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PORTALES — Every football team wants its last game of the season to be a win. But they’d prefer it were in a championship game, not the regular season. Eastern New Mexico wrapped for the 2018...

CLOVIS — Clovis High’s head football coach Cal Fullerton thought last Saturday’s 24-21 season-ending loss to Las Cruces was a microcosm of the season. For a while, it was hard to tell which...

PORTALES - Opening night. There isn't much in sports that quite compares to it. And when opening night ends with a victory? Way cooler. The Eastern New Mexico women's basketball team broke the seal...

PORTALES - It wasn't the season Eastern New Mexico's football team hoped for, not by a longshot. But ENMU went out a winner, holding off Western Oregon 19-14 on Saturday, Senior Day at Greyhound...

Clovis' volleyball team put up a good fight, but the Lady Wildcats' season likely ended with Thursday night's 3-1 loss at Hobbs. Clovis won the first set of Thursday's District 4-5A semifinal match...

Portales’ football team is already reaping some rewards for its success. With a four-game winning streak taking them to 7-3 by the end of the regular season, the Rams get a No. 2 seed in the state...

CLOVIS — You can take Clovis High’s football record, good and bad alike, and toss it in the trash. It’s state playoff time. A brand new season. “We were just telling the kids today,...

CLOVIS — It’s a big week for Clovis High, a week that quite a few athletes in purple have been looking forward to, have aspired to, since August. Today at 3:30 p.m., Clovis’ fifth-seeded boys...

Eastern New Mexico’s football team is looking to go out with a crackle as the regular season ends at home Saturday against Western Oregon. The Greyhounds are 4-6 after last weekend’s 34-17 loss...

CLOVIS — A glance at the overall score — a sweep for Clovis High's volleyball team over Carlsbad — might make it seem that the Lady Wildcats had an easy time of beating the Cavegirls in...

CLOVIS — Tuesday's volleyball match was perhaps a glimpse into the future for an improving Clovis team. But it also signaled the present, displaying a young team that still hasn't quite yet...

CLOVIS — In college basketball, they call it the Elite Eight. But even calling it something as ordinary as the quarterfinals is still pretty cool. Especially for a fifth-seeded Clovis boys soccer...

CLOVIS — The Clovis High football team was close, oh so close, to earning one more game at Leon Williams Stadium. In Friday’s regular-season finale at that very stadium, the Wildcats dominated...

CLOVIS — It was a pretty nice haul for the Clovis cross country program. — Hosting Friday’s District 4-5A championship meet at Ned Houk Park, the Clovis boys took first, outdistancing...

PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico football team is lately the kind opponents don’t like to play, the streaking kind, the winning kind. Saturday at Greyhound Stadium, Eastern took its third straigh...

It’s a big deal for Clovis’ girls soccer team to be returning to the state playoffs. But it’s perhaps a bigger deal that the Clovis boys soccer team is making its state playoff return at home....

CLOVIS — Last week’s Pre-District cross country meet in Carlsbad was aptly named because it gave the Clovis team a fairly accurate preview of how Friday’s District 4-5A meet will likely go. In...

CLOVIS — Monday, the Clovis High football team was back at it, facing the start of a normal practice week after enjoying a bye this past weekend. Hopefully for Clovis, the time to rest was helpful...

CLOVIS — It’s probably fair to say the Clovis High football team has earned it. Getting nine games into the season without a bye week is a long time to wait for a break. But the Wildcats won’t...

Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series of stories about locals set for induction Saturday into the New Mexico Boxing Hall of Fame. Sunday's edition of The News featured Brooks Byrd....