On an early-season bus trip in February, coach Ray Birmingham and the UNM baseball team put Robert Portnoy, the radio play-by-play announcer who was beginning his new job calling Lobo games, through an initiation test.
The New Mexico women’s basketball team will have a step up in competition next season. Several big names including Texas, Arkansas, Colorado, Stanford, Miami and Texas Tech fill the Lobos’ nonconference schedule.
On paper, this might have been the best season in New Mexico baseball history. The Lobos earned their highest national ranking in team history
Three UNM athletes will compete in their home countries’ track and field championships this week. Triple jumper Floyd Ross and long jumper Alesha Walker, both recent UNM graduates, will travel to Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa, and participate in the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
There was never any doubt that the New Mexico baseball team had talent. The 2013 MLB draft emphasized that fact with seven Lobos drafted over the course of three days, setting a new record for UNM players drafted in a single year.
Two New Mexico athletes earned All-American honors after earning top-eight finishes at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships this past weekend in Eugene, Ore.
Six New Mexico athletes will compete in four events during the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, held Wednesday through Saturday at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Ore.
There will be no trip to Omaha, Neb., for the New Mexico baseball team. A season filled with high expectations ended with another first-round knockout as the Lobos lost 6-5 to Columbia in 13 innings on Saturday in Fullerton, Calif.
It wasn’t meant to be for the New Mexico men’s golf team. A day after one of the greatest comebacks in team history
The New Mexico baseball team earned an at-large berth for the NCAA Tournament but ended up in one of the toughest regionals in the bracket.
The New Mexico men’s golf team will begin playing in the NCAA Championships today at the Capital City Club in Atlanta. The Five Lobos will compete as a team.
The thirteenth-ranked Lobos comeback would come up just short and the Aztecs took the crown with a 9-4 victory earning an automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament.
Erica Beach was in Oklahoma City in 2002 playing in the Women’s College World Series with Arizona State. Beach, New Mexico’s softball coach, will return to the area next week, providing assistance to those suffering the effects of Monday’s massive tornado.
The New Mexico men’s golf team carded an 18-over 870 through three days to clinch the NCAA Columbus Regional at The Ohio State University Golf Club on Saturday.
The University of New Mexico and former men’s basketball coach Steve Alford have agreed in principle to a $625,000 buyout for the coach’s departure from the school, University officials announced Friday.
Hours after the New Mexico men’s golf team won the Mountain West Conference title, the Lobos accomplished the same feat on the baseball diamond.
Sixth-ranked New Mexico took the Mountain West Conference Championship with an 8-under 844 over three days in Tuscon, Ariz. The Lobos ended with an eight-stroke advantage over both UNLV and SDSU.
April 29 has come and gone, and Steve Alford has not paid the $1 million contract buyout the University says the former men’s basketball coach must pay.
Coming to New Mexico from the United Kingdom last fall, distance runner Luke Caldwell thought it would take some time to find his stride competing at the NCAA level.
Comeback victories are starting to become the norm for the New Mexico baseball team. No. 24 UNM rallied for its tenth straight victory with a 14-13 extra-innings decision over UNLV on Sunday at Lobo Field.
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