As a child, Nick Geyer was given a slew of sporting options. On his sixth birthday, Geyer's father, David, gave him a baseball glove, a hockey stick, a tennis racket, a basketball and a golf club. "We just started to go through all of them, and golf is the one that ended up sticking," Geyer said.
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At first it sounded like a tacky, made-for-TV testimonial, a way to solicit more players from the UNM football team to join in the yoga sessions held twice a week inside the Indoor Practice Facility. "You put in the work, you get the results," said UNM linebacker Jaymar Latchison.
Apparently, in head football coach Mike Locksley's eyes, "if you look better, you play better." So in accordance with that philosophy, Locksley unveiled the Lobos' 2009 season uniforms at a news conference on Friday. The slightly modified uniforms have a more traditional, almost throwback feel to them, Locksley said.
Watching the MLB All-Star Game is tough. Trust me. I tried. Last week's exhibition of American League dominance was, somehow, less interesting than ones prior. Manny Ramirez was absent, Ryan Howard choked, and Josh Hamilton just isn't as exciting when he's not addicted to drugs.
Two UNM volleyball players will take their game to the international level this week. Sophomore middle blocker Ashley Rhoades and libero Allison Buck are two of the 12 players selected to represent the United States on the Bring It Promotions/USA Development Team.
Dex Yellow Pages might not have as many listings on the West Coast as Wyking Jones. Jones, UNM's new assistant coach for men's basketball, comes to New Mexico boasting nearly a decade of experience and some heavy West Coast connections, head coach Steve Alford said.
Phil Jackson thinks he's a supreme-court justice. He thinks coaching the Los Angeles Lakers is a lifetime appointment. But what he needs to realize is that he doesn't need to return to the Lakers. In fact, he shouldn't - for the betterment of his health and the organization's.
Few people - other than football players - know the intricacies of the cover-two defense. Thanks to the Lobo clinic "Football 101," about 50 women from New Mexico are now among those few. That was one of many things head football coach Mike Locksley and his staff taught during Saturday's annual clinic, which catered exclusively to women, inside University Stadium.
To say he can simply fly is selling his did-he-just-do-that explosiveness short. With one fluid bound of his bulging right calf muscle, Tony Danridge can propel himself off the precipice of the planet. Yet, he's one of the most down-to-earth players to court the ozone layer.
Early last week, head football coach Mike Locksley announced a rule barring his players from Downtown Albuquerque. His decision came a day after two players, Quintell Solomon and Byron Bell, were arrested on multiple charges in the area. "I don't want to get into specifics of where, what, and what block it cuts off at," Locksley said.
Lately, it takes me three hours to watch a 48-minute NBA game. In this year's postseason, we saw 10 overtime periods, with one game in the Bulls-Celtics series going to triple-OT. Compare that to the playoffs in baseball and football, and it appears that, in basketball, games are far more likely to end regulation in a tie than in other sports.
He's listed as 5-feet-10-inches, but Mike Brownstein played with more stature than his frame suggests. And it's why the Milwaukee Brewers took the former Lobo in the 14th round of the 2009 MLB Draft. Brownstein was one of six UNM players taken in this year's amateur draft.
Don't call it beginner's luck. UNM javelin thrower Anthony Fairbanks has been competing for years. But in his first NCAA appearance, Fairbanks did something that hasn't been accomplished by a men's javelin thrower in more than 30 years. Fairbanks became the first Lobo to earn All-American honors since Frank Burgasser accomplished the feat in 1967.
Two current UNM football players, Byron Bell, 20, and Quintell Solomon, 19, were arrested early Sunday morning in Downtown Albuquerque, according to the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court Web site. The two were charged with disorderly conduct and participating in a public affray.
Ty Singleton employed a not-so-common agricultural technique to softball this season. The UNM head coach slashed and burned much of the Lobos' roster at the beginning of the year. He knew it had to be done - even if it risked the immediate future of Lobo softball.
Seven fresh faces and four wily veterans for the UNM track and field team will compete in the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Fayetteville, Ark. "Sending a record 11 athletes to the NCAA championship is always a great thing," head coach Joe Franklin said. Senior javelin thrower Katie Coronado will try to top her second-place finish in the 2008 NCAA Championships, while Lee Emanuel will look to add another bullet to his résumé, which already boasts a first-place finish in the one-mile race of this year's NCAA Indoor Championships.
Albion W. Tourgee, a pioneer civil-rights activist in the late 1800s, once said, "Jesus Christ was a carpetbagger." If only he could have met Terrell Eldorado Owens. Owens is the ultimate carpetbagger. Much like the people of the Reconstruction Era that the term was used to describe, Owens invades teams as an outsider, infiltrates the organization and then tries to assume authority.
Mike Brownstein didn't resort to pulling out a bag of excuses. The UNM baseball team's second baseman did his best to make sense of the way the Lobos asphyxiated themselves down the stretch, causing the Lobos to lose out on a trip to an NCAA Regional. UNM's postseason aspirations were wiped out by consecutive losses in the Mountain West Conference Tournament, coupled with Utah becoming the first No.
There will be no LeBron James in the NBA Finals. No puppets, no chalk, no oddly protruding right mandible. In his place is the Orlando Magic, a team that has a star in Dwight Howard, but whose success relies mostly on unsexy things like defense and Hedo Turkoglu.
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