Stay with it long enough, and it's bound to happen. The kids of the guys I played with and against rolled through my classroom a long time ago. Now as a sports ...
If you're old enough to remember drive-in movie theaters, you're old enough to remember dancing pickles, happy hotdogs and the enduring jingle that sang, ...
"Nobody gets to be a cowboy forever, Monte," Chet Rollins says to his friend in one of my favorite westerns, "Monte Walsh." I find myself drawn to films like ...
Saturday was the kind of day we hoped for through the seemingly endless days of a winter. A full day of athletics awaited, as it usually does on a nice day in ...
To those who believe things never change, the answer is "only if you don't pay attention." In the late 1970s the University of Wyoming was a decidedly male ...
The TV cop comedy "Barney Miller" debuted nationally in 1975. Network television was still entertainment in those days, and situation comedies were king. To ...
One of the pains of sports coverage is senior night. I've never been one for sensationalism in any venue. Drama is something that should be played out in a ...
Clay Spencer looks squarely at Dean Beck and says, "All I need was the boy being accepted, he's my collateral." As Spencer exit's the dean's office, the ...
It was a remarkable basketball season for the kids from Fremont County. An unprecedented three state championships returned to our fair county after the last ...
My grandfathers taught me many lessons, always in his own unique style. Eugene Gasser was a horticulturalist at heart, an arborist really. His patience with ...
It's almost over. This has been a marathon local basketball season that to be honest, has worn me out.Covering at least part of every varsity basketball ...
The wind woke me up early Tuesday morning. These days I'm always up and around by 4:30 a.m., but this time it was closer to that magic hour of 3 a.m. The ...
It was a weekend of almost was, never will be and let's do it again next week. The Class 2-A West regional had all the drama, strategy and white-knuckling you ...
As Americans we like to streamline everything. Keep it short, keep it simple, don't write it above a fifth-grade level -- that sort of streamlining. Studies ...
I remember listening one afternoon to Cokeville head football coach Todd Dayton explain why the Panthers don't have many junior varsity games. "Well, we ...
It was a beautiful day in southern Nevada. Sue and I took a little four day vacation to Las Vegas (Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada in your best game-show emcee ...
I've been accused (if that's the right word) of being a Wind River Cougars fan. But, just last Friday, someone told me I wrote about Wyoming Indian High School ...
A phrase claimed by Mark Twain, once uttered by Henry Ford, and often attributed to Albert Einstein, goes like this: "If you always do what you've always ...
These three spellers were the top finishers Wednesday at the Fremont County spelling bee in Riverton. From left, Cody Stark of Wind River Middle School, Aidan ...
As of next month the Wyoming state high school basketball tournament will have been played in Casper for 36 straight years, perhaps with one or two ...
It's called the cascade effect. You start with a specific goal in mind, and, suddenly, other issues start springing up like mushrooms. We built a second house ...
I often recall my first election in Niobrara County back in November 1980. I was at pre-season basketball practice running open gym for the Lusk Tigers. ...
That dreaded 'delete' key strikes again They say no good deed ever goes unpunished. While writing about a great basketball team doesn't necessarily ...
They say no good deed ever goes unpunished. While writing about a great basketball team doesn't necessarily constitute a "good deed," it does require ...
It's the best kept secret in Fremont County.The Wyoming Indian girls are good this season, very good, maybe good on a legendary scale. Wyoming Indian head ...
I watched perhaps the saddest example of what passes for presidential leadership in my lifetime this week as President Trump rattled off mythical statistics to ...
"Offense is a 3-point shot or a dunk. Defense is a blocked shot." So goes the lament of those who miss the classic game of basketball -- game as it was played ...
