ALBUQUERQUE, NM - New Mexico United is excited to announce the signing of defender/midfielder and Albuquerquenative Milo Garvanian, following his graduation from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Garvanian played five seasons with the Tar Heels, making 86 appearances, scoring ten goals, and assisting eleven more.

ALBUQUERQUE, NM At a critical time when LGBTQ+ rights are under attack in the United States, Common Goal, the global impact movement for soccer, is launching a 2023 coalition of clubs from Major League Soccer, the National Women’s Soccer League, United Soccer League, and the Canadian Premier League. The coalition is joining Common Goal’s LGBTQ+ inclusion initiative Play Proud, to fight back against discrimination and promote greater inclusion in soccer and beyond.

Everybody is a Lobo! – well, maybe – but one former Grants resident is for sure a Lobo. Shane Douma-Sanchez, former resident of Grants and son of former Grants High School head boys' basketball coach Joseph Sanchez, committed as a preferred walk on to the University of New Mexico Lobos men's basketball team.

A blustery but sunny day speckled with distant baseball chants that faded in and out with the wind at St. Pius High School was the backdrop for one of the best baseball games of the season for the Grants High School Pirates as they came into St. Pius ranked third in District 5A with a 12-5, 1-0 record while the Sartans were ranked one in the district with a 12-2 record. When the bats were put away the Pirates walked away with a 10-9 win and were the new leaders of their district.

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As college basketball slips away, local high school sports programs gear up for district play even though the weather has not slipped away from winter’s grip. The GHS boys’ baseball team, at 11-5, will play the 6-10 Valencia Jaguars at home on Tuesday, March 28 in the first round of district play.

Congratulations to Los Alamitos’ first Buccaneer Baseball Team! In their home opener they earned their first win against Los Lunas!.

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Franklin Romero, Sports Correspondent “I believe we [are] better and learned some things about who we are and who we can be,” said Mike Furbee, Grants High School baseball coach, after going 1-2 last week and placing fourth at the Farmington Scorpion Invitational Tournament. The Pirates played Pueblo West (2-2) on Thursday, March 16 and handily defeated them by a score of 11-4.