Kenny Sailors

Memorial services for the late Kenny Sailors will be Friday, Feb. 5, at 10:00 a.m. in the Arena-Auditorium on the University of Wyoming campus.

Kenny Sailors was the Michael Jordan of Wyoming. Among the greatest athletes in the history of the Cowboy State, he was a pioneer for one of America's most popular sports. Early this morning, the inventor of the "jump shot" passed away in Laramie at the age of 95...

The north gym at the Laramie Plains Civic Center will be renamed in honor of Kenny Sailors in a ceremony tonight.

The University of Wyoming won the national college basketball championship in 1943.