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Steve Alford
#...If Wyking Jones' life story reads a bit like a Hollywood movie script, that's probably because some of it is exactly that. In fact, it could be a script within a script. As reported (definitively, af...
July 5th, 2009
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#...asketball coach Steve Alford said, made Jones the perfect guy to replace the departed Chris Walker on the UNM staff — especially the basketball stuff.The announcement of Jones’ hiring, expected fo...
July 2th, 2009
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#...asketball coach Steve Alford and his temper. When Boat-on-Baskett appeared in print almost three years ago, it got little if any reaction. The last time I'd checked the most-popular list, it wasn't i...
June 28th, 2009
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...l at UNM. Coach Steve Alford said that Rusher, who participated — and looked very good — in the recent Lobo Elite Camp, has an old injury in his left hand and had surgery last Thursday after the c...
June 17th, 2009
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#...asketball coach Steve Alford went off on a couple of Central Florida players for not shaking his hand, or when a Syracuse player tried to trip Connecticut women’s coach Geno Auriemma; that one was k...
June 12th, 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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#...in. Lobo coach Steve Alford brushed off a question Saturday about Rusher, perhaps because his new big man has yet to be ruled eligible. He did say it's a plus that so many of his young players, from ...
June 7th, 2009
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...ant under coach Steve Alford on the University of New Mexico men’s basketball team, spent his last day in the Lobo offices  Tuesday and said he’s heading to Philadelphia today. On Monday, he ...
June 3th, 2009
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#...UNM head coach Steve Alford had hoped to have Rusher in uniform last fall. When that didn’t happen, he was confident he’d join the team in December. That didn’t happen, either.“I’m really h...
June 3th, 2009
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... UNM head coach Steve Alford told the Journal on Monday. “Chris is a great coach and a friend, and was a tremendous asset to Lobo basketball. We wish him all the best.”Alford said he has not named...
June 2th, 2009
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...nference. While Steve Alford has done wonders to improve Lobo basketball the past two years, and Rocky Long has put the football program on solid ground, it is way premature to be thinking about upgra...
June 1th, 2009
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#...thanks to coach Steve Alford and his assistants; UNM's academic-advisement staff; and athletics director Paul Krebs. When Krebs interviewed for the UNM AD's job three years ago, the APR was in its in...
May 31th, 2009
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... program," said Steve Alford, the Lobos' head coach the past two years. "And the best news is, we pushed the multi-year average to 928. It's really exciting, because this is one of the main things we'...
May 30th, 2009
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#...anova.UNM coach Steve Alford said Wednesday that Villanova coach Jay Wright still had not made Walker an official offer, but the Lobo mentor  has a number of possible successors in mind and “wo...
May 21th, 2009
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#... kept UNM coach Steve Alford informed about the interview process, and that “coach has been extremely supportive. I enjoy working here very much. It’s a great place, we’ve accomplished some real...
May 20th, 2009
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#...ause Lobo coach Steve Alford, his staff, the administration and many boosters are, if not panicking, at least a little antsy. After all, Walker - UNM's No. 2 assistant - has been the Lobos' top recru...
May 17th, 2009
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#...asketball coach Steve Alford says that assistant coach Chris Walker has not received a job offer yet at Villanova, but that Walker and the Wildcats’ coaching staff are in communication.Last week Wal...
May 12th, 2009
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#...ow." UNM coach Steve Alford also told the Journal that he had "no comment at this time," but would "if something happens." Walker, the No. 2 assistant and top recruiter at UNM, interviewed at Villan...
May 10th, 2009
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...cond-year coach Steve Alford, it will not be penalized next season, like it was last year when it was reduced one scholarship.“What the NCAA looks at, as far as schools that are below the 925, is if...
May 7th, 2009
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...camp The annual Steve Alford Lobo boys individual skills camp is June 1-4 at UNM. The Lobo coaching staff as well as current and former players will instruct. Cost: $150 Grades 1-6: 9 a.m.-noon Grades...
May 5th, 2009
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...t.Men’s coach Steve Alford and his wife, Tanya, and women’s coach Don Flanagan and his wife, Wahleah, are also featured guests at the gala.All proceeds from the event, which will be at the Hyatt R...
April 30th, 2009
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#...all counterpart Steve Alford, seems to favor a more formal, at-arm’s-length relationship with the media than did Long or Alford’s predecessor, Ritchie McKay.But, also like Alford, Locksley is more...
April 24th, 2009
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#...asketball coach Steve Alford just pick up at least $65,000 in bonuses, on top of his $1 million-some annual salary? Yes, he did.When Krebs told me on Monday in discussing those budget cuts that “the...
April 22th, 2009
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#...e,” UNM coach Steve Alford told the Journal. “…We’ve known it was coming for a while. We’re no different than anybody else. It’s a tough economy, and we have to figure out ways to do 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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...GRATULATIONS TO STEVE ALFORD and his staff for the remarkable progress they have made in leading our Lobo Men's team to the MWC championship. Coach Alford deserves the bonus money he earned in just hi...
April 20th, 2009
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#...llars for coach Steve Alford. The second-year UNM coach, who was on the hot seat at Iowa before taking the Lobo job in the spring of 2007, is sitting pretty at New Mexico until March 31, 2017. Last ...
April 19th, 2009
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#...cond-year coach Steve Alford was named MWC Coach of the Year while senior Tony Danridge was named first-team all-MWC and senior Daniel Faris made the second team. To nobody’s surprise, Danridge, Far...
April 16th, 2009
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#...ence, UNM coach Steve Alford noted that Brown and Hardeman had better seasons as freshmen than Faris did at the same stage. That’s true enough.More to the point, though: Will Brown and/or Hardeman a...
April 15th, 2009
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#...gain with coach Steve Alford on Monday and finalized his decision.“It’s just something I decided recently,” Wills told the Journal on Monday. “There were some unexpected events back home, and ...
April 14th, 2009
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...asketball coach Steve Alford might just have a scholarship or two available this spring, after all.The Journal has learned that sophomore guard Jonathan Wills, a defensive specialist who has served as...
April 12th, 2009
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...nt.”UNM coach Steve Alford, who is very much in favor of expanding the current 65-team field, says he is intrigued by Cass’ idea, but there wasn’t much talk by the coaches during the recent Fina...
April 10th, 2009
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#...ose three.Coach Steve Alford says there are still vacant dates remaining for “buy games,” in which the Lobos will pay a smaller school to make a one-time visit in the Pit.“If you look at this la...
April 10th, 2009
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#...e — UNM coach Steve Alford among them —  stumping for expansion.The NCAA Tournament’s not perfect as it is, but it’s as close to jock nirvana as any competition in sports. And need we look fu...
April 8th, 2009
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#... what I ask?” Steve Alford (and I’m not even sure about this yet) might be the first UNM men’s head basketball coach I’ve covered who isn’t paranoid; it seems to come with the job. But I alw...
April 3th, 2009
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#...while UNM coach Steve Alford pumped his hands in the air from the sidelines.“Unbelievable,” Alford told the Journal. “Tony was simply spectacular on that one.”And in the finals.Both Coley and ...
April 3th, 2009
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#...far under coach Steve Alford: an NCAA Tournament berth and a victory in the Mountain West Conference tourney.And yes, the two are closely related.On Monday, in assessing the just-completed 2008-09 sea...
March 31th, 2009
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#...st, Lobos coach Steve Alford assured his team that "we can play with these guys." Physically, yes, they could. Yet, it took the Lobos most of the first half to remember that - and only two minutes at...
March 22th, 2009
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...ew Mexico coach Steve Alford cannot complain about anything until the Lobos win a first-round game in the conference tournament under his watch. • Did you catch Alford whining about the officials a...
March 22th, 2009
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...e had a pair of Steve Alford connections. His former teammate at Indiana is current T-Birds assistant Dean Garrett. Both were members of the 1987 national championship team under Bob Knight. On the o...
March 21th, 2009
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Albuquerque Journal newspaper stories

1. ABQJOURNAL NEWS/METRO: Deferred Comp To UNM Brass Tops $1 million

... solely on base salary.         Total compensation this year for others who collected the most in deferred compensation are: Don Flanagan, $494,200; Steve Alford, $1,040,000 and Paul Roth, $523,600.         Documents obtained by the Journal through a public records request reveal that 33 UNM employees ...
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2. ABQJOURNAL OPINION/EDITORIALS: Lobos' Homework Nets Team an A(PR) Plus

... and 899, when numerous transfers cost the program points. The Lobos lost a scholarship a year ago because of a dismal APR rating.        Head coach Steve Alford has spent the last two years “trying to clean up the academic mess.”        The new rating, released in May, means the program ...
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3. ABQJOURNAL OPINION/EDITORIALS: UNM Basketball Teams Score A Very Good Year

... season.        All in all, it's been a good one.        Women's coach Don Flanagan notched his 300th win at the University of New Mexico. Steve Alford, who has turned around the men's team in a couple of years, was named MWC coach of the year. Both teams were invited to the NIT.        Those ...
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4. ABQJOURNAL NEWS/METRO: Utes Don't Have Answer for Danridge

... , that player wasn't wearing Utah red Tuesday night. I doubt that person exists right now, anywhere in the MWC.     "I may be biased," UNM coach Steve Alford said after his Lobos' 77-71 victory over the Utes and center Luke Nevill in a pulsating Pit, "But Tony gets our vote."     So many story lines ...
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5. ABQJOURNAL NEWS/METRO: Danridge, Faris, Toppert Lead UNM's Victory Over Utah

... 7-foot-2 MWC Player of the Year candidate Luke Nevill all evening. Toppert added 12 points and two big 3s.     "It wasn't easy for them," UNM coach Steve Alford said of his senior trio. "I told them before the game, 'regardless of what happens today, you've been very special for our program. I appreciate ...
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6. ABQJOURNAL SPORTS: Danny Granger Dunks and Gets Dunked on in His Debut as an All-Star

... just came into my hands. And on my dunk, somebody just let me go, too."         Granger's presence this weekend is a huge positive for UNM coach Steve Alford's program. Granger is the first Lobo to ever play in the NBA All-Star Game.         "I was surprised when I heard that," Granger said ...
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7. ABQJOURNAL SPORTS: National story shines a light on Locksley's recruiting prowess

... , under the leadership of President (David) Schmidly and Paul Krebs is great," Locksley says, "and not just with the football program but with what Steve Alford's doing with the basketball program and what Ray Birmingham's doing with baseball — anything about the Lobos in general is a positive ...
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8. ABQjournal: Sports

... 's Basketball Women's Basketball More Sports Sections Boxing Soccer Horse Racing Sports Speak Up! ABQJournal Hot Sports Topics Mike Locksley stories Steve Alford news Scott Galetti J.R. Giddens James Parr Brian Urlacher Search archives Area Prep Sports Links Journal Prep Sports West & R.R. Sports North ...
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9. ABQJOURNAL SPORTS: Lobos Hold Off Air Force's Bid

... Aztecs 67-55 at home Wednesday night for sole possession of the league lead.         "They haven't shot the ball like that all year," UNM coach Steve Alford said of the Falcons. "We lost concentration when we were up 15-0. We subbed, and I didn't think our bench was ready in the first half. ...
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10. ABQJOURNAL SPORTS: New Mexico Visits Last-Place Falcons

... to admit how weak the opposition is, at least prior to the game, is tougher than an Air Force cadet's rigorous daily schedule. But UNM's Steve Alford had trouble building up the Falcons.        However, he gave it the old college try.        “Air Force is playing some younger guys and ...
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