The Duke City Gladiators will attempt to snap a two-game Indoor Football League losing streak Saturday night when they play on the road against the Northern Arizona Wranglers in Prescott…
FRISCO, Texas — Frisco kicker Bryce Caldwell hit a 34-yard field goal as time expired to give the host Fighters a 58-57 Indoor Football League victory over the Duke City…
The Duke City Gladiators make their long-awaited return home Sunday when they face the Tucson Sugar Skulls in an Indoor Football League matinee at the Rio Rancho Events Center. The…
PHOENIX - The Findlay Toyota Center in Prescott Valley seats about 5,100 spectators for sporting events. For seven months during the pandemic, though, it sat empty – except for the ghosts of dearly departed minor league teams.
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Adan Carriaga carves a detail on a bulto in 2005. He started carving wood at age 10, crafting likenesses of Frankenstein that he sold for $10 in Old Town. (Tina Larkin/Albuquerque Journal)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. A few months before Albuquerque High School’s Class of 1975 graduated and said goodbye to the halcyon days of youth and each other, we crowded together on the gym bleachers for the traditional group photo.
Holding court at the top of the bleachers were the cocky jocks, studs and stars of school.
Adan Carriaga was not among them.
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He could have been. At Bulldog City, he was the golden boy with glints of gold in his hair. He was the heartthrob, a popular party boy who ascended the social hierarchy summit as a 6-foot-3 basketball standout at a school where basketball is a religion.