Coming off the best season in school history, the Montezuma-Cortez High School golf team knows what’s at hand.In 2010, the Panthers won the Western Slope League championship and placed second at...

Epic, humbling, painful, tiring, beat-down, exciting, tough, wet, cold, long, adventurous, difficult, mentally-draining, fun, beautiful and a monumental-experience. These are the words veteran...

Excitement surrounds the Montezuma-Cortez High School football program right now.Of course this time of year, players are doing offseason workouts, going to camps and lifting iron in the weight...

Tradition is what best describes the Ute Mountain Oil Classic. Six local oil field workers gathered in the late 1980s and decided to start up an amateur golf tournament. They wanted a proper title...

Local athletes crossed over sports last week in New Mexico.Mixed martial artists, a karate black belt and former wrestlers tested their skills in a sport that combines elements of the...

Speed, agility, strength and physical contact associate with most sports. Those athletic attributes only arrive through practice and exercise repeatedly for an extended period of time.Every sport...

With two years of professional basketball under his belt and a full season in Poland, Kirk Archibeque is staying put.Archibeque, 26, helped lead Polpharma to the 2010-11 Polish Cup Title in the...

The Montezuma County Fair kicked off over the weekend with the Bares, Broncs and Bulls rodeo at Bob Banks Memorial Arena.The two-day event was presented by Ignacio’s Lucky 7 Rodeos.In bull riding,...

Lucky 7 Rodeos of Ignacio brought its brand of entertainment to the Montezuma County Fair for the first time on Friday and Saturday.This year’s fair kicked off in style with the Bares, Broncs and...

Youth baseball got a big boost in Cortez this summer, and it only appears to be getting stronger.The U13-14 Cortez Raptors began play this season in the Sandy Koufax League, which is part of the...