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By Arnie Leshin  BOYS: CLASS 5A — 1. Volcano Vista versus 16 Capital. 2. Sandia versus 15 Rio Grande. 3. Los Lunas versus 14 Las Cruces. 4. West Mesa versus 13 Santa Fe High. 5. Organ Mountain versus 12 Hobbs. 6. Carlsbad versus 11 Las Cruces. 7. Cleveland versus 10 Eldorado. 8. Rio Rancho versus 9 …

By Arnie Leshin  MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE  MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL   STANDINGS and SCHEDULES:                                         W-L      Overall      San Diego State          14-3       23-6 Boise State  …

By Arnie Leshin  It was a full house, capacity crowd of 18,812 Monday night at the Meca of venues Madison Square Garden, which continues to send a message that these New York Knicks are for real.   And these fans that have waited a long time for this, watched the …

By Arnie Leshin  I go way, way back when it comes to Bob Hurley, Jr., like when I was covering sports for the Hudson Dispatch in the Garden State and he was a 7th-grader and calling in scores for his father’s super St. Anthony boy’s basketball team in Jersey City. …

By Arnie Leshin  With only hapless Xavier to play tonight at home in Storrs, the UConn women’s basketball team has lucked out among the top four seeds in the national rankings.    In what has been a topsy-turvy wind-up, even top-ranked, undefeated South Carolina (29-0) had back-to-back struggles in topping unranked …

By Arnie Leshin  What Ira Harge, Jr. started, his former assistant coach Arthur Gonzales had handled very well as the Pecos boys basketball team continues to roll along in District 6-2A.   Saturday night‘s 75-59 win over visiting Texico before the usual large turnout at the Louis G. Memorial court …

By Arnie Leshin  This time it was really the butler who did it, took the basketball to beyond the 3-point line and beat the final buzzer before a disappointed packed crowd at the Pit Saturday night.    Rack it up as the winner for 6-foot-2 junior Lamont Butler, his last …

By Arnie Leshin  Men’s college basketball March Madness has taken another turn.  Usually, there’s a clear favorite or a few other quality teams with the key ingredients. Consider it parody or just a larger field in the hunt.   There’s Purdue, which was No. 1 until moving down to No. …

By Arnie Leshin  I should be writing this in green, but I’ll let the New York Jets do that.    Ah, the Gang Green Nation. Began in 1959 wearing blue and  red, playing in the Polo Grounds in upper Manhattan, and known as the Titans of New York.    In …

Deadlines are approaching fast: – March 15 at 5:00 p.m. – Deadline to qualify for early application incentives. – March 22 at 5:00 p.m. – Deadline to apply for draw licenses for Barbary sheep, bighorn sheep, deer, elk, ibex, javelina, pronghorn and oryx. Deadline to submit late 2022–23 harvest reports for …