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Overtime angst
Shaun Griswold | February 24Point guard Dairese Gary sat alone on the floor and contemplated the future after his team’s demoralizing overtime loss on Wednesday.
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Despite great performance, Gordon blames himself
Cesar Davila | February 20Four and a half minutes into Saturday’s matchup with Utah, it was evident that UNM center Drew Gordon would have an impressive performance.
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Burned at the Buzzer
Ryan Tomari | February 20In their final battle as conference rivals, the Utah Utes hit the UNM men’s basketball team the hardest.
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Preparing for a ‘baptism by fire’
Levi Lewis | February 17Ray Birmingham is back to his same old shenanigans. Looking to make it back-to-back NCAA tournament trips, the UNM baseball team opens the season at No.
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Shortstop doesn’t stop short of success
Ryan Tomari | February 17Alex Allbritton is moving. But the UNM baseball team’s infielder isn’t going back to his hometown of Aurora, Colo.
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Finally a chance at the big time
Ryan Tomari | February 17It’s been building for one of the lesser-known club teams, and now it’s the UNM hockey team’s time. The Lobos’ chance to play for a national championship starts today in Colorado Springs, Colo. UNM finished its 2010-11 American Collegiate Hockey Association season 16-5-2 overall, and it opens as the No.
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‘Just not enough’ against SDSU
Brandon Call | February 15From one of its best performances of the season to its worst. After posting a season-high 53 percent shooting Saturday against Colorado State, the UNM women’s basketball team went ice-cold Tuesday, notching a dismal 22 percent from the field en route to a 50-44 home loss to San Diego State. With the loss, the Lobos fall to 9-14 on the season and 3-8 in Mountain West Conference action.
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Coach leads sweep of Utah, has fun doing it
Brandon Call | February 14Don’t remind the UNM softball team how it fared last year; it has already forgotten. Under former head coach Ty Singleton, the Lobos went 11-37 overall and 1-14 in Mountain West Conference action in 2010.
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Practice made perfect in Bobcat trouncing
Cesar Davila | February 14All those season-long inconsistencies were inconsequential Saturday. In its best performance of the season, the UNM women’s basketball team shot 53 percent from the field and 42 percent from the 3-point line on the way to a 86-53 rout over Colorado State at The Pit. Head coach Don Flanagan said he had been waiting for the Lobos to put on a shooting exhibition.
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Bouncing from loss to win
Brandon Call | February 14The UNM women’s tennis team earned a split this weekend. The Lobos fell 4-3 in a heartbreaker to NMSU on Friday before rebounding for a 6-1 win against Montana State on Saturday at the Linda Estes Tennis Complex. “Our purpose statement as a team is to improve,” head coach Roy Cañada said.
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Injury-ridden Walker leaps ahead
Cesar Davila | February 14So far in 2011, illnesses, injuries and even the cold weather can’t slow down the UNM track and field team. The Lobos had another positive performance Friday during the Don Kirby Invitational at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
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Locksley tweaks coaching staff
Ryan Tomari | February 14After enduring another off season, head football coach Mike Locksley continues to fine-tune his coaching staff in the offseason. On Thursday, Locksley promoted quarterbacks coach Dan Reeves to offensive coordinator, one of four personnel shakeups that the third-year head coach hopes will lead to a turnaround in 2011.
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NFL player’s son lands on roster
Ryan Tomari | February 14Almost a week after National Signing Day, head coach Mike Locksley continues to pluck up recruits.
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Second-half surge was great, but too late
Ryan Tomari | February 14Snapped. The UNM men’s basketball team’s four-game conference winning streak was halted Saturday in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Lobos, plagued by a poor first-half shooting performance, fell to the Rams 68-62 for the first time in head coach Steve Alford’s UNM career. Alford, who was 7-0 against the Rams, said UNM is just going through a phase where it simply can’t hit shots.
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Freshmen ‘eager’ for NMSU
Brandon Call | February 11The UNM women’s tennis team doesn’t want to relive its last trip to New Mexico State. For the third time in school history, the Lobos dropped a 6-1 decision to the Aggies last year in Las Cruces. “To say that we are eager for this matchup is an understatement,” head coach Roy Cañada said.
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Slow Pokes can’t mount furious finish
Shaun Griswold | February 10After seeing its coach fired with enthusiasm, Wyoming entered the Pit fired with enthusiasm. Without head coach Heath Schroyer, who was dismissed early in the week, the one-conference-win Cowboys gave the UNM men’s basketball team all it could handle.
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No rust or rest before Wyoming
Ryan Tomari | February 8Wyoming isn’t the UNM men’s basketball team’s biggest rival. Far from it. But after losing to the Cowboys on a last-second shot in Laramie, Wyo., the Lobos are treating Wyoming’s visit tonight at The Pit as an opportunity for retribution. Senior point guard Dairese Gary said he hasn’t forgotten about the Cowboys’ Francisco Cruz turn-around shot. “They sent us home with a real nasty taste,” he said about the Pokes pulling off a 67-66 stunner.
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Wins all around in 13-hour rout
Brandon Call | February 7Thirteen was the number for the UNM men’s and women’s tennis teams. It’s the number of hours the Lobos spent on court in four matches Saturday at the Linda Estes Tennis Complex.
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An All-American Englishman
Cesar Davila | February 7Even though he has a sense of humor about it, Rory Fraser doesn’t like to talk about what happened in his first-ever relay. “I came in dead last,” said Fraser, who was 12 years old at the time.
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SUCCESS SOUNDS LIKE BROKEN RECORDS
Ryan Tomari | February 7The New Mexico Classic should’ve been renamed the York Classic on Saturday. Richard York, a sophomore on the UNM track and field team, broke the Lobo heptathlon record at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
