Instant gratification is an unfortunate byproduct of living in a microwave era. In that regard, Lobo football head coach Mike Locksley’s glass-half-full approach has, so far, worked against him. With great aplomb, Locksley defiantly professed to be a handyman when he was hired in December 2008 to refurbish a well-erected foundation.
The UNM softball team increased its losing streak to 10 after a 10-5 loss to BYU on Thursday. BYU started right off the bat, bringing in four runs in the first inning.
Whatever you do, don’t get in his way. He’s a mean, brute force and a downright violent rugby player out on Johnson Field. Alex Melad, a member of the UNM club team, truly defines what a rugby player should be. “He is one of our key players on the team,” said teammate Drew Riordan.
The other five matches had ended. Tied at three, the entire UNM men’s tennis team and Boise State stood opposite each other, cheering on Lobo Jadon Phillips and Boise State’s Filipp Pogostkin as they dueled in the deciding match at the Linda Estes Tennis Center on Thursday.
UNM men’s basketball head coach Steve Alford is not a pool enthusiast. Nonetheless, he keeps aptly pocketing big-time prospects. The Lobos officially announced their five 2010 signees.
Such cavalier attire for such a momentous decision. Darington Hobson, dressed in a long-sleeved, cherry mesh shirt, black basketball shorts and retro Jordans, with shin-high Nike socks, announced Tuesday that he will forego his senior season with the UNM men’s basketball team and enter the 2010 NBA Draft. “I feel like this is what I was put on Earth to do,” Hobson said. Hobson will not hire an agent, leaving open the possibility he could return to the Lobos.
Last year, around this time, Levi Jaeckel was placing basketballs on racks and taking orders from the UNM men’s basketball team’s coaching staff. This spring, however, Jaeckel is running routes and catching passes for the UNM football team.
Just. Like. That. “One play,” said running backs coach Darrell Dickey, “and it’s done.” Suddenly and callously. Terence Brown’s story is a real tear-jerker — how he was on the cusp of becoming the Lobos’ starting running back when he was dealt an unfavorable blow last April. Almost a year to the day later, on Saturday, Brown recollected the infamous practice with precise clarity. “I remember the whole situation, the exact play,” Brown said.
Gone are the days of the composite tailback. College football no longer lends itself to a do-it-all, one-man show in the backfield.
Cameron 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.
The 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.
The UNM baseball team’s bats got started early and didn’t stop until the ninth inning, but neither did BYU’s.
Ray 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.
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.
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