The Trujillos, Daniel, Jr., and Daniel, Sr, are the coaches for a team that carries only six players as pool play starts Friday for some 300 teams from across the country By ARNIE LESHIN, Santa Fe Today WICHITA, Kan. – Daniel Trujillo is hoping his young players don’t get lost …
Read More »Good for you, my friend Claire Smith, you are so deserving of this prestigious J.G. Taylor Spink Award
A well deserving award for your years of being an honorable baseball writer and wonderful human being. And inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame caps off 34 years of covering the National Pastime with pride and joy By ARNIE LESHIN, Santa Fe Today It’s an honor, a proud honor, …
Read More »Long layoff for the Santa Fe Monsters is almost over as the host team begins play Friday morning
Southwest Junior Little League Regional at St. Michael’s is comprised of a field of six teams. Thursday morning’s 9:30 first pitch matches New Mexico state champion Shorthorn from Carlsbad against Texas West, with Texas East following versus Louisiana at noon By ARNIE LESHIN, Santa Fe Today If Brady Tucker had …
Read More »Yo, mon, it was a good show by all when the United States edged Jamaica, 2-1, in Wednesday night’s CONCACAF’s Gold Cup soccer final
It was soccer, just soccer, no brawls, no ejections, no crumbling of the stands, just a match unlike those undesirable ones played in Europe and other lands By ARNIE LESHIN, Santa Fe Today It was no doubt the biggest sports event at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara since the 2015 …
Read More »Texas West wins Junior Little League Softball Regional to gain the International World Series
Louisiana advanced to the WS in Lower Sussex, Del., by winning the Seniors. Both champions went undefeated in Isleta Pueblo, N.M. and in Vidalia, Louisiana, respectively By ARNIE LESHIN, Santa Fe Today Either the Texas West team from the Greater Helotes Softball League was dominant over a weak field or …
Read More »If you expected it to be Mexico playing the United States Wednesday for the CONCACAF Gold Cup championship, well delete El Tri
Bring on the Reggae Boyz after its upset in Sunday’s semifinals. Late goal by Kemar Lawrence ends scoreless struggle and brings the island a 1-0 shocker over favored Mexico By ARNIE LESHIN, Santa Fe Today Down the way where the nights are gay and the sun shines daily on the …
Read More »Geno Auriemma coaches championship women’s basketball teams and isn’t concerned about who’s who and who’s what
Be gay if you may, but keep it out of the game you play, and just win, babe, just win and be yourself By ARNIE LESHIN, Santa Fe Today It is what it is, and all Geno Auriemma is concerned about is the upcoming season for his University of Connecticut …
Read More »Its play ball in the Little League Junior Baseball Regional at St. Michael’s as New Mexico state champion Shorthorn completes the 6-team field
Play begins Thursday morning, but host Santa Fe gets a first-round bye along with Colorado, with Texas East, Texas West and Louisiana also in the field By ARNIE LESHIN, Santa Fe Today The field is now full for the 6-team Little League Junior Baseball Regional that will make its first …
Read More »Home and away, Vidalia has its way with Los Alamos County, downing the New Mexico Senior Softball Little League champions
The final score was 13-0, at the Southwest Regional in Louisiana on Sunday. Los Alamos County falls into loser’s bracket after opening with win, and next plays tonight’s loser of the Texas East-Texas West contest on Tuesday By ARNIE LESHIN, Santa Fe Today Vidalia, Louisiana — No doubt it was …
Read More »Up, up and away for Santa Fe High’s Adam Pena as he went on a faraway adventure to compete in a wrestling tournament down under in Australia
It was such a long ride in the air, his back-to-back yearly road trips with the Demons to Colorado and Kansas, couldn’t compare to his approximate 20 hours of flying By ARNIE LESHIN, Santa Fe Today One thing Adam Pena doesn’t need is a travel agent. Because for a 16-year-old …
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