... 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 at...
...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...
...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...
...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...
... "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...
... 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...
...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...
... 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...
...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...
... 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...
...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...
... 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...
... 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...
...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 ...
...‘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...
... 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...
... 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...
...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...
...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,...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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 ...
...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...
...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...
...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-...
...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 ...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...Just what is it that Lobo football coaches have against running backs named Wright? Saturday night, in UNM's 37-13 loss to Air Force at University Stadium, sophomore James Wright scored touchdowns on ...
... 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...
...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...
...Gomez Goes From the Air Force to the Boxing WorldJust months after his discharge from the United States Air Force, Joshua Gomez finds himself back in basic training.Danny Romero, he says, is one tough...
...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...
Friday, August 28, 2009 Las Vegas, N.M., Native Returns to Site of Previous Big Victory By Rick Wright Journal Staff Writer Frankie Archuleta isn't just fighting in his hometown tonight. He's fighting at the site of his sweetest moment in boxing. How sweet will the return be? That ... full story
Thursday, August 27, 2009 Brother and Sister Boxers Will Appear on Same Card for an Event at NMHU's Wilson Complex By Rick Wright Journal Staff Writer LAS VEGAS, N.M. - Arturo and Amanda Crespin, brother and sister, are pretty much your average college students. Well, except for ... full story
Thursday, April 30, 2009 Champion Cyclist Takes Spotlight in Tour of Gila By Rick Wright Journal Staff Writer SILVER CITY - Chances are, Tiger Woods will never visit the southwest New Mexico villages of Cliff and Glenwood. LeBron James? Probably not. Tom Brady, Peyton Manning? Unlikely ... full story
Thursday, April 16, 2009 N.M. Marathon to team with trainer By Rick Wright Journal Staff Writer The Jeff Galloway Training Program, founded, owned and operated by one of the nation's leading authorities on distance running, will come to Albuquerque beginning Sunday. Galloway, a 1972 United ... full story
Thursday, April 02, 2009 'Celebrity Rehab' in Tapia Plans By Rick Wright Journal Staff Writer Coming soon to a reality TV show, a drug-rehabilitation center, a boxing ring and a prison near you: Johnny Tapia. Tapia, a five-time world boxing champion from Albuquerque, on Wednesday was sentenced ... full story
Wednesday, March 04, 2009 Utes Don't Have Answer for Danridge By Rick Wright Of the Journal 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 Utah red ... full story
Sunday, February 15, 2009 Good to Great in a Flash By Rick Wright Of the Journal Danny Granger, Zen master? Not as far as I know. Still, if that were true, it might explain the almost explicable: how Granger, the former Lobo and the current Indiana Pacer, has gone from marginal NBA ... full story
Saturday, February 14, 2009 Page Looks To Leave His Mark By Rick Wright Journal Staff Writer For Damacio Page, mixed-martial-arts fighter, tattoo artist and community activist, life is all about making an imprint. On March 1 in Corpus Christi, Texas, the West Mesa graduate will attempt ... full story
Friday, February 13, 2009 Flanagan's Results Quite Remarkable By Rick Wright Of the Journal Memo to Don Flanagan, who on Wednesday won his 300th game as UNM's women's basketball coach: Congratulations. What took you so long? I'm kidding, of course. Then again, I ... full story
It's a century-old miscarriage of justice that still haunts anyone who knows of it, and will surely disturb viewers introduced to this tragedy in "The People v. Leo Frank," a powerful retelling that premieres Monday on PBS at 10 p.m. EDT.
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