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Woman, 25, fatally shot in Wyoming
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KENT COUNTY, MI – A 25-year-old Wyoming woman was fatally shot Sunday, Sept. 8.
Wyoming police arrested a suspect.
The shooting was reported around 12:40 p.m. Sunday, in the 3400 block of Bluebird Avenue SW, north of 36th Street.
Police found the victim suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. She was taken by ambulance to a local hospital where she later tied.
Police have not released names of the victim or suspect.
Detectives continue to investigate circumstances leading up to the shooting. Forensic Services Unit workers investigated at the scene. Police asked anyone with information to contact police 616-530-7300 or Silent Observer at 616-774-2345 or www.silentobserver.org.
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Wyoming
Playing back-to-back nonconference road football games isn't optimal for the BYU Cougars, but AD Tom Holmoe says it is the lesser of two evils
Just before BYU beat Wyoming 38-24 in Provo on Sept. 24, 2022, BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe told the BYU Sports Radio Network that the Cougars fully intended to return the game in Laramie in 2024.
“It is a good game. … It is a game we should be playing,” Holmoe said at the time.
After BYU beat its former conference rival for the ninth straight time, and perhaps not knowing what Holmoe had promised four hours before that, then-Wyoming coach Craig Bohl said he believed BYU would buy its way out of the agreement.
That seemed odd, because Wyoming athletic director Tom Burman had told the Casper Star-Tribune earlier that week that he fully expected BYU to make the trip, despite the fact that the Cougars were joining the Big 12 in 2023 and were in the process of trimming their 2024 non-conference schedule from 12 games to three.
Turns out, Holmoe and Burman were right.
Wyoming (0-2) will host BYU (2-0) at 7 p.m. MDT Saturday night in Laramie, the Cougars’ first visit back to the high plains 7,220 feet above sea level and 30,000-seat War Memorial Stadium since 2009. Quarterback Max Hall led the Cougars to a 52-0 win that day, throwing for 312 yards and four touchdowns in just over two quarters.
It looks like a trap game if there ever was one, considering that Wyoming is 0-2 and coming off a 17-13 home loss to FCS Idaho and BYU is 2-0 and coming off an 18-15 road win at the ACC’s SMU. But BYU coach Kalani Sitake would have none of that talk earlier this summer.
“Wyoming is always good, and really physical, especially up there,” he said.
The Cougars return to LaVell Edwards Stadium the following week, hosting a Kansas State team expected to contend for the Big 12 title, in BYU’s conference opener. Wyoming is at North Texas on Sept. 21.
You will also hear a lot this week about how much this game means to the Cowboys and their fans, who have seen a few memorable wins over the hated Cougars the past 50 years, but also a lot of lopsided losses. BYU has won 12 of the last 13 and 18 of the last 20 matchups.
The last time Wyoming beat BYU in Laramie, 13-10 on Oct.18, 2003, Wyoming fans tore down the goalposts and paraded them through town, despite the fact that both teams had losing records.
So why is BYU, which so little to gain and so much to lose, even playing this game?
At the Big 12 football media days in July in Las Vegas, Holmoe told the Deseret News that “it is kind of the lesser of two evils.” He also said BYU was doing it “out of principle,” a reference to his 2022 promise, his friendship with Burman, and a thawed, warmer relationship with the neighboring state school after a lot of discontent stemming from the “Black 14″ incident in 1969.
“So when you have 12 independent games, and then you go into a league, you have to take nine of them, and put them out, to make room for nine conference games,” Holmoe said. “You just don’t throw them in the trash. You have contracts with those teams that you have to work through.”
Holmoe said he didn’t want to play back-to-back nonconference road games, but a Big 12 requirement that makes its teams play at least one nonconference Power Four foe per season meant that the series with SMU (signed in October of 2023) had to stay.
Then it was a question of whether to keep the Wyoming game, or buy it out for probably around $1 million and try to find a home game against an FBS team on short notice. He contacted his friend and college football scheduling guru Dave Brown of Gridiron to see if there were any options.
There were for Week 2 — SMU proved to be the best choice there, as the Mustangs were moving to the P4′s ACC — but nothing great for Week 3.
“It was in (2021) when we first knew we were going to the Big 12. And we told Dave (Brown) we were going to need a couple of games in 2024. Most people think there are (a lot) of games, but there aren’t,” Holmoe said. “At the time, we had three choices for each one of those slots, because you are not talking about the whole season; You are talking about Week 3, and Week 2.”
Also in July, Holmoe said the Cougars’ P4 nonconference opponent in 2025 would be announced “pretty soon,” but as of early September that hadn’t happened. BYU opens at home against FCS Southern Utah in 2025 and needs a Week 2 game against a P4 opponent before traveling to East Carolina in Week 3.
“Only two years to do college football scheduling is hard,” Holmoe said. “Take a team from the SEC, and look at their 2032 nonconference schedule, and it will be filled. So when you start thinking you can do it in two years, on that specific day, the choices are slim.”
So, bring on the Cowboys.
“We will just keep making statements as we go along,” Sitake told BYUtv after the SMU game. “We are ready for statement No. 3 to come next week and we are going to Laramie and playing a tough Wyoming team … in a hostile environment. It is a good experience for our guys, so we are looking forward to that game.”
Cougars on the air
BYU (2-0, 0-0) at Wyoming (0-2 ,0-0)
Saturday, 7 p.m. MDT
At War Memorial Stadium (capacity: 29,811)
Laramie, Wyoming
TV: CBS Sports Network
Radio: KSL Newsradio 102.7 FM/1160 AM
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Police investigate shooting in Wyoming
WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) — Police are investigating a shooting that happened in Wyoming Sunday afternoon.
Around 12:40 p.m., officers with the Wyoming Police Department were called to Blue Bird Avenue near 36th Street for a shooting.
Police did not say if anyone was injured or what led up to it.
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ESPN FPI Predicts BYU vs Wyoming, Updates BYU’s Projected Win Total
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Coming into the 2024 season, ESPN’s Football Power Index (FPI) was not high on BYU. FPI’s projected record for BYU was 4.7-7.3 and FPI gave BYU just a 31% chance of getting to bowl eligibility. FPI gave BYU only a 17.7% chance to start 2-0, but that’s exactly what the Cougars did. On Friday, BYU traveled to SMU and upset the Mustangs as double-digit upsets. Following an upset win over FCS power Southern Illinois on Saturday, FPI increased its outlook for the Cougars in 2024. FPI also cemented its prediction for BYU-Wyoming.
FPI gives BYU an 86.4% chance to beat Wyoming on Saturday night, up from 60.9% in the preseason.
FPI’s projected record for BYU increased to 6.5-5.5 after week one. The Cougars have a 76% chance to reach bowl eligibility according to FPI. Below are the game-by-game predictions.
There were material changes in the predictions for three games: Arizona, Arizona State, and Kansas.
Arizona struggled at times against FCS foe NAU. FPI downgraded Arizona after that performance while increasing BYU’s FPI following the upset at SMU.
Arizona State suddenly looks like one of the toughest games on BYU’s schedule. The Sun Devils beat Mississippi State 30-23 on Saturday evening.
UCF is now the toughest remaining game on BYU’s schedule according to FPI. The Knights have dismantled their opponents 102-17. They face their first true test of the season on Saturday at TCU.
BYU jumped up eight spots in the FPI rankings to 58. The Cougars are now ranked 12th out of 16 Big 12 teams.
- UCF – 16th nationally
- Kansas State – 18
- Utah – 21
- Oklahoma State – 27
- Kansas – 29
- TCU – 31
- Arizona State – 35
- Arizona – 39
- West Virginia – 47
- Iowa State – 49
- Colorado – 57
- BYU – 58
- Baylor – 62
- Cincinnati – 71
- Texas Tech – 75
- Houston – 84
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