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Nevada basketball: New Mexico edges Nevada, 71-67, in Wolf Pack’s home finale

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March 5, 2025

Nevada basketball: New Mexico edges Nevada, 71-67, in Wolf Pack’s home finale

Nevada showed much more fight than it did the last time time out, but the Wolf Pack was facing the conference’s top team — and one of the best players — and came up a bit short in the home finale.

It didn’t help that New Mexico’s standout player was on fire New Mexico edged Nevada, 71-67, in front of 7,881 fans at Lawlor Events Center on Tuesday night.

Nevada had two players score 15 points each, Kobe Sanders and Nick Davidson, and Tyler Rolison had 12 as the Wolf Pack dropped to 16-14 overall, 8-11 in the Mountain West. Xavier DuSell had nine points as he made two 3-pointers and needs one more to tie the all-time Mountain West record for made 3-pointers.

Donovan Dent was on fire for New Mexico as he poured in 32 points, on 12-of-18 shooting from the field. He was the only Lobos player in double figures. Nelly Junior Joseph had nine points and 14 rebounds as they improved to 24-6 overall, 16-3 in the Mountain West.

New Mexico clinched at least a share of the Mountain West regular-season title and will be the No. 1 seed for next weeks tournament in Las Vegas (March 12-15).

Nevada will be the No. 7 seed for the tournament and play on Wednesday, March 12 against either Fresno State or Air Force.

DuSell said Dent is a good player and the Wolf Pack was trying to make him pass the ball more.

“He got loose early and got some momentum early,” DuSell said. “If we see him in the tournament, we have to do a better job of not letting him get hot early.”

New Mexico beat Nevada, 71-67, on Tuesday in the Pack final home game.

New Mexico beat Nevada, 71-67, on Tuesday night in the final home game of the season for the Wolf Pack.

Key to the game

Nevada was 13-of-20 from the free throw line, but New Mexico was not much better, converting 16-of-22.

But Nevada was just 5-of-10 from the stripe in the second half. Sanders missed the front end of one-and-one’s twice in the final three minutes.

The Lobos held a slight advantage in rebounding, 37-34, a stat that doomed the Wolf Pack in its loss at UNLV last Friday.

Nevada outscored the Lobos, 30-20 in the paint.

The Wolf Pack was 4-of-29 from 3-point range while the Lobos were 9-of-27.

The Seniors

Nevada has six seniors, five of whom were honored before the game: Tre Coleman, KJ Hymes, Kobe Sanders, Xavier DuSell and Brandon Love. Daniel Foster is also a senior, but he was honored at last season’s senior night, before deciding to return to the Pack.

“We appreciate from a coaching standpoint, all they have done for us,” Nevada coach Steve Alford said. “On the court. Off the court. In the community. They have been terrific and represented us the way we want to be represented. We didn’t get as many wins as we would have like this year, but hopefully something is still left in the tank.”

First half

New Mexico led, 41-38 at the break as Dent had 20 points in the first half.

Nevada hit 2-of-10 from 3-point range in the first half, while New Mexico was 7-of-14 from the arc.

The Wolf Pack made 8-of-10 free throws, to 6-of-9 for the Lobos.

Up Next

Nevada concludes the regular season at San Diego State. Tip-off is set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

The Aztecs played at UNLV later Tuesday night.

Nevada’s Remaining Schedule

March 8, Nevada at San Diego State, 7:30 p.m. (TV: FS1, Radio: 95.5 FM)
March 12-15 Mountain West Conference men’s tournament, at Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas.

Mountain West Schedule

Friday’s games: Colorado State at Boise State; UNLV at New Mexico.

Saturday’s games: Nevada at San Diego State; Air Force at Utah State; Fresno State at San Jose State.

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Timothy Busfield Charged With Child Sex Abuse On ‘The Cleaning Lady’s New Mexico Set; WBTV Will “Cooperate With Law Enforcement”

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January 10, 2026

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Timothy Busfield Charged With Child Sex Abuse On ‘The Cleaning Lady’s New Mexico Set; WBTV Will “Cooperate With Law Enforcement”

A 10-year-old New Mexico boy says Timothy Busfield “touched his ‘poop’ and ‘pee’ area” during production on The Cleaning Lady, an Albuquerque District Attorney–approved arrest warrant issued today says.

“In my training and experience, pedophiles often infiltrate families under a trusted role, like Timothy, who, as a producer, exploited the hectic film sets to tickle and touch SL on his penis and buttocks, masking it as play,” the warrant from Albuquerque Police Officer Marvin Brown asserts. “He would invite the family to off-set gatherings, with his wife buying Christmas gifts to foster closeness, making SL feel special and dependent—classic grooming to erode boundaries, isolate the victim, and silence suspicions by blending abuse into normalcy.”

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Filled with accounts from two brothers of their alleged repeated experiences with the Thirtysomething alum, who was a director on the now shuttered Élodie Yung-led Fox drama from Warner Bros TV, the document charges Busfield with two counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor and child abuse. It is unclear at this point if the Emmy winner has been arrested and booked by Albuquerque Police Department.

If found guilty of the charges, Busfield could face a minimum of three years behind bars.

In fact, the 68-year-old, who was accused but never charged in two previous sexual assault allegations in 1994 and 2012, could be looking at a lot longer sentence in the Land of Enchantment.

Under New Mexico statutes, prison time in sex crimes against minors leans heavily on context and circumstances in the degrees of punishment they hand out. That time and felony class can go up substantially if the crime involves children under 13 years of age — as it allegedly does here.

Named as “SL” and “VL” in the warrant, the two 2014-born boys appeared on The Cleaning Lady over multiple seasons before being let go for having aged out of the role, I hear. However, in a Nov. 3, 2025 phone interview with Busfield in the warrant, The West Wing vet told investigating Officer Brown that he “the lead actress, Elodie Young” informed him over a year ago that “the mother of SL and VL (sic) that she wanted revenge, and I’m going to get my revenge on Tim Busfield for not bringing her kids back for the final season.”

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In interviews conducted with SL and VL on Halloween last year by a “forensic child interviewer,” and observed by Officer Brown, today’s arrest warrant says that the former told them the alleged abuse by Busfield started when he was 7 years old and on The Cleaning Lady.

“SL said that Tim touched him three to four times on his ‘poop’ and ‘pee’ area over his clothing,” the 12-page arrest warrant states of what is cited as a second incident with Busfield, very similar to a previous incident. “SL said he was very afraid of Tim and was relieved when he was off set. SL said he was afraid to tell anyone because Tim was the director, and he feared Tim would get mad at him. SL did advise that Tim touched him while he was only on set filming in Albuquerque.”

SL now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety, the warrant says. SL disclosing having nightmares about the director touching him and waking up scared,” the document adds.

It goes on: “VL explained that Mr. Tim started touching them for the first two years, and he did not want to say anything, because he did not want to be mean to him. Therefore, VL did not say anything. VL said Mr. Tim would start touching him with his hands about his body while they were filming in the ‘house’. VL advised that it was about his body, but did not disclose that he was touched on his buttocks or penis area. VL said he did not like being touched, but did not say anything because he did not want to get in trouble.”

The matter actually first came to the cops’ attention in late 2024 when a doctor from University of New Mexico Hospital contacted the Albuquerque Police Department in regards to a “sexual abuse investigation.”

Noting that the boys’ father had been advised to go to the hospital by a local law firm, today’s warrant details: Officer Osborn talked with both VL and SL, who did not disclose any sexual contact at this time. However, both boys advised that Timothy Busfield, whom they referred to as ‘Uncle Tim’, would tickle them on the stomach and legs. Neither boy cared for the tickling. Officer Osborn contacted Detective Michael Brown with the Crimes Against Children Unit and determined that the case did not meet their acceptance criteria at this time.”

The matter came back to the police’s attention and became a much greater priority after the boys’ mother “advised that on 09/02/2025, SL reported to his counselor that Timothy Busfield touched his penis and bottom.”

In that same telephone conversation with Busfield in the weeks before Thanksgiving last year, the NYC-based filmmaker also dropped to Officer Brown that producers Warner Bros TV had conducted its own probe into allegations against him after SAG-AFTRA received an anonymous complaint in early 2025 of an incident on The Cleaning Lady set in December 2024. After writing up a search warrant for WB (which today’s warrant seems to mistakenly say occurred on “10/03/2025”) and several correspondences with WB attorney Richard Wessling at law firm Proskauer, Officer Brown on NYE last year got his hands on the March 31, 2025 external report put together by the LA office of Solomon Law.

Specifically the report, which saw Busfield suspended during the probe, looked into claims from the hotline caller that there was evidence of Busfield “tickling and caressing the head and body of minor boys” while working on the Albuquerque-filmed Cleaning Lady. Upon his own reading of the document, Officer Brown says in Friday’s warrant that Solomon investigator “Christina McGovern was not able to talk with anyone who would support evidence that Timothy Busfield engaged in this behavior.”

Working from what now seems to be limited accusations, the WBTV investigation viewed Busfield as “exonerated,” sources tell me.

In a statement to Deadline tonight, the Channing Dungey-led WBTV said: “The health and safety of our cast and crew is always our top priority, especially the safety of minors on our productions. We take all allegations of misconduct very seriously and have systems in place to promptly and thoroughly investigate, and when needed, take appropriate action. We are aware of the current charges against Mr. Busfield and have been and will continue to cooperate with law enforcement.”

As well as speaking to the boys’ mother and father (who seem to have instigated and then ceased a civil suit on this), plus some Cleaning Lady production assistants and Make-up and Hair department staffers, today’s warrant also details a brief back-and-forth between Officer Brown and the series star Yung, who was a producer too.

“On 11/5/2025, I contacted Elodie Yung to set up an interview. Elodie agreed to meet with me at the Northwest Substation on 11/7/2025,” Officer Brown notes in his fairly comprehensive affidavit that e Albuquerque Assistant DA Savannah Brandenburg-Koch signed off on today. “I did initially advise Elodie that Tim Busfield gave me her name and said that she may have information about this case. On 11/06/2025, Elodie left me a voicemail declining to speak with me and said that she does not want to be involved with the investigation and that she would not have any information that could assist in this case.”

Busfield’s agents at Innovative Artists did not respond late Friday to Deadline’s request for comment on the arrest warrant and the charges against their client.

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New Mexico Public Education Department faces $35 million shortfall

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January 9, 2026

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New Mexico Public Education Department faces million shortfall

The New Mexico Public Education Department is facing a $35 million deficit, which it attributes to overpayments made to Gallup-McKinley County Schools, a claim the district disputes, arguing they are being wrongly blamed for the state’s funding mismanagement.

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