Albuquerque Journal newspaper stories
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ABQjournal: Football: Cook Sets Sail on 2nd Season
... players drafted from the Mountain West Conference the same year. He was the highest-drafted player from New Mexico since Chicago selected linebacker Brian Urlacher in first round of the 2000 draft. "I always had the dream of playing in the NFL," Cook said. "I just worked as hard as I could and it ...
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ABQjournal: Cook Gears Up for NFL Season
... 12 players drafted from the Mountain West Conference in 2006. He was the highest-drafted player from New Mexico since Chicago selected linebacker Brian Urlacher in first round of the 2000 draft. "I always had the dream of playing in the NFL," Cook said. "I just worked as hard as I could and it paid ...
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ABQjournal: Ex-Lobo Black Selected by the Buccaneers
... -America selection. Black spent three years at UNM and was a first-team All-Mountain West Conference defensive back in 2006, playing the position Brian Urlacher made famous eight seasons earlier. The 6-1 5/8, 240-pound Black got NFL scouts' attention at the East-West Shrine Game in January and ...
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ABQjournal: Draft Dreams Come True Rio Rancho's Alan Branch
... and my team up." Once Branch is drafted, he'll become at least the fourth current NFL player with ties to a New Mexico prep program. Lovington's Brian Urlacher has reached superstar status in Chicago, and Clovis' Hank Baskett will be a second-year receiver in Philadelphia. Branch would become ...
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ABQjournal: Everett Knows Ropes of Draft
... the first prep player from the metro area to garner this kind of national interest since Everett - and the first New Mexican since Lovington's Brian Urlacher in 2000. Everett walked an entire career in the shoes Branch is about to occupy. "At the end of the day, you put it all in context ...
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ABQjournal: Url's Cap Helps Soldier's Family
... Toby Smith Journal Staff Writer The most famous gimme cap in the NFL has given a young couple great joy. Last Wednesday it was learned that Brian Urlacher, the Chicago Bears star linebacker, had been fined $100,000 by the NFL for wearing a cap with an un-NFL-approved logo during Super Bowl week ...
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