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.
A family of athletes and a lifetime of competitive sports helped lead Whitney Johnson to UNM to become the best pole vaulter in school history.
After the NCAA Championships, I thought it would be years before I saw the same amount of blood, sweat and tears pour out onto a basketball court.
Give the head coach of UNM's club lacrosse team three to five years, and the team will be playing for a national championship.
New Mexico football fans will no longer have to travel long distances to watch a college bowl game. Gov. Bill Richardson announced Monday at a news conference that the state will partner with ESPN to launch the first New Mexico Bowl. The first bowl game hosted in New Mexico will be held at University Stadium on Dec. 23, at 2:30 p.m.
The fact that NBA Commissioner David Stern did not suspend Reggie Evans of the Denver Nuggets after his crotch-grabbing fiasco is very disturbing to me.
Finally, after a 438-game regular season, the NBA Playoffs are here. Being that I don't have cable, I'd like to declare a hex upon all the money-grubbing executives who put the playoffs on channels I have to pay for.
The UNM baseball team is on a five-game losing streak after falling 8-2 to No. 5 Oregon State on Sunday in Corvallis, Ore.
Anthony Fairbanks' decision to attend UNM after being a high school All-American meant that he would not receive a full scholarship.
The UNM men's tennis team's season came to an end at the Mountain West Conference Championships Thursday after the team fell to Brigham Young University 4-2 in San Diego.
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