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Another round of civil unrest and ... it's tiring. The bad faith arguments are flying from every which direction, and they're genuinely exhausting, which is the design. But, it's time to summon the strength and will of the late Chadwick Boseman. As we've gotten more details about the Jacob Blake shooting, two parts of Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail have been on repeat in my mind: Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what...
WORLAND - The show must go on. The Washakie County Fair will have live music starting tonight and going to Saturday. One of the bands playing at the fair will be Madrona Road with Daniel Kosel, taking the stage tonight at 8 p.m. Playing bass for Madrona is WHS alum, Maclin Wiley. Ever since he plucked his first string, playing bass since his days in the WHS jazz band, Wiley continued to do so at Northwest College. Then last year, when Kosel, a friend of Wiley's mother, Tracey Wiley, was a solo a...
WORLAND - Coming off their first loss of the season the Worland Warriors responded pretty, pretty, pretty well as they stormed through the 3A West regional tournament in Lyman on March 5-7 to win their first regional title in 30-plus years. This is the first regional championship for Worland since the current WHSAA (Wyoming High School Activities Association) classification system was put in place during the 1984 season. The Warriors beat Lyman 90-58, in the quarterfinals, beat Lovell 66-44, in...
THERMOPOLIS - With a chance at making it to their first 3A State tournament since returning to 3A in 2016, the Hot Springs County Lady Bobcats fell a few possessions short of doing so at the 3A East regional tournament in Newcastle on March 5-7. The Lady Bobcats tournament started with a quarterfinal matchup against Torrington. An offensive drought in the second and third quarters hurt Thermopolis the most, as they only scored six points combined in both quarters. By the time the Lady 'Cats...
WORLAND — The 2020 Wyoming High School wrestling season has concluded and for the Worland Warriors, they can add yet another event-filled season to the books. At the season’s final competition, the 3A State tournament, the Warriors finished third as a team scoring 168.5 points, had 160-pound junior Luke Goncalves successfully defend his state title, two All-State wrestlers (Goncalves and Anthony Martinez) and a total of eight placers. While most championship matches were going all three periods,...
THERMOPOLIS - Even though they were undermanned for the season the Hot Springs County Bobcats still found a way to close out the season on a high-note during last week's 2A State tournament in Casper on Feb. 28-29. "We performed where we thought we would. We didn't overperform and we didn't underperform," said HSCHS wrestling coach Travis McDermott. "Austin Barral had a tough draw in where he was on the bracket and it didn't allow him to place. We wrestled that first-round tight and I think a...
Hypocrisy can be very entertaining. I know it drives most people mad but if you look at it from a humorous angle, it provides an endless source of enjoyment. Most of us have a little hypocrisies that we carry with us but the best types of hypocrisy are the hulking, albatross types. The ones like how Democrats claim to care about the homeless, how Republicans pretend to care about anyone that makes under 100K or me taking jabs at the NFL's worst franchises even though my Jags have easily been...
WORLAND - The Worland Warriors cross-country team brought home their fifth-straight 3A East conference title and did so in dominating fashion on Oct. 18 in Douglas. The Warriors scored 37 points and placed four runners in the top 10, beating second-place Newcastle by 43 points. Junior Marcus Wiley was the first to cross the finish line for Worland coming in third with a time of 17:45.38; junior Gaven McColloch was next, finishing sixth at 18:01.12; junior Boe Nicholas ran an 18:03.99 to finish...
THERMOPOLIS - While they were unable to defend their home course the Hot Springs County Lady Bobcats cross-country team were still able to finish second and have three runners make the All-Conference team. The Lady Bobcats finished with 52 points, Wyoming Indian won the 2A West Conference meet last Saturday with 28 points. Lady 'Cats McKenna Bomengen, Tahja Hunt and Hailie Martinez earned All-Conference honors. Hunt finished third with a time of 22:02.40, Bomengen was fourth running a 22:27.83...
First, a revision on my NBA predictions, the Cavs will be the worst team in the NBA. I did not realize they were breaking out horrible new unis that look like a callback to the franchise’s worst days. And because of that, they’re a lock to be the league’s worst team. Now onto the NBA and a geopolitical nightmare. The NBA-Chinese government beef is absolutely fascinating. A quick recap, Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey tweeted out a meme in support of the protesters in Hong Kong just before the league’s trip to China in the preseason, and the Chin...
WORLAND - Starting 0-4 on the season was tough for the Worland Warriors football team but they were able to push all of that aside and pick up their first win of the season against the Rawlins Outlaws on Oct. 4 at Worland High School. Not only did the Warriors get their first win of the season they did so in dominating fashion on homecoming week, rolling the Outlaws (0-2 3A East, 3-3 overall) 34-6. Offense, defense and special teams, the Warriors controlled all three as they picked up a crucial...
THERMOPOLIS — Last week was a busy week for the Hot Springs County High School Lady Bobcats volleyball team. With all of their matches at home the Lady Bobcats hosted Lovell on Oct. 3, Lander on Oct. 4 and after their match vs. Lander kicked off their annual tournament that ended on Oct. 5. The Lady ‘Cats defeated Lovell 3-0 (25-20, 25-18, 25-22), lost to Lander 3-0 (25-22, 25-21, 25-18) and finished second in their tournament losing to 2A Riverside 2-1 (25-21, 24-26, 16-14). It was a wee...
The Warrior Hall of Fame has been a work in progress the past year and change, and last week it all came together with the first Hall of Fame week that coincides with WHS homecoming and the first class inducted into the Warrior Hall of Fame. And it was awesome. The first eight inducted into the Warrior Hall of Fame (Francie Faure, Mary Faure, Debbie Hammons, Tom Harrington, Carl Selmer, Grant Ujifusa, Roger Youtz and David Zuniga) was one impressive legacy after the next. The community meet and...
WORLAND — The festivities are set and ready to go for the first eight inductees into the Warrior Hall of Fame. Francie Faure, Mary Faure, Debbie Hammons, Tom Harrington, Carl Selmer, Grant Ujifusa, Roger Youtz and David Zuniga are the first to be enshrined in the Warrior Hall of Fame, which aims to celebrate the many accomplishments by Worland High School graduates and/or Washakie County School District No. 1 workers and allows those to reconnect to the schools deep and rich past. The celebration of the first eight kicks off today at 5 p.m. w...
TEN SLEEP - Last week was a busy week for the Ten Sleep High School volleyball team, they had three matches in three days, two of which were 1A Northwest division contests St. Stephens and Dubois, on top of all the usual festivities that come with homecoming week. The Lady Pioneers went 1-2 in their matches against St. Stephens, Dubois and Arvada-Clearmont. On Saturday at Ten Sleep High School, they lost to Dubois 3-1 (25-20, 13-25, 25-23, 25-19) and Arvada-Clearmont (25-15, 25-23, 25-16). Both...
WORLAND - The 2019 girls swimming season has been a unique one for the Worland Lady Warriors, to say the least. The Worland Aquatic Center has been working on some fixes this over the last handful of weeks and it has made training for the Lady Warriors tougher. As the competitive pool has been worked on, the Lady Warriors have had to use the two extra lanes in the community pool to practice. "It's been a pretty challenging season," said WHS girls swimming coach Mike Blissett. We haven't had our...
WORLAND - The 2019 golf season ended with another runner-up finish for the Worland High School boys golf team at the 3A State meet in Afton on Sept. 20-21. Sophomore Karsten Simmons also came in second for the Warriors, falling just short of defending his 3A State title. The Lander Tigers as a team shot a 295, 306 – 601 to threepeat as 3A's best golf team, 22 strokes ahead of second-place Worland. And senior Jaren Calkins went 71, 67 – 138 for his second title in three seasons, beating out Sim...
THERMOPOLIS - The Hot Springs County High School cross-country team held their own on their home course last week as they hosted the Bobcat Invitational at the Legion Town and Country Golf Course in Thermopolis on Sept. 21. Lady Bobcat senior McKenna Bomengen finished first with a time of 20:46.46 and fellow senior teammate Tahja Hunt crossed the finish line at 22:20.38 for a fourth-place finish. Overall HSCHS cross-country coach Stephanie Metz was thrilled with her team's performance as they...
When the Jags Jalen Ramsey requested a trade at the end of Week 2, all the NFL guys lost their minds and were claiming the NFL was turning into the NBA. Obviously, it was an overreaction because there are plenty of cases with NFL superstars demanding a trade. It’s just a superstar thing. It was weird that Hall of Famer Steve Young, who was one of the first to go in on this NFL-NBA comp, forgot about Joe Montana demanding a trade after the Niners chose him over Montana. Just goes to show recency bias is a real thing. Anyways, of the two l...
Last week the California Senate passed a bill that’s going to allow student-athletes to seek out endorsements and make money off their likenesses. It’s a groundbreaking bill that I’m sure has NCAA president Mark Emmett and pals panicked. If California Governor Gavin Newsome signs the bill it will put the NCAA in a tough position. Do they crack down and basically force out every California school? If they do that you can imagine the lawsuits are going to be flying all over the place. Say what you will about the state of college athletics in Ca...
THERMOPOLIS - The Hot Springs County High School volleyball team was on the road twice last week, first was their Sept. 12 match at Powell High School and on Sept. 13-14 they were at Rawlins High School for the Outlaw Invitational. Of those two contests for the Lady Bobcats, their 3-1, (25-12, 25-23, 26-28, 25-14) victory over Powell was the highlight of the week for them. Not only did they pick up a road win, but they also didn't let adversity sink them. Instead, they put their heads down and...
TEN SLEEP - The Meeteetse volleyball Invitational did not go as planned for the Ten Sleep Lady Pioneers. But while they did not pick up as many wins as they would have liked TSHS volleyball coach Desiree Egger believes the lessons learned should benefit the team in the long run. "It was a learning experience. We were fighting our serving and down ball all tournament. I like how we played better on Saturday but we just didn't play well on Friday. Our transitioning wasn't great, we weren't...
WORLAND - The scoreboard in the Worland High School football team's first game of the season was a bit deceiving. The Warriors lost to the Powell Panthers 24-7 and while it seems like a beat down the game was much closer. "We were right there and had a couple of inopportune things happen," said WHS football coach Ryan Utterback. "We were literally inches away a few times. We had too many turnovers and you can't expect to win with that. A couple of those turnovers came when we were hurrying and...
TEN SLEEP - Normally, the first quarter of the season Ten Sleep High School volleyball is spent building chemistry and learning the ropes. This year the Lady Pioneers have gotten off to a decent start with last week's win over 1A Northwest rival St. Stephens. "We played well," said TSHS volleyball coach Desiree Egger. "It was the first time we played with six this season and we were planning and practicing like we were going to play with five. Josie Decker didn't even practice with us on...
THERMOPOLIS - It is early in the cross-country team season and the Hot Springs County High School runners are already beating expectations. If they keep up their current pace, coach Stephanie Metz will have one of those good problems and just have to raise the bar for her team. "I was really excited about it," said HSCHS cross-country coach Stephanie Metz about her team's performance in Douglas. "We came out pretty strong. We were kind of thrown off because they combined the JV and varsity, so...