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Tomorrow the Lobos football team officially start fall camp. Today was media day, a function which reminds me of church on holidays.

There have been 22 Lobos football coaches that lasted at least two years. Eleven of those had winning seasons in their second year.

Certainly it's early, but these have the feel of body bag games -- essentially UNM gets paid to be a pinata. Worse for 2011: it looks like the Lobos will have seven home games that season.

Three players recently gave verbal commitments to New Mexico State, which is noteworthy because two of those players also had offers from UNM, and the one that didn't is from Albuquerque. Before this, and since 2007, no players that had offers from UNM and NMSU opted to be Aggies.

If we look at the Lobos 2010 schedule and predict results based on coaches' salaries, then the Lobos should be 7-5. Locksley ($760,000 per year) makes more per year, according to this website, than seven opponents -- UNLV, UTEP, NMSU, San Diego State, Colorado State, Wyoming and BYU.

Ever since last Thursday, when Darington Hobson slipped into the second round of the NBA Draft, we've heard a lot of people say the former Lobo should have stayed in Albuquerque for his senior year.

When you figure that Utah will probably leave the MWC for the Pac 10, that leaves the MWC worse off than when all this expansion talk was just simmering.

The fight, which was featured on the non-televised undercard of last Saturday's STRIKEFORCE St. Louis: Heavy Artillery event, was an incredible game of human chess with both fighters displaying impressive grappling skills.

The Bears won football, boys basketball and baseball championships (among others) in the same academic year. That's only happened twice since 1950, the first year all three sports awarded titles.

Finally the wait is over as Alistair Overeem returns to STRIKEFORCE to defend his Heavyweight title against Brett "The Grim" Rogers.