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By Arnie Leshin  Thanks to his stumbling Pittsburgh Steelers crashing the National Football League playoffs via an stirring field goal overtime win in Baltimore last week, Big Ben at 39 years old will again take the field in the wild card first round Sunday night. Since he first took his …

By Arnie Leshin  Shorthanded and playing at Toby Roybal Memorial gymnasium, St. Michael’s came close to getting past red-hot neighbor Santa Fe High before the Demonettes won their third-straight via the 45-40 route Tuesday night. It was the ninth overall win for head coach Nate Morris’ girls, who have a …

By Arnie Leshin  It was freedom of speech and hogwash tossed around by retired Notre Dame women’s basketball coach Muffett McGraw. On a podcast released on Dec. 22, She fired the first shots and people ate up the topic of Connecticut bias in women’s college hoops. Said McGraw with a …

WEDNESDAY, January 12th BOYS BASKETBALL — Capital at Valencia, 7 p.m.                                          Robertson at Pojoaque Valley, 7 p.m. THURSDAY, January 13th BOYS BASKETBALL — Santa Fe High at Espanola Valley, 7 p.m.       …

By Arnie Leshin  Time was ticking down and the Georgia fans who packed Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis were becoming skeptical. In what had been a clash of field goals, the Bulldogs had taken their first lead at 13-9with 10 minutes remaining in this rematch of the 41-24 tussle won …

By SFNF All Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) offices will be closed on Monday, Jan. 17, for the federal holiday in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Virtual business hours will resume on Tuesday, Jan. 18. Observed on the third Monday of January each year, Martin Luther King, Jr. …

By Arnie Leshin  Thanks to the Indianapolis Colts stumbling on the road again, this time at the dismal Jacksonville Jaguars Sunday, Big Ben gets to play another game with the Pittsburgh Steelers. That’s correct, Indy was a shoo-in to make the American Football League playoffs as a wild card out …

By Arnie Leshin  The visiting Academy of Technology and The Classic girls got past Santa Fe Prep, 38-28, in non-district play Saturday, but St. Michael’s lost to Hatch Valley, 41-39, for fifth place in the Albuquerque Sandia Prep tournament, and Capital took a 58-33 non-district defeat versus visiting Taos In …

By Arnie Leshin Santa Fe High, St. Michael’s and Santa Fe Indian School all emerged with boys non-district wins Saturday. The Demons improved to 12-2 overall by turning back the visitors from Clovis, 61-47, and dropping the Wildcats to a dismal 2-12. At St. Michael’s, the Horsemen won for the …

By Arnie Leshin  Its lineup was short-handed, it had only seven players available for Friday’s Albuquerque Sandia Prep girls basketball Invitational, but St. Michael’s hung around, made some key baskets, and turned back Albuquerque Academy, 38-30. Now 5-9, the Lady Horsemen played Hatch Valley (3-4) in the Saturday afternoon fifth …