It's all anyone can talk about: Joe Glenn, recently-former head coach of the University of Wyoming football team, is going to be replaced. Eventually. Maybe soon.

But the most interesting football-related story - possibly of all time but certainly of the last few weeks - came in the form of a fantastical conversation between a ram and a different Joe.

Bob Hammond, sports editor for the Laramie Boomerang, shared a few words (actually, more than 2,000 words) about a long-standing tradition between horse Cowboy Joe, UW's team mascot, and Cam the Ram, Colorado State's team mascot. According to Hammond, the mascots meet every time the teams play together in "The Border War" game.

A snippet of their conversation includes the inevitable horse jokes - "Why the long face, Joe?" - and ram jokes - "Cam said sheepishly."

Get it? Sheepishly? A ram being sheepish?

Priceless. Interesting. Fictional, and lengthy, and perhaps not altogether helpful as far as sports fans are concerned - but interesting, none the less.

Visit the Laramie Boomerang's website for the complete story at www.laramieboomerang.com.

An unfortunate housing situation

Fences always act as barriers. Most often, they keep dogs in and strangers out and mark property lines. But Debbie Yeatts' fence is a bit more important to her. It keeps cars out of her living room.

Yeatts' house sits in the center of a precarious Y-shaped corner, just before a straight road suddenly bends. Any time the road is icy or the driver is speeding or the car's turn radius isn't what it used to be, a vehicle ends up right in front of Yeatts' place. Cars have plowed into her fence 17 times in the past five years.

According to a story in the Gillette News-Record, in October, city workers took down a large barrier in front of the house, not knowing how important it was to the well-being of the house's residents. The intersection, says the story, has been dubbed "crash corner" by some Gillette residents.

Luckily for Yeatts, her city council members read the News-Record and quickly discovered the situation they'd created for Yeatts. Her barricade was quickly restored, and she "can sleep easier at night."

Contact columnist Megan Lee at (307) 266-0616 or megan.lee@trib.com