Student-athletes aren´t only ones to feel a loss
(WorldNews Mexico)

I was hoping against hope that UNM athletics would somehow magically avoid Terrible Thursday. It hurts that it did not. The merits of one sport vs. another forever will be debated. UNM athletic director Eddie Nuñez and President Garnett Stokes, rookies in their jobs no more as of today, did what they must do, to be clear, in requesting the elimination of four – men’s soccer, men’s and women’s skiing, and beach volleyball. The athletic budget has gone red in nine of the last 11 years. The argument that red ink in the low seven figures doesn’t matter in a mammoth nine-figure overall budget is silly. Higher Education Secretary Barbara Damron otherwise...