SPORTS SPEAK UP!

MY FELLOW LOBOS: With (the governor) and her team attempting to break our spirits, we will one day again be able to attend games and our various teams will not have to dip into their budgets for excess transportation, hotel, meal and arena/stadium rental expenses. On the contrary, with games in an empty Pit, UNM could have offset some attendance revenue by selling cardboard cut-out color pictures of the fans to put on the seats for the entire season for both the men’s and women’s games. The UNM baseball team is headed to Amarillo to “host” Air Force this weekend? Incomprehensible.

— Joseph

THERE WAS a time when high school sports were considered “extracurricular activities”. To participate you had to be in school full-time and earn good grades. ... Now the idea of having fun has been replaced by demand. A few APS kids demanding to be treated special in a pandemic that’s killed more than 500,000 Americans. And I suppose to the adults out there with these demanding children, HS sports were the highlight of their entire lives (as) they re-live their glory days ad infinitum. As one who played HS sports AND survived COVID, being alive is more special.

— tarheelbill

I HAVE AN IDEA. Let’s close the Governor’s mansion for 6 months. She can live like the Lobos and Aggies have, from hotel to hotel, schlepping from Arizona to

Utah to Texas, looking for a warm bed and friendly face. The fact that she has used a pandemic to send the sports teams of our state to fend for themselves is as cruel as anything I have ever seen in my 65 years on this planet. I bet if we did this, the experiment would last three days, tops.

— Rudy the Attorney 50-PLUS YEARS of watching Lobo basketball and I never thought I’d be celebrating that we’re not the last place team. — MarkSD

HEY RANDY: Kudos to Noah Seligman. He truly is a laureate poet, and he doesn’t even know it. — Blu