ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico hired Idaho football coach Jason Eck on Saturday to replace Bronco Mendenhall, a day after Eck’s Vandals dropped out of the FCS playoffs. “I know that the university community, students, alumni, Lobo Nation and greater Albuquerque and New Mexico communities are eager for success and I cannot wait to give that to them.” Mendenhall left …
Utah State is expected to hire New Mexico head coach Bronco Mendenhall as its new head coach, multiple people briefed on the situation told The Athletic. A Utah native, Mendenhall went 99-43 in 11 seasons as BYU’s head coach from 2005 to ’15, then went 36-38 as Virginia’s head coach from 2016 to ’21, highlighted by an Orange Bowl appearance …
JUNEAU, Alaska — Roughly 290 residences in Alaska’s capital city were damaged last week by flooding from a lake dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier, officials said. The threat of this kind of flooding has become a yearly concern in parts of Juneau, though the extent of last week’s flooding, which reached farther into the Mendenhall Valley, was unprecedented, officials have …
Portland, Oregon CNN — Biking in one of the West Coast’s biggest cities, police Officer Donny Mathew spotted something out of the corner of his eye. “Our country and our state have never seen a drug this deadly and addictive, and all are grappling with how to respond,” Kotek said in a news release in late January, announcing Portland’s fentanyl …
