Sports & Recreation

Night Basketball Keeping in the neighborhood

Night Basketball Keeping in the neighborhood

    At night, when it is cool, Santo Domingo neighborhood people, in the Colonial District, congregate in front of the local mini market and watch sports on a big screen television. This group of grown men and women, on the closest corner to the the LaPuerta...

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Dominos Street games in Santo Domingo

Dominos Street games in Santo Domingo

    Games of choice on the neighborhood streets seem to be dominoes and chess but I have also seen checkers and card games with money on the table. This street corner game, in progress,even has an official scorekeeper who shouts out the score at the end of...

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Sunflowers Requiem for Winston

Sunflowers Requiem for Winston

    This morning, in the rough, I don't look for my errant drive. One of our foursome's little dog, Winston, was bit by a rattler and died on another course a few weeks ago. A golf ball,even a new one, is not worth coming face to face with a poisonous viper....

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Golf in a Cow Pasture Chasing Par

Golf in a Cow Pasture Chasing Par

    River Falls has a make believe golf course in a cow pasture not far from the Texas Palo Duro Canyon. This area has been transformed from grazing to ranchettes. With an airport, five acre lots, utilities and roads, the development attracts people with...

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Heavy Artillery The War Begins

Heavy Artillery The War Begins

    In the 1960's, a most favored slogan was " Make Love, Not War. " Their were lots of babies conceived in hippie vans as the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and Jefferson Airplane fanned anti war sentiment, wore flowers in their hair and had meetings with...

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Midway Blues Amusements

Midway Blues Amusements

    Bennett's Amusements moves in the day before an event, fences off their area at the Festival, back up huge equipment trucks, rides, and promotions. Agile carnies pick up wrenches and assemble a superstructure of steel connected by hundreds of feet of...

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Driving Range Rainbow Los Altos Golf Course

Driving Range Rainbow Los Altos Golf Course

    Los Altos Golf Course was built in the 1960's, near Eubank and Copper in Albuquerue. Owned and operated by the City of Albuquerque, this public links course is open to all. In an age of dwindling play, escalating water costs, cries of environmental...

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Football Wars Between the goalposts

Football Wars Between the goalposts

    Old men plot wars in back rooms and give speeches.Young men hold rifles and die on the battlefield. Football is an American preoccupation and between the goalposts this evening plays out a game that has referees and it's own set of rules. Halftime is...

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Who’s got the best rooster? to the end

Who’s got the best rooster? to the end

    Excitement builds during the week . As Sunday afternoon grows close, the roosters crowing takes on more urgency. On Sunday afternoons, a stadium in a local neighborhood opens for business and men pay for permits to fight their birds. The fighting cage in...

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