NMSU became the first Division 1 school to have a licensed whiskey when they launched Pistol Pete's Six-Shooter rye whiskey along with Dry Point Distillers.
The latest college football casualty is New Mexico State, which announced early Thursday morning that the program will postpone the fall season to spring due to "COVID player health & safety concerns as well as 14-day quarantine requirement when traveling back into (New Mexico)."
Earlier this week, the Mountain West released the league model for the upcoming season, featuring an eight conference schedule plus two non-conference opponents and a start date set for Sept. 26. This complicates things for the college football season in the area.
This morning we learned that one of the all-time Aggie greats is now coaching in heaven. Lou Henson, who led NMSU to the 1970 Final Four and twenty years later returned to guide the Aggies men's basketball team, died Saturday at the age of 88...
New Mexico State announced today that they have signed a contract with Northwestern to play the first ever football game between the two schools in 2023.
The Athletic put together a compilation of the 25 least dominant college football teams of the past 50 years and, as some might imagine, UTEP football was featured twice in the article released on Friday.
For only the fifth time ever, a former NMSU baseball star has been called up to the Major Leagues. Daniel Johnson was added to the Cleveland Indians roster.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham sent a letter to the leadership of the University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University to "postpone collegiate athletics in this moment of escalating danger," specifically fall contact sports such as football and soccer.
The Big 10 suspended non-conference games, while the Pac-12 and ACC are expected to follow. How does this impact Group of 5 teams like UTEP and NM State?
The NM State athletic department continues to see more positive cases of COVID-19 pop up internally, as the university announced 20 additional cases on Tuesday.