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Big-time players have big-time games to defeat big-time teams. Josh Allen is looking to do just that Saturday. It isn't that the University of Wyoming junior quarterback hasn't played well in previous big games. Allen's efforts last season were vital in the Cowboys winning the Mountain Division of the Mountain West and playing in their first bowl game since 2011. However, Saturday's home game against Oregon is a different beast. It will be the third team from a Power 5 conference Allen has gone...
WORLAND - The 3A East Conference golf tournament was the site for Worland High School's best showing of the season. Both the Warriors and Lady Warriors had strong performances and look to carry that into the 3A State tournament today and tomorrow. The Warriors as a team placed second shooting a 684 for the tournament and were 11 strokes shy from conference champion, the Douglas Bearcats. "At the end of the round, as they watched the board, you could see by the look on their faces that they...
THERMOPOLIS - After spending the first couple weeks on the road the Hot Spring County High School volleyball team will play in front of their home crowd for the first time in 2017 this weekend. The Lady Bobcats will host the Bobcat Invitational on Friday and Saturday at Hot Spring County High School. Joining Thermopolis for the Invitational will be 3A Wheatland, 3A Torrington, 2A Rocky Mountain, 2A Greybull, 2A Riverside, 2A Shoshoni, 2A Wind River, 2A Wyoming Indian, 2A Big Piney, 2A Kemmerer,...
WORLAND - The Worland High School girls swimming team put together another strong weekend with excellent performances in their Friday home meet, the Worland Triangular, and at the Powell Invite on Saturday. During the Worland Triangular, Worland won 7 of 12 events that included a clean sweep of all three relay races. "The girls had a fantastic meet (Friday)," said WHS girls swimming coach Mike Blissett. "We also closed the gap with Powell from the Cody meet, they only had us by 16 points." The L...
Previously on "The most courageous 2017-18 NFL season predictions" I made predictions for the 16 NFC teams, next up the AFC and playoffs predictions. And now the conclusion to "The most courageous 2017-18 NFL season predictions" AFC EAST BUFFALO BILLS If you can figure out the Bills front office plan send a resumé into ESPN or FS1 because even the NFL insider experts are at a loss for words. They clearly want to rebuild but they're doing it very oddly by getting rid of their young talented...
WORLAND — Miscues in the first half cost the Worland High School football team Friday night as they hosted the Buffalo Bison at Worland High School. The No. 5-ranked Bison (2-0) used the first half to go up 17-0 and never look back from there as they defeated the Warriors (1-1) 24-12. “That first half [Buffalo] had some big runs and showcased their speed. For us it was our mental mistakes not getting to our gaps and sticking to our assignments. Like we tell the guys, a guy can be the fas...
My favorite column of the year is back and if you're looking for the most courageous, half-heartedly researched, shooting from the hip NFL season predictions look no further. Not only will you get a prediction for each NFL team but also the number of Kaepernick kneels. Basically, it boils down to which teams need him on their roster. Let's not waste any more time here are my predictions/insights for all 32 teams, first up the NFC teams. NFC EAST DALLAS COWBOYS The Cowboys were a fun team to...
WORLAND - Worland youth golfing phenom Karsten Simmons was at it again winning the Longmont Open in Twin Peaks, Colorado on Sept. 2-3. As part of the Rocky Mountain Junior Golf Tour, Simmons shot a 72 on Day One, 71 on Day Two for a 143 tournament total. Simmons bested second-place finisher Parker Paxton, of Riverton and friend of Simmons, by six strokes as the two Wyoming boys went one and two at the tournament. Simmons and Paxton also finished with the lowest totals of the tournament in all ag...
Worland boys cross-country place in top 10 at Billings Lady Bobcats hang with the best By Alex Kuhn Sports Editor WORLAND - The Billings Invitational cross-country meet is a good early season test for Worland High School and Hot Springs County High School runners. The course is flat and without the typical hills you would see in a normal course, runners are free to hit the high gears from the start. Runners do have to manage the heat and this year was no exception, but this year also brought a...
THERMOPOLIS - If the Hot Springs County volleyball team learned one thing from the Border Wars in Cody on Sept. 1-2 it was that they need to work on closing out the close games. The Lady Bobcats went 0-4 in Cody but if you look closer the team dropped a lot of close games in those matches. Miles City, Montana, (3-1, 25-27, 25-23, 25-16, 25-20) Glendive, Montana, (3-2, 25-17, 17-25, 20-25, 25-16, 15-5) Laurel, Montana (3-0, 25-22, 25-23, 25-18) and Sidney, Montana (3-2, 20-25, 16-25, 25-19,...
CODY - The Worland High School girls swimming team had a strong two-day performance in Cody last week. Thursday night the Lady Warriors cruised to an easy dual win against Cody, 116-57, and Friday took second at the Cody Invitational. While competing strongly as a team in Cody the Lady Warriors also racked up the automatic qualifiers for the 3A State meet in Gillette on November 2-4. Ellyse Russell (200 free style, 500 free), Kristen Collingwood (200 individual medley, 500, 200 free) Kyra...
The column buffet is back! For those of you who are new to my column, or those who forgot, the column buffet is self-explanatory and there's no need to waste time explaining it. Well that was a bit rude, so quickly, the column buffet is when I give my thoughts and opinions on a variety of spot topics that either cannot hold up an entire column, I have an opinion but it doesn't merit 600-plus words, or I'm tapped and it's easy to shotgun my views this week. (The case this week.) There it is, now...
POWELL - A win is a win and not every win is going be perfect. Sometimes wins come tough and in aesthetically unpleasing forms which is exactly what the Worland High School Warriors experienced in Powell on Friday night. The Warriors came out on top 6-3 against the WyoPreps No. 4-ranked Panthers and while it might not have been the best looking win, it still counts in the W column and that's all that matters. "I'm so proud of them. The big boys up front don't always get the credit but they kept...
A recent ESPN.com story ranked the mood level of the 128 Football Bowl Subdivision fan bases on a wide range of factors, including winning, rivalry dominance, coaching stability, recruiting, Twitter buzz and more. The overall mood choices included thrilled, content, cautiously optimistic, skeptical or depressed. For the University of Wyoming, the answer came back skeptical. That feels pretty accurate, and with good reason. During the last two decades, there hasn't been a lot of reason to be...
McBride makes most of opportunity Cowgirls redshirt freshman was a bright spot for team last weekend By Scott Nulph WyoSports LARAMIE – The University of Wyoming volleyball team may have found out a little about itself in somewhat of a lost weekend. The Cowgirls went 1-2 in the Rumble in the Rockies, including Saturday losses to Abilene-Christian and Portland. Yet in the disappointment of dropping two games the team felt it should have won, UW redshirt freshman middle blocker Jackie McBride p...
WORLAND - With the real games about to start the Worland Lady Warrior volleyball team had a strong preseason showing in Riverton and Powell over the weekend. The Lady Warriors varsity team took third at the Riverton tournament, the JV team placed second in theirs and the freshman team won the whole thing in Powell. "Overall it was a good weekend with a new team," said WHS volleyball coach Brittany Miller. "We finished 6-1 and took third place, our JV went 6-1 and finished second and our...
WORLAND - Standout Worland High School swimmers Zayne Cooper, Ellyse Russell and Juli Warren competed in the Senior Western Zone Championships Aug. 1-5 at Clovis, California. The Senior Western Zone Championships is a USA Swimming sanctioned event that brought the best swimmers from Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming to compete amongst each other and as states. To compete in the Western Zone Championships all sw...
Buying lotto tickets=good, taking the Broncos as +3.5 underdogs=bad Some lady in Massachusetts won the $758.7M Powerball Wednesday night. Good for her. Seriously, that comes with no sarcasm or resentment. This week's goal isn't to bash a lady for winning a life-changing amount of money. The goal this week is to take shots at state governments that allow lotteries, but at the same time say betting the over/under of the Patriots vs. Chiefs game is amoral and cannot be allowed unless we want to...
LARAMIE – There hasn't been a lot of talk about two of the University of Wyoming's better defensive players during fall camp. However, fourth-year coach Craig Bohl begs to differ about what he's seen from junior safeties Andrew Wingard and Marcus Epps. "There's news, you just haven't seen it," Bohl said after the Cowboys' 21st practice of fall camp Wednesday. "We're really pleased with some of the things that they're doing. We have to play better defense this year. We have a lot of players b...
No shot in the dark Correlations between throwing the shot put and playing football have helped UW freshmen Logan Harris and Javaree Jackson By Robert Gagliardi WyoSports LARAMIE – Although they play different positions, Logan Harris and Javaree Jackson have a lot in common. Both are true freshmen on the University of Wyoming football team. Harris is a center, Jackson a defensive tackle. Both will play this season. Harris, who is from Torrington, was named the Cowboys' starter Monday. Both a...
WORLAND - The fall sports season is drawing closer for Worland High School athletics as the football, volleyball, cross-country and girls swimming teams have been practicing over a week readying for their respective seasons. WHS golf, however, began their season August 10-11 and is in midseason form as the conference and state tournaments quickly approach. With Warrior and Lady Warrior athletes putting in the early season work toward successful 2017 campaigns, their coaches gave updates on the...
LARAMIE – The University of Wyoming soccer program is getting tired of a couple of things. Getting injured and getting knocked out of the Mountain West Championship on the first day are at the top of that list. The Cowgirls are hoping luck will be on their side with the first one and believe they have the talent to rectify the second. Wyoming begins the regular season at 5 p.m. today at Baylor. “The mentality is we’re all going for it this year,” Cowgirls senior goaltender Georgia Rowntre...
I know reading or hearing the word eclipse might induce a state of nausea but hang with me we're almost through this. Monday will be here soon enough and we can take in the natural phenomena for all its glory. The weekend will bring many tourists and if you feel the rage begin building up as they wander aimlessly on the road or at the store, use the sounds of a casino to bring you back down. Because when it is all said and done they'll be on their way leaving a sizable chunk of change here in ou...
WORLAND - It is Worland's turn to host the 87th Wyoming State Horseshoe Pitching Tournament happening August 26-27 at the Washakie County Fairgrounds. On a rotation with other sanctioned horseshoe pitching leagues like Lovell, Rock Springs and Gillette, Worland will have the best pitchers in the state competing for state titles. "We have 46 people signed up so far and we're happy to take on more if they're interested," said Sandy Richard. Worland last hosted in 2014 and with 46 competitors...
LARAMIE – John Okwoli played in every game during his true freshman season for the University of Wyoming. Yet, 2016 was still like a redshirt year. The 6-foot-2, 207-pound wide receiver didn't catch a pass, and said with a smile the only time he got into games as a receiver was when the Cowboys were "winning by a lot." However, Okwoli played on all four of UW's special-teams units and recorded three tackles. "When I got here, I told myself I didn't want to redshirt," Okwoli said. "I wanted to h...