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PORTALES — Standing at an imposing 7-foot-1 and 250 pounds, then-University of Arizona freshman center DeAndre Ayton sure looked the part of star to Eastern New Mexico men’s basketball onlookers, who had to face the highly-touted McDonald’s...

RICHARDSON, Texas — Angelo State’s Kami Norton became the third two-time women’s winner of the Fred Jacoby Academic Athlete of the Year, announced this week by the Lone Star Conference. Norton, who won national titles in the heptathlon and...

CASPER, Wyoming — The Eastern New Mexico University rodeo team wrapped up the last day of the College National Finals Rodeo with one athlete competing in Saturday's short go. And Celie Vick represented ENMU well as the senior earned a top 10...

PORTALES — The Eastern New University Women’s Soccer team has announced it will be hosting a High School ID Camp on July 29. The one-day camp will be open for athletes entering grades 9-12. The cost of the camp is $75 per athlete, and will run...

Three local up-and-coming rodeo stars of tomorrow will compete at this year’s National Junior High Finals Rodeo, representing Team New Mexico. The 14th annual event, which will be held June 24-30 in Huron, South Dakota, features roughly 1,000...

CASPER, Wyoming — The third time was the charm for ENMU senior Landon Beardsworth at the College National Finals Rodeo Thursday night. After unsuccessfully trying to record a time in steer wrestling on his first two go-rounds, earlier in the week,...

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of stories about local athletes who played in multiple North-South All-Star games Playing in state tournaments is nice. Winning them even nicer. Portales’ Zamorye Cox did both over the past seven...

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of stories about local athletes who participated in multiple North-South All-Star Games last week. If you’ve ever seen Nathan Phipps scrapping for rebounds in gyms across eastern New Mexico or belting... Full story

CASPER, Wyoming — The Eastern New Mexico University Rodeo team wrapped up its second day of competition at the College National Finals Rodeo on Monday afternoon. The Greyhounds have three competitors in this year’s CNFR — Celie Vick in goat...

LUBBOCK — Gabe Holt, Michael Davis and Brian Klein all homered for Texas Tech’s baseball team, which is going to the College World Series for the third time in five seasons after beating Duke 6-2 on Monday. The Red Raiders (44-18) went ahead to...

Albuquerque, and to some extent Las Cruces, was a busy place this weekend, with North-South All-Star games taking place in five different sports. Here’s a look at some of the action that took place in the games, which are limited to seniors from... Full story

Jaye Crockett’s Jaye Rock Athletics will hold its annual basketball camp July 9-11 at the Gattis Middle School Gym. The co-ed camp will feature a 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m. session for ages 5-11 and a 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m. session for ages 12-17. Camp...

CLOVIS — The Wildcats hired a new softball head coach on Friday, with "new" being a relative term. That ‘new face’ is actually a familiar one, as assistant coach Emory Sierra takes over for the 2019 season. Sierra spent the past two years...