Lobos installed as 28-point underdogs against Auburn
UNM travels to Auburn on Saturday to face a Tigers squad still reeling from a shocking 21-14 home loss to Cal last weekend.
UNM travels to Auburn on Saturday to face a Tigers squad still reeling from a shocking 21-14 home loss to Cal last weekend.
The Division II school is going all-in with its familiar purple color scheme for a new floor inside the John A. Wilson Complex, a 4,250-seat multipurpose arena that serves as home to its basketball, volleyball and wrestling programs.
You鈥檇 be hard-pressed to find any two teams as different as Espa帽ola Valley and Capital. One is well on its way to playoff contention while the other is just trying to score a point.
Johnson was the Aggies鈥 starting quarterback during the 1959 and 1960 seasons during which he led the team to consecutive wins in the Sun Bowl. He was later drafted into both the NFL and AFL, playing 15 seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Oilers and Denver Broncos.
Norah Holladay鈥檚 mind was made up before the play even began 鈥 she was going to block whatever came her way.
Boys soccer
The conference says it is moving forward on making schedules for 2025 without the Pac-12 schools. The announcement does not necessarily close the door to the two sides agreeing to another arrangement.聽
The Arizona Outlaws, a select team of players 23 years old and younger, knocked off Los Santos 35-17 on Sunday in the championship game of the Fiesta Tens Tournament at the Municipal Recreation Complex.
The Lobos had some good flashes offensively, but struggled defensively聽as No. 21 Arizona opened coach Brent Brennan's first season with a 61-39 win over UNM on Saturday night.
"I love the energy," Horsemen senior Cole Sandoval said. "I love the student sections, the crowds; the coaches are yelling, the players are yelling. Everyone is talking crap to each other. I love the intensity. That's what I want."
Senior associate AD for sports administration Ed Manzanares聽was once the youngest NCAA Division II basketball coach in the country when he took the reigns at New Mexico Highlands before he turned 30.
Senior setter Haley Aguilar had 20 assists to lead the offense, Kaycee Tsosie turned 11 of them into kills and Kailynn Calabaza added seven.
Danny Gonzales didn鈥檛 go to Tucson empty handed. He took running back Jacory Croskey-Merritt and offensive lineman Shancco Matautia with him via the transfer portal.
It was the first time this season the Horsemen faced adversity, but the defending Class 3A champions showed their mettle to start the second half.
The Demons coach pushed all the right buttons in the second half after spotting the Eagles a 21-7 lead at the midway point.聽
Leading his team onto the field for the first time as the school鈥檚 coach, Kurt Taufa鈥檃sau launched what he hopes is an era of sustained growth at NMHU. While his debut didn't go quite as well as he'd hoped, the first step is finally in the record books.
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This weekend, Los Santos will honor the 50th year of its annual Labor Day 疯客直播 Fe Tens Tournament in the best way possible 鈥 by playing rugby.聽
Hired in the spring to take over the football program at New Mexico Highlands University, Kurt Taufa鈥檃sau has spent the last few months quickly molding a roster and a coaching staff with as much talent as he could scrape together.
Girls soccer
Last year was a watershed moment for the program, as it made its first championship appearance.
It鈥檚 pretty clear St. Michael鈥檚 should be the class of Northern New Mexico again, but has that gap closed?
As far as first weeks go for the prep football season, this one was relatively tame.
The Horsemen didn't let the absence of head coach Joey Fernandez phase them in their 42-0 season-opening blowout of the Taos Tigers.
A new era in Lobo football began the same way so many others have ended 鈥 in crushing disappointment.
Words like "brutal" and "demoralizing" could go well with countless other descriptors of Montana State鈥檚 35-31 win in Bronco Mendenhall鈥檚 debut as Lobos coach.
In a game that was a sloppy, defensive battle, and 疯客直播 Fe High's Santiago Villase帽or was a huge playmaker when the moment arose, and he thanked his coach for that.
Montana State, which opens the season ranked No. 4 in the Football Championship Subdivision, has been installed by as much as a 13.5-point favorite.
鈥淚 think the team we had last year was pretty good and a lot of us just kind of learned how to do things as we went along,鈥 said senior Reed Bass, the team鈥檚 starting quarterback.
Head coach Andrew Martinez said previous 疯客直播 Fe high teams talked big, but the results were lacking with a combined 2-17 record over the past two seasons.
Joey Fernandez will miss the season's opening games against Taos and Capital. An anonymous source claims the suspension is due to an expletive-filled video from last season following a win.
疯客直播 Fe High had plenty of scoring chances in the second half before Cy Anderson recorded his first goal of the season.
If nothing changes, nothing changes. That is the credo John Michael Salazar is living by in his first year as the head football coach at Capital.聽
It's time to dust off the crystal ball, break out the tarot cards and summon our inner Nostradamus to forecast this week's opening salvo of the high school football season.
Marley Belyeu has a chance to do for others what was done for her when she was an underclassman with the 疯客直播 Fe Prep girls soccer team.
David Williams, UNM's deputy athletic director, has been named interim athletic director, the school announced Thursday afternoon. Williams will fill the spot vacated by Eddie Nu帽ez, who is the new athletic director at the University of Houston.
Class 5A
Their new independent status gives the Braves a real shot at a hard reboot, to pile up a few wins and bring some nonexistent swagger to a program that has gone 2-17 the past two years and hasn鈥檛 had a winning season since 2015.
The Demons weathered high temperatures and hot tempers in their season-opening win against Albuquerque High.
The bulk of last year's Demons squad is returning. Even better is the addition of several players who missed all or significant parts of the 2023 season because of injuries or ineligibility.
The cast of favorites among Northern New Mexico schools will look familiar 鈥 疯客直播 Fe High, Los Alamos and Las Vegas Robertson have the looks of district and state contenders. However, there could be a few surprises in the 2024 season.
Within 48 hours of one another, the state鈥檚 Division I schools learned two of their biggest sports names -- Eddie Nu帽ez and Jack Nixon -- would be leaving their posts.
The program's goal is to play on the last Saturday of the season. For seven of the past 10 years, the Cardinals have done just that.
Eddie Nu帽ez gets to keep his work outfit鈥檚 color scheme; he will just do it for a different school.
Was this a sign of the new-look Dons, who won鈥檛 back down from any challenger?
Boise State being favored to win the Mountain West remains a remarkable constant. The Broncos were picked for the 17th consecutive year to win a conference or division title.聽
Coming off a four-win season that ended with the exit of one of the most successful coaches in school history, the Taos Tigers are hitting the reset button under first-year man Johnny Olguin.
Officials said the issue was a lack of players, especially at the eighth-grade level, as well as having only one head coach hired in the offseason.
The Hilltoppers won nine games a year ago and reached the second round of the state playoffs in a top-heavy Class 5A. A good portion of that team has been lost to graduation, although enough key starters are back to make things interesting this fall.
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