By Arnie Leshin That’s Jalen Hurts who has paved the way to the Philadelphia Eagles’ possible flight to the Super Bowl. But first he has to contend with the San Francisco 49ers when his top-seeded Philly play host Sunday to San Fran Sunday to decided the National Conference championship. …
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By Arnie Leshin The First place Santa Fe High boys basketball team had a struggle against visiting, surprising Albuquerque Manzano on Wednesday nightin District 5-5A before turning in a 53-50 triumph. Also on Wednesday night in 5-5A, Capital dropped a 60-43 contest at second-place Los Lunas, 60-43, to drop …
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By Arnie Leshin It was a two-for-two sweep for St. Michael’s over Santa Fe Indian School in District 2-3A Tuesday basketball. While the girls got past the Braves, 25-23 at Pueblo Pavilion, the boys turned back the visiting Braves, 61-46. The results gained ground for both in district …
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By Arnie Leshin It was a tough way to end a back-and-forth men’s basketball game that had 16 lead changes and 22 ties, but that’s the way it worked out when University of New Mexico paid a call on Nevada and its two former head coaches Monday night. There …
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Catches of the week Bear Canyon Lake: Aria Silva, age 7, of Phoenix caught her limit of rainbow trout using chartreuse PowerBait on Jan. 14. Elephant Butte Lake: Robert Farley of Las Cruces caught a 21-pound blue catfish using cut bait Jan. 19. Fenton Lake: Noah Montoya, age 11, of Albuquerque …
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By Arnie Leshin One big play engineered by the new man calling signals and a suffocating defensive performance sent the 2nd-seeded San Francisco 49ers into their second straight National Conference championship and the Dallas Cowboys into another downfall. Played at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, it was another inspiring …
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By Arnie Leshin Ah, Buffalo on Sunday morning, where the buddled-up frustrated fan base longs for a ride to the Super Bowl, where the snow made its way in all directions, where the temperatures dropped to 22 degrees at opening kickoff time. Now envision is this where these 3rd-seeded …
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The New Mexico Lottery is seeking submissions for lyrics and music that will promote a new set of Scratcher games this spring. This set of four gold-themed Scratchers are named after the Spanish word for gold, ORO. Like all New Mexico Lottery games, the ORO games will generate revenue to …
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By Arnie Leshin It sure wasn’t like playing Raton in football when St. Michael’s won handily, 73-40, over the visiting Tigers Friday night in DIstrict 2-3A basketball at the Perez-Shelley gymnasium. The Horsemen upped their overall record to 13-4 and won their district opener while Raton dropped to 6-9 …
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By Arnie Leshin DEPENDING ON THE WEATHER CONDITIONS: SATURDAY, January 21 BOYS: Los Lunas at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m. Albuquerque High at Capital, 7 p.m. Santa Fe Prep at Robertson, 7 p.m. Monte del Sol at Native American Academy, 3:30 p.m. Academy for Technology and The Classics at …
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