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Alexander Abnos of Sports Illustrated placed Real Salt Lake at 19th in the Week 13 MLS Power Rankings. Though ranked only above three other squads in the 22-team league, RSL moved up one spot from 20 in Week 12 with its win against the Philadelphia Union.
Abnos wrote of Joao Plata, who has struggled to score this season but played a solid attacking game and struck in the first half against Philadelphia.
"Real Salt Lake got a much-needed win at home against the Philadelphia Union and Joao Plata buried his first goal of the year in the 1–0 win," Abnos wrote.
Abnos maintained that, despite the win, RSL still has work to do to reach any sort of MLS success.
RSL is "looking for any points they can get and any positive performances from club regulars that can help get them there," he wrote.
"Sunny" named to Fansided MLS Team of the Week
Daniel Garza of Fansided named Stephen Sunday to the MLS team of the week for Week 13.
"Sunny" played a crucial role in stopping Philadelphia's offense and guiding RSL to its first shutout win since April 8.
"It was a sterling effort from the Real Salt Lake midfielder against the Philadelphia Union. Sunny shut down the Union midfield and disrupted their attack from going forward on multiple occasions with four interceptions," Garza wrote.
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- BYU baseball's regional opponent featured in Los Angeles Times
- Former Southern Utah Thunderbird Stan Johnson named Associate Head Coach of Marquette University Men's basketball
And finally...The Utah Jazz produced a video highlighting the success of wing Joe Ingles, who had a career season, and Basketball Australia took note of it.