Rick is Wright
A sports blog by Rick Wright
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1:32 pm | Apr. 9 | By Rick Wright / Journal Staff WriterFormer UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir is the latest addition to the talent at Albuquerque’s Jackson-Winkeljohn Mixed Martial Arts. Mir...
Stars lose a hectic heartbreaker
12:27 am | Apr. 7 | By Bob Christ / Journal Staff WriterLate Laredo TD mars home opener
Team has a decade of memorable moments
12:03 am | Apr. 4 | By Randy Harrison / Journal Sports EditorDodgers' slugger Manny Ramirez playing in Albuquerque tops the list
Alford’s gone, so let’s all just move along
12:05 am | Mar. 31 | By Rick Wright / Journal Staff WriterTrust me, here, folks. In the hours before I put my butt down in front of my word processor Saturday ...
’78 loss as painful as it gets for Lobos
12:05 am | Mar. 24 | By Rick Wright / Journal Staff WriterAs he watched the final seconds tick off the clock Thursday night, the score line on his TV screen r ...
Alford’s new deal extends the cheer
12:05 am | Mar. 21 | By Rick Wright / Journal Staff WriterOne thing not to be messed with in life and work, Steve Alford said on a teleconference last month, ...
Sweet 16 or not? Why they will
12:05 am | Mar. 19 | By Rick Wright / Journal Staff WriterYes, Ed Johnson, this is the year. The 2012-13 New Mexico Lobos will play in the Sweet Sixteen at th ...
Pino congratulates record-setting Alford
1:28 am | Mar. 16 | By Rick Wright / Journal Staff WriterSome three months ago, when Eric Dickerson’s single-season rushing record was being threatened, the former NFL star did everything but stick pins in an Adrian Peterson voodoo doll....
Trout-Alvarez Tickets
4:46 pm | Mar. 14 | By Rick Wright / Journal Staff WriterTickets are on sale for the April 20 boxing match between Las Cruces’ Austin “No Doubt” Trout and Mexico’s Saul...
Any Questions for Carlos?
4:26 pm | Mar. 14 | By Rick Wright / Journal Staff WriterAs was predictable — though Nick Diaz was no better than even money to show up — Diaz was the...

Rick Wright is the primary UNM Lobos men's football beat writer for the Albuquerque Journal.