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By Arnie Leshin  If you’ve been following the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament through the years, there’s quite a list of the premier championship games. No rap against women’s hoops, but it was much easier to recall those of the men and perhaps one day include the other gender. 1939: Let’s …

By Arnie Leshin  Charli Koseoglu is one of those high school athletes who loves to compete, as she has done with the girls basketball program at Academy of Technology and The Classics, with the cross country team, and in track and field where she goes from one event to another …

By Arnie Leshin Robertson remained frontrunners with East Mountain in softball District 2-3A by hitting the road and pitching a 2-0 triumph over Santa Fe Indian School Tuesday afternoon. The Cardinals,12-3 overall and 3-0 in district, scored its runs in the third innings with the assistance of three Braves errors …

By Arnie Leshin  Both St. Michael’s and Robertson went on hit parades Tuesday afternoon as their baseball teams prepared for Saturday’s doubleheader in the clash for the top spots in District 2-3A, and with East Mountain also up there at 8-2. Up at Raton, the Horsemen won their sixth in …

By NM Game and Fish Catches of the week Bear Canyon Lake: Aria and Gabriella Jaquez, ages 6 and 9, of Las Cruces caught their limit of rainbow trout using salmon eggs and yellow PowerBait March 29. Cochiti Lake: Baudie Balliett of Cochiti Lake caught a 20.5-inch, 5-pound, 14-ounce largemouth …

By SFNF Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) are planning to resume implementation of the previously announced Las Dispensas prescribed burn on the Pecos/Las Vegas Ranger District tomorrow if forecasted conditions stay in place. Prescribed burns are designed to meet specific objectives and are always managed with …

By Arnie Leshin  Twice Kansas took care of business. In the huge second half turnaround against 10th-seeded Miami in the Midwest Regional final, the lone top-seeded Jayhawks charged out of their locker room with one thought in mind, and that was to erase the 15-point deficit and race past the …

By SFNF Although New Mexico has legalized recreational use of marijuana, the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) wants to remind visitors that nothing has changed within forest boundaries. Under the federal Controlled Substances Act, marijuana is classified as a Schedule I drug. The possession of marijuana on federal lands is …

By Arnie Leshin  TUESDAY:  BASEBALL — St. Michael’s at Raton, 3 p.m.                         Robertson at Santa Fe Indian School, 4 p.m. SOFTBALL — St. Michael’s at Raton, 4 p.m.                     …

By Arnie Leshin  If you like history, you’ll find some when you look up the men’s college basketball teams of Kansas and North Carolina. That’s the past, tonight is the present when the two premier programs take the court at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans for the right to later …