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By Arnie Leshin  The world champion United States women’s soccer team wins on the field of play, but falls short in court. The Kentucky Derby will not run on today’s first Saturday in May for the first time since 1946. The International Little League World Series of baseball and softball …

By Arnie Leshin  With all due respect to turtles, call it the slowest eight minutes in sports. That’s what will occur late Saturday afternoonat the usual site and annual date of the legendary Kentucky Derby. But no horsing around, for that new date is now Sept. 5 to kick off …

By Arnie Leshin  The coronavirus pandemic outbreak has forced billions of people around the world to answer a question they’d never contemplated. What do we do without live sports? For the past decade, televised sporting events have been one of the last reliable remnants of a shared popular culture. In …

By Arnie Leshin  If anyone expected the Cincinnati Bengals to by pass Joe Burrow with their No. 1 pick, for-get-about-it.  Because if the Bengals weren’t sure, Burrow certainly knew where he was headed, and for him it was like going to class before school even started. “I was well in …

By Arnie Leshin  New England Patriots had no choice as retired tight end Rob Gronkowski hooks up again with Tom Brady. Only a physical before Thursday night‘s 3-day NFL College football draft will make this a done deal, with Gronkowski now un-retired after refusing to resign with New England after hanging up …

By Arnie Leshin The Espanola McCurdy girls have ruled District 2-2A. They have put together district championships and then added the district tournaments. They didn’t do much in the state tournament by losing in the first round, but to the other teams, they are most concerned about moving up in …

 by Arnie Leshin Quite a senior season for Capital High’s Antonio “T.J.” Sanchez. Along the way to the state 5A championship game, the 5-foot-11 wing surpassed the school’s career scoring record held by All-State Terence Mirabal when he graduated in 2002. Eighteen years later it belongs to Sanchez, as well …

By Arnie Leshin  That’s back-to-back All-State First Team girls basketball honors for Pecos’ Trinity Herrera, and opponents beware, the junior has another season ahead. As a sophomore, she was highly instrumental in bringing the Panther girls their initial state hoops championship. This past season, she didn’t get that far, but …

By Arnie Leshin  Just go up and down the television channels, catch a movie, watch some politics, see tapes of past sports events, tune in to talk shows, you have choice of everything but live sports. Call it March Sadness. This is the day after the anticipated college basketball men’s …

By Arnie Leshin  It was no secret, it was out in the open all of this high school basketball season, and only three times did the tall and taller Las Cruces boys fall, you know, the adage, “The bigger they are the harder they fall.” And in Saturday night‘s probable …