Serving Sandoval County, Rio Rancho, Bernalillo, Placitas, & Corrales
Serving Sandoval County, Rio Rancho, Bernalillo, Placitas, & Corrales
The New Mexico Scorpions (in white jerseys) called Rio Rancho their home for three seasons, 2006-09. (Herron photo) Hockey has had a hard time in Rio Rancho The City of Vision had at least one hockey team to cheer on for...
Read MoreCongrats to Castillo Longtime “right-hand woman” to the athletic director at Cleveland High School, Annette Castillo will be honored with the New Mexico High School Coaches Association’s Distinguished Service Award at the annual...
Read MoreRio Rancho is on the verge of getting another hockey team. The team, which will be named the Raptors, is expected to be part of the ECHL, a 27-team league in 20 states and two provinces in Canada. Play will start in October 2023...
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Cleveland High defensive coordinator Eddie Kilmer talks to his defense during the 2021 football...
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Giving up 23 unanswered points in the fourth quarter Saturday night led to a Duke City Gladiators’...
Read MoreTwo longtime coaches “down the hill” at Cibola High School announced their resignations recently. Both have had district rivalry confrontations with City of Vision teams at Cleveland and Rio Rancho high schools, but they have...
Read MoreCongrats to Castillo Longtime “right-hand woman” to the athletic director at Cleveland High School, Annette Castillo, will be honored with the New Mexico High School Coaches Association’s Distinguished Service Award at the...
Read MoreThe 2022 City of Vision boys basketball team camp takes place at Cleveland and Rio Rancho high schools June 30-July 2. Here’s the schedule for the city’s varsity teams for those days. The schools’ junior varsity and freshman...
Read MoreArguably Rio Rancho’s best-known commercial artist – even at the age of 84 – Dick Moots is headed into the Albuquerque Professional Baseball Hall of Fame on July 23. “I was thrilled to hear it,” Moots said Thursday, after the...
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Lobo basketball fans, coming your way is a tournament in The Pit made for you. Maybe more...
Read MoreA 16-year-old Bernalillo girl will compete to be an “American Ninja Warrior” Monday evening (June 27) in the NBC-TV show. Katie Bone, a home-schooled athlete hopes to someday compete in her favorite sport in the Olympics,...
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Arizona downed the Gladiators Saturday. (Matt Hollinshead/The Observer) A 24-3 outburst in...
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Some of New Mexico’s finest basked in their recent triumphs at the Special Olympic Games....
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Special Olympics New Mexico was recognized for winning 23 medals at the Special Olympic Games...
Read MoreKevin Carroll is living proof that you can take the coach out of football, but you can’t take football out of the coach. Check out Carroll’s biography of a famous, but relatively unknown college and professional football coach...
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The Rams’ previous coach, Gerry Pannoni, walks the field during a 2021 workout. His 2019 and...
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Seniors-to-be Alyssa Flores, left, and Autumn Jackson are optimistic about returning to the sport...
Read MoreALBUQUERQUE – Yes, Rio Rancho is nowhere near famed Route 66, aka “The Mother Road,” as author John Steinbeck tabbed it. Nonetheless, Rio Rancho High School’s batting cages made the cut, so to speak, in “Grassroots Baseball:...
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Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Greg Maddux made an appearance during Wednesday’s...
Read MoreThe Little League postseason begins later this week, and the Observer was able to obtain rosters of the city’s two Little leagues, Cibola and Sunset, all-stars. Here they are: Sunset Little League Senior baseball: Kendall...
Read MoreScoring on the game’s final play Saturday evening in Frisco, Texas, the host Fighters eked out a 47-46 victory over visiting Duke City, ending the Gladiators’ four-game win streak. The Gladiators (6-6) had taken a 46-34 lead...
Read MoreThe Class 5A All-State baseball selections were released early this week, and Cleveland High pitcher Jace Dominic, seen here, and catcher Braylen Elzy, both seniors, were named to the second team; Storm senior shortstop DJ...
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The McDermott Athletic Center in Rio Rancho played host to Grapple Industries’ Brazilian Jiu Jitsu...
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Years after his dream of playing professional baseball ended, former Bernalillo High School...
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The high school basketball season for Rio Rancho’s varsity boys teams ended March 5 in the Round...
Read MoreAlbuquerque MMA lightweight Steve Garcia I know what’s going on in his head, and he’s not just gonna lay down for me. He’s definitely gonna put up a fight — Steve Garcia Many’s the trash-talking combat-sports...
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The biggest changes in coaching positions at Rio Rancho High School are taking place between the...
Read MoreCongrats to All-Metro diamond picks Six city high school baseball players and seven softball players earned postseason recognition on the Albuquerque Journal’s All-Metro teams. In baseball, Rio Rancho High School second baseman...
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Things almost seem back to normal these days in the Rams Athletic Center at Rio Rancho High...
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