Player puts foot down against Triple-A
Steven Fernandez | April 5Most college baseball players would consider facing Triple-A pitching a nightmare, but for Matt Foote, it was a dream come true.
Most college baseball players would consider facing Triple-A pitching a nightmare, but for Matt Foote, it was a dream come true.
One of these days, I'm going to bite the bullet, pay to see a Major League Baseball game in person, and actually feel like I'm paying for some of those clowns' salaries.
To be honest with you, I hate this time of year. This is when I say goodbye to college basketball and face the long sleepless nights ahead waiting for football to start. During this time I face many delusions, cravings and mood swings that would rival even the most dependent drug addict.
The University of New Mexico baseball team dropped a 1-0 lead against the Albuquerque Isotopes Tuesday night at Isotopes Park.
Behind solid singles play, the UNM men's tennis team ousted rival New Mexico State University 6-1 on Saturday. With the win, No. 67 UNM improves to 9-4 on the season, and 84-9 all-time against NMSU.
Injured or not, Jacquelyne Gallegos is going to leave her mark on her final outdoor track and field season. The UNM senior distance runner made her successful 2006 outdoor debut, winning the women's 3,000-meter run at Saturday's Cardinal and Gold Invitational. Gallegos missed most of this year's indoor season struggling through a hamstring injury, but bested the field in Los Angeles with a time of 10:03.78.
With one inning to go, the UNM baseball team's game with the Utah Utes was suspended Sunday because both teams had to catch planes.
The UNM softball team started conference play with a pair of losses to Colorado State in a doubleheader Saturday.
Matt Henry will get the opportunity to try to out-coach his older brother, Pat Henry, this weekend.
Boston College executed its game plan to stop All-American Kim Smith perfectly. Just for good measure, the Eagles also shut down last year's co-Mountain West Conference Player of the Year, Shona Thorburn, in their Sweet 16 game against the University of Utah at The Pit on Saturday.
Crystal Langhorne ended Sophia Young's brilliant college career and helped assure that there will be a new champion in women's basketball.
After quitting and rejoining the UNM men's basketball team twice, Joel Box has decided to leave for good. The junior college transfer said this time he does not intend on coming back to the Lobos because he wasn't comfortable playing in head coach Ritchie McKay's system.
The UNM men's tennis team picked up its third consecutive win Saturday afternoon by battering Northern Arizona University 7-0.
The University of New Mexico baseball team was unable to sweep Dallas Baptist University after a dismal offensive display and poor pitching in a 10-2 loss on Saturday.
Entering Saturday's Jim Click Shootout, freshman Katie Coronado had never competed at the college level.
After what he calls a successful indoor season, UNM head track and field coach Matt Henry said he is eager to get the 2006 outdoor season under way.
The UNM women's basketball team is out of the NCAA Tournament and the men's team said goodbye a few weeks back, but that doesn't mean Albuquerque will be short on basketball this weekend.
Last Thursday and Friday, without school and no planned Spring Break trip, it was the perfect time to see if my bracket would survive the first round or be crushed by upsets.
by Vanessa Strobbe Daily Lobo Nick Speegle has made the first-year transition from a Lobo to a Cleveland Brown. April's 2005 NFL Draft sent the UNM graduate and ex-Lobo football player to the Browns in the sixth round with the 176th pick overall. In July, the Browns signed him to a four-year contract.
The piece of paper that was my NCAA Tournament bracket now looks like someone lit it on fire, urinated on it, then passed it through a shredder.