Sports
Energetic run in first half secures win
Mario Trujillo | January 25In the course of seven minutes, the UNM men’s basketball team turned a close game into a closed game.
Sports
Sports
Former Lobo killed in 3-way car crash
Ryan Tomari | January 25The UNM men’s soccer team was struck by tragic news at the end of last week. Former Lobo soccer player Benjamin Ashwill, 26, died in a three-way car crash Thursday near Santa Rosa, N.M. Ashwill, a graduate of Sandia High School, was a three-time all-state performer and helped the Matadors earn a No.
Sports
A sweeping victory against Corpus Christi
Staff Report | January 25The UNM men’s tennis team has a no-fear mentality entering the spring dual season. Last year, the Lobos captured the Mountain West Conference title and advanced to the NCAA Tournament.
Sports
Runner hopes to break record mile time
Isaac Avilucea | January 22This is about as close as it comes to track and field utopia. The Lobos’ Hermes, Lee Emanuel, and the Albuquerque Convention Center are a blissful — and blistering — match made in heaven.
Sports
Sophomore slump not in key player's vocabulary
Mario Trujillo | January 22After talk of a shooting slump over the last few weeks, the Lobos shot 47.1 percent from the field, and an even better 48.1 from behind the arc, hitting 13-of-27.
Sports
NFL all-star compilation, year's cream of the crop
Ryan Tomari | January 22Today I get a second opportunity to present my all-star NFL team, and hopefully it will be a hell of a lot better than last year’s. Last year, I selected a sampling of players from different teams and compiled my own team of top performers from the 2009 NFL season.
Sports
Coach cites lack of effort despite Air Force win
Mario Trujillo | January 21The UNM women’s basketball team’s stroke was off against Air Force, but it threw up enough shots that it didn’t make the least bit of difference. UNM pasted the Falcons, 3-14 overall and 0-4 in the Mountain West Conference, by 62-42, at The Pit on Wednesday.
Sports
Era of Iverson, McGrady obsolete in modern NBA
Damian Garde | January 20Superstars’ demand for the ball render them unimportant, making a rough transition into post-prime abyss If you’ve been paying attention to NBA All-Star voting, you might have noticed a bizarre trend. Alongside mainstays like LeBron James and Kobe Bryant, two legends on the outs are getting quite a bit of electoral attention from basketball fans. Allen Iverson and Tracy McGrady are once-in-a-lifetime talents — one an undersized offensive psychopath who never met a man he couldn’t score on, the other a stat-sheet stuffer who once put up 13 points in 35 seconds. There’s just one problem: A.I.
Sports
Underdog status stems pride for green team
Brandon Call | January 20The UNM women’s tennis team finds itself in an unfamiliar position entering the 2010 dual season. For the first time in more than a decade, the Lobos are the underdogs.
Sports
Blowout not guaranteed come Air Force clash
Isaac Avilucea | January 20Chris Rock once observed the agonizing drudgery of attending dinner as a single man with a married couple. Of it, he said, “Oh, it’s just disgusting!” That about sums up how today’s contest is bound to end up for the Air Force Academy’s women’s basketball team, when the Falcons travel to face the UNM women’s basketball team at The Pit. The Falcons are a making in Mountain West Conference tragicomedy. So the plot goes — tragically, they are among the conference’s most inspired inhabitants, playing with an outpouring of gnash, said Lobo coach Don Flanagan, not seen in more talented, less hard-working teams.
Sports
Hardeman braces for Air Force onslaught
Ryan Tomari | January 20Making shots to win basketball games will take a backseat for the UNM men’s basketball team this time around. Lobo head coach Steve Alford wants his team to emphasize defense against Air Force (8-8 overall, 0-3 Mountain West Conference) and its Princeton offense Wednesday at Clune Arena in Colorado Springs, Colo. “We talk about defensive patience when you play a team like Air Force,” Alford said.
Sports
Track-and-field senior springs back from injury
Ryan Tomari | January 19It has been a long and winding road for Sandy Fortner in the last year of her athletic stint at UNM. The fifth-year UNM women’s-track-and-field senior is coming off a 2009 redshirt season because Fortner busted one of her kneecaps. At the Lobo Opener on Saturday at the Albuquerque Convention Center, the Fort Sumner, N.M., native made a glorious comeback to the Lobo track-and-field team. In her first race of the day, Fortner started with a victory in the women’s long jump.
Sports
Setting the Pace
Ryan Tomari | January 19The UNM track-and-field team began the new year with an impressive showing. Fifth-year senior Sandy Fortner led the women, placing first in the women’s long jump and 60-meter dash, while Raffi Cote highlighted a strong performance for the men by defeating Nike-sponsored runner Galen Rupp in the men’s 800-meter run during the Lobo Opener inside the Albuquerque Convention Center.
Sports
Young team not afraid to work hard
Brandon Call | January 19The UNM men’s tennis team has a no-fear mentality entering the spring dual season. Last year, the Lobos captured the Mountain West Conference title and advanced to the NCAA Tournament.
Sports
Improved shooting holds off Cowgirls
Isaac Avilucea | January 19Not that The Pit isn’t toasty enough, but Lobo fans might have considered wearing insulated, extreme arctic jackets to the UNM women’s basketball game against Wyoming on Saturday. The Lobos, against Utah, nearly caused the few fans to develop a severe case of frostbite. UNM watched a stranglehold lead disappear, resulting in a 46-40 loss to the Utes on Jan.
Sports
Revamped squad aims for strong season
Loretta Cardenas | January 11The urgency in Ty Singleton’s voice makes it clear: The UNM softball team’s head coach is acutely aware of the pressure to win. Coming off a disappointing 13-35 third season for Singleton and the Lobos, the need to win has never been higher. “It’s very important,” Singleton said.
Sports
Women's basketball keeps pace during winter break
Staff Report | January 11Over the nearly 20-day winter break, the UNM women’s basketball team (9-5) remained steady. The Lobos won when they were supposed to and lost when the odds were against them. They notched a win over in-state rival New Mexico State on Dec.
Sports
Vikings' postseason run in Favre's uncertain hands
Damian Garde | January 11So, I was wrong about Brett Favre. Grossly, painfully wrong. I thought the aging gunslinger would drag an otherwise innocent Vikings team into the bowels of disappointment — exactly where he left the New York Jets last season.
Sports
UNLV's spot-on shooting quiets Pit
Mario Trujillo | January 11The UNM men’s basketball team was handed its third loss — its second in a row, and its first in 20 games inside the friendly confines of The Pit.
Sports
Spotty defense troubles Lobos in rare home loss
Isaac Avilucea | January 11In a sense, what Kendall Wallace did to Steve Alford’s Lobos was poetic justice. Alford, renowned in his heyday for his artistic 3-point stroke, forced teams to extend their man-to-man defenses and do away with zones. This time it was Wallace, salting the Lobos’ wounds by peppering in a barrage of 3-pointers.
