Athletics

The University of New Mexico announced that WisePies Pizza & Salad, a locally owned business, has agreed to give a $5 million cash gift over 10 years to support the UNM Athletics Department through the newly established WisePies Fund. This is the largest cash gift ever to UNM Athletics and the sixth-largest cash gift overall to the university. The WisePies Fund will be used to support The Pit debt service incurred from the 2009-10 renovations.

The NCAA has released official federal graduation rate data, and Lobo student-athletes have once again achieved a passing grade. New Mexico athletics graduated 55 percent of all student-athletes who enrolled as freshmen during the 2007-08 academic ...

Due to ongoing construction of the mini-bridge on westbound Avenida Cesar Chavez from University to I-25, UNM has worked with the city to develop a traffic flow plan for the game on Friday night between the Lobos and Fresno State that kicks-off at ...

Football players on the University of New Mexico football team range in ages from 17 to 23 years old.  When you get to that age, it's hard to make someone in college act as giddy as a little kid getting to see a new present for the first time. So, ...

University Stadium seats 39,224 Lobo faithful, but if you invite ESPN, suddenly 98 million households can watch UNM take on the Fresno State Bulldogs on Friday, Sept. 26 at 6 p.m. It’s a good reason to move homecoming from its Saturday tradition to ...

Yasushi Enomoto, associate professor of Health and Sport Sciences from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, is at the University of New Mexico with seven student runners studying the effects of high altitude on hemoglobin and performance levels. Enomoto ...

The University of New Mexico has once again scored high marks in the NCAA Academic Progress Rate Institutional Report, released publicly by the NCAA today.  Today's report, which is the 2012-13 report, marks the fourth consecutive year that the Lobos ...

The University of New Mexico announced recently that Sharon and Jerry Geist have made a $1.7 million estate gift to benefit Lobo Athletics, representing the third largest donation in the history of the Athletics Department. This planned gift will make ...

The University of New Mexico football team got a glimpse of what life would be like after spring practice – and then took in a Greek comedy. The Lobos practiced without shoulder pads Thursday on the second to last day of spring football practice. The ...

In their quest to finish what Kendall Williams calls “unfinished business,”  the No. 7 NCAA seed New Mexico Lobos know who, where and when:  the No. 10 Stanford Cardinal in St. Louis on Friday. The winner of that game is expected to advance and play ...