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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The next Eagles coach better have some people skills. A day after firing Chip Kelly, CEO Jeffrey Lurie made it clear he wants a coach who can relate to his players and everyone else in the building. “You’ve got to open your heart to players and everybody you want to achieve peak performance,” Lurie said Wednesday. “I would call it a style of leadership that values information and all of the resources that are provided and at the same time values emotional intelligence. I think in today’s world, a combination of all those fac...
LARAMIE - It's not a new season, it's another tier. That's how University of Wyoming men's basketball coach Larry Shyatt described the start of Mountain West play as UW (7-6) plays at San Diego State (7-6) at 8 tonight at Viejas Arena in San Diego. Shyatt said every season he shows his players a pyramid of tiers, starting with spring workouts, followed by summer workouts, preseason workouts, preseason practice and the nonconference portion of the schedule. The next tier is conference play, and...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The founder of an Indianapolis medical facility said Monday that a former unpaid student intern who claimed Peyton Manning used a banned substance in 2011 didn't even work at the clinic until two years later, long after the NFL star was undergoing treatment. Dr. Dale Guyer, who started The Guyer Institute, said the allegations against the Denver Broncos quarterback are untrue. Manning angrily denied using performance-enhancing substances shortly after the Al Jazeera report...
LARAMIE - Larry Shyatt waited to speak extensively about it, and he didn't hold anything back. The University of Wyoming men's basketball coach spoke on behalf of the other 10 coaches in the Mountain West Monday about the league's decision to change the format of the MW men's and women's basketball tournament starting in 2017. The league announced Dec. 18 that its board of directors - consisting of presidents from member schools - voted to change the format to eight teams for both the men's and...
NEW YORK (AP) — American Pharoah’s sweep of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes for horse racing’s first Triple Crown since 1978 was selected the sports story of the year Thursday in an annual vote conducted by The Associated Press. Eighty-two ballots were submitted from U.S. editors and news directors. Voters were asked to rank the top five sports stories of the year, with the first-place story receiving five points, the second-place story four points and so on. American Pharoah’s Triple Crown win received 317 points and 43 firs...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Authorities are warning Iowans to beware of Rose Bowl ticket scams. Police in Cedar Rapids say people have reported buying tickets through Craigslist and then meeting the seller at a Cedar Rapids movie theater. The tickets proved to be fakes. The Marion Police Department says officers are investigating a report of someone driving a car with Washington license plates selling counterfeit tickets. Iowa plays Stanford on New Year’s Day at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California....
NEW YORK (AP) — Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers are two wins away from a perfect regular season. They are also a perfect 10 when it comes to the Pro Bowl. The Panthers led the NFL with 10 players selected for the All-Star game on Tuesday. Newton was picked for the third time, and five of the quarterback’s teammates were first-time selections, including cornerback Josh Norman and linebacker Thomas Davis. “It’s truly an honor to be selected to the Pro Bowl,” Davis said. “All the hard work and dedication I’ve put into the game has paid off....
DENVER - It was the 28th game in an 82-game schedule for the Los Angeles Lakers. But for former University of Wyoming men's basketball star Larry Nance Jr., Tuesday's game against the Denver Nuggets at Pepsi Center was anything but another game. Nance, the Lakers' 27th overall pick in this summer's NBA Draft, played in his 23rd game and made his eighth start. Nance got off to a fast start, and finished with 10 points and two rebounds in 19 minutes as the Lakers rallied from a 21-point deficit...
Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey is The Associated Press college football player of the year, becoming the first non-Heisman Trophy winner to earn the honor in six years. McCaffrey was the runner-up for the Heisman Trophy to Derrick Henry, but received 29 of 60 votes from the AP Top 25 media panel to edge the Alabama running back. Henry received 16 votes and Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson was third with 11. Navy quarterback Keenan Reynolds and Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield each received two votes. The last time the AP player...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — This isn’t what John Elway had in mind when he acquired Vernon Davis from San Francisco just before the trade deadline. Or, for that matter, what the Denver Broncos general manager expected of wide receiver Demaryius Thomas after agreeing on a $70 million contract in July. Both seem prone to crucial drops at crucial times. Although the addition of Davis has allowed Denver to better use their tight ends in Gary Kubiak’s zone-based offense, the two-time Pro Bowler has had two huge drops the past two weeks that might have...
The weekend didn't go as well as Coach Josh Garcia and the Warriors would have liked, but there still was plenty to celebrate by the time the Battle in the Big Horns was over Saturday evening. Worland finished their home tournament in seventh place. Coach Garcia said, "We like to be in the finals of our own tournament. It's always our goal to try and win. Overall I was really pleased with way we wrestled. A lot of our kids got eight matches and any time you can get eight matches in a weekend,...
After having a tough time in Glenrock to open the season, the Lady Bobcats bounced back in a big way by winning all four contests over the weekend in the Sho-Opolis Shootout which took place in Thermopolis on Friday and Shoshoni on Saturday. Thermopolis opened with a 41-23 victory over 1A Upton on Friday, followed with a 56-39 win over 2A Rocky Mountain and then closed the day by narrowing 1A Cokeville 37-34. Saturday, the Lady Bobcats only had one game and were able to get past 1A Snake River 48-45 which capped off a perfect weekend. Bobcats...
WORLAND – Having gone through the same routine each preseason and going to the same tournaments, playing the same teams – both the Warriors and Lady Warriors opted for something new this year. New opponents. New venues. New level of competition. Both Worland basketball teams hit the road to the Flaming Gorge Shootout in Green River and Rock Springs, a three-day tournament that draws competition from the 2A, 3A and 4A ranks in Wyoming along with schools from neighboring states Idaho and Uta...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) - The Denver-Pittsburgh matchup is the only NFL game this weekend pitting two winning teams. It also features the best receiving trio in football facing the league's top secondary, dubbed "The No-Fly Zone." Antonio Brown, Martavis Bryant and Markus Wheaton vs. Aqib Talib, Chris Harris Jr. and Bradley Roby. "It's the best versus the best," Harris said. A wide-open offense and a shut-down defense, what more could fans ask for? Ben Roethlisberger's trio of big-time receivers r...
(AP) — College football has a record number of bowls, a whopping 41 from Hawaii to the Bronx. That’s great news if you’re a college football fan. No need to even leave the house over the next three weeks. If you’re not a college football fan, well, it’s probably a little overkill, especially with those 5-7 teams in the mix. Whatever side of the fence you’re on, there’s certainly going to be plenty of action, with great games, star players and four teams playing for a national championship. To get you ready, we’ve got a rundown of what to look...
Over the past few seasons, the University of Wyoming Cowgirls basketball team took more of a “let’s try to outscore the opposition” approach rather than “let’s try to stop the opposition” stance. Having two of the most prolific scorers and 3-point shooters in program history, that approach made sense. The 2015-16 Cowgirls have been built a little differently. More attention has been paid to the defensive side of the ball this season, and it’s in part helped the Cowgirls to a 5-3 start to the season. And it’s not necessarily that Wyoming’s defen...
It's Finals Week for all University of Wyoming students. It's that time of year when the days (and nights) of studying are long, the tests are hard and the nerves of students are about on their last legs. As everyone finishes up their classes for the fall semester, it's also a good time to look at how Wyoming's athletic teams did during the fall semester as well. Some had a good semester ... some did not. And some head home for the holidays knowing there is a lot of work to be done when classes...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) - The Denver Broncos insist their locker room won't be split apart after blunders on offense and special teams - and a bad play by the new guy - wasted an historical effort by the league's top-ranked defense. "We're a team, we're brothers," linebacker Brandon Marshall said. "Just because your brother isn't doing so well that doesn't mean you have the right to get on him." Marshall said the league's top-ranked defense holds no grudges against the NFL's 24th-ranked offense,...
When it comes to preseason tournaments, coaches can never be too sure of what to expect from their team. For Ten Sleep boys basketball coach Ben Schwarz, the performance he got from his team in Upton was one he was happy with. The Pioneers went 2-1 over the weekend, dropping their first game but winning the next two to capture fifth place. Ten Sleep started off the tournament with a 56-32 loss to the host, Upton, but bounced back nicely with a 63-36 win over Guernsey on Friday before downing 2A...
LARAMIE – University of Wyoming sophomore guard Liv Roberts loves to play defense. How much? So much that UW women's basketball coach Joe Legerski said he has had to curtail some of Roberts' practice minutes because she competes so hard it wears her out for games. That's unconditional love. "If I got to choose playing one (offense or defense), it would be playing defense," Roberts said. "I enjoy the physicality of it, and probably sometimes too much right now with the fouls lately. "I put a lot...
CHEYENNE – The University of Wyoming announced Thursday that three football players won’t return next season: junior defensive tackle Uso Olive, junior walk-on linebacker Will Tutein – a Cheyenne Central graduate – and true freshman walk-on kicker Tristan Bailey. A release from UW stated all three won’t return for “personal reasons.” The release also said coach Craig Bohl and UW’s athletics department would have no further comment. However, Tutein had a different story to tell about why he won’t be back. “It was not my decision to not come back...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Boxing legend Muhammad Ali on Wednesday criticized Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States, calling on Muslims “to stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda.” Ali, one of the most famous Muslims in the world, issued a statement saying, “True Muslims know that the ruthless violence of so called Islamic Jihadists goes against the very tenets of our religion.” He added, “I believe that our political leaders should use their positio...