Quick: Name the first consensus all-America college football player who grew up in Wyoming. Even the most seasoned Wyoming sports trivia veteran might struggle to come up with the name that answers this question. The reason makes sense, though: The first all-America pick to come from the Equality State never played football in the state, opting instead to make a name for himself back east before returning to Wyoming. Richard “Dick” Luman was a consensus all-America choice while playing end at Yale in 1924. The Pinedale native is believed to be the first Wyoming native to be chosen as a consens ..read more

Editor’s note: This post was written by “Stat Rat” Jim Craig, formerly of Lusk and now of Cheyenne, who has provided significant help to the research on Wyoming sports history. +++ The 1960s was a tumultuous decade in the United States as the country came to grips with numerous changes within its social fabric. The civil rights movement, Great Society programs, space race and counterculture gains were offset by the Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, a spate of assassinations and the Vietnam War. Wyoming was not immune from controversy as “The Black 14″— the number of black UW football teammates s ..read more

In concert with updates to sister sites champlists.com and wyoming-basketball.com, here are some highlights from the 2023-24 winter high school sports season in Wyoming: Alpine skiiing: Jackson swept the team titles for the 13th consecutive year, with the Jackson girls winning their 15th consecutive state championship, after the state meet was cut short due to dangerous conditions on the second day of the meet. Only the giant slalom was contested, with Jackson’s Dylan Witherite winning the girls title and Liam Logan winning the boys. The cancelation was the first time since 1986 and just the s ..read more

The players for the 2024 Wyoming-Nebraska Six-man Shootout all-star game have been selected. The annual cross-border game will kick off at 7 p.m. May 31 at Chadron State College in Chadron, Neb. Wyoming six-man football players selected for the 2024 team include: Burlington: Hunter Aagard, Mickey Maroni, Jordan Michaels Dubois: Kaleb Gleim, Jonah Oard, Wyatt Trembly Encampment: Quade Jordan, Ryon Miller, Kaben Pickett Farson: Ory Johnson Hulett: Christian Reilly Kaycee: Vaun Pierson Meeteetse: Jason Moody, Joe Pina Snake River: Tanner Duncan, Seth Maxson, Isaiah Skalberg, Jaden Thomas Coaches ..read more

The rosters for the 2024 Wyoming Shrine Bowl all-star football game were announced Sunday night by the game’s executive director, Frank Selby. In all, 72 players — 36 each for both the North and South teams — were selected for the 51st edition of the game, which will be played June 8 at Natrona County High School in Casper. Players selected by the respecting coaching staffs for each team include: NORTH Big Horn: Kiefer Dunham, Drew Heermann, Gavin Stafford. Buffalo: Will Hammond, Eli Patterson, Lance Rabel. Campbell County: Aidan Dorr, Wyatt Herther, Levi Palmer. Cody: Zach Barton, Logan Class ..read more

Some history could be made this weekend in Casper as two Class 3A basketball teams enter their respective state tournaments undefeated. The Douglas girls, at 24-0, and the Powell boys, at 23-0, will try to join the ranks of Wyoming’s undefeated state basketball champions. In all, 20 boys teams and 23 girls teams have accomplished this feat in state history. Another 49 teams — 25 boys, 24 girls — have entered the state tournament undefeated but lost in the final weekend of the season. When I looked at undefeated teams three years ago, I could only look at teams from 1990 forward, the only time ..read more

The assistant coaches for the 2024 Wyoming Shrine Bowl all-star football game were released Friday. Shrine Bowl Executive Director Frank Selby announced via email that both squads would have six assistant coaches. For the North, joining head coach Rob Hammond of Buffalo are David Trembly of Dubois, Henry Glacking and Ross Walker of Buffalo, Nicc Crosby of Lovell, Rod Frederick of Wind River and Trent Pikula of Thunder Basin. The South will have Torrington’s Russell Stienmetz as head coach and assistants Scott Hayes of Cheyenne East, Blaine Christensen of Green River, Robb Nicolay and Ryan Work ..read more

Securing Wyoming’s track and field champions has been an arduous task, but we’re almost there. Of the 8,274 individual and relay champions in state history, we’ve located 8,272. Do the math: We’re missing two. Just two. We have 99.9758% of all the champions in state history. But those last two… the completionist in me really wants to find them. In short, both “Stat Rat” Jim Craig and I have exhausted all of our resources. We’ve looked up and down every available newspaper and yearbook we can get our eyes on. Time and again, we’ve come up with nothing. This post is my best attempt at logic-ing ..read more

It’s tradition ’round these parts to start looking ahead to next season as soon as the last one ends. The cycle never ends. With that in mind, despite being eight months away from the first practice and nearly nine months away from the first game, now seems to be a good time to figure out which teams may be the best entering 2024. And, yes, it’s too soon to do this. But that’s part of the fun. When I did this last year, I got two eventual champions right, and two other champions were ranked second. And I whiffed on one (coughTorringtoncough). That’s the fun, though — as expectations change, as ..read more

If you just look at the cumulative effect of NSI Academy’s scores from the 2007 season, you would not have expected much from the Wolves. For the year, the Wolves were outscored 281-150. And with a score differential like that, what kind of record would you expect? Well, there’s some math we can do to figure that out. Using something called the Pythagorean expectation, the Wolves — who played 10 games that season — would have been roughly expected to finish with a record of about 2-8. After all, most teams with that kind of score differential across that many games finish with about that kind ..read more