From the sports field to the sports columns

“Hello folks, and welcome to another addition of American Sportsman. I’m your host Curt Gowdy, and today we will be fishing the Upper North Platte river with my guest and the new sports writer for the Saratoga Sun, Brian Trautwein.”

Those were the words that started the show for the famous sports announcer and writer Wyoming cherished enough to name a state park after. I’m not saying I’ll ever have a state park named after me, but I would like to continue writing the sports section of our paper in an emotional and exciting way.

I grew up around Wyoming athletics and went to a division 4A schoo...