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Tailbacks zero in on specific strengths
Isaac Avilucea | April 11Gone are the days of the composite tailback. College football no longer lends itself to a do-it-all, one-man show in the backfield.
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Clinched win proves it pays to stay
Ryan Tomari | April 11Cameron Smith found a home with the UNM baseball team. After ping-ponging from Yavapai College in 2007 to Salt Lake Community College in 2008, Smith came to the Lobos.
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Nike ad depicts 'everything's OK in Tigerland
Damian Garde | April 8The Tiger Woods fallout has been long and arduous. Pundits and sponsors turned their backs on him, and Brit Hume, in his wisdom, begged the embattled golfer to find Jesus. Now Tiger’s zombie father is getting in on it. In a Nike ad released this week, the disembodied voice of Earl Woods, Tiger’s dead dad, asks his son what he’s learned from his mistakes.
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Win redeems previous BYU losses
Mario Trujillo | April 8The UNM baseball team’s bats got started early and didn’t stop until the ninth inning, but neither did BYU’s.
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Turnaround in time for series opener
Ryan Tomari | April 6Ray Birmingham pays little attention to BYU’s stat sheet or depth chart. Tell the Lobos’ head coach that the Cougars are 13-14 overall, he’ll tell you otherwise.
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Recruits thrown to the wolves
Isaac Avilucea | April 5On 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.
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Alford gets, like, a bajillion dollars
Mario Trujillo | April 5Already 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.
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Sense of unity replaces primadonna attitudes
Isaac Avilucea | April 5As 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.
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Team loss overshadows individual victories
Mario Trujillo | April 5The fangs of inexperience sunk deep into the UNM men’s tennis team, as the Lobos dropped their match 5-2 to No.
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Martinez, Hobson win big after season
Ryan Tomari | April 1It’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.
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Switching up from backfield to secondary
Ryan Tomari | April 1As 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.
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Locksely gets an E for effort and a fat bonus
Harry Greenleaf | April 1The 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.
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Lobo team technically undefeated
Pat Lohmann | April 1Mike Locksley fainted in disbelief when the NCAA announced results of a comprehensive review of the Lobos’ dismal season. “OMG!
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Long-awaited interview shocking and revealing
Mario Trujillo | April 1The 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.
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Lobo Louie not father of Lucy's litter
April 1This 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.
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Conference pipe dreams persist despite harsh reality
Isaac Avilucea | March 29The 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.
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Pitcher-Perfect Ending
Ryan Tomari | March 29The 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.
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Lumberjacks executed on the chopping block
Staff Report | March 29Axed. 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.
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QB coach looking to make name for himself
Ryan Tomari | March 25David 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.
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Emanuel's second win is a career milestone
Mario Trujillo | March 25Strip away a court, a ball and an arbitrary scoring system. Athletes are left with only one thing — raw competition.
