaccines in the United States; Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

Mixed vaccines

However, many people discuss how they are deciding to get Pfizer booster shots to follow up their single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccines. 

With talks from experts and publications about booster shots, some people are getting worried. Many people have been contacting their doctor about whether they should get a Pfizer shot to follow up their J&J. But most doctors won’t give recommendations without CDC guidance. Plus, the FDA hasn’t authorized mixed vaccines.

Additionally, publications have been publishing articles speculating about whether people will need COVID-19 booster shots. Booster shots would help keep people’s immunity up. Some people see a need for them because some experts are unsure how long the vaccine’s immunity will last.

While this may not have been a worry before, the pandemic is still going and there may be a need for longer immunity. Of course, studies are still being done, so hopefully, people will know more in the future. 

Thankfully, there are studies about the vaccines’ effectiveness against the COVID-19 variants. Studies are done with Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson yielding promising results. Of course, these studies are preliminary, but still reassuring. 

The UK has already started planning for booster shots and their population is proportionally far more vaccinated than the U.S. The United States has not vaccinated about half of its population.

The world may never fully eradicate this virus, so the CDC needs to provide guidance on whether people who want to avoid illness should get a booster shot.

Anna Baker is an English senior who can be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com

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Joshua Cohen is a showoff and throwback. Released this June, his latest novel “The Netanyahus” opens with one of those delirious juggling acts of a paragraph that demands to be quoted at length:

My name is Ruben Blum and I’m an, yes, an historian. Soon enough, though, I guess I’ll be historical. By which I mean I’ll die and become history myself, in a rare type of transformation traditionally reserved for the purer scholars. Lawyers die and don’t become the law, doctors die and don’t turn into medicine, but biology and chemistry professors pass away and decompose into biology and chemistry, they mineralize into geology, they disperse into their science, just as surely as mathematicians become statistics. The same process holds true for us historians — in my experience, we’re the only ones in the humanities for whom this holds true — the only ones who become what we study; we age, we yellow, we go wrinkled and brittle along with our materials until our lives subside into the past, to become the very substance of time. Or maybe that’s just the Jew in me talking … Goys believe in the Word becoming Flesh, but Jews believe in the Flesh becoming Word, a more natural, rational incarnation …

No one else writes sentences like this today. All of the book’s greatest strengths lay bare right there on the first page: the revelatory language (“mineralize”!), the intelligence, the jokiness and the Jewishness. It’s a fitting introduction to a smart, tremendously entertaining book that wraps huge questions of Jewish identity and diaspora in precise, erudite prose.

Cohen’s Blum will go on to tell readers that he is, as the book’s back cover mentions, “a Jewish historian — but not a historian of the Jews.” As the only Jewish faculty member at Corbin College, a fictionalized version of 1950s Cornell University (N.Y.), Blum weathers a constant, low-level barrage of antisemitic jokes, remarks and microaggressions. “Raised to react to provocations in the style of Jesus Christ, whom [he is] regularly accused of having crucified,” Blum maintains an air of mordant humor however, and has, against all odds, created a relatively happy life for himself, his wife Edith and their daughter Judy. This delicate equilibrium is shattered by the arrival of the novel’s titular family: historian of the Spanish Inquisition Benzion Netanyahu, his wife and their three sons. (The middle child, Bibi, will grow up to be a certain militant, corrupt politician, known for his right-wing policies and support of illegal settlements.)

Netanyahu has come to Corbin seeking a job in the history department. Blum, as the only other Jew for miles, has been assigned the unenviable tripartite role of host, escort and chaperone to the fiery “son of Zion.” Netanyahu’s arrival is preceded by two letters from former colleagues. The first, a rabbi in Philadelphia, describes the arch-Zionist as “a man who worked tirelessly to build not just a career but a state — a Jewish state!” The other, a lecturer at Hebrew University, calls him a “zealot,” a “rabble-rouser” and a man “afflicted with the hubris of the wounded intelligentsia.” Netanyahu has left the fledgling Jewish state in anger over its leadership (“accomadationists, concessionists, barely Jewish incarnations of Neville Chamberlain”), who are not sufficiently radical for this disciple of the right-wing Revisionist Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky. 

Joshua Cohen, author of “The Netanyahus.” (Wikimedia Commons)

“The Netanyahus” is both a domestic drama and a novel of ideas. It speaks to Cohen’s particular talents that he does not so much braid the different strands together as show how they naturally coalesce. Cohen’s ideas lend weight to what might seem trivial, banal moments of middle-class discontent, which in turn serve to humanize and dramatize complex, academic questions of Jewish identity and belonging. An episode familiar to any 20th century family drama (Judy is upset with the size of her nose) assumes an existential character when placed in the context of Netanyahu’s lectures on assimilation and violence. Despite its numerous academic accoutrements and back-and-forths about Zionism and Jewishness, the book never devolves into a stale game of intellectual play. 

Of course for Cohen’s characters, these ideas are literally life and death — a different, though no less weighty version of words and material reality becoming one. Cohen makes this point especially clear in another long, inimitable passage near the end in which Blum imagines Netanyahu addressing him directly: “You, Ruben Blum, are out of history; you’re over and finished … Your life here is rich in possessions but poor in spirit, petty and forgettable, with your frigidaires and colors TVs, in front of which you munch your instant supper, laugh at a joke and choke, realizing that you have traded your birthright away for a bowl of plastic lentils … ” None of Cohen’s words are especially original, but he says them uncannily well. 

Any review of Cohen will tell you two things: that he’s a new branch on the sprawling, knotty postmodern tree of David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon, and that he’s underappreciated, two facts that are obviously linked. Has there ever been a worse time to write in the tradition of what my co-editor calls “the male manipulator canon”? Cohen has leaned into his outsider status, skewering many dominant trends in contemporary literature, from the MFA (“a degree in servitude”) to the kind of lazy, bloggy, solipsistic books that writers like Tao Lin seem to print out straight from Twitter. 

Benzion Netanyahu. (Wikimedia Commons)

Like Cohen, many of these authors write about these ideas, identity and their interchangeability, especially for marginalized communities. What makes Cohen’s book stand out? The willful anachronism of course, but more than that, it’s his style. Cohen is simply one of the best prose stylists writing in English today. The novel contains long, ornate passages like the one Cohen unfurls on the first page, but it also includes a plethora of delightfully precise descriptions that pin their subjects right through the center so that they stick, fixedly, in the reader’s mind. Netanyahu wears “floppy bluchers whose soles flapped loose like a horse’s lips.” Two privileged, unimpressive professors are described as “ivy-smothered idlers; genteely lazy, slumming Bramhins.” The head of the history department is described as “a jolly old St. Nick gone glabrous, his bald head resembling the pumpkin left outside Fredonia Hall to ripen past its season; some odd crooked warty pumpkin flushed with red broken veins and purple capillary-dapplings, frozen-ver in a white skin of rime.” 

While it may only be, as its subtitle declares, “An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family,” “The Netanyahus” is an unapologetically brilliant performance from one of our best living writers. Cohen’s swaggering, virtuosic prose sets him apart from his peers. His is the rare contemporary book where the ideas and the prose equal each other in their intensity and intelligence.

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Cal reels in commitment from 4-star running back Jaydn Ott

July 2, 2021, started off like any other Friday in Berkeley, with folks dragging themselves through one more day of work before the wonders of a long Fourth of July weekend. But right before quitting time, the Bears’ recruiting staff threw up its Bat Signal:

#CalGang22 pic.twitter.com/JJcsnEnYIb

— Cal FB Recruiting (@CalRecruiting) July 2, 2021

If you’ve been following Cal recruiting this year, you’ll recognize this video immediately; it’s the video that @CalRecruiting lets the world know that the Bears are, in fact, back.

This time, the future Cal athlete is none other than four-star running back Jaydn Ott out of Bishop Gorman in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ott was (and still is) heavily recruited is the class of 2022, holding offers from schools such as Oregon, Georgia and Nebraska. Ott said he was looking to attend an institution where he could earn a degree that would help him in “the long run.” Sound familiar? If it does, that’s because the recruiting staff for the Bears have emphasized the idea of a Cal commitment not being a “four-year decision,” but a 40-year one.

Why #Cal? It’s bigger than football. Not just a 4-year decision, but a 40-year decision. @ELITHEMAN1 on why he chose Berkeley. pic.twitter.com/GPlKvXjfjI

— Cal FB Recruiting (@CalRecruiting) August 7, 2018

Ott is the fourth highest-ranked offensive player to commit to the Bears since 2017 and will certainly add a huge boost to Cal’s overall talent level. Running a reported 4.41 40-yard dash, so and possessing a 43” vertical, Ott will look to be a spark plug for an up-and-coming Cal team in the years to come.

Jesse Stewart covers football. Contact him at jstewart@dailycal.org, and follow him on Twitter @jessedstew.

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No. 5: Timmy Allen

University of Utah basketball had a rough year, finishing 12-13 and posting their first losing record since 2013. Utah also let go of former head coach Larry Krystkowiak and lost Allen, Alfonso Plummer, Rylan Jones, Ian Martinez, Pelle Larsson, Mikael Jantunen and Jordan Kellier to the transfer portal.

Despite all the madness this season, Allen was able to shine. He led Utah in points, rebounds, assists and steals. Allen averaged 17.2 points, 6.4 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 1.3 steals. He led the team in field goal attempts while shooting a sharp 47% from the floor. Allen’s impact on Utah’s games was immeasurable, and simply more than stats can show. His transfer to Texas will be difficult for the Utes, but hopes are still high for next season.

No. 4: Tristan Mandur

The University of Utah golf team has had a great season, finishing top 10 in every tournament but the Arizona Intercollegiate. The team placed ninth at the Pac-12 Championship and made it to the program’s first NCAA Regional appearance since 1992, marking just their third appearance in history.

Unfortunately, the team was unable to move on to the NCAA Championship, placing seventh at Regionals. Mandur was the only Utah golfer to move on to the Championship, qualifying as an individual. He went on to play great in the championship, shooting three over par to finish in a five-way tie for 17^th overall. He also placed in a tie for second out of players competing solely as individuals. His finish of 283 was a new career-low in a 72-hole tournament, as well as Utah’s lowest NCAA Championship score ever. Mandur is expected to return next season and his impact and leadership on the team will continue to grow.

No. 3: Tyler Bradbury

Although the University of Utah lacrosse team finished the season 4-7, Bradbury shined. He led the team in points with 39 — second place was Jordan Hyde with 24. He was second on the team in goals with 14 — Hyde was first with 20.

But assists were where Bradbury really showed his skill. He finished the season with 25 out of Utah’s 60 assists. He was far above the rest, with Hyde, Branden Wilson, and Samuel Cambere tying for second with four.

He really showed dominance in his field vision and playmaking this season. His 25 assists in a single season are tied for first since Utah Lacrosse joined Division 1 in 2019. The tie was with James Sexton who did it in 2019. The only difference between the two is that Sexton did it in 15 games while Bradbury did it in just 11. Bradbury still has a lot of time left with the Utes and will continue to lead the team for years.

No. 2: Poppy Tank

Tank, a senior long-distance runner, had an incredible season. Tank was the only Utah runner to qualify for the NCAA Championship. She became the sixth Ute to qualify for the NCAA Championship and only the second Utah runner to qualify in multiple events.

Tank ran in the 5k and 10k events at the championship, finishing 22^nd in the 5k and ninth in the 10k. 15 runners in the 10k event ran personal bests, Tank included. She gained an All-American Honorable Mention in the 5k, finishing with a time of 16:15.88, 43 seconds faster than any Ute to compete in the Championships.

In the 10k, Tank finished with a time of 32:50.57, her personal best as well as a program-best, earning her All-American Honors. Tank’s Utah career came to a close with her earning First-Team All-Pac-12 Honors in XC.

No. 1: Maile O’Keefe

The University of Utah gymnastics team had a fantastic year, placing third at the NCAA Championship. The Red Rocks finished with a score of 197.9875, not only their highest score of the season but also the program’s highest team score in a National Championship meet.

A large part of the Red Rocks’ success this season was due to O’Keefe. She has had quite an impressive season, finishing First Team All-American on bars and floor, as well as Second Team all around. O’Keefe was the NCAA champion in uneven bars and floor this year, as well as a four-time Pac-12 champion.

She finished the season as the Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year and ranked No. 1 in the nation on beam, sixth in all-around, and 11^th on bars. O’Keefe is expected to return to Utah next year as the Red Rocks will have new additions of Grace McCallum and Kara Eaker, all of who are heading to the Tokyo Olympics. The Red Rocks have had a bright season and have an even brighter future.

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Gophers alum and recent 2021 graduate Shane Wiskus is heading to his first Olympic games. He will represent Team USA as an artistic gymnastics team member not even a full year after the University of Minnesota decided to cut the men’s gymnastics program starting next fall.

Over two days of competition and 12 apparatuses in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in St. Louis, Missouri, Wiskus totaled 168.150 points to finish in third place in the all-around competition.

“He’s got something going for him,” said Tim Daggett, a member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic gymnastics gold medal team, during the Day One live broadcast. “He does not lack confidence. He never has. He shouldn’t because he has tremendous abilities, but there are guys in the biggest moments of their lives … they doubt themselves a little bit, and that is not Shane Wiskus. That’s not in his genes.”

Gophers men’s gymnastics head coach Mike Burns spoke to Wiskus last week before the trials began and told him it’s all about “what is.”

“I just told Shane this last week. I said just remember one thing: It’s all about ‘what is’ and not about ‘what if’ … That’s where the lack of focus comes from because you start to get ahead of yourself. You start to put the cart before the horse. So you just got to keep that horse moving one step at a time and realize it’s a process, and you got to kind of live in the moment of the process.”

At the 2021 U.S. Gymnastics Championships earlier this month, Wiskus fell three times on the high bar. These falls caused him to fall from second to finish in ninth in the final round of the competition.

After the Olympic trials concluded, Burns spoke of Wiskus’ confidence leading up to the Olympic trials and was relieved that he did not suffer from any significant mistakes during the competition.

“Confidence is like a bank account. You got to keep putting deposits in, and every so often, you have a couple of withdrawals, and he had a few withdrawals at the NCAA’s on Day Two on vault and then on Day Two on high bar at the U.S. Nationals,” Burns said. “He was able in a short amount of time between the USA’s and trials to get the balance sheet in order and really get it back to where it needed to be. It was really great to see, and it’s just a testament to his determination, attitude and maturity.”

We are all channeling @shanewiskus1001 energy this summer. #GymTrials21 pic.twitter.com/mKQvUOVxAm

— Team USA (@TeamUSA) June 27, 2021

Wiskus earned his spot on the team alongside two-time Olympian and U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Center partner Sam Mikulak, who finished in fourth place with a total score of 166.750. The selection committee chose the two gymnasts to complete Team USA’s four-person roster.

“It seems like they’ve [Wiskus and Mikulak] really built up a good respect for each other and a friendship,” Burns said. “How cool is it that his new teammate at the training center is now a teammate on the Olympic team with him. I think that’s awesome.”

The other two gymnasts that will join Wiskus and Mikulak in Tokyo are Brody Malone and Yul Moldauer after they automatically qualified for the summer games in the trials. In addition, Alec Yoder will also compete for Team USA after individually qualifying on the pommel horse.

This is what dreams are made of. #GymTrials21 pic.twitter.com/jmGcWpEV4k

— Team USA (@TeamUSA) June 26, 2021

Malone, the all-around champion of the 2021 U.S. Championships and NCAA Championships, automatically qualified after winning the Olympic trials with a total score of 171.600.

Moldauer, the parallel bars champion of the 2021 U.S. Championships, punched his ticket to Tokyo after finishing in second place with a total score of 168.600 and placing in the top three across at least three apparatuses.

The following gymnasts will serve as alternates for Team USA: Cameron Bock, Allan Bower, Brandon Briones, Alex Diab and Akash Modi.

Wiskus shines on Day One – Thursday, June 24

On Day One’s competition, Wiskus totaled a whopping 84.300 points in the all-around to finish in second place, trailing Brody Malone by just 0.950.

The Spring Park, Minnesota, native started his Olympic trials debut on the vault, earning his best score of 14.600 points on Day One with an execution score of 9.400.

“At Forth Worth [during the U.S. Championships], he had some troubles on the vault,” Burns said. “So, he started on vault on Day One. I’d be lying if I didn’t say I was holding my breath. And then he knocks out one of his best vaults he’s done all year, so it was really, really great to see that start.”

Wiskus’ second-best score of his Olympic debut came on his second apparatus of the day, the parallel bars, where he scored 14.500 points. He graciously flew back and forth on the bars and nearly stuck a perfect dismount to finish off a routine that scored higher than any other gymnasts’ in the apparatus.

All eyes were on Wiskus as he approached the high bar for his third apparatus. If he were to have another fall on the high bar during the trials, it would prove costly to his chances of making the Olympic team.

According to Daggett, during the Day One live broadcast, Wiskus removed the first major release that caused him to fall previously during the U.S. Championships. He noted that “[Shane] made a very smart decision” to take out his first major release during the broadcast.

Wiskus had a lower maximum score because of this decision, but the Gophers alum showed out on the high bar to score 13.800 points. Then, after perfectly sticking his landing, he turned to the crowd and shouted out an emphatic, “C’mon. Let’s go.”

We think @shanewiskus1001 is pretty happy with his high bar routine.#GymTrials21 | #TokyoOlympics

NBCSN/@peacockTV pic.twitter.com/LtTK2mzUVu

— #TokyoOlympics (@NBCOlympics) June 24, 2021

“It was so good to see how he [Wiskus] managed the adversity of that last [high bar] routine at U.S. Nationals in Fort Worth and came back from that because something like that can stay in your mind and mess with you,” Burns said.

To round out his apparatuses on Day One, Wiskus totaled 14.000 on the floor, 13.900 on the still rings and 13.500 on the pommel horse.

Wiskus becomes a first-time Olympian – Saturday, June 26

On Saturday, Wiskus punched his ticket to the Tokyo Olympic Games this summer after scoring 83.850 points on Day Two to finish in third place in the all-around with a total of 168.150. This total was enough for the selection committee to choose him to represent Team USA.

Wiskus’ first apparatus was the still rings. He scored 14.050 points after perfectly sticking his landing, bettering his Day One score by 0.150. However, he slipped down into third place behind Moldauer by 0.100.

Following up his start on the rings, Wiskus moved to the vault, an apparatus that generally sees high scores, for the second rotation. Then, he sprinted, flew into the air, spinning, twisting and landing with a slight gather step to complete his routine and earn 14.500 points.

Wiskus’ high-scoring apparatus in the vault sprung him back into second place, just 0.150 points ahead of Moldauer, giving him a chance toward automatic qualification.

Wiskus moved to the parallel bars, his second highest-scoring apparatus on Day One, looking to stay in second place. He followed his first routine up with another magnificent performance where he scored 14.350 points to grow his second-place lead over Moldauer by 0.350. The parallel bars on Day Two would also be his second-highest scoring apparatus.

After regaining the second-place position for two rotations, Wiskus fell back into third place behind Moldauer after his high bar apparatus, where he scored 13.600 points. But, just like on Day One, Wiskus was animated after completing his high bar routine with no falls, including a stuck landing.

The Gophers alum could not overtake Moldauer for the second-place position as they closed out their last two apparatuses. To round out his Olympic Trials debut, Wiskus scored 14.200 on the floor and 13.150 on the pommel horse.

What’s up next

The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games will take place from Friday, July 23, to Sunday, Aug. 8, as the artistic gymnastics competition kicks off on Saturday, July 24.

Facebook Marketplace buyers and sellers can now shop with peace of mind at the Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office, where online trades can be monitored by officers and cameras.

The Sheriff’s Office encourages all sellers and buyers to “meet within a well lit area and to ensure that you are in a safe place before making a transaction.”

However, the Sheriff’s office has opened their own office to the community to ensure the safety of citizens, said Deputy Sheriff Julie Daughtry. These transactions can take place within the parking lot where it can be monitored by law enforcement as well as surrounding cameras to ensure someone’s safety.

“Facebook Marketplace can be a wonderful tool for individuals who want to buy or sell items,” said officer Daughtry. Although, being an online outlet, quite typically there are ‘scammers, stalkers, etc’. Daughtry said there have been numerous occasions where an individual had been the “victim of marketplace scams, resulting in several launched investigations.”

Additionally, the Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office is working to add to their Facebook page helpful guidelines and safety precautions to help those wishing to make these transactions within the near future.

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