Rich's sometimes disjointed rambling

As I put my watch up to my ear, I expect to hear click, click, click, as each second moves forward. Kind of like my current days as a sportswriter ... click, click, click. For some reason, though, the watch is silent as it continues time. Again, kind of like my current days of operating Wyoming Sports.org. Yikes, cliche' overload here. The simple fact is my sports website is probably on its last leg. I say probably because in two weeks I will begin a new job as news copy editor/designer for the Wyoming Tribune Eagle in Cheyenne. Not only will I not have the time to cover local sporting events in Laramie, I can see my new employers likely not wanting me to compete against the WTE's fine sports staff. It makes perfect sense and I totally understand. When the position opened a while back, with my wife's blessing and encouragement, I decided to apply for the job. Friday night I was offered the position and I accepted. I do admit it will be a little strange not being a sportswr...

The Wyoming Cowboys have a little break this week, with their only action Saturday at Utah. Good for the Cowboys, bad for the rest of the Mountain West Conference. As a seven-game losing skid would attest, playing against the Cowboys lately does good things for a team and individual players. New Mexico and BYU , both already ranked in the Top 20 in the various national polls, earned big wins over Wyoming last week. The reward: The Lobos have moved up to 10 th in the AP poll and the Cougars have advanced three spots to 13 th . BYU's Jimmer Fredette , who scored 22 points against the 'Pokes on Saturday, was named this week's MWC Player of the Week. He also had 36 points in the win against CSU on Thursday. OK, that helped. It was also Fredette's fifth POW honors. Pencil him down for player of the year. The way things have gone in league play this year, facing Wyoming usually gets you player of week honors. For the past three weeks, players who have faced Wyoming ha...

If I was Craig Thompson, commissioner of the Mountain West Conference, I might be sweating at this time. The news broke that the Pac -10 was looking at the possibility of expanding. One of the favorites for the move was Utah, along with Colorado. BYU would be a no go because the school doesn' t play on Sundays for religious reasons. But if CU moves to the Pac -10, BYU could go to the Big 12. It's a dominoes effect that could spell trouble, regardless, for the MWC . Here's a link on an opinion piece of the possible moves recently in the Sporting News.

I'd be pulling your chain if I said that I didn't see this coming, but sophomore A.J. Davis has left the Cowboy basketball team. Wyoming head coach Heath Schroyer announced the move on Friday in a short press release -- they are always short when a player leaves a program. The release stated that Davis left the program for personal reasons. “We wish A.J. all the best in the future,” said Schroyer . The quote of course is what all coaches say in this type of release ... just fill in the blank with the name. That's fine. What else is the coach supposed to say? Davis, a sophomore from Columbus, Ohio, had played in all 22 games this season. He was averaging 10.0 points, 2.5 rebounds, 1.7 steals and 0.7 assists per game. In Mountain West Conference games, Davis was averaging 4.4 points, 1.4 rebounds, 0.9 steals and 0.4 assists. My money is on the latter of his season stats as to the reason for Davis' departure. On Wednesday against UNLV , Davis stole the opening tip and to...

One of my favorite websites, The Onion, has updated its site and is looking good. To kick off the new Onion, what would be more enjoyable than making fun of Packers fans. So, here's my Onion clip of the week: Drunk Packers fan

It was understandable if, despite your allegiance to the Cowgirl basketball team, you decided to sit Saturday's game out. After all , it was against Air Force, a team the Cowgirls have only lost to twice in their program history. You're thinking, we'll just wait for next Saturday's game against rival CSU . Well, by now you know that by missing the 98-37 Cowgirl slaughter, you missed somewhat of a historic game. Here's what you missed. MWC games only records set: 1) Field goal percentage (.775, 37-for-49 shooting) 2. Assists in a single game (34). 3. Points scored (98) 4. Hillary Carlson -- shooting percentage (10 of 11, 909). MWC games only records tied: 1) 3-point field goals made (20) The Cowgirls 37 field goals are also the second most in a conference game and the 20 3-pointers broke a Wyoming record of 14 set against Air Force in 2004 and Dakota State at the Wyoming Shootout earlier this season. Obviously, the biggest thing about the win, Wyoming coach Joe ...

Losing close matches often doesn't reflect the final team score in collegiate wrestling and that was the case as No. 4 Oklahoma State rolled past the Wyoming Cowboys 31-3 in front of a record wrestling crowd of 2.566 Friday night in the Arena-Auditorium. Oklahoma State won three one-point matches, five (including one in overtime) bouts by three points or less and another by four points. Yet, the final score was lopsided. to say the least, Wyoming head coach Mark Branch, a former All-American, national champion and assistant coach at Oklahoma State, wasn' t happy with just wrestling close. “The crowd was great, the band was great, the cheerleaders were great and we weren ’t great,” Branch said. “That was the difference. We were OK. If I was OK with close losses, then I would be real happy, but I’m not OK with close losses.” For more on the match, check back later on Wyoming Sports.org. --- No. 4 Oklahoma State 31, Wyoming 3 125 -- No. 10 Chris Notte ( OSU ) dec . No. 11 Michae...