The 2006 Major League Baseball All-Star game went down as one of the best All-Star games I have ever seen, and not just because the American League rallied to win 3-2.
A quarterback throws a 50-yard touchdown pass to win a game. A point guard makes a buzzer-beating three-pointer in overtime. A shortstop slugs a clutch grand slam in the ninth inning. An athlete drives drunk.
UNM football players Blake Ligon and Herbert Felder were arrested early Friday morning on charges of disorderly conduct and failure to obey an officer after an incident at a bar Downtown. Ligon and Felder, both 20, were involved in an altercation with police and bouncers at the Colosseum Nightclub on 515 Central Ave. NE, according to a criminal complaint.
UNM announced Wednesday that there are several ticket changes for the 19-game men's basketball 2006-07 season. Those changes include a drop in student ticket prices. Student tickets are now $5 per game and $75 per season. That's $29 less per season than last year. Students can buy up to two guest passes for $150 each - a $58 decrease from last year's price of $208. Last year, students could only buy one guest pass.
Former UNM tennis player Maja Kovacek put an exclamation point on a stellar year for UNM student athletes. Kovacek, a standout on the women's tennis team during her four-year career, was named the Mountain West Conference Female Student Athlete of the Year on June 29.
Let me preface the beginning of this column by saying I don't like Bernie Mac or his show, where he has those goofy monologues in which he refers to America as if the whole nation is watching.
Mikaela Backstedt proved she can play with the best young female golfers in the world June 14. Representing UNM and her home country of Sweden, Backstedt finished fourth overall at the British Open Amateur Championships. Backstedt said she was pleased with her performance against the stiff competition.
If Albert Pujols didn't get hurt earlier this season, maybe baseball fans would really have something to celebrate. Coming into 2006, the most overanalyzed and annoying storyline was Barry Bonds trying to catch Babe Ruth for second place on the all-time home run list. The most frustrating thing about that fiasco was that television stations kept interrupting shows for every single one of Bonds' at-bats.
With Dwyane Wade winning the 2006 NBA Finals MVP, the NBA is going through a revolution. That's right, the Michael Jordan hangover may finally be over. For years, basketball fans have been waiting for another superstar to captivate us like His Airness once did. Many have tried and many have failed, at least until now. Let me explain.
Despite being drafted by the Texas Rangers on June 7, Danny Ray Herrera isn't leaving UNM. The standout pitcher for the Lobo baseball team will be returning for his senior season in 2007, after his breakout campaign in 2006.
UNM's Chris Carlson watched the Major League Baseball draft with a chip on his shoulder. In 2004, Carlson was cut from the Kansas State University baseball team. That summer, the Lobos signed him.
Nate Melek is ready to prove he was worth the draft pick. The Toronto Blue Jays selected Melek, a senior pitcher from UNM, in the 43rd round on the last day of the Major League Baseball draft on June 7.
Three former UNM baseball players may get the chance to continue their careers as members of Major League Baseball teams. Chris Carlson, Nate Melek and Danny Ray Herrera were selected on the second day of the Major League Baseball Draft on Wednesday.
All right you pitiful Americans who have yet to embrace the beautiful game, listen up. We are on the eve of the greatest sporting event in the entire world and all of you have a reason to pay attention.
I haven't been this excited for an NBA Finals in years. First, there is the heroic Dwyane Wade who played through the flu to help the Miami Heat advance to its first-ever finals appearance, gaining him mounds upon mounds of Michael Jordan comparisons.
UNM pole vaulters Derek Mackel and Robert Caldwell will not be moving on in the NCAA Championships.
Success came easy for Jay Choi as a Lobo. Now that his senior season is over, the former UNM men's golfer said he plans to continue his winning ways professionally.
Derek Mackel put himself in rare company when he punched his ticket to the 2006 NCAA Track and Field Championships after his victory at the Midwest Regional Championships last weekend.
The UNM women's basketball team will have a fairly different makeup next season, and not only because it lost three key seniors.
Maja Kovacek will get one last opportunity to play with her teammates before her career at UNM comes to an end. The senior All-American tennis player said she was surprised to find out the No. 46 Lobos were selected to play at the NCAA Championships, which begin May 12.
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