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By Arnie Leshin  Dan Hurley was having a ball, he even called out “Hello Jersey City” as his dad, Bob, Sr., and brother Bob, Jr., cheered and applauded.    It was just a sparkling Monday night for the Hurley family when Dan’s Connecticut men’s basketball team turned in the school’s …

By Arnie Leshin  If her team got a kick out of her feisty and flamboyant different clothing outfit every game, it showed it via Sunday’s 102-85 triumph over Iowa.    Piecing together top to bottom outfits began in Kim Mulkey’s second season as head coach of Louisiana State, where before …

ALBUQUERQUE – The New Mexico Lottery released four new games featuring the Spanish word for gold, ORO. New Mexico has a rich history with gold. The discovery of placer gold in the Ortiz Mountains in Santa Fe County initiated the first gold rush in the western United States. There are …

“Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.” 1 Peter 2:16 Our Country has had such great freedom, for well over 200 years, yet this freedom has become a license to sin. We don’t blush at things that …

By Arnie Leshin  It was like a familiar reunion for Dan Hurley.   As the final minutes ticked down in his Connecticut men’s no sweat win over Miami Saturday in the Final Four of the national basketball tournament, the television cameras zeroed in on the stands.   And there sat Bob …

“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with …

By Arnie Leshin  The scoreboard clock on Friday ticked on down to 2.7 seconds, Iowa was up by four points, called time out and Caitlin Clark knew what she was doing.    After yet another remarkable performance from the 6-foot junior, she took the throw in and dribbled to the …

“In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials” 1 Peter 1:6 When we struggle with the downside of being human, we take comfort in knowing that our Savior struggled with it, too. We have a …

By Arnie Leshin  It’s not so bad this men’s 2023 Final Four national basketball tournament.   Played Saturday at the NRG Stadium in Houston, Tx., it’s certainly getting a lot of play, for instance, via jokes, some who’s who and what’s where, and remembrance of Duke and North Carolina in the …

By Arnie Leshin  Believe it, even prior to the opening tip on Saturday, the Columbia University’s women’s basketball team is at a decided disadvantage, a few in fact.   That’s when these Ivy League Lions match up against the Big 12 representative Kansas in the afternoon’s National Invitational Tournament championship …