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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 Mexico at Qualcomm Stadium. Sad to say, for the winles
October 28th, 2009
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 when the Lobos' travails aren't mentioned, they p
October 22nd, 2009
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 through that wall and even have made noises about trying
August 7th, 2009
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 lamenting the lack of response I'd received from th
August 5th, 2009
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 State's gain.Left jobless at New Mexico in the head
August 1st, 2009
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 there.Give Chuck Long credit. The former San Diego S
July 31st, 2009
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 after you read the attached Salt Lake Tribune story
June 10th, 2009
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 say that, based on what he was hearing, UNM was be
May 21st, 2009
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 that fairly shouted opulence.Yet, according to thi
May 6th, 2009
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( College / Rick is Wright ) Roger Staubach ... Chad Hennings ... Napoleon McCallum ...Travis Dekker?
May 5th, 2009
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 minds.As noted in this San Diego Union-Tribune story
April 27th, 2009
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( College / Rick is Wright ) This much is certain; the Dallas Cowboys' offense needs fixing.
April 22nd, 2009
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 hiring a new head man.New Mexico went with a coordinato
April 8th, 2009
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 did last year? Did he rip a game official, insult an
January 9th, 2009
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 Zeigler calls for SDSU to drop football. Ouch. Is th
January 6th, 2009
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 follow Alford to UNM. After a flirtation with Kentuck
December 12th, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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-talented forward will be reinstated to the Aztecs' roster
December 5th, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 which four Denver Bronco greats belong on sports car
November 22nd, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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), but because it appeared BYU, which was playing Colo
November 21st, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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, as SDSU nears the end of a horrific 2008 season,
November 15th, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 will be more than familiar to New Mexico hoops fana
November 8th, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 might be without men's basketball star Lorrenzo Wade
November 6th, 2008
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October 25th, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 allow him to fix. Though the Chargers still had a ch
September 17th, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 after he'd led the team to an impressive
September 11th, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 coaching job at Idaho. One modestly talented Miners
September 10th, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 the New Mexico Lobos are up against: TCU&#
August 22nd, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) Here's another interesting and entertaining column from the Las Vegas Sun's Ron Kantowski, who went to UNM and honed his skills at the Silver City Daily Press and the Farmington Daily Times before moving to Sin City. Two things, in particular
August 21st, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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-Dispatch reporter who now covers the Mountain West
July 24th, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 reached between SDSU and the city of San Diego fo
July 23rd, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 scholarships for its poor NCAA Academic Progress R
March 27th, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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's pursuing a professional boxing career.&n
March 7th, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 Feb. 26 in Albuquerque, officials didn't call
March 7th, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 College.If I lived in Clovis (kind of a long commute f
March 6th, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 an 88-79 victory over Cincinnati Harmony in the Nat
March 5th, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 scholarship to Kevin Hart -- the kid who lied about g
February 15th, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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, that's what happened. Walton's LDS bish
February 8th, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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-Tribune story, though, is the prompt and straightforwa
January 26th, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 being wooed by Kentucky and canceling a visit to Alb
January 25th, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 completely different from the UNM strip-club shooting in
January 23rd, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 with a team composed mostly of McKay recruits: J.
January 18th, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 -- a conclusion further bolstered by four road victor
January 16th, 2008
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 coach, is understandable. But folks up there need
December 7th, 2007
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 rebounds in a 72-48 rout of Utah State Wednesday n
December 6th, 2007
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( College / Rick is Wright ) Coach Fran Should've Known This Was Coming
November 27th, 2007
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 was a better hire than his new UNM counterpart, S
November 21st, 2007
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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, has been made the villain of the piece by many --
October 10th, 2007
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 "shameful" and "disrespect" in conn
September 12th, 2007
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 was easily found. The former Lobo and Del Norte Hig
September 5th, 2007
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( College / Rick is Wright ) 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 California.Neither of those things would have happened, how
September 5th, 2007
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