Today Along The Wasatch — Thursday, April 2, 2026
NOTE FROM YESTERDAY: What a season for BYU Women's Basketball. The Cougars fell to a battle-tested Columbia squad in the WBIT Championship Wednesday night in Wichita, but nothing about this year should be filed under disappointment. Coach Lee Cummard's group — left out of the NCAA Tournament as the first team on the outside — won five straight postseason games, reached the championship stage for the first time in program history, and did it largely on the shoulders of freshmen and sophomores who had never seen anything like it before. That experience doesn't disappear. Delaney Gibb, Olivia Hamlin, Sydney Benally and Brinley Cannon will be back. Cougar Nation, the best is still ahead.
Sports
Bees Baseball — Thirsty Thursday at The Ballpark 6:35 p.m.
(If not rained out 🌧️ or delayed)
The Ballpark at America First Square · South Jordan
The Salt Lake Bees host the Sacramento River Cats tonight in Game 3 of a six-game homestand, and Thursday means Thirsty Thursday — $6 beers and $3 sodas all night. The Bees are looking for a big bounce back after getting swept in Las Vegas to open the season, and splitting the first two of six games with Sacramento. First pitch at 6:35.
While you're there, consider what you're actually watching. The Larry H. Miller Company — which owns the Bees — is also leading the charge to bring Major League Baseball to Salt Lake City. The Power District, a $3.5 billion mixed-use development planned for the west side of the city along the Jordan River, has a shovel-ready site for a 30,000-seat big league ballpark. Utah lawmakers have already approved a $900 million public funding framework. MLB insiders have called Salt Lake City and Nashville the two strongest expansion markets in the country, with Commissioner Rob Manfred aiming to name two new franchises before he retires in 2029. A fresh poll shows 69% of Utah voters are on board.
For now, a Triple-A game on a spring Thursday night is as good as it gets along the Front. But that may not always be the case.
Utah Mammoth on the Road in Seattle 8:00 p.m. MDT
Climate Pledge Arena · ESPN+, HULU
No home ice tonight, but worth a note for the diehards. The Mammoth are 38-30-6 and sitting fourth in the Western Conference Central with the regular season winding down. They're in Seattle tonight to face the Kraken. Catch it on ESPN+ or HULU.
Arts & Culture
"King James" — Two Nights Left
Meldrum Theatre at the Einar Nielsen Field House · University of Utah Campus
→ Tickets — PioneerTheatre.org · 801-581-6961
If you've been meaning to catch Pioneer Theatre Company's production of King James and haven't made it yet, Thursday is one of your last two chances — the show closes Saturday. Rajiv Joseph's Pulitzer Prize-finalist play follows two men whose unlikely friendship is built entirely around LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. It sounds like a sports play. It isn't, not really — it's about how men find their way to saying the things they mean. Two actors, no set changes, no safety net. Just language doing the work it's supposed to do. Exploring the power of sports, loyalty, and human connection, King James brings the spirit of athleticism back to the Einar Nielsen Field House.
Live Music
Marissa Nadler at Kilby Court 6:00 p.m. (All Ages)
Kilby Court · Salt Lake City
Kilby Court is one of the best small venues in the valley — the kind of room where you're ten feet from the stage and you remember the show for a while. Tonight it hosts Boston-based dream-folk artist Marissa Nadler, whose atmospheric, layered sound is best heard somewhere intimate. If your Thursday evening has room for something quiet and well-made, this is it.
At the Movies
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Now Playing · Rated PG · 1 hr 38 min · In theaters now
→ Tickets & Showtimes — Fandango
The sequel to the 2023 blockbuster that made $1.3 billion worldwide hits theaters this week, and if you've got kids in the house there's a good chance you already know about it. Mario, Luigi and Princess Peach blast off into space to rescue Princess Rosalina from the scheming Bowser Jr. in a galaxy-hopping animated adventure packed with Nintendo nostalgia. The voice cast returns — Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black and Keegan-Michael Key — with Donald Glover joining as Yoshi and Brie Larson as Rosalina. Available in RealD 3D and IMAX. Critics are split but families aren't — this one is tracking for a massive opening weekend. Grab your Thwomps and go.
📅 That's your Thursday along the Wasatch Front — come back tomorrow morning for another look at what's worth your time this Friday. And keep your eyes open — we'll have an announcement soon on how to enter our gift certificate drawings. You won't want to miss it.