...Webster's New World Dictionary defines "constant" as "not changing; remaining the same ... going on all the time; continual."
Thus, when CBS Television interrupted what Albuquerque's KRQE...
March 20th, 2010
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7:50 p.m. MDT: This was the announced starting time of the first-round NCAA Tournament game Thursday in San Jose, Calif., between third-seeded New Mexico and 1...
March 19th, 2010
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March 17th, 2010
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March 17th, 2010
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March 16th, 2010
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To: the Men's NCAA Basketball Tournament Selection Committee
From: a concerned, mildly irritated New Mexican
Re: Those semi-amazin' New Mexico State Aggies
Gentlemen (and lady):
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March 14th, 2010
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...So, Lenny Fresquez, tell us. Why should boxing fans pay good money to see Holly Holm fight someone she beat decisively - a virtual shutout - in a previous bout?
Sure, Chevelle Hallback (27-5, 11 k...
March 14th, 2010
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March 12th, 2010
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Merlin Olsen was a monster on the field, but by all accounts a gentleman off it. I remember him terrorizing the New Mexico Lobos as the defensive star of brilliant Utah State football teams in the...
March 11th, 2010
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"So far this has worked out great for Alford, great for New Mexico, and Iowa sits here in the depths of basketball fortune with a fan bas... |
March 10th, 2010
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...Let me make it clear; I do not wish on Baylor basketball player Brittney Griner the kind of abuse that has enveloped UNM soccer player Elizabeth Lambert. I wouldn't wish that on anyone, even certain J...
March 7th, 2010
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...OHKAY OWINGEH PUEBLO - The foot speed, not to mention the hair, of the vintage Johnny Tapia was missing. The opponent was weak, meek and bereft of firepower.
Yet, the hand speed and the in...
March 7th, 2010
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With those words some seven weeks ago, a state district judge freed five-time world boxing champion Johnny Tapia from a prison cell and sent him back into the worl... |
March 6th, 2010
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...Uh-oh.
It was the morning of Jan. 10, and for the University of New Mexico men's basketball team, the promise of the previous two months was looking like fool's gold.
The Lobos, who'd ente...
March 5th, 2010
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It is Senior Night. Lobo men's basketball stars Dairese Gary and Darington Hobson bid farewell to the Pit crowd, and vice versa.
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March 4th, 2010
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To the list of tonight's Albuquerque/New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame inductees, add the following:
n Albert and Martha Umphrey, parents.
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March 4th, 2010
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From the top floor of a high-rise, that patch is barely visible.
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March 3th, 2010
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College isn't for everybody, especially if one realizes he's there for the wrong reasons.
So, Chris Anaya left El Paso Community College and its baseball p... |
March 2th, 2010
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Tsunami? Sure, Bryan Clay was concerned a... |
February 28th, 2010
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...Once a Rattler, always a Rattler.
Olympic hammer thrower Amber Campbell left Tucumcari 15 years ago, but the memories flow easily and fondly.
She remembers the middle school at 5th and...
February 27th, 2010
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February 26th, 2010
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From 1986-91, the Charley Pride Golf Fiesta brought the finest senior golfers in the wor... |
February 24th, 2010
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Ask Duane Ward about That Championship Season, and he has to ask, "Which one?"
There was 1992, when, as Toronto's setup man in the bu...
February 24th, 2010
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...Call it The Cult of Getting Better, or in book form, "How To Get Better Four Minutes at a Time" by Steve Alford.
If there were such a book, it would be fairly flying off the shelves these days -...
February 19th, 2010
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...Organizers seek to get on firmer financial ground for 2011 event
Pamela Ghoreishi and her father, Charlie Otero, find themselves between a logistical rock and a financial hard place.
Their New M...
February 18th, 2010
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...Chances are that the first-place, 12th-ranked New Mexico Lobos won't have to work overtime this week to beat eighth-place Wyoming and ninth-place Air Force at the Pit.
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February 17th, 2010
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...One is an athletic director, the other a basketball coach. Yet, Jim Sterk's move from Washington State of the Pac-10 to San Diego State of the Mountain West seems reminiscent of Steve Alford's move fr...
February 16th, 2010
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Former Boston Red Sox star pitcher Curt Schilling's favorite breed of dog is the Rottweiler.
Figure skater Alyssa Czisny is...
February 16th, 2010
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...Don Flanagan keeps saying his University of New Mexico women's basketball team lacks a go-to player. But the Lobos do have a go-to coach, as in, "Go to the bench" when he perceives that a crime agains...
February 14th, 2010
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...One of former UNM football coach Rocky Long's long-standing beefs with the Albuquerque news media was that they, I mean we, almost never gave the opposing team any credit when the Lobos lost.
No,...
February 12th, 2010
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Johnny Tapia's long-rumored, much-discussed comeback fight was formally announced Thursday. The five-time former world champion is s...
February 12th, 2010
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...Four months and half a century after the fact, Pervis Atkins finally apologized for hurting my feelings."Hey, I'm sorry," he said.
Then, as he did often during a recent interview, he chuckled...
February 10th, 2010
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...As noted in the attached from Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist (and former New Mexican) Ron Kantowski, the University of Nevada-Las Vegas is leading the Far West (Pac-10, Mountain West, WAC, WCC) in...
February 9th, 2010
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In the attached piece, Forde ranks the best towns and best basketbal...
February 9th, 2010
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... Super Bowl week is more than just the build-up to a meeting between the National Football League's two best football teams - maybe. Sorry, Minnesota, about that no-call on Brett. Enjoy the game, ...
February 7th, 2010
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... Skipper, I hope you were watching. Saturday's New Mexico-San Diego State game might not have changed your mind about Mountain West Conference men's basketball. But if you didn't enjoy it...
February 7th, 2010
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... The Great Southwest Classic Association, which each spring in Albuquerque stages one of the premier high school track meets in the nation, is taking its act indoors. The inaugural Great Southwest In...
February 7th, 2010
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...Steve Alford calls Dairese Gary "Little Bus" because of the latter's strong physical resemblance to former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Jerome "The Bus" Bettis.
Thus far in his University...
February 5th, 2010
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...Barring injury, illness or other misfortune, two of the best female boxers in the world will face each other next month at Isleta Casino & Resort.
Here's the only problem: One has already bea...
February 3th, 2010
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...Close your eyes when Eileen Weissmann speaks, and you can almost picture a street map of Chicago. Does she hail from the City of Big Shoulders?
Does Chicago love da Bears?
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January 31th, 2010
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... As the education of Archie Ray Marquez progresses, it's Marquez who's doing most of the instruction. Yet, there remains plenty for the 21-year-old Albuquerque boxer to learn. Marquez gave h...
January 31th, 2010
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...Before the fight began, promoter Gary Shaw called Archie Ray Marquez to the ring apron. Shaw tapped his temple with his finger, and the message was clear: use your head. Be smart.
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January 30th, 2010
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...For University of New Mexico basketball and its fans, Wednesday was a night not soon to be forgotten.
Two victories over Brigham Young? That's like a year with two Christmases, or a week with two ...
January 29th, 2010
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The care and feeding of a professional boxing prospect is a precarious enterprise -- sort of like those "too light, too heavy" TV beer commercials.
If a p...
January 29th, 2010
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...From the 12th- and 23rd-ranked teams in the nation, one wouldn't expect two gangs that couldn't shoot straight.
Yet, straight shooters -- as in hellbent for victory -- abounded.
In a game that ...
January 28th, 2010
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For professional boxers Arturo and Amanda Crespin, brother and sister, revenge is a dish best served hot or cold -- but with plenty of leather on the side.
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January 28th, 2010
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...The who-does-he-remind-you-of game is always fun to play.Lobo point guard Dairese Gary, when asked to compare Brigham Young star Jimmer Fredette to someone, came up with Steve Nash.But then, Gary, bor...
January 27th, 2010
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... For Albuquerque boxer Archie Ray Marquez, "Family Guy" isn't just a TV cartoon show. It's his life. Married with two kids, a working man since he was 16, Marquez shrugs when asked...
January 24th, 2010
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... OK, so? When you're playing at home, and when you're better than the other guy at every position, you should win by 18 points. OK, so? When you're playing at home, and when you're be...
January 24th, 2010
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...An all-star basketball game and a youth basketball camp, staged as a benefit for the earthquake-ravaged people of Haiti, is scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 24, from noon-6 p.m. at Menaul High School.Former...
January 23th, 2010
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... Former University of New Mexico and Sandia High School soccer star Ben Ashwill, a key member of the 2005 Lobo team that made it to the NCAA Division I championship game, was killed in a three-vehicle...
January 23th, 2010
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...Thus far in the 2010 Mountain West Conference men’s basketball season, home is where the hurt is.Entering Saturday’s play, 20 MWC games have been played. The road team has won eight of those, or 4...
January 22th, 2010
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... Former Lobo men's basketball star Michael Cooper (1976-78) was a fiery competitor as a player. Now that he's the women's coach at USC, it appears that hasn't changed. After the Trojans' rec...
January 20th, 2010
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... When Jerry Tarkanian isn't calling the NCAA "the crookedest organizaton in our society," he's waxing nostalgic in a blog for the Las Vegas Sun. In his first entry of the New Year, just befo...
January 20th, 2010
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...As Wimbledon is to tennis, as Augusta is to golf, as Philly is to the cheese steak, UNM and the city of Albuquerque would like to be to indoor track and field.The effort is well under way.On Feb. 27-2...
January 20th, 2010
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... Ridin' high in April ... . Lavon McDonald, folksy and charming yet shrewd and calculating, was a man who knew how to get things done. In 1978, as director of athletics at the University of New ...
January 17th, 2010
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... The Isleta Boxing Commission has lifted its suspension of Melissa Hernandez, eliminating the final obstacle to the resumption of the New Yorker's ring career. The IBC had suspended Hernandez aft...
January 17th, 2010
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...Many’s the time over the past few years that I felt like telling a UNM men’s basketball coach where to go — straight to a UNM women’s practice conducted by Don Flanagan.That certainly would ha...
January 15th, 2010
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...Decision will allow five-time champ to serve out 1-year sentence at homeJohnny Tapia’s going home — and going back to work.State District Judge Kenneth Martinez on Thursday granted the five-time w...
January 15th, 2010
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...The hottest young coaching rivalry in the Mountain West Conference lost a little heat Wednesday night. But for the New Mexico Lobos, 74-57 winners over Utah on Wednesday night at the Pit,...
January 14th, 2010
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...UNM Will Be Challenged by Pair of 7-FootersBased only on Utah sophomore David Foster’s last name, one might think he’s the latest in the Utes’ line of towering basketball centers from Down Under...
January 13th, 2010
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... Benchmarks, good and bad: On Dec. 30 in this space there appeared a column headlined "Alford's Lobos Attack in Waves." Said column was about the UNM men's basketball team's be...
January 10th, 2010
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... Derrick Campos, a tough, experienced fighter who has never been stopped short of the distance, now is the scheduled opponent for Albuquerque's Archie Ray Marquez on Jan. 29. Campos (20-7, 11 kno...
January 10th, 2010
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...Note to our readers: If you’re feeling down because San Diego State hammered your Lobos like a cherry-and-silver piñata in men’s and women’s basketball this week, cheer up.Think back to Novembe...
January 8th, 2010
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...The Association of Boxing Commissions is trying, sort of, kind of, to do what Albuquerque fighter Victoria Cisneros did back in December: step in and fill a gaping void.Last month, the void was create...
January 6th, 2010
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...As New Year's resolution goes, my DVR recording of the UNM-Dayton men's basketball game was fuzzier than your tongue after Thursday night's party. Isn't The Mtn. supposed to be going high...
January 3th, 2010
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... A regulation college basketball game lasts 40 minutes, which on Friday night was just right for the New Mexico Lobos - and not quite long enough for the Dayton Flyers. The 19th-ranked Lobos withsto...
January 2th, 2010
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...To put Mike Leach on UNM President David Schmidly's tab, as either credit or debit, requires an asterisk. Contrary to online chatter I've seen the past few days, Schmidly was not yet the president at ...
January 1th, 2010
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... The Albuquerque mixed-martial-arts community had its fingerprints -- not to mention its hands, feet, knees and elbows -- all over the 2009 World Mixed Martial Arts Awards.Albuquerque's Greg Jack...
January 1th, 2010
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...The bad news was in our face, but there was some good, tooMaybe it’s our society; maybe it’s just human nature. Or maybe it’s that darn, negative news media. Whoever and whatever’s to blame,...
December 31th, 2009
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... The San Diego State Aztecs beat UC Riverside Tuesday night, the only surprise being SDSU's slim margin of victory. What's really of interest here, though, is the Aztecs' pursuit of UCLA transfer...
December 31th, 2009
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...Texas Tech assistant coach Bubba Jennings, the former Clovis Wildcat, must have thought he was caught in a time warp.No, these weren’t the Hobbs Eagles that Jennings’ Red Raiders were playing. The...
December 30th, 2009
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December 20th, 2009
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... Following up: The UNM men's basketball team, ranked No. 1 in the entire U.S. of A. on Wesley Colley's computer before the Lobos' rout of Northern Arizona on Wednesday, dropped to No. 5 on Thursd...
December 18th, 2009
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December 18th, 2009
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December 17th, 2009
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...No. 19? Hey, forget that. Wesley N. Colley, who operates a college football and basketball rankings Web site, says the New Mexico Lobos are No. 1.In basketball, anyway. That's right, No. 1 -- ahead of...
December 17th, 2009
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December 16th, 2009
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... Don Flanagan is a basketball purist. Crimes against the game, even petty misdemeanors, will put a University of New Mexico women's basketball player on the bench faster than you can say "sit...
December 13th, 2009
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... Boxing wasn't merely on the ropes; it was on the canvas. Mixed martial arts wasn't just a fad; it was the wrecking ball that would smash the Sweet Science to pieces and leave it in the dust b...
December 12th, 2009
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... Marcos Hernandez had left boxing behind - betrayed by his body and, he says, by empty promises. "I had a lot of other stuff going on," says Hernandez, 29, a decade ago one of New Mexico...
December 12th, 2009
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...In 2006, Cormac McCarthy wrote a novel called “The Road.” As one might expect from the title, the book was about a college basketball team’s harrowing experiences in a game played away from home...
December 11th, 2009
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...Hernandez, others thought her being at the fight suspiciousCinderella story? Not quite. The shoe didn’t fit, and Victoria Cisneros didn’t win.Nevertheless, Cisneros said Thursday, she jammed those...
December 11th, 2009
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...As expected, boxer Melissa Hernandez has been suspended as a result of her last-minute walkout on her scheduled bout with Albuquerque’s Holly Holm Friday night at Isleta Casino & Resort.Justice done...
December 9th, 2009
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...Unbeaten Fighter On Showtime CardLast year, boxer Archie Ray Marquez passed his audition with promoter Gary Shaw.Next month, will Albuquerque do the same?Monday at Expo New Mexico, a news conference w...
December 8th, 2009
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... In Las Cruces on Nov. 17, New Mexico State fans called Lobos forward Roman Martinez a traitor because his grandfather played basketball for the Aggies back in the 1930s. It was a stretch, but what th...
December 6th, 2009
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...Melissa Hernandez is a little poorer, Victoria Cisneros is a lot richer, and Holly Holm is moving on with her career. Albuquerque journalist Chris Cozzone, who's planning to write a histo...
December 6th, 2009
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...ISLETA PUEBLO - Talk, that cheapest of commodities, is that much cheaper this morning. And it was Melissa Hernandez who ran like a rabbit. After the trash-talking New Yorker walked out o...
December 5th, 2009
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...Her name is Melissa Hernandez, but she probably should call herself Dawn Rickles.The trash-talking Hernandez, who’ll face Albuquerque’s Holly Holm in a 10-round professional boxing match tonight a...
December 4th, 2009
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...No more commanding, self-assured coach than Steve Alford has prowled the home team’s sideline at the Pit. If his old mentor Bob Knight was The General, Alford is no less than a full colonel.And when...
December 4th, 2009
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...His one good eye, Mike Winkeljohn said, remains focused on his fighters — not on himself.“That’s not important,” was his reply to questions at a news conference about the freak accident that c...
December 4th, 2009
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...Duke City Fighter Fired Up for BoutLike most professional boxers, male or female, Albuquerque’s Jodie Esquibel lives a double life.Only a relative handful of fighters, such as Esquibel’s friend an...
December 3th, 2009
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...If you’re looking for a cherry-and-silver lining to the 1-11 cloud that was the 2009 University of New Mexico football season, it’s not that hard to find.Really. I’m serious.Yes, the season bega...
December 2th, 2009
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...Historian to display part of mammoth project at Isleta todayAnother slice of New Mexico boxing history will be served Friday night at Isleta Casino & Resort, when Albuquerque’s Holly Holm puts her W...
December 2th, 2009
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... Boxer-turned-cage fighter Monica Lovato continues her MMA career tonight as part of a King of the Cage event at the Inn of the Mountain Gods in Mescalero. Lovato (4-0) is scheduled to face Barb Hanch...
November 28th, 2009
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November 22th, 2009
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... If all goes as planned and expected, Albuquerque will have a new main-event boxing attraction by early next year. On Dec. 4 in Santa Ynez, Calif., unbeaten junior lightweight Archie Ray Marquez (8-0...
November 21th, 2009
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...Regarding the Lobo women’s basketball team and its 70-56 loss Wednesday night to Oklahoma State, what a difference a conjunction makes.In the paint, the Cowgirls were pretty big and pretty quick.The...
November 20th, 2009
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...LAS CRUCES — Symphony 97, Jam Session 87. So, is this how Lobo-Aggie men’s basketball is going to be for the foreseeable future — punch and counterpunch between two teams with styles as differen...
November 18th, 2009
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... This Lobo sports weekend, try though it did, never quite made it to whale-of-a status. That whale slipped away at University Stadium, amid a handful of missed opportunities that prevented UNM from sp...
November 15th, 2009
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...This is the overlap season, in which fall sports and winter sports stack up like cars trying to access southbound I-25 from eastbound Paseo del Norte — but less tedious and more fun.For the Universi...
November 13th, 2009
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...Third Downs Not Good for LobosName the college football statistical category, with only a few and mostly meaningless exceptions, and the Brigham Young Cougars are better in that department than the Ne...
November 11th, 2009
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...Who will speak for Elizabeth?Margaret Neill will, has done so, and would like to say much more.“I love Liz to death, and I do want to help her,” Elizabeth Lambert’s high school athletic director...
November 11th, 2009
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...All together now, my fellow UNM alums; let us sing, in full voice, our school's alma mater. I'm sure you, as I do, know it by heart. We'll dispense with the UNM fight song, since Lobo ath...
November 8th, 2009
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...The bellicose blogger in the back, once he finished his 45-second soapbox diatribe, asked a valid and pertinent question.Will the University of New Mexico hire an outside, impartial investigator to re...
November 6th, 2009
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...It wasn’t football, thank goodness.It wasn’t the Pit as we know it, but it will do for now. Hey, it’ll have to.The 2009-10 New Mexico Lobos played their first game at the under-renovation Pit, b...
November 4th, 2009
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...14th-Ranked Utah Next for 0-8 SquadThe University of New Mexico football team finished last season with a 4-8 record. Utah was 13-0, including a 31-17 victory over Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. Same conf...
November 4th, 2009
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... "I want to take the Lobo nation national." - New UNM football coach Mike Locksley, Dec. 9, 2008 Well, of course. Isn't that the dream of every non-BCS college football program, to hav...
November 1th, 2009
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... Throughout Fidel Maldonado Jr.'s long, successful amateur boxing career, the Albuquerque southpaw has had one cherished goal in mind. The Olympics? No. The pros? Yes. Tuesday night in City o...
October 31th, 2009
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...Name the speaker and the year:“We’re an emotionally fragile team right now, and when things don’t go right, it seems to snowball.”“Our confidence has been shaken a little bit, sure. That’s...
October 30th, 2009
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... No one ever wishes bad luck on an opponent.Right?San Diego State star wide receiver Vincent Brown has liigament damage to his right thumb and is questionable for Saturday's game against New Mexi...
October 28th, 2009
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...And the Oscar for best film editing goes to ... Mike Locksley, for “A Shining Season II?”Nah. Locksley, UNM’s first-year head football coach, isn’t directing science fiction over there on th...
October 28th, 2009
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... The Curse of the 1962 Sun Bowl Committee has come back to life, though I'm not sure it was ever really dead. The 2009 New Mexico Lobos, meanwhile, showed more life Saturday night than they had a...
October 25th, 2009
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...Albuquerque boxer Archie Ray Marquez's fight tonight against Jovann Jones will be streamed live on hotklix.com from Laredo, Texas. Be aware that Hotklix is a subscription site.Jacob Maes, Marquez's ma...
October 23th, 2009
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... I will defend to the death, or at least to the extent of a severe head cold, Melissa Hernandez’s right to talk trash. She’s a fighter, and trash talk goes back as far as fighting does.Gender h...
October 23th, 2009
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... The UNM football team might be spreading gloom throughout its home state, but it seems the Lobos are making everyone else in the Mountain West Conference feel pretty darn good by comparison.Even...
October 22th, 2009
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...OK, it may be a stretch; you can judge for yourself. But I’m saying George Barlow, UNM’s interim head football coach, bears at least a slight resemblance to actor Taye Diggs from the movie “How ...
October 21th, 2009
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...‘Bad Blood’ Seems To Be Perfect TitleIt’s not personal; it’s professional.Really? Are you sure?New Yorker Melissa Hernandez, proclaiming herself the No. 1 women’s boxer in the world and expr...
October 21th, 2009
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... For Jennifer Valdez, an emergency-room nurse from Española, Sunday's New Mexico Cancer Center Duke City Marathon was a good news-bad news proposition. The bad, or at least, disappoint...
October 19th, 2009
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... Daniel Faris was listed in UNM men's basketball media guide as standing 6-foot-9, a modest altitude for a Division I men's college basketball post player. In reality, he probably wasn't q...
October 18th, 2009
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...Sandwiched between his posts and his point guards, UNM women’s basketball coach Don Flanagan has recruited a virtual army of — give or take an inch — 6-foot perimeter players. He’s got nine of...
October 16th, 2009
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...But now it’s full speed ahead for 26th Duke City MarathonFor the 26th time in the last 26 autumns, Tico and Marge Navarro are busy putting together the Duke City Marathon.“Some people,...
October 16th, 2009
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...That’s all there is, UNM’s telling us, and there isn’t any more. These unpleasant matters involving the football program have been handled. Wouldn’t that be nice? Certainly, we’ve all had it...
October 14th, 2009
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...I've always thought that, aside from the occasional former coach, ex-quarterbacks make the best radio/TV football analysts. Who watches more film? Who sees the field any better? I've always tho...
October 11th, 2009
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...It really doesn’t matter what the football team’s record is. When leaves turn red and yellow, when pumpkins proliferate, when flu shots beckon, Lobo fans’ thoughts inevitably drift to basketball...
October 9th, 2009
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...Coach Sliced By Fighter’s ToenailA freak accident in the gym has cost Albuquerque martial-arts coach and boxing trainer Mike Winkeljohn the sight in his right eye.Winkeljohn is perhaps equally well ...
October 9th, 2009
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...Yes, Mike Locksley is 0-5 in his first season as head football coach at the University of New Mexico. For our purposes, we’ll stipulate that 0-5 isn’t good.It seems reasonable to postulate, though...
October 7th, 2009
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...LUBBOCK, Texas - "The Dirty Dozen" isn't just a high-grossing, 1967 war movie featuring Jim Brown, a great football player but a gosh-awful actor. For the University of New Mexico footbal...
October 4th, 2009
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...Lobo swim coach Tracy Ljone's first Ironman Triathlon went swimmingly. Bikingly? Runningly? Yeah, those, too. Last June, Ljone finished 22nd among female competitors and third in her 30-...
October 3th, 2009
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...You know, people, I’ve had it, absolutely had it, with all your innuendo directed at Lobo Louie. Just stop it, OK?Louie was not, repeat not, cheating on Lobo Lucy when television cameras caught him ...
October 2th, 2009
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...Lobos football coach Mike Locksley, expanding on comments he made after practice Monday night, said at Tuesday’s UNM media luncheon that he took full responsibility for his role in a physical alterc...
September 30th, 2009
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...Sorry, Paul Krebs, but this time your golden touch deserted you. Mike Locksley was a bad hire, a guy nowhere near ready to be the head football coach at the University of New Mexico. Miracle worker? H...
September 30th, 2009
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...6-11 Hamga Played Briefly at UNLVFor Beas Hamga and Godwin Okonji, University of New Mexico men’s basketball is all about prior relationships.Are those relationships strong enough to put them in Lob...
September 29th, 2009
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...Good baseball genes? Check. Family baseball tradition? Check. Hard work, hustle, respect for the game? Check, check and check. Good baseball genes? Check. Family baseball tradition? Check. Hard...
September 26th, 2009
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...In a vast ocean of futility, the New Mexico Lobos’ first offensive touchdowns of the season might have seemed like distant and uncharted atolls. Keep shooting while blindfolded, after all, and y...
September 25th, 2009
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...B.R. Holbrook, the Lobos’ redshirt freshman quarterback, missed Tuesday’s practice after coming down with flu-like symptoms. Maybe it was something he ate, or maybe he’d just been watching the A...
September 23th, 2009
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...Kick, Punt Returns Are Hurting New MexicoIn addition to the University of New Mexico’s turnover woes and its trouble converting on third downs, throw special-teams problems into the mix.In three gam...
September 23th, 2009
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...Back in the early 1990s, Cameron Dunkin spent a few years in Albuquerque as boxer Danny Romero's manager. Those were often turbulent and frustrating times. Dunkin and the Romeros, Danny Jr. and his tr...
September 21th, 2009
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September 20th, 2009
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... If you're a DirecTV subscriber, and if you were planning to blow off the Lobos vs. Air Force tomorrow evening and watch Brigham Young-Florida State instead, I've got good news and bad news.The b...
September 18th, 2009
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| ...Patient to doctor: “Doc, it hurts when I do this.”Doctor to patient: “Don’t do that.”Sure, it’s a joke older than Vaudeville itself and doesn’t even deserve a rim shot. But from a UNM fo... |
September 18th, 2009
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September 18th, 2009
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| ...We’ll call our little phenomenon the 11-Year Stitch.In 1987, Mike Sheppard was in his first season as the Lobos’ head football coach. He completely revamped the team’s offense and defensive sche... |
September 16th, 2009
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...UNM Needs To End InconsistencyLast Saturday, the New Mexico Lobos played Tulsa to a virtual standoff — well, for one quarter, anyway.From that, UNM coach Mike Locksley draws both encouragement and f...
September 16th, 2009
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September 15th, 2009
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| ...So much has changed in and around the University of New Mexico football program: new coaching staff. New offensive and defensive schemes. New uniforms. New parking and traffic-flow plans. New End Zone... |
September 13th, 2009
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| ...I never expected to think of Johnny Tapia and Stan McKeever in the same synapse, let alone write about them in the same column. One was the bad-boy fighter from the Wells Park neighborhood, the ... |
September 11th, 2009
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September 10th, 2009
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September 9th, 2009
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| ...If the captain of the Titanic had left the water running in the bathroom of his cabin, would it have mattered?That’s kind of how I feel about a couple of decisions made by Lobos football coach Mike ... |
September 9th, 2009
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...Johnny Tapia will be back in District Court on Wednesday, seeing to avoid being sent to prison for a year as a habitual offender. Tapia 42, a five-time former world boxing champion, has been locked up...
September 7th, 2009
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...COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Note to UNM athletics director Paul Krebs: If you can still stop payment on that new scoreboard with the third digit, do so. Either that, or get the manufacturer ...
September 6th, 2009
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...For a career academic adviser, it was a sobering realization. Graduating University of New Mexico student-athletes were telling Henry Villegas they didn't feel prepared for life and work ...
September 5th, 2009
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...Sometimes, name changes are mere window dressing or bureaucratese. The U.S. Army, for example, insists on calling its little, collapsible shovel/spade an "entrenching tool." That's not th...
September 5th, 2009
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...Was the New Mexico Prep football program an outrageous scam, or a noble experiment gone horribly wrong?Is coach Farasi Norman an unmitigated scoundrel, or a well-meaning innovator who got in far, far ...
September 4th, 2009
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...Annual 26.2-Miler Set for SundayCharles Sayles, a retired nuclear engineer from Glendale, Calif., is a member in good standing of quite an exclusive club.More people, according to data compiled by his...
September 4th, 2009
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...A miracle, as defined by Noah Webster, doesn’t have to involve the divine or supernatural. It also can be just “an extremely remarkable achievement or event,” or “an unexpected piece of luck....
September 4th, 2009
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September 2th, 2009
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| ...Mike Locksley is, by the length of several football fields, the finest extemporaneous speaker of any Lobo football coach I’ve covered. Just ask him the question and get out of the way.If he thinks a... |
September 2th, 2009
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| ...Too small. Too big. Too far away. Too expensive. Not enough money for Holly. Been there, done that. Otherwise unavailable. Mostly, just plain not good enough. That's the dilemma facing promoter Lenny ... |
August 30th, 2009
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August 29th, 2009
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August 28th, 2009
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| ...LAS VEGAS, N.M. — State Sen. Pete Campos, try though he did, couldn’t bring out the news-conference beast in Holly Holm or Terri Blair.Tonight in the ring, though, the two fighters promise to brin... |
August 28th, 2009
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August 27th, 2009
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| ...No, it’s not on The Mtn.Don’t look for it on CBS College Sports.Versus? Nope. Fox Sports Net? Uh-uh. ABC, ESPN? Dream on. The New Mexico Lobos’ football season opener at Texas A&M on Sept. 5, in... |
August 26th, 2009
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August 24th, 2009
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August 23th, 2009
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| ...For the University of New Mexico, the price of Pit progress is about $60 million. For Lobo fans, the price can be summarized in one hyphenated word. Porta-potties.Renovation is hell. All one can do ... |
August 21th, 2009
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| ...Yes, the University of New Mexico football team went 4-8 last year. Yes, the Lobos lost some of their top players — running back Rodney Ferguson, defensive backs Glover Quin and DeAndre Wright, line... |
August 19th, 2009
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August 17th, 2009
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...Rage in the CageSaturday, Aug. 15, Santa Ana Star CasinoPro FightsEdwin Dewees, 205 pounds, Phoenix, def. Eric McElroy, 222, Albuquerque, by submission (rear naked choke), :56 of the first round.Fredd...
August 16th, 2009
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...SANTA ANA PUEBLO -- Albuquerque's Freddy Sandoval Jr. scored a major cagefighting coup Saturday night, devastating UFC veteran Drew Fickett with a knee to the head en route to a victory by first-round...
August 16th, 2009
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| ...Nothing says UNM football tradition like cherry and silver, right? Those "Turquoise Streak" uniforms of the late '70s made for a nice change of pace, but they just didn't shout "Lobos" like that time-... |
August 16th, 2009
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| ...Vince Lombardi called it “running to daylight.” You see an opening, you take it.Wednesday, the UNM athletics department announced some major changes in its plans for football game days, ostensibly... |
August 14th, 2009
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| ...Here’s our first Lobo Jeopardy answer for today: Gwinn Henry, Bob Titchenal and Marv Levy. If your question was “Who are three people who have never been in my kitchen?” you and Cliff Clavin are... |
August 12th, 2009
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... Fighter continues to make strides in his young careerWith rare exceptions, boxing stars aren't born. They're made, step by painstaking step. Friday night in Primm, Nev., Albuquerque's Archie Ray Mar...
August 10th, 2009
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| ...It could be mere coincidence. Certainly, myriad other factors are involved. Nevertheless, it's a fact. It's a fun one, at that. The last time UNM's football team had a solely dedicated quarterbacks c... |
August 9th, 2009
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...The Mountain West Confererence has made it a mission to try and knock down the brick wall that is the Bowl Championship Series. League representatives and advocates have tried to talk their way throug...
August 7th, 2009
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| ...In 2001, longtime assistant Ralph Friedgen first walked the sidelines as head football coach at the University of Maryland. In assembling his staff, he chose to retain a Terrapins assistant named Mike... |
August 7th, 2009
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August 6th, 2009
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...Marty Valdez long will remember March 10, 1992, when he scored a hole-in-one on the par-4, 292-yard third hole at Puerto del Sol.His playing partner that day, though, had a shockingly short memory. Wh...
August 6th, 2009
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... OK, I admit I set myself up for IB Hoover's jab in Sports Speakup with my Sunday columm that featured a mea culpa for omitting Tim Cass from my list of UNM's top coaches in my Friday column -- and l...
August 5th, 2009
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| ...College basketball scheduling, it has been said and written, is an art.If so, neither the Lobo men nor the Lobo women have painted anything you’d want gracing your living room wall in 2009-2010.But,... |
August 5th, 2009
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...Trail Run Has Two New Champions Paul Howarth works for an Albuquerque homeopathic medicine company that distributes an ointment designed to relieve pain from soreness and overuse injuries. Sunda...
August 3th, 2009
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| ...If life truly is a box of chocolates, I was expecting a Whitman's Sampler in reaction to my Friday column. It was that kind of column, I thought, a list of the top 18 University of New Mexico coaches ... |
August 2th, 2009
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...After his sterling career as an offensive tackle at UNM and before he became an assistant football coach at his alma mater, Jason Lenzmeier lost a ton of weight. Now, his loss (by UNM) is New Mexico S...
August 1th, 2009
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...If there are no guarantees in life, that should go double - if not triple - for a 9-mile mountain run with an altitude gain of 4,578 feet. But, does it? In the 21st century, Simon Gutierrez and Rachae...
August 1th, 2009
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...Years ago, when Neil McCarthy was ousted as New Mexico State men's basketball coach and assisgned to administrative duties within the athletic department, he promptly went on sick leave. And stayed th...
July 31th, 2009
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...But First Comes Hurdle Tonight Las Cruces boxer Austin Trout, arrested on burglary charges earlier this month, calls the incident “one big misunderstanding.” If so, it wouldn’t be the firs...
July 31th, 2009
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July 31th, 2009
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July 29th, 2009
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July 13th, 2009
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July 11th, 2009
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July 10th, 2009
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July 10th, 2009
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July 8th, 2009
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July 8th, 2009
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July 7th, 2009
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July 5th, 2009
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July 3th, 2009
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July 2th, 2009
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July 1th, 2009
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June 28th, 2009
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June 26th, 2009
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June 26th, 2009
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June 24th, 2009
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...Joe was smokin’ indeed in the third round, and that likely is why his return to the cage proved a rousing success.Friday night in Kent., Wash., Albuquerque’s Joey “Smokin’ Joe” Villaseñor t...
June 21th, 2009
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...Albuquerque fighter runs record to 8-0, but receives a poundingAfter being judged the winner of a sometimes brutal mixed-martial-arts fight, Albuquerque’s Lenny Lovato was brutally honest.“I didn...
June 21th, 2009
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...A puff of white smoke has finally been sighted above Chavez Ravine. Manny Ramirez, as reported Saturday evening by The Associated Press, indeed is coming to Isotopes Park. “Manny has agreed to go t...
June 21th, 2009
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...Just as the race is not always to the swift, the fight is not always to the muscular.Albuquerque’s Lenny Lovato, using his superior wrestling skills to score key takedowns, took a victory by unanimo...
June 20th, 2009
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... As a teenager growing up in Socorro, Felipe Chavez aspired to be the next Sugar Shane Mosley or Oscar De La Hoya. He trained as a boxer in his hometown under the tutelage of Jerry and Victor Saavedr...
June 19th, 2009
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...Chavez looks to follow path of his new idol — Diego SanchezAs a teenager growing up in Socorro, Felipe Chavez aspired to be the next Sugar Shane Mosley or Oscar De La Hoya.He trained as a boxer in h...
June 19th, 2009
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...Maybe you know the feeling.Every now and again, the Internet chatter and the water-cooler conversation become too much. Finally, you just have to say, “Enough! You people are so far off base, my gre...
June 19th, 2009
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June 17th, 2009
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June 17th, 2009
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June 14th, 2009
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June 12th, 2009
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... I doubt that any Lobo fans felt sorry for the Brigham Young Cougars when they lost to their not-so-friendly neighbors, the Utah Utes, in football last season.But, if you did, you surely won't af...
June 10th, 2009
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June 10th, 2009
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| ...For lack of a good cover story, was a quarterback lost?On the afternoon of April 24, a man identifying himself as Anthony Yeastraiv was pulled over for speeding on San Pedro. He was in fact Emmanuel Y... |
June 10th, 2009
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...ACOMA - As always with Joaquin Zamora, it all started with the jab. But, Saturday night at Sky City Casino, Zamora finished Arizonan Joshua Renteria with power punches galore. Zamora, a southwestern ...
June 7th, 2009
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| ...Isaiah Rusher, guarded by Los Alamos senior-to-be Alex Kirk, emphatically calls for the ball in the low post. The entry pass is made. Rusher starts to back in, looking to score, but notices the player... |
June 7th, 2009
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June 6th, 2009
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...Joaquin Zamora is 50 percent frustrated, 50 percent patient and 100 percent determined. If 200 percent is what it takes to realize his professional boxing goals, that's what he's prepared to giv...
June 6th, 2009
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June 5th, 2009
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| ...The Crespins of Las Vegas, N.M., have miles to go this weekend before they sleep.That is, if they get any sleep at all. Saturday night, Arturo “Tudy” Crespin will fight Albuquerque’s Carlos Sanc... |
June 5th, 2009
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June 4th, 2009
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| ...I’d call it an affliction, except that it’s really a self-affliction.No one told me I had to become a Cleveland Indians fan; no one told me I had to remain a Tribe fan year after mind-numbing year... |
June 3th, 2009
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...Danny Romero hasn’t fought in almost three years; Johnny Tapia is 42 years old. The two former world champions have left a void in New Mexico men’s professional boxing that many are eager to fill....
June 2th, 2009
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| ...One point; one measly, itty-bitty point. That's all that separated the 2008-09 UNM men's basketball team from a perfect score in the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate. For a program that has lived below ... |
May 31th, 2009
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...Mano Otero had just scored a reversal against Jerome Martinez, and things looked pretty good for the Peralta mixed-martial-arts fighter. Or so it seemed. Then, Martinez, on his back, hooked his right ...
May 31th, 2009
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...Try this name on for size: Disnelis Leguen. That's a mouthful, says cagefighting promoter Wes Short, that New Mexico MMA fans might be pronouncing a lot in the months and years to come. Short, who's ...
May 30th, 2009
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...Tired of boxing matches falling through, Lovato gives MMA a chanceMonica Lovato’s in love with boxing, but it keeps breaking dates with her.So, she’s seeing somebody else — or, better said, some...
May 29th, 2009
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| ...When track-and-field workouts began early this year, Highland coach Gary Sanchez knew he’d have plenty of points coming from returning stars Rolando Trammel, Derek Montoya and Zach Doran.The Hornets... |
May 29th, 2009
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...Was one of players involved in academic fraud scandal at NMSULouis Richardson, a prolific scorer whose statistics were stricken from the New Mexico State record book in the wake of an academic scandal...
May 28th, 2009
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May 28th, 2009
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May 27th, 2009
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| ...Here's a feel-good story even the most ardent Lobo fan and Aggie hater should appreciate: William Benjamin is the new boys head basketball coach at Las Cruces High School. Regardless of one's allegian... |
May 24th, 2009
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| ...Warning: This column contains multiple references to Johnny Tapia. If you’re one of those people who break into hives at the mention of his name, or if you’re afraid you’ll spray your latte all ... |
May 22th, 2009
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... Recently, UNM athletics director Paul Krebs announced that each of the school's ahletic program's will be required to cut some 10 percent from their operational budgets. But Krebs took pains to ...
May 21th, 2009
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May 21th, 2009
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| ...Playing catch-up (hey, it works pretty well for Mine That Bird):As I watched Emmanuel Yeager play quarterback during UNM’s football spring practice, I found myself thinking of Graham Leigh. And Dona... |
May 20th, 2009
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May 13th, 2009
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...Ex-Monarch Dedicated To His New SportDerek Whitlow pulls a lot of weight at NASA, but he’s neither an engineer nor an astronaut.The NASA in question is the Natural Athlete Strength Association, and ...
May 12th, 2009
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| ...When I watch Nate Garth play point guard for the Lobos and think I see a bit of Petie Gibson in him, I'm paying Garth the highest of compliments. Gibson, the 5-foot-7 dervish who played the point for ... |
May 10th, 2009
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...Albuquerque will host the 2010 and 2011 NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships, it was announced. Chris Day, sports information director at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colo., said the...
May 10th, 2009
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| ...An open letter to Mine That Bird:First of all, Mine (I hope we can be on a first-name basis), I realize you won’t be able to read this — being only 3 years old and all. Still, I’m hoping one of ... |
May 8th, 2009
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... Three members of the powerful Astana cycling team, including the incomparable Lance Armstrong, swept through New Mexico last week. They arrived at stages of the Tour of the Gila in a luxury bus ...
May 6th, 2009
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| ...As athletes and fans, certain things we all expect.Our teams will give their all, win or lose. Our fans will support their team, win or lose. The soft drinks at the concession stand will be cold, the ... |
May 6th, 2009
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...Roger Staubach ... Chad Hennings ... Napoleon McCallum ...Travis Dekker?Yes, it just might happen. Dekker, the La Cueva graduate who excelled as a tight end at the Air Force Academy, was in rookie-ori...
May 5th, 2009
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May 4th, 2009
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| ...Lightning struck twice Saturday afternoon at the UNM track and field stadium. Can it strike twice for the Lobo track and field program? If Joe Franklin didn't think so, he wouldn't be in Albuquerque... |
May 3th, 2009
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...The march for the penguins continues.Proceeds from the 24th annual Run for the Zoo, scheduled for Sunday, will help fund construction of the Rio Grande Zoo’s penguin exhibit. Judy Civerolo, special ...
May 1th, 2009
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May 1th, 2009
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| ...Remember when the TV tail didn’t wag the college athletics dog?If so, you probably also remember Jack Benny, Hula Hoops and one-shot fouls in basketball. For better or for worse, there’s no going ... |
April 29th, 2009
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April 29th, 2009
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... Rocky Long had his critics during his 11-year stint as UNM's head football coach. Few if any of those, however, ever questioned his status as one of the college game's most creative defensive mi...
April 27th, 2009
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| ...I don't know if Craig Thompson ever sings karaoke, but, if he does, "The Impossible Dream" could be his signature song. Some windmills just need tilting at, no matter how long the odds against bringin... |
April 26th, 2009
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April 25th, 2009
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| ...Cherry and Silver leftovers:UNM’s offense and defense battled to a near-stalemate during spring football practice, culminating with a rousingly competitive Cherry-Silver scrimmage last Saturday. Tha... |
April 24th, 2009
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April 24th, 2009
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...This much is certain; the Dallas Cowboys' offense needs fixing. I've been thinking in terms of a more creative Jason Garrett, a more disciplined Tony Romo, a healthy Felix Jones and better chemistry w...
April 22th, 2009
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| ...Regarding those UNM athletics budget cuts, four things give momentary and cynical pause.Didn’t Vice President for Athletics Paul Krebs, who’s directing the people under his supervision to cut some... |
April 22th, 2009
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...Team travel will be the area most affected by cutsThe University of New Mexico athletics department plans to cut its sports and administrative operating budgets by 10 percent in the coming fiscal year...
April 21th, 2009
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| ..."It Happens Every Spring" isn't just a movie starring Jean Peters and Ray Milland. The 2009 re-make, starring first-year coach UNM football coach Mike Locksley, had a happy ending Saturday at Un... |
April 19th, 2009
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| ...The game could be baseball or fast-pitch; the venue could be Yankee Stadium or a sandlot. But anyone who’s ever stepped to the plate with bat in hand knows what the New Mexico Lobos will be feeling... |
April 17th, 2009
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| ...Welcome to the inaugural “RICKYs,” an awards show designed to supplement, not to scoop, tonight’s Lobo men’s basketball awards banquet. UNM’s banquet is great, but there just aren’t en... |
April 15th, 2009
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April 15th, 2009
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| ...During the all-too-brief time between plays, the telltale signs of fatigue were there. Heavy breathing; hands on hips; hands on knees; one knee on the ground.If any member of the Lobo football team sh... |
April 12th, 2009
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...Forget, for now, talk of Johnny Tapia returning to the ring next month and appearing on the cable reality show Celebrity Rehab.He has to get out of prison first.Tapia will not be released today from t...
April 11th, 2009
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| ...And Curtis Beach makes 10. At least.Here’s a topic I’ve been meaning to get to for a while now, since long before Joe Franklin replaced Matt Henry as head cross country/track and field coach at UN... |
April 10th, 2009
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... The nugget buried in this linked-to San Diego Union-Tribune profile on new San Diego State football coach Brady Hoke is the question of which school, SDSU or UNM, made the better choice in hirin...
April 8th, 2009
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April 8th, 2009
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| ...This isn't your Mumme's spread offense. All spread options considered, that's probably a good thing. Saturday, the UNM football team scrimmaged for two hours at its Indoor Practice Facility. The Lobo... |
April 5th, 2009
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| ...Ritchie McKay’s jump this week from head coach to assistant was, by his own admission, a curious one. Some of the reasons are obvious; others, the former UNM men’s basketball coach is keeping to h... |
April 3th, 2009
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| ...Flanagan Proud of 25-Win Lobo Women's Basketball Team For a coach, expectations are the most dangerous game.It’s not how many games you win; it’s how many you win vs. how many you were expect... |
April 1th, 2009
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March 31th, 2009
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...What happened in Vegas, Amy Beggin left there. And, Friday night at the Santa Ana Star Center, the UNM women's basketball team found a cure for that lingering case of crunch-time-aphobia. What awaits...
March 29th, 2009
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...USA Today’s MMA rankings feature five with Duke City tiesHere’s one more sign that mixed martial arts is no fad — in New Mexico or elsewhere.USA Today, in tandem with the sports-blog network SB ...
March 27th, 2009
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| ...Eleven years ago almost to the day, I wrote a column about then-University of New Mexico football offensive coordinator Jim Fenwick and his plans to run some no-huddle offense in 1998.“The Huddle,... |
March 27th, 2009
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| ...History strongly suggests the Sweet Sixteen is as far as the fourth-seeded Vanderbilt Commodores will go. But maybe they can make some history of their own. In either case, the Commodores’ energetic... |
March 24th, 2009
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| ...One's a forward; the other's a point guard. One's an ignition switch; the other's a destination. Yet, despite their obvious dissimilarities, the matchup - or maybe that should be non-matchup - betwee... |
March 23th, 2009
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...Shalee Lehning just missed an unorthodox double-double, yet it was a singularly good night for her and the Kansas State Wildcats. Lehning, a 5-foot-9 senior point guard, grabbed nine rebounds and had ...
March 22th, 2009
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| ...Now, about that unconscionable slight the Men's NCAA Tournament Selection Committee dealt the Mountain West Conference a week ago: Well ... uh ... er ... Oops. In hindsight, the only application of... |
March 22th, 2009
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...Point guard gives Big 12 team assists, scoring and plenty of rebounding If you go to the Pit tonight and order a bag of popcorn at the NCAA women's basketball tournament, don't be terribly surpri...
March 21th, 2009
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...Drexel's Marginean excels in tennis, and for women's basketball team Two-sport college athletes are a rarity these days. But even if Drexel's Gabriela Marginean played only basketball, and not te...
March 21th, 2009
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| ...It might be the NCAA champion of symbiotic relationships. If not, it's certainly in the final four. Since the University of New Mexico and the NCAA women's basketball tournament first got togeth... |
March 21th, 2009
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| ...Finally, here’s a test case. The result may not prove my Vegas alternate-site theory, but it could bolster it — or poke a hole in it. As announced Wednesday after the Lobo women’s first-round WN... |
March 20th, 2009
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| ...In the end, it was all the same. Tuesday’s was the result Lobo fans have come to expect from Steve Alford-coached teams in the Pit: a victory.But along the way, for better and for worse, New Mexico... |
March 18th, 2009
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...The wrestler was a big hit - and delivered one, too. Mike Barreras, dominating physically throughout, caught Ryan Barlow with a big right hand and finished him with strikes on the ground to win the ma...
March 16th, 2009
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...When March Madness turns melancholy, there's only one cure. Shock therapy. No, no, Lobo fans, I'm kidding - just trying to lighten the moment. Didn't help? Sorry. In truth, the short-term cure you s...
March 15th, 2009
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...Ryan Barlow vs. Mike Barreras: it's been gathering like an electrical storm, brewing like an industrial-strength cup of coffee. Tonight, it's here. Barreras and Barlow, Albuquerque mixed-martial-arts ...
March 14th, 2009
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...Is Johnny Tapia threatened with prison time because of who he is, or has he avoided such a fate thus far for that very same reason? On Friday, with the state of New Mexico and legal counsel for the fi...
March 14th, 2009
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| ...Tomorrow’s Lobos? Maybe, but probably not.Tomorrow’s doctors, lawyers, architects, teachers, coaches? No doubt.The leadership and cooperative skills learned in high school athletics, and carried o... |
March 13th, 2009
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March 12th, 2009
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| ...One more win, and are the Lobos in? UNM coach Steve Alford thinks they already are an NCAA Tournament team, or should be.I think so, too. A regular-season conference title, even if shared, is far bett... |
March 11th, 2009
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...Austin “No Doubt” Trout’s nickname is exactly what he intends to leave in a Mexico boxing ring Saturday night.Trout, an unbeaten junior middleweight from Las Cruces, is scheduled to face Venezue...
March 10th, 2009
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| ...The New Mexico Lobos' final shot of the game on Saturday, a short jumper by sophomore guard Amanda Best, rolled around the rim for what seemed like a couple of eons before finally nestling into the tw... |
March 8th, 2009
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| ...Upon the ashes of a massive meltdown in Cancun and a defensive disaster in Lubbock, a memorable season was built.That’s why Steve Alford would get my vote for Mountain West Conference Coach of the Y... |
March 6th, 2009
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...If his present situation weren’t troubling enough, Johnny Tapia’s past may be catching up with him — with a vengeance.A 1995 conviction for aggravated assault, coupled with his cocaine-related p...
March 5th, 2009
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| ...The ballots haven’t even been cast yet, but I demand a recount anyway.If there’s a better player in the Mountain West Conference than New Mexico’s Tony Danridge, that player wasn’t wearing Uta... |
March 4th, 2009
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| ...Hard to figure, this New Mexico women's basketball team. At times, they look like one of the better teams coach Don Flanagan has had in his 14 years at UNM. At times, they look like one of his worst. ... |
March 1th, 2009
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...A New Mexico senate bill that would ban mixed martial arts, said the chairman of the New Mexico Athletic Commission, wouldn't succeed even if passed. It would only drive the sport undergr...
March 1th, 2009
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February 27th, 2009
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...Stan Gallup pulled no punches with those Golden Gloves of his.For that and many other reasons, said Albuquerque’s John Van Sickler, the sport of boxing owes his close friend a huge debt.Gallup, the ...
February 26th, 2009
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| ...The great Ray Stevens, who gave us such unforgettable chart-busters as "The Streak," "Gitarzan," "Mr. Businessman" and "I Need Your Help, Barry Manilow," also assured us musically that everything is b... |
February 25th, 2009
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| ...Identifying the turning point of a 26-point blowout is like trying to single out Meryl Streep's best performance, Michael Jordan's best game or David Letterman's best Top-Ten list.There are so many op... |
February 22th, 2009
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...Submitted for the approval of some 2,700 noisy mixed-martial-arts fans late Friday night at the Albuquerque Convention Center: the strength, relentlessness and cagefighting skills of cousins Lenny and...
February 22th, 2009
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| ... He was taller than life. Paul Kruse came to Albuquerque from his family's Wyoming ranch in 1970, much-ballyhooed as the University of New Mexico's tallest basketball recruit of all time at a tow... |
February 20th, 2009
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... Cagefighting, like life, is about learning from one's mistakes and applying the lessons therein. Nobody wins 'em all, so you just try to win the next one. Adam Oakey and Mano Otero are not heroes. I...
February 19th, 2009
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| ...After this one, Brigham Young women’s basketball coach Jeff Judkins might have entertained thoughts of making his players walk back to Provo, Utah. Heck, after committing nine traveling violations a... |
February 18th, 2009
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... The Las Vegas Sun, longtime competitor for southern Nevadans' readership with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, almost folded and was saved by basically becoming sort of an alternative paper within ...
February 3th, 2009
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... So, what exactly did Wyoming men's basketball coach Heath Schroyer say to get himself reprimanded by the Mountain West Conference? Did he have another run-in with Utah coach Jim Boylen, as he di...
January 9th, 2009
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... Oh, those negative sports writers. Just as former Lobo head coach Rocky Long gets hired as new San Diego State head man Brady Hoke's defensive coordinator, San Diego Union-Tribune scribe Mark Ze...
January 6th, 2009
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... Remember Beas Hamga, the 7-footer from Cameroon who committed to Iowa when Steve Alford was still the coach there? If so, then you also remember that Hamga de-committed from Iowa but did not fol...
December 12th, 2008
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... He's baaaaaack -- well, not yet, but soon.San Diego State men's basketball star Lorrenzo Wade has been cleared of burglary charges, and SDSU coach Steve Fisher has already said the multi-talente...
December 5th, 2008
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... Rocky Long, who resigned as Lobo head football coach last week, won't be unemployed next season unless he wants to be. But could we really see him on University Stadium's east sideline when the ...
November 26th, 2008
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...Even for a hard-core Broncos fan (which I'm not), this is a tough one. Come to think of it, it might be even tougher for a hard-core Broncos fan.The Rocky Mountain News in Denver wants to determine wh...
November 22th, 2008
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... On Nov. 1, as Utah played New Mexico in football at University Stadium, Utah sports-information employees screamed with delight -- not because the Utes were beating the Lobos (which they did), b...
November 21th, 2008
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... In August, I was happy to note that San Diego State University and the city of San Diego had apparently come to a meeting of the minds regarding the Aztecs' continued use of Qualcomm Stadium.Now...
November 15th, 2008
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... The NBA Development League's training camp rosters, following the completion of Friday's draft, aren't exactly a basketball who's who. Yet, the D-League's 16 rosters are dotted with names that w...
November 8th, 2008
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... These are tough times on Montezuma Mesa, and they might be getting tougher.As if losing football games to Cal Poly and to New Mexico by 63 points wasn't bad enough, it appears San Diego State mi...
November 6th, 2008
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...However much Ed Hochuli makes as an NFL referee, it's not enough.Sunday, in a game between the San Diego Chargers and the Denver Broncos, Hochuli made an error that the game's rules did not al...
September 17th, 2008
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...Is that Tony Romo a super guy, or what? Just ask Bill and Sharon White of Irving, Texas, who were rescued from late-night car trouble by the Cowboys quarterback some six hours ...
September 11th, 2008
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...The time was the late '80s, and UTEP men's basketball coach Don Haskins was complaining that he wasn't getting the same quality of players since ace recruiter Tim Floyd left for the head c...
September 10th, 2008
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...Welcome to Spa Froggie, where TCU football players can relax, dine, study, watch one of 32 flat-screen TVs, and apparently (since there are six suites) stay the night in luxurious comfort.This is what...
August 22th, 2008
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August 21th, 2008
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...We all need someone who's sympathetic to our situation, whether that person is a spouse, a friend, a bartender, a psychologist or an ESPN.com correspondent. Graham Watson, a former St. Louis Post-...
July 24th, 2008
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...For several years now, there has existed the nagging concern that the San Diego State football program might cease to exist if and when the San Diego Chargers left Qualcomm Stadium. An agreement being...
July 23th, 2008
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...Wednesday was anything but a slow news day in the Mountain West Conference extended.In San Diego, it was revealed that the San Diego State football program is getting whacked to the tune of six ...
March 27th, 2008
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...More on Lobo men's basketball signee Curtis Dennis, who's tearing it up with a Las Vegas-area prep school. And, as a bonus, note the story on former UNLV baskeball star Kaspars Kambala, who...
March 7th, 2008
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...On the heels of the No-Call at the Pit comes the Call at Pauley.Thursday night, UCLA rallied to beat Stanford in overtime -- thanks, in part, to a controversial call at the end of regulation.On ...
March 7th, 2008
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...The Clovis News-Journal reported Thursday that former Clovis Wildcat, New Mexico Lobo and current Philadelphia Eagle Hank Baskett III plans to teach a sociology of sport class at Clovis Community Coll...
March 6th, 2008
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...Curtis Dennis, a 6-5 guard from New York who's headed to UNM next fall via Findlay College Prep in Las Vegas, Nev., had a big night Tuesday in his native city. He scored 17 points for Findlay in a...
March 5th, 2008
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...As noted by Las Vegas Sun sports columnist Ron Kantowski, we all did things in our youth that we're not proud of. I'm guessing, though, his suggestion that UNLV give a football sch...
February 15th, 2008
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...College athletes get kicked off their teams and out of their schools for all kinds of reasons. Poor church attendance isn't usually one of them. In the case of BYU baseball player Kent Walton, tha...
February 8th, 2008
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...Lobo men's basketball fans will, no doubt, be interested in San Diego State's acquisition of Illinois signee Quinton Watkins. What I find truly interesting in the attached San Diego Union-Trib...
January 26th, 2008
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...One of the few recruiting setbacks Steve Alford has experienced at UNM was 7-foot center Beas Hamga's decision not to follow him to New Mexico after having committed to him at Iowa. After be...
January 25th, 2008
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...Sure, it could have happened anywhere to anyone. But, in fact, it happened to two University of Utah football players and a Utes recruit.Saturday's violent attack in Salt Lake City is comple...
January 23th, 2008
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...A lot of Ritchie McKay's signees at the University of New Mexico didn't pan out, which is one reason McKay didn't, either.Then again ... McKay's successor at UNM, Steve Alford, is 14-4...
January 18th, 2008
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...OK, so much for BYU and the eight dwarfs.UNLV's demolition of the Cougars in Vegas Tuesday night clearly suggests that the Mountain West Conference men's basketball race is wide open -- ...
January 16th, 2008
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...Some Colorado State athletics boosters, it seems, need to decide whether they're CSU fans or Sonny Lubick fans.Anger about the ouster of Lubick, the long-successful and much-admired Rams football...
December 7th, 2007
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...In the attached Deseret Morning News story, first-year Utah men's basketball coach Jim Boylen said he wasn't impressed with 7-foot, 1-inch Utes center Luke Nevill's 20 points and 14 reboun...
December 6th, 2007
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...I've been getting a little flak on one of the Lobo Web-site message boards for an earlier column in which I expressed the opinion that new Colorado State men's basketball coach Tim Miles...
November 21th, 2007
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...One of the big national sports stories this week is the cut block Miami quarterback Trent Green threw during last Sunday's game against Houston. Green, despite suffering a concussion on the play, ...
October 10th, 2007
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...Arizona Republic sports columnist Paola Boivin says the lousy attendance at US Airways Center in Phoenix for the WNBA championship series "Kills me." She goes on to use the words "...
September 12th, 2007
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...In my previous blog item, I wondered why Daniel Santiago hadn't played for Puerto Rico in the recent FIBA Americas championships in Las Vegas, Nev.Thanks to the marvels of cyberspace, the answer w...
September 5th, 2007
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...Elias "Larry" Ayuso's international identity is that of a star for the Puerto Rican national basketball team and as a former basketball star at the University of Southern Californi...
September 5th, 2007
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...Kim Carver, general manager of The Mtn., has joined Mountain West Conference Commissioner Craig Thompson in taking the gloves off in the fight to get their all-MWC network on&nb...
August 31th, 2007
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...Lightning might not strike in the same place twice, but once can be one time too many -- when you're trying to prepare a football team for a game. Tuesday,an electrical storm forced the Colo...
August 29th, 2007
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...New Lobo men's basketball coach Steve Alford and his staff have been working to close the size gap in the Mountain West Conference. Those efforts got an unexpected boost last weekend w...
August 29th, 2007
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...As if NBA game officials didn't take enough abuse, now there's Tim Donaghy.Some 40 NBA officials met in Los Angeles last weekend. It was an already scheduled event that probably had an a...
August 29th, 2007
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...No, not that Rocky -- though Lobo football coach Rocky Long's road this season might be more than a little bumpy if sophomore quarterback Donovan Porterie 's performance in Saturday's scri...
August 22th, 2007
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...To be honest, I'd written off ex-Lobo DonTrell Moore's chances of making the NFL. Far more important, however, Moore hasn't written himself off.And though it doesn't appear the Tenness...
August 11th, 2007
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...One might say UNLV men's basketball coach Lon Kruger is a lucky man, to have discovered heart problems in time to have them corrected (and his life saved) by open-heart surgery .One also might say...
August 9th, 2007
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...On an average day, finding a TCU sports story on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Web site is like finding a cat at a dog show. The Horned Frogs just have too much competition from the pro teams in ...
August 3th, 2007
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...If anyone thinks UNM has a patent on player misbehavior, think again. Now, it's UTEP and coach Mike Price who are having to deal with a major embarrassment.All a coach can do, really, is try to re...
July 24th, 2007
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...For those of you who read the Journal's reports before the recent Triple-A All-Star game, noted the name of Scranton-Wilkes-Barre's Shelley Duncan and asked "Who's she?" here'...
July 23th, 2007
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...My colleague Mark Smith once met Sacramento Kings star Ron Artest while in Sac doing a story on the Maloof brothers. Great guy, Mark said. Charming, engaging, all those things. Terrific basketball pla...
July 18th, 2007
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...Linked here is an interesting column by the Denver Post's Mark Kiszla about Jay Cutler, the latest Doug DeCinces to John Elway's Brooks Robinson with the Denver Broncos. Kiszla thinks Cu...
July 10th, 2007
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...For new Sacramento Kings head coach Reggie Theus, formerly the men's coach at New Mexico State, there's good news and bad news this morning.The good news: the immensely talented Ron Artest&nbs...
July 10th, 2007
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...Feel free to read this linked-to column by Las Vegas Review-Journal sports editor Joe Hawk in its entirety. Know, however, that the truly exciting news therein is that professonal eating legend Takeru...
July 3th, 2007
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...OK, so New Mexico State University messed up a contract and let men's basketball coach Reggie Theus jump to the NBA's Sacramento Kings without having to pay a $55...
June 28th, 2007
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...First off, let's forgive Sacramento Bee sports columnist Marcos Breton for the gratuitous shot he takes at Las Cruces in the attached column. Let's acknowledge that his criticism of Sacramento...
June 22th, 2007
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...Judging from the attached reactions to the Reggie Theus-hiring story in the Sacramento Bee , not everyone in Cowtown (that's not a pejorative; Sacramento residents use it themselves) is happ...
June 20th, 2007
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