The New Mexico men’s tennis team earned a split in California on Saturday in a doubleheader against UC Irvine and Pepperdine. Head Coach Bart Scott shook things up by separating doubles partners Hayden Sabatka and Bart Van Leijsen. The pair began the season as the eighth ranked doubles team in the nation.
The New Mexico softball team opened its 2016 season with two wins and three losses at the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Arizona, over the weekend. The Lobos started the tournament Friday afternoon with a 2-1 victory over San Diego, with runs from right fielder Jade Gray and shortstop Michala Erickson.
Head coach Craig Neal often talks about always moving forward and not focusing on the past. His Lobos are doing a better job in that regard. Following back-to-back losses at San Diego State and Utah State, New Mexico responded and shut down San Jose State’s offense in a 74-58 victory.
The days of getting everyone into the game is over. New Mexico head coach Yvonne Sanchez said she has given players opportunities to take advantage of, but simply haven’t gotten it done.
Everyone’s a Lobo, or at least used to be. Members of alternative rock band Great States are proof of “once a Lobo, always a Lobo,” since all members are UNM alumni and said they’re still fond of their time here. In 2010, a series of coincidences (like random roommate assignments) brought keyboardist Sean Leston, front man Morgan Ching, bassist Eric Jecklin and drummer Ryan Rael together.
Use of excessive force and the handling of mentally ill individuals have been significant issues for law enforcement in Albuquerque, but despite national attention and heavy scrutiny, Albuquerque Police Department, the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department and UNM personnel have steadily corrected the issue.
The New Mexico Senate confirmed two regents to the UNM Board of Regents on Monday, according to a UNM press release, “in a process that turned out to be not quite smooth.” The pair confirmed by Senate, are current Student Regent Ryan Berryman of Sandia Park, an MBA student at the Anderson School of Management. The other is current Regent Marron Lee, who comes from “a Cibola County ranching family that has long supported UNM and in fact gifted the University with its first live Lobo,” according to the release. Berryman said that he was both humbled and honored to be confirmed by members of the New Mexico Senate.
The vitriol against Cullen Neal needs to stop. Believe me, I didn’t want to embroil myself in this back-and-forth debate over Cullen Neal, whether he plays too much, whether his dad favors his son.
Criticism of Cullen Neal has crossed the line, New Mexico coach Craig Neal said Thursday afternoon, even elevating to threats. The Lobo sophomore point guard, also the most polarizing player on this year’s squad, has already changed his phone number twice and removed his social media accounts from Facebook and Twitter, Craig Neal said, as criticism against his son has increased. “Put yourself in his shoes.
Less than two weeks after New Mexico announced its highest GPA among student-athletes in program history, the Mountain West appointed 60 individuals to the All-Academic honorees. It was the third most in conference, but the highest in New Mexico student-athlete history. It was also the first time UNM has had back-to-back years of sending 60 or more student-athletes to the All-Academic team after sending 61, the highest in program history, a year ago.
New Mexico hosts the Don Kirby Invitational this weekend in its final event before the Mountain West Conference Championships. Head coach Joe Franklin said he is encouraged by the improvements the team is making each week. Several of the athletes have posted personal records in consecutive weeks.
A man beaten horribly as a kid by his alcoholic father learned to endure the beatings with not even a whimper in order not to give his father the satisfaction of seeing his pain. As a grown man he is totally incapable of showing any signs of pain or sorrow. Many people think he is a cold fish, but he says they have no idea what goes on inside him.
Many have noticed the recent changes in restaurant selection in the SUB since the fall semester. Now during the winter semester, we lost Garcias to Twisters.
Throughout the last year we have been constantly bombarded by the media talking about ISIS, but how many people actually understand why ISIS is different?
The New Mexico women’s tennis team will try to get back in the win column when it returns home to host Denver University on Friday. The Lobos dropped two consecutive contests in Minneapolis, Minnesota last weekend at the Courtside Classic, losing to Mississippi State 1-6 and Minnesota 2-5.
The New Mexico men’s tennis team will return to the court after an extended break to take on UC Irvine and Pepperdine in California on Saturday. The Lobos last played in late January when they lost to Georgia Tech and Southern Methodist. The losses prevented the team from qualifying for the USTA/ITA National Indoors.
Tuesday afternoon Dr. Tyson E.J. Marsh discussed the history of African-American culture, neoliberalism and, ultimately, what it means to be Black, in his lecture, “Everybody Wants to be Black Until It’s Time to be Black.” “The talk is informed by the appropriation and commodification of Black culture and the critical need to reclaim cultural tools of resistance in the struggle for racial and economic justice against what Bell Hooks has aptly named imperialist-White-supremacist-capitalist-patriarchy,” Marsh said, prior to the lecture.
Dr. Charles E. Becknell, Special Assistant to the Vice President for Equity and Inclusion, Associate Director and professor for UNM's Africana Studies Program explains the importance of Black History Month, how it has changed throughout the years, issues regarding race in our current society and his hopes for UNM students celebrating during this month.
While many people will be spending Saturday preparing for Valentine’s Day, music students all over New Mexico will be playing their hearts out in Keller Hall. Saturday marks the 24th anniversary of the Jackie McGehee Young Artists’ Competition For Piano and Strings.
The sound of falling pins echoed at every corner of the Starlight Bowling Alley at the Santa Ana Star Casino throughout the day on Saturday. The 2016 Unified Team Bowling Tournament attracted 428 athletes to compete.
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