This coming weekend we will be on the air Saturday, Sunday, and Monday (Labor Day) at our usual times. Saturday the topic will be Football. The NFL kicks off the regular season next weekend and the Lobos opener is Saturday afternoon against Mississippi Valley State. Game time 6 pm. KKOB coverage begins at 3.…… MORE
BV’s Confidential
The only thing more stupid than having a preseason NFL game on in Primetime on NBC, is the announcers campaigning for a job for a coaching intern. Jen Welter was hired by Cardinals coach Bruce Arians as an intern to “help” coach the linebackers for the Arizona Cardinals. Not only did Al Michaels and Cris…… MORE
Scott’s Turf
There seems to be a lot of tentacles to the dismissal/resignation of APS Superintendent Luis Valentino. We’ll still be keeping an eye on the move to recall the members of the school board, the decision by the Public Education Secretary Hanna Skandara and, presumably, the governor, if she approves the deal and obviously who the…… MORE
Standing Pat
It’s a three day weekend and it’s a big weekend on 770 KKOB. Saturday is the first Lobo football game and our coverage begins at three. Monday: Dan, Jill and Bob will host a special edition of weekends from 7-10a and at two Labor Day we will have Colorado Rockies Baseball as they take on…… MORE
Lost sheep gets a haircut
An Australian champion sheep shearer has set an unofficial world record after clipping a sheep that had become so overgrown its life was endangered.… MORE
Gain a sixth sense with this vibrating vest
With his Versatile Extra-Sensory Transducer, or VEST, neuroscientist David Eagleman hopes to do more than teach deaf people to learn how to feel sounds through vibrations. CNN’s Rachel Crane reports.… MORE
Deep sea creature stuns explorers
While mapping uncharted waters near Hawaii, NOAA explorers captured incredible footage of deep sea creatures.… MORE
APS Board Bites Back
SOME ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS TOLD THOSE ATTENDING WEDNESDAY NIGHT’S PUBLIC MEETING THAT THEIR CONSTITUENTS REACTED LIKE A LYNCH MOB TO THE BOARD’S HANDLING OF FORMER APS SUPERINTENDENT LUIS VALENTINO. VALENTINO RESIGNED MONDAY WITH AN 80 THOUSAND DOLLAR BUYOUT AND PAY THROUGH THIS MONTH … ADDING UP TO NEARLY 100 MILLION DOLLARS.…… MORE
Rapid Transit Meeting Thursday
THE CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE IS MOVING FORWARD ON A NEW TYPE OF BUS SYSTEM ALONG CENTRAL AVENUE THAT IT’S CALLING “ALBUQUERQUE RAPID TRANSIT.” IF EVERYTHING WORKS OUT, MOST OF THE FUNDING…80-MILLION DOLLARS…WOULD COME FROM WASHINGTON. THE ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL’S “ROAD WARRIOR,” COLUMNIST D’VAL WESTPHAL, SAYS SOME WONDER IF IT’S ALL WORTH IT.…… MORE
Stepdad Cries in Court
THE FIRST DAY OF STEPHEN CASAUS’S TRIAL IN THE DEATH OF 9 YEAR OLD OMAREE VARELA IS DONE. PROSECUTORS ON WEDNESDAY TOLD THE COURT IN OPENING ARGUMENTS THEY THINK BOTH CASAUS AND OMAREE’S MOTHER, SYNTHIA VARELA-CASAUS, BEAT HER SON TO DEATH. THE DEFENSE POINTS TO THE MOTHER, WHO TOLD REPORTERS SHE “KICKED HIM…… MORE
