Remember in “Remember the Titans,” when the character “Sunshine” shows up at football camp with his dad and his dad tells coach Boone (played by Denzel Washington), “Hey my son’s a quarterback, and I would love him to play quarterback for your team,” and Denzel replies, “Well we’ve already got a quarterback.” Sunshine grabs a…
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TCU Tops Cowgirls
Unfortunately for the Cowgirls, the Horned Frogs were too much to handle Wednesday night, giving Wyoming arguably their toughest loss of the season, going down 68-47 to an impressive TCU team. Senior guard Aubrey Vandiver gave Wyoming their first lead at 7-6 with a fade away jumper on the baseline before TCU went on…
Cowgirls Prepare for TCU Tonight at Home
The Cowgirl basketball team is coming off a successful winter break. They went 6-1, including a 40-point win against conference rival Colorado State, with their only loss being against Wisconsin at home. Their other five victories were against Westminster (Utah), Washington State, Montana, Utah State, and New Mexico. They also beat Montana-Western in an exhibition…
Staff Sets Sights on Rest of Basketball Season
Fresh off of Francisco Cruz’s buzzer beater and the Cowgirls’ dominant performances against CSU and New Mexico The Branding Iron staff took the chance to toss their conference expectations out for the men and women representing Wyoming Basketball this season. Mike Morris: The Cowboys picked up their most significant win of the season – and…
Cowboys Win on Buzzer-beater From Cruz
For 39 minutes and 53 seconds, the Wyoming Cowboys and New Mexico Lobos walked a perilous tightrope of plot twists and lead changes. As the ball careened off the rim once, and then again, hope faded to an imperceptible glimmer for Wyoming, and it appeared all but certain that the Cowboys and fourth-year head coach…
A Team With ‘Something to Prove’
TCWho? The real champion of the underdogs is Matt “looks like the manager at Radio Shack, only taller” Hasselbeck and the now 8-9 Seattle Seahawks. Seattle’s 41-36 victory over the former champions was nothing more than a farce, and as a fan I couldn’t have asked for anything more. Maybe this win is a sign…
Cowgirls win Thanksgiving Classic
The Cowgirls traveled to Northridge, California over Thanksgiving break and returned to Laramie with a little extra weight in their luggage—a tournament championship trophy. In the first game of the Woodland Hills Holiday Inn Thanksgiving Basketball Classic Friday, the Cowgirls played the Chattanooga Lady Mocs. Led by the strong play and double-double performance of…
Volleyball team prepares for Minch, No. 15 Colorado State tonight
The first match of the Cowgirl volleyball team’s final home stand will be against conference-leading and No. 15 Colorado State (23-3, 12-1) at 5 p.m. tonight in the UniWyo Sports Complex. Wyoming (22-7, 7-6) split their last two matches on the road, beating Texas Christian and falling to New Mexico. Branding IronMore Posts…
Love ‘deserves to be a contender’
It’s not often that I just commit a few hundred words to praising one member of the Minnesota Timberwolves, but Kevin Love deserves some love. Love snatched 31 rebounds and 31 points in a single game. No player has put up a 30-30 game since Moses Malone back in 1982. None of this is news…
Cowgirls go 1-1 during final road trip of season
The Cowgirl volleyball team (22-7, 7-6) split their final road trip of the season last weekend as they beat TCU in four sets on Thursday night and fell to the New Mexico Lobos in three sets on Saturday night. Against TCU, the Cowgirls won the first set 25-21 before losing a hard-fought second set 23-25….