... Ya seen one basketball game, ya seen 'em all. Don't tell that to Amadeo and Patricia Otero. The Oteros have seen them all. Well, almost all, since their marriage in 1968. Every year durin...
March 13th, 2010
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March 11th, 2010
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Talking to Richard Martinez is a little like conversing in a cave.
Hello, Coach.
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March 10th, 2010
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"I miss it. I want to be back with my girls."
Suspended University of New Mexico soccer player Elizabeth Lambert, the center of a controversy in November that made national news, was the center ... |
March 6th, 2010
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I was 12 years old when I attended my first indoor track meet, my last until this past weekend.
Previously I had gone to an event at New York City's Madison Square Garden, the old Garden, on 5... |
March 2th, 2010
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Kid beats two old ladies.
In screenplay writing, that's the story pitch in five words.
In race walking, that was the story of the women's 3,000 meters on Sunday at the USA Indoor Track & ... |
March 1th, 2010
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... Welcome to Track City. That pounding you'll hear coming from the Albuquerque Convention Center today and Sunday is not from construction workers hitting spikes. It's from elite athletes wea...
February 27th, 2010
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...See Kendall jump. See Kendall run. See Kendall excel at both.
Kendall Spencer, a true freshman at the University of New Mexico, was not expected to do big things this year. He didn't take...
February 27th, 2010
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When Victoria Martinez was little, her family called her Slowpoke Rodriguez, after the cartoon mouse, a cousin to the immortal Speedy Gonzales.
"It would take her forever to clean her room," sa... |
February 26th, 2010
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He's played soccer in this state, he's fished its waters and this weekend he'll run footraces here.
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February 25th, 2010
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Lee Emanuel likes to run the mile.
Seems every time the University of New Mexico student-athlete from England covers that distance, it's um, a milestone.
The first time he stepped on a ... |
February 23th, 2010
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...Race Has History, Tradition, Records
Long before Lee Emanuel ran onto the scene, Englishmen fancied the mile.
The distance and Merry Olde became forever bound on a mild May afternoon in ...
February 23th, 2010
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...Mount Taylor is wearing a wide-brimmed white hat.
That fact cheers the organizers of the 27th Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon, to be held Saturday in Grants.
"Conditions are spectacular," assistan...
February 9th, 2010
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The first time Malin Hemmingsson glimpsed a photograph of New Mexico she thought, Oh, I could never go to school there. It's all brown...
February 5th, 2010
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...The University of New Mexico ski team has earned numerous honors.
What it hasn't always received is respect.
"We could definitely get more," says head coach Fredrik Landstedt. "But you live w...
February 5th, 2010
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... Star recruit from Georgia making himself at home at New MexicoIt’s not often that the University of New Mexico men’s tennis team gets a nationally ranked player directly out of high school. UNM,...
January 22th, 2010
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December 22th, 2009
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...Honor Students Kick the Ball, Hit the BooksWho says jocks are dumber than dirt? Three University of New Mexico student-athletes, soccer standouts all, recently scored individual national honors for ab...
December 18th, 2009
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...Two players for the Lobo men’s soccer team lay lifeless on the cold yellow grass. Fans, who had stomped on metal seats and cheered in 40-degree weather, now milled toward the exits in silence, a loo...
November 20th, 2009
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...For the seventh time in the past nine years the University of New Mexico men’s soccer team will be in the Big Dance. This time the Lobos will be cutting a rug — or real grass, in this case — on ...
November 19th, 2009
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...If you follow tennis at all, you’ve likely seen a memorable match or two on television. My favorite? Not McEnroe-Borg, Wimbledon 1980. Not Federer-Nadal, Wimbledon 2008. For me it’s Andre Agassi-A...
November 17th, 2009
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...Hutchison Played Pro BasketballWoodrow Hutchison, considered to be the first professional basketball player to come from New Mexico, one of the state’s best all-around athletes and a survivor of a B...
November 10th, 2009
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...Cow Pasture is on a par with no other tournament TATUM — To lots of folks in this dirt-under-the-fingernails crossroads, with its blinking stoplight and unwavering work ethic, golf is a game bes...
October 13th, 2009
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...Tanoan Club Takes National USTA TitleThey’re already calling it the Thriller in the Desert. On Sunday, five Albuquerque women, all 5.0-rated tennis players, won a national team title at Indian Wells...
October 6th, 2009
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...University of New Mexico soccer fans surely will get their kicks today. Both the men's and women's teams, each experiencing fine seasons, are at home tonight in a twin bill, beginning at ...
October 3th, 2009
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...UNM Apologizes, Has Ads Toned Down After ComplaintsAnd all along we thought that Lobo Louie was a one-gal guy. Until last Thursday, two 30-second commercial messages featuring Louie Lobo, the Universi...
September 29th, 2009
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... John McEnroe often found motivation in blowing up at line calls. On Sunday at the ColemanVision Tennis Championships, Barbora Zahlavova Strycova blew a match as she repeatedly screeched at alleged ba...
September 28th, 2009
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...The longest two weeks of Ani Mijacika's short life ended Saturday afternoon with a thud. The 22-year-old Croatian, who overcame great odds when she showed up at the ColemanVision Tennis ...
September 27th, 2009
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...Did Ah-nee win? Did Ah-nee win? What time does Ah-nee play? What court is Ah-nee on? Ah-nee, of course, is Ani Mijacika. She's the stoic belter from the Balkans, the frequent flier from Cro...
September 26th, 2009
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...Mijacika advances as No. 1 seed falls illIt was a day for the ages Thursday at the ColemanVision Tennis Championships.On the Stadium court at Tanoan Country Club, beneath a radiant afternoon sun, An...
September 25th, 2009
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September 24th, 2009
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...She Won Two Girls Titles at WimbledonSurely no other player at the ColemanVision Tennis Championships has more of a name to put the brakes on than Thailand’s Noppawan Lertcheewakarn. For starters, t...
September 23th, 2009
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September 22th, 2009
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September 20th, 2009
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September 19th, 2009
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September 17th, 2009
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... The ColemanVision Tennis Championships kicks off Sunday with matches, clinics and a pro-am fun and games. One of the perks of opening day is free admission.The $75,000 USTA Pro Circuit women’s...
September 16th, 2009
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 | ...Linda Estes was a tireless supporter of UNM athleticsLinda Estes taught herself tennis by banging a ball against an Albuquerque garage door and then, periodically, chasing the return into the street.... |
September 15th, 2009
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September 12th, 2009
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September 11th, 2009
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September 11th, 2009
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September 7th, 2009
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...For Dominique Romero, patience is an old friend - and a sometime enemy. The Job-like University of New Mexico junior midfielder has been around the Lobos men's soccer program for four sea...
September 5th, 2009
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September 1th, 2009
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...USTA Pro Circuit Event Thankful For SponsorEntering its 12th year of existence, Albuquerque’s ColemanVision Tennis Championships not only is a venerable USTA Pro Circuit franchise, but it’s the ...
August 25th, 2009
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| ...Imagine a tennis event promoted by a fast-talking soap salesman whose only experience in the sport was a phys ed class at New Mexico State 40-some years ago. Imagine a tennis event that is set up in A... |
August 20th, 2009
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August 16th, 2009
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...Duke City’s Adams ready for moment in national spotlightMike Adams, 39, is the guy in the tux who says, “Good Evening, Ladies and Gentlemen … in the red trunks with blue trim, weighing …” Ad...
August 7th, 2009
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| ...Check out golf blogs on the Internet and you’ll find no shortage of sniping about South Koreans dominating the LPGA Tour. “Robotic look-alikes,” grumps one contributor. “I don’t want to wat... |
August 6th, 2009
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August 4th, 2009
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...Martinez Climbing LadderAfter excelling in basketball for most of her life, Natalie Martinez at age 26 gave up that sport for one she had never played: tennis.Just two years later, Martinez began to c...
July 30th, 2009
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July 24th, 2009
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...Carl Hilland won the most games in the recently completed third year of the Silver Racquets tennis program for senior citizens in Albuquerque 62 and above. Rachel Chowaniec took the highest average ga...
July 24th, 2009
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...Nicklaus firm-designed golf club opens near TucumcariTUCUMCARI — At a time when dollars can seem as scarce as double eagles, creating a high-end, private golf course in the distant desert might seem...
July 23th, 2009
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...Some of the notorious Black Sox wound up playing in a long-forgotten league in New MexicoTwenty years ago, “Field of Dreams” gave us a Hollywood version of Shoeless Joe Jackson, the immensely tale...
July 21th, 2009
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...USA Championships To Be Held Here 3 Straight Years Nostalgia filled the air Tuesday with the announcement that the USA Indoor Track & Field Championships will be held in Albuquerque for the next ...
July 15th, 2009
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...The future of tennis is small. Not small in the number of people playing the sport, for surveys in this country show that figure is on the boom. Nor small in terms of equipment sales, either, for manu...
July 12th, 2009
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June 30th, 2009
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...Valley High's Carson Thrives as Intern Not long ago, Albuquerque's Reina Carson didn't know Dale Earnhardt from Dale Evans. Then she took a job at the Daytona International Speedway. Nowadays, Ca...
June 27th, 2009
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June 25th, 2009
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...What does the future of youth tennis look like in New Mexico?If you use the results of the USTA Southwest Junior Closed, the picture is not perfect. The tournament, which ended last week in Albuquerqu...
June 21th, 2009
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...A couple of weekends ago, Ashley Gantt, driving a modified at Sandia Motor Speedway, hit an oil slick on the track, spun out and collided with the race car driven by her brother, Willis Johnson, who h...
June 20th, 2009
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...Paul Butt had big part shaping future of Duke City tennisA passing of the torch exists in many sports.For example, Jim Rice of the Boston Red Sox learned to play caroms off the Green Monster from Ca...
June 12th, 2009
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June 12th, 2009
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June 11th, 2009
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June 9th, 2009
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June 2th, 2009
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 | ...Fulgenzis Also Make Their Mark“There’s the future,” said Manola Colter pointing to a young girl slightly taller than a tennis net. “Look at how well she plays.”Colter, 41, had just won... |
May 26th, 2009
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May 19th, 2009
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...Lost amid the craziness of four other prep tournaments going on almost simultaneously, buried in the daily drama of the Preakness Stakes, the NBA playoffs, more steroids revelations and the continuing...
May 18th, 2009
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...Farmington's Bickel Competes in Golf, Tennis Playing one sport in the state championships is hard.Playing two sports is, some might say, hardly sane. Isaac Bickel is back in Farmington today - presum...
May 17th, 2009
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...What's going to happen when Regina leaves? That question has worried tennis fans in Belen for some time. Regina Elkins, the heart and cushioned sole of Belen courts for 30 years, has long talked of r...
May 16th, 2009
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May 15th, 2009
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...Albuquerque High Girls May SurpriseA month ago high school tennis coaches wondered what next year would be like with the new condensed state tournament. They’ll find out a year early.Thanks to flu f...
May 12th, 2009
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...They saw the speed early. Light-switch fast, hiccup quick, the sort of speed that makes a race horse run as if on fire. The swiftness showed when the colt was but a yearling, and it never left. That...
May 2th, 2009
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...UNM senior Miles Bugby had the Mountain West Conference men's tennis championship on his racket strings Saturday. Serving for his singles match at 5-4 , 40-30 in the third set, Bugby was returned by T...
April 26th, 2009
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April 24th, 2009
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April 23th, 2009
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April 22th, 2009
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...From early February through early March, the UNM women’s tennis team lost five straight matches. Some were close, but show a coach a close loss and it’s still a loss.The Lobos women have since ral...
April 21th, 2009
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...When you play baseball for New Mexico Highlands University, you don't ask how deep another team's lineup is. You ask how deep is their snow. This season, there hasn't been much snow in Las Vegas...
April 19th, 2009
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April 13th, 2009
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...When coach Eric Boll arrived in Portales in 2002, Eastern New Mexico University had not put out a track and field team in nearly two decades. The school in the 1960s and ’70s produced some powerhous...
April 11th, 2009
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...All the stars came out Friday at Tingley Coliseum. Gov. Bill Richardson made an appearance, staying for half the game and hobnobbing with fans and T-Birds owner Sam Bregman.NBA Development League pres...
April 11th, 2009
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...A number of New Mexicans are competing collegiatelyEvery now and then Michelle Reynolds, a Baylor University senior and graduate of Cibola High School, gets asked on her own campus about equestrian, t...
April 7th, 2009
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...It's been hard times for the softball coach at New Mexico Highlands. Shellie Broyles, who runs the show for the Cowgirls, thought that last year, her first season in Las Vegas, was rough. Only five wo...
March 28th, 2009
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March 26th, 2009
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...Half a point. That was the difference between the third-place finisher University of New Mexico ski team Saturday and the University of Colorado, which came in second, at the NCAA Nationa...
March 15th, 2009
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March 14th, 2009
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...Eastern New Mexico University's baseball team has come a long way. And it has a long way to go - to play games. After the team was abandoned in the 1970s, the Greyhound baseball program lay dormant f...
March 14th, 2009
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...Author explores importance of basketball in New MexicoBasketball is not a church service, though it sometimes seems that way.After all, you have Hail Mary shots, fans beseeching the Almighty, player...
March 10th, 2009
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...Trying to follow the serpentine tennis careers of the Brothers Salazar is about as easy as trying to drink from a fire hose. This much is clear: Sophomore Luke Salazar, an all-court player, competes f...
March 3th, 2009
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...Imagine playing on a college tennis team that: … has no coach. … is not in a conference. … does not scrutinize your grades. … practices only once a week. … offers stress-free matches. ...
March 1th, 2009
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February 21th, 2009
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...Ashley Vigil learned to stand up for herself on a basketball court by playing endless games of one-on-one with her brother, Cameron. Cameron Vigil is five years older and, at 6-foot-3, nine inches ta...
February 10th, 2009
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