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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Tuesday, November 26th. 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.

A Colorado-based federal judge declined Monday to remove a transgender player from the upcoming Mountain West Conference women's volleyball championship playoffs.

U.S. District Court Judge S. Kato Crews issued the 28-page order Monday, in which he also did not reverse the six forfeit losses teams have taken by boycotting matches against that player this season. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland has been covering this story.

"So the lawsuit is still in play, but the judge did hand down a bad omen against the volleyball players… he denied their request for preliminary injunction… he judge says, like, I'm not going to stop the tournament. I'm going to get Blair Fleming out of the league during this case. And so in making that that order, he makes a finding saying, You ladies are not likely to succeed."

San Jose State University is seeded No. 2 in the Mountain West Conference going into the upcoming tournament with a 12-6 conference record.

Read the full story HERE.

A modern era of "mass Indian removal" is coming to an end. That's what those fighting to return Native American imagery to sports team branding are arguing.

Cowboy State Daily's David Madison reports that groups like the Native American Guardians Association believe Montana U.S. Sen. Steve Daines hasn't gone far enough to restore the former Washington Redskins logo to the NFL franchise.

"It's actually modeled after Black feet chiefs and was initiated by a Blackfeet tribal member who brought it to the Redskins back in the early 70s, Don Blackie Wetzel, and since May, Senator Steve Daines from Montana has been trying to get that story out in an effort to convince the Commanders… to readopt what he considers and what many in Montana consider a culturally valuable symbol that was inspired authentically by Blackfeet tribal members and should be returned to The Commanders."

Daines also has suggested perhaps a new team name for Washington's football team: The Washington Warriors, which would honor the fact that Native Amercians serve in the U.S. Armed Forces at a higher rate per capita than any other ethnic group.

Read the full story HERE.

Douglas Harrington became the first Wyoming person to get prison time for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Cowboy State Daily's Leo Wolfson reports that the 69-year-old Bedford resident was sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday, to 40 months in prison, 24 months of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution.

"Harrington first received charges in 2023 and finally, his case is coming to a close. We'll see, though, what ha