Casper is Wyoming's sports and leisure headquarters. Thousands of people visit Casper throughout the year to participate in sporting events from the Wyoming state high school volleyball, wrestling, basketball, and track championships, to the College National Finals Rodeo. These events plus numerous others helped Casper become Wyoming's Sports City as voted by Sports Illustrated magazine.

Casper offers professional sports as well. Although the Wyoming Cavalry is entering only its fourth season as an NIFL franchise, the team has one of the more storied and colorful histories in indoor football - having roots as an IFL team known as the Casper Cavalry. Football fans all over Wyoming rejoiced in June 1999 when the Indoor Football League announced that a franchise was coming to Casper. The rules of the league hybridized American and Canadian-style football, condensing the game into an eight-man contest played on a 50-yard field. The Cavalry made it to Indoor Bowl I in 2001 losing a tough game to eventual champion Mississippi Fire Dogs. Followers of the Cavalry have formed their own "fan" club and the crowd at the north end of the stands is so vociferously for their home team, the competition finds it difficult to hear the quarterback call out the signals. All home games are played at the Casper Events Center, just up the hill from the Parkway Plaza.

The Casper Ghosts play their first three games on the road, but then return home to Mike Lansing Field for their first homestand against the Idaho Falls Chukars and the Orem Owlz, starting with Opening Day 2008 on Friday, June 20th and finishing Wednesday, June 25. The 2008 season comes to an end with the Ghosts playing a five-game homestand against Idaho Falls ending Friday, September 5th. Ticket packages for the 2008 season are on sale now, with Individual Game Tickets, Bonus Books of 10 undated tickets, and Season Tickets all available for the 2008 Pioneer League Season. The Casper Ghosts are the Pioneer League Affiliate (Advanced-Rookie) of the 2007 National League Champion Colorado Rockies, where five former members of Casper teams were on the Rockies' 2007 World Series Roster. All home games are played at Mike Lansing Field, just a short distance from the Parkway Plaza. Come to the game and see future Major League Baseball players play right here in Casper. Click here to download a schedule.

The Casper Events Center, a beautiful, state-of-the-art complex built high on a hill overlooking the City of Casper, Casper Mountain and the scenic Platte River Valley of Central Wyoming, lends new meaning to the term "adaptability". It can seat over 9,700 people and has extensive services and configuration capabilities to support Broadway shows, ice shows, basketball games, trade shows, concerts, and monster truck shows. The rough-and-tumble of professional rodeo, the three-ring extravaganza of the Barnum and Bailey Circus, and major touring acts including Metallica and The Eagles in the spring of 2004. these are just a few of the many events staged at this first-class facility.