From the sports desk: Here's to the winter season

When the temperature gets colder and we all venture inside for the winter sports season, there is a lot we can look forward to on the basketball courts and wrestling mats of Cheyenne and Deuel counties and in Peetz.

There is nothing quite as exciting, for me, as the raucous and loud environment that basketball season brings. From the sounds of the pep band, to the taste of way too many hot dogs, to the sweat growing on the brow of head coaches deep into a game, hoops rules the day every December.

By the same token, wrestling season is just as exciting; the difference between a gold medal pe...