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Highlands going all-in on purple for new floor

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Was this a sign of the new-look Dons, who won鈥檛 back down from any challenger?

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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.

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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.