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Basketball team loses 6 players
June 1The UNM women's basketball team will have a fairly different makeup next season, and not only because it lost three key seniors.
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Lobos last pick for finals
Steven Fernandez | May 8Maja 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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Sophomore pole vaulter makes history at UNM
David J. Chavez | May 8A family of athletes and a lifetime of competitive sports helped lead Whitney Johnson to UNM to become the best pole vaulter in school history.
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Column: LeBron James: the bionic, half-man, half-God in sneakers
Andre van der Merwe | May 3After 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.
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Coach sees nationals on lacrosse horizon
Riley Bauling | May 3Give the head coach of UNM's club lacrosse team three to five years, and the team will be playing for a national championship.
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N.M. to get college bowl
Steven Fernandez | May 3New 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.
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Column: If Evans isn't punished, players will cop feels all over the court
Steven Fernandez | May 3The 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.
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Column: For all of Kobe's hype, he'll be left out of the finals
Riley Bauling | May 3Finally, 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.
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Baseball team loses fifth-straight game
May 1The UNM baseball team is on a five-game losing streak after falling 8-2 to No. 5 Oregon State on Sunday in Corvallis, Ore.
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Top athlete reserves talent for hometown
Steven Fernandez | May 1Anthony Fairbanks' decision to attend UNM after being a high school All-American meant that he would not receive a full scholarship.
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Men's tennis season brought to a close
May 1The 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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Pennington picked up by Bills
May 1Terrance Pennington became the second Lobo taken in the 2006 NFL Draft when he was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the seventh round.
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UNM takes 1st in 10 events
David J. Chavez | May 1Sophomore Whitney Johnson soared to a height of 13-00 3/4 to set a UNM women's pole vault record on Saturday. Johnson became the first UNM woman to clear 13 feet at the Don Kirby Memorial Invitational at the Great Friends of UNM Track Stadium.
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Golf team earns 4th MWC title
May 1Jay Choi led the UNM men's golf team to its fourth consecutive Mountain West Conference Championship on Saturday in Bend, Ore., winning the individual title in the process.
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TCU tops UNM in MWC semifinals
May 1The UNM women's tennis team fell to No. 1-seed Texas Christian University in the semifinals of the Mountain West Conference Championships, losing 4-1 Friday in San Diego.
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Cool under pressure of draft
Steven Fernandez | April 28Hank Baskett hasn't been watching ESPN, reading the online mock drafts, or paying attention to any other news about this weekend's NFL Draft.
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Put in work for chance to play
Vanessa Strobbe | April 28Ryan Cook's biggest football moment could come this weekend. After being a standout center for the UNM football team, Cook is preparing for Saturday's NFL Draft. Mel Kiper Jr. has Cook ranked as the fourth-highest center in the 2006 NFL Draft.
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Maryland signs former Lobo
April 28The University of Maryland signed ex-Lobo Bambale Osby to a scholarship Thursday. As a freshman, Osby played in 31 of 33 games for the UNM men's basketball team during the 2004-2005 season. It was the same season the Lobos won the Mountain West Conference Tournament and made their first NCAA Tournament appearance in six years.
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Lobos' final lap at home track
Steven Fernandez | April 28Derek Mackel is one of 14 seniors on the UNM track and field team who will have their final opportunity to perform in front of a home crowd.
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UNM sweeps three-game series
Vanessa Strobbe | April 24Zach Arnett might have had a few reasons to wait until Sunday to hit his first home run. Maybe it took the true freshman a few months to transition from playing as a linebacker on the UNM football team to hitting a baseball.
