New Mexico and UNLV entered Tuesday night’s contest at Las Vegas’s Thomas & Mack Center heading in different directions.
Facing off against UNLV’s aggressive style defense is problematic for any team in the Mountain West, let alone New Mexico’s struggling offense. LoboHead coach Yvonne Sanchez said in Tuesday’s press conference that the team has yet to find that go-to player on the offensive side of the ball, despite having two prime candidates -- sophomore guard Cherise Beynon and senior forward Khadijah Shumpert -- with abilities to take over games.
New Mexico has announced the signing of Stan Eggen as the newest member of Bob Davie’s football coaching staff. The day after Davie received a contract extension through the 2021 season, the head coach appointed Eggen as the defensive line coach.
New Mexico couldn’t move up in the standings in the second half of the Utah Invitational that concluded on Monday. The Lobos finished in fifth place, the same position they were in prior to the Nordic squad taking over for the alpine skiers.
A UNM student has been granted the opportunity to attend President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address Tuesday night as a guest of New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich, thanks to her commitment to education and giving back to the community. Carielle Bahe, a junior secondary education major, said she found out about barely a week ago that she was invited to attend with Heinrich, and arrived in Washington, D.C. on Sunday night. “I was really excited. I immediately called my mom and asked her if I could go just to make sure it was alright with her and my dad,” Bahe said.
New Mexico safety Markel Byrd’s talents will be missed on the football field, but his memory remains a prominent force in the college football community. After redshirting during the 2013 season out of high school, Byrd quickly became an integral part of the New Mexico secondary early in the 2014-2015 campaign. It wasn’t until this past season, Byrd’s redshirt sophomore year where he became a playmaker for the squad, and a major reason New Mexico garnered a bowl appearance.
New Mexico has taken notice of Bob Davie’s winning football season and bowl appearance, the first since 2007, and has locked up the head coach through 2021. Vice President for Athletics Paul Krebs announced on Monday morning that Davie signed a two-year extension with UNM, the second extension during his tenure as a Lobo.
When New Mexico takes the Thomas & Mack Center hardwood against UNLV Tuesday night, the Lobos won’t see Dave Rice on the sidelines. The Runnin’ Rebels head coach and the university agreed to part ways midway through Rice’s fifth season, UNLV officials announced Sunday night.
Pop icon David Bowie died on Sunday at just 69 years old, after an 18-month-long battle with liver cancer. The rock legend touch many lives with his music, fashion and innovation. Bowie played his final Albuquerque show at Tingley Coliseum in 2013, but fans and mourners can relive that concert here with the complete show set list:
The WWE has always had a penchant for falling back on old gimmicks and characters. That’s always been true for wrestling in general because it’s much easier to go back to something established, and the return of Vince McMahon’s onscreen character is no different. Yes, the owner of the largest wrestling company in the world made his TV comeback right before the calendar turned to the new year. It marked the first time in more than a year that the WWE chairman graced audiences with his presence.
The New Mexico men’s tennis team will begin the spring semester on Friday in Lubbock, Texas as the defending Mountain West champion. Texas Tech will host an invitational featuring UNM along with the University of Arizona and the University of the Pacific. UNM was the first to host the quadrangular event in 2014, followed by Arizona last year. Everyone will compete against each team twice and the tournament will involve both singles and doubles matches.
UNM’s Dean of Students Tomás Aguirre has resigned to take a position at Texas A&M-Commerce, according to Vice President for Student Affairs Eliseo “Cheo” Torres. Aguirre will be an assistant vice president and dean of campus life and student development at Texas A&M-Commerce after his last day at UNM. Aguirre said the thing he will miss the most are the students of UNM. “Everyday they reminded me what a privilege and an honor it was to work with them,” he said. “(I’ll) miss my staff...and it’s important to point out that they played an integral role with everything they did. I will also miss that many like-minded staff and faculty (gave) 100 percent everyday to make UNM a better place.”
Media repeatedly calls these nuclear explosions by North Korea “tests”. No, they are not just “testing.” That implies that maybe the tests failed. At least we should call them “successful tests.” That would paint a more realistic picture, and we will be successful in stopping these repeated successful explosions of these nukes with the media-viewing American public then more able to stand behind say further sanctions.
University of New Mexico alumna Cristal Everette and her husband recently unveiled their new small business, esQape it!, a unique gaming experience based on various escape rooms, an idea born from lessons she learned at UNM. Everette graduated in 1996 with a bachelor of science in medical technology. She said her experiences at UNM helped with her role as a business owner and ultimately led her to an organized job that keeps her “on [her] game at all times”.
The UNM Regents are going to pay $1.98 million for “branding”. Let us aim for the “branding” of the premier employer and educator in the state. Accomplishing this means respecting the employees, investing in the infrastructure and eliminating the focus on political favors owed for appointments and protecting the interests of the top 5 percent of earners at the University. This is not “your” university, it is the state’s university and you can do better by the state.
New Mexico’s offensive woes cast a shadow on Cherise Beynon’s career night. UNM came out of the gates against Utah State with the inability to hit shots while Beynon quietly tied her career high with 21 points amidst the 72-56 loss in Logan, Utah.
The run-and-gun Lobos kept running and gunning to their third straight win to open Mountain West play. New Mexico dictated the tempo through the first half against Utah State Saturday afternoon at WisePies Arena, playing what could be the best 20 minutes it has played so far this season in a 77-59 victory.
The Lobos Nordic squad prepares for its first taste of season action as they kick off the second half of the Utah Invitational on Jan. 10. The women's Nordic team has some seasoned national champions with the likes of Emilie Cedervärn, who won the title in classical, and Eva Sever Rus, the champion in freestyle in 2014.
Lack of talent isn’t New Mexico’s offensive problem head coach Yvonne Sanchez said. As far as solving the issue, the head coach says she is working on it. Following New Mexico’s heartbreaking 69-65 double overtime loss to Fresno State in WisePies Arena on Jan. 2, Sanchez said it wasn’t the team’s defense that was the issue, it was the inability to convert offensively.
New Mexico got off to less than an ideal start to open up the 2015-2016 season in its three day trip to the Park City Invitational in Utah. UNM finished off the opening competition of the season in fifth place with a final score of 214. The men finished in 6th place as a while the women finished in fourth during the event which lasted from Jan. 4 through Jan. 6.
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