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Highlands going all-in on purple for new floor

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The Division II school is going all-in with its familiar purple color scheme for a new floor inside the John A. Wilson Complex, a 4,250-seat multipurpose arena that serves as home to its basketball, volleyball and wrestling programs.

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You’d be hard-pressed to find any two teams as different as Española Valley and Capital. One is well on its way to playoff contention while the other is just trying to score a point.

Johnson was the Aggies’ starting quarterback during the 1959 and 1960 seasons during which he led the team to consecutive wins in the Sun Bowl. He was later drafted into both the NFL and AFL, playing 15 seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Oilers and Denver Broncos.

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The Arizona Outlaws, a select team of players 23 years old and younger, knocked off Los Santos 35-17 on Sunday in the championship game of the Fiesta Tens Tournament at the Municipal Recreation Complex.

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Senior associate AD for sports administration Ed Manzanares was once the youngest NCAA Division II basketball coach in the country when he took the reigns at New Mexico Highlands before he turned 30.

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The Demons coach pushed all the right buttons in the second half after spotting the Eagles a 21-7 lead at the midway point. 

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Leading his team onto the field for the first time as the school’s coach, Kurt Taufa’asau launched what he hopes is an era of sustained growth at NMHU. While his debut didn't go quite as well as he'd hoped, the first step is finally in the record books.

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Hired in the spring to take over the football program at New Mexico Highlands University, Kurt Taufa’asau has spent the last few months quickly molding a roster and a coaching staff with as much talent as he could scrape together.

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In a game that was a sloppy, defensive battle, and Santa Fe High's Santiago Villaseñor was a huge playmaker when the moment arose, and he thanked his coach for that.

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“I think the team we had last year was pretty good and a lot of us just kind of learned how to do things as we went along,” said senior Reed Bass, the team’s starting quarterback.

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It's time to dust off the crystal ball, break out the tarot cards and summon our inner Nostradamus to forecast this week's opening salvo of the high school football season.

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David Williams, UNM's deputy athletic director, has been named interim athletic director, the school announced Thursday afternoon. Williams will fill the spot vacated by Eddie Nuñez, who is the new athletic director at the University of Houston.

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The cast of favorites among Northern New Mexico schools will look familiar — Santa Fe High, Los Alamos and Las Vegas Robertson have the looks of district and state contenders. However, there could be a few surprises in the 2024 season.

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Within 48 hours of one another, the state’s Division I schools learned two of their biggest sports names -- Eddie Nuñez and Jack Nixon -- would be leaving their posts.

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The program's goal is to play on the last Saturday of the season. For seven of the past 10 years, the Cardinals have done just that.

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Was this a sign of the new-look Dons, who won’t back down from any challenger?