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Jake Nichols: What I Learned Watching These Winless Wyoming Girls Play Basketball

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Coach Sean Shockley (middle) coaches up the winless, but undaunted, Jackson Lady Broncs. CREDIT: Tom Holland

SAT scores are nice but you wanna build character? Try surviving a 37-game losing streak. Hold your head up when your team hasn’t won a game in a month. Or a year. 

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380 Inches Of Snow Made For Another Fantastic Kings And Queens Of Corbet’s Ski Competition In Jackson

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(Photo Courtesy Brett Wilhelm/Red Bull Content Pool)

Pulling off insane-looking tricks while dropping into the famously difficult Corbet’s Couloir at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort has become an annual event that draws the best freestyle skiers and snowboarders on the planet. This year, 380 inches of snow welcomed the skiers…

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Wyoming Recruit Turns Down Power 5 Scholarships To Be Walk-On At Notre Dame

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Cody High senior Luke Talich with Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman. (Courtesy Photo)

Cody High School senior Luke Talich, a die-hard Notre Dame football fan, turned-down many Division I scholarship offers to realize his own “Rudy” moment as walk-on for Fighting Irish.

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‘This Sport Is All Enforcers’: Professional Ice Fighting Coming To Wyoming

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Courtesy, Ice Wars International

By eliminating the puck, skating and net, Ice Wars International has created a different type of hockey — all fighting. Professional ice fighting, which is just two guys on skates beating the crap out of each other, will make its U.S. debut in Cheyenne next year.

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Dahl Erickson: Saying Goodbye To The Mascot Doesn’t Mean Dropping The Team

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The second the Washington Redskins released a statement saying they were examining the name, it was over. Corporate sponsors, big ones, made it clear they would like the organization to change the name and on top of decades of push-back by some and despite a fist-shaking refusal by others, it’s happening.

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