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WORLAND - Both Worland High School and Hot Springs County High School got their seasons underway at the Billings Invitational last Friday. WORLAND Warrior senior Porter Harman finished second in Billings with a time of 16:07.74, both his time and placing were personal records for that course. "Overall it was an amazing meet and I walked away a proud coach. It was a huge meet for Porter, he ran a 16:07 for second place. For him to PR by so much is awesome and it's also a good confidence builder,"...
The NFL season kicksoff tonight and it's time to reveal my playoff picks for this season. Let's get to it! Each team's over/under win total is in parentheses next to their team name as well as each team's best fantasy player and a player to avoid. PLAYOFF TEAMS No. 6-SEEDS AFC KANSAS CITY CHIEFS (8.5) Ridiculously advanced computer prediction: 9-7 A lot of the criticism Andy Reid gets is his own doing. He gets too cute and somehow hasn't learned clock-management this deep into his career. That...
WORLAND - The Worland High School boys golf team picked up their second win of the fall season Friday in Buffalo. The Warriors shot 325, 322-647, to win the tournament by 63 strokes, and placed four of their five golfers in the top 10. 4A's Sheridan Broncs were the next closest with 710 and the next closest 3A team was the Douglas Bearcats with 723. Freshman Karsten Simmons won his third-straight high school tournament posting a score of 74, 71-145. This was also Simmons' largest margin of...
WORLAND - The Worland/Powell rivalry never disappoints. Friday night's season opener at Worland High School against the Powell Panthers saw the Warriors come out on top 14-7, in a matchup between the two 3A football rivals. The Warriors were far from perfect in the win but when the game was at its most critical, they made the biggest plays. "We had a lot of young kids stepping, and even some of the older guys were stepping, into new roles. So we had some of the first game jitters," said WHS...
I had to expand the “Most courageous 2018-19 NFL season predictions” to a four-parter. You’re welcome. This week is the almost playoff teams, the teams that are going to be on the outside looking in. They’re all talented in some respect but just don’t have the pieces or too many flaws to play January football. But say one of the playoff teams falter or has a soul-crushing injury, this group stands to benefit. Each team’s over/under win total is in parentheses next to their team name as well as...
TEN SLEEP - In an early 1A Northwest volleyball conference matchup the Ten Sleep Lady Pioneers hosted the St. Stephens Lady Eagles Thursday night at Ten Sleep High School. The results went in favor of the Lady Eagles, as they downed the Lady Pioneers 3-0 (25-16, 25-20, 25-18) but there were signs of improvement on Ten Sleep's part. For starters, the Lady Pioneers' tenacity was on display by never giving up on a ball until a whistle was blown. Several times throughout the match Ten Sleep was able...
WORLAND - The Worland Lady Warriors swimming team got off to a fun and exciting start in Lander on August 24-25. Seniors Juli Warren and Kyra Klinghagen wasted little time in showing why they are among the top athletes in the pool. During the pentathlon in Lander, Warren automatically qualified in five events (50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle, 100-yard butterfly, 100-yard backstroke and 100-yard breaststroke) for the 3A State meet in Laramie on November 2-3. Before Warren AQ'd, Klinghagen...
WORLAND - The Worland Warriors met the Buffalo Bison on the gridiron Saturday afternoon for a controlled football scrimmage between the two rivals at Worland High School. Both schools, whether it was the starters, JV or freshmen, turned in highlight-worthy plays during the two-hour scrimmage. The Warriors showcased their athleticism and speed on offense, while on defense that same speed and athleticism allowed them to swarm the Bison ball carriers. "Some of the highlights were the boys playing W...
Before we get to Part II of the "Most courageous 2018-19 NFL season predictions" a few thoughts on Ohio State coach Urban Meyer. Meyer is an official member of the Pitino Club. Named after college basketball coach Rick Pitino, the Pitino Club is an exclusive club where college coaches who ramble on and on about being molders of men and upstanding father figures get caught in a scandal and show their true cowardly colors as they navigate through the muck and mire. Meyer made a mistake by keeping...
WORLAND - Last weekend the Worland Warriors golf team cruised to a dominant win in the home tournament at the Green Hills Golf Course on August 17-18. Freshman standout Karsten Simmons won the first tournament of his career shooting 72,71-143 and beating out Thermopolis' Hardy Johnson by one stroke. The four other Warrior varsity golfers finished in the top 10; JT Klinghagen was fourth (77, 77-154), Jose Galarza fifth (76, 82-158), Logan Foote sixth (84, 76-160) and Konnor Macy ninth (84, 80-164...
WORLAND - Week 1 for the Worland Warrior football team kicks off against the Powell Panthers on August 31 but before that matchup the Warriors host the Buffalo Bison at 1 p.m. in a Week 0 scrimmage at Worland High School. The scrimmage will be a controlled scrimmage in that each team will get 10 downs, redzone offense transition from possession and other situational scenarios. More importantly WHS football coach Ryan Utterback is wanting to get as many reps as possible for his players, from...
WORLAND - The 2018 baseball season turned out to be the best season to date for the Worland 13U Baseball team. Not only did the team take excellent, and at times jaw-dropping, strides forward, they also accomplished quite a bit and played their best baseball of the season during their final four weeks. Worland's impressive run started during the Rocky Mountain School of Baseball Firecracker 24-team tournament on June 29-July 2, in Heber City, Utah. A year after several humbling losses at the sam...
The most courageous 2018-19 NFL season predictions: The Bums By ALEX KUHN Sports Editor The NFL season is right around the corner and it is time to release the most courageous predictions for the 2018-19 season. Coming up with these predictions is unbelievably complex, there's a ton of research, firing from the hip, interviews, gut-feelings and running simulations through ridiculously advanced computers. These computers are so advanced, Elon Musk has made a few calls asking if he could borrow th...
WORLAND - For those Jeep enthusiast the 10th Big Horn High Mountains 2018 Jeep Jamboree is happening today and tomorrow at the Elk View Inn at Burgess Junction. Today a visual of registration for attendees will be at 5 to 7 p.m. Tomorrow the attendees will take to the trails at 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. The 10th Big Horn High Mountains 2018 Jeep Jamboree is a part of the annual Jeep Jamboree USA and is an annual off-road weekend of adventure that brings the outdoors, down-to-earth people and their...
WORLAND - While most of the Worland High School fall sports teams started practice Monday, WHS golf saw their first tournament action of the season last Thursday and Friday. Taking part in the Park County Shootout at Olive Glenn Golf and Country Club in Cody and the Powell Golf Club in Powell, the Warriors and Lady Warriors battled against 12 other teams, from classes 2A to 4A, during the two-day tournament. As a team, the Warriors finished third shooting a 643, only trailing second-place 3A...
WORLAND - Of the many great things about athletics is the confrontation with failure. Every athlete, from the amateur to the pro ranks, has dealt with failure and it's how each athlete deals with failure that will determine their future success. Worland powerlifter Alejandra Rice ran into failure while competing at the USPA National Powerlifting Championship in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 13. The Worland High School junior failed her second squat attempt, a first for her, and later on, failed...
Uggghhh ... is anyone else getting exhausted by these Trump tweets? It's the same thing every year or the same insults thrown at people he doesn't like. Last week he took a shot at LeBron and the only thing surprising about it was how long it took him to do so. Then, in what's slowly becoming a tradition with the start of the NFL season, he complained about the NFL players and their demonstrations during the national anthem. It really feels like we're in a time paradox from "Star Trek" and...
Remember in grade school when one of the biggest insults you could lob at someone was calling them a tattletale? Calling someone a tattletale during recess was the equivalent of challenging another man’s honor during colonial days. Both had similar outcomes too, either the accused slinked away and was forever marked a tattletale/man of no honor, or you dueled. Simple and to the point, this prevented kids from dropping dimes on people for every minor transgression, it was better to be the dumb kid rather than the tattletale. To be clear a t...
WORLAND - A week after having their 1A 6-man season forfeited, those Ten Sleep Pioneers who wanted to play football have received some good news. The Wyoming High School Activities Association has given them the go-ahead to play for Worland High School this season. Initially, Ten Sleep High School activities director Sarah Novak thought her players would only be allowed to play junior varsity but WHSAA gave any Ten Sleep player the OK to play at the varsity level as well. The decision by WHSAA...
Yellowstone Lake Invaders is part of a series that will take a look at the efforts to restore the Yellowstone cutthroat trout in Yellowstone Lake. "Helping Hand" is the final entry in the series. By ALEX KUHN Sports Editor YELLOWSTONE - Lake trout have decimated the population of the Yellowstone cutthroat in Yellowstone Lake since 1994. In order to combat the nonnative species and restore the cutthroat to their rightful prominence, a serious undertaking has been afoot. Battling the lake trout an...
TEN SLEEP - It's always nice easing into a new position before the tougher aspects and decisions of the job begin to take shape. For Ten Sleep's newly appointed Activities Director Sarah Novak, she had no such luxury. As the new TSHS AD, after the departure of principal and AD, Russ Budmayr, Novak's first order of business in May was to figure out what to do with the football program. After exploring different options and only having four players 100 percent committed to the season, Novak, and...
WORLAND - After last season ended with a loss in the Wyoming USA fastpitch state championship game, the Worland 16U Wildfires team made a goal for the 2018 season, make it back to the title game and win it. The Wildfires were able to check that goal off last Saturday in Casper as they defeated the Casper Cobras 18-7 to win the recreation division. The Wildfires played a total of five games going 4-1 against the Riverton Trailblazers and Casper Cobras, with their only loss coming in their first...
YELLOWSTONE -In 1994 it was discovered that nonnative, predatory lake trout had made their way into Yellowstone Lake and as a result began to wreak havoc on the population numbers of the lake's native species, the Yellowstone cutthroat trout. Since the discovery efforts have been underway to restore the cutthroat as the dominant species of Yellowstone Lake many have stepped up and answered the call for the restoration of the cutthroats like Julia and George Argyros. The Argyroses established a...
WORLAND — Summer is quickly zipping by with the fall sports season not far off and next week current and future Warriors football players will be attending the Worland Football Camp at Worland High School. Starting on July 23-25 from 9 to 11 a.m. for grades 3-8 and 6-9 p.m. for grades 9-12, the non-contact camp will focus on positional techniques and tackling form. “We have two avenues we’re going to be focusing on. We’re going to be working on technique, especially with the younger guys. W...
It was bound to happen, a day was going to come when I read a story and my inner curmudgeon would be unleashed like that of a rage-fueled Norse god, leading me to write my first "get off my lawn" or "old man yells at could" take. But unlike most in sports media who want to deny or fight that time and pop culture is passing them by, I'm leaning into it. I am genuinely excited about this and even though I'm only 30, I've started to notice that pop culture has been pulling further and further...