All Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) offices will be closed Monday, May 29, in observance of Memorial Day and will resume regular business hours on Tuesday, May 30. Memorial Day is a time we set aside to remember and pay tribute to the heroic members of our military who sacrificed …
Read More »BOSTON CELTICS AGAIN TOP MIAMI HEAT
By Arnie Leshin Maybe the Boston Celtics have heard it 150 times, but they are still in there scraping and doing enough to outplay the 8th-seeded Miami Heat. And with Thursday night‘s 110-97 second-straight impressive win, the second-seeded green has cut the deficit to 3-2 as Saturday’s National Basketball …
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Down and almost out, the 2nd-seeded Boston Celtics recovered
By Arnie Leshin It was apparent, the 2nd-seeded Boston Celtics were just trying to save their season. Behind in games 3-0 and down nine points in the third quarter, they were on the brink of elimination playing at the 8th-seeded Miami Heat Tuesday night. But just like that, everything …
Read More »No. 1 OKLAHOMA LEADS THE WAY
By Arnie Leshin The regional round has come and gone and it appears that No. 1, top of the heap Oklahoma, might be on its way to a third consecutive championship. If you haven’t been followed the long run from day one for the Sooners, it’s the NCAA Division …
Read More »CARMELO ANTHONY RETIRES AFTER 19 YEARS
By Arnie Leshin With a promise to his mother Mary that if he signed on to play in the National Basketball Association, freshman Carmen Anthony led Syracuse University to its first and only national championship in 2003. It was an epic journey for him. He hoisted the NCAA trophy and …
Read More »FLORIDA PANTHERS THE OTHER EIGHTH SEED FROM SOUTH FLORIDA
By Arnie Leshin Move over, Miami Heat, you’ve got company. But not on the basketball court of the National Basketball Association, for its on the ice where the National Hockey League’s Florida Panthers are the eighth-seed and up 2-0 on the 3rd-seeded Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference. …
Read More »MIAMI HEAT, THE EIGHTH-SEED, A WIN AWAY FR0M THE NBA FINAL
By Arnie Leshin The Miami Heat has been there before, has already hoisted three National Basketball Association championship trophies, but never, ever as an eighth seed. But, of all the 3-0 series leads in NBA history, this one might be the one most unexpected — the well-coached one of …
Read More »Top-ranked Oklahoma sent California away Sunday
By Arnie Leshin California was hopeful of pulling off a major upset, but instead the PAC-12 Bears were just another statistic belonging to top-ranked Oklahoma in its 5-inning 16-3 mercy-rule success in the Norman Regional It was the third straight win in the region for the once-beaten (54-1) Sooners …
Read More »That’s back-to-back defeats
By Arnie Leshin That’s back-to-back defeats, a crushing blow to nationally ranked, a record 12-championship UCLA. The latest, Friday’s 3-2 setback against visiting Grand Canyon in round one of the NCAA National Division 1 Women’s Softball Tournament ended the Bruins season at 52-8. It came shortly after UCLA …
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