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New Pirate hurler Wil Ledezma suffered his third straight loss as he made the start for Aragua.

Pirates' players and friends in Sunday's winter league action: VENZUELAN LEAGUE Tiburones de La Guaira 7, Aguilas de Zulia 6 Los Tiburones jumped up and bit Los Aguilas with 6 runs in the bottom of the 9th to get the walk-off win.

Week in, week out, the media continues to put a quarter in that old Locks' jukebox.

No, it's not the "Return of the Mack," the hit 90s song by Mark Morrison - it's just the return of UNM's head football coach, Mike Locksley, to a 0-7 team.

Throw out little things like logic. Discard sensibility. And statistical trends? Well, those are irrelevant.

Head coach Mike Locksley talks to quarterback Donovan Porterie in this file photo.

Troy Hatton is not ready to smile just yet. The University of New Mexico football team's first-year strength-andconditioning coordinator just has too much on his plate right now.

Why are our local kids leaving Las Cruces? That was the question many asked when yet another high school football player from the area - that being Zach Daugherty from Onate - committed to the University of New Mexico instead of his hometown school, New Mexico State.

Onate High School senior linebacker Zach Daugherty verbally committed to play college football at the University of New Mexico.