A’ja Wilson scored 21 points and the U.S. survived the biggest challenge of its unprecedented run to eight straight gold medals with a 67-66 win over France on Sunday.
One of the biggest names to emerge from the Summer Olympics in Paris is French swimmer Leon Marchand, who was coached in college at Arizona State by St. Michael's graduate Herbie Behm.
Demons coach Andrew Martinez remembers having six District 5-6A games in 2021, which meant the Demons started their district schedule five weeks into the season.
Martinez said Thursday he was ready for a second season with the Phoenix, but that changed when Romero took the girls job at Pojoaque Valley.
After decades of decay, the Capital football and soccer teams now have use of a new turf field that is gopher-free and ready for use once the fall season begins in a matter of weeks.
The University of New Mexico officially unveiled its 11-game nonconference slate on Tuesday, a slate that features as many as four dates with Power Five programs, exciting road games and neutral-site trips and a challenging set of visitors to The Pit.
The run is the major fundraiser for the middle and high school cross-country program. The money raised goes to cover the cost of new uniforms, travel expenses and shoes for the athletes. Last year's Panther Run raised about $5,000.
We are just one week away from the start of the 2024-25 prep sports season.
The New Mexico Activities Association gave Santa Fe native Joe Abeyta the Distinguished Service Award during last week’s annual New Mexico High School Sports Award Show and Dinner in Albuquerque.
Austin 10, Santa Fe 5
You don't win 422 games and two state titles while reaching five championship games over a 26-year coaching span by luck.
Not many are putting the bar too high for the Lobos this season.
FUEGO UPDATE
As one of the most prolific home run hitters in the history of the Santa Fe Fuego, Gay will make an appearance at Isotopes Park next month as part of the MLB Home Run Derby X.
Trinidad 35, Santa Fe 5 (7 innings)
Pojoaque Valley hired Mike Velarde on Monday as head volleyball coach, replacing Joe Rodriguez, who left the program after six seasons.
An offseason transfer from Arizona, 6-foot-9 Serbian Filip Borovicanin appears to be everything coach Richard Pitino’s men’s basketball team has been sorely lacking.
Trinidad 7, Santa Fe 6
If sports dynasties and milestones are created by the athletes, there’s a special place for the men and women who diagram the plays and call all the shots.
Trinidad 17, Santa Fe 2
Sitting at 14-30 and five games behind the Roswell Invaders for the last playoff spot, the Fuego are in a can't-lose situation heading into the final week of the season.
The players volunteered to help the shelter when it encountered a glut of displaced pets when it rescued pets from the Las Vegas, N.M., Animal Care Center.
Santa Fe 12, Pecos, Texas 11
Roswell 26, Santa Fe 7
Once a Bronco led 52-47 at the Elam Ending segment, setting a 60-point total for the teams to reach.
Nine Pojoaque Valley athletes are heading to the USA Track & Field National Junior Olympic Championships that run from July 22-28 at College Station, Texas.
Santa Fe 11, Roswell 9 (8 innings)
Santa Fe Little League's Intermediate Baseball All-Star team will represent not just the league, but the state of New Mexico in the Little League Southwest Region Tournament beginning Saturday in New Braunfels, Texas.
Even now, a full four months before the season ramps into full speed, the Lobos are showing the intensity coach Richard Pitino is craving.
Pecos 7, Santa Fe 6 (11 innings)
Enchantment, coached by former Lobo great Kenny Thomas and a staff that includes former UNM assistant Craig Snow, got the send-off it needed with a 72-71 win over the alumni team.
Pecos 7, Santa Fe 6
ALBUQUERQUE — Kenny Thomas made $54.6 million over the course of an 11-year NBA career that took him from Houston to Philadelphia and Sacramento.
Steven Lebron scored an unearned run with two outs in the top of the 12th to keep the Fuego’s dwindling playoff hopes alive in Pecos, Texas.
Roswell Invaders infielder Lucas Scott was crowned the league’s home run derby champion after smacking 15 homers including, at one point, nine straight pitches out of the park.
The hot topic in recent months is the MWC’s place in future alignments.
Santa Fe 24, Austin 8
Marissa Sandoval-Moya is no stranger to the bright lights and high intensity of the USA Volleyball club circuit.
The Fuego beat the visiting Austin Weirdos 27-26 in a wild 53-run, 43-hit, 31-walk, seven-error, nearly five-hour game.
UNM is coming off its most successful season since its last bowl appearance in 2016, going 4-8 in a year that ended with Danny Gonzales getting fired as the head coach.
Truth is, Santa Fe’s still a healthy home in the Pecos League. The fans and local sponsors support the team enough to make it work, but the city whose name is on the front or the jersey needs to do more.
North Platte 11, Santa Fe 7
Santa Fe High and Capital had their first sessions of the newly implemented two-week, full-contact summer practice period for football teams.
Make it 15 straight losses for the Santa Fe Fuego.
Sunday’s 4-2 loss at Trinidad extended the team’s losing streak to 14 games, dropping it to 7-25 — the third-worst mark in the 16-team league.
The starting centerfielder for the Fuego and easily one of the bright spots in what has been an otherwise challenging season for Santa Fe’s professional baseball team, Scarver is literally a self-made player.
Burton, 17, earned a bronze medal in the under-20 female division at the USA Weightlifting Junior National Championships in Pittsburgh.
Make it an even dozen.
The elevator doors opened and none other than sports broadcaster Joe Buck came walking out.
You thought school was out, but here is one report card everyone will be reviewing.
It was just like being in high school again for Joe Ray Anaya, and preparation was key.
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