Steers, Eagles’ rivalry isn’t what it was, but that’s good
Once upon a time, the Magdalena boys basketball team's rivalry with Quemado meant something — and not necessarily something good.
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Journalists’ jobs require pens, not pom-poms
This isn’t the Pollyanna Times.
This also isn’t the Pessimist Times.
In the wake of the spat El Defensor Chieftain finds itself involved in with Socorro girls basketball coach Marleen Greenwood, it is important to convey those two sentiments.
Steers put clamps on Bears' top scorer
Estancia's top gun was shooting blanks.
To Doyle doesn’t go the spoils
In a duel – staged some two centuries after the infamous one between Burr and Hamilton – Hamilton still got the raw end of the deal.
If it’s any consolation …
This time, the Socorro girls basketball team wasn’t mismatched, but perfectly matched.
Hope buries hapless Bears
"Sweet Caroline" blared through the speakers inside Hope Christian’s gym.
Baca doesn’t defend defenseless SHS
The T on the front of the Zuni T-Birds jerseys, apparently, stood for "technical."
Warriors in the midst of an identity crisis
Where was Captain Crunch when the Socorro boys basketball team needed him? Nowhere to be found.
Sorry to say it, 3A, but you guys have no Hope
The Imperial Dynasty has nothing on the one Hope Christian is cooking up.
Steers’ district full of parity
It’s a matchup with regional ties, and in the larger context of the District 3-2A season, it’s the dullest storyline ever.
Once again, painfully slow start puts Warriors at disadvantage
To say the lunch-pail team was getting its lunch eaten at the start of Thursday night's game is an understatement.
Cougars take Menaul to get to Heartbreak City
The bleachers bellowed. The bellicose Alamo crowd cried out for a call. Cougars' head coach Chee Apachito shouted at his team to foul.
Not for the faint of heart
The Book of Eli is littered with late-game heroics.
All things considered, topsy-turvy tourney ends well
It was a whirlwind of surreal scenarios and uncooked emotions, yet somehow the Alamo Navajo boys and girls basketball teams remained undaunted by all they encountered at the American Indian Classic.
Will Magdalena-Shiprock II be any different?
Reality check or an inaccurate reflection of reality?
Undersized overachievers worn down by taller Jaguars
Bigger isn't always better.
Inconsistency, time dooms Cougars
It was a bad omen.