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I’m no stranger to sports nickname controversy. In the 1990s, I wrote a newspaper column suggesting a few changes for regional school sports teams. That’s been a long time and I can’t find the column online, but I do remember a few of my better ideas: • the Muleshoe Mules should become the Muleshoe Laces, I wrote; • and the Hart Longhorns should become the Hart Attacks; • and every team named the Longhorns, Wildcats or Tigers should change to ... something interesting. My great ideas were not well received. One elementary...
We could argue all day about who's the greatest football player with ties to our region. That conversation would certainly include pros Zach Thomas, Donny Anderson, Lawrence McCutcheon, Jerry Sisemore, Mercury Morris, Hank Baskett, Michael Sinclair, Kenny King and at least a half dozen more. But don't forget an Eastern New Mexico University quarterback whose passing records still stand after more than a quarter of a century. Kevin Kott, now a branch manager for an investment firm in Carmel, Calif., never made the big time...
