NCAA: Empty seats in Spokane for Michigan State

03/19/10 With 15:26 left in the first half, about a quarter of the seats in the Spokane Arena are empty for the Michigan State-New Mexico State game. Most of the basketball fans in Spokane are busy watching Gonzaga take on Florida State, which is being played in Buffalo.

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Landmark Decision: The "M" Stays On Socorro Peak

05/01/10 The proposed "T" is off the table, and NM Tech VP Van "Mr. T" Romero is "tickled" that students care. The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology -- better known as New Mexico Tech and once known as the New Mexico School of Mines -- announced Friday that a proposal to change . . .

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Rivalries are not what they used to be -- college basketball

02/09/11 The villains are missing. The hatred, the jealousy and the nastiness are no more. Rivalries have tamed in college basketball. My two favorites from covering the sport for the past 20 years -- outside of the obvious North Carolina-Duke -- were obscure nationally but not in the region in which I worked. The New Mexico State-New Mexico and BYU-Utah rivalries in the 1990s had real venom between the ...

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