Sports Reporter - Las Cruces (N.M.) Sun-News

This was my position from 2014-18. Happy to answer any questions about the Sun-News, Las Cruces, etc.

This position covers New Mexico State and area preps.

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Travel with NMSU teams?

 

I can't speak to what they are doing currently. I covered NMSU basketball when I was there and the only road games I went to consistently were UTEP, New Mexico and Grand Canyon. Also went to the WAC Tournament and the NCAA Tournament, if NMSU made it.

I also went to two NCAA Softball Tournaments when NMSU was in the Tucson Regional.

For football, the beat writer would always go to the UNM and UTEP games and some regional ones, like Arizona State. They did travel to the Quick Lane Bowl in Detroit in 2022. The Sun-News didn't have a sports reporter for much of this past football season and they didn't go to the C-USA title game at Liberty or to Auburn, a game NMSU won. However, Gannett sent an El Paso Times sports reporter to Albuquerque for the New Mexico Bowl to cover for the Sun-News. The Sun-News also sent its photog to the New Mexico Bowl.

My guess would be travel to NMSU road games at UTEP and UNM, conference football title game/basketball tournament, bowl game and NCAA Basketball Tournament.

This is also a one-person department now and it was two when I was there.

 

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Lots of sunshine. I liked Cruces the two times I visited there. NMSU is such an outlier, they should be in the Mt. West.