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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Thursday, November 14th. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - brought to you by the Cowboy State Daily Morning Show with Jake. From 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., Monday through Friday, Cowboy State Daily's Jake Nichols takes you deeper into the stories that matter - and keeps up with the news, weather and sports in your part of Wyoming. Just tune into Cowboy State Daily Dot Com and join the conversation.

Three University of Wyoming volleyball team players, plus student-athletes from surrounding universities and a team coach, sued the Mountain West conference on Wednesday. They claim the conference stealth-edited its rules to limit their speech, and push them into competing with a transgender athlete.

Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that four schools to date have canceled volleyball matches against San Jose State University over concerns about pitting women against Blair Fleming, the school's transgender outside hitter.

According to the lawsuit filed Wednesday, on Sept. 27, just as the second of those four schools was canceling, the Mountain West Conference authored a rule saying those cancellations would count as losses.

"The data for this post that you can locate online indicates that it was made that day, right as the drama is unfolding, boom, here comes a rule that addresses it, that fully addresses it, allegedly. So they're saying, Oh, it looks like this rule was stealth edited on the Mountain West Conference rules and just perfectly to address 'What to do if a school cancels on a transgender player.'"

The lawsuit follows weeks of controversy over San Jose University's inclusion of a transgender outside hitter, Blaire Fleming, who is currently ranked as the team's top scorer.

Although there were few surprises in the results of Wyoming's general election last week, Secretary of State Chuck Gray claimed at the Wyoming State Canvassing Board meeting on Wednesday that "a number of issues" popped up on election night, including a major miscount of votes in Weston County.

Despite those issues, Cowboy State Daily's Leo Wolfson reports that Gray still recommended certifying the election.

"Now it's important to note that that miscount was cleared up and that it was identified before the results in Weston County were certified at a local level. They did a hand count to get those votes correctly, but it became a major topic of discussion, nevertheless… and there was numerous Western county residents who testified virtually and requested that the board not certify the results until more investigation takes place into what occurred there, but the board still unanimously voted to certify the results."

The Electoral College will certify Wyoming's votes on Dec. 17.

Read the full story HERE.

The number of places in the world that have the right geology to store carbon dioxide underground are limited. One of those places is in Wyoming, and it lies far below another special place — the C.B. Irwin Ranch, where famed rodeo bronc Steamboat used to run.

Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports that the owner of the CB Irwin belongs to a coalition of 20 neighboring ranches who have come together in a company cal