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Rick Wright: Lobos have lost identity
Who are you guys, and what have you done with the Lobos? But, no, that’s not a fair question to ask of a team that clearly has no answers right now. And, yet, from the outside looking in, the answers seem fairly obvious. In any case, the New Mexico Lobos who lost 70-56 at home […] → Read More
San Diego State roughs up Lobo football in frigid late night game
The UNM Lobos football team, once again outmanned, fell to San Diego State at cold, desolate University Stadium. → Read More
Look who's back: Duke City's Griego-Ortega
It has been an eventful past 26 months for Albuquerque boxer Matthew Griego-Ortega, principally miss ... → Read More
UNM Lobos, Dallas Cowboys football legend Don Perkins dies at age 84
Football great returned to Albuquerque after retiring from the NFL → Read More
Gladiators beat Massachusetts
The Duke City Gladiators overcame a nine-point deficit in the final 2:06 to earn a 51-43 victory over the Massachusetts Pirates in Indoor Football League action Saturday night in the Rio Rancho Events Center. Duke City has won four games in a row and is 6-5. The Pirates, last year’s league champions, drop to […] → Read More
Combat sports: Lovato wins again
In Denver, Albuquerque’s Amanda Lovato defeated Randee Lynn Morales by unanimous decision on Saturday in a six-round flyweight boxing match. Lovato, 1-1-1 as a boxer, has won three fights in a row — two in MMA, one in boxing, after having gone a combined 0-8-1 in her first nine professional fights. Morales, a Rio Rancho […] → Read More
Star athlete Gray, teammate of McDonald and Perkins, dies at 86
The name Tony Gray may not resonate in New Mexico sports lore like those of Tommy McDonald, Gray's f ... → Read More
Gladiators romp past Vegas
The Duke City Gladiators raced to a 30-0 second-quarter lead en route to a 47-21 Indoor Football League win over the Vegas Knight Hawks on Saturday night in Henderson, Nevada. Gregory Dent Jr. scored three TDs for Duke City (4-5). Vegas dropped to 4-6. → Read More
Ice Wolves lose in OT
MINNEAPOLIS — Levente Keresztes’ goal in overtime gave the New Jersey Titans a 3-2 victory over the New Mexico Ice Wolves, evening the teams’ North American Hockey League semfinal series at one game apiece. The decisive Game 3 is scheduled for 5 p.m. Sunday in Minneapolis. Sunday’s winner will advance to face the Anchorage Wolverines, […] → Read More
Holm drops split decision at UFC Fight Night
Judging an MMA fight is incredibly difficult — so many factors to weigh, so little time. Saturday in Las Vegas, Nevada, two of three official judges decided Ketlen Vieira’s stinging counter right hands outweighed Holly Holm’s dominance in the clinch — giving Brazil’s Vieira a victory by split decision over Albuquerque’s Holm in the five-round […] → Read More
Holm insists she is 'nervous in a good way' heading into Saturday's bout
The last time Albuquerque's Holly Holm fought in a UFC Octagon, the average price of gas in New Mexi ... → Read More
UNM football: Juco QB Jensen commits
Junior college quarterback Jake Jensen announced Tuesday on social media he has committed to attend the University of New Mexico. Last fall as a freshman at Contra Costa College in San Pablo, California, Jensen, listed as 6-foot-2 and 210 pounds, completed 155 of 268 passes (57.8 %) for 1,907 yards with 22 touchdowns and nine […] → Read More
Patience paid off in promotions for Brothers Perez
Brothers Aaron and Jordan Perez didn't come to New Mexico planning, or even expecting, to become box ... → Read More
MMA: Impressive win for Pico
In interviews this week before his fight on Friday against Adli Edwards, Albuquerque MMA featherweight Aaron Pico talked about how he’s combined the two basic elements of his sport: striking and the ground game. “I think I have the best combinations into a takedown in the world,” he said. “My combos straight into a shot […] → Read More
Meiering, Lobo golf star who led Arroyo del Oso to big success, dies
Bob Meiering, says his son Patrick, possessed a sort of inner architect. As a golfer, as a businessm ... → Read More
Boxing: Mendoza back in the ring
After suffering a loss and a career setback in his last fight, Brian Mendoza on Saturday will seek to use Benjamin Whitaker as a stepping stone to greater opportunities. Of course, fighting on Saturday’s Showtime card in Minneapolis, even in an off-TV bout, is an opportunity in itself. Mendoza (19-2, 13 KOs), a Rio Ranchoan […] → Read More
Combat sports notes: Police video released of Jon Jones' September arrest
The fallout from Jon Jones’ Sept. 24 arrest in Las Vegas, Nevada, continues. On Wednesday, Jones, an MMA star who lives in Albuquerque, tweeted that his longtime fiancée and the mother of his children had left him some two months ago. “Today she finalized that she won’t be coming back,” he wrote. “If you are […] → Read More
Byrd, national Golden Gloves champ from Clovis, dies at 72
Brooks Byrd, a 1967 Golden Gloves national amateur champion and among the finest boxers the state of ... → Read More
Holm set to end long hiatus with Fight Night match May 21
If all goes well between now and then, Albuquerque's Holly Holm will end the longest hiatus in her c ... → Read More
Wright: Standings don't reflect Lobos' improvement
First, a little Lobo history ... What, yet another back-in-my-day story from the old guy? Wait — don't stop reading, at least not until you see where I'm goi... → Read More