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By Arnie Leshin His game-winning field goal was a time for Cincinnati Bengals’ rookie Evan McPherson to celebrate, maybe even doing a few dance steps, but here at  Nissen Stadium in Nashville, it wasn’t the music the Tennessee Titans wanted to hear. For the American Football Conference’s North champions, it …

By NCRTD The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has awarded three northern New Mexico native tribes $830,000 in grant money for projects that support transit services for American Indian Tribes and Alaska Native villages in rural areas. The North Central Regional Transit District (NCRTD) submitted grant requests on behalf of the …

By Arnie Leshin Questions flow prior to Saturday’s National Football League doubleheader of the playoffs. First the early afternoon opener between the 4th-seeded Cincinnati Bengals at the AFC’s No. 1-seeded Tennessee Titans scheduled for a 1:05 kickoff, followed by the late afternoon closer that sends the 6th-seeded San Francisco 49ers …

By SFNF The recent prescribed pile burn in Pacheco Canyon on the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) 7 miles northeast of Santa Fe was a great example of shared stewardship across ownership boundaries to reduce wildfire risk and protect communities and other assets in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), SFNF Supervisor …

By Arnie Leshin  A shorter flight for the San Francisco 49ers this time, but they will need to repeat yet another impressive National Football League playoff game in the cold and windy conditions and possibility of snow at the NFC’S top-seeded Green Bay Packers Saturday. This is game two of …

By Arnie Leshin  It’s a tale of two Heisman Trophy winners in Saturday’s game one of the National Football League playoffs’ second round. One is third-year quarterback Joe Burrow of the surprising Cincinnati Bengals, the American Football Conference champions who rose from last to first and then got past the …

By Arnie Leshin  After its boys basketball team fell surprisingly to visiting Albuquerque Rio Grande in District 5-5A play Tuesday night, the Jaguars’ girls are also home to the Ravens tonight with a chance to snap their 8-game losing skein. It was a 51-42 defeat hung on Capital that dropped …

By NM Game and Fish Catches of the week Eagle Nest Lake: Andrew Luna of Los Lunas caught a 20-inch rainbow trout while ice fishing using a pink Trout Magnet lure Jan. 16. AD Esquibel of Rio Rancho and Matthew Medina of Albuquerque caught a 23-inch rainbow trout and 11 perch …

By Arnie Leshin  After winning 10 of their first dozen games, the Arizona Cardinals National Football League season came to an abrupt halt when they exited upon being dominated by the Los Angeles Rams, 34-11, at sparkling-new SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., in a first time Monday night NFL playoff …

By Arnie Leshin  PITTSBURGH AT KANSAS CITY It was probably veteran quarterback Ben Roethlisberger’s final fling with the visiting Pittsburgh Steelers, but Patrick Mahomes and the 2nd-seeded Kansas City Chiefs didn’t give him any reason to celebrate. At 39, Big Ben concluded with 29-of-44 pass completions for 215 yards and …