On the seventh day, God took a welcome respite from work. On the seventh day of spring practice, Lobo head football coach Mike Locksley worked his quarterbacks through a day of “live” action. Goodbye, black jerseys.
Already the highest-paid employee at UNM, Lobo head basketball coach Steve Alford is slated to rake in nearly $100,000 in bonuses after the Lobos’ record-breaking season. Last year the Daily Lobo reported that Alford received $45,000 in “incentive pay.” This year, Alford is set to receive $95,000 in bonuses, with an extra $25,000 being added to his base salary next year.
As they walked westward into the sun, all that was visible were the backs of three Lobos, the only distinguishable feature being the numbers on their jerseys. The bench that Michael Green, Levi Rossi and Patrick Pacheco had just sat on during the UNM men’s soccer team’s scrimmage against Colorado State-Pueblo now rested on their shoulders, as they carried it back toward the storage facilities.
The fangs of inexperience sunk deep into the UNM men’s tennis team, as the Lobos dropped their match 5-2 to No.
It’s for the UNM men’s basketball team that the month of March has become even more momentous. Two Lobos racked up two more national awards this week.
As if he was sitting in his favorite recliner, A.J. Butler was cozy at the tailback position on the UNM football team his freshman year in 2009. Now his role on the Lobo football has taken an uneasy turn, but maybe not for the worse. “I got so comfortable at running back, and I made good plays last year,” said Butler, who carried the ball 50 times for 177 yards and a touchdown.
The University of New Mexico Athletics Department prefers “winners at heart,” rather than actual proven winners. In a bizarre turn of events, Athletics Director Paul Krebs has allowed the unthinkable to happen. UNM head men’s basketball coach Steve Alford was fired on Wednesday because of a lack of success in his three years in Albuquerque.
Mike Locksley fainted in disbelief when the NCAA announced results of a comprehensive review of the Lobos’ dismal season. “OMG!
The silence is over. UNM women’s soccer coach Kit Vela granted an in-depth, exclusive interview with the Daily Bobo after five months of absence from the media rounds about the events surrounding Elizabeth Lambert’s outburst in Provo, Utah.
This week, DNA paternity tests confirmed recent rumors that UNM mascot Bobo Louie is not the biological father of UNM mascot Bobo Lucy’s litter of pups.
The only possible explanation for Lobo pitcher Samantha Gatson’s “it’s not that bad” attitude is she’s being tutored by the University’s famous eternal optimist, Mike Locksley. Or she got hit in the head by a line drive. No matter how many times the UNM softball team was reminded how grisly its play was against No.
The UNM baseball team’s pitching staff has given head coach Ray Birmingham fits all season. The Lobos’ pitching was so bad last week, Birmingham is lucky the stress didn’t give him a nervous breakdown. But thanks to right-handed pitcher Bobby Mares’ terrific performance on Sunday, Birmingham can relax. The Lobos won 12-7 on Friday and 8-5 on Saturday against San Diego State.
Axed. The UNM men’s tennis team swiftly dispatched Northern Arizona 7-0 on Sunday at the Linda Estes Tennis Center. The Lobos, 5-7 overall, relinquished a combined five games to the Lumberjacks (8-6) during doubles play.
David Reaves has been called Dan Reeves, but don’t jumble the two. Reaves is not to be confused with the famous NFL head coach, who led the Denver Broncos to three Super Bowl appearances in the 1980s and the Atlanta Falcons to the big game in the 1998 season. There should be no mix-up about who David Reaves is. He coaches and molds the minds of UNM football players who play the most pressure-ridden position: quarterback.
Strip away a court, a ball and an arbitrary scoring system. Athletes are left with only one thing — raw competition.
The more Steve Alford talked, the more apparent it was how inane the sensational speculation is about his possible departure to fill a coaching vacancy elsewhere.
If giving speeches and making plans won football games, Mike Locksley would be undefeated as a head coach. The man who calls himself “Coach Locks” moved forward to Phase II of his proclaimed “renovation project.” But everyone knows how Phase I went. In 2009, Locksley encountered several off-the-field distractions, hampering the results of a year that included a 1-11 season.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Dear Darington Hobson, What’s all this speculation I hear about you considering leaving school for the NBA?
The Utah and UNM baseball teams exchanged rallies on Sunday like people exchange phone numbers with each other. But in a series finale that needed extra innings on Sunday, the Utes got the last call over the Lobos, with a 9-8 win at Isotopes Stadium, taking two of three games from the Lobos over the weekend. “It was very hard to stomach,” said UNM head baseball coach Ray Birmingham.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — As he sat there, hands folded in the locker room, a pained expression on his face, Dairese Gary recounted the agony he felt when the UNM men’s basketball team’s magic-carpet-ride season was expiring before his eyes.
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