Now, four years after thinking they had made a big deal with the Boston Celtics, they still have a 2018 No. 1 draft pick to give, and the Celts will turn it over to Cleveland By ARNIE LESHIN, Santa Fe Today When the number one nomads of professional sports make …
Read More »Playing five sports is history for Jocelyn Fernandez, as she now looks ahead to basketball at Weatherford Junior College
Her father drove her to the Texas school on Monday. Her dad, Joey Fernandez, said that she hadn’t been away from home too often and that she was nervous about this new chapter in her life By ARNIE LESHIN, Santa Fe Today Having played five sports her senior year at …
Read More »Santa Fe’s Farha is hoping to do well in the annual MAYB National Basketball Championships
The Trujillos, Daniel, Jr., and Daniel, Sr, are the coaches for a team that carries only six players as pool play starts Friday for some 300 teams from across the country By ARNIE LESHIN, Santa Fe Today WICHITA, Kan. – Daniel Trujillo is hoping his young players don’t get lost …
Read More »Geno Auriemma coaches championship women’s basketball teams and isn’t concerned about who’s who and who’s what
Be gay if you may, but keep it out of the game you play, and just win, babe, just win and be yourself By ARNIE LESHIN, Santa Fe Today It is what it is, and all Geno Auriemma is concerned about is the upcoming season for his University of Connecticut …
Read More »Annual Horsemen Basketball Camp at St. Michael’s winds up with a impressive turnout
The Camp is under the leadership of new head basketball coaches David Rodriguez and Martin Esquibel. School’s basketball players Alex Schandelwein, Antoine Gabaldon and Billy Hunter assist with the campers and learning more of the game as they become seniors By ARNIE LESHIN, Santa Fe Today No doubt about it, …
Read More »Just taking it to the bank is what National Basketball Association players are doing
Houston Rocket James Harden now richer than richer and owners just signing on the dotted line. Other professional sports pay well, but rank behind the NBA, while New York Yankee rookie Aaron Judge is the new Bronx Bomber on the road to the land of riches COMMENTARY By ARNIE LESHIN, …
Read More »Almost a capacity turnout in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center Sunday as Big3 3-on-3 Basketball League Debuts with its new look and Hall of Famers
Julius Erving, Allen Iverson, Clyde Drexler coaching. The eight-team league will play on 10 weekends, with the championship on Aug. 26 in Las Vegas, Nev., with games on television viewed on Monday nights By ARNIE LESHIN Only in America? Well, maybe not, but when you outdraw the Barclays Center National Basketball League …
Read More »NBA Finals, Warriors up 3-1 heading into Monday night
No sweep here, no championship for Golden State in Cleveland Friday night as Cavaliers delight the home crowd with an impressive 137-116 victory But Warriors still up 3-1 when the series returns to Oakland Monday night and Cleveland chasing again By Arnie Leshin Hoping to provide their home fans with …
Read More »Dave Rodriguez to coach St. Michael’s boys basketball
St. Michael’s names its two new head basketball coaches, with Dave Rodriguez announced as coach of the boys and Martin Esquibel of the girls Long-time head boy’s coach at Santa Fe High, Rodriguez is now a full-time teacher at St. Michael’s, while Esquivel was an assistant Lady Horsemen coach for five years By …
Read More »Cindy Roybal is Santa Fe High’s new girl’s head basketball coach
The coaching knowledge of Cindy Roybal lands at 6A Santa Fe High Thursday as its new girl’s head basketball coach after leaving Espanola Valley New challenge for the long-time coach as she takes over a program heading into its third year versus the big schools By Arnie Leshin | April 21, …
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