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Lobos bear offensive threat
David J. Chavez | August 14A new scheme could allow for an offensive threat to rise from the shadows of Hank Baskett and DonTrell Moore in the 2006 football season.
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Column: Major League rivalry gone soft
Dorian McKenzie | August 14I miss the rivalry. I miss the constant do-or-die feeling of each game. The feeling of wanting your team to win so badly you think each play could be the one to change it all.
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QB to lead team back to basics
Steven Fernandez | July 27Next season, Kole McKamey will not be able to hand the football to DonTrell Moore and watch him slash his way through defenders on his way to a touchdown.
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Senior prepares to lay it all on the line
Vanessa Strobbe | July 27UNM senior offensive tackle Robert Turner said he has dual personalities. The Lobo football team's lone preseason pick for the All-Mountain West Conference team is not the same person on the field as he is off of it.
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Defense hopes for a fresh start
Steven Fernandez | July 27When UNM head football coach Rocky Long talks about his defense, the word that pops up the most is experience. Unfortunately for the Lobos, Long said it is something the defensive unit does not have a lot of.
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Wake-up call offers ex-Lobo a chance to live out his dreams
Steven Fernandez | July 27Ryan Barba may not have been selected by an MLB team on draft day, but he still had one of his biggest dreams come true this summer. Barba, a former shortstop on the UNM baseball team, was signed by the Milwaukee Brewers on July 2. The former Lobo said he was frustrated he wasn't drafted but happy to have the chance to play with a professional organization.
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New channel for MWC
July 20Fans in New Mexico will now have the chance to watch a variety of Mountain West Conference football games on television, starting with the 2006 season.
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Lobos left with gap in lineup
July 20The UNM men's basketball team will be looking to fill an empty roster spot after one of last year's players decided not to return for the 2006-07 season.
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Old coach returns home
July 20Tim Cass, a former tennis player and head coach at UNM, will be returning to the University this fall. Athletic Director Paul Krebs announced Monday that Cass will take over as the senior associate director of athletics at UNM on Aug. 1. Cass is replacing Conrad Colbert, who retired in June.
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Poll places football team fifth
July 20According to the Mountain West Conference preseason poll, the UNM football team is not one of the top teams in the league this year.
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Athlete honored for success on, off track
David J. Chavez | July 20Academics and athletics don't always go hand in hand. But for one UNM athlete, they came together just fine last season.
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Column: All-Star game hits home run
Steven Fernandez | July 13The 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.
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Lobos' actions always in spotlight
Vanessa Strobbe | July 13A 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.
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Lobos arrested Downtown
July 13UNM 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.
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Basketball tickets will be cheaper for students
July 13UNM 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.
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Kovacek caps career with kudos
Steven Fernandez | July 6Former 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.
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Column: U.S. finally watches World Cup
Riley Bauling | July 6Let 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.
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Lobo lands fourth at tourney
David J. Chavez | June 29Mikaela 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.
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Column: A star without drugs
Steven Fernandez | June 29If 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.
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Column: Dwyane Wade fills void left by His Royal Airness
Steven Fernandez | June 22With 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.
