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  • NM may have chance at participating in football season

    Steve Virgen, Albuquerque Journal|Updated Sep 26, 2020

    Aggressive COVID-19 testing and safe practices are the keys that provide the Mountain West Conference with the confidence it can have a 2020 football season — and the announcement Friday by the governor’s office of what is required gives the University of New Mexico a chance to play, too. The league’s presidents voted Thursday and announced later that night that the Mountain West plans an eight-game league schedule for its 12 football-playing schools with a championship game scheduled for Dec. 19. On Friday, MWC Commi...

  • Mountain West Conference cancels fall sports

    Steve Virgen, Albuquerque Journal|Updated Aug 11, 2020

    The Mountain West Conference, which includes the University of New Mexico Lobos, has canceled fall sports, including football, because of COVID-19 concerns. It will consider playing them in the spring, the league announced Monday. At New Mexico State University, the Aggies’ football team paused its preseason camp, after a positive COVID-19 test by an asymptomatic individual, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported Monday. The rest of the position group and coaches all tested negative, according to NMSU. And the rest of the f...