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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Ten days after his starting power forward was shot and hospitalized after a 3 a.m. shootout on the University of New Mexico campus that left a UNM student dead, New Mexico State University basketball coach Greg Heiar was apologetic Tuesday, and said he takes responsibility for what happened. It was the first time the first-year Aggies coach has spoken publicly about the shooting. He, and the school, remain tight-lipped about what, if any, discipline has been taken on players who snuck out of their Albuquerque hotel the...
Danny Granger doesn’t have to worry about whether he can afford to supersize that combo meal anymore. But that wasn’t always the case. The former University of New Mexico hoops legend who went onto NBA stardom, predominantly with the Indiana Pacers, can recall that two-year window from 2003 to 2005 in Albuquerque when the food choices were often more about what you could afford and not about what was best for athletic achievement. “We’d play in front of 18,000 people and we couldn’t get any help from anyone,” Granger sai...
He’s the New Mexico basketball coach who never was. When you look at the long basketball journey of Dick Hunsaker — from his family’s ties to sugar beet farming in Clovis and playing for the likes of Brooks Jennings, Jimmy Joe Robinson and Steve White to playing for Don Haskins at UTEP and coaching with the likes of Neil McCarthy, Rick Majerus through the years to his ties with former Lobo coaches Bob King, Norm Ellenberger, Steve Alford and Craig Neal — it’s hard to imagin...
