I'm not sure what all the fuss was about. The Wyoming men's basketball team hasn't lost a game that I have been at this season.
OK, Saturday was the first game that I watched in person this season.
Considering that I covered in the neighborhood of 500 Cowboys basketball games in the A-A in my previously illustrious or lackluster sportswriting career (depending on who you ask), I'm wondering what took me so long this season?
What did I miss? Evidently, I'm in that new Geico commercial where there's a guy living under a rock.
Actually, I know what I have not been there to witness. Hey, I got the Internet, you know.
If it's on the Internet, then it has to be true.
It's been a long, strange trip to my first Cowboys game this season, and I'm not talking a Jerry Garcia trip. Between working as a news copy editor at the Wyoming Tribune Eagle and traveling back and forth to Denver to be with my wife who has been in various hospitals since October, I just haven't been able to make it.
In fact, I've been to just one Cowgirls game this season as well. Now that I think of it, the Cowgirls haven't lost a game that I sat courtside at this season. Maybe I should go to more, although the home schedule is down to just a couple of games remaining.
With that said, I probably got a few "didn't you used to be Richard Anderson" glances from formerly fellow media, sports information workers and maybe even a few fans in the stands. Not my fans mind you, but UW basketball fans.
No longer with the luxury of media parking, I had to walk a distance to my car and head over the hill to Cheyenne after the game. Instead of adjourning to the media room for the various interviews with players and coach, I had to settle for the tail-end of the Cowboys broadcast on the radio.
In doing that, I had my lead written, if I were to write.
Granted, the Cowboys' 77-67 win over TCU was nothing to write home about. And remember, Wyoming and TCU were playing to get out of last place, at least for a few days.
Wyoming can now proadly proclaim that it is No. 9 in the Mountain West Conference, which is way better than No. 10.
At the same time, it was nice to see the Cowboys make the plays down the stretch, something I have heard them not do on the radio this season and something I have not read them do in the various media reports.
I also saw a lot of smiles, on and off the court, which is a jolt of adrenalin that doesn't involve Red Bull. Maybe, just maybe, there is some optimism for the Cowboys in the future.
I remind you that TCU is 1-10 in league play, to 2-9 for Wyoming.
We'll see what happens down the stretch. The Cowboys were able to break an eight-game skid which transpired to over a month since their last victory. Now all they have to do is end a 19-game losing streak on the road when they travel to Salt Lake City Wednesday to face the Utah Utes.
What's this I hear that Utah and BYU won't be in the Mountain West Conference next season? That darn rock.
There, I made it through this whole blog without mentioning the Heath Schroyer firing.
Well, almost.
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