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By Arnie Leshin  Just sign right on the dotted line to welcome the newly recruited University of Oklahoma softball team. Black or blue is fine, the red and white uniform colors will follow as the Sooners path continues down the road of success. Don’t want to get in the way …

By Arnie Leshin  Once again, Oklahoma struck again. Nothing new, it’s been happening all of this softball season. Well, it did lose three times, but nothing will keep it from hoisting a sixth NCAA national championship trophy unless Texas finds a miracle. Wednesday, though, in the late afternoon at the …

By Arnie Leshin  ROSTER REVIEWS: OKLAHOMA SOONERS:   JAYDA COLEMAN — Soph – CF    Lead-off batter, real fast, takes extra base, excellent fielder in cf – hitting .428.    In field .737   Stolen bases – 37 JOYELYN ALO — Sr. — DH             College career home …

By Arnie Leshin  Welcome back Pecos Baseball League. Fort Marcy Ballpark can always find space for you. And what do you know, it’s been quite some time since this haggardly-put-together professional inhabitant of the somewhat put-together independent hardball circuit that made the grade by using the white-stitched ball found elsewhere …

By Arnie Leshin  With Cat Osterman, the southpaw and the greatest to ever twirl out of the circle for Texas can do is reserve another front row seat as the Longhorns finally made their way into the NCAA National Division I Softball World Series. She has never slowed down her support …

By Arnie Leshin  New Mexico Department of Veterans Services (DVS) Cabinet Secretary Sonya Smith has been selected by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to serve on its Research Advisory on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses Committee (RACGWVI). The committee provides advice and makes recommendations to the VA secretary on …

By Arnie Leshin  The daily attendance at the NCAA National Division I Softball World Seres keeps rising and in Saturday’s doubleheader, it came close to a record turnout at the Onge Energy field of the Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City. Announced at 12,533, it opened with top-seeded Oklahoma …

By Arnie Leshin  Augustin Ruiz and family are having an adventure in O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A, where it’s now college softball time. He’s the head baseball coach at St. Michael’s, his wife, Sonya, is the head girls’ basketball coach of the Lady Horsemen, and along on the trip are their three young daughters. But …

By Arnie Leshin  DVS Cabinet Secretary Sonya Smith and other DVS staff will be among the crowd welcoming the 2022 Northern New Mexico Honor Flight back to the Albuquerque Sunport tomorrow at 2:10 p.m. Twenty-five veterans from northern New Mexico made the flight this year: Two from WWII, 11 from …

By Arnie Leshin  Nedicks, how can I forget Nedicks? It was the first stop for me and my young friends at one of the oldy but goldy Madison Square Gardens. This was the Meca of arenas where you would stop outside, pick up some Nedicks hot dogs with mustard and …