Category Archives: Newsbreak

Lots of news today — and that makes sense, given that the season opens tonight. In Montana, Laurel is set to open its $3.6 million athletic facility tonight against Cody (Billings Gazette). … Junior WR Jeremiah Hunter is a big key for Cheyenne East (Wyoming Tribune Eagle). … Kelly Walsh wants redemption, while Natrona County will rely on a bevy of new players this season (Casper Star-Tribune). … Seniors are a big part of Laramie’s reconstruction (Laramie Boomerang). … Greybull opens its season with high hopes and a stable backfield (Greybull Standard). … Reclassification threw a kink into Lusk’s schedule (Lusk Herald). … Powell caught no favors with its season opener (Powell Tribune). … Evanston faces the same problem (Uinta County Herald).

–patrick

Cheyenne Central’s Hayden Jones is ready for a big senior season (Wyoming Tribune Eagle). … Top-ranked Green River has its first chance to defend that ranking (GR Star). … Meeteetse is glad to be back in a Wyoming classification (Cody Enterprise). … Six-man football is wide-open this year (Casper Star-Tribune, also click here for the 1A-6 capsule preview).

Also, Fort Washakie is low on numbers so far this year and won’t be playing its first scheduled game against Midwest next week. Consequently, the Eagles’ first game in program history will be at home on Sept. 12 against Kaycee.

–patrick

The Douglas Bearcats are reloading, not rebuilding (Douglas Budget). … Laramie’s rebuilding days might finally be over (Laramie Boomerang). … Class 4A is full of changes this fall (Wyoming Tribune-Eagle). … Also today was the Casper Star-Tribune’s 1A 11-man preview, including an overview of Southeast’s quest for a fourth consecutive title and a capsule preview.

–patrick

Today’s stories: Teams are becoming more and more reliant on offseason preparation, if for no other reason than to keep up with everyone else (Wyoming Tribune Eagle). … Ever wonder what happened to John McDougall? Well, the coach is still in Cody, leading the Bronc freshmen (Cody Enterprise). … Class 2A could be the most top-heavy classification in the state (Casper Star-Tribune; 2A capsule previews are here).

–patrick

The Casper Star-Tribune tooday had its 3A capsule preview and a story about Douglas’ efforts to repeat as state champs.

–patrick

The Casper Star-Tribune’s football previews started today with Class 4A, including a story on quarterbacks and a capsule preview…. Gillette also had its soap scrimmage on Saturday (Gillette News-Record).

–patrick

The latest recap of statewide football news:

Laramie has a pair of players with coaching in their blood (Laramie Boomerang) We also have mini-previews of Green River (GR Star), Kemmerer (Kemmerer Gazette, middle portion of article), Guernsey (Guernsey Gazette) and Powell (Powell Tribune).

–patrick