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Cowboys Host Idaho in Home Opener on Saturday for a Gold Out

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4 months ago

September 5, 2024

Cowboys Host Idaho in Home Opener on Saturday for a Gold Out

LARAMIE, Wyo. (PRESS RELEASE) – The Wyoming Cowboys (0-1 Overall) will open the home portion of the 2024 schedule on Saturday hosting Idaho (0-1 Overall) inside War Memorial Stadium at 1:30 p.m. The contest will mark the 400th game in War Memorial Stadium, as fans are encouraged to Gold Out “The War”.

Ticket Information
Fans may order tickets online, via email or by phone at:
•Go to//GoWyo.com/tickets
•Emailtickets@uwyo.edu
•Call(307) 766-7220
•Stop by the UW Athletics Ticket Office on the West Side of the Arena-Auditorium on the corner of Willett Drive and 19th Street.

Gold Out

Saturday’s game will be a Gold Out as fans are encouraged to wear gold to War Memorial Stadium.

Where to Watch

Saturday’s contest will be televised on truTV and streamed on MAX with Ari Wolfe on the call and Darius Walker analyzing the action. truTV also runs a 30-minute pre and postgame show on the network.

Non-Conference Home Openers: The Wyoming Cowboys have had a successful run-in non-conference home openers over the years. Wyoming earned a thrilling overtime win over Texas Tech last season in a contest on national television. Wyoming is 52-11-1 winning 82 percent of the non-conference home openers. UW has won four-straight non-conference home openers and five-straight home openers overall as UW defeated Hawai’i during the 2020 season.

Recent Wins in Non-Conference Home Openers

Opponent Date Score

Texas Tech Sept. 2, 2023 W, 35-33 OT

Tulsa Sept. 3, 2022 W, 40-37 2OT

Montana State Sept. 4, 2021 W, 19-16

Mizzou Aug. 31, 2019 W, 37-31

The New Look War: The War will look a little different on Saturday against Idaho. The renovations to the West Side of War Memorial Stadium are moving along as scheduled. When complete, the experience for fans in the lower west side will be dramatically different with improved seating, wider rows, and improved concessions, restrooms, and lighting. Furthermore, a renovation to the press box/media area will enhance the image of the university.

Against the Big Sky: The Wyoming Cowboys have played eight of the current 12 football playing members of the Big Sky Conference and have a 63-14-3 record against those eight teams. Wyoming will face Idaho for the ninth time, as UW is 7-1 all-time against the Vandals.

Hoyland Looking for History: Senior kicker John Hoyland is once again being recognized as one of the elite place-kickers in college football. Hoyland was named to the 2024 Lou Groza Award Preseason Watch List, which is presented annually to the nation’s top collegiate place-kicker as announced by the Palm Beach County Sport Commission. It marks the third-straight season that Hoyland has been named to the list. He was one of 30 players named to the preseason watch list. He has connected on 58 career field goals and is hitting at a rate of 79.5 percent. He is one field goal away from tying Cooper Rothe for the school record in career field goals.

Westland in Opener: Defensive end Tyce Westland had a strong start to the season for the Cowboys. He recorded three tackles in the contest including the first sack of the season for the Brown and Gold in the first quarter. It was his first solo sack of his career. He recorded 18 total tackles a season ago with four and half of those being tackles for loss.

Siders Brings Pressure: Defensive end Braden Siders added a sack for the first of the season for the junior at Arizona State. For his career, he has 11 sacks in his career and has recorded 18.5 tackles for loss.

Durr Jr. Has Strong Debut: True freshman Chris Durr, Jr. had a strong outing in his first career game. He led the Pokes with three catches on the night. He also hauled in his first career touchdown pass. Analyst and Cowboy Athletics Hall of Famer Jovon Boughknight caught a touchdown in his first career game as a redshirt freshman in 2002. He was the youngest wide receiver to catch a touchdown pass in the MW era until Durr, Jr.

Miles Stepping Up: Tight end Nick Miles is a veteran and set up in the absence of John Michael Gyllenborg at Arizona State. Miles hauled in a career high two passes in the contest for the Cowboys.

Safety Tandem: The safety tandem of Wyett Ekeler and Isaac White led the Cowboys in tackles at Arizona State with each player adding nine stops for the game. The duo has now combined for 331 career tackles. White has 171 in his career with Ekeler adding 160.

A Veteran Makes an Impact: Linebacker Connor Shay has made an impact for the Pokes in reserve and on special teams. He made his first career start at linebacker at Arizona State and recorded a career-high eight tackles in the contest. He had 15 total tackles last season for the Brown and Gold.

New Guys in the Interior: The Cowboys had a couple of new faces make an impact in the interior of the defensive line at Arizona State. Jayden Williams and Jaden Williams each recorded a career-high four tackles. Jayden Williams, who appeared in his first career game recorded a tackle for loss as well. Dante Drake also appeared in his first career game adding a tackle in the contest.

Culbreath Shows Off Leg: Grad student and VMI transfer Jack Culbreath made his debut for the Cowboys on Saturday. He punted the ball eight times averaging 47 yards per punt with three of 50 or more. He ranks seventh in the nation and leads the MW averaging 47 yards per punt.

About The Vandals: Idaho, which entered the season ranked No. 7 in the preseason FCS poll, pushed No. 3 Oregon, an FBS powerhouse, to its limits in a 24-14 loss last Saturday at Autzen Stadium. The Vandals limited explosive plays by the Ducks, who were held without a point over a 30-minute span after the new Big Ten member took an early 14-0.

Quarterback Jack Layne threw a touchdown pass in the third quarter and ran for another score in the fourth quarter to get Idaho within 17-14 before Oregon held on. Keyshawn James-Newby had two sacks and forced a fumble and Jaxton Eck racked up 14 tackles to lead the defense.

Wyoming leads the all-time series 7-1, but the Vandals have a history of pushing the Pokes to the limit. Craig Bohl’s 2019 team held on for a 21-16 home win, Dave Christensen’s 2012 team won a 40-37 shootout at the Kibbie Dome in Moscow, Idaho, and Joe Tiller’s 1996 team outlasted Idaho 40-38 at War Memorial Stadium on the way to a 10-win season.

The Vandals, who played at the FBS level from 2001-2017, were picked to finish third in the 12-team Big Sky in the coaches poll after reaching the quarterfinals of the FCS playoffs last season.

As of a Wednesday statement from the University, the game is trending to be a sellout.

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Wyoming Legislature to Convene 2025 General Session Tuesday

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40 minutes ago

January 9, 2025

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Wyoming Legislature to Convene 2025 General Session Tuesday

The 68^th Wyoming Legislature will convene for the 2025 General Session on Tuesday at Noon. The bodies will hold opening ceremonies as their first order of business, and newly elected members of the Legislature and legislative leadership will be sworn in. Following a brief recess, the bodies will begin introduction and referral of bills Tuesday afternoon. All floor proceedings and committee meetings during the 2025 General Session will be broadcast live via the Legislature’s YouTube channel.

The Legislature will then convene in a joint session of the Wyoming Senate and House of Representatives on Wednesday at 10 am, during the second day of legislative proceedings. At that time, Gov. Mark Gordon will deliver his State of the State message, followed by the State of the Judiciary message, delivered by Wyoming Supreme Court Chief Justice Kate M. Fox in the House Chamber at the Wyoming State Capitol.

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230 Million-Year-Old Fossil From Wyoming Challenges Dinosaur Origin Theories

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January 8, 2025

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230 Million-Year-Old Fossil From Wyoming Challenges Dinosaur Origin Theories

Though paleontologists have been discussing the origin and spread of dinosaurs for decades, the widely accepted theory was that they emerged in the southern part of the ancient continent of Pangea over 200 million years ago, and only spread northward millions of years later. A new study dramatically changes the conversation.

University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison) paleontologists announced the discovery of a new dinosaur that challenges the conventional theory about the dinosaurs’ origin and spread. The location and age of the newly-described fossils suggest that dinosaurs prowled the northern regions of Pangea millions of years earlier than previously hypothesized. The findings were detailed in a January 8 study published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

“We’re kind of filling in some of this story, and we’re showing that the ideas that we’ve held for so long — ideas that were supported by the fragmented evidence that we had — weren’t quite right,” Dave Lovelace of the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum, who co-led the study, said in a UW–Madison statement. “We now have this piece of evidence that shows dinosaurs were here in the northern hemisphere much earlier than we thought.”

The paleontologists uncovered the theory-defying fossils in present-day Wyoming in 2013. Due to Earth’s shifting tectonic plates, this region was located near the equator over 200 million years ago on Laurasia, the northern half of Pangea (the southern half was called Gondwana). While the remains were fragmented, the paleontologists were able to attribute the fossils to a new dinosaur species they named Ahvaytum bahndooiveche, which was likely an early sauropod relative. Ahvaytum, however, looked very different from the iconic long-necked herbivores.

“It was basically the size of a chicken but with a really long tail,” said Lovelace. “We think of dinosaurs as these giant behemoths, but they didn’t start out that way.” The adult specimen was just over a foot tall (30.5 centimeters) and about three feet long (91.4 cm).

Perhaps most shockingly, however, is the age of the fossil. Lovelace and his colleagues used radioisotopic dating (a method for determining the age of materials by measuring radioactive decay) to determine that the rock layers where they’d found the Ahvaytum fossils—and thus roughly the remains themselves—were about 230 million years old. This makes Ahvaytum the oldest known Laurasian dinosaur, and about equivalent in age to the earliest known Gondwanan dinosaurs, according to the study. Dinosaurs first emerged during the Triassic period, around 230 million years ago. This era, which lasted from about 252 to 201 million years ago, saw the rise of the earliest dinos, before they became dominant in the Jurassic period.

“We have, with these fossils, the oldest equatorial dinosaur in the world — it’s also North America’s oldest dinosaur,” Lovelace added. The fact that the oldest known Laurasian dinosaur is about as old as the earliest known Gondwanan dinosaurs consequently challenges the theory that dinosaurs originated in the south of the ancient continent and only spread north millions of years later.

The site of the discovery is within the ancestral lands of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe. As a result, the researchers partnered with tribal members throughout their work, and included Eastern Shoshone elders and middle school students in choosing the new dinosaur’s name. Ahvaytum bahndooiveche roughly translates to “long ago dinosaur” in the Eastern Shoshone language.

The region also yielded additional finds. The team identified an early dinosaur-like footprint in older rock layers, meaning that dinosaurs or dinosaur-related creatures were calling Laurasia home even before Ahvaytum. The paleontologists also uncovered the fossil of a newly described amphibian, which was also named in the Eastern Shoshone language.

In challenging long-standing theories about how dinosaurs spread across Pangea, the discovery of the chicken-sized Ahvaytum ultimately paints a clearer picture of the creatures that walked the Earth—and where—millions of years before us.

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