Following a three-year hiatus since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the 2023 Special Olympics State Winter Games wrapped up this week in Jackson. About 350 Special Olympics athletes, coaches and volunteers attended the games.
Why do we live in the Rocky Mountain West? Because we get to see things like horseback riders sending their girls basketball team off to the state tournament. This is how the Hardin, Montana team got sent-off.
Freestyle skier and mogul maven Jaelin Kauf ended an eight-year U.S. medal drought by winning silver at the World Ski Championships in Bakuriani, Georgia. Kauf said she is looking for Gold at the 2026 Olympics.
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.
Wyoming, historically open to niche contact sports, has become the first state in the nation to sanction betting on Dana White’s Power Slap League. Although there are many critics who don’t believe it’s a sport.
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…
Dubbed the “dirtiest player” in the NFL over his 10-year career with three teams, former University of Wyoming standout Conrad Dobler, 72, died Monday in Pueblo, Colorado.
If it passes the Legislature, Senate File 133 would bar biological males from competing on female sports teams. The sponsor called the bill “fair” while detractors labeled it “extreme.”
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.
State Sen. Wendy Schuler said she’s bringing back her Fairness in Women’s Sports Act which, if passed, would prohibit biological males from participating in female sports.
The Campbell County Coroner told Cowboy State Daily on Tuesday that a 17-year-old high school basketball player is suspected to have died of complications from a sports injury.
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Jack Nokes, the public address announcer for the Wyoming Cowboys, is stepping down after 41 years. In the 72-year history of War Memorial Stadium, there have only been two PA announcers, Walt Miller and Jack Nokes.
Some Wyoming viewers of the Arizona Bowl sponsored by Barstool Sports thought the announcers were hilarious. Others thought they were juvenile and belonged in a frat house.
17-year-old Max Sorenson suffered a medical event at his home Monday and was pronounced dead at Campbell County Memorial Hospital. Authorities say it’s not a suicide, homicide or anything to do with illicit drugs but “more of a medical condition.”
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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.
Nearly a year removed from a devastating diagnosis, the U.S. Tennis Association of Wyoming recognized Atticus Spillman with the annual Courage Award for his win over cancer.
Cheyenne’s Brandon Nimmo was just named the recipient of the ‘Heart and Hustle’ award for the team. More notably, however, he could be named team captain
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Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon wished former Wyoming Cowboy and now Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Logan Wilson best of luck in the Super Bowl.
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Former Denver Broncos General Manager John Elway said he might have been disheveled during the interview but was not drunk.
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The UW-themed night will see the Rockies taking on the Los Angeles Dodgers at 6:10 p.m. on July 17 at the Rockies stadium in Denver.
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Baseball analysis site Fangraphs are projecting the Colorado Rockies have a 0.1% chance of making the playoffs this year.
The 31 freshman Cowboy football players have been barred from athletic activities after 11 tested positive for the coronavirus.
All of Wyoming’s fall high school sports will begin as they were originally scheduled, officials announced Tuesday.
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.
Who would you place on the Mount Rushmore of Wyoming football?
Sunday, there were no whistles, pads popping or leaping catches. Instead, the Cowboys’ home field emulated the wind-swept plains that surround the Gem City.
The Cowboys scored a 38-17 win over Georgia State of the Sun Belt Conference on the field, but that’s not all. Some 10,000 Brown and Gold clad fans helped propel Tucson Bowl beer sales to a new record.
Longtime Wyoming sports reporter Robert Gagliardi has left the world of newspapers for a position with the state Game and Fish Department.
Go Pokes: As the University of Wyoming (2-0) gets ready to take on Idaho today, here is an earlier UW team from 1905 (some 114 years ago) showing a group of tough young men surrounded by their fans and other supporters.
