SPORTS SPEAK UP!

WHEN NOT BOWING

to Boise State, the Mountain West Conference has been giving Las Vegas and UNLV all of their support by awarding them the MWC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments for 17 consecutive years along with most preseason media day meetings for various sports. This year, however, the MWC was going to “go Hollywood” by heading to Los Angeles for the football preseason media days. COVID-19 has turned that plan into a virtual meeting. Per Willie Nelson, Don Meredith and many MWC member schools’ fans---to conference administrators: “Turn out the lights, the party’s over.”

— Lobo Town Resident

I GREW UP

during a time when Little League was “king.” I was 8 when Roswell’s Lions Hondo won the Little League World Series in 1956.

Ten years later, Roswell’s Eastside LL was one game away from a trip to Williamsport, but lost

... to Sacramento, California. Over the years, New Mexico has done exceptionally well in LL competition for a sparsely populated state. It’s too bad that the current season has been disrupted across the state by the pandemic. Though LL will never be “king” again, it will return for those youngsters that still love “America’s game.”

— Ricardo Flores

THE JOURNAL

has chosen two outstanding young people in Bryce (Santana) and Sam (Jeffries), as their prep Athletes of the Year. They have blessed their families, their schools, their communities and New Mexico. We thank you and wish you boundless success in whatever the magic of the universe has in store for you.

— Coach Allan B.

YESTERDAY, WHEN

I was young, Dana MillerMackie was a UNM Chaparral; Johnny Tapia, despite his issues, was a person that one couldn’t help but like; Don Flanagan was doing so much winning, Lobo fans said “stop, we’re tired of it.”

— Retro Lobo

HELP! I’M TRAPPED

at home watching old movies. I just saw “Candy,” the 1960s movie starring two of the most grotesque egos of our lifetimes, Richard Burton and Marlon Btando. Their parts would make a real human being blush. Sugar Ray Robinsonm arguably the best poundfor-pound pugalist in history, has a featured role. If you can watch Marlo Brando, in heavy makeup and a diaper, pretend to be a guru, then the Ghost Pepper is probably not hot enough for you. Actors, politicians and psychopaths do no have the capability to be embarrassed.

— Larry the VOL