Washington County Briefs

General Daily Insight for December 03, 2024 Stable doesn’t have to mean uninteresting. The Moon in Capricorn is pushing you to chase your goals to the best of your ability, and this energy gets boosted into hyperdrive when the Moon nudges Mars in Leo. Fortunately, you can find a useful outlet for all this energy when the Moon sextiles stoic Saturn in Pisces at 4:17 pm EST, making your intuition your strongest guide.

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BOSTON — Observations and other notes of interest from Monday night’s 108-89 loss to the Boston Celtics: – This is why you don’t let one get away on Sunday night in Toronto. – Not with a schedule now this unforgiving. – No, the expectation hardly was of the Heat, no matter the physical state of their roster, striding out of TD Garden with a victory. – But the previous portion of the schedule allowed the Heat to position themselves so it wouldn’t be an exit with a losing record. – As it is now, at 9-10. – With LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers up next. – And then Kevin Durant and the Phoenix Suns. – And then the good-enough-to-beat-the-Celtics Cleveland Cavaliers – This would have required the Heat at their healthiest best. – Instead, in the injury absence of Jimmy Butler, there was no one to pick up the pieces. – As much as Jaime Jaquez Jr.

BOSTON — All the perspective you need about this one is this: Thomas Bryant was first off the bench, with Dru Smith shortly thereafter given the keys to run the offense. No, this is not how the Miami Heat envisioned the approach to the first meeting of the season against the Boston Celtics. But with injuries decimating the rotation, that’s what they got in Monday night’s 108-89 loss at TD Garden. Unable to keep pace with Jaylen Brown or the Celtics’ 3-pointers, the Heat found themselves overmatched against a Celtics roster that was without Jrue Holiday, Kristaps Porzingis, Al Horford and Sam Hauser.

GAINESVILLE — Florida coach Billy Napier’s best recruiter could turn out to be the true freshman quarterback who spearheaded the Gators’ November turnaround. Following a 31-11 win Saturday night at Florida State, DJ Lagway said he was ready to get to work building on UF’s momentum to strengthen his supporting cast in 2025. “I’m definitely going to be involved in the transfer portal and the recruiting class,” the 19-year-old said.

By JILL COLVIN NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump will attend the reopening celebration for Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris this weekend, his first foreign trip since the election. The cathedral is set to reopen Saturday after more than five years of reconstruction following a devastating fire in 2019 that engulfed and nearly destroyed the soaring Paris landmark.