Jeffrey D. Allred
SOUTH JORDAN — This story isn’t really about sports, even though it’s on the sports page and concerns basketball in a peripheral way. It’s about a single mother who worked as many as three jobs to ensure that her two sons did not pay in any way for a troubled marriage; it’s about a woman who made the painful decision to leave the marriage and go it alone with two sons.
One of those sons has become an all-conference basketball player at BYU. Yoeli Childs, a junior forward, is expected to declare for the NBA draft after the season ends, according to a member of the program.